Wed May 12 23:38:13 2004


At 1 o'clock AM, Day of the Bull, 22nd of the Month of the Frost Giant
on the Theran calendar Hashok perished, never to return.

Where to start. My playing times have dwindled, and
I was beginning to get really bored with this character.
I never had a written role, which was probably most
of the reason, though I did have a base for it. If anyone
cares, Hashok was the unwanted child of the daughter of a
drow mistress of magic, raped by a human slave. He was set
out to be sacrificed, but was interrupted. He was found
in the underdark by a dark wizard, who saw what power was
held in him. Hashok believed he was eternally damned, which
would have made a good scion following, except for the fact
he thought it was gone, and could not be taken back through
any means he wished to suffer. Hashok could almost not have
been evil except for a rotten core, as he appeared friendly
to most.

I was uncaballed for probably half of my life. That got boring
pretty fast when I had nothing to defend except for a guildhall.
I took up empire as a means of not deleting in the first place,
in an attempt to save a character that I still liked despite
the boredom and try to make something out of it. One thing I wished
I got to do was take a hell trip, and had I ever wanted to get it
back, he thought his soul could be retrieved down there, OOC, I've
been everywhere in the game, but never past the fourth circle, and
that was a goal when I rolled the character O so long ago. Most of
who Hashok considered his friends were Imperials, going on hell
trips, and seemed to be having fun defending, so hashok took
this as his chance to inflict pain on lightwalkers and go to hell,
and took the oath.

I did get a little bit of random immteraction with this char, which
I did not expect, but enjoyed regardless. I had stopped playing for
most of the time Empire was around for the first go round, so this
is really the first grasp of Imperial roleplay I got deep into. Whoever took over the empress in Modan taught me a good bit about
how an Imperial would act, and I'm far better prepared if I make another (which I'm thinking I'm making something else anyway)

One other thing under immteraction, I was in Aran'Gird with Njaal, I think it was, and a demon there started yelling. Roleplay kept me from Lighting Njaal on fire until we went over there and talked to him to see if that was an IMM taking over, but I'd never heard him
yell. We never went over to him, since we were out the door, I was just curious if someone had something cool in store I missed

People. Sure. Imperials first. Start with Blades, since there's a lot

Kardok- I really liked you. I love to see warriors who inspire that
much fear in people, since I can't seem to make a supremely deathful
warrior for the life of me. Hashok liked you, and were one of the
few he would rely on. When you oathed me, I was hoping to start some
sort of chat about my oathing so some IMM would maybe realize my
plans, but I mentioned it and you started preparing. Good Char.

Dryzzel- Also liked you a lot. I would have backed you for emperor over Njaal, at the end, before what happened to you. You were a good
war master, I think it's been said before you were too ragerish for
an Imperial. I also think that's a lot of what makes the game more fun, and you did very well. Thanks for ranking a non imperial arcane
way back in the day. Yoshifesd too.(who I also liked)

Drudendal- I do and don't see how you got such a bad rap. You weren't
a newbie, and knew your ####, and sitting inside the palace you had
good roleplay. But then, I've seen some logs. If all that was in your
role: Very Well Done, Don't listen to anyone who bitches at you. If you want to play a duergar who cusses people out, more power to you. I just hope I don't see you make me look like an idiot and play a storm giant like this.

Grott and Blitz- New crop, which I'm not so familiar with, you two
seemed to be doing quite well, and from what I saw it looks like
both of you deserve your positions.

Shadows-
Carrick- Liked you a lot, even took the time to teach you some things. I played Hralled a while ago, A scion thief, who reminded
me a lot of you, king of using his thiefdom to take in knowledge
from people. Good Shadow, thanks for the orb. Damn, I had that a long
time.

Laes- It seemed you were similar to Hashok in mannerisms. I liked
you, but you never struck me as a shadow lord. You might have had
seniority for emperor, but I didn't see you getting it for this
reason. Maybe you had a real short fuse or something, who knows.
Well Done.

Nynncynno?- I met you a time or two, I was looking forward to walking
around with you. Don't know what happened when you anath'd.

Blacks- I didn't entirely get along with most of you. Usually seemed
to keep your distance.

Tufudler- The one exception. It's very nice when someone teaches you
something when you think you know everything. I also taught you something nice in return, if I remember correctly. I remember a lot
of Imperials thinking you were a total newbie, which I did until
you totally proved me wrong. I think I even corrected a couple Imperials who thought you sucked.

