LB, Blackthorne, and their jesters were up on a bridge orating to the masses. We headed to Blackthorne's castle where the first speech was being given. When the servers came back up, I strolled through Britain with Helios, my fellow guild member. Rainz: The servers had just been taken down to prepare for the huge influx of players for the speech Lord British and Lord Blackthorne were giving throughout Britannia. OGR: Give us a recount of exactly what happened, from your point of view. Ultima Online: Interview with Rainz, The Man Who Killed Lord British (Noctalis) Someone took the above screenshot that became one of the most famous in MMO history, showing players’ disbelief as they shouted “HE DIED” and “LB is dead!!!” The murder caught everyone off-guard, including British and his assassin.

Instead I heard a loud death grunt as British slumped to his death.” It was a humorous sight and I expected to be struck down by lightning or have some other evil fate befall me. Either or Blackthorne made the comment, ‘Hehe nice try!’ - I can’t recall exactly who. After that it was pretty simple: I just cast the scroll on the bridge and waited to see what would happen. “I desperately searched the backpacks of those around me and eventually came upon a fire field scroll. “Luckily my character was a good thief who had high stealing skill,” he explained. This was aided by another fortuitous factor: The developers, anticipating lag at the castle, had turned off the guards who would otherwise have caught and killed Rainz for stealing. Rainz wasn’t playing his magic character at the time, but some spur-of-the-moment pick-pocketing turned up the perfect weapon for assassination. Nobody, including Garriott, knew that Lord British was now open to attack in a game that was almost entirely PvP through-and-through. Unbeknownst to all parties, when the server reset shortly before, the toggle that normally protected the devs was turned off - and Garriott didn’t enter the command to reactivate his invulnerability. The Game Archaeologist: The assassination of Lord British (MOP)

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