Mon Apr 26 15:24:56 2004


At 1 o'clock AM, Day of Thunder, 17th of the Month of the Sun
on the Theran calendar Yanacek perished, never to return.

Ahh, helluva reign there.

my first character to interact with you
was Vanadulin, I never really feared you
then. Had trouble understanding why everyone
else did. Guess it was pure luck. I got away
from you almost every time. Not that van could
have ever killed you, but getting away wasn't
that bad. I think the only time you got me
was going in to raid/ret the orb, and i can't
remember who else was there. When we were coming
up i remember you having followed me somehow when
i was duo'd i figure you followed me when i came out
and had the patience to keep it up until i came out again.
That and the choices of what you suggested, the types
of poisoning you chose etc, let me know you were going to
be a bad ass. I just always felt I had a good shot at getting
away. (when you and a few others went against me and an assassin
at the inner fort guard, i kept trying to talk him into going
after you one thief died, the fighter had fled into one room
and you into another. everyone was hurt, i had money, the guy could heal, but your rep ket him from going in to try to finish it.)
you scared the hell out of everyone, and with later characters
me. had to give you alot of credit. (and i never really cared if i died with people like lerrik they weren't about staying alive)

No matter what others may say I never saw anything to detract from your character. then again our playing times crossed over alot so
I saw you show up more than alot of people did.

demoting my one empire char, was appropriate and deserved. not that i would have changed my ways, had i not con died i'd likely have been anath'd.

My favorite though was with lerrik. You and njall, i really was typing
trustall every time i saw the trust echo. but with him there one time it just wasn't fast enough. as soon as i was awoken to battle you said 'bye bye' while perhaps not strickly cf'ish that was tops.
(and of course stun never worked when i needed it to hehe)

Giving respect to Lerrik's bravery/stupidity for showing up to defend the fort when none of the fort folk did (I am not sure if any were even logged on, and really i only came because i saw you fellas headed in that direction, and could get some action)

If ever you were even around, and one of my chars came back to a corpse that wasn't looted when i had fallen to an imperial i would wait a good long time before wearing that stuff. hehe damn that poison was nasty. The first time was the last time. if not for a healer buddy (or was it paladin?) i'd never have made it.
*shudder*

anyway other than the too long run as emperor.
*god when is someone going to overthrow that bastard?*
(kind of a compliment in itself)
GREAT character. you'll be remembered for a long time.

Thanks. I wish I could have played more during popular times but it wasn't usually a possibility. See you in the fields!

No message

nt

I can't help but feel that a lot of the things I have read and seen (not players posting their own theories or perspectives) are just incredibly suspect.

I remember fighting you a bunch of times, and
you jacking me a couple on Eastern Road. I also
remember you following me onto the Rainbow Bridge,
when I was going there to talk to Soucivi. She
said to me, "You do know Yanacek is following you,
right?" and I freaked out. It's always tough when
the Emperor (a thief for that matter) is trying to
kill you, especially when you can't see him...

That being said, nice job with the char, Yanacek
was a bad-ass.

I remember that time, I asked Soucivi if she minded if I punished you. Luckily for you she did. See you in the fields, hopefully with a better name. Where'd Bobbobimb come from?

At first you did not impress me much (when you were Shadow Lord).
I guess I kept comparing you to Navarro.
Plus I rarely saw you. Our times rarely matched at all.
At one time I even thought Anathema-zing you for a lack of presence.
Now I am glad I did not.

I played poisoner so I knew what kind of sick sick things poisoner thief can potentially do.
Not just 'suggest quaff pwk' or trust-all trick.
By the way I believe I discovered it first and reported among bunch of other things. Valg just choose to leave it as is. IMHO bad choice.

But in due time you learned your craft and became quite feared I must say.
On a side note - uuh, I wish APs had hide or steal.

I am a bit jealous you stayed in power for soooooooooo long.
But then again I tended to have 6 hours sessions 5 times a week.

Astilamos the First Emperor of the new Empire

PS Duergars RULE!

There was a period when we were both on at the same time a lot, then I rarely saw you for a long time. What I saw from you was pretty good though. And yes, duergars do RULE!