Gulthruck- I didn't see you often, but I did have a black sect under
you. You were powerful when I did fight alongside you and I liked
you as my black. Keep sending them to the mother.

Divine. Every Good Invoker needs a healer. Shamen are nice too.

Zhenzar- My Favorite high priest. i know i WILL get you and Njaal
confused, so I'll save face and say you should have taken me to hell
with you, damnit

Njaal- I liked you a lot from the start, but less so towards the end
when I could sense you mistrusting me. That was just IC though, since
I definatly did not see enough of the mistrust of arcanes in empire
as a whole. the divines were mostly the only people I saw this from,
and I saw a change in your char as maybe Khas helped you to be 'wiser'. You should have taken me to hell too. That's three I missed. Bah.

Zautt- High Priest number three in hashok's life. The glue that help
empire together, too. Good work, Good work being ballsy, and good
work with the whole mistrust issue too. Thanks for the gear runs
despite that.

Talabrina- Wish I saw more of you, I liked you, and you were adventurous. May be the next high priest?

I'm missing a couple Imperial Healers, I'm sure, and I'm sure
you did me gear runs, so thanks for those. It's just I don't have
a memory at all, so don't feel bad if I forgot you.

Non-Imperials/Enemies)Samethinganywaypretty much

Odelius- Since every good invoker needs a healer, and an uncaballed
evil invoker never gets one, you got jacked a lot. IC, Hashok takes
a little herald gnome for his own personal use, tries to keep him
happy, defends him, and uses him when he needs him, OOC, I like to
teach people things who like to learn things, and I enjoyed your
company. I seldomly walked with anyone pre-empire, and you were it
if anyone.

Mekantos, Illivara, Kwalin and Jiro were the only scions I ever
interacted with, I may have even joined them, since my invisible role
could have been worked into it. I enjoyed our treachery, Kwalin, in our younger years, that was interesting how we heroed and how that ended up. We both had a certain hatred for each other, and a certain
respect, I think. Ilivarra, I wish we spoke more earlier. You were interesting, and perhaps could have 'guided' hashok a bit. Mekantos, I'm suprised you never tried to recruit me, all I ever heard from you
was did you kill *insertvillagername or three here*, and Jiro, thanks for powerranking me. Scion is more interesting now, but didn't turn out for this character.

Villagers were my favotire enemies, by far, since I'm good with wands. When your good with wands, villagers are pie as an invoker.
I'd go run up to you and try and kill you often. I don't think a single one ever killed me, and I never really talked to any of you,
I don't think. I've played a villager, and I know how difficult it can be.

Fortress People- Who hashok despised the most, and brought out Hashok's dark, torturous side. I really never talked to any
of you, but I had good fights with many of you. For the most part, If
I was on, and we held the orb, I didn't see you come often with less
than five. Occasionally someone with a sphere courage would log on
and come suicide himself, and not bring anyone else with him. Occasionally some of you would try and set up traps, but most often
it was quiet. There aren't many lightwalkers who seem to work
with tactics, which is why I seem to be drawn to evil characters. A
couple Paladins I saw did this, which I suppose is why they got
leadership, but I think the massive goodie hoards would be more
dangerous if someone organized them.

Tul- Well, that wasn't the way I wanted to die, I was taking the fetish with Blitz and Galakonosis, we hear the paladin hit the vanquisher. Since he'd come alone and worded before when I immolated him, I ran up there, forgetting I'd freshly cancelled my shields.
I think I had no greater shields up, and I hadn't even put up detect invis. Thief. Invoker. trips. dispels. spammed commands. Whoops, that
was stupid. Anyways, it was time to go on to something else, something that dies way more often. Good work with the trap.

Invokers, as a whole, I have learned very well, I've now played three, Queesha being the last one that I age died. I learned even
more barrier sources on this character. As powerful as they can
be, they are still difficult to maintain. The changes on barrier
they made with the shields make it more challenging to be prepared
for fights, and add to the skill needed to play one.

Hashok, who forgot lots of people, never did figure out the bracelet, and wishes in hindsight he spent as long on his role as his goodbye note, and will probably write his next one BEFORE he has a character to suck him into the fields.

Mekantos, I'm suprised you never tried to recruit me, all I ever heard
from you was did you kill *insertvillagername or three here*,

If I didn't, there must have been a damn good reason, which I just
can't recall right now. I would actively try to recruit people when I
was the Advisor, and a hero invoker was very high on the list. Kelrizza
can testify to that .

