Seems our generation of Rager's didn't make it. I deleted
Skryth yesterday, and chalked him up to a learning experience.
I was a sphere victory follower of Vassagon, but I'm absolutely horrible with Assassins, so I got disgusted.
I have to say I was impressed with your roleplay, and the way you tried to sort of unite the few Defender's we have.
I have to agree with everything you said about them. In fact you were one of the few people who didn't make me Doubleblock for hours on end when we ranked. I think Doubleblock needs to be replaced, just for the fact that it makes being a defender "SO" boring when ranking, I would just spam about 25 and watch TV while I waited. And one other thing that killed me as a defender, healing the Giant or Destructor. There was almost Zero point in fielding either of them, because it would take a real life Hour, just to get the thing healed up, and that was more because of it's natural healing. Made me feel useless

Anyway's hope you intend at another go at the Village, I know Thror's few appearances, and the folk still left not con dead have me giving it another try. No more assassins or Defender's for me though, I need someone who can take on all those Scion axe wielding Ap's.

So good luck, and hope to see ya in the fields.

Skryth

Kraern believe it or not I had a lot of respect for you. I think you where one of my favorite ragers. I know I sound like a real ass in character, but thats just the way I play it. At one point and time and maybe still today just about Scion hated me and I was one. I don't want to get into character debates here but I can say that I am really going to miss having you around. I knew it was a toss up between you and Intronan for leader and I am sure you con had something to do with it. Well come back as a Scion.

You hated Bards!!!
That's it! Now I'm really going to have to kick your ass!!
*wink*

>You hated Bards!!!
>That's it! Now I'm really going
>to have to kick your
>ass!!
>*wink*

*cough* Erm, uhm...yes. See, but Kastellyn and Nuriel don't count. *sage* Yes, that's it. One's a Godling, other's erm...well....something

Actually, that just reminded me of that wedding I attended. That definately ranks up there on the list of fun things. (Fire giant rager, attending an elf's wedding....it made things...definately interesting)

*chuckle*

You're damn right something!
I'm just glad you didn't start anymore fights at that wedding, I was getting my ass kicked.
I didn't really know Kraern when I dragged you there, but my respect for you doubled for staying.

Cheers
*Drunken Bard raises her glass*

Nuriel

Damn, sorry to see you go. I won't say who this is yet since my char is still alive and kicking. But our chars always seem to hang out together. Even in RS *wink*

I loved your character and was always impressed with your no-humming-blessing-glowing thing. I could never go that far. so well done indeed.

Good luck with your next char.

Someone you know aka Sazzaawnud (the lame-ass tribunal AP, who deleted btw)

Well...knew it was coming. Idiot Varital. Like you have to have help to beat me anyways? *snort*

Well, anyways....Kraern...made this char *right* when practicing changed, so things were a bit ugly. The intent was to make a real raging, short-fuse tempered, good old fashioned rager. And thanks to Nimbus helping me out *SO* long ago, taking time to talk to me some out of character after I'd cheated once, and was trying to salvage my rager afterwards...I've always rather loved Nimbus, and felt this would be some little bit of saying thanks.

That evolved, in the first 20 levels or so, into Kraern having his own pantheon created, which more or less included Rager Imms, Fire Giant Imms, and warrior-ish Imms. Anyone else was just another power in the universe, and not really deserving respect unless I chose to. His life philosophy was that life itself, was a continuous War (his sphere choice), and the point was merely to win. To do so, he felt you strived for your own strength. Magic was horribly anti-thesis to this idea, to him. That you could gain power, yes. But it was not yours, and reliance on it, instead of yourself, made you weaker. This went for priests as well. I think I travelled with...two priests, ever...and never more than a single time. This also carried over into armor, feeling that he didn't need any stinking, magical armor, or glowing or humming (I mean...how the hell does that pair of boots glow and hum all day, for no reason?) When Kastellyn out and out *SAID* they weren't, I relaxed some as far as yelling at others, but still decided not to. Technically, fillets and roots aren't (magical), but they are considered such...so he decided better off being safe than sorry, and if it made life rough...well, he'd be better for it in the long run.

