Mon Sep 26 23:22:18 2011

At 10 o'clock PM, Day of Freedom, 25th of the Month of the Grand Struggle
on the Theran calendar Sivyh perished, never to return.

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Weldone Sivyh. I loved our RP sessions. You asked me numerous times to take the Oath and the banter continued. I loved talking to you.

And thanks for those pieces of gear. Thank you so much.



GLWYN

So having had 3 Emperors (2 relatively recently), I can say without hesitation that you did a pretty damn good job of running the Empire re: promotions. Let's look at the Council you had at your strongest point:

Zaanzorbarus - deadly bard with very good overall game knowledge. No real weakness here except maybe not enough playtime (but hey, we're all getting older and have less time, right?)

Farror - highly skilled healer who, in his prime, could raid cabals solo with his Shawtabby army

Lohoq - arguably better at assassinating than you yourself were, amazing how many of your enemies were scattered rather than forming resistance just because they were avoiding getting stalked

Cotzibue - scary mummy with big zombie armies that would dominate for hours at a time

Under that council you had a very formidable group of Elites and lessers. There were times you had 9-10 hero-level imperials on. That's hardcore. That's Hunsobo/Waserax/Ktaar level stuff going on there.

Then they tried a coup. And strangely enough, instead of using the anathemetization as a "Awesome free sect seats!" springboard, most of those lower guys just stopped showing. I think a case could have been made for promoting Phawa up to War Master rather than reinstating the Zaan, but I can't really fault the way you went with it. Largely you had an Empire full of Elites and sub-elites who just never showed. Every time I saw someone do something even questionably promotion-worthy, if you were on, it seemed like they got promoted. That's about all a guy can do.

So nice work, good char overall. I'm glad you finally got to be Emperor after having a char (Waserax) who totally deserved it but didn't get it.

>Zaanzorbarus - deadly bard with very good overall game
>knowledge. No real weakness here except maybe not enough
>playtime

Maybe our times just didn't match up, but the Zaan was noticeably less present during Sivyh's last years. I assumed it's because he wanted to maximize the percent of his lifespan he'd get to spend as Emperor.

>Farror - highly skilled healer who, in his prime, could raid
>cabals solo with his Shawtabby army

I feel like I dropped the ball by making Farror High Priest instead of Xanthrailles' healer. But Xanth went on vacation with the family and Farror had both seniority and play time, so I went with Farror. Xanth then deleted in protest.

>think a case could have been made for promoting Phawa up to
>War Master rather than reinstating the Zaan

Maybe. Prior to the vote I had promised Zaan that he would not be punished if he followed my instructions, since he wasn't part of the original conspiracy. I could have reneged on that promise (I'm Emperor; I can do what I want) but it didn't feel right.

>Every time I saw someone do something even questionably
>promotion-worthy, if you were on, it seemed like they got
>promoted. That's about all a guy can do.

My algorithm was basically this:

1. Every time I logged on, I went to the palace to check the status of whoever was online.
2. If only one person is eligible to be promoted and is 2+ levels below Elite then promote him, otherwise:
3. If he's just below Elite and his sect has no leader then promote him anyway.
4. If more than one person is eligible to be promoted then favor Oaths over Citizens. This was selfish; I wanted more lowbies able to retrieve. If none of the eligible characters was an Oath then promote the guy with the highest rank/donations.

There were MANY times that folks simply weren't eligible to be promoted, lacking either ranks or donations. Had they been eligible I would have promoted them, no questions asked. Lots of times these guys were probably intentionally level sitting, but sometimes they had the ranks but not the donations. That's called shooting yourself in the foot.

At times I'd see someone who was eligible but who hadn't really done anything special. I'd tell them to pony up the gold it cost me (in donations) to me and I'd promote.

One thing that many people may not realize is the 24-hour-timer on promoting. As Hunsobo and Hanord I'd often have two folks that I wanted to promote that were both eligible and worthwhile and I'd promote the one guy only to have the second log in 45 minutes later.

I think I actually had you, as Waserax, promote a few guys for me due to that limitation.

"Yuh, yous promotionate smallsmashguy Ugril? Hunsobo nuh can for day."

I don't recall ANYTHING which stated that there was a 24-hour promotion timer in Empire, which meant on my warmaster I was very embarrassed after promising some guy a promotion and there was still some time left before I could.

