>I've been waiting for a reason to code up some abilities for
not-quite Liches for some time and mainly haven't because
each quest (at least out of the ones I've heard about) has
either failed or succeeded fully. Oh well. I'll wait another
few years before coding up the powers of a freakish half-created
undead player...

From our interaction it seemed to me like I was basically screwed. If not forever, then for a while... and I just don't have enough time to throw into that to make it worth it for either of us. I get the feeling by the time it took to get my lich quest and to get a response with my items that our times rarely coincide. Maybe I'll try again when I feel like another character and we can have some fun.

>Given your hours, I'm guessing you power-ranked to 47 and did
most of your killing there. That's what will get you with
distention. If they had been spread out over the levels you
probably wouldn't have seen it. (That's just speculation on
my part.)

Actually, I took a very long time from 20-35 and probably got about a third of my kills there. I leveled from 35-47 in about a day with an insane group, but that was my only powerranking.. the rest was very painfully slow. I still think it's silly to have distention put your pk range so high that it would actually be lowered if you heroed. It's not like I was abusing people I had ten levels on to get my range upped in the end, I was killing people who had levels on me. Might want to look into it. *shrug*