>The Zwick: You were cool man. I remember you telling me how
>displeased you would be if Sharidum got inducted into Battle
>while I was an applicant and courting the Chasm too. Very
>mysterious, wish you'd stuck around.

Great character, and congrats on Veteran. Was fun sending notes back and forth across Thera trying talk, or set up a pk (I think that was you?). I can sorta relate about the whole mute thing. Sometimes it is nice to ignore people, especially when I could help out but didn't particularly want to, but most of the time it just bites.

Zwick knew you were entertaining the idea of joining Battle, or at least telling some of Battle that much, and figured he would use that to his advantage to take care of Sharidum. Mostly because Sharidum knew I could talk, and I didn't want that secret to spread through Battle, which eventually led me to be nice to Sharidum after he did make it into Battle in hopes he wouldn't rat.

And yes, Zwick did try to get you kicked out of Battle. I had held onto the notes to try to prove my resourcefulness to the Scion leaders as I thought you were going to try to get inducted into Scion. Then you turned around and actually joined Battle, so, being the evil bastard Zwick was, he tried to screw you. The main motivation for that was two things,

1) Zwick was Orderly Evil. It is one thing to want power, it is another to not have a somewhat clear path for achieving it. Without knowing what exactly you were planning, after you joined Battle, there was no hope. He viewed you as far too reckless and indecisive to be trusted. Maybe if I had been NE or CE.

2) One of the first times I came across you after you were inducted, you had no head and were trying to retrieve. Meaning, you had made it clear to Zwick you wanted power, but then here you were with less power than before. And I couldn't resist trying to kick you while you were down. I still almost died. I have the log. I didn't realize you had Balance of the Sisters: You entwine, I dirt kick, and think, "No primary, he's dead if I keep dirt in his eyes." That's when the dagger specs stuff started going off, and I paniced. Then I quickly run through my list of like 5 combat commands, "hmm, he's already dirt kicked... I can't flee, shouldn't kick or trip, oh yeah! disarm!" and manage to disarm you. That saved me. I still almost died to the bleeding. Fun stuff.

I was never sure if anything came of that note I gave to Kackrik though. I gave it to him, even though he was a non-leader, because he was duergar and figured he would better 'understand' the situation. I guess he did do something. Cool. Scion Thief of Secrets,

As for sticking around, I think I'm gone for good this time. I tried to quit back in July, managed to stay away 40 days before coming back and playing two more characters. But the second, Zwick, was such a disappointment, it has made it easy to stay away since. Was just what I needed.

Zwick, Ulzoth, Punblinpo, Yror, Krogum, Holtzendorff, etc

Hutto, the Sleepy Nitpicker