Perhaps add an echo in affects for promotion.

Got cocky that one time and came at you without barrier, and you made me pay.

Every other time, you'd make it away, and it was clear you knew how to avoid air major tracking (don't think I forget that mr. AirMajorsRock).

Well done on leading the empire. I would agree with others that the Empire's power waned after the coup attempt, but I wouldn't place the blame at your feet. I would say no one forced you (or the imm's) hands on promotion enough. It's one of the cabals I've never lead, and I think it must be one of the hardest, given the varying tasks an empire leader has over those of any other cabal.

So well done Isildur. Try something that doesn't hide next time

Not sure if you noticed this, but.... I would purposely not heal in an attempt to get you closer to death and removal of age items.



You had my loyalty up to a point. Not putting me in the seat got you less "co rejuv siv" and more " "

So many times I would log on, you would be stalking, get bored, log off with no word whatsoever. No orders for the day, no leadership, just happy sivyh play time.

Heh. Good call. It didn't occur to me that you'd let me croak intentionally. In Fort the healers let you die accidentally. In Empire they let you die intentionally.

I felt bad for not involving you more, but honestly having a healer following me around just made it harder to stalk people. Given that's what I was probably occupied with, I'm not sure what I should have ordered you to do. If it looked like we could take and keep an item then I tried to be good about grabbing you and doing that.

I logged on like 4 days in a row and never saw you, or anyone else for that matter. So it started to worry me that Empire was in the crapper. (I blame the mass anathema) We don't really have any incentives for people to oath.

I dunno, like full set of midnight armor for new recruits, just something or anything really to boost morale and numbers. It was started to get really sucky playing and I guess I wanted the captain to turn the ship around.

But now we need a new captain. Last one walked the plank.

Avast ye' scurvy dogs!

Worst emperor ever. Was around way too long, it kept cutting into my Isildur time. I got so sick of hearing about imperial politics every day, or who killed Siv or who managed to get away, or how much Tavlin loved Siv, or which excuse it would be that day for why Siv was still running around with a crappy sword of darkness and nothing better, or how much fun it wasn't when Tavlin would log on because all of the hero range goodies would quit out. Blah, blah blah, blah blah, blah blah.



Great job bro. Excellent character. Have fun with the next. Hopefully we get to duke it out against each other at some point.

Yeah. Tavlin really put a crimp in my style, but he could have been so, so much worse.

The main things Tavlin did were:

1. Cause everybody to quit out that I wanted to kill,
2. Make it much more dangerous for me to effectively stalk people who had the twitchy edge,
3. Kill people I was stalking before I could kill them myself.

He was at least a good source of "witty banter". And he seemed to like giving me advice on what I should do with the Empire.

Thank you for taking the time to come by the Eternal Star to roleplay. Thank you for engaging the Heralds, and me, in your various goings-on in a way that made sense. It's completely unnecessary for anyone in any other cabal to ever involve themselves with Heralds, but when they do, it makes the Heralds (and in my biased opinion, the game) richer as a result. (Even when it is down to just one pathetic little Herald like me.)

I never felt you were "too nice". I felt Sivyh was classic "lawful evil" in every sense of the word. Civilized, devious, calculating. Coolly cordial with an ever-present yet understated threat. The Imperial that loots, pillages, and throws the weight of his power around impulsively is not, IMO, truly orderly evil, but rather, roleplaying as a neutral evil thug who is capitalizing on an orderly evil institution. The latter is more common, and easier, but your behavior is what I'd expect to be exemplified by those truly representing the Empire as a character ideology and not just an opportunity for personal gain.

If others felt you were "too nice", I can only imagine it is because they did not have the time, opportunity, or insight to see what made Sivyh tick.

Well played, and good luck with your next!

I was hoping to prolong this a little more, but damned if I'll play like a wuss just to eke out a few more assassinations. And so ends Sivyh.

Initially I rolled this character to answer the question: "Hey, I wonder how Mizfara would have gone if I'd been evil?" Back then I was constantly frustrated by the lack of targets to stalk/assassinate and always thought the grass would be greener on the other side. It is, to an extent, but it also seemed like there were an inordinate amount of Fort characters with detect hidden during Sivyh's lifetime. Maybe I'm just imagining that. Also not being able to hit people in town was a bigger annoyance than I expected it would be.

