Mon Jul 2 09:25:50 2007

At 2 o'clock AM, Day of the Bull, 22nd of the Month of Winter
on the Theran calendar Mutsu perished, never to return.

Race:	arial
Class:	assassin
Level:	51
Alignment:	Neutral
Ethos:	Neutral
Cabal:	NEXUS, Nexus, Seekers of Balance
Age:	48
Hours:	346

I beat you up a couple of times, but not as often as I could have. It's always fun fighting other assassins to see what they'd do against me.

Enjoyed your char, even if we bickered IC, it was always just IC that I disliked you.

I tried my best not step out of IC, but I did have some slip-ups. If I ever try another assassin, it will more likely be a Rager Defender. It was more taunting than bickering.

All I was trying to do was lure you into fights - I also knew that I wouldn't likely get one (outside of a raid situation) after that fight we had on the Island. No hard feelings, man, and I'm sorry if you took my taunts personally. I just knew that raiding would be a whole lot harder when you're living then dead (and since most of the village can't see you it would be my pleasure to take you out before we came).

Ok…damn nice run. I loved almost every minute of this character. I started my role with following Eshval. Became her willing slave, but could not prove to her my worth. I so wanted to see her court on Theroc that I made this assassin. Now I know what mistakes I did, maybe I will rectify my mistakes and possibly get to see her court. I should have gone Honor path and it is fun to play assassin like that. I joined Nexus because of Tralling, Shooloo & Nair. My usual playing time was on weekdays between 9am – Noon & 1:30 pm – 6:30pm EST.

I mastered almost all my daily used skills. But hated when Kotegeashi, Kansetsuwaza and kicks did not work. The fail rate for me was more than 50%. Come on, for a 100% skill, I can understand the fail rate to be around 10%-20%. Somehow I used Assassinate like 10 times, didn’t improve in that, so I left that skill and got into Martial Trance; awesome skill it is.

The help-file on Master of Ukemi mentioned that it has a skill when I am fighting multiple enemies. If it was updated to mention multiple PC, it would help. I thought it will help when I am fighting more than 1 mob. If I make another Assassin, I would not take Master of Ukemi, it seemed worthless even in ganks. Kansetsuwaza Adept works once in a while. Strong Back and Smoke & Mirrors are both awesome edges. I wish I could get the edge that allowed me to do more damage in Martial Trance.

Many people called me a SUPER noob. Maybe I am a noob, but after many breaks from CF and few non-serious characters, this was my first one of my attempts towards PK.

Right now I am kind of broke, I will be grateful if someone could buy the PBF for me, Thank You.

Immortals:
Eshval: Thank you. For taking your time in talking to me and releasing me from my bond without any negativity. Now you are gone.

Twist: I wanted to be your follower after reading your help files and your books/History of War in Lyceum. I sent you a note and told you what I wanted to do. I thought you might take a chance on me. Anyways, thank you for everything.

Zesam: Shooloo, loved you more than you can imagine when you were a mortal. After Marastron died, you became my online partner. I knew you were closely listening to me when I said anything on CB. Thank you for the last name and taking chance on me.

Rahiyn & Daevryn: In 350hrs of this character, I haven’t seen you guys once. And Congrats on your wedding.

Imms: Thank you for an awesome game and new additions to the game. And thank you to the Imm who controlled the Elite Guard. It was fun talking to you. I was trying my best to change your mind and make you see my way.

Nexus:
Tralling: What the hell? I was getting close to you so we can level together once again and you freaking disappear. You got leader position, use it.

Geren: Thank you for tolerating me. I know I can be annoying as hell. I used to love our time together. Loved tormenting you about that reduced human midget story. I still can’t believe you pulled a Tralling on me.

Marastron: I should have tried to evolve my RP more, I should have done a lot more and all the possibilities were there. Loved every second of our interaction. Loved the elemental shields and too late I realized the power of vanish with bond mate. After you died, I lost all interest in the Island . Many times I just walked around trying to bring balance, but hated doing anything. My most memorable bonds were with you.

Tumarellen: You’re awesome. Loved bonding with you. Loved your RP and killing style. Please show-up more. Island needs people like you.

Nair: I think we level together for a bit. But you stopped playing. That last death when we were together was funny. I was interviewing someone and we were sitting inside the Village.

Tariens: I was happy that you took my advice and joined Nexus. It was fun gearing you when you were level 5 and me preaching to you to join the Nexus. I still wanted to know where to get those knuckles. Thank you for everything and the weapon. Gave the sword to another Nexus Assassin, haven’t seen him since. You know who you are.

Bouwin: Where did you disappear to? I hate when people join the cabal and then disappear. Then log in once in a while.

Mibblic: Loved you and hated you at the same time. I had a trust issue with you. Somehow I could not trust you, but learnt so much from you.

Jenjo: I wanted you to level and then bond with me.

Icaehed: I always wanted to call you “Ice Head”. Good luck with Rhyme. I think you should get it.

Xilia: You be an awesome Meter. Good Luck.

Bundlehund: Good Luck

Prixia: Thank you, Sensei.

All the others in Nexus, good luck. It is one of the best and one of toughest cabals. Friends one minute, foes the next. Not easy to deal with. Bond is the strongest skill in the game.

Fort:
Captain: Thank you for the shield. I gave it to a scribe for safekeeping. You always got a warning from me if there was any shadowy imperial or scion around.

Amada: Fun forms; I wanted to hunt with you, but never got the chance

Chiril: I always counted you as a fortress assassin even if you were not. It was fun challenging you. Somehow I always lost my battles with another assassin.

