How do I start something like this, I don't really know so I'll just dive into it. I created Gre during winter break of law school as a blow off character. He was supposed to be deleted when school started up on Jan. 28th. Well it is March 24th, three months past when he was supposed to be deleted, almost 5 months after he has been created. How does these kinds of things happen, I don't know, but for some reason all my characters do this, its a curse I guess . If any of you can believe it, Gre had no role at all. I had a story but was too lazy to put it in, in game, since right when I logged on, 99% of the time I was in the middle of raid/retrieve/war, etc.

Goodbyes
Immortals:
Kastellyn: Thanks for the great interactions and the tattoo. I always enjoyed the times we could catch up with each other and sit on the big and small couch, taunt the mirror, and shoot stories at each other, it was great. Thanks so much for all the interactions and thanks for allowing me to be your first (right first?) one to be tattooed. The whole leader weapon situation was just screwed up. I had a leader weapon for approximately one day out of the 100 + hours of leading. It was weaponbroke shortly after I got it. Bitter, no, confused, yes. I seriously thought I did something wrong. I wrote you a note about it, but no answer for almost three weeks so, I just carried on. There are a few problems with your tattoo though Kastellyn, including the following, which I laughed for almost 10 minutes straight about. I thought about givin the tattoo away to someone
BEGIN LOG
<995hp 294m 830mv 27100tnl> rem all
You stop using a poncho from the carcass of Brock.
You stop using a hefty battle axe.
You stop using Fordurn, the Hammer of Creation.
You stop using a constellation of five stars.

<995hp 294m 830mv 27100tnl> wear constellation
You are tattooed with a constellation of five stars.

<995hp 294m 830mv 27100tnl>
You feel less resistant to magic.

<945hp 309m 830mv 27100tnl> rem tattoo
wear taYou stop using a constellation of five stars.

<945hp 309m 830mv 27100tnl> wear tatoo
You do not have that item.

<945hp 309m 830mv 27100tnl> wear tattoo
You are tattooed with a constellation of five stars.

<945hp 309m 830mv 27100tnl> eq
You are using:
<tattooed> a constellation of five stars
END LOG

Heh, I'm guessing the tattoo should not be removable hey? Also, the tattoo itself is great and allowed me to do some fun things that made me larger than life, thanks again.

Thror: Never really did interact with you much, but enjoyed the times we did. I liked how you respected a villager who stood up against you (Jadirjeke) and gave him credit for doing so and didn't boot him. I was impressed there.

Immortal in the Underdark Quest: I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing hat you did. That was one of the greatest experiences on CF besides liching, talking to Tiamat, and becoming Emperor. It ranks up there in the top five experiences. That also crowned Gre's life and springboarded him into the Legend roleplay. It all just worked out so damn well. Also, you allowed me to kill Punblinpo which just made me feel so damn good. Thanks for the legacy, it was great. Also, the most epic battle between Darmok and I took place during this quest, and it is also one of the greatest fights I have ever taken a part of.

MORTALS:
BATTLE: My home away from home. My home in cyberspace. My roleplay was that Gre was a decendant of Glaus, the cloud giant on the pillar. Glaus was my first rager ever and he always wielded an axe and a mace. So I put that to work in my head and came up with Gre, the axe and mace specialist, invoker killer. My roommate actually came up with the idea and I just put it into implication. It was one beast of a combo and it was great.

Jadirjeke: One damn good assassin, as I said in your goodbye, the assassination was so awesome I have dream about it sometimes. What a damn good thing.

Broxx: You were a beast, especially in the rites. I thought you had me in the rites but somehow it was turned around. I knew I could not take you thirsted and flurrying so I just waited out the thirst and take my chances. It was a good thing. Keep it up, you were a beast and we worked well together.

Dalayr: You were a good rager and a great Drillmistress. Keep it up. It was always good joking around with you and fighting away. Take care.

Sabiene: I don't know what to say about you. You were a great defender and a great good aligned role, but you could not fight worth crap . You were an alternative rager and I respect that a ton. Not aggressive enough for me, but still great. In battles I knew I could rely on you for the bandages, and I also knew I could not rely on your black jack. Although I was at fault a couple times for waking them up. Expecially when I had no idea you were there .

Sayangu: One dangerous assassin, getting more dangerous every day. When you tagged Urzkoo that one time, it could not have come at a better time, great job. You will do well and I hope you get the Captainship I gave to you.

Alarin: As I said in game, you rocked as a tactician and as an alternative from the cookie cutter warrior rager (i.e. me . You keep it up too.

Vorsolic: One tough villager and I love how you took up the path of the cloud giant pain dealer. You will be one vicious mother when you get to hero. All should fear you, possibly more than me.

Gevarnak (sp?): You were always a welcome to the war. Resist and resisting was so awesome I cannot describe it. Keep it up and you will get everythin you want and more. You will be and already are one tough mother. Dome a few people for me.

Darmok: I always honor people who take the hard road in this game. You took one and got it all the way through. Why you went to the Empire I'll never know, but I know they hurt you bad for the choice, that is too bad. I will tell you that I had dreams about leading the Empire as well, but didn't follow up on it. Seems you did.

Wiglaf: You have to calm down a little size up situations a little better. I saw your corpse more times than I wanted to. Almost to the point of uninducting you . Heh, just kidding, keep cutting them up and I look forward to hearing of stories of you filling my giant shoes.

Grogim: I never saw you but knew you were in the works while I was sleeping. Keep on trucking and good luck.

Younger villagers. Keep it up and keep fighting. The best thing for you to do is just accept that you are going to die and equipment doesn't matter much. The best thing about Trapping is that I could do DEMOLISHES naked with a good heavy weapon. It allowed me to jump back in the game with no problem. One time my equipment was so good I felt myself not taking chances anymore, that is when I charge in and purposely lose all my equipment against a horde of nexus, while stashing a hefty axe, thin axe,a nd flaming sceptre somewhere to get later, just so I didn't have equipment over my head, clouding my decisions.

