To all dear players, who don't speak Russian but also want to know what the interview is about. I've made a quick translation to make it possible, so mistakes are probably there even tho i tried to fix most of them.

Magnum
Hello again. Well, how are you with your free time?

Run
hi, good, 20-30 minutes i have, so let's go

Magnum
Excellent. What is the best way to address you? Will Runrun do?

Run
yes just Run)

Magnum
Welcome, let's start with a "small" introduction)
Your nickname is known to almost every player, even those who have never seen you. Once in discord I asked a question - does anyone know at least some leader of a top or opposition clan? The answer to me was only silence, but to the question who is the most famous PK - everyone was in solidarity.
Someone hates you, and someone protects you. There are "psychoanalytic experts" who are firmly convinced that you are necessarily an immoral criminal in real life, and if not yet, then you are certainly capable of taking a candy from a preschooler without a twinge of conscience and pushing your grandmother under the car just for the sake of satisfying your base desires.
Some people see in you a part of that very difficult-to-grasp atmosphere of the L2, that piece of the puzzle that makes up the picture of the whole content, and some only a half-witted schoolboy who has reached the Internet (yes, some epithets do not change over the years).
There are a lot of views and opinions, so I am very glad that you agreed to answer a few questions and open the veil of the mystery of the identity of Run)
I dare to assume that you will want to hide most of the information about yourself in real life, and this is understandable, especially with regard to you, but it will still be great if you can somehow answer something.
Let's start with the most trivial, but still important questions:
Can you tell me how old you are, who you work for, any favorite hobbies?

Run
I am 29 years old, I work in the IT field, there were many hobbies in my life and they were different, but mostly they all broke down about games, girls, or workdays))

Magnum
Colleague, it's doubly nice. Myself with IT
Do you have a family, a wife, children, a girlfriend? Some in the chat, I saw, assumed that you have a boyfriend)

Run
I love the assumptions of people who treat you negatively, with regard to personal life))
I'm dating a gorgeous red-haired girl)
there are no children, I'm not planning yet)

Magnum
Not bad-not bad)
And how long has it been since you started playing online projects and L2 in particular? Do you consider yourself a seasoned player?

Run
In L2, like many other players on this project, I got interested while I was still a small kid. If I'm not mistaken, these were the c2 chronicles. And in general, I've always loved mmorpg, and of course, it was L2 that instilled this love in me)
Unfortunately, I have long caught myself thinking that I want to come back to this dinosaur again and again...every 2-3 years)))

Magnum
I can't disagree. I quit it myself, like many of us, at least 4 times.
Then immediately after I want to ask: what exactly attracts you the most in L2?

Run
pvp and PK mechanics, and a very serious social component.
No mmorpg, for so many years, has been able to achieve such a result

Magnum
On my own, I would add that there is rather no framework for this very social component, which allows players to build the game world they deserve. The current MMOs are introducing more and more restrictive social system in the spirit of instances and sessions. But yes I've deviated from this topic)
And why did you decide to engage in mass PK? Have you done this before on other servers or in other projects?

Run
I am ready to answer in detail))

Magnum
I will be only glad )

Run
Personally, in my opinion, it is this question that is most often raised for discussion, most often forced, and is the object of theories and conspiracies
Briefly about the reasons: the mechanics of killing other characters (PK) in L2, I consider the most elaborate, interesting and unique mechanics that I have seen anywhere in mmorpg. That's why I liked it a long time ago, when I was just starting to play as a youngster myself, and other players were killing me. Yes - it angers, infuriates, irritates. But in this game, this content is so well thought out that it's a sin not to use it, and it's a sin to complain about it.

Magnum
I have some questions from your fans here.
Now is the time for one of them, from a person worried about your physical and mental health: Are you being monitored at a mental health clinic?

Run
I will dispel the diagnoses of couch psychoanalysts and fans of conspiracy theories: I PK for a single reason...damn, it's just a lot of fun and brings a lot of fun to me, and to those who like this kind of movement and fuss (I take the Elmore project as an example specifically).
Many people, entering the game, forget that this is a game that you need to enjoy, and not a second job where you need to sweat, burn, hate everyone and so on. Treat the game as a game, and not as some important matter of your whole life. And if I cut you off somewhere, just exhale, realize that this happened in the game, not in life, and calmly continue to do your business)

Magnum
In other words, are you using the functionality given to the players in full, and simultaneously creating content?