Sivyh is also a prime example of how luck and timing play into Emperor selection. Once Gvantulak died Faolai was a shoe-in to replace him, but he didn't want it so a door opened for me. Had Faolai assumed the throne, which was his for the taking, I probably would never have risen past Shadow Lord.

A few characters off the top of my head that stood out in a positive way:

Faolai, Zaanzorbarus, Volkhan, Armagon, Lohoq, Ghrimriddor, Athioles, Drayden, Puhguly, Rhone, Tavlin, Allysia, Skeeta, Dvalygg.

Couple things I wanted to respond to:

"Sivyh is too nice". Really? I mean, sure, there were a couple folks I might could have demoted that I didn't. I didn't loot people just for the hell of it. But I didn't really see this character as "nice".

"Sivyh is ruining the Empire." Not sure what I could have done differently. I was about as promote-happy as they come. If you met the requirements then I would promote you to the tier just under elite. I let sect leaders choose their elites. If your sect had no leader then I'd go ahead and make you elite. I had my reasons for not appointing a High Priest or Dread Lord, but I kept expecting someone to come along who I could feel good about giving a council seat to. Nobody ever did.

I'll hold off discussing the coup unless Zaan says its okay, since he's the last surviving player from that episode.

One last thought: mummies + anazu >>> paladins + defiance.

Hope you enjoyed the trips, not sure you had even been before that to my knowedge? Could be wrong there. Making satan the first time is always such a cool experience. Enjoyed you as Armagon, Maugauth and Ganjax, and had a positive experience with my current getting some good fights in.


Imo, great Emperor. Not all emperors have to be a #### to be successful. Respect for your fellow player is always cool, no matter what cabal.

Maugath/Ganjax were good too, but Armagon was the one that stood out to me. For better or worse Maugath was "all hell all the time". I got the feeling Empire was just a vehicle to further your conquest of hell. Ganjax I just wasn't around long enough. I remember that I was going to make you Dread Lord if you'd just ranked up some more.

I interacted with you with a number of characters. From a young imperial no name who you may not remember, but your quote 'I want you to be MY eyes.' rang out in my head, as well as a hero or two to Garwern. There's a lot I want to say, but sadly cannot just yet. If I remember, I'll try to give you a shout out in the (hopefully far away) future when I kick the bucket.

Sivyh was extremely well played and your assassinations were smooth(I had NO idea in Calandaryl and I like to consider myself mildly observant/hard to stalk). I was laughing when you took me down when I was low 40s mainly because I said to myself "Damn, I'm outta flight potions. Tactics are gonna #### me here." but you were classy both in victory and in defeat.

Heh, yeah, you got screwed by tactics there. There may have been more, but I can recall only three kills where it was obvious that tactics made the difference. You, Vallinane and Obregon.

I'm still a little pissed at myself for that last fight. Also a little pissed at Vinq, but mostly pissed at myself. It was a classic Isildur cock-up. Why in the world did I stick around after Velack died and Shinju fled, given you were barely hurt and I couldn't see my hp? Dumb, dumb, dumb.

I assume that the last death caused you to remove -age gear, resulting in the age death? I originally counted it up as a con death given how when you came back from the death you were in rattling chains.

Yeah. I had artificially extended my lifespan by wearing -age gear, so I knew my next death would be my last.

I enjoyed our few interactions. As always, you continue to produce long lived and top-notch characters. The last one of yours that I remember was Sulye.

I loved Sivyh on every level, even if Timnad was totally betraying him to other members of the Empire and some anathema's!

GLWYN

That's okay. As long as you kept the money coming I was happy. Thelana gave me 2000 gold early on, and for most of my life I burned recall/teleport potions like I had the spell. It was obscene how profligate I was. And then...I ran out. Which sucked. Your contributions probably saved me a couple RL hours of gold gathering.

More when i will delete.

Dont be a #### and say something like but but be scared to use your handle. I hope the imms out you.

And please refrain from provoking people to give out their active characters.

We see result of his rulership - ruined empire for almost half of the year. And it's not a problem with one character, it's problem with whole players. Or they all are so terribly bad and only Sivyh was perfect?

Don't be silly. Look at the result.

