Tue Mar 21 09:20:27 2023

At 11 o'clock PM, Day of the Sun, 6th of the Month of the Spring
on the Theran calendar Nalaea perished, never to return.

This is the longest I have ever played a character. I told myself, as I always do, that I was going to age or con die this one. But also as always, I could not. I start to get itchy to try something new at about 200 hours. This time, I powered through for a while longer, but to be honest I nearly deleted twice. Both times I placed all of my gear in the Fortress chest and typed delete. The second time, I even typed the second delete but hadn't waited long enough. Then I picked my stuff back up and continued on.

I had one goal with this character, and that was to focus on PVP. Why choose an elf animist ranger to do that, you might ask? Because I have to also enjoy the character to bother playing at all. And I had what I thought was a very interesting idea that grabbed hold of my imagination for Nalaea. When I created the character. I was not sure if I wanted to try Outlander or go Fort again, and decided to let it happen organically. As a result, she ended up being a Maran, but an Outlander sympathizer. I thought this would eventually get me into hot water, but it never did. The worst that ever happened was a bit of a tongue-lashing from Mrawlf when he caught me talking to Ruka.

If you ever felt uncomfortable after an interaction with Nalaea, then mission accomplished. And based on the immortal comments on my PBF, it seemed mostly effective. Unfortunately, playing a character who is already a bit isolated due to being a ranger, and then isolates further due to RP stuff, was maybe not great for longevity. I felt like most people were just like, "Huh, what's going on with that character?" and then shrugged and moved along. And I can't blame them, really. Compare this one to my last character, Grungelglut, who was fun to interact with instead of just weird and it's no surprise.

Anyway.

Goodbyes:

Mrawlf - Are you the most underrated, under-rewarded character in the whole game? Yes! Consistent and awesome RP for the number of hours you have played... seriously impressive. I know I can't say much because the character is still active, but I feel like you need the appreciation you deserve. Give this guy a cabal edge or something. Sheesh. Bellassan's best buddy ended up being Nalaea's best buddy as well, in as much as Nalaea was capable of having a best buddy.

Tharlingon - I really enjoyed coming up with you in ranks and all the interaction and help you gave me. I can't tell you how much I appreciated you taking the time to help my newb ass. I felt bad when I got promoted to Maran before you, when you were CLEARLY so much more skilled than me. So I as happy when you got Marshall. Well deserved!

Grysaor - Always enjoyable interactions. You really seem to embody your role as Prophet, more than any other Fort leader I have encountered with any of my characters so far.

Lyeeth - You seem super interesting, but I avoided you for most of this character's life. We had an interaction early on that really made Nalaea avoid you and the Inn. But I really enjoyed what interactions we had, especially in the latter hours of this character's life.

Ruka - I really liked you, and always expected to get into trouble from talking to you. But I wanted to learn more about Outlander and the Ergush religion, since that was a major character goal, and you were the only source I had for that. So I appreciate you taking the time to talk to me, even though we should have been natural enemies. I don't know if you had an agenda there, but if so you slow played it too much, sucka!

I always forget people in these things, so I am sorry if I missed you. Gnobflink, you win your bet, you jerk.

I was wondering what happened, hope it wasn't anything too horrible. I was really hoping you'd get to the bottom of that possessed armor. I hate the pep talk didn't work, it seems like you just got to the point where we could hang out IC.

Next time!

Yeah I don't want to get too much into it since Lyeeth is still active. But since Nalaea's whole backstory revolved around her connection to the spirit realm and sensing/wanting to destroy evil spirits, anything that gave off that vibe was going to be something to avoid. I suppose I could have made it a whole thing that I wanted to destroy that armor, so maybe lazy RP on my part.

Also, I had spent enough time in civilized areas at one point where I lost my ability to fast camo or creep through fields, so I got really paranoid about my wilderness time. So avoiding the Inn was also just a mechanical issue as well as RP.

Your character had a lot of depth to it and I am happy to have overlapped with Nalaea. Thank you for the opportunity to chat through various topics, it was enjoyable to me and hopefully encouraging to you, even with turning the page now.

Thanks for coming along on those trips. It's not every character that you get to wander to Tiamat, Cetea, and the Shadow Plane!

Take care and can't wait to see what's next.

Thank you so much for including me in those adventures! It would have been easy not to. But I got to do things some long-time players have never done, thanks to you. So just aside from the great talks we had, I am grateful for that.

Nothing but positive things to say about Nalaea. All your RP and effort you put in is appreciated and I'm glad that I got to share the experience of such a cool character as Nalaea. Glwyn.

GLWYN

You are so tough! I gave up trying to figure out how to fight you.