Of course, with that interaction i was a real lowbie following you around to keep dibs on you for Battle. Followed you into the Ruined City where you were kind enough to give me a grenade demonstration - I appreciated that since I had not seen it in action much.

Being a duergar, I really didn't worry too much about you once I heroed, but then, our times didn't overlap much either. I'm sure you would have given me fits if I had.

Gratz.

You were a very solid Emperor. Evil, stealthy, nasty. Impressive work.
There are so many people for whom "Evilness" and "immature azzholeness"
are synonyms and I'm glad you were not among them. It requires some attitude
which you have. Perhaps the only concern I (along with many others) had
with Yanacek was his rare logins, though I find it funny when people
who cry about it immedately logoff as soon as he actually shows up .

As for the famous suggest/ariestaia trick...
Well, thieves, in general, are one trick ponies when it come to PK,
so they use what they have. Perhaps "suggest" skill should be replaced
with something else as it is very vulnirable to abuses and tricks:
ariestaia, quaff pwk, wear +age eq on human/arial, etc.
A creative player can come with many dirty tricks.

P.S. OMFG, swordmaster's gauntlets on a thief, what a waste!

It's sometimes a fine line between evilness and immature azzholness and I'm sure I was on the wrong side of that line on occasion. As far as rare logins, I played as often as I was able. 673 hours is a lot of time, even spaced out over 14 months. By far a lot more time than I've put into any other character.

As far as tricks, there's a lag and a save on suggest. And there are also ways out of aristaeia for most characters. I had some other tricks too that were potentially nastier.

nt

Just to make you even more frustrated.

C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>ping -n 10 carrionfields.com

Pinging carrionfields.com <216.12.209.34> with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=31ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240
Reply from 216.12.209.34: bytes=32 time=16ms TTL=240

Ping statistics for 216.12.209.34:
Packets: Sent = 10, Received = 10, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 16ms, Maximum = 31ms, Average = 17ms

I for a long time suspected you were an imm mort, and still kinda do due to the fact you don't want to name past chars and never post on Dio's. However there certainly is no denying your skill level, and for that kudos. I remember anytime I happened to log on early mornings with Tcatama (although rare it did happen on the weekends on more than one occasion) being ready to poop myself any time I had to make a run down the eastern or similarly travelled road. Because of you I was forced to take any and all sneaky detours I know of, and learned to spam young thieves with 'Yanacek around?' at all times.

Regarding ganking, you ganked me, you fought me solo, you fought my ganks with other ganks. Silly haters...

I agree with the silly haters part. I don't exactly see anyone playing a sphere honor, only fighting solo.

Thanks for all the gangings. Good job, good luck with your next character.

nt

Seeing that it doesn't exist.

Wasn't that long ago I did it also.

And I've seen a few others here and there. And many who may not be playing the sphere, or who were as strict about it as jinroh or I, but who are pretty good about it.

Was fun kissing your ass in the a.m. Put me in the right mood for the rest of the day. Take it easy,

Blitz.

Hated your name. You fought well though. See you around.

Looks like i made a good choice convincing you to join the Empire when it came in. From what i hear you rocked it up in the later years, long after Navarro.

Cheers.
Jhyrb.

Guess that means I wasn't you. Unless we multicharred, you cheating bastard. When's the next Jhyrbian character coming?

Yea, i heard that i was Yanacek from a few people. I'm getting good at multicharing!

There likely will never be another Jhyrbian character as there hasn't been for several months now and there just isn't any pull to get me back into playing.

An ommission from the last post:
Well done on the char.


Cheers.
Jhyrb.

Aww, dang. I actually kinda liked having you around.

You used some very nasty methods of killing people. Was it particularly challenging or fun? I personally would have chosen not to use some of the methods that you did. Just curious what you thought of it.

There are ways out of most situations for most characters. The point of the character was to be nasty and evil.