You can use your handle and not out your character, or who you are playing. Me posting as Gaplemo doesn't give away my current active character. You just wanted to be an anonymous ####, without any repercussions of the playerbase thinking you're a douchebag. Thats not what the anonymous posting is for.

You tell me not to be silly, but your reasoning is stupid as hell.

It will be too easy to figure out who am I in that case.
Stop trolling please and go on your way.

I have a guess as to who this is. We'll see if I'm right. If I am, then it's mostly a personal grudge about how I treated one particular character.

I know that you know who am i. Nothing personal worries me.... answered below with details, and stopping here. Hope you will not get it as an act of agression or revenge, because it's not.

For what it's worth I don't know who's playing this character. There are four reasons I didn't promote you:

1. I got some OOC indications that you were being a huge douche to Empire enemies.

2. You went nuts after Gleebrok assisted with a Fort raid. Freaking out about something like that doesn't say "leader" to me.

3. Doubling down on #2 above, you sent a note to Empire and Tribunal ordering the Empire to eradicate Gleebrok. Big mistake. Who has the authority to mark people for death? Me. And only me. I seriously considered demoting or anathing you after that note, but decided to go easy on you. However, I did decide at that point never to promote you past Elite.

4. I hardly ever saw you online. I realize this is probably because our times just didn't match up, but I can't help that. If some Empire imm had told me, "Hey, this guy is on all the time," then I would have taken their word for it and ignored the fact that I never personally saw you online.

>4. I hardly ever saw you online. I realize this is probably
>because our times just didn't match up, but I can't help that.
> If some Empire imm had told me, "Hey, this guy is on all the
>time," then I would have taken their word for it and ignored
>the fact that I never personally saw you online.


He wasn't/isn't, FWIW.

Both in game with his current and on the boards on my death thread, ooc and ic seem to blend a whole hell of a lot. It wasn't just gleebrok that he did stuff with. I experienced borderline OOC tells several times from him. Meh. Just let him either delete or con die.

So I'd like to post with no constructive content whatsoever. I would also like to call the guy whose posting anonymously here as the imperial a douchebag that whines, and that he needs to stay off CF for a while because he's obviously an immature brat.

Can I do that or will I be temp/perma banned for non-constructive flaming? If you say there are repercussions well I guess I'll have to not do that... although too bad that would make it so nobody here would know what my opinion is about this anonymous fellow .

You're correct; as has been stated many times, we have "anonymous" posting on the Battlefield so that people can post with their current character names without needing to always register a new handle, not so people can take anonymous pot shots.

He's someone who thought he should be promoted to Dreadlord and Sivyh clearly didn't agree.

It's a hard life in Empire when you don't have OOC connections to promote you to a leader spot.

But pretty much everything in his post is skewed and most everyone agrees that there hasn't been a decent Emperor that kept the politics moving like Sivyh did, in a long long time.

>But pretty much everything in his post is skewed and most
>everyone agrees that there hasn't been a decent Emperor that
>kept the politics moving like Sivyh did, in a long long time.

Becuase they played on opposite side and it's so sweet to have one of the enemies constantly down, or deleted long ago. I'm a bad guy who dare to blame your idol! Doh. Sorry about that.

To be frank, if I'd heard you were being a douche to enemies, claiming my authority, and whining, I'd have blocked your promotion too. After I called a blood reckoning.

I got high priest under Elhe and I didn't know him at all until quite a lot later.

Oh course, I'll never know whether it might have influenced my coup attempt, but that's kind of a moot point since I managed to post a note to all of the shadow sect when I addressed it to "Shadow Lord Fred".

Mainly because while he knew of the coup OOC, he found out completely IC via your n00bish note-writing mistake

Good thing Enlilth Anath'd you.

We did get a good chuckle out of that.

It have nothing to do with personally me and my character. It have issue with the whole leadership and keeping empire empty.

Emperor have a lot of power to bring new blood into empire. He have bards to send propaganda notes (with are working with better effect than he/you are thinking). When there are hard times for a cabal, leaders are doing their work - recruiting, ordering/asking cabalmates to find new blood and recruit, and etc etc etc.

Nothing of this have been done; Sivyh played solo game without caring much for the cabal at all. And you cannot argue with it, because there are result: empire is empty.

