By locking karma, players will be able to control their character s status titles better. Players who wish to appear as evil will be able to kill monsters without gaining both fame and karma. Players will still gain or lose fame, regardless of karma lock status. The important thing to remember about karma locking is that you can only prevent yourself from gaining karma, not losing it. The first time a player goes negative in their karma rating, their karma will no longer be able to raise until they visit a shrine to be cleansed .
New characters start at just above the zero karma setting, within the positive range.
If players cleanse themselves, therefore unlocking their karma, and then do an action that generates any more negative karma, the karma will lock again and will not be able to raise karma until the player visits a shrine to be cleansed again. If a player with positive karma chooses to lock their karma from raising any higher, they may go to the Chaos Shrine and speak the word bal . Doing so will lock their karma, and they will receive the message You once again control your destiny . If a player has their karma locked, the action of I honor thee from other players will not cause the locked karma to raise.