WARLOCKS:
Jhard: I really don't know if you knew why I "Bah"ed you all the time. I did it because I was checking if you were in form or not when I was crossing water. It later turned into a running joke we continued through all of our lives. I rumbled the shark a couple times and took it down, and then when you told me, "Oh I have found many wands!" was the day I started to fear going out on the water. That bumbled attempt to raid was all my fault because none of the ragers with me geared for strength loss except for me. So what ended up is there were 5 villagers too weak to wield weapons. A.K.A. walking meat for the shark. Hence you got the title. One man's foiled raid is another man's title I guess. Good luck with the Warlocks. I have one rant about the Warlocks, and it is the separated multiple exits from the inner guardian. That needs to be cut out and made like every other cabal. That is death for villagers.

Caysh: Never liked you as a leader, don't like your views of cabal items, but you were one tough bastard. Thanks for the good fights.

Sao: Cocky bastard invoker. I hope I took you down a peg or two .

Karnif: One tough bastard. I didn't know about that rain of stone thing either, but boy was that disgusting. Sorry about wasting you there and sacing your wands.

Other Warlocks: Most of you were not that tough.

SCIONS:
Jhaeryna (sp?): Great fights and great interactions. I enjoyed our talks and your attempts to keep the village off the Scion's back and you trying to indoctrinate me into Scions. Always good time. Take care.

Hvetlin: Also good fights, although you came along late in my life. Again, the battle from Balisica to eastern was fun.

Darian: We fought a few times, but I just roughed you up. You certainly can roleplay, take care.

Other Scions: Who?

TRIBUNAL:
Farnsworth: Said my goodbyes before. ALways good fights.

That bard (don't remember name) Tribunal provincial magistrate: You were as tough as Tsyla a times and and came at me full speed. I hate that new power Tribunal Provincials can bring to bear on wanted people. Especially when there are two of you around and I suddenly have 8 angry mobs on me beatin me up. They were not tough for me, but I feel bad for people who are not hero if you can use it on them, ouch.

Jeselres (sp?): Another annoying one. I think I got you once, maybe not. oh well. Well played transmuter.

Other Tribunals: Don't know how you do it, sitting in town all the time. Talk about boring.

SYLVAN:
Sassmi: Always interesting to talk to you and fight you. I still cannot believe that wall of thorns can be called without the sylvan item, no matter how you explain it. Oh well, that is what was my downfall there in urrks forest. I must h ave fled 8 or 9 times, each time hitting wall, ugh.

Griimbling: Good leader, funny to speak to, and a tough fighter. Keep up the Captainship, you are good indeed.

Iell: Friends to hated enemies, to betrayal, to hated enemies, to friends again. It was a great time. You were tough indeed, good luck with your new character *wink*.

Sylvan mages: I hated that you just stood in the woods and taunted me, BAH, I got you a few times, but not enough for my liking. Sylvan mages have almost immunity to villagers except for rager rangers.

FORTRESS:
The Paladins: I am sorry, names are going out the window now, but all of you were honorable and good to be around. I hope I returned some amount of honor to you. It was tough to hold back while one of you wrathed a evil rager. But whenever you brought another person, I was always there to give you hell of a fight. I fought and killed a few of you. There is not much you can do against a neutral axe/mace spec cloud giant warrior rager.

Rest of you: keep it going.

EMPIRE:
Who? Empire right now just seems like a place to screw people.

NEXUS:
I hated Nexus. It seemed to me that it just became a rager ganging party. I don't know the in's and out's of nexus so I'm a little nieve there. I always found it entertaining although when I would ask a younger nexus where the balance was, they would say evil, and then Four nexus, Straklaw, Kulmortuk, and Thornacrull would show up to gang me at the village. I just don't understand. Oh well.

Punblinpo: Response to your goodbye. I can count at least three times you stunned me and called help. Oh well, hated your character as a character, but loved it as a player. Good luck.

The Nexus Invokers: I felt sorry for you guys, although I was impressed you came at me one at a time sometimes. Just could not stack up a berserker with my specs, keep the war coming.

Erinphalis: Damn bards, the most terrible enemy of a giant rager is the dodge song. I would go into battles pretty sure I would win then you would get it off and I know I would be happy just escaping with my life.

Urzkoo: Never saw you alone.

Sokoerker: I LOVED killing you for so many reasons. Some days you would be honorable and return one or two things the next moment you would be off the hilt cursing me out in an almost OOC fashion. I was very confused by that, but maybe that is part of your roleplay.

Zherukin: Avalanche, ugh. Enough said.

Braoldan: You rocked for coming at me honorably, I left almost all your stuff when you died, except that sceptre of light. I hate that unbreakable weapon, bah!

Other Nexus: Good fighting you all.

NON-CABALLED (OR THOSE I BELIEVED TO BE)
Gastaad: Great character and a good thief. I trusted you pretty much fully despite what you thought. I always thought I held over you a big favor for saving your life from Sao that one time.

Jhaltuvv (sp for sure): Evil bastard, good character, not going far into your character because I think you are still alive. Keep it up.

I know I'm missing a ton of people. Put down a goodbye and I'll respond.


Gangbanging and Full Looting: Never full looted, took a few items here and there, maybe destroyed magic gear if I could (unfortunately with a giant and my alternative weapons, I had maybe one or two slots to loot). One day I was ganged and full looted 8 times by Nexus. That day I just said, "Enough of that, we are full looting them." And from that day on Nexus were full looted, and only Nexus. Hunted got the treatment dictated by who killed them, usually losing some or most of their equipment. The rest, including a CHOICE few nexus, got most of their things back. Many can attest to that. Anyway, try to keep the gangs down to a point where the person has a chance of some kind. When you get to 8 or 9 or 10 people, it is just wrong.

