Thu Mar 2 21:26:18 2006

At 1 o'clock PM, Day of Deception, 23rd of the Month of the Spring
on the Theran calendar Ulthinius perished, never to return.

Boy I suck at this game(but oddly, I can't stop playing). Well, first char in about a year and a half. I was moving alot, playing Star Wars Galaxies(rat bastards destroyed that game), bad connections, worse girlfriends, you know, the usual stuff. Had lots of really good times with this character, had some boring times, and got frustrated at stuff(most of it my own damn fault). Was originally going to try a Grurk follower, but I'm not so tough with the vengeance thing, and it never really fit the flow of the character. Ulthinius ended up more of an Ordasen follower than anything, which fit and worked out fine, but wasn't intended. Village is still badass as ever. I really enjoyed the interaction within the village. I tried to mostly stick to the parity thing, I know I definetly pushed the envelope a few times, but hey, I'm a drow, and I'm not a berserker, so that's how I roll. Man, being a drow assassin in the dregs of the hero ranks sucks donkey ####. For the record, I hate air shifters. When me PBF battlefield comes up, you'll see some things in my role, personally, I liked everyone I put in my role; as you will see however, Ulthinius didn't, he felt like he was surrounded by idiots, once again, I thought you were all good players and hold no ill will. Yeah, onto some goodbyes

Imms
Never had any real interaction, the two events that stick out were Eshval being creepy in the Inn, and Muuloc being REALLY creepy at the palace. I was stalking someone, Dread Lord I think, and Muuloc shows up out of nowhere and just stands there. I wasn't sure if he was going to strike me down, make my corpse a new toy or what, just weird all around. Great game though keep it up.

Battle
Lerimos- I'm officially a big Lerimos fan, love your roleplay, that's exactly how I think arials should be. Aloof, and ass kicking. Similiar to drow, just with wings and a beak....and slightly less evil....and smaller ears...nevermind.

Muriont- If Ulthinius had friends in the village, it was you and birdy boy there. You kick ass, do good in the upcoming rites!

Kaisse- Once again, I'm a Kaisse fan, Ulthinius wasn't only because you were a human, the racist bastard. He did respect your position and the obvious respect you garnered from the gods however.

Throt- Ulthinius wasn't sure how to look at you, he never thought much of deep-gnomes, but he realized you were a good and competent warrior. I hope you get back in.

Krag- Good char, but Ulthinius was definetly not a Krag fan, he was ready to stab you in the back for a little personal power move, but I never made it to hero ranks so I never tried any sneaky ####.

Ysa- At first, I was ready to kick you in the boob every time you opened your mouth. Then you stopped using a new curse EVERY time you spoke, and I liked you alot. Once again, Ulthinius hates everyone I seem to like. Good char, keep kicking ass, very well RPed dwarf in my opinion

Vranth- Said enough in your goodbye. Liked having you around.

Daggan- Ginch! Keep being a good scout, and keep those Hamsah wenches coming! Just don't steal from people and start fights while ranking in an overly aggro mob area!!!

Which leads me to Guamel- Guess we'll never get to spend more than a small amount of time ranking together! Oh well, keep at it, lord knows I can't. I despise ranking/grinding on games. You'll do well.

Pater- Show up MORE!!! I love having a bard around, I was doing backflips when you got in the village. Another "ranking partner" that I never got to rank with.

Dolza- You show up more too! I liked you from what I saw, but you showed up pretty sporadically.

Friarr- Never had a lot of interaction with you, think we ranked a few times, kick ass!

There are more.....but I can't think of them right now.

Enemies

Seemed like we spent most of our time fighting with the Empire, which I don't think village should do but hey, I'm not the leader, all in all most of you were good opponents, and ganging didn't seem any worse for anyone than it normally is.

Nashan- You misguided bastard. Good character, good fights, sorry to see you go, I was looking forward to being the same rank as you and fighting.

Kallyiath- The same goes for you, you prepping, drow ass kicking bastard. I was really hoping I could fight you on "even" terms. Good job man.

Fingon- Ulthinius' nemesis besides the two above, until you up and deleted. You were in my role with Nashan.

Lekajab- Good fights, good roleplay, if Haageran wouldn't have shown up I'd have pressed on you, but I don't trust those damn dwarves.

Vincero- Dude, you are sick, another one who made it into my role based on the massive damage you seemed to do, show up more man.

