Tue May 4 14:49:10 2004


At 1 o'clock AM, Day of the Great Gods, 33rd of the Month of the Shadows
on the Theran calendar Zauttevre perished, never to return.

You were quite the meddler, always popping up in the middle of a raid, or mysteriously when noone was about.
You were quite the aide of the entire Empire, never had I ever seen a healer who had the backs of every single portion of the Empire.
If you were not around, there was never a concern or issue in a raid, no other healers just had the way of handling things like you did.

I just read your role on the premiums, very nicely done.
IC I hated your char, for obvious reasons, but well played, though I agree with Khast.. too friendly outside the divine sect.

Good luck on your next.

This character was made with two things in mind. Absolute, maybe not
unrational dedication to the Order sphere and therefore to the Empire and
pride which didn't serve me well. For this I got killed in quite many suicide
gangs and about the same number of them I managed to escape from. I tried to
be the Divine Guidance sect member as I understood it, that is, showing the
example to Empire. Too bad that was example that most of time only fortress
saw, other imperials would log out by that time.

In the last month I got more and more bored. Solo healer is not a big force
and without shawtabies that I lost in one of the gangs I had to depend on
others. After some moment I found that I cannot go into silent tower (a place
that I could explore alone) any more for a reason I still don't know, so all
that was left to me is cabal business.

I played for three or less months and 424 hours means I played damn a lot
every day. I burned the character's life, con and my desire to play him. In
the end when I was finally made a high priest there was nothing left. I
deleted before Emperor's elections because IC I had to want to become an
Emperor, OOC I had no wish to play any more and it was lame, especially if I
was suddenly made an Emperor.

Absolute, maybe not unrational dedication to the Order sphere and therefore to the Empire and pride which didn't serve me well.

"unrational" should be "rational" here

Actually it should be irrational instead of not rational.

Good character, a bit chaffing at times.

***Lathan: You would think I'd fear you the most, for divine intervention
that you did to me. But I did not. Perhaps you are a newbie, but you never
made me even closely scared as did others, not even in a gang.***

I wouldn't have feared me either. In fact, I wouldn't have feared any paladin with any virtue as a shroud wielding imperial healer. Light of Heaven? Pshaw! Divine Intervention on a healer? Pshaw!. A shrouded healer is really a formidable foe especially when they are in centurions with shawtabbies that MASSACRE through sanc/prot. I've tried both the above sups on you as two different paladins in the hero range and I can't say that either worked especially well. I've been told that divine intervention works for #### on healers and pretty well on shamans, but by the time I was a hero njaal was scarce so I couldn't test the shaman part. I do know that it was pretty sucky against you though. As far as gangs though, I can hardly think of a moment where you got ganged(at least while I was there). I can think of a few 3 on 2 fights where we outnumbered, but thats hardly a gang and I would rather fight 4 blades solo than a single shrouded blade with his healer lacky. I thought you did a good job from our brief interactions and quite a few fights. Good Luck on your next.

Lathan

"Tulvaluthian: First a caballess invoker, you were bad enough, at least you went to take some risks which probably were because you wanted to earn respect of maran immortals. Big props to you, you didn't always gang. "

First let me say, for the longest time, you held the Empire together. While I hated you IC, from a player standpoint I loved you, because the blades would then take chances fighting if they had you at their backs. When you logged off, I could prepare to see a mass exodus of Imperials, with one or two notable exceptions (You know who you are). That one time I think we killed you at the palace was the only time I saw you die, but I always enjoyed our confrontations and the inevitable talking afterwards. Empire takes a serious blow with your deletion. Great char and good luck on the next.

I liked Zauttevre. I knew if you were around you would be up for anything and against anything. I agree with your statements about Yanacek, though I also thought he was an excellent pker, just not around enough to lead Empire IMO. But, then again, if I had it, I have a similar type schedule where I can only be around for a few hours a day, if that. Oh well, I guess those are the breaks for those of us who are married, in a career, and all that jazz. Oh well, great work, good priest, I would have deposed Njaal and made you High Priest just because of one instance with him.