Honor and the Village: I tried to keep as much honor as I could outside of raids. I think many of you can attest to that as well. I hated sitting there letting a mage get away because someone else was fighting them, but I tried to keep it honorable.

My role/stats/skills/etc.
<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> wield hefty
wield fYou wield a hefty battle axe.
A hefty battle axe feels like a part of you!

<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> wield fordurn
wear ponYou dual wield Fordurn, the Hammer of Creation.
Fordurn, the Hammer of Creation feels like a part of you!

<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> wear poncho
in
You wear a poncho from the carcass of Brock about your body.

<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> You are carrying:
(11) a side of deer venison
(Glowing) hammer of the Nephilim
the trunk of a large tree torn from the ground

<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> eq
whoYou are using:
<worn about body> a poncho from the carcass of Brock
<wielded> a hefty battle axe
<dual wield> (Glowing) Fordurn, the Hammer of Creation
<tattooed> a constellation of five stars

*** The weapons of 40 plus pounds and a poncho of Brock, the group that raided right before I deleted. I went out fighting, it was a great fight all of you thanks.***

Gre the Savage of the Underdark, Commanding Beast of Battle
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Level : 51 Sex : male Race : cloud
Ethos : Chaotic Align : Neutral Class : warrior
Practices: 4 Trains : 0 Hometown : Galadon
Exp : 586900 To Level : 27100 Sphere : Combat
Age : middle-aged, 341 years old (360 hours)
Hit Point: 945 /995 Mana : 326 /410 Move : 830 /830
Str : 25(25) Int : 16(16) Wis : 17(17)
Dex : 16(16) Con : 13(14) Chr : 17(18)
Carry # : 17/29 Weight : 221 lb 12 oz (Max 627 lbs)
Gold : 9 Silver : 0 Copper : 640
Wimpy : 0 hp Morale : Moderate Position : Standing
Hitroll : 26 Damroll : 21
AC pierce: 30 Somewhat armored AC bash : 30 Somewhat armored
AC slash : 30 Somewhat armored AC magic : 30 Somewhat armored
vs Spell : Somewhat protected vs Paralysis : Not protected
vs Breath: Not protected vs Petrification: Not protected
You have 0 weapon specializations.
You have 0 legacy choices.
You are specialized in axe.
You are specialized in mace.
You fight ambidextrously with Balance of the Sisters.
You batter weapons from your foes with the movements of Crashing of Waves.
You take full advantage of your weapon's weight with Trapping Beneath Thunder.
You are affected by:
Skill: 'trophy' for 150 hours.
Commune: 'bless' modifies save vs spell by -14 for 11 hours.
Commune: 'bless' modifies hit roll by 7 for 11 hours.
Power: 'truesight' for 7 hours.
Power: 'truesight' for 7 hours.
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<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> role
Your role is:

<945hp 326m 830mv 27100tnl> skills

Level 1: axe 100% dagger 90%
flail 90% mace 100%
polearm 91% spear 90%
sword 99% staff 87%
whip 92% enhanced damage 100%
hand to hand 92% parry 100%
rescue 75% recall 100%
shield block 81%
Level 3: dirt kicking 100%
Level 5: second attack 100%
Level 6: fast healing 100%
Level 8: kick 1%
Level 10: disarm 89% feint 100%
Level 12: third attack 100% dual wield 100%
Level 13: dodge 100%
Level 14: haggle 1%
Level 15: bash 100% trip 93%
shield cleave 94% pugil 1%
meditation 100%
Level 16: charge 1%
Level 18: berserk 100% lash 1%



Level 20: deathblow 100% warcry 90%
parting blow 95% whirl 100%
backhand 77% pen 1%
Level 21: lore 72% retreat 75%
Level 23: offhand disarm 75% trophy 71%
deflect shield 1%
Level 24: weapon breaker 100%
Level 25: drive 74%
Level 26: cranial 100%
Level 27: hook 77%
Level 28: boneshatter 100%
Level 29: pincer 100%
Level 30: fourth attack 100% overhead 94%
dent 69% dash 85%
Level 33: drum 77% disembowel 100%



And lastly, good luck to all of you. Law school finals coming up in a month and a half so I had to delete, despite not really wanting to. Although I found logging on to becoming more a duty than fun, so I also kind of knew it was time to go. I hope that Gre makes it to the pillar. Now, past characters. I know I'm probably hated by a bunch of you, but oh well.


Goapa, Genofen, Hvitlok, Hifflio, Pilquo, Glaus, Uilin, Icenyhn, Mavail, Llilitao, Zauvoult, Fauaqi, Destial, Revin, Vizzimir, and a whole bunch of others, and now Gre

Gre Bluebeard, the Great Disemboweler
Gre Bluebeard, The Savage of the Underdark
Gre Bluebeard, The Savage of the Underdark, Beast of Battle
Gre Bluebeard, The Savage of the Underdark, Beast of Battle, General of War
Gre Bluebeard, The Savage of the Underdark, Commanding Beast of Battle

*** NOTE LAST NOTE: Jullias I would like to thank you for your kind words about Genofen. Every time I look at that board I feel all warm and giggily . Thanks again for the interactions. I don't know if I ever thanked you officially. Take care.

You were a good leader and always fun to hang with. I think we said most that needed saying when I deleted, so I'm just showin my respects. Good luck.

Konrad liked you a lot.

I enjoyed our battles, and you, unlike many many many villagers, could scare me from time to time. Even without the head, you would fight well, which is almost impossible for the villagers (battle powers must be too addictive). For this, I respected you.
We have spoken many times, and almost solved that quarrel. Alas, the rest of the village didn't want it... *shrug* they made their own (and yours) life much more difficult.
About screwing. No. We have goals, we have idealogy, we have legend and everything that is necessary (unlike scions, for example) to form a cabal and to strive for something (I'll keep it IC). So you are mistaken - every battle we initiated had a reason. Did we gang? Of course. And will. It have an explaination too, and this I will keep IC as well. Though, we never had such gangs as you, villagers had sometimes, or maran+sylvan. So, don't blame us, if you don't know the facts.
Be well.