Got up to about lvl 35, uncaballed...being bait to any mage with sense enough to cast invis, saw Trewyn as a lowbie, never talked to Rio as Tahren wouldn't approve of a non-reading giant, Sargon finally talked to me, but Sharisalk never showed....and FINALLY, Kastellyn inducted me. All set to go berserker, but then I realized there wasn't a single defender I knew of, and both as a player, and character said "Oh hell...then need defenders *mutter*" Kraern considered himself something of a priest anyways, defender of the faith....so he went with it, and he was a rager.

I had somewhat hoped for a leadership, but by the time two weeks went by, and the Rites came around, I was at four con, and I knew at *BEST* I'd get a Captaincy/General...then the Rites at 11PM Eastern? Bleh...stayed up with 12:30, which was horribly late as it was, and still couldn't stay for the Rites of War half.

I did manage to get more Immteraction with this char, than most of my others, but that included....Thror showing up at the Village...my killing Neeo in front of Jacynth on eastern road, then getting plagued and smited....(I mean, what the hell do you expect, when you talk to someone in the middle of eastern???) (That also upped Kraern's hatred of weakling elves, and specifically Jacynth (who he never said her name again, usually "that damned elf bitch" ). Then Thror trying to attack me because of my calling her that. Got the asgaard executioner to chase me out of Asgaard when Garenth made some comment about not wanting to come by Cabal Limbo when I and two ragers got stuck there, because he might take his axe to my head. Another Imm got us out, and I went back up really to fight Garenth. Got chased out, then got smited a minute or so later after some trash talk, while I was chasing Scions around. (Smiting while pk'ing is *BAD*)

Otherwise...I was willing to work with Thror's Sapper thing, but that utterly fizzled after he made mention of it...and I had *hoped* (and told Thror, *poke*), to end up getting a special-made item, I didn't care if it *DID* anything, just to be able to wear "a single, Iron-Bound Gauntlet", if I managed a good enough job to be tattoo-level. I knew it was unlikely to end up Nimbus showing up and finding out, so no tattoo...but..ANYTHING? *sigh*

As for the character's fighting ability....as Destial said, defenders could really use something. Poultrice was useful only for curing poison, as by the time it could cure plague/crimson, you were out of mana (rager classes are not really mana-intensive to begin with, then you've got five powers that take mana??). Double block is just a more reliable, two feints in one....which means you're then forgoing all other skills you have, to use it. I used it in pks...maybe three times. Field dressings are great, but not a lot of incentive to *BE* a defender yourself, just to have one around. Polearm spec I did well with. Only reason I could level at all, without and decent parry/dodge. Distance is unaffected by the practicing changes, so I had that highly skilled, and managed to tank reasonably. Axe spec....to choose the spec is useful enough, but it's horribly selective on what's useful. I used whirl, weapon breaker, and pincer only, in real fights. Why hook when you can break the weapon, why overhead for three rounds lag, when you can pincer for two hits, and lag them also? And lastly...why would *ANYONE* use disembowel ever? You have to be writhing, and below probably like 1000hp (You can't disembowel large hp mobs til they're WAY into convulsing at times). Then, it misses at least seven for ten times...when you hit, you MIGHT get *** damage (which pincer does nicely), and if you ever hit insta-kill, after getting the enemy to writhing at least....you get no exp. I got it up to 81%, *TRYING* to use it, with the hope to someday maybe get a disembowel on a pk. (Just because it'd be cool)


Well, farewells....

Llygamen, you half-elven bastard!!! You get first notice here. We levelled for so long...loved killing elves with you.

Nuriel, loved lvling and fighting with you. You and I vs. Reddyn and that croc were some of the most enjoyable fights I had. Us two trying to think up every dirty trick we had to use


Battle: decided not post farewells for anyone recently who died, because I knew I'd be posting this one soon enough.

Destial...you probably had it even worse than I did, as a scout warrior. Was fun levelling, shame neither of us hero'ed.

