Well, I had high plans for this character but they never really panned out... and after a week break and the constant "asshole!" moments from various people, I was just done. People talk about the quality of the people playing this game going down and I'd have to agree with my recent interactions.

Two nails in the coffin were Halifan and Mirozah. Pretty obvious who each of you are behind your characters and the pure #### moves you both pulled just made me not want to play anymore. Halifan... you had some gripe over losing a few things from long ago and then after being looted by other people, you blame me and swear you'll make me pay... we then fight and I underestimate how much black sanctuary used to help in damage reduction and I lag out trying to word away and you finally get me even though I don't want to fight given I'm trying to get inducted. You return with looting half of my gear including drow-only and shaman-only pieces, and placing them on several cabal inner guardians for a "scavenger hunt" - go #### yourself. You're the same incarnation on every character you make. Mirozah or however you spell it, I took you to go exploring with the Chieftain (our first meeting ever) and died to double flurry bad luck and ... in typical asshole fashion, you ditch the Chieftain to die and loot several key pieces of my gear to mock me behind duo before logging out. Both of you also knew I was trying to reach Zhenyen to get into the Chasm but didn't bat an eye at it. You may think you're RPing evil but you're both just assholes plain and simple.

Reksah, sadly you were the final nail in the coffin. At first I enjoyed our interactions - I had planned on going for Arvam (in retrospect I should have), but you stepped in and we started off well. Our interactions were... weird. You gave me empowerment and two paths with basically no effort which was nice... but you wanted something I guess I just never gave you. I did "research" (I thought my recent role entry with Silent Tower words was amazing), and I stayed in Empire hiding the fact I followed you, but you gave no direction or goal and then dropped off the game completely. Our only interactions were scheduled via email in advance and each one felt like you just wanted me to go away. Our last one where you called me "useless" and basically chewed me out for making myself anathema, I honestly felt like slapping you through the internet. I knew Gharzal would have done it the moment he saw me after he won the vote, and Scion has basically been a ghost town since the day I made Soviatos... so I figured "hey, I'm getting removed anyways, might as well do it on my terms and help the Scions out right?" - I even attempted to reach you before the vote and had talked about joining the Chasm before, both of which you never answered and you threw me under the bus after saying I had basically ruined everything. Add in the fact I've got a non-existent Immortal with no clear guidance, while Destuvius is handing out candy to complete ooc idiots like Gharzal for nothing... I was becoming pretty jaded. I thought I had done some pretty awesome things on Soviatos and stuck it out when Empire was getting curbstomped and all I got in return was a slap on the wrist. My first follower of you and just going to say that I probably won't be back after that.

Destuvius, wish it could have gone differently but you bet on the wrong people. The fact Gharzal and Ankhran were deleted before I even got back from vacation is pretty sad. First you give the Emperor position to Gedunthos (another person you slapped a tattoo on) after a dead-lock vote (which Merf ####ed up by deleting after making a random fire giant warrior war master instead of sticking around).... and then Gharzal gets it purely because most of the council are "Kite Flyers" as I liked to call them and more ooc friendships. Gedunthos was a decent roleplayed character, but Gharzal? Handing out goodies is nice to have on this side of the fence, but it really just belittles it all when you give it to a guy who is completely OOC like Gharzal.

On Noviask, I was a pretty big asshole to a lot of people and can understand why people voted the way they did... but Soviatos, especially this second vote after I helped out Ergoth and Countihi, I guess I should just be done playing Empire unless I can convince some friends to play at the same time. And to the people who get Emperor.... stop being idiots and deleting. "Getting" Emperor isn't the big deal that you can be happy about, you have to actually be a good Emperor to mean anything. The fact Merf deleted to keep it in his PBF and the fact Gharzal wanted it to delete.... wtf people.

Zhenyen, you're a very cool guy but just delete or move on already... I could never find you and you were basically just stalemating the cabal with being a lackluster leader. We could have done some amazing things had you showed up after I made myself anathema.... and to Destuvius, the fact I talked about ST with Zhenyen - sorry, but no one else knew anything, let alone could go because of the immexp requirement and I wasn't going to pass up learning what I could from Zhenyen.

For everyone in the Fortress, I was actually impressed this time around at the quality of the players behind the characters. Even though I absolutely loathe STSF and think whoever came up with Shining Soul elf edge needs a swift kick in the nuts, it was pretty enjoyable fighting and interacting with all of you this time around. Avalusci, Voralia, Dwybean and the annoying but understandable healer duo stand out the most.

The village... meh, lot of disappointment there. The fact I'd be fighting a conjurer like Pamalynn and a villager berserker would run in and start cranial spamming me inside the Fortress when I'm solo raiding against three is pretty ####ing lame. I stuck it out against some pretty bad odds a lot of times and as always the village just seemed bent on doing whatever they wanted.

I spent quite a lot of time in Silent Tower this time around, which was a good distraction given the lack of people around. I've always been an Inferno kinda guy, but until Sacer finally opens up the area (we're all waiting...), I had nothing much else to do so figured I'd go see what all the fuss was about. If you're up for answering some questions Daevryn, I'd like to ask about some things... I think I pretty much finished anything I could do solo there besides maybe find the Biomancer path (so f-ing close, I easily spent fifty hours trying to figure this out). Unless there's some super hidden way to make archmages easier, I don't see them falling anytime soon... the fact they're all immune to poison doesn't exactly help either but I understand why with poisoner thieves. I fought almost all of them and even with my uber neo shaman all decked out, I got my ass kicked severely. It is pretty insane what you can get out of there solo and I'll be definitely using what I learned on new characters to come... cool area though.


Well that's that, another Imperial who doesn't make the vote. I liked neo shamans and I'll probably be back at some point to try out a particular cool combo, but I'll be taking a break from CF I think for awhile - just how things went with this guy really put me off from the game. I had some high expectations but I guess that's always my problem... I expect more. Hope you enjoyed Soviatos, I did for the most part.

Cheers (oh and if anyone wants to pick-up my PBF, that'd be nice... I think I might actually have a top shaman pk record).