I swear, there must be a conspiracy against me or something. It never fails, as soon as I start moving toward another plot point, someone up and dies on me and I have to start over. I had a lot of high hopes for you too, considering how fast you figured out those two little hints i dropped and BAM, not 5 minutes later you were talking to her. I was impressed.


*grumble*

can easily be taken up with whatever villager you see fit. Because I made an effort to communicate it to all of the village. So therefore you should have no problem continuing it with whoever and you don't have to start over.

I had a feeling that this was coming. I haven't been able to be around as much as I would like lately (for various reasons) but I was getting the feeling that you had basically stopped showing up from what I had been told. We had some great times and while I was getting the feeling that you were disappointed in me in a few ways, I felt like overall we got along well.

>Sabiene: I don't know what to say about you. You were a great
>defender and a great good aligned role, but you could not
>fight worth crap .

I shouldn't go into great detail as I am still alive (and plan to be for a while) but I would like to say that when I made Sabiene, I was completely unaware of what I was getting myself into skillwise. Let's just say I've had trouble making it fit my existing playing style, despite the fact that in theory the skills suit my role well.
I'm no PK deity, but honestly I am better than this normally I had
a lot of times when I just wanted to delete out of frustration, but my general tendency is to not do that, and everything else was going well so I kept it up, and still am.

>You were an alternative rager and I
>respect that a ton. Not aggressive enough for me, but still
>great.

It's been a blast being Sabiene, let me tell you best character ever for me I think.

>In battles I knew I could rely on you for the bandages,
>and I also knew I could not rely on your black jack. Although
>I was at fault a couple times for waking them up. Expecially
>when I had no idea you were there .

My jacking had good days and bad days. Generally, as soon as I missed one, I was in deep trouble, and sometimes that was the first one I tried. As for not knowing where I am... well... Sabiene does sometimes rush headlong into... whatever's there, she isn't the most organized person on the face of Thera despite a concerted desire on her part to be tactically capable.

Anyway, great character. Battle's my favorite cabal so perhaps we will meet up again somehow, someday, some way

- Sabs

P.S. Genofen was the wildcat? I can't remember... blah. I was playing a villager when the wildcat emperor was around... I think I've been playing this game way too long

>Punblinpo: Response to your goodbye. I can count at least
>three times you stunned me and called help.

I can honestly say I don't remember these. Maybe you could toss out a log of one of them to help jog my memory?


>Good luck.

You too.

Kastellyn: Thanks for the great interactions and the tattoo. I always enjoyed the times we could catch up with each other and sit on the big and small couch, taunt the mirror, and shoot stories at each other, it was great. Thanks so much for all the interactions and thanks for allowing me to be your first (right first?) one to be tattooed. The whole leader weapon situation was just screwed up. I had a leader weapon for approximately one day out of the 100 + hours of leading. It was weaponbroke shortly after I got it. Bitter, no, confused, yes. I seriously thought I did something wrong. I wrote you a note about it, but no answer for almost three weeks so, I just carried on. There are a few problems with your tattoo though Kastellyn, including the following, which I laughed for almost 10 minutes straight about. I thought about givin the tattoo away to someone

You made my 'job' easy. One of those rare characters who combined great and rock-solid RP with some seriously deathful PK ability. I enjoyed interacting with you in the Temple as well as following you around watching you lay waste to invokers. Yes, you were the first person I tattooed, and I'm glad you liked what it could do for you. I apologize for the leader weapon thing; I think it just slipped both Thror's and my minds following the Rites, and once you brought it to my attention, it took me a while to find someone on who could create it. Once I did, I had them make up four of them, in case yours got lost. I still have the other three, was waiting and waiting for you to show up so I could give one of them to you!

Thanks for pointing out that my tattoo is removable. Interesting slip on my part when I created it; I'll have that taken care of ASAP. If you found any other problems with it (echoes, funky things it did, ways you could abuse it), please let me know via email.

Immortal in the Underdark Quest: I would like to thank you from the bottom of my heart for doing hat you did. That was one of the greatest experiences on CF besides liching, talking to Tiamat, and becoming Emperor. It ranks up there in the top five experiences. That also crowned Gre's life and springboarded him into the Legend roleplay. It all just worked out so damn well. Also, you allowed me to kill Punblinpo which just made me feel so damn good. Thanks for the legacy, it was great. Also, the most epic battle between Darmok and I took place during this quest, and it is also one of the greatest fights I have ever taken a part of.

That was 90% Thror, and 10% me (I was the feisty little duergar running around schwacking everyone - until I ran into you. Man, that hurt!). A lot of fun for us as well, and you deserved everything you got for that. I'm glad you had Konrad post the story of the Battle - that's the sort of thing I like for bards to do. It may have been a bit on the long side (for the average CFer's attention span), but it definitely got you noticed and was a huge factor in you getting the tattoo.

I hope that Gre makes it to the pillar.

Unfortunately, we have a pretty solid policy on how one makes it to the pillar, and deleting a Commander of Battle in mid-stride (so to speak) is not the way to do it.

However, you will be immortalized elsewhere. Do me a favor and send me your description (if you still have it, if not, paraphrase it for me) to kastellyn@carrionfields.com.

Again, great job as Gre, I can't say that enough! Good luck with school; we'll be here when you find the time to return.