I guess that answers it. But I hated you the same way I hate the Yankees

I know I'm not the only one that wouldn't mind seeing them. (I apologize in advance if this has already been asked)

==
You get 269938 gold coins from the corpse of Valguarnera.
==

I'm awful at remembering to log things. I may have a couple around somewhere, I'll see if I can find them and post them if they are interesting at all. If anyone else has some, feel free to post them here or wherever else you want to.

The arial assassin.

At least I stood a chance with this one. Still, tough fights and man did you prove poisoners are a force to be reckoned with. Thank god for saves, I think I quaffed 4 pwk potions in one fight alone. Well done, and you need to make it more than one character a year.

Derexal

P.S. This whole post assumes my guess at who you are is right. I'm pretty sure I'm right, and you're right too. It doesn't matter. Well done.

Your guess isn't right, and true, it really doesn't matter. Some people think otherwise, of course. I play one character at a time and this one happened to last much longer than most of them do. See you in the fields.

The one time I fought you, you had the entire Empire with you. Everything else I saw from you was a lot of making sure that sick set you built never even came close to being lost. Nice character beyond the end though.

Funny.
My memory of you is waiting for you in Eryn Galen, missing you, then you running to the guild, yelling "Nananana, you can't catch me" and quitting out. Twice.

"My memory of you is waiting for you in Eryn Galen, missing you, then you running to the guild, yelling "Nananana, you can't catch me" and quitting out. Twice."

Yes thats right, not my fault you are so slow. Sorry if I didn't want to wait for your seven man gank squad to arrive the minute you jacked me. I had been on for hours, sorry your usual plan of wait for person to recall then jack and summon in gank squad failed you against me.

Considering you, Tulvaluthian, attempted a huge gank on me. He's an Imperial. Let him gank. He fought solo too. I've not criticised your ganking of me. Were you battle, I would have.

>"My memory of you is waiting for you in Eryn Galen, missing
>you, then you running to the guild, yelling "Nananana, you
>can't catch me" and quitting out. Twice."
>
>Yes thats right, not my fault you are so slow.


Thank you for admitting it.

I just thought it was childish and lame you yelled what you were doing before doing it. Kind of like complaining about ganking when you post a log of yourself charging into a group waiting for you. "Yes I geysered that group of 5, but they all attacked me and killed me afterwards, those ganking bastards!".

All I was saying was it was the only time I fought you. I got Aurinius worded which was the goal. I thought you had a great character, one of the best I have seen in a long time. Just that the one incident I fought you you called in all the Empire to help you gang Aurinius. Wasn't me who was getting ganked, it was Aurinius. Nothing wrong with it at all, just was how I remembered fighting you. Great character and good luck with the next. Sorry if my other post was hostile.

n_t

I would assume it will show up on the premium battlefield.

Unless the pb takes time and shows item per item, it did not.
I am sure you remember the average deaths/kills/donations.

Perhaps you could enlighten us ?

Guesses:

Donations 8-10M?
Deaths 10 or so - none in many months
Kills 200?

I'm looking into it, and hopefully I'll have it fixed tonight and update Yanacek's character sheet.

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

I'm kidding. Though it is interesting to see how fast the imm conspiracy speculation started up.

Sorry about that...thought I had all the bugs worked out in that thing

So long, and thanks for all the fish!

>I'm kidding. Though it is interesting to see how fast the
>imm conspiracy speculation started up.


Well, when he responded "I don't think it's important." when asked who his past chars are plus some really sick game mechanics stuff (gotta love force-feeding PWK potions), I can't blame some people for being paranoid.

I just think (hope) he's a *very* knowledgable player, a Zorzual.

You know, someone who makes CF their ***HOBBY*** as opposed to their hobby, or has it as just one of many hobbies. Someone who can walk through quest areas like we walk to our guilds in galadon.

The character didn't really screw anyone over in any major ways, wasn't a senseless killer, and really in the grand scheme of things wasn't all THAt powerful, just skilled and made the most of what he had. If (and I am not encouraging imm theories on this) it was an immortal enjoying the game they play, and they got Emperor (Council votes here, the imms don't appoint Emperors) then great. The Emperorship was gotten legitimately. I have nothing against immortals using their knowledge for their characters benefit, as long as they aren't insanely beefed up with insane things no mortal could get. It's a leverl playing field, just some of us know how to run it a little better than others.

