>You can probably guess, I had a tremendous amount of respect
>for you. Even before you returned everything (well, everything
>Rolinyah didn't take and sac) when you two got me.

I did keep a wide copper as a souvenir, but I wanted to cry when I gave you back the gauntlets, the glass eye bracelet, and the displacer cloak. As many times as you stood over my gear and denied the flock of young imperial vultures my crap gear I couldn't bring myself to keep or destroy what I wouldn't wear, even though that would mean many more deaths to you.

>To echo Isildur/Waserax, we really did often go out of our way
>to avoid killing you (as much as RP allowed) once you'd been
>ganged by us a couple of times. I would still try to fight you
>one v. one because you stood more than a fair chance when it
>was just us two (I know it didn't seem that way to you, but
>keep in mind my health was always lower than you saw it).

Getting Baer's tat compelled me to at least try to put up a defense though I knew how it would end up. After your one (1) death I knew you had some sort of edge that masked your health because you went from gushing to dead without taking much for damage, but it was annoyingly difficult to get you below small wounds before I was writhing. Those ****DEMOLISHES**** you dealt with you gauntlets trumped anything I could dish out with my leader weapon or hands, and your imperial tactics meant that any other weapon I tried to wield was lying on the ground. Not until Twist came into my life and twisted my role around could I hold a dagger that circumvented your giant resist.

>I remember at one point being inadvertantly brought into a
>conversation (as Twist) about what additional legacy to give
>you for being such a cool char despite typically bad odds.
>Lyristeon kept wanting to give you Harmonious because you
>always got bashed by Hunsobo (he didn't know it was me, of
>course). I was all for giving you a legacy, but tried to steer
>(not too loudly) toward something else that fit your role
>better (the better save vs. spell one, for instance). Not
>because I wanted to be able to beat you better as Hunsobo, but
>because as I understand it, Greeting trumps Harmonious. So if
>the only reason for it was for Hunsobo, you'd get no use out
>of it! In the end you got Harmonious, but by that time you and
>I had sort of a mutual admiration society thing going on
>anyways, and we actually only fought one or two other times
>(and I rarely bashed during those fights for one reason or
>another).

Eventually I started experimenting with hurling to your forearms and shoulders, which seemed to improve combat from my side until you became emperor. You can imagine my reaction: "Oh goodie, now that I can finally start prepping decently against him, he can slap a sigil on me." Harmonious did help, however, for if I could lead with a hurl shoulder you weren't normally able to permalag me.

>As Twist, I would watch you here and there and loved your
>role. And since I sorta felt sorry for you for all of the
>H-bashdowns and such, and me being ye olde god o'
>magic...well, it gave me the perfect "in" to help you change
>your role up a bit to make things a bit more favorable for ya.
>
>I'm glad you went with it the way you did - characters who
>have semi-dramatic life-changing events can be, as you put it,
>much more interesting to play. And it wasn't like you were a
>BattleRager betraying the village by suddenly realizing that
>magic was ok.

I must also state that in my initial talks with Baerinika she came across as pro-magic, and after my interaction with you in the Jade Mountains I did go pray in her shrine. She didn't answer, but I started looking at the extra desriptions and radiance and brilliant light in them. This wouldn't be that big a deal, but the Diamond dagger of Radiance was sitting in the hollow and the helm of brilliance was in for once. That was a sign!

>All in all, a great character. We imms kept marveling at how
>much CON you burned through - how many gain converts did you
>shove into CON anyways?

I was made leader with 13 con having 36 practices and two trains, and I was given 3 con after all my suicides trying to leave the external vicinity of the Silent Tower. I trained strength once, maybe dex once, and the rest went into con when I decided I wanted to try to age death an elf leader just to say I had done it.

There were a few reasons I was the Bloodied Claw of Baerinika, and most of it was my own blood. Ha!