Kastellyn the Devourer of Magic, Lord of Legends

for the following reasons:
One, that policy seems to punish those who know how to play well. It seems I should either play worse strategically so I CON death so I can get on the pillar, or play for such a period of time (700 plus hours if you have leader life, etc) which I know for a fact most of those on the pillar did not do. In addition Gre had leader constitution from somewhere at about 220 hours on up to 360 hours. So for 140 hours of Gre's life I was losing 1/5 of a con per death instead of 1/3. My con was 13 when I deleted, which included at least 7 or 8 trains into con. Yet from what I have heard I maintained a very good pk ratio, somewhere in the area of 75%. So in essense because I played so well for such a long period of time, I am not allowed on the pillar because I didn't die enough or play to age death.

Two, the pillar should be there for those who did something great for the village. I was disappointed that Goapa was not on the pillar either despite 450 hours of play, curing the village of a massive blight and putting the Minaclar to rest. In fact I was well on my way to con death, which I wanted, and for some reason you gave me more con to deal with, which was absolutely opposite of what I wanted .

Third, it penalizes people who cannot play at certain points in the year, i.e. exams. What really scared me is that you uninducted someone for not showing up when I saw them the day before you uninducted them (and he was on for about six hours). So it was either delete honorably, leaving the village in a good position, or start doing the log on once a week thing which ends up destroying the village. Honestly which one would you rather have happened?

Fourth, getting on the pillar is an IC kind of thing, but it is instead treated with OOC factors, i.e. how you died.

Anyway, my thoughts on the subject. But since you lay out the rules on the subject, I can't really say or do anything.

THanks again for the opportunity. I'll send off my description to you as soon as I can.

Gre

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>One, that policy seems to punish those who know how to play
>well. It seems I should either play worse strategically so I
>CON death so I can get on the pillar, or play for such a
>period of time (700 plus hours if you have leader life, etc)
>which I know for a fact most of those on the pillar did not
>do. In addition Gre had leader constitution from somewhere at
>about 220 hours on up to 360 hours. So for 140 hours of Gre's
>life I was losing 1/5 of a con per death instead of 1/3. My
>con was 13 when I deleted, which included at least 7 or 8
>trains into con. Yet from what I have heard I maintained a
>very good pk ratio, somewhere in the area of 75%. So in
>essense because I played so well for such a long period of
>time, I am not allowed on the pillar because I didn't die
>enough or play to age death.

There are two possibilities here. Con die or Age die. If you look
at this from a role-playing perspective, both fit well into our
requirements for making it on the pillar. You ultimately die
fighting for your beliefs.

The only way I can justify deleting is as a form of suicide or MIA
for a character. In terms of suicide, a character has given up on
themself and their beliefs.

>Two, the pillar should be there for those who did something
>great for the village. I was disappointed that Goapa was not
>on the pillar either despite 450 hours of play, curing the
>village of a massive blight and putting the Minaclar to rest.
>In fact I was well on my way to con death, which I wanted, and
>for some reason you gave me more con to deal with, which was
>absolutely opposite of what I wanted .

It is up there for people who did great things for the village.
That is just one of the three requirements a character must fulfill
to be put on the pillar. The three Battle *imms would and do review
each dead rager and specifically point out what great things were
done in order to have that rager on the pillar. These must be
significant, otherwise every rager and his dog Mage-Killer would
be on the pillar, thus taking away how rewarding it is to be
immortalized in the village.

>Third, it penalizes people who cannot play at certain points
>in the year, i.e. exams. What really scared me is that you
>uninducted someone for not showing up when I saw them the day
>before you uninducted them (and he was on for about six
>hours). So it was either delete honorably, leaving the village
>in a good position, or start doing the log on once a week
>thing which ends up destroying the village. Honestly which one
>would you rather have happened?

No it doesn't. We do not force people to play their characters every
day of the week, every hour of the day. We immortals have always
had the policy of allowing players to come to us and express that
their are time constraints that will keep them from fulfilling their
responsibilities to a cabal. While we have no problem with deleting
honorably, we won't reward you for it. Other leaders have also
stepped down from their responsibilities, due to time constraints,
and allowed the cabal to thrive while they work through their RL
concerns. Two examples of this are Grogim/Rio both of whom informed
us of their issues.

In regards to individuals not showing up: You are given multiple
chances before you are kicked out of the village. Sometimes it has
to do with not showing up and other times it has to do with quitting
at inappropriate times (during/after a raid, when without powers).
These chances are watched and the individiual is usually warned to
shape up. If your talking about the individual I think you are
talking about, he/she falls into this very category.

>Fourth, getting on the pillar is an IC kind of thing, but it
>is instead treated with OOC factors, i.e. how you died.

How you died is very IC, depending on your perspective of the death
system in CF.

>Anyway, my thoughts on the subject. But since you lay out the
>rules on the subject, I can't really say or do anything.

Figured I'd help clear them thoughts up.

>THanks again for the opportunity. I'll send off my description
>to you as soon as I can.

Had you fulfilled all of our pillar requirements, you would have made
it onto the pillar. However, I'll say again that if we let everyone
who could just PK well or RP well, the pillar would lose the honor
that it currently holds. Speaking of which, it does need updated.

>Gre

*I use we because I can't get rid of that infectuous scum from
my loincloth. I hereby name it Intronan

nt

n/t

I didn't know about option one of letting you know that I would not be able to log on for about a month and a half until May 15th. And ultimately, the message both Thror and Kastellyn have been giving to all rager players is, "If you can't play and stay on and fight, or if you quit off right after dying, you are going to be removed." This was illustrated in Gre's life through a number of villagers, including those who left the village because they knew they would be gone, or those who were kicked out for not showing up enough.

I did pray for Kastellyn and Lords of Battle over and over for the last week and a half looking for one of you, unfortunately to no avail. Always seems to work out like that. It was mainly for the leader weapon but later it was because I wanted to inform you I was going to delete and wanted to make sure the rites happened right after I was gone. Wish I caught one of you and learned of that option.