Dryz

>I liked Zauttevre. I knew if you were around you would be up
>for anything and against anything.

We had a pretty similar playing style I think. Although I being a healer escaped deadly circumstances more often than you did.

> Oh well, great work, good priest, I would have deposed Njaal
> and made you High Priest just because of one instance with him.

In any case I got tired waiting. If I was made a high priest 200 hours ago it could've been quite different.

Sorry I don't have any interesting logs with you involved except for maybe fighting you when you became an anathema... forgot to use vengeance that time. I always wanted to see its damage on anathema. It is about demolish - obliterate as I figured lated on Nynncynno.

For that time. It was pretty obvious your connection died, but you did it right as you were fighting the Maran, and I wasn't gonna sit back and wait. Once your sanc died and you still weren't doing much I probably figured it was a link issue, since every other time we went up against each other you were pretty clever. You knew exactly how to deal with a two-hander. Anyways, good fights the few we had.

I imagine they can get boring. Anyways had fun playing with you, hope you have more fun with your next.

Enjoyed our conversations. Was always cool having a couple priests of the same god around. Lochzan isnt the type to have friends, but you were one of his closer alies. Had some good stuff planned, too bad your goina miss out on it.

Luck with your next.

I always fought when your war came to us. I stayed at the Refuge with 5 Imperials and did what I could. As for raiding with you or Talabrina about, its useless for a def/def shifter to do. Your just going to black shroud them, and heal them. There was nothing I could do. Well done, and luck with your next.

>I always fought when your war came to us. I stayed at the
>Refuge with 5 Imperials and did what I could. As for raiding
>with you or Talabrina about, its useless for a def/def shifter
>to do. Your just going to black shroud them, and heal them.
>There was nothing I could do. Well done, and luck with your
>next.

You were pretty annoying addition to the goodie gang. Of course you couldn't retrieve alone but when others gathered for it you were quite an addition. No, I didn't mean you when I wrote about disrespect to outlanders.

df

Commune Gate Evernstaine
Commune curse Evernstaine
CB He's at where and where, come kill him

it's not a scooter it's a sailboat

In the beginning I had mixed feeling about you.. in the sence that .. I'll call it your arrogance/which I placed under newbie-ish.. Look at the 'buh bye' to Nhiala to understand what I want to say.. (and this was not the only case, you said similar things to another character of mine while you were sancing/healing my enemies - rank 35-ish, you hero already).. I was like ' Doo-ooh, this one spends too much time with Drudental '.. But later on, when I began to have you as an opponent more and more, it changed into respect.. Because you were around that much - whatever the odds , and because you were able to rally the forces (then again, healers can do that thing, especially when they have black shroud .. damn I hate that thing). Anyways, *now* I can say.. well done.

Elstratuviel

>In the beginning I had mixed feeling about you.. in the sence
>that .. I'll call it your arrogance/which I placed under
>newbie-ish.. Look at the 'buh bye' to Nhiala to understand
>what I want to say..

These were actually Yanacek's favourite words that he said when he got a sure kill. I just repeated them when I saw that Nhiala lost her sanc and I thought I am going to finish her quickly.

- Khasotholas: Hmm... what to say. At first I liked you. But it slowly went downside and in the end I decided to boycott your shrine and never pray to you again. I hate to be ignored and I felt you do it to me.

You played an Imperial very well. Sometimes I didn't think you played a Divine very well. For what it's worth, I didn't intentionally ignore you at all. I don't intentionally ignore anybody. At times, there are week long stretches where I'm busy ooc. There's been a few of those stretches in the last few months, as my wife is pregnant with our first child. Sorry things went sour for you, that's a shame, your character started out very interesting.

I saw Zauttevre as very dedicated to the interest of the Empire. I remember telling him that i would not hold it against him if he did not kamikaze against large raiding groups. The bastard just shrugged and said it was his duty to Khas.
You were skilled and we pulled off a few neat defences and raids together.

Khasotholas is a harsh God. No tolerance for trying the honey metode before the whip, so i can see why yo got a bit put off. But if you dispell his black aura, you will find a soft little man that just wants to be hugged. It can be argued however that he does not give his dogs enough bones, but he still one of the best out there.

