Dealers of Destiny

Justice
is part of a philosophy within Ultima Online known as the Virtues, and is
one of eight pursuits within the Virtue system.

The Virtue of Justice has been described thusly:

"Justice is the truth of what is right and wrong in human action and the
love of what is right."

Players will be able to pursue the Virtue of Justice by killing murderers
(red-hued player-characters).

Gaining Justice

In order to gain points in the Justice Virtue, you must kill murderer characters
(red-hued player-characters).

Safeguards will be in place that will prevent exploitation of this system.
Details on these safeguards will not be disclosed.

Virtuous Title

When a character has achieved any number of Justice points, he is considered
to have achieved a certain step on the path of Justice.

If you move your cursor over the Justice symbol in your Virtue window, a title
will be displayed, indicating the step currently achieved in Justice for your
character.

 

Players
who progress any number of steps on the path of Justice, but do not continue
to actively pursue it, may discover that this Virtuous title reduces in steps
over time. You must continue to follow the path of Justice in order to maintain
your title.’

Virtuous Abilities

Gaining steps in Justice will grant you the ability to protect any number
of characters which are non-criminals/non-murderers. You must have achieved
at least the first step in Justice in order to be able to offer protection
to another character.

You can activate the Justice Virtue ability by double-clicking the Justice
icon on the Virtue window, then targeting an innocent character.

You’ll only be able to offer your protection while the target innocent character
is within a non-consensual Player-versus-player (PvP) ruleset area (i.e. the
Felucca facet). However, moving into a consensual PvP ruleset area (i.e. the
Trammel or Ilshenar facets) will not break the protection relationship.

If the target character is already protected or in a consensual PvP ruleset
area, you will receive a system message stating:

"You cannot protect that innocent right now."

The target of the protection offer will not be disturbed in any way (they
will not receive any message or window). This condition will not count against
the player’s 1 offer per 15-minute limit.

If you are inside your 1 offer per 15-minute limit, you will receive a message
stating:

"You must wait a while before offering your protection again."

Players that are offered protection will be given a special request notice:

"{Player-one} is offering you protection. Do you accept the offer from
this pursuer of Justice?"

The innocent may decline protection by selecting "no" on the request window.
If the innocent declines protection from a pursuer of Justice, then that Justice
character may not request to protect any innocent again for at least 15 minutes.

Although a character may protect any number of innocents, an innocent may
only have one protector at any given time.

Ending the Protection Relationship

At any time, a protected player may break the protection relationship by selecting
a context menu option on their own character labeled "Cancel Protective Relationship."

Upon cancellation, both players that were in the protective relationship will
receive the message:

"The protective relationship between {Player-one} and {Player-two} has
been ended."

The protective relationship will also be broken should either character log
out.

Benefits

The benefits of Justice-based protection are only in effect while both characters
are within the same non-consensual PvP ruleset area.

Whenever a protected character receives one a "scroll of power" as a reward
for killing a champion of evil (the "boss monster" from a dynamic spawn area),
the protector will also have a chance to receive an exact copy of that same
scroll of power.

Each step gained in Justice will progressively grant the character a greater
chance to receive scrolls of power in this manner.

 

The
protector must be on the same server as the protected character in order to
have the possibility of receiving a scroll of power in such a manner. For
example, no benefits are in effect while the protector is in the dungeon server
and the protected character is in the Lost Lands.

Protectors that receive scrolls of power in this manner will receive a notification:

"You have been rewarded for your dedication to Justice!"