And what bothers me is that if I just ran Gre or Goapa or Mavail up against a mob over and over and over again and con-deathed I would have probably been on the pillar, but since I chose to delete, they are not considered. (i'm not talking about one night just mob deathing 60 times, I'm talking about mob deathing slowly and deliberately over time to cut the con down). Not being considered at all because of deleting (for unfortunate OOC reasons) leaves a bad taste in the mouth of players who went all out for 370 hours(Gre) to 425 hours (Mavail) to 500 hours (Goapa) hours (which is a hell amount of dedicated time). I promise if I come back to the village again, I will make a concerted effort to die more .

But again, your pillar, your rules, and I do have a small problem with it, but not a big one, nothing to lose sleep over, but something to throw out some arguments against. Granted I argue with people over what kind of cereal is the best, so. Its just that school has built the arguing lawyer into me and it comes out in places where its sometimes not wanted.

Again, thanks again. I know I sometimes come across in this medium as harsher than I intend, know this is with the upmost curtsey and respect.

You brutal bastard. I think you were able to spellbane as well as anybody I've seen. Toss in with that the fact that you could lag me with whichever weapon I wasn't shielded against, and you'd hit for freaking ANNIHILATES deathblows through shields and stoneskin...and I hated you

When you showed class:
-After cranialing me to sleep on Eastern when I was nearly naked, and you let me wake up. You probably expected me to word immediately when I woke, but I thought I'd sit there and see what you'd do. I woke, and no pincer, no cranial. Thanks.

-When you and Maelfezuul ganged me while essentially link-dead (No, the gang wasn't class at all. That was sorry), and DIDN'T loot me at all.

When you showed zero class: You, Rhomelanthos, and Rulghum ganging me one step from the TV docks on the Erinin, and justifying it by saying "You were going to the Rift where there are other Nexus" and then full looting me. That was pitiful.

I never looted you. Not even once. Not that time that I killed you at the Destructor that you posted on Dio's. Never.

You full looted me all but twice. It seemed like you didn't even give the consideration to me as a character, or as a player. That was pretty ####ty.

Thank you for reminding me about the healers.

The Clan of Hunted by Battle healers. All of you made things very interesting and sometimes very tough.

Thornacrull was just an irritating bastard, constantly talking smack, but always fun.

Joaldar (wood elf healer), I felt sorry for you, my hefty axe, when I was fully equiped did OBLITERATES to you through your sanctuary on a natural hit. It was the most disgusting thing I ever saw. You were also extremely brave when you would gate to me.

Zeq: The one thing you must remember, especially when fighting a berserrker rager, is that after the rager got you to gushing, you do not flee and come back and autoassist the warrior with you and start kicking. There is a thing called "hit" which is very dangerous . I am guessing you learned that when you came after me with Treklarn. Thanks for the battles as well. Also, it was actually too bad that you were cranialed asleep in my final battle because if you were not I would have gotten you too.

Other healers: Healers turn anyone into a vicious and terrible opponent. Healers always became my greatest priority to kill. And healers make the tactic of wearing down a rager very easy. I was quite thankful that my enemies did not use that tactic as much as they should of. The one great and glaring weakness of any non-defender rager is that you can't heal back to full combat effectiveness worth crap. I think Punblinpo knew that and which is why his combo was pretty sweet.

Aireal: Our dreams were about the village and the village knows about the dreams and our situation. Don't think it was just about me, because I don't think it was. Keep on it and it will certainly be a fun development for all involved.

If any of you wish to contact me, feel free to email me at nevshemal@hotmail.com or through American Online name: DogatDrake

Again thanks all and I may stumble back over the summer or maybe not. What is so terrible about CF is that you can always come up with a great combo, especially with warriors and legacies. So many ideas, so little time. I have become the first to admit that quitting is extremely difficult.

Gre

What can I say, I have the heart of a warrior. Going back and assisting my groupmates, full well knowing you could "hit Zekasiq" was really just a gamble, hoping I could aid enough to finish the battle. I really only did that when I had spike-toed boots, so don't go thinking I'm COMPLETELY insane now (Well, I am, but that's beside the point.)

*tip*

*grin* Dang! And I really wanted to see what would happen with that incident we both had! Too bad you deleted! Anyway, I hope you have fun playing your next (whenever that is) and see you around in the fields... *salutes*

as

do something more impressive than log in and send a tell then quit.

>Darian: We fought a few times, but I just roughed you up. You
>certainly can roleplay, take care.

Here's a little log snippet from a brief fight we had in Hamsah a little while back. What scared me most was I don't think you were even using bloodthirst at the time

950hp 514m 992mv 21600tnl 6 PM full>
Gre delivers a blow of deadly force!
Gre's chop does UNSPEAKABLE things to you!
That really did HURT!
Gre's wrath DISMEMBERS you!
Gre's chop MANGLES you!
Gre parries your slice.
Gre parries your slice.
Gre parries your slice.
The gods protect Gre from Alarn.
Gre is in perfect health.

<314hp 514m 992mv 21600tnl 6 PM full>


That was definitely painful, considering I'd even prepped for the fight (including haste, before anyone goes and tells me to). Not that I haven't won solo fights against other ragers, even other cloud giants, but you were just a beast to fight even with preparation. I feel a little better knowing you had three legacies, and might have done better if I'd chosen legacies for fighting someone like you - but c'est la vie. Well done, definitely a tough character. I don't think we had too many chances to interact, especially as time went on, but sometimes that's how it all works out. I try to interact with enemies in particular, since I feel that's what really makes a good roleplayer stand out from people who only ever interact with their friends/cabalmates, and more importantly it just makes the game more fun for everyone involved. Then it becomes a real character that you're fighting, not just a really intelligent and difficult mob. Anyway, good luck in the future.

Naw, just kidding. Us Nexans are getting kinda bored with
having few Villagers to fight these days, and I hadn't seen
you around as of late. Part of me is glad, because I knew
that I couldn't kill you, one on one, and I really really
dislike having to rely on others, but then again, as I said
before, it's getting boring, and at least you would bring
the war.