Rolinyah: Thank you for the help in leveling. I so wanted to fight you.

Tribunal:
Maethron: I loved to annoy you. I knew you had a trap there; I just wanted to get you kicked in the junk for using traps in town.

Lucury: Thank you for telling me places I can master my kicks.

Bawgor: I really disliked you. I don’t know what you were doing this, but you could always gate to me even when I was hidden. I would have kicked myself if I died to a priest and I almost died to you once. I fled with like 20hp.

Pissudin: Always pronounced your name to myself as “Piss-does-burn”.

Gwarkul: Thank you being a good friend. I knew that I could always count on you.

Empire:
Hunsobo: You strong. The time I got you to gushing wounds, I was jumping with joy even though I died.

Waserax: I hate all Duergars. If you can see me hidden, I hate you. Good thing we did not have any fights. I avoided you like plague.

Ktaar: That duel we had, I did not have any of my skill up. I was thinking to give each of us time to prepare, and then start. You good.

Herald:
Frajalar: Thank you for all the RP. Morale wouldn’t do anything if I would kill you. Tiger Claw is NOT your friend.

Lyug: Thank you for all the fights. If all those fights were to death, I would have so many edges from PK. You still owe me three of your corpses.

Sokde: Assassins can be powerful than thieves. I apologize, I did not plan on killing you. But your death was profitable for both of us.

Scions:
Victoria : Thank you leveling with me. It was always fun to hang out with you.

Battle:
Mosem & Yudran: Respect. I bow to you. You two had the heart to stand to me even after I broke your wrist and shoulders and rendered you helpless. So when I was getting beat down by you, I would never flee.

Brinkmun: I used to love calling upon you and dueling you even when I knew I would loose. Loved fighting & chatting with you.

Mcgrok/Elivhree: Hated your guts. Depending on the day, I could kill you or or you kill me.

Drovis/Golhyrr: Felt like two drow with exactly the same specialization and legacy. I do not know much about warriors, haven’t played one in like 8yrs.

Outlanders:
What’s with almost all Outlanders? Before 51, they will group with just about anybody or anything to get to hero and then try to turn on them by calling “City Dweller”. Before 51, do they not get in their head that they are grouping with a “City Dwelling Bastard” in the beginning? I just can’t imagine how the Outlanders IMMs allow this sort of RP. I have grouped with like 3-4 rangers and couple of druids and they all did the same thing. Trestadine is one of them.

All Others:
Jardas: You are so close to 51. Hopefully you like that “Vampire Slayer”

I know I am missing a lot of people. It was fun. Maybe I will roll another character. Holler.

You did seem a little green but you were more or less always willing to throw down which I liked about you. If you do another assassin try to mix up your tactics a little, kot and kan are cool but you don't have to use them as your first 2 commands every fight ya know. One of the keys to pk if you are not totally outmatching your opponent is to mix it up and throw what they are not expecting(and possibly not prepared for).


give a warrior a try i think you will do well with it.

The skills don't work as much as some do, but there are ways to make them much more likely to hit. Like anything on CF, things like Kanset and Kot have a bit more banking on them than just skills percentages. You'll doubtlessly have noticed that kot seems to land a lot more readily than kan. What you might not have noticed, is how high dex characters are much harder to grab than giants. There's a certain amount of failure any way you go, but reducing your opponents dex while keeping your own high is a good way to ensure your skills land. Vs drows, arials, etc. I can see how you might have a skewed view. Doubly so if they geared for +dex. But there are ways to play it, it's mostly on 'feeling' that I learned the above. It could be wrong but in all my hours it did me true!

You also have to succeed with assassinate to improve on it. It's near guaranteed (even for a felar!) to improve from about 75% to 80% but with felar int it trailed off after that. I agree that martial trance is the bomb, I opted for it over trying to assassinate in a lot of fights. Sometimes your opponents are smart enough not to get caught (or they've become so paranoid as to camp exclusively on the Voralian river. I laughed at that a lot) and that's where matrial trance becomes a killer. Try another assassin, things are always better the next time around ;)

Enjoy.

Yhorian

Was happy to rank with you, and would probably have done it sooner but I think your title made me unsure as to whether you were an imperial or not for some reason. I was on good terms with most nexans because they were about the only people I could rank with. When I thought up a role that I liked that involved not ranking with certain kinds of people, I didn't expect a population explosion in that group of people as a result of race specific edges, dex changes and so on. So it was much harder than planned, and without characters like yours I don't know how I'd have managed. So I should be thanking you, and I had a good time grouping with you too.

You didn't seem like a newb to me. Your character had a distinct personality and the only time I remember you dying in pk I don't think I was close enough to see it, so any pk-newbieness was someone I didn't see.

Yeah it was always interesting with you about, always telling me about not robbing your Island buddies, I had just came off a Nexus char so I know most of them already tho. Good luck on your next, and yes I hero'd last night from only commerce xp.

much respect if that's possible!

He was 50 last time I saw him. He must have gotten over 15k commerce XP to get to 51. It is possible though, but it will take a long time.

Hah, hell no, I stopped ranking at 50, got down to 4k till hero from commerce, mob died and did it all over, all said and done, 35k in commerce or so. With my last char I flipped it so whom knows all in all how much I've gotten.

hehe yeah i never got to interact with you very much, alittle dissapointed! I had your shield for the longest time before Ktaar took it:( oh well! From what I saw this seemed like a fairly fun character! good luck with the next, see you in the fields