7. When you're asked, "Why do you want to be a {insert cabal} member?" don't take that as an invitation to basically do a one-way "dump" of your entire role. Remember that you're having a conversation. Frequently I've had people launch into extremely long and involved histories of their character's entire life, when really all I wanted to know is why they want to be a Squire. Sure, maybe some of that history is relevant, but can't it be summarized somehow? With some, it almost seemed like they'd prepared the whole thing beforehand, and had a script that was emitting it line-by-line according to some time interval.

I feel quite hit by that one... ^^ I often fall into that category, in one sence or another, either that, or I sorta force the conversation in a direction where I can just spout it out.

Always shoot first and then call whatever you hit the target.