>Furthermore, having been through the purge of the old scions,
>and talking to Valguarnera when trying to get reinducted
>afterwards, I was strongly impressed with a feeling that the
>primary purpose of Scion has absolutely nothing to do with
>killing lots of Maran/Battle/etc or downing their items, but
>that it instead lies in deeper more mysterious things (which I
>took/take to mean the Scion quests, as well as the search for
>mystical secrets and such from places like the Silent Tower).
>What had doomed the 'old' Scion is that they got so caught up
>in the raiding and killing that they lost all sense of the
>more important stuff. That's just how I understood it though,
>and I'm sure Valguarnera or others more knowledgeable than I
>can correct me if I'm way off the mark.

--Well, I don't know what happened within the cabal after my time, but
if it was the same sort of thing as when I was there, then my only
defense for me killing/raiding a lot more was this: 90% of the time
I was on, my range was atrocious (same with you guys, right?), so
when I actually got the aid from others to raid, I did. I guess you
could call it Urden's sense of revenge. I also think that this was
the period when S.T. was closed, as well as hell. This is not to say
that the cabal had no quests going or anything, but I think it was
probably a bit off-track for a while there. I like what I'm hearing
about the new cabal system via this thread, however. The only
problem I see with it is the obvious: how can you compete with raids
and even getting your own item back when the cabal is so low in
sheer numbers? Maybe you guys will figure that out.



>In all honesty, if I had waited until only times when Scion
>was strong and in power, and all our enemies were dealt with,
>I would *never* have been able to go take care of those
>quests, let alone do a number of other things that I felt had
>equal or greater importance to the cabal wars. This isn't to
>say I avoided raids, or recovering, or any of that, I just
>felt it was important to put them in perspective of other
>priorities as well.


--Amen to that. There is no shame in doing what the character wants/
needs to do to keep you interested. If the player aint happy, the
character aint lasting.