.

The character didn't utterly #### someone elses character over. He wasn't given anything a mortal would not have recieved in the same position. He was not given a position of power by an immortal. He did not have questy ####/extra powers/tattoos. What he had was a postion of power, bestowed on him by OTHER MORTAL PLAYERS.

What I don't like are quest forms being given to imms playing morts. Imm run players who completely #### someone over because of an OOC relationship with a mortal (ALA Andaren. ALA Leika and my little conversation with Annalena, etc etc). My stance on this stuff has not and will not change. But when a character (if a character) is (has been) played by an immortal, and they do well through their own game knowledge with no unfair help, who should mind? Hell, I wish they would play mortals more often to keep the player perspective.

Well, the little times we did see each other, you made be constantly be wary of the little duergar in the shadows. Only got to fight you a handful of times, but the one that sticks out in my mind is when you and four others were raiding and I was backed up at the big D, I managed to fall two of your underlings, but had to run, then you caught up to me, I delt out three demos on you and then wham, your healing went off an you were unwounded. I told myself to get the fug out. Good job, Luck on the next I guess

Yanacek = Pimp


Ranak

I think I remember that raid... I was sitting in the square to get you when you fled, meanwhile you started mowing everyone down at the big D. I thought that was pretty impressive.

You know, no doubt you were a strong character and a formidable force. But I was kinda boggled when you 'suggested' me to attack you in the Ruined city. Theoretically I attacked you, but .. you know. Another thing that I found .. curious, was that you would seem to find anyone anywhere. You have fought three of my characters, and all three ran to different 'uncommon' places, and still you found them. I guess you were either EXTREMELY VERY lucky, or it had to do with one of your powers.. Oh well. Well done.

Glaubarsto

I spent a ton of gold refreshing at healers and a lot of time running around everywhere looking for people. One of my powers was occasionally useful in my search. My advice to you is stick to one character. A while back, I noticed your quick character switch more than once and it bothered me a little.

If you're implying that I switched between hero and non-hero characters when you were on/logged on, you're wrong. It's true I spent less time at herolevel due to another character and exams. I hardly logged on for a bit more than a month, with either character. You got all both characters, sure, but, looking at the rate at which Glaubarsto died, I can assure you, I really didn't mind anymore in the end. Anyways.

It was something I noticed on more than one occasion. I'm not sure there was any deceit involved on your part. I guess I'm a one character per player sort of guy. I regret even bringing it up now, so just forget about it. I thought Glaubarsto had more guts than 90% of my enemies. Maybe more.

You can't accuse someone of switching characters unless you know that for sure.

I can accuse anyone of anything I want to. In this instance, I prayed about it and was told by an Immortal that they'd be spoken to about it. Seemed like validation of my concern.

That was fun. Good times. So many people affected this character's life, I can't even begin to try to remember everyone. Post something and I'll respond. Maybe I'll throw together an detailed farewell at some point. I hope I made things interesting, enjoyable, or challenging for others.




When a true genius appears in the world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in confederacy gainst him.

-Jonathan Swift
"Thoughts on various subjects, moral and diverting"

So Many times I wanted to land a crime on you, but never could, day thief skills. Almost had you that one day with the conjurer, but I could prove it. Yet we both knew it was you. Well done.

- Agarah

Some of my skills were good for toeing the line. Definitely made for some interesting scenarios.

I made you cry. Ahahahaha.

So does sitting on my balls. Ow.

I know I'm not the only one who's curious, but how the hell did you stay in power?

No, I'm not accusing you of having the council on your AIM list, just curious.

I don't have them on my AIM list, but I do have incriminating pictures of them all with farm animals. Beats me, man.

First, well done!

Secondly, when I approached you (for rp reasons, and I knew very well I wouldn't walk away from it ..), I hoped you would go along with it, as long as it was amusing, and toy with me a bit.

I found it really disappointing to see you kill me on sight, cause I saw it as a missed opportunity. Maybe it wasn't Yanacek's role to be diplomatic (if even to toy)?