Sargon...you're the one who actually decided me whether to delete, or stick with it til induction. I was getting tired of the whole "We won't talk to you til you write a note!...when I couldn't read/write"

Intronan...I wish I could have lived longer, if only to keep fighting with you. Now you're stuck with only who you induct, and hardly any experienced (time-wise, being IN ragers) ragers. I may have to make another rager just to help you out. (BTW, PLEASE start a war with Brigade? Attacking the giant to try and kill evil ragers doesn't exactly seem peaceful)

Armand: Damned, green-skinned, son-of-a....Kraern hated you I got annoyed at times, but it's just a game *shrug*

Fulgor: Annoyed you at times, mostly it was intentionally, as a player. I prefer keeping cabals from being *too* friendly. It's always more fun when even your own cabal gets annoyed with you

Arkayvorak...mentioned you when you died, but just saying I still remember you

Tarosh: Damn you for deleting after I hero'ed you!

Kiltipzezum...same as Arkayvorak

Kameeko, Skryth, Manachrai: Come on, defenders...not seeing you anymore.

Aylkar, Iildryst...sensible enough ragers. In there, fighting the fight....nothing really notable for good or bad, that I can recall. (Aylkar, you still have that cool polearm I got off Bladjix? *poke)

Anyone else, sorry if I forget....this char'd been around awhile

Brigade: (Erm, Shokai...why'd you ever call the short cabal name MARAN instead of BRIGADE? Horribly confusing)

Igakaie, loved the fights. Yetharien, you weren't half-bad, we actually got along at times. Gynax, Johan, Varital, Bessian, Jubair...you know how damned annoying it is to be trying to attack Scions, and have Brigade attack you? Jeezuz, you wouldn't think one defender rager who'll fight you fair any day of the week...would be that much of a threat. At least Igakaie and Yetharien understood the sense in killing the horde first. (Poor Reddyn, showing up in Tar Valon after saying I'd meet him, then the...MARAN HORDE??! shows up )

Warlocks: We fought, I never really had any reason to talk to you much. Mages and good? Why bother talking.

Andulvar....any time I can jump you unprepped, all you have to do is walk six steps, cast 'conjure archon' cast 'bind archon', and have your radiant archon beat the crap out of me...that's not right. A bit bloodthirsty too, I'd think...aren't you after evil magic or something?

Mithuna...poor punching bag *EVERYONE* seemed to target you first.

Can't remember any other Warlocks in particular

Servants: There is *NOTHING* more annoying than having a Servant attack you, when you don't see yourself as being some big evil monster. Ispard, some others I think....Anyways, Serniae and Satinka I got along with talking to. Other than that, didn't really deal with any.

Nexus: I *HATE* bards. I *REALLY* hate bards. Then, I think I tried solo raiding about three times, only to have members show up when one guardian dead, other writhing...BLEH

Bladjix: Not bad, were some interesting fights. You missed when I killed you, then Xillinas in Udgaard...I then perfected dirt kicking a few minutes later, and joked to Intronan "Hrm, I killed Bladjix, then I killed Xillinas (only time I ever solo'ed a bard), then I perfected dirt kicking...which is the best thing of the day?" "Dirt kicking, of course "

Tiberanius: Decide whether you're nexus or not, damnit. That death with Leius was annoying

Caelph, some of our talks were a nice break...not too bad a char. I still hate bards

Scions: Aside from *VERY* few, most of you are ganging pain in the asses.

Gaenlin: I really liked you. I could kill you without really hating you.

Karvicius: Our pre-caballed relationships made things interesting. However, if you want to *keep* a char a friend at all, I wouldn't suggest fiending/tripping him when he's trying to *AVOID* killing you *mutter*

Kanar, Sylus...two of the better Scions, would fight man to man at times. Hats off to that.

Reddyn: Well, you were right. I never hero'ed. Wasn't because of you though. However, you do with the award of the biggest ass I dealt with. (Well, maybe Armand, but he didn't do things *TO* Kraern) Killing me, then killing me again as I re-equip...then a THIRD time, off in damned Eryn Galen...not like I'm out there begging to get killed again *snort*

Hejduk: Another damned pain at times. I loved my killing you as you were after Aylkar in Hamsah, but killing me like...last week, then the crash, and gaunting me to kill me again? I lost what respect I had for you there.