As chartacter, he was deadly and probably roleplaying well (not sure, I've heard him talking 4 times during last 4-5 months). But as for a cabal leader - totally worhless.

Yes, i can understand - he probably got upset after the coup and decided to piss everyone else, who tried to overthrow him. Dunno for his reasons, and if it was on purpose (personally, i am sure he did it on purpose, but maybe i am thiking too bad about a good guy).

You think i am upset because of me, and you are totally wrong. Our times did not match with him, that's first. I know his Ic reasons (two) not to promote me further - that's fine and not this caused my anger.

And it's not deal with the Empire too. It's a problem with leaership. Leaders like that making cabals dead/empty, and this makes gam far less interesting. This is what makes me sad.

Leadership posisitions are not there to fit a mold, it's a way for
mortals to take part of politics in game. To say, "he should have
done this, he should have done that," destroys the purpose. From the
sounds of it, a lot of players thought he was pretty great. You may
disagree, but the players will always disagree on the direction of
a particular cabal. It's not about a right and wrong way to do things.



>Our times did not match with him, that's first.

I thought that if Anonymous played CF, it would
play Outlander. This only strengthens my suspicions
that Anonymous is a government plot.

(?) We are Anonymous
/ ! \ We do not forgive
||_|| We do not forget
_||_

The other is neither here nor there.

Just saying, he was so cool to interact with for my previous character that I rolled a character that was specifically meant to interact with him (at the detriment to my overall power).

I joke around about the ESL/Russian ####, but seriously, you come off in these posts very obtuse to the overall ability of Sivyh to be very very competant in PK and also just as competant in RP. All because he didn't promote you. Which would have happened in the Empire's of Eoria/Kostyan/Ahtieli most likely; their style of play/evil differs from American players, it's only natural and there is nothing wrong with it and I in fact enjoy several evil characters played by ESL/Russians...mostly every Shapa/Elhe char.

Man up, admit you're bitching because you're char wasn't as good as you thought.

Sivyh was a fantastic Emperor. Just straight awesome, I had 3 imperials under him, and all of them were either elites, or sect leaders, and he didn't know any of them were the same person. He was awesome about promoting, and he was solid on policies and rp.

Now that I got a good guess who this guy is, I understand. But anonymous bashing of a great character and whining here not only will make you enemies in the playerbase, it won't make the imms want to go out of their way to do you any favors...and if i'm correct on who it is he probably shouldn't ruffle the staffs feathers at this point in his characters life.

Now i know for sure that you are tracking people and connecting their forum personas with their chars and that a forum posting can affect their chars IC life.

I'm quitting from the posting here since it's something like entering a tiamat's lair with only armor spell up.

Edited: sorry for breaking a forum rules. I thought it can be used to keep anonymous to keep your persona not-linked with the active characters. I won't post here anymore anonymously, if ever.

>Now i know for sure that you are tracking people and
>connecting their forum personas with their chars

Unfortunately for you, your speech patterns are extremely idiosyncratic. It doesn't take The Arcane, P.I. to spot you.

He always formats it in this way....
He always uses these eight words....
Etc etc etc

Even though this guy and a couple of others seem to use a
Carriage return as well. I promise it isn't me.

It is to stop your character being linked to your forum persona, but there has always been a rule that you don't use it to take pot shots anonymously.

The fact you broke that rule gives him every right to check and then reveal who you are. I'm surprised he didn't actually post your character's name.

TWAT!

Sivyh was so good it made anon imperial choke with jealousy. He's afraid that if Isildur plays another leader, he'll start cutting himself out of depression.

Or just don't like leaders that do not do their leader's things and playing solo game. Too bad that the coup was so dumb and anathemized itself - probably now one more cabal would be in the game, instead of being empty/full of inactive players.

Same happened before to other cabals. Imo, if you are leader - you are responsible for the cabal and players who are playin there. If you do not care for them - step down.

Game with active players and active cabals is much, much more interesting. I completely understand Sivyh's position and role reasons why he was such a ####ass, but leader responsibilities is not only playing the character - it's dealing with players that are playing the game, and making fun not only for yourself, but also for others.

Maybe i am too althruistic, but this is how i see leaders duty.

Why reward them? Seems simple to me.

I'm open to constructive criticism. Feel free when you're able to go into more detail.