Gharahka- Good fights today, your legacy absolutely ruled me in that last fight.

Tyvelis- Even though we only sparred those couple of times in the Inn, you were on my "list" for sure.

Calling all shifters- Necore, Morasfemire, Suarvina, Tindiso, and all the rest of you bastards. I hate hero offensive forms with what seemed like good game knowledge, it was never even a contest.

Iander- That whip was nasty man, wish I could've kicked your ass like I did to the other two arial AP's

The two cats-Bar and Jhar, I hate you guys you ganging bastards, and then you both killed me by yourselves, damnit I suck.

Others
Deylani- Enjoyed out interactions, good character, hope you'll be around when I get my next character rolling.

Sharwyn- Liked you at first, then the hugs got ridiculously annoying, at no time should an elf be freely hugging a drow, just my two cents though. Good character from what I saw, minus the hugging, good luck.

Ilthuria- Big Ilthuria fan, hope your little plan works out.

Allright, I know I'm forgetting people, just call me an idiot and I'll remember and then I'll post an apologetic reply.

Word to your moms yo.

I liked Ulthinius alot, I think we had alot in common, too bad you couldnt rank up fast enough to replace the diminishing con (how the heck did you burn through it that fast?) Anyway thought it was a good character, hope you learned alot from it good luck with the next

(how the heck did you burn through it that fast?)
1. Air/offense shifters
2. Paladins
3. Air/offense shifters
4. Kallyiath
5. Air/offense shifters
6. Empire or Maran gangs(not too many of these really)
7. Water/offense shifter
8. People that would show up after I finally made Kallyiath run and kill me with 6hp left.
9. Air/offense shifters
10. Playing a drow scout assassin like a cloud giant axe spec berserker half the time.<----probably the number one reason
11.
(BATTLE) Lerimos: Ulthinius, stay safe.
(ULTHINIUS) Inside his head: #### that, you calling me a coward!?, DIE YOU BASTARDS!!!!
You see the (insert cool corpse thing here) corpse of Ulthinius.

8. People that would show up after I finally made Kallyiath run and kill me with 6hp left

I think you meant to say: Air/offense shifters. Who are usually offense/air shifters, in fact. It's a good way to find a rager for air shifter. Just look where the air/offense shifters gather in the sky and the rager is in the area below. Too bad I was too slow to make it into your list and those offense majors got all the fun.

Good luck with your next!

Well played...playing a villager to con death. It's good to know another one that hides in the shadows is gone, though I have perfected teleport now! :-0 I was looking forward to another battle with you. I noticed you had started to focus on ranking and I envied you quite a bit. I don't find many who desire to rank at the moment. I hope you enjoyed the beatings!

Krag- Good char, but Ulthinius was definetly not a Krag fan, he was ready to stab you in the back for a little personal power move, but I never made it to hero ranks so I never tried any sneaky ####.


Thank you,

I knew you pretty much hated Krag, but I also knew that Krag could trust you because you couldnt harm me at that point. I knew that it was more important to aid the village then it was personal things. So I counted on you. I think you have been the best current scout (in krags time) which has been a long ass time heh. Krag doesnt really trust any sneak class so we never could be on the same level. I like your char alot though and Krag respected you because you were skilled, and dont blow smoke up your own ass, you were skilled thats proven. Good luck in the fields, hope to see you in another char's lifetime.

Though you definatly seemed to have the slinky annoying assassin part down, no matter where I went when you where out of my PK, I'd bump into you. Heh, I liked our few fights, though I must admit assassins can be tough to beat when allowed to do their stuff *shoulda tripped*
Oh wells guess I'll run into another one of your creations...

Seemed pretty good we had some interesting interactions good char all around as far as I could tell. See ya in the fields.

nt

Later man hope you had fun, con dieing a villager is the only way to go. I noticed right away your aloofness to other races and thought to myself holy #### someone is actualy roleplaying a drow as a drow in the village, major cool points dude. I may have given you a hard time about being sneaky and not as straight forward as throt was but then again thats a very impossible standard to hold an assassin to and you did very well from everything I saw. It was always fun to have you hanging around in the shadows and I am sorry I wasn't able to help you rank up more, we just either had nobody to join us or some other villager would get the bright idea to raid 5 minutes into it and we wouod end up having to spend the next several hours dealing with retrievers.

anyways I will be joining you here soon so roll up another villager and maybe we will run into each other again. (I suggest trying a pure damage warrior berserker they are lots of fun)

>Muriont- If Ulthinius had friends in the village, it was you and birdy boy there. You kick ass, do good in the upcoming rites!