Run
Right. I like to play like this, I like pvp and pk mechanics. That's why I do it so fanatically.
By the way, I play like this on all projects

Magnum
That is, you are always actively PK, regardless of the server / project? Is Elmorlab no exception?

Run
Yes, it's just that on other projects I've always done it with main chars. It's just that the context of Elmore, with its low rates, initially implied that this would be my main char.

Magnum
But he's not, am I right?

Run
No, I just mean that in the conditions of this server, RunRun became my main char. It was very difficult for me to exp it to 52lvl from the start of the server) Fortunately, my faithful driver helped me, in fact, with whom I am playing right now

Magnum
Ah, got it. Do you have some kind of CP or do you play purely together?

Run
Unfortunately, the Elmore project will no longer see what was originally planned by me and my close ones

I will say in short: there were 4 of us, and it should have been 3 SR with a sws)))
now there are two of us left

Magnum
As a player running away from you, I can't help but be happy about it, excuse me)
To run away from 3 people around me, personally, SR+ sws would be on the verge of the impossible)

Run
I can say so..If our "project" (3 SR + SwS) was successful, then we would create a nightmare for high lvl. In EG and the rest of the low locations would have run through

Magnum
Are you planning to actively develop your character in the future? Exping, CP, Clan?

Run
Great question
Planned it.
But I am aware of the harsh realities. To create a high-quality and adequate PK clan or CP, on this project, I think, is an almost impossible task, in my understanding.
There are many reasons, I won't sort everything out, but the main one is a drop of your items, your own clanmates can always get involved.
And just create a clan and recruit all sorts of low lvl PKs there, this does not interest me)
About exping RunRun itself, here again we crash into the harsh realities of x1. I will be able to exp it to high lvls only through the efforts of the CP, which I will trust, and only on higher chronicles.

Magnum
Have you considered a reroll option that can be done before C2? It automatically removes all the PK and karma, this would allow you to exp further, so that you can continue your black mission at new relevant levels ---
Note from Noveria: Reroll doesn't magically erase your PK count, so it's incorrect

Run
I don't have the strength or the time for this anymore

Magnum
I understand perfectly )
Back to the PK topic: Do you have any principles that you try to adhere to in the process of hunting other players? If so, which ones and why?

Run
Nowhere without principles.
1) I never kill those who pay for the defense (there is an exception when I kill accidentally)
2) I do not kill those with whom I am friends, I communicate with, some gaming friends and everything like that.
3) A couple of times i've sinned, killed pets =)) Then I thought that it was too much to offend the dogs, and now I don't touch the pets.
4) Well, in general, I always keep my word, I don't fuck up anyone

Magnum
Worthy of respect, in my opinion.
Is there someone you don't love particularly much? Maybe some classes, some clans or people with certain nicknames? Or is everyone equal in your eyes and deserves the same treatment?

Run
Classes that I can't stand - sws, tanks and dwarves...roughly speaking, everyone who is super fat and who eats a lot of my C shots

Magnum
I can't help but clarify: and even Tyrants and unhappy Destroyers? )
Although there are so few of us that it probably isn't even taken into account

Run
You've noticed correctly, you are not enough. For destros, I don't care, but it's so hard to catch up the tyrants

Magnum
Since you yourself have raised the issue of protection, I also have such a question for you: How much does collecting tax from players for safety brings you? Is this part of your role play, a clear income, or just fun?

Run
This is a very frequent question that I get spammed in the PM regularly.
I can't give a specific answer to it, because the collection depends directly on how much I am online and how many players are online at this moment, and always in different ways)
I can say the average value that is most often obtained is 200-250k.

Run
In fact, every day this indicator decreases, because I have less time to play, and the main reason is the decrease in online + already the main part of online is already over 40+. People 40+, which is natural, do not want to pay, prefer to die and yell in pm

Magnum
Quite such a good amount for a purely fun class. Monetization of hobbies is something I like)
But I don't quite agree with you about online. Look at EG - packed full. Of course not permanently, but I often go there, and quite rarely I see it empty or semi-empty

Run
Well, by the way, EG is the most stable source of income

Those who pay win x2. because they spend some time on empty and clean spots

Magnum
When I voiced this thought, some people only looked at me weirdly

Magnum
And what about subscriptions for a week / month of patronage? It certainly sounds with a fair amount of humor, but still)

Run
The question is funny )
Some especially cool guys actually buy a subscription for a week or a month, these are my special clients and the guys are very cool. They pay not because I forced them, but purely to support me or content with me. Well, some guys throw bonuses like: consumables, buffs or just run with me for the sake of fun

Magnum
How often have you been killed? Maybe there are some hunters after your head or situations that you remember especially vividly?