Unless the world conspires against you to keep you from getting what you deserve.

I knew this was you! I don't know why, maybe because your basic decency and sense of sportsmanship shines through

Good times.

I really liked Sivyh, of course I still planned on over throwing you at some point, but then the rest of the council rushed everything and ruined it. Not sure what they were thinking, we were on such a high point at the time. I don't mind you talking about the coup at this point, I knew they weren't going to vote me in because I wasn't included in the original talks so thought the best course of action was to play the loyalist card for when #### fell apart for them. I did think you could be a bit soft at times, especially when it came to inter sect politics. I really like the dynamic of higher ranking imperials being able to bully lower ranking ones to some extent. Of course payback is a bitch if the situation changes. You seemed to put the kabosh on all of that. I thought you did a great job with everything else, though I personally would have liked to see a little more emphasis on doing things like beating Tiamat then raid, defend, reraid, rinse, repeat all the time. The Empire will definitely miss you, and I know our enemies will be a little more relaxed.

Okay, so, the coup. From what I can tell, Lohoq and Cotzibue never did figure out exactly what went down. Maybe I never did either; if Enlilth stops by he can clear up anything I get wrong. Here's my perspective:

Cotzibue and some non-sect leader were the first to approach me about there being a vote. I didn't believe Cotzibue at first (since I regarded him as completely untrustworthy) and thought he was trying to frame Lohoq (whom I trusted). This is ironic since Lohoq was actually the chief conspirator. Apparently Daevryn was on his ass to make a move, hence the ill-advised coup.

Initially I either didn't know you needed three sect leaders to launch a coup, or I thought you (Zaan) were in on it with Cotzibue and Farror. Lohoq was the only one I was pretty sure was innocent. I knew that my only shot was to get a hung vote and hope Enlilth preferred me to the rest of you. I assumed Farror and Cotzibue were a voting bloc, so I tried to convince you and Lohoq to vote for each other in order to thwart Cotzibue. My logic was that Cotzibue was an immortal undead and I was an elderly mortal, so Cotzibue as Emperor was worse for your personal designs than me staying on the Throne (since I would die soon). I also emphasized the fact that, if I retained the throne, I would anath Cotzibue and eliminate her as competition for after I was gone.

Even though I realized at some point that either you or Lohoq had to have been in on it (I suspected you, not Lohoq), I played dumb and treated whomever I was talking as the one loyal party. When talking to Zaan it was that dirty Lohoq who was conspiring with Cotzibue and Farror. When talking to Lohoq it was Zaan that was the dirty one. Etc. Simultaneously I approached both Cotzibue and Farror and informed them of my suspicion that Lohoq/Zaan were a voting bloc, and that they needed to vote for each other in order to block Zaan from taking the Throne. I professed my belief that Cotzibue and Farror were innocent and had just gotten caught up in Lohoq's nefarious designs. I promised they would not be punished if we managed to stop Lohoq/Zaan's designs, and pointed out that Lohoq/Zaan would probably anath them if either of them got the Throne.

Miraculously, everybody did exactly what I wanted them to do. Cotz/Farror voted for each other and Lohoq/Zaan voted for each other. Enlilth cast the tie-breaking vote and chose me. He then told me Zaan was the only guy who wasn't a conspirator, so I set about restoring him to his former position. Everybody getting anath'd was actually an accident- I had wanted the loyal party to stay where he was, but there was some miscommunication. Also I didn't know for sure who the loyal party was until after the vote.

>came to inter sect politics. I really like the dynamic of
>higher ranking imperials being able to bully lower ranking
>ones to some extent.

Eh. I'm fine with some bullying, but when it turns into, "I'm higher ranked than you and I like that shiny piece of gear. Give it to me or I demote you," that's just lame.

>though I personally would have liked to see a little more
>emphasis on doing things like beating Tiamat then raid,
>defend, reraid, rinse, repeat all the time.

PvE doesn't really excite me. You could probably tell from how reluctant I was to spend ~4 hours on that hell trip. Other than the pimp gear, I had no interest in killing Tiamat just to say I'd killed Tiamat. The raiding thing was just because, when you weren't around, I usually lacked the firepower to raid anyone. So when I had a bard or healer online I felt like I needed to make up for lost time.