Otherwise, there were some things I didn't like, but they were minor things, so again well done!

I wasn't really interested in anything you would have had to say.

ntntnt

I don't think it's important.

I never truly interacted with Yanacek outside of us randomnly running into each other due to various circumstances. But I nevertheless would like to ask you this - why was Yanacek always so casual with Arthakar? I ask this because you always treated him with a fair amount of respect while apparently never putting any (direct) pressure on him to take the oath or face persecution. It always puzzled me a bit to be honest.

My congratulations on making it to agedeath with the second Emperor of the new Empire. Yanacek was quite lethal and knowledgable indeed in my opinion.

I wish I had a decent answer to that question. I don't. I guess after a while I tended to let others do the persecution and pressuring while I did my thing.

A course of action that was well within the power of a character like Yanacek, for sure. Arthakar was certainly not a threat to him, nor would he have made a truly remarkable addition to Yanacek's citizens. A fly on the wall in a manner of speaking. Perhaps the answer to my previous question is to be found right there.

Thank you for the replies. And good luck with your next.


Arthakar

I'm really curious what your opinion of that GOD DAMN "suggest trustall" #### is. I mean, sure, brilliant tactic, but the instant I noticed I could do that to somebody I would have reported it as a bug and stopped punking people with it. Maybe you did, and maybe the imms told you it was fine, keep doing it. I ran into your character one time, and you and Gulthruck killed me with that cheese.

My opinion is that there is enough lag on suggest that you can turn it back off. You'd be surprised how many people I could just do that to without even suggesting since they already had it up. Probably half.

If you are with a shaman, it doesn't matter much if suggest lags you. You suggest trustall. Shaman Aristeias.

RP wise, I thought it was justifiable, in that you could be convincing people to trust everyone.

Game mechanics wise, I thought it should have been removed.

One, you got me once with this tactic, as I said. I'd never seen it before, and I was bewildered to be spamming "aff" and "inv" and suddenly see "You begin trusting blah blah." I didn't know what the hell was going on. Puzzled, I typed in "trustall," but before I could hit enter I'd been hit with aristaeia. I *still* didn't quite get it, until the gank began and I realized I couldn't flee (duh). Would I have been caught by this again? Maybe not, but it only depends on whether I can toggle an aspect of my character's "auto" configuration faster than you can recite your scroll. Which leads to the second thing...

This IS an aspect of my character's configuration. I realize it's called "trust" and sounds like an IC thing, but it's in the game specifically to keep people from screwing with your character in inappropriate ways. Healers can't remove curses on your weapons, a guy you're about to kill can't recall you, and you can't get hit with offensive buffs with unfortunate side effects intended to balance their use (not to be used as a tool on an unsuspecting target).

Why can you "suggest" something to a sleeping person, anyway? Ugh.

There are ways out of it for most characters. Should it be changed? I don't know. I didn't think suggesting nofol should be changed, but it was. Maybe suggesting trust will be too. About half the people I did the tactic to were already trusting. Should that be changed too?

<i>About half the people I did the tactic to were already trusting. Should that be changed too?</i>

No, of course not. But then, you're just being an ass.

True, I am

a couple of my characters. Interacted with you as Malinran quite a bit, didnt get any impression of anything special back then. I dont know how you ended up in empire but for a while you did not log on, especially once that thing with Gastaad took place and I became an enemy of the guild. Was surprised at what you had become, from what i saw of you later, and im not accusing you of anything, i got the impression that the character Yanacek had changed players.

Anyway, great job, a very memorable character.

nt

Well thats the impression i got, considering i interacted with yanacek since he was like rank 13. It could be that the character just changed alot after a long absence, i dont know. Thats all im saying.

I thought Malinran was pretty good. There was a period at some point where I was on vacation and then had intermittent access or something else where I couldnt play a whole lot. And I think my playing times changed more towards the mornings and early afternoons around then. I'm not quite sure how I ended up in Empire either

Yeah that makes more sense, was just strange for me how you were hugely absent then empire comes in and you do as well
Ive had those pauses too and sometimes rethink a character.

