I think it is that you are getting the perspective that those not in the village have had for a while.

Ever since I have come back to cf, there have been a few "gem" villagers and a hell of a lot in for the powers who basically ignore village thinking to pk more easily.

I can remember my assassin Yantsao beating off a villager axe spec at level 28 only to get ganged a minute later by three villagers (non-raid) and full-looted by a hero tatted village leader.

I can only remember one period when I didn't hate a number of characters in the village for "turning a blind eye" to all kinds of things. I've had villagers say "ok, make sure I walk out of the room before you eat that yellow flower", and then walk out of the room just so that I can eat the flower "without them knowing".

As far as Foslin goes, it left a really bad taste in my mouth, at practically our first encounter to be the only scion who was actively fighting over particular a two hour period, eventually dying to Elstratuviel, and then multiple times to a bug, to then be threatened when I said my body couldn't take much more of it. At that stage, I wanted you to put the threat to kill me into action and yet you didn't, at which point my character lost respect for Foslin (although at the same time ooc I expected to die since I was mostly naked, so I didn't necessarily lose respect for the player). However, ic and ooc, I was quite happy to fight with another scion if the alternative was submitting to their threats. Partly it was that attitude that turned me from wholehearted support of the chasm, and had I had any say in leadership I'd have picked one of the others over you (purely for ic reasons -- they never offended me ic).

I did see some of your interaction with Worthless, although I'm not sure if you knew that. Autosneak meant that I walked in on you, and I was quite impressed with what I saw. That gave me a good impression of Foslin ooc (although I thought it was you ordering Worthless to talk), but equally I hated you ic so it didn't matter. My intention was to try to kill you some time, but when you were made chancellor I realised that doing so would just get me booted, so I had to give up on that.

What did spoil my impression of Foslin though were your posts on Dio's complaining about this stuff. If you are going to complain, don't attach your character's name to it, because it does affect our impressions of the character. It's harder to look up to your leader when you know they are hurting from their beatings, if you are an evil. In that sense, it sort of spoils the rp you are doing in the game. You can rp someone who is unflustered by the bad stuff that happens to you, but then somehow we still come away knowing that it affected you.

Anyway, my bet is that if you keep reading the forums, you will be back. Alternatively, try playing an uncaballed sometimes. There is a lot to be said for freedom to avoid gangs rather than be forced to fight them because of cabal obligations -- with more "incidents".

It's funny you should mention K'tengs as the place you took your revenge. I can remember encountering a villager in there and trapping the villager in a room with only a magic portal to escape through. I thought this was quite amusing until the villager walked through it without a second thought. I was quite shocked that he'd so happily use magic to save himself. In my eyes, it was no different to drinking a magic potion to get himself unstuck.

Agree with everything about villagers not bothering to use discern on allies, and about getting summoned out of tight spots. Some do, but some still try to get away without it. That said, m own experience is suggesting that the general trend is not getting any worse.