>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.

Well, you don't need to coincide with my times to do the lich-
quest. In fact, I'm not even sure who all does lichquests
these days (I can think of one immortal, but maybe there's more
than one doing them). Either way, I don't think we expect most
necromancers to race through the quest like that, so if you had
been praying for a while, you may have needed to give it more
time.