These past few months will likely be remembered as the good ol'days for the Empire as time goes on. You had a strangle hold on the throne, kept all the other cabals in submission (even the Heralds thanks to Njaal), and were the most ruthless killer I've seen since Zorszaul.

The first time I saw you on after I got oathed, Amft was raiding, and you asked me if I was just going to let him keep hitting the Vanquisher like that, so I ran out and blackjacked him and said, yes actually I had intended to allow him to keep fighting the Vanquisher. You more or less said you didn't give a damn what it was I did as long as I did something, watched me muff the kill on Amft then strolled off. Nice angle I thought, an easy going Emperor.

Looking back on it, I suppose I should have been feeding you misinformation on Laes intentions so maybe I would have gotten the nice sect leader seat on a lollipop like Grott, but eh, I should have been able to take it on my own I guess.

Thanks for all the SHADOW Yanacek: I've got "Insert poor bastards name here" knocked out. and letting me run over and join in on the fun. After the first or second day of that I started timing how long it was after the guardians did the Greet the Emperor thing til you had someone down. Your average was pretty sick.

It was good to see that there are still ways to just obliterate folks in the new kinder more balanced CF, thanks for all the fun times.

Kill stealer!
I liked Carrick. I thought you deserved Shadow Lord for a while when I never saw Laes, but sometimes things don't work out. Having you by my side to cheap shot was useful.

Suffice it to say you were a frustrating enemy to have. The worst thing about you was knowing that even if I managed to avoid the more obvious suggestion tricks, I was probably dead anyway. No other character had the ability to absolutely screw people the way you did. Stealth, long duration knockout, steal, forget, healing curse. Throw on blind from scrolls, and you've effectively reduced most classes's options to: "run away on foot, while blind".

Our speaking interactions were about as limited as the fights, so I can't comment much there, but I have to hand it to you for creating such a tactical nightmare. Any time you manage to craft a character for whom PK is like shooting fish in a barrel, you must be doing something right.

You were a good enemy. Didn't see you around as much lately, but that happens. Paladins like you with certain abilities gave me the most headaches.

I can see why you might say that, but by the same token those abilities seemed to work against me when we fought. You were buff enough to survive 2-3 counterattacks, meaning you got 2-3 chances to land the blackjack instead of just one.

Incidentally, the thing I most dreaded (other than the actual getting jacked and dying) was that you'd dispose of the few pieces of gear I could locate in order to know whether you were logged in. That would have been irritating. For about the past month, my first command upon logging in has been "co 'blessed divination' regeneration".

I actually thought about doing precisely that before I age deathed, but I couldn't bring myself to do it. Counterattack wasn't as much of an annoyance as the other thing I was thinking of, but it was annoying in its own right.

She had every tool necessary to prevent being blackjacked/slept in the first place. Is that what you're referring to?

Dex

Probably. Of course, it doesn't so much help when one words into an area.

Champions stand wasn't that hard to get around in most cases.

About this time last year, we fought few times on eastern and outside of hamsah. I got jack and knock out quite a few times. You planted those silver flask on me and order me quaf silver. I drop them every times. I borrow a trick for Darian (fireball) and flurry. I manage to chase you off think nearly every time. No one fell. Anyway good job!

Yeah, I focused on that tactic a bit too much for a while. That day we went back and forth for like two hours straight or something. Maybe it just seemed like it was that long. Anyway, was fun.

Well, thought I'd just drop a quick note saying good job.

Didn't really interact much with you, other than a few
respectful nods in town or on eastern.


Although, I did secretly have a desire to see if a 80 dam,
defiler doom/nightbringer combo, could keep you bashed long
enough to kill you through (3?) peices of progged healing
gear. Guess we'll never know.

Luck with your next.


Grurk

I wish that I could have aged died with you but #### happens. Ah well, I still find it is ironic that we were the reason why Rot/Damnation was changed. We kicked ass together for the short times that we saw echother.

Great Job!

~Amadalie N'lelakim the Revered Reverend of the Emperor

Yeah, wish you were around more back then, we had some fun. Good times.