>I saw Zauttevre as very dedicated to the interest of the
>Empire. I remember telling him that i would not hold it
>against him if he did not kamikaze against large raiding
>groups. The bastard just shrugged and said it was his duty to Khas.
>You were skilled and we pulled off a few neat defences and
>raids together.

Well I was hoping to get a title heh. But I would never ask for one being proud and all. And healer's life is boring to me without a risk. What's good looking at all those shinies you wear whey they aren't used. One day I went against Jaegrudai groups three times two times escaping only because of sheer luck

Jaegrudai tells you '*grumble* Apparently I'm rust. Missed yer on what woulda been da tellin' blow.'

.....

Jaegrudai tells you 'Yer luck is incredible.'

third time dying of course, but it was fun.

>Khasotholas is a harsh God. No tolerance for trying the honey
>metode before the whip, so i can see why yo got a bit put off.
>But if you dispell his black aura, you will find a soft little
>man that just wants to be hugged. It can be argued however
>that he does not give his dogs enough bones, but he still one
>of the best out there.

I agree, Khas is the best immortal I know. He and Twist are number one among CF immortals that I knew.

Thanks for the compliment. Now that I have more time, I remember jotting down how much I liked that you tied your role into your empowerment interview. And whenever I watched you, you were indeed busting your butt, often against serious odds. Only negative I had, was that you seemed to nice to other sects... your role could justify that, but Khas is a bitter, twisted god in many ways, and just didn't like it. Anyway, all around good stuff. I agree, sometimes it can be tough to keep healers fresh.

Khas

- Khasotholas is a harsh God. No tolerance for trying the honey metode before the whip, so i can see why yo got a bit put off.

It's so true. I don't know why people ever expect kindness from me.

- But if you dispell his black aura, you will find a soft little man that just wants to be hugged.

Picture me as that little girl running through the meadow in the open of Little House on the Prairie. Except as a dude, and all buff and manly.

- It can be argued however that he does not give his dogs enough bones, but he still one of the best out there.

Maybe so. In a sense things like titles, ect, while I like them, do not exactly fall in line with my religion. Maybe I'll do more in the future.

Heh, i agree on all parts of what Njaal and Zaut has been saying, i think Zhenzar was the first one titled by Khas though, even it didnt last long... I shiver on the thought however picturing a nude guy, all hairy and "manly" running through the meadow... *ouch*

Usually when we were fighting, it was me versus a bunch of you. Unfortunate, but that is how it crumbles usually. Our single battles were full of you just spamming, "flee;com blade barrier". I really think there should be some sort of timer for that commune. But if not, you should not be able to heal other people while sitting blade barriered up. The blade barrier should go off on the person you are healing then. How can you touch other people and heal them with blades swinging around you but when I kick dirt at you, it oblits me through resist. Frustrating to say the least. Healers always make the Empire four times more dangerous when they get on, and unthinkably impossible to raid seeing you have callable outer-outer guardians that are perm hasted and do huge damage on hits. I always felt good when I was able to take back my item through silence from under six empires' noses, including you. It was the only way to get back at you. Thanks for raising Empire up and making my life a living hell. Good luck with your next.

>Usually when we were fighting, it was me versus a bunch of
>you. Unfortunate, but that is how it crumbles usually. Our
>single battles were full of you just spamming, "flee;com blade
>barrier".

Funny how you think that I abused blade barrier. Most of times I forgot I had that prayer. And as I was half-drow with 5 pracs per level, I practiced all my supplications and skills only once to 56% and never worked on them. All other practices went to train hp. All I had perfected had improved in use and only in use. I perfected parry in 405 (!!) hours. It should be added to my character's history

Blade barrier was 77% when I deleted, it failed too often to be reliable. But what's the hell. Half of the village are hand specs. Did you guys want to just stun me and go raid? That's kind of unfair.

> Thanks for raising Empire up and making my life a living hell.

Flattering comment. I feel appreciated I did my best, honestly thank you too.