I got a weird message in the game about the vote. IIRC it said I could vote for Lohoq, Zaan or Farror, which made me inclined to think that Cotzibue voted for Farror, Lohoq for Zaan and Zaan for Lohoq and Farror never cast another vote.

What is pretty hilarious about the whole thing is everyone (farror included) told me they were going to vote for me, which at that point I knew I was boned.

Enlilth promised to shed some light on the whole thing when I died, so hopefully he'll chime in on this death thread.

...then the rest of you jerks decided to roleplay evil power-hungry bastards.

Bastards.

Try looking at it from the other side sometime! Sometimes it feels like 90% of my opposing cabal range are detect-hidden capable, and the ones which really aren't detect-hidden capable are uncaballed, which means they can sit in the middle of nowhere for ten gajillion hours where I'll never find them. From Empire there was you, like two other shadows, Gravizk, and Zaan. From Scion there's Tavlin and Obregon, and Lisos who works with them a ton.

So sad.

Anyway, I loved Sivyh. I hope you didn't mind that name-drop I threw into our first interaction, I figure I'd let you know that Kasir made it into my role.

Honestly, Sivyh was a badass. I remember you telling me that I was a threat to you, and thinking "wtf crack cocaine you smoking! Sivyh beats my ass!". I think Vallinane could theoretically kill Sivyh one on one if every single thing went perfectly, but in reality, a hundred plus garrottes on random people so far and I've never gotten that absolute perfect situation. Always someone else to unbind or wake them, or some binding breaks at a critical juncture, or whatever else. That iron weapon + sigil + doublespin combo you had going just freaking raped me.

Thanks for the fights and being such a positive, awesome character for the game.

>Try looking at it from the other side sometime!

Oh, I know how it sucks for fortress-hiding-guy. Trust me. That's why I rolled Sivyh. Heh.

>I remember you telling me that I
>was a threat to you, and thinking "wtf crack cocaine you
>smoking! Sivyh beats my ass!".

Binder thief really has the advantage in that matchup, even against amped up Emperor assassin. If everything goes your way with the bindings, or if you have competent allies you can call in to gang, then you have a better than average shot at killing me. Even if things don't go your way with the bindings you still all the choice stuff from my inventory. Worst case you miss the garrotte, but even then (if you take reasonable precautions) I'm not likely to kill you before you can flee and quaff.

Over several characters sivyh was always a fun enemy.

Man I loved me some Sivyh. That was very well played. I'm not sure how many times you assasinated me, I'd have to look at my PBF, but the one during my retrieval I knew was coming, should have quaffed immediately, but instead I did something stupid like threw out a fire and brimstone I think. Well done, man well done.

Despite how I acted in character, I actually really grew to like Sivyh as I got into the higher ranks. I am pretty upset that I never actually got to fight you (the times I did didn't really seem to count as I am sure you noticed) but in our brief interactions you responded perfectly to Caerdryn's insistence that you were a coward.

So, well done and good luck with your next.

Just kidding about the not losing con again thing, but jesus I think you assassinated me 10 times or more. I personally was a huge fan of the banter we had and I think you were a legit game changer every time you logged in. Fantastic char.

I had lots of good times with various imperials and you were among the top. Solid Rp, consistent presence, and skilled. By the end it seemed like you made it a point to make nexun's lives hell (though as you said, lots of them made it easy for you to do so). I know there was a technical war that began after I was was outcast, but I was doing everything I could to undermine it. I tried befriending Cotzibue with gifts and aid (I thought she would overthrow you) and Wiril and I interacted quite a bit (he even got me humansunder through an assassination).

I must say, when we did speak, it was always enjoyable. That last little bit after I sacced the codex, had I known you were going to age die, would have made it all the more fun to banter with you. Was hoping I could get you to come at me solo, but even the times you did I just never had a good answer for fighting you, so I generally had to run from you after a few rounds since I'd be maladicted to hell. As you said, it wasn't fear, just prudence, and people often mistake the two. I had to respect Sivyh and his ability to beat me to hell better than most.

Just all around well done. Another high quality character like you are known for.

I interacted with you previously with another character. A ranger of some kind, and you were chasing me all over emerald. Felars are just brutal in the right hands, and you definitely did well.