673 hours of sodomizing others . You would be the prison king in any country with Yanacek. As long as i was on your good side it was fun.

I think you liked Njaal...is that why you did not anathema me or did Khas threaten to piss on you if you raped me?

Anyway, well done. And good luck with everything.

Yeah, I did like Njaal. More importantly, I respected him a lot. I was torn between anathema'ing you or just letting it slide. I thought you deserved better and thought I would have agedied earlier.

I laughed when I read the prison king comment. Funny.

You may very well be the most lethal, despised, and feared Imperial I have had the pleasure of running across. Personally I'm astounded how you did not get bored with the character from February 2003 was it? But regardless, you were an excellent Imperial, foe and ally alike. One question which I'd really like an answer to, even though it's moot now, is what were the politics behind Varik's anathematization. I was hoping it involved direct action on Njaal's part,rather than just the extended leave I took, but I'll let you field that one.

Good luck with your next.

In my eyes, the razing of the Grove and a few other plans you were involved with were done with the purpose of gathering support for yourself for a coup attempt. I wasn't going to stop the razing of the Grove, but I wasn't going to let you take the credit and use it to catapult you to the throne. Yanacek was somewhat paranoid to begin with and all the Imperial plotting only made him moreso. I heard of several plans that were supposed to be behind my back and took great offense to them.

I used the quest you had regarding the grove, to discredit your name in any way possible. I also tried to make it appear that the long planned inferno trip about that time, was a part of a big plot to unseat Yanacek. No wonder he got jumpy, it even seemed plausible to me (heh). Even Lyristeon told me that holding the two final items would give godlike powers.

Well played then. Imperial politics at its best.

Really good job on your part then. The truly sad part is that both Hell and the Grove were handed off to me with no investment on my part. If anything, my bungling of both plans was the catalyst that began my downfall then. My most memorable CF experience was logging on to find you, the Dread Lord, and the new High Priest Njaal summoning me to the Throne Room. I knew what would happen, and it was truly a glorious moment. But enough reminiscing, both of you are exceptional characters and make CF that much more enjoyable.

Nice job from what I saw. You lasted a long time, turned yourself into a demonic PKer, and led your cabal well.

I enjoyed our fights, and just wish you could have lasted another week so I could 'show' you my new form! Taught me alot though from watching how you fought.

Awesome job!

All I have to say is dang, I liked you as emperor a lot more than Asti(you wheren't promotion happy). I can remember another divine member one time saying you where the perfect shadow and because of that you couldn't be trusted, I was inclined to agree. I liked being an imperial on your side, but I loved fighting you even more. Most thieves would run away if they couldn't knock someone out but you'd stay there and kick some ass. Good luck on your next as well.

Caused as much paranoia as you. If you were on, or had been on within the last hour, everyone in the Fort was wary about going anywhere in a city, and everyone would be trying to find out if you were still on if we didn't have someone who could detect hidden on. Your biggest strength? Nobody knew what to expect. Most power chars you kinda have an idea what you're going to run into. You? You never knew. I heard of a lot of clever things you did, and when you were around, I tried to avoid being places where you'd be strong and have the sneaky element. Good job, even if we didn't fight much, I gotta respect the reputation you earned yourself.

You were one of the toughest people to fight, that's for sure. Almost had me that one time at the southern crossroads, I totally screwed that up badly. There's a handful of clever things that I didn't get to try or didn't get as much publicity as other things. At least I got a chance to do one of them yesterday before I died, though it didn't work as well as I wanted. Anyway, you were probably one of the toughest players for me to face, even if we never really locked horns too much. Good job.

You annoying little bastard. I remember our first interaction, it was a funny one which I barly lived from. Damn emetic poisoning is sick... Better then scourge. I lived with 100hp -1209ma -739mv. I and I even lived through that in a well traveled area. Our second meeting wasn't a bright one on my part as I was waiting to delete and BOOM you appear and kill me when I was talking to a friend on AIM, and rather high. But it was a good solid kill, one that I could have only advoided if I saw you. Which I most likely would have. Since I suffer from "where" paranoia.

Well done and drop me a line sometime.

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