Damn, I was hoping I wasn't going to see this here till long after I deleted or ran out of con. You were great fun to be around, the fat chick thing was refreshingly original and graphic. You were definetly a head turner in a, 'OH MY GOD THE WHALE HAS LANDED!!' sort of way.

I really respected you and for the life of me couldn't figure out why you put up with Mekantos. Well, now I know . Well anyway, times are tough for scion and I don't see anyone that's currently there being half the leader you were. You'll definetly be missed by all of us.

About the village I think you hit the nail squarely on the head. I played a warlock back when you had Gre, which wasn't all that long ago, and ragers treated the warlocks then a hell of a lot better than they treat scions now. I generally try to avoid fighting ragers at least partially because I know that I'm more likely to get ganged by ragers now than I am by any of our other enemies. I've died to both fortress and ragers and generally when I die vs the fort it's worth my time to walk back to my corpse. Time and again I get beat down by the rager gangs I walk back only to find all my stuff taken and shortly thereafter deposited near the destructor. Generally when I fought ragers before as my previous warlocks, when they came hunting for me it was alone. Now that's just not the case. Also villager raids used to be almost exclusivly villager only. It seems to me that whenever we scions have even a prayer of defending against a raid. They gang up with maran and try and take us down despite the maran and vokers and trannies either in or directly outside the chasm. That irritated me as well.

Anyway you'll likely soon have more company in the scion graveyard. I've come very close to throwing in the towel several times and only the fact that it is such a bitch to get a 7 shield voker stops me.

Good luck in all your future endeavors and I hope you come back soon!