SCIONS:
Re: that “Scion War”
I heavily dragged my feet re: Scion. Partially because of internal Outlander-decision making that Amaranthe told me when I was made Harbinger. Partially because I had around 700-800 hours on the character when the situation came up and I didn’t want to age die and leave the cabal with a mess that I created ala Agorinth/Minalcar. Partially because there aren’t a whole lot of Outlanders, we were already fighting Empire and Tribunal, and at the time Scion had 4-6 heroes that regularly logged in at similar times. And finally (maybe most importantly) because I had to keep a focus on the “Goals” of Outlander. Basically, Amaranthe cleared me to take the Scepter if I decided it was best, and I gave an “exit strategy” to the “war” that could be invoked in case Tjok age-died in the middle of it (I basically blamed it on five named Scion members – when those members were controlled, the war would stop).

My (somewhat OOC) hope was that I could make Outlander a political “device” for certain Scions (that I liked) to use against others and gain power in their cabal – to reign in the Scions I couldn’t stand. Kind of like the First Crusaders arriving at the gates of Constantinople. Obviously, I’d never admit this in so many words, in character. Really, it was targeted at Restraal. Ironically, Restraal was the main Scion that people wanted to kill; but for some reason I liked that guy.

Anyway, what make it possible was that at the time, Outlander was almost a “who’s who” with gutsy powerhouses like Cathoria and Karrel, and powerful, determined personalities like Jaeiin and Aesrira. If I’d known Tjok would live a couple hundred more hours, maybe I would have done a few things differently. But probably not. Overall, the end of the war was fine with me – something like that really needs the "Full Council" dynamics to be truly fun.

Other than that, I tried to maintain a chilly relationship with Scion. If Andrlos is around and reading this: What the heck were you talking about when you “called me out” over CB about my consistently traveling with Scion. I grouped with a Scion once, in ~900 hours of this character, and it that was actually after you “called me out” (I was desperate and outnumbered, the fetish was on the line, and I broke group as soon as we’d retrieved). I’m still confused about that.

Restraal:
Like I said in Granaak’s goodbye, I saw the two of you like Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid. Just basically respected your character even though I couldn’t show it IC – had to maintain the chilliness and there’s no way I ever would have grouped with you. Moreover, you and Granaak put some serious, serious hurt on the Tribunal. Sometimes more than the Outlanders did. Why would I want to get in the way of that?

Akscereh:
I didn’t want any worse than a chilly relationship with you, either – part of it was you had the owl form

Vanzokh:
I learned a bad pattern you had of running through Shadow Grove when you logged in. So I set a fool-proof trap. You escaped. I’m amazed you escaped. Obviously, you knew what you were doing and I’m happy you didn’t lich

FORTRESS:
Didn’t travel with the Fortress much.. mainly used the area outside it to trap wayward Imperials/Scion. Also think I covered most of the people I know in their goodbye threads (e.g. Kelin). Oh yeah:

Kelin:
When we went to war with Scion, and you asked me, as a friend, NOT to let Outlanders attack Scion in front of the Fortress? That was impressive. It would have been so easy to say “Bring the fire!” especially considering how outmanned you were at the time, but you didn’t go the easy route. It’s too bad you never led the Fortress because I think you would have been great.

Iramath:
Granted, didn’t talk to you much, but you seem to be on the right track.