Metagame Heating Up Over Pico’s Abandoned Cities

Controversial Illyriad player Pico has continued to stoke controversy even after abandoning, with his multitude of cities prompting players in Elgea and the Broken Lands to make strategic moves to ensure their capture or destruction.

Tension over sieging of the cities began immediately after Pico abandoned, with now ex-SHARK player Agalloch and SHARK veteran Silverblade both threatening a player named Takuilrue over his attempt on taking one of Pico’s cities. The Times later obtained an IGM from SHARK leader Baynights directed at this player — rumored to be Gul’Dan in disguise — threatening to break his siege on the abandoned city:

From: BayNights [SHARK]
Subject: RE: siege – recall
Received: 14 Jan 2016 00:14
Original Message:
Hi Takuilrue,
I noticed you have launched sieges against two of lepue’s cities. These cities are property of Shark/Vic. Please check players alliance alignment before sending sieges, and you can see that lepue was in our alliance as of this morning.
Please recall immediately, our troops are on the way to remove any sieges and we do not want to harm your troops.
BayNights

SHARK Threatens Players Trying To Capture Pico’s Abandoned Cities; Sieges Continue Anyway

A SHARK member on Thursday lashed out in GC, stating that SHARK has claim on all of Pico’s abandoned cities, and that the top-ranked alliance would attack and break sieges from players outside of SHARK who try to capture them. The comments corroborate unverified tips obtained by the Times indicating that SHARK leader Baynights used threats against at least one non-SHARK player looking to capture a Pico city.

After the posting of fresh siege operations on Pico’s alt’s cities, the exchange in GC involving SHARK’s Agalloch revealed the alliance’s position on the matter, as did Silverblade:

[23:47]    System    ** News Flash: LePue (Abandoned)’s legendary city of The Black Death is now under siege by Takuilrue’s small city of – 1 – Shattered-Axe Clan
[00:05]    System    ** News Flash: LePue (Abandoned)’s legendary city of The Order of the Dragon is now under siege by Takuilrue’s small city of – 1 – Shattered-Axe Clan
[00:05]    Fiona:    hmmm is Tak Pico
[00:05]    Agalloch: nope
[00:05]    Agalloch: some newb being funny
[00:06]    Athena Darklight: lol
[00:06]    PTOLEMY:    appearnently pico’s cities aren’t up for grabs…
[00:06]    Agalloch: you think?
[00:07]    PTOLEMY:    they weren’t in a alliance…
[00:07]    Kodabear: well some say because it isnt in an alliance the cities are up for grabs…….
[00:07]    Fiona:    uh huh sure Aga
[00:07]    Agalloch: you can all say what you want
[00:07]    Silverblade: i agree
[00:07]    Agalloch: you touch em you die
[00:07]    Silverblade: i second that