As far as full looting/ganging is concerned, I'm all for
ganging -anybody-, especially 'zerker Ragers, who were bred
to be ganged. In any 'honorable' fight, a Rager usually has the
advantage. The great equalizer is that non-Ragers (especially
those with summoners/healers) can gang better. By telling us
that we shouldn't gang, its saying that we should be happy
with having a handicap without any sort of benefit. Plus, we
Nexans got ganged too... having a binder thief tie me up just
to have a cloud mace spec pummel me to oblivion is ganging.

What's the saying, 'War is brutal, and the more brutal you
are the faster its over.' I like that, and I'm sure that a
few Ragers (like Rhomelanthos, probably), would have agreed.

Well, you are an awesome player, past and present. Alarin woke up today to see that ntoe, and was very ticked off about it. He didn't want ot see you go, though he wondered where you had been for so long. Great work, look forward to hopefully seeing something out of you again when you have time to screw around.

Alarin

Heh, see ya later man. I never really was able
to talk with you or Grogim much, mostly because
my playing times are so sparse and effed up.
I just read that con-death log on Dio's - that's
incredible. Anyway, good luck and sorry I couldn't
speak with you more. Maybe the new commander will
be able to talk with me for a good hour and I'll
get inducted after the 9 months this character has
been around.

>Immortals:
>Kastellyn: Thanks for the great interactions and the tattoo. I
>always enjoyed the times we could catch up with each other and
>sit on the big and small couch, taunt the mirror, and shoot
>stories at each other, it was great. Thanks so much for all
>the interactions and thanks for allowing me to be your first
> right first?) one to be tattooed. The whole leader weapon
>situation was just screwed up. I had a leader weapon for
>approximately one day out of the 100 + hours of leading. It
>was weaponbroke shortly after I got it. Bitter, no, confused,
>yes. I seriously thought I did something wrong. I wrote you a
>note about it, but no answer for almost three weeks so, I just
>carried on. There are a few problems with your tattoo though
>Kastellyn, including the following, which I laughed for almost
>10 minutes straight about. I thought about givin the tattoo
>away to someone
>Thror: Never really did interact with you much, but enjoyed
>the times we did. I liked how you respected a villager who
>stood up against you (Jadirjeke) and gave him credit for doing
>so and didn't boot him. I was impressed there.
>
>Immortal in the Underdark Quest: I would like to thank you
>from the bottom of my heart for doing hat you did. That was
>one of the greatest experiences on CF besides liching, talking
>to Tiamat, and becoming Emperor. It ranks up there in the top
>five experiences. That also crowned Gre's life and
>springboarded him into the Legend roleplay. It all just worked
>out so damn well. Also, you allowed me to kill Punblinpo which
>just made me feel so damn good. Thanks for the legacy, it was
>great. Also, the most epic battle between Darmok and I took
>place during this quest, and it is also one of the greatest
>fights I have ever taken a part of.

I'm lumping these together because I'm directly involved with both.

I watched Gre, a lot. I enjoyed every chance I had to see him fight.
You earned that title and made every fight worthwhile for someone
who is sitting upstairs a little bored.

You happen to be one of the individuals who give Battle the
'overpowered' status that players often give it. It's your
ability to adapt to a situation and turn it to your advantage, given
your race, specs and wisdom as a veteran player that makes you such
a dangerous opponent to face.

Should we downgrade abilities and cabals according to those few
successful individuals like yourself? I say no. I believe every
player has the potential to learn how to effectively fight great
opponents. It's one of the very great competitive aspects of this
game that I happen to love.

I do challenge each player who claims battle to be overpowered to
attempt to fight characters of Gre's calibre. From those encounters
I'm quite positive that they can learn from their mistakes as well
as from yours.

As for the legacy quest. I hold them every so often. Usually when
I see great warriors who have the potential to show off their
abilities. The one that involved the Underdark was probably one of
the best I've held. There were at least 4 very strong opponents in
the whole competition. Once more you chose correct timing and
battle strategies that allowed you to win that competition. Great
history of characters and this just puts one more to add to the list.

not that its any of my business but I feel compelled to ask. if you've died, being your an immortal I'm sure you could find a way to come back. and since you seem to be watching the game a bit and keeping up on the boards, why don't you just become a battle IMM again? I'm sure theres many things in your life going on that may be keeping you back, but if you have the time I think it would be cool to have another IMP/IMM around watching.

-That guy that still sucks at CF to this day but won't quit out of stubborness

Thror isn't dead. Maybe you're thinking of me, who left battle, but I'm not dead either.

nt

yes I was referring to Bolt Thrower...just woke up and was checking boards and saw Thrors last name which then for some unknown reason appeared to be BoltThrower to me..*grins sheepishly* sorry heh

-sleepy Quiddie

n/t

Yes, you definitely picked specs that surely stymie invokers. The only thing I could think of doing after our few fights was to maybe get a grease off so you couldn't switch weapons. Then I figured it just wasn't worth it.

I came at you alone and lost. I came at you with another and lost. I wasn't about to come at you with a gang - I still have bad memories as my last rager - so whenever you came about I said "screw it" and teleported. It was the same with Rhomelanthos. This character is played as a survivor above all else not some bloodthirsty killer who tries to bite off more than he can chew. I hope you realized this from my tells.

I was pissed when you looted some equipment from my corpse after I mobdied but extremely thankful you left the rest. Thanks. You did walk a long way for a fight. Unfortunately, I was being chased by 5 mobs and had less than 200 hp.

Hopefully you will be back soon. Good character list. I remember killing Hvitlok on my first character - it was one of the proudest of my life. I don't know if you remember but for some reason, you entered Thera (after voiding out maybe) right at the Lord of the Manor, where my group of three was. I jacked you and then you fell soon after. You and this other spectre made my life a living hell after that, so much so that I left cf for nine months.