As Rolas I tried to force you several times to make you feed me your underlings. You never went for it, and always came yourself to retrieve the codex. Classy, but disappointing for Rolas. I hope your detractors realize how un-fun you could have made it for them. Anyway, nice job, and go outtie for your next!

You taught me an important facet of smear mud, and reminded me about an important facet of kansetsuwaza, so... thanks for that. And goddamn, you were lucky... but that's not an insult, or to take away from your probably impressive pk record

Anyway, all my congrats just for sticking it out for so long. Sad-face for never getting a chance to even the score. Good luck with the next.

I was so freaking lucky to get away from you in the Shadow Grove. That was nuts.

Awesome Emperor!

Despite what you might have thought, I was loyal to last to you and to imperial law. Had you raised Easog to War Master he would never have thought of overthrowing you and would have told you if anyone else ever approached him about it. To bad I just couldn't hack it in hero range, but thems the breaks when you have a little played class/cabal/legacy combo that you want to try out.

Sorry I couldn't stick it out and help more, and thank you for being an awesome Emperor.

Great char. I thought Sivyh was a good emperor, and that staying at the top of the empire for that long is a feat in itself. Of course, playing from the other side, I'm only going to see and know so much, but everything I saw fit very well, imho. I tried to get some arpee going on after some of our fights, but it never seemed to go anywhere. Not sure if Sivyh didn't think Oryn was worth talking to, or if you just had too many people talking to you and I couldn't stay out of camo long enough to get the convo going. No matter.

GLWYN

Two funny things about that time you bearcharged me down north of Shepherd's row:

1. I saw "a camouflaged figure" there and thought it was that mace spec warrior outlander who I'd just fought previously. I didn't even know you were online. Had I known it was you I would have enlarged. Doh.

2. Even still, I managed to get one command in. Sadly it wasn't "flee".

I watched you and Puhguly fight in the Weald once, and really should have stalked you instead of him. I had no idea the fight would drag on so long and I'd have such a long window in which you stayed out of camo. Plus I think I already had one or two stalks on Puhguly and didn't want to throw those away. In retrospect, I wish I had.

at writhing or convulsing or whenever was just painful from a player's perspective. Nothing feels quite like waiting that long for an impulse no lag command to go through, and then having the train be completely off the tracks by the time it happens. Proof that a blind squirrel finds a nut here and there when they can spam bearcharge like it's going out of style.

Again, awesome char. I even offered your skin to Neltouda, although she didn't seem as into the whole people-skin thing as Oryn. heh

Really well played char, I did think you were a little soft, and tried to feed you stuff from different characters when it was clear there were shinanigins afoot. I liked our interactions in the early, mid and end phases too. The final show down on the ocean was gonna be a delete for me regardless, but you got intercepted by Lisos, then we had you both then snatched rags from the jaws of victory, tattered and disappointed, would have been a glorious end either way.
Thanks for all the hook ups, you felt decidedly less dangerous to Gleebrok but later chars showed me there was still teeth in the old cat yet
GLWYN

How dare you build the strongest Empire anyone has seen in the past 2 years! How dare you appoint somewhat competent people who don't speak an eastern european language!!!

Anyway, I liked Sivyh a lot, you slapped me around when I needed it and you were encouraging when I needed it. I know you completely believed me, which is why when you pulled me in the Sect hall and asked about the supposed coup I had to tell you the truth, well partially. Anyway, once Zaan gives it the thumbs up I'll go ahead and post my thoughts to it if the IMMs are ok with it.


Anyway, liked Sivyh a lot, people will bag on an Emperor with hide but I thought you were a solid presence and built a really strong Empire.

And as far as I could see a great Emperor.

It's a shame I didn't get to interact more. You really shouldn't have gotten me that one time, near Tir-Talath. I am always very careful avoiding getting assassinated, but applicants were pulling me left and right: "Yeah, I'm here. No, wait, I relocated and now am here. Or, no, I am back where I was before ..." Meaning that 'I' got nowhere but in a spot waiting to get wacked.

- Thuorn

I loved our "deal" for the strange bracers. Such an evil awesome thing to do.

Was fun running with you later. What can I say, you do hidden classes just about as good as anyone I've ever seen. Sivyh was a truckasauras rex, and Eljassir would have never betrayed him...unless he was deposed.

nt