I've had chars go without empowerment or acknowledgement for way longer than 42 hours. It's the reality of life that sometimes your IMM goes dormant or you just can't catch a break with someone. I've had 150 hours of a char over a month or two carrying something my IMM asked for that I couldn't give back because of him never being on at the same time as I. I've deleted empowerment chars because of being unable to find my IMM. Many a time I'd be praying to an IMM for 100+ hours, never getting anything back to show for it. Empowerment and immteraction is always a gamble IMHO. If you choose to roll an empowerment class, don't go over 20. Stop and RP with people. Try to spread your religion around, try to engage people, talk to them, etc. I've had "pity" empowerment from what I think wasn't my IMM that way. In addition, you're still playing out your char, fleshing him out, etc. I feel that even if you're ultimately unsuccessful (for example as I was on a 400+ hour char) in your goals, but you made good effort, that's still a win. Try to have fun understanding you'll never get everything you want. Maybe the priest classes are simply not for you? GLWYN!