I appreciate this comment, man. The way I saw it, you didn't suck. I didn't feel like you knew what you were doing with an assassin, but you didn't suck. I really liked having you around because you were out actively scouting and reporting it all over the cabal channel, even if I told you that I was impossibly far away. You made a good scout and a good rager, but I think you're dead right on not playing the assassin role. More carefully, those birds shouldn't have been able to land (as many) kills on you. But careful isn't always as fun, like running and watching them eat chargesets *grin*.

Anyways I can't count the number of times that I was out ranking and looking at the screen thinking "If I ditch Ulthinius, I can rank faster...but I like this guy, so #### that." I also know first-hand the pain associated with ranking a drow assassin, so I was always willing to help plug you along. It's a shame I heroed before you hit 43 the other day, else I would have stuck it out to get you to 45 and you could have had some more con. On that note, as a drow assassin, you should have had plenty of trains (and pracs) for con. I guess you died a whole lot that I didn't see. And a handful that I did. For instance, I felt really bad after getting us both killed against the imperials a few days ago. The gear doesn't bother me, knowing that it was my own stupid mistake...yea. Sorry man.

Looking forward to seeing you in another incarnation on one side of the battle or the other. Question - If you haven't played for a year and a half, might I recognize any of yours from back then?

P.S. About the rites, I'm fairly certain that other people are going to be way ahead of me in the running. I only recently heroed, after all, and I tend not to play weekends so that I can be with my girlfriend. But I appreciate the thought.

Hey, your memory is much better than mine. I shoved a reply to your post in my death thread, pretty much sums you up. In all honesty, I think you would have survived longer as an anything else assassin You did rock however.

Those villagers I want to reply to -

Pater - because being drunk is cool.

Dolza - Er, so is being old, long and very, very strong. More on that later.

Daggan - You remind me of Ritur's days. You play a scout quite well, and are proof that even supposedly 'weak' thieves can kick buttocks. Though I'm still unsure why I think of you as being so weak when you've obviously disproved it Blame Bundel.


Cheers, my dears.

Kaisse.

qwrwqrwq

I did finally enter my first role contest.....Then I died.....thanks for that though, my roles are always my favorite part of my characters, now if I could just live up to one of them.....

Well, well, I actually didn't expect to make the list.

Honestly, you were one of the more interesting enemies on my own list. You always had my character edgy with comments that struck a little too close to the emotional mark for his taste.

Wish you hadn't bit the big one so soon though.

Yeah you were effet and snobbish but I knew you liked me! You were a solid solid scout, and did your independant thing. I got your aloofness and understood how it fit with your path in the village pretty quick, so kudos to your RP on that.
Man I was literally one hit from gettin the head after you died.
I totally screwed the pooch on that raid I should have taken the time to get a second mace. I rescued you from the Vanquisher and dirted right then before I could flee and get on the Imperial you had gone down. Bah I'll post the log when I'm gone and you will see.

Anyway a well played, tough loner type char, come back to the village so I can curse at you some more.

I don't want to rain on the parade, but I think a thing or two needs to be said about Ulthinius.

You really screwed over applicants. Not just me, but others. And you did it in such a way as to be especially upsetting, because you'd ask for things that you thought were universal, but were not.

Even worse you wanted proof of deathfulness, but now, with the benefit of hindsight, it's just absurd knowing that you had fewer pk's in your entire 230 hours (with only 13 kills total in your whole life I'm a bit surprised you even kept a hut, even as a scout), most of which was spent as a rager, than the applicants you were screwing. And you made pk tactics demands, that sometimes got people hurt or killed, which is just cruel now, looking back at your pk record.

You were roleplaying a drow. That's great. But you knowingly screwed people over with your interviews and your comments and your supposed knowledge. I'm all for keeping to role, but you chose to interview people, and you knew what the results would be of your notes about those applicants. You crossed the line, imho.

I think I probably have the log of our conversation. I can post it or email it to you if you want.

If this is who I think it is, go ahead and post it, and I think I will be vindicated, as for proof of deathfulness, that was Lerimos's thing, not mine. I don't remember ever asking for a proof of death, because as you noted, I suck royally at PK. As for the things I asked from people, I've been asked WAY harder things than anything I asