Thu Apr 22 19:04:30 2021

At 6 o'clock PM, Day of the Bull, 15th of the Month of the Dragon
on the Theran calendar Cadel perished, never to return.

Oh dear. Well, this was my first character not counting a brief dip in of the toe that I did some years ago that didn't really go anywhere.

I enjoyed the character and the time here, but RL started coming at me hard from all directions and I couldn't keep up the modicum of energy that it took to maintain a character, role, and PK defenses as CF demands.

Thanks to anyone who helped out a newbie! I regret that I was away so long that it came to this, but c'est la vie, right?

RL is still pressing in from all sides but it is likely that I will be back again.

I really appreciated that you, as a Fortress scribe, were willing to WRITE things. It was always good to see missives from you, and I'd hoped you and Leradas might be the inspirational-text team of Fort. I hope the real world is being kind, if insistent!

I was disappointed when you stopped showing up. I had hopes you'd become a really solid presence in the Fort for a while.

I know you struggled a lot, especially early on. Conjurer is a really tough class to play for a lot of reasons. Mechanically, it's just really finicky. It also comes with a ton of enemies. If you think about it, you were an enemy of Battle (mage), Outlander (conjurer), and Scion/Empire (goodie). That's a lot of people to be up against for your first character.

That said, I enjoyed the conversations we had. You weren't afraid to disagree with me (which most seemed hesitant to), so I was looking forward to that opening up some really fun conversations and maybe challenging Umbrand in a new way.

It doesn't always work out that way though, so no worries. Hopefully you'll be back with another incarnation. Hopefully you find a less-challenging build that catches your eye, so you can focus more on the parts of the game that you seem to really enjoy.

Java/Umbrand