Sat Jun 22 12:54:44 2002


12 o''clock AM, Day of the Moon, 14th of the Month of Winter on the Theran calendar Veissa perished, never to return.

Race:	dark-elf
Class:	warrior
Level:	44
Alignment:	Evil
Ethos:	Chaotic
Cabal:	BATTLE, the BattleRagers, Haters of Magic
Age:	192
Hours:	117
PK Ratio:	45% (closer to 100% is better)

Fun character. I'd have to say I had a better time playing
this character than most. Tough character to play, a drow
Villager. Scions, Marans, Warlocks, Nexans, Sylvans, and
just about most everyone else were against me. At one point
I had a Scion warrior and a Maran shaman working together
against me. I learned a lot about Villager powers, and when
and how they work/upsides/downsides.

I deleted because of the series of misfortunes and the
impossibility of ever gaining any ranks. Surprised my PK
ratio was 45%, could have sworn it was 35% or so. Was in
a little bit of a hole because of stepping outside when
wanted to test the new Vindicator's vindicator powers to
see how much of a pain it'll give me. Didn't realize I
wouldn't be able to make it back to the Village. Felt like
if I wanted to play a villager again, I'd like to start
fresh, but the challenge up until then was really good.
Plus it seemed like few Villagers were showing. Most of
the Villagers also acted like they hated me. Then again I
acted like I hated them sometimes so fair's fair.

As for Villager courage/honor and whatever, Veissa's
attitude was that we have our enemies, and we make them
die whichever way we had to in order to make sure they
die, meaning ganging was alright, as long as you didn't
need to rely on it. After the stint with Jaslanna and
all the Villagers hovering over her wondering who/how
many should take her down, I had to change, but truthfully
I wanted to make my character a brutal bitch. I fought
alone most of the time anyways, mostly by preference.

For a drow first time villager, I think I did fairly well.
I deleted with 13 Con.

Villagers:
Shamus: Your attitude is a carbon copy of Thror, no wonder
he likes you and you were made Commander. Sorry I didn't
last, I really wanted to. Glad you are Commander.

Nilushka: Like Narin said, a little indecisive, but who am
I to talk. I thought you fought well.

Rhuean: Fun to fight with you. Your specs and legacies
seemed to be a good combination, too bad there isn't a
legacy that gives bash protection, though may be wrong.

Haas: Too bad, but oh well, it happens. Rules are rules and
if they let one person do it, then the next person will
bitch when they let that person do it. Its really their game,
not ours.

Tambra: Where the hell did you go? Could have used you lately.

Falkim: I really didn't agree with the whole argument after
the thing with Jaslanna either, but have to change or else
you'll get booted.

Kirshaw: Liked you, thought we'd make a good pair to fight
together. Was fun practicing in the Village on each other.

Koogar: Funny hearing a svirfnaeblin talking like Tambra.

Sylkorian: Keep on trucking, hard being an elf, but it isn't
all that bad.

Village Imms:
You were all really cool, but I have one little caveat. When
I asked Koogar to kill me because I didn't feel like waiting
for 20 or so ticks to die from Dullameh's rot, and some
immortal said over cb 'you Villagers die enough as it is to
be killing each other', that pissed me off. Especially since
most of my characters had beat the living daylights out of
most of the current village immortals when they were mortal.
Remember your childhood buddy, talk the trash when you're
an immortal and can't get taken down by a Necro, two duergar
warriors and an airborne shapeshifter on a regular basis.
But otherwise, liked you all and the village is really a
fun cabal, Imm interaction's pretty heavy in there too, so
its nice. I'll probably be back soon.

Oh another thing, anybody else notice that Tambra's speech
impediment went completely away during the little rager
gathering and the talk about courage :). Started talking like
a scholar.

Mages in General: Spellbane hardly works when you're fighting
somebody eight ranks above you. Didn't know that until now.
Thought it worked at least half the time. Wrong.

Scion:
Jaslanna: Didn't fight you a whole lot, but when I did, it
felt wierd being on the other side. Just about every Necro
trick I've done myself, so don't feel special with that
summon into the watchtower thing :).

Salpena: A little annoying, but lots of good fights with
you. At least you were gutsy.

Urden: You caught me with my pants down a few times. Lucky
bastard. Liked fighting you too though. Wish my spellbane
would work a little better against you. The last thing you
did on the eastern road, thanks. Didn't expect that from
you, thought you were a kill-all-Villagers-in-sight type
of Scion. I woulda killed me if I were you. PS: That
quicksand bites. that whole time after I fought you I
tried to escape it but couldn't, must have been 12 tries
and I dropped nearly all my equipment except my weapons.
I guess dexterity and being a light race has no effect
on it. Learned that now.

