Melissa the Mage

Melissa the Mage was an assistant to and love interest of Kronos the Mage. She assisted in the creation of the Blackrock Detector.

After the Royal Council Massacre, she revealed herself as a servant of Nosfentor, one of the three Shadowlords. She had been turned into a monster of some kind, and proved to be a very difficult fight. The fact that a Balron, sometimes a Paragon one, happened to occupy the same room she was in didn't help.

Defeating her yielded a 25,000 point ticket for Spring Cleaning 2008 and Melissa's Cloak being dropped in player's backpacks. Her corpse could also hold rare loot items such as peerless ingredients, Item Set pieces, Crimson Cinctures, and a pearl necklace.

Melissa appeared again during the Cloak and Dagger event, wherein she ordered members of the Shadowlords Faction to assassinate the mage Clainin.

The Unveiling of the Blackrock Detector, Day 2

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Royal Council Massacre

After being summoned by speaking Eored...

* Ah...
* Looking for something?
* Kronos, perhaps?
* Oh wait, he's dead!
* *smiles*
* Or maybe it's someone of a more... manly demeanor. Avery, was it?
* Pity. You came all this way just to die.

After being defeated in combat...

* Fools!
* This.
* Isn't.
* Over.

Cloak and Dagger

During this event Melissa was played by each Shard's Event Moderator, and thus her speech differed, shard-to-shard. In general, however, she can fairly be said to be played as a kind of "dominatrix" figure, for want of a better term. On one shard, for example, in response to a player complaining out-of-character about the event, Melissa, remaining in character, called him a "disgrace to the Faction" for whining.

In the event that the Shadowlors Faction themselves proved not up to the task of killing Clainin, she took care of it herself.