Run
If my memory serves me right, I was killed 7-8 times.
Most of all, I remember 2 deaths: the first was in the fields of Giran, where full pack of mages 35+ fought off me very fiercely. Their shaman 35+ burned me successfully 3 times in a row, which burned 1k hp in 10 seconds, and sleeps + stuns + all sorts of debuffs from 35 levels landed on me.
From this fact, my ass that day, of course, was very hot...But well done to them, my respect, but they're such toxic, disgusting guys.
And the second death, the wildest, happened just yesterday (approx.ed - already the day before yesterday). When I decided to run into Cruma and run through the first floors...Everything was cool, I cleaned 3-4 rooms from full parties...And then I was surrounded on three sides by 3 parties, the buff was over, mana, sleeps, roots and all that

As for hunters, there don't seem to be any, or I don't know about them))

Magnum
Yes, yes. It's too unprofitable a position for a PK. There are no surprises here )

Magnum
By the way, on the forum, as far as I understand, one nice girl really wants to get lvls and punish you)
And since I touched on this topic: do you read the Elmorelab x1 forum? Or maybe you are one of the active authors under a secret pseudonym?

Run
Half of the server wants to punish me, but few people succeed. But there are even those degenerates who want to find me in real life for some reason. For the latter, I will say: whoever wants, let them look, but it's far, expensive to go to me, and there is a chance that you won't win

Magnum
I wanted to ask you later about what you would like to say to those who are butthurt because of you, but okay)

Run
I'm ignorant, I don't read the forum, I only occasionally read the discord

Magnum
It's a pity, it's a pity, they periodically remember you there)
It's time for another question from one of your ardent fans: how would you react if your fan club suddenly appeared in the game? Would you have to take them down? )

Run
Cool question

In fact, there are quite a lot of fans and people who support me, as I mentioned above, which surprises and pleases me, to be honest, I didn't expect this when I started)

Magnum
There are those who understand that this is just a game, and there are those whom you have killed 5 times in a row and there are pure emotions. (Although, how it happened that a person allowed such a thing, this is already a separate topic that we will not touch on)

Run
That's right, that it's just a game, as I mentioned earlier. Treat it easier

And there are a lot of spots, change the spot and be happy.

Magnum
Has the project administration ever contacted you? For example, with a request not to run on any low lvl locations.

Run
Didn't contact. I have never PKed noobs in the starting villages
And I think the administration of this project has more important things to do.. bots, dual boxes, rmt, etc.

Magnum
In fact, if you were doing lock-downs in starting villages, then I'm almost sure that they would have asked you not to ruin the server like that, but there is no trial)
In the process of talking to you, I remembered how the fact was actively discussed on the forum that as soon as your heels get hot, you're knocking yourself out by force-relog.
Tell me - is this so, and how do you see the use of this, though not entirely honest, but still not prohibited method?
What would you say to people who reproach you for this?

Run
Again, this is a very relevant question for discussion, but it has a very elementary answer.

Run
For me, force-relog is never a guarantee of survival.
1) force-relog is allowed
2) such a relog in active mode (any attack and damage to you) occurs for 5-6 seconds.
3) I am a PK with loot of 7kk on the server c1 x1, why don't I save myself in a way that is allowed?
something like that

By the way, almost all of my deaths occurred at the moment of force-relog, so whoever wants to, he will kill. I am also a person who tends to make mistakes

Magnum
Rightly noted.
Well, our "little" interview is coming to an end and I would like to thank you for an interesting dialogue.
And finally, what would you like to say or wish to all regular Elmorelab players? Or maybe the project administration?

Run
Friends, you are playing Lineage 2, an old, Korean wanker, on the x1 c1 server. This is a game with all its appearance and mechanics, implies complexity, grind, malevolence. You knew where you were going, so why this crying? Don't forget about the other aspects of the game for which you all ended up here - social interactions, gameplay, friends, discord communication, etc., etc. Be simpler

As Comrade Murlock said: "This is not a barbie simulator for you"

Thank you to all the fans and haters, for your game, for your reactions, for your emotions.
I also express a separate respect to the administration for their time-consuming and difficult work. Thank you and in particular Master Toma for this server.
Yes, in general, according to Elmore: the best project, the best server, top admins who love their offspring

Good luck to all, see you on the battlefields