Maran:

Karhon: I don't like you.

Alghorval: Almost got you. You liked that trick? Woulda been
better if I won. :)

Sylvan: Just a general statement, I don't like many of you,
especially when I was in my 30's ranks. You completely laid
off me afterwards, but I still didn't like you.

Nexus:
Cercanopunos: I hated you. You had a habit of catching me
with my pants down too.

Other:
Llohuir: Neat power, I like it.

Often times when I'd play I'd be in the dwarf forest fighting
an airborne shifter, fight that one off, then move to the
eastern road hurt, where I'd get attacked by a few Scions,
run away, get jumped by a pack of Sylvans. Die. Spend time
requipping myself, midway I'd be hurt requipping, someone
would come up and attack me. I'd run. That was, sincerely,
the story of my life.

Anyways, fun playing, sure I'll be back again, not too sure
what I'll play. Ragers are fun, Scions would be fun if they
weren't dominating. Maybe I'll play a Tribunal and beat the
##### hell outta some Sylvans :).

I hope your next character opposes mine. I remember fighting you as Vaustren and Kravidian (During the same time period, heh.) and loving it every time. I miss fights like those, and the people who are willing to fight like you are. It's funny, because I thought you had quit cf to do that law stuff and maintain your heavy drinking :p.

Glad to see you back, good luck on the next, and I hope we get to fight again, it's been a while.

And Umm, I didn't know Veissa, but I know alot of people hated the character, so good job. Good luck with the next, who I hope to kill, but probably won't.

Any good way to contact you, or do you just do that AIM thing still?
-Boy Scout

Hmm.. Boy Scout.. Paelnor, right?

Yeah I was using AOL a long time ago but around January
this year I lost use of the account b/c I put bad stuff
on my profile. I haven't bothered to get it started
again. In the meantime, my email is infoentry@yahoo.com.

Feel free to email me.

I didnt mean to be an ass, at the first of my range with ragers, I had done a little bit of looting, but I tried not to full loot, if all possible, I just felt like the whole damn Rager cabal was looting the hell outa me, so I sent a note to the rift of my concerns and that is why I full looted you in the past. Catching you with you pants down? both in the fields and in the past? Ig you would have ever gotten off some whip spec skills, you would have most likely handed me a defeat like in the underdark. Well played, vuln mithril, low con is a hard butch of cards to build a house with, I take my hat off to Veissa. Well done man, or woman...

-Cercanopuno-

I didn't get to know your character all that well, but you seemed to be a fairly competent villager. I'm glad you enjoyed the village imms, except for your... odd... comment...

*Especially since most of my characters had beat the living daylights out of most of the current village immortals when they were mortal. Remember your childhood buddy, talk the trash when you're an immortal and can't get taken down by a Necro, two duergar
warriors and an airborne shapeshifter on a regular basis.

I'd like to think we don't lose touch with the day to day realities of being a villager. We know how difficult it can be, and take that into consideration, always. As for you beating the living daylights out of me when I was a mort... good for you. You're not the only one who can claim it.

However, I'm glad you enjoyed for the most part being a villager. Good luck should you make another.

What is this argument thing concerning Jaslanna?

During one raid, Rhuean had choked you, and announced it
so about six villagers came to where you were choked
and were standing over you, and everybody was too busy
figuring out who will attack you and you got up and
left unharmed. Everybody was bitching about how either
we all should have attacked or maybe just one or two
depending on whether it was still a siege or not. Anyways,
as you know I died to you after being summoned into the
watchtower. Some immortal in battle said look what you
did letting the mage get away over cb and how I died
because nobody already knew what honor was and how it stood
and it needed to be resolved. So on cb there was a big
argument as to what courage and honor was and then there
was a big happy village gathering to talk and figure out
what courage and honor in the village is supposed to be.

All of this because we sat around like dorks worrying about
whether we'd get the boot if we all just jumped you in mass
like a bunch of barbarians and you got away. Well at least
I was. Others were saying 'no no we need to be honorable'.

Turns out the 'no no we need to be honorable' ones were
right by the Village Imm that handled that. Blech.

