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The Warriors Stood in the Shape of a Heart

Posted by chrisd on from the death-online dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Here's a picture of Warsingers funeral. Warsinger was an in-game persona in the rather good MMORPG Dark Age of Camelot". and generally well-liked. The real person behind Warsinger was a 32-year-old with heart trouble, who really died. So the players on his server organized an in-game funeral.At the funeral, players from the three realms of Camelot, who normally kill each other gleefully on sight, stood in the shape of a heart (check the pic above); the two figures in the center of the heart are Warsinger's real-life sister and girlfriend."

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  1. Re:The line between virtual reality and reality... by fruey · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes and no... because in fact I was particularly interested by the virtual community having a ritual in virtual space, rather than meeting IRL to have the funeral.

    I do indeed think Warsinger was honored by this, and my respects go out to all who attended and made a great statement about community spirit.

    The flippant end comment was just a lame attempt at getting +1 funny for once. Clearly it was in bad taste. My apologies.

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  2. Re:To be remembered... by jzitt · · Score: 2, Informative

    ...the first "religious" ceremony in virtual reality?

    Far from it: a quick Web search turns up, for example, Mark Pesce's CyberSamhain in 1994.

  3. Lv99? by Andy+Dodd · · Score: 5, Informative

    Maximum level in DAoC is 50. And I don't think they would've held a funeral near a Lv99 mob like the Dragon.

    That said - I wish I'd known about this. I play DAoC and knew nothing. Of course, it WAS on a different server.

    I'm honestly surprised at how few people showed up in that picture - That's on par with a single realm's RvR zerg, and word tends to spread REALLY fast throughout a realm in DAoC. If I'd been on the server in question (Pellinor, I play on Lancelot), I would've been there.

    Strange thing was, I was at Beno last night... For the first time ever.

    One other odd thing to note: It looks like the screenshot was made by someone not from the guild/realm holding the funeral, as the shot is almost all Midgard players but they have the generic "not from your realm" names. I also see a couple of generic Albion tags, so the shot must've been taken by a Hibernian.

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  4. frag by rodentia · · Score: 3, Informative

    The term frag derives from fragmentation grenade and has been in use since Vietnam when it was coined to denote the killing of one's superior and making it look like an accident.

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  5. Re:I was there by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Informative

    > I'd recommend that your stop spreading your game persona to "real life" (as far as Slashdot counts in that respect). Doing so is a good indication that you are indeed detached from the reality perceived by people outside your game.

    Another possibility that you missed is that SH wanted others familiar with his gaming to know who he was in that context. A Slashdot 'name' would be less relevant to them than his gamename.