Zauttevre was always somewhat of an enigma to me since we didn't travel that often. Surprisingly, it is the Imperial healers that I always felt most uncomfortable around (although there is one imperial class that I tend to avoid altogether), perhaps because you tend to need healers when you are at your weakest. I wondered how long it would be before you objected to me taking what I wanted twice running before you took what you wanted (although in all honesty I didn’t see you say you wanted the robe we got until I went over the log, and I would have let you have it since you’d helped me earlier). I particularly remember the episode with you, me and Lochzan, where Lochzan sacrificed the storm commander we’d just killed to make a zombie out of. I said “I hope your god appreciates the sacrifice Lochzan”, and then the next thing I know, you healing sleep me and when I wake up Khasothalas is there. I enjoyed that encounter. I was half expecting some immortal unlovingness because of the note to the Empire coupled with not prostrating myself as ordered, but it turned out ok for all in the end. The best thing about it is that it really made me feel as if I was travelling with two priests, rather than two people who happened to use communes.

I too would have liked to spend more time around you and find out what you were about. Unfortunately I'm finding it difficult to free up the time to play (and thankfully for once I won't be losing anything to hoarding code as a result).

>Grottimgesh: You showed me a lot of areas where I never was at all or
>where I couldn't go alone. It was very interesting to explore together. We had
>a lot of good fights together defending and raiding, but I felt you have too
>many chances to be chosen next emperor, so it was like... I'll write some more
>when you delete. This information still can affect IC things.

I know places where glowing and humming equipment grows on trees
but it is so hard to gather a proper team to obtain what belongs to us.

The Mud school trains three categories of healers:
1) You tell them what to do, but they kick in combat ( usually Fortress healers )
2) You tell them what to do and they do it.
3) You don't tell them anything but they do what is needed anyway.
You were one of 3rd category and it is always nice to have competent
groupmates. I still don't know why people whine so much about black
shroud as it is not extremely better than usual sanctuary,
but there is no doubt you doubled the effectiveness of Empire when you were around.

Your arrogance irked me sometimes but I simply can't deny the fact
that you were a very solid imperial and your dedication to the cabal
should be an example for many other imperials.

Roll a dawn healer and show 'em the power of altruism.

You were the drow I loved to hate the most. Well done being the complete evil mother you were. I never got in range of you, but your shrouding of Centurions and then laughing at my pathetic attempts to get past were truly demoralizing. Good luck on your next.

>You were the drow I loved to hate the most. Well done being
>the complete evil mother you were. I never got in range of
>you, but your shrouding of Centurions and then laughing at my
>pathetic attempts to get past were truly demoralizing. Good
>luck on your next.

You you were one of many, so many I don't remember all them trying to retrieve against me out of pk. Shrouded and frenzied centurions are really badass and if you happen to be a gnome/svirf you are fsked.

But what else can a healer do? I did my job and as I wrote, I tried to be dedicated to serving order and empire.

Boy did I hate you. Shroud and Centurions and cabalmates is a nasty combination.

Re: the fight you posted- honestly, I thought I could outlast you. If I'd been wearing a different sword I probably could have, but I wore the other one because of your shield. My main mistake: not re-uppping sanc when you fled. Or at least something else- removing curse, teleporting, etc.

>Boy did I hate you. Shroud and Centurions and cabalmates is
>a nasty combination.

That was mutual. Your paladins that you summoned and used divine intervention on me... absolutely annoying. I even though of asking immortals if it was within rules but the character's role was being proud so I decided to live with that and never complained.

>Re: the fight you posted- honestly, I thought I could outlast
>you. If I'd been wearing a different sword I probably could
>have, but I wore the other one because of your shield. My
>main mistake: not re-uppping sanc when you fled. Or at least
>something else- removing curse, teleporting, etc.

You did several mistakes and were quite unlucky, say, for fleeing north to another set of centurious, that was where random luck was on my side. I almost lost the hope that I can kill you that time as there was no mana left, heh. Even making curse to work on you in just so few attempts was very lucky on my part. Perhaps it was not your day.