Ralemos: Jeez..."Oh, yes, hide and run, never fight us"...erm, get your damned memory checked.

Others...not sure of any I really care to mention.

Entropy: Irigiom was kinda fun to meet, Nedrio the gnome Scion *snort*

Scarabs: Have you nothing better to do than run around ganging people with Scions? That damned fire mace spec, and Ralvenar both did it *snort*

Tribunal: Someone, *PLEASE* clean out all the idiots? I was wanted at least three times where I shouldn't have. About half a dozen, I should have been and then got away. Or it took *WAY* longer to mark me than it should have (IE, attack the person, kill or someone flees, then leave town, half-way to another city, THEN wanted)

The way those flags work are just messed up too...players killing you don't give exp hole, yet *ANY* mob? Ragers fighting nightwalkers, zombies, elementals, etc....I died to the mobs more than the players.

Imms: Kastellyn, thanks for the induction, and making sure I knew Nimbus wasn't around. I knew, but it was nice to see you check.

Thror: Just don't try anything. I still have my pike to keep you off I am curious though...was there any chance for me to get that gauntlet? I'd be a little annoyed if I never wore gauntlets my char's whole life, in utter vain

Jacynth: Erm...I really don't know what to say, but again...If you're talking to someone, and don't want disturbed...don't do it on eastern? Sheesh.

Garenth: I was really hoping for that brawl. Ah well

Asgaard executioner: Who were you, anyways? I might have stayed, but it seemed like he was a tad annoyed, and there's a fine line between pissing of "Gods" and pissing off "Imms" .

Well...anyone else I forget, sorry...I'll probably post a few logs on Dioxide's board. Mostly snippets, as I rarely log, and mostly copy and pasted fights I had in my buffer, out

>Got up to about lvl 35,
>uncaballed...being bait to any mage
>with sense enough to cast
>invis, saw Trewyn as a
>lowbie, never talked to Rio
>as Tahren wouldn't approve of
>a non-reading giant,

It's been awhile, so I'll have to look back through my logs to see what the situation was. Tahren was all about thinking through things before acting, and he was "good", after all. So a fire giant and one that is the old school "bash and gnash" style probably was against what Tahren saw as "desireable". Having said that, those are not reasons I would write a poor recommendation. If Tahren disapproved, it was for reasons that related to the village, not to his own personal ideals. On top of that, as a player, I liked to see how folks would react to "setbacks". If they delete or never come back at the first sign of difficulty, that's not what I wanted in the village anyway.. I'd say 80% of the folks that got good recommendations from me never got past Rio, anyway. Half of those were because they never found Rio online during the last couple of weeks of Tahren's life. Anyway, I'll see what I can dig up and hopefully give you an answer as to whether illiteracy was the real reason you never talked to Rio.

As a side note, thanks for sticking with the character after so many setbacks. It is very, very difficult to be that dedicated, and that is precisely the type of rager I would have liked to see in the village. And as a defender, I know how quickly your mana gets sapped. That, coming from a paladin with "fast" and "lay hands". I can only imagine a fire giant warrior. You took one for the team by picking defender, and that's also something that would really have impressed Tahren. Oh the irony.

I think you might have been somewhat busy when I tended to catch you, and the problem was Rio wouldn't talk to me without having talked to you, and you never really had time, and so said "write a note"...which, I wouldn't And having not talked to you at all really, don't think I got any approval for or against. Which was the same as against, for practical purposes. I don't think I helped the situation any though, as rather than try and compromise, I'd probably beat you over the head (figuratively)til you responded how Kraern liked. I think I talked to you a time or two, briefly, about forging, making some tentative questions about getting my stupid gauntlet made.

Ah well. Kraern would never have liked some stinking, idiot, foolish, idealistic paladin anyways, so it's probably just as well *grin*

Well, you're probably right about it being a busy time, since I think this was way toward the end of Tahren's life, where all he did was re-equip after dying to scions again. Oh and also spend time in the forge (which was uninterruptable by applicants). From your post I thought I had told you something to the effect of "learn to read before you become a rager" and that would have been just assholish. Now I don't feel so bad. You're rolling another rager while you read this, right?