We shoulda butchered you,
- Kravidian

Yeah, in character I totally agree with you. There isn't one "army" commander who wouldn't take a sure victory over a not so sure one. In war, numbers are everything. (Although, I am sure skill factors in there somehwere..:P) Out of character though, I have to respect the game balance of it. Which is fine, because really the way they have it layed out right now, its a sharp line. They try to enforce being a respected and courageous warrior but then also being part of a viscious unrelenting army. Part of the fun is trying to balance the both.

Either way I hope people had fun

Falkim
Starter of the Argument.

Well...I'm rather glad then....getting jumped by 4-6 ragers at once is rather difficult to get away with. If I recall correctly it was near the docks in Hamsah. And I was rather amazed I got up and was able to walk away from that....rather quickly.

Damn! I enjoyed hanging around you when I could, being a ranger and all. You played the bitch up pretty well, and its a damn shame I haven't been on more. Been busy with some stuff in RL, anyways.

Good luck with your next one.

Good character. Rather quiet at times but that's probably because you were busy either fighting or running away from most opponents. I noticed that you gave most applicants that asked for your attention the cold shoulder. I imagined it was part of you being a drow. Least you had guts. It's hard to say that about most of the past drow warriors.

Couple concerns:

Just because someone is named a leader does not mean I like them. Your statement about carbon-copies is off base since I didn't hold the Rites or choose the leader this time around. Nor have I been around much to make many calls for or against battle.

>Village Imms:
>You were all really cool, but I have one little caveat. When
>I asked Koogar to kill me because I didn't feel like waiting
>for 20 or so ticks to die from Dullameh's rot, and some
>immortal said over cb 'you Villagers die enough as it is to
>be killing each other', that pissed me off. Especially since
>most of my characters had beat the living daylights out of
>most of the current village immortals when they were mortal.
>Remember your childhood buddy, talk the trash when you're
>an immortal and can't get taken down by a Necro, two duergar
>warriors and an airborne shapeshifter on a regular basis.
>But otherwise, liked you all and the village is really a
>fun cabal, Imm interaction's pretty heavy in there too, so
>its nice. I'll probably be back soon.

...getting killed by a cabal-mate to remove a wanted flag is wrong, so I'm looping this in the same category. I'm not sure if you just wanted to avoid raising Dullameh's pk ratio more or didn't want to wait out the maledictions but you were going to die either way. Accept that.

...btw I remember taking Kravidian down numerous times. I'm sure some of your other characters fall into the same category. We all like to brag, but the best characters don't have to.

I really didn't mean the thing about Shamus being
a carbon copy of you as an insult. I really didn't
mean to make it sound like I was bragging, I was
just very, very insulted over the comment I heard.
Both you and Intronan took it that way. And if
whoever the village imm said it noticed, when he
said 'Villagers just don't kill other villagers,
period.' I shut up and said ok. I only had a problem
with the comment made.

But, all things considered, that was my -only-
problem with anything. Everything else was good.
I don't want to make it seem like a little brat
asking for everything. I had fun.

>Nilushka: Like Narin said, a little indecisive, but who am
>I to talk. I thought you fought well.
>

Hmm.. am kinda curious as to what makes you both say this.

Nil

This is mostly because of that argument at the Village. Though it
was apparent that you were taking the side of the 'honorably fight
the mages you fight', you made it seem like that was just your
opinion, rather than telling us that's what we're supposed to do.
I had thought you were taking the safe route by not saying the
wrong thing as Captain, and that you shoulda just chose one way
to handle it and thats that. Took awhile to drag the answer out
of you, you started off talking about someone trashing Rhuean's
character (as in personality, not player).

At least that's why I thought it. On the other spectrum, Shamus
is more the one to call you a bloody idiot if you're doing something
wrong. Its a little more proactive and commanding way to lead.

Well, I started Ciakaer out, was going to kill a few mages, perfect defenses, and try to join Village. I met you after my 2nd mage kill, then I read the note you send out to the Villager applicants. That was the turning point. Left and right and day and night I spent the next two weeks "grinding" any and every mage class I could get my my trip $targ alias off in the same room. 2 weeks and 40 mages later, im heavily distented, and wanting to delete from con loss of fighting Scions 17(at the peak) ranks above me. I went over my notes, and read the one yeh sent applicants. That was bloody inspirational. I jumped up, regeared, and got back on the poney. Yeh were great, you didnt see much of me, but about 10 times in your fights I was in the shadows, ready to get your things for you if you fell, but you usualyl just beat their arse. Always hoped id be able to fight along yer side... damn, oh well. Cia' really respected ya, and its a big loss for the Village.

Great, and that bloody ranger wont leave me alone, too bad we didnt get to kick my plan into action...