CHAMPIONS AND THE IVORY MARK

13.13 CHAMPIONS AND THE IVORY MARK

(See also: HELP CONTRACTS, HELP ASSASSINS, HELP WRITS)

The Ivory Mark is an organisation dedicated to helping to avenge those who are
unable to do it themselves. In order to join the Mark, you must find Atlantia
in the Sangre Plains and JOIN IVORY MARK. Doing so costs 5000 gold. You must be
at least level 30 and 21 years of age.

You will then be a registered Champion. You may not quit the mark until after 
approximately 12 Achaean months have elapsed since joining.

Once in the Ivory Mark, you gain grace for two minutes, but you can champion
other people. The key here is that only Champions and Assassins are allowed to
slay people on behalf of others. If you kill someone while championing someone
who contracted you to slay that person, you will be held blameless by the
administration. The person who you were championing will be considered to be
the person who did the actual killing, from the administrator's point of view.

Syntaxes:

REQUEST <champion> as CHAMPION FOR <target>.
  - Any person who has cause against someone else, and is not also a
    Mark member, may request that a champion attempt to kill the target,
    as long as the contract is created within three Achaean months of
    gaining cause.

  - Each time you contract with someone to Champion you, the Ivory Mark gets
    a fee. This fee is 300 gold + 7 gold for each level of the target. The
    fee is paid by the person asking for the Champion.

  - If the victim slays the Champion, the contract is cancelled, and you will
    not receive the fee that would go to the Ivory Mark back.


CONTRACTS
  - This will show you who is Championing you and, if you are a member of
    the Ivory Mark, who you have agreed to be Champion for.


CANCEL CONTRACT <contract #>
  - This will let you cancel a Championing. You will not receive back the
    fee you paid to the Ivory Mark, however.


QUIT IVORY MARK
  - This will cause you to leave the Ivory Mark.
    You may not quit the mark until after approximately 12 Achaean months
    have elapsed since joining.


Rules regarding Champions:

1. If a Champion paid by you kills someone, it is as if -you- killed the person
   in the eyes of the law. Think of the champion as a tool that you are using
   to take revenge. By taking out a contract on someone, you open yourself to
   legitimate revenge - so be sure you have cause!

2. Champions may be attacked or killed at any time, by anyone. They can take
   revenge on those who attack them without cause. This 'any time, by
   anyone' rule may be overridden temporarily by the rules of various game
   events such as Foozles.

3. Killing a champion who has a contract on you will negate that contract. The
   champion will receive no fee, and the person who took out the contract will
   receive no refund. 
   
4. Further, it is NOT LEGAL to take revenge on someone for killing you if you 
   have a contract on them, unless someone else takes a contract out on them 
   (in which case that person should have a good reason to take a contract out 
   on them). The idea here is that if someone kills you in self-defence,
   because he or she knows you've been paid to kill him or her, you can't use 
   that as an excuse to then go back after that person for revenge. No mixing 
   business and personal.


(See also: HELP CONTRACTS, HELP ASSASSINS, HELP WRITS)