Anyhow, my memory of you is vague, unfortunately. I've been a pretty
busy guy lately, and all of this RL-related memorization is chasing
the really important things out of my head (CF trivia).


-Mek

P.S. If you were an Imperial during the time that I was allied with
you, then I probably considered our working relationship to be
something best left discreet.

Glad you learned something from that. The Empress enjoyed it as well.

As I think I said in my goodbye note, I think you were Kardok's most liked friend. IC, Imperials really aren't supposed to have friends, but you really were for me. I really feel that the two of us together could take on just about anything that our enemies could have thrown at us. I recruited everyone I could think of about being Imperial, but I always just assumed that a player with your competence had things all figured out with where he wanted to go, so I never asked you. When you mentioned it, I was kind of surprised. I was impressed with every single thing I ever saw from you as a character. Good luck with the next. I don't usually give people my AIM, but if you ever feel like looking me up, my email is GB4676@yahoo.com

Heh... Thank you for the words, you did quite well also i belive... As far as going to hell, if i remember correct i did invite you... I had invited 2 or three invokers, just hoping that one would show but none never came.... Dont think it matters though as we lost our healer and a invoker wouldnt change that fact...

Zhenzar

Well I really appreciate that. You, Kwalin, and Kelrizza really did help me learn a lot about Im grateful for it. I also learned that a healer and an invoker can do a lot of things, and even moreso with a proper tank. Hope you roll up something soon and it's as cool as Hashok.

You dont stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.

I remember us way back when. We had a lot of fun raiding the Fortress. You helped me pull of a few very fun raids against them. I think our best was the two of us against five or so. Anyway, yeah, I'm such an old rager at heart that its hard not to play my warriors that way. Balls to the wall, courage and such. Remember though, Dryzzel was a tattooed follower of a Courage Lord. It fit my personality, and the role I didn't have written for Dryzzel. I understand the role bit, and though in some ways I hate roles, I agree that my next char had to have a pre-written role idea.

Good work friend,
Aaron

>I was uncaballed for probably half of my life. That got
>boring pretty fast when I had nothing to defend except for a
>guildhall. I took up empire as a means of not deleting in the first
>place, in an attempt to save a character that I still liked despite
>the boredom and try to make something out of it.

Yes, I noticed it. I guess it was hard to conceal.

>Laes- It seemed you were similar to Hashok in mannerisms. I
>liked you, but you never struck me as a shadow lord. You might have
>had seniority for emperor, but I didn't see you getting it for
>this reason. Maybe you had a real short fuse or something, who
>knows. Well Done.

Thanks. Yes, we certainly had something in common. As for the Shadow Lord appearance, perhaps our concepts are different. I won't go into details, but there is always a place for a variety, which is one of the reasons we love CF so much.

>
>Invokers, as a whole, I have learned very well, I've now
>played three, Queesha being the last one that I age died.

Double-avalanching was cool

We certainly did have a good bit of enmity between us. I know I certainly wished all kinds of bodily harm upon you. However my hands were somewhat tied as you had done a good job of subverting several of my allies and basically if I was going to kill you it would have to be alone. It is tough to kill an invoker alone as another invoker especially when they both have a clue. After I joined scion though I rarely saw you and our rivalry somewhat died. Had you actually joined I think it could have lead to some very memorable confrontations that would likely have seen one or both of us booted... especially if you were chummy with Mekantos. I've been anticipating your deletion for months, it's been obvious for some time that either you didn't have time or playing the character was becoming a chore. In anycase, you were a worthy adversary and good luck on your next.

I still don't know how you got lagged out when we ganged you during that raid. I also still don't know how a citizen is more willing to defend then "Elite Imperial" anythings. I do know that when you, Keldszak, and Zauttevre were around, I was pretty much useless. We had some good fights, and if it makes you feel better, I didn't get to use the troll amulet and the orb together either Good fights and talks that we had, and good luck with the next, I really liked Hashok despite our IC differences.

I still cant get over the fact that you oathed... When I was around I totally thought you were going Scion the way we interacted and such. You were fun to run around with and I loved having you as a friend. Hope you enjoy whatever you roll up next, and I hope it aint Imperial. Later

You dont stop playing because you grow old, you grow old because you stop playing.