Taking precious time out of my frantic scramble for finals/job search/move out to write this.

I loved Eachainn like a brother and seeing him always, always cheered me up. Vall was totally, TOTALLY a punching bag, but Eachainn being logged in always made me happy because I'd be far less of one when I had invoker shields.

Binder/invoker is an incredibly interesting combo. I like to think we were pretty difficult to handle together, even with my subpar race/build design, but some people (goddamn mummies) walked straight through us. On the other hand, certain otherwise fairly unkillable people were very killable when we got the right setup, and most people who weren't immune to garrotte were really easy to bully. We had some beautiful teamwok going.

It got to the point that I actually felt a guilty logging on Vallinane when the fort power swing was in full bloom, because I knew that if you were on at the same time, most of our enemies would log off (not that I would blame them - I wouldn't have much fun playing against our combo, either). And the enemies who had the balls to not log off, and to deal with our combo were probably the ones I least wanted to roll over with you. It got to the point where I was deliberately retreating to Baer's shrine or to the inn or to our applicants to look for RP, because I felt bad for the people we were fighting - they would have to ping-pong from one desperate battle to the next, and you were already overpowering enough. Throwing a binder into the mix would just be unfair.

It was great running with you, one of my favorite CF experiences to date. I actually felt like you were deliberately being a hardass to forties in order to push me to take the good cop role, like the fluffy piece of fluffz0r that I am.

It was also really interesting because sometimes we'd swap positions, and you'd take the fluffy peace-loving line and I'd take the hardass maran kill 'em all line (mostly about nexus and battle). I felt like we were an excellent example in how opposing ideas and personalities in the Fortress still managed to align themselves and work together to create a greater whole.

Anyway, Eachainn was superb and was one of the biggest reasons I pushed Vall past 800 hours.

P.S. Fudging twist, gives the elf invoker pits that do unspeaks while he gives the elf thief improved panhandling.

P.P.S. Chain lightning was the coolest ####ing thing I've seen in a long time.