>Gynax, Johan, Varital, Bessian, Jubair...you
>know how damned annoying it
>is to be trying to
>attack Scions, and have Brigade
>attack you? Jeezuz, you
>wouldn't think one defender rager
>who'll fight you fair any
>day of the week...would be
>that much of a threat.
> At least Igakaie and
>Yetharien understood the sense in
>killing the horde first.
> Poor Reddyn, showing up in
>Tar Valon after saying I'd
>meet him, then the...MARAN HORDE??!
>shows up )


Aww.. That's not quite fair. I think I went through your whole life without attacking you once. Most noticeably that one time we ganged Reddyn while you were in town, as well. I would target a Scion over.. well, just about anyone except a Scarab. (unless the other person was a greater threat.)

LAST EDITED ON Jul-30-01 AT 03:12 PM (CST)

*ponder* You didn't attack me with...erm...some other Maran a time or two? If not, sorry, thought it was you. I *SPECIFICALLY* remember Jubair jumping me, when I and some Sylvan were ambushing Scions outside Aridhol. Thought I had something against you too. Ah well, if not, sorry. I'm just slightly annoyed with Brigade right now, considering of all the ways to die....it's to a stupid Brigade and another warrior.

As to ganging Reddyn...I don't even know he was alive long enough for people to really realize what happened. He died in like ten seconds, while I cowered (reasonably), in my guild

Yeah, I'm sorry for that, and I really did like Kraern. I was trying to show you that you had no chance of winnin the raid, so you would quite coming back and getting killed. I think I finally talked you out of coming back any more, but it took me killing you four times. I didn't enjoy killing you like I killed Destial, but I was trying to show you that I would defend Scion without abandon, even though I'm not what you would call the "most loyal" Scion. Considering I went through the first half of my life hating Scions and trying to talk my groupmates and Kanar into killing them, and only backing off when Kanar joined. I really was driven into Scion by that backstab of Destial when I had peace with the village and five villagers bashed me to death after I passed up six easy opportunities to sleep them all when they were fighting Scions. Oh well, good character, I could easily have seen being your friend if things would have gone differently and I wouldn't have been betrayed in Karvicius's eyes.

Actually, I would have kept at it, except that stupid lowbie healer showed up, and managed to heal it quicker than I could hurt it. So long as I was making *some* progress, I was planning on keeping at it til I got the head. Might have been a mistake, might not...but I was in a bad mood that day, and that turned Kraern into a really upset fire giant. *smirk* Actually, once Kraern decided Karvicius was well and totally lost to Scions, he *REALLY* hated him. Felt betrayed, and was willing to sacrifice a lot, just to see you dead. *grin*

By the way, Nepenthe...I played a no-magic flag, no glowing, no humming, etc rager. This mean I get to complain freely about all the ragers who do use them? }>

I really liked Kraern. You were such a ##### at times, which I loved, because I like to be a bit of an ass myself. The little rivalry you had with Armand was great. Lemme tell ya... defensive forms against a polearm spec and a scout... they're toast. Real depth to this guy, great job.

>Nuriel, loved lvling and fighting with you. You and I vs. Reddyn and that croc were some of the most enjoyable fights I had. Us two trying to think up every dirty trick we had to use


Heh my first appearance in a graveyard note! I actually didn't like those fights because you guys were focusing on reddyn and i couldn't do much due to all the fleeing.

In the span of three days, I was threatened by more villagers than I would have ever thought possible. You broke more of my god damn weapons than one giant should be able to.

Another villager I was impressed with. When we were headed to raid the Scions, you kept a safe distance behind. I imagine it was to try and pick off the Warlock mages. I kept thinking to myself that this guy has some balls.

I tried to explain to you my philosophy as well. I couldn't tell if that was acceptible, but as a villager I'd imagine you'd say I was full of orc crap.

I'm kind of laughing that it was you who led Reddyn right into our arms. That fight was over before it started.

Gerandin Silverbeard