Again, good job. Email me if you like. fpool2002@hotmail.com

I knew why you were doing it...just never was in the right place at the right time to take advantage of it, but i wanted to make sure it became rp instead of just checking if i was in form or not, had a lot of fun fighting and intereacting with you, one of my favorite opponents. we had some wierd ass conversations on the different ways of saying bah and what it could mean, and how bah could replace whole speeches when used correctly. god it was a lot of fun man, i look forward to fighting you again, or to fighting with you, whichever it is to be, so one last time for old time's sake BAH!

>Gastaad: Great character and a good thief. I trusted you
>pretty much fully despite what you thought. I always thought I
>held over you a big favor for saving your life from Sao that
>one time.


Yes that was indeed the all time greatest serindipidous (sp?) rescue I have ever been privy to. But as for me owing you a favor.. about a week prior to the rescue incident I full looted your pit while you were linkdead and returned your things to you. And then a couple days later I tossed you a really nice hammer ( I think Creation) that I stole from Vahlron. So in my eyes my we were even steven. Good luck with the law school thing you snake!

Gastaad

Grogim Liked you and saw alot of potential proven right. I also had the inclination that it was you Nevshemal after seeing you fight and seldom overlapping playing times. You left out your poisoner battle thiefs name from your character list. Well played as always old brawler of battle.

Your policy on the full looting thing was exactly the same as how it came about as grogim commanded. Its frustrating, letting people have eq back only to be stripped countless times by gangs of people. Shame we never got to hook up often, we could have made a real mess.

Good luck with the finals.

Well all I can say is that you were awesome. You and Drahk were the two main guys I looked up to. Both of you knew your #### and were always ready for a brawl.

All I can say is I hope you keep making ragers. The village needs more people like you

Keep on rockin

Trylartin

Damn, Genofen... We surely had some great times, also i interacted with you when you played Hvitlok... But stay away from those savaging ragers and turn dark as the eternal night..

Zargu, avartar of the sheated sword, imperial high priestess.
Deheiliea, imperial high priestess

(cant remember which of the priestess was under your command..)

Drop me a line someday? I knew the Genofen turned insane when he left, but what happend, and how i would like to know..

zargu_dk@hotmail.com

Of the at least two times I landed the killing blow on you, I could have at least gotten a mention, ya know!

I'm sure I was only a nuisance to you, especially with some of the gangs I organized and such.

At any rate, you did a great job rallying the troops and making a stand and whatnot. Well played.

You may know what I'm talking about. I Anyway, I thought you were a great char, and everything else people will probably tell ya. Good luck with law school

You were a beast! Our times never met, so after the initial interaction, we never progressed our mutual 'bedding' together.

Best of luck.

I fought you with my current character once or twice, neither of us fell. You were Hifflio? I would have never guessed. We had some good times back then. Good job with Gre and good luck with your finals.

No message

That was right after you raided and took the head and I was near naked. I was fighting you without powers and you had sanctuary (I saw it on you) plus whatever else you had on. You never faced me by yourself with me having powers. So stop making things up.

The time you refer to you ran from the Destructor.
The time I refer to you had your powers, we fought on eastern, you ran to destructor, I killed the giant, came in after you, sanced and hasted(stoneskin had fallen fighting the giant I believe) I went in after you. One of your blows took around five hundred hp(deathblow) I fell back impaled, boneshattered and whirled I think(gotta love the big d) and had to call to Merzofzyauhn to heal me after I had gotten away, the bleeding was rough and you had hit me some other blows that weren't deathblows.

In-character I rather respected you because of the fellow burden of leadership and respect for commanding forces. OOC i really hated you because every time something I disliked happened...the ragers always said it was due to you. Full-looting our corpses...Asked someone and they said it was because they were under orders from Gre. One instance I was fighting an honorable fight with Derdhuin, then sabiene attacks me and says she didn't want to, but was under orders from you saying it was a raid situation (Which we were in osgaliath, but only because I was chasing Derdhuin.) On a side note I thought you did do a good job and I understand that a lot of those things that made me dislike you are stupid and should be handled alongside as RP aspects of the game. So in closing, well done and Goapa was on my most respected rager of all time list alongside Derdhuin, Guenrayn and loborguz. latez.

raid situation and when it ends. I.e., a raid situation just doesn't end when you leave from the massive giant, but it also doesn't continue up and down eastern for hours on end. They had to make that decision, and if I was around and saw them screwing it up, I would uninduct them or give them one final warning. After having so many ragers and seeing people exploit the raid/non-raid crap by standing outside the massive giant, this was a sound rule. Unfortunately it allowed for player interpretation, which I found fine, but also left some ragers open for the boot. And some ragers got it.

As to the looting thing, yes, I ordered all nexus full looted except Tsyla and Braoldan. As to ganging you, no, I don't know where Sabiene got that. I never ordered Nexus to be ganged unfairly. I have no idea where she got that.

The primary goal was to say well done and that I respect you as a character even though I have a certain "idea" about ragers. Anyhow well done.

Damn it was a great ride. When you were about, I knew even if we died to the hordes, we were gonna take alot out with us. In that final fight in the rites between me and you I wasn't ready when we got the go. And you got to me so f'n fast that I was only wielding one sword when we started fighting and didn't realize it till later. Then somehow I wound up wielding a barrel against you, I actually started laughing. Good times. I'll save some for my own death, which won't be long. Anyway, great character and good luck with law school.

and a damned fine played character with Gre. How did I know that one of you ragers would win that Underdark quest thingie? Anyhow, thanks for the comments, I really hate fighting in gangs, but more importantly, it's a big part of Braoldan's role to do the "alone traveling" thing. I've interacted with a number of your previous characters and must say that this one was just as solid (at least from a fighting standpoint, that really all I ever saw). Best of luck in law school and thanks for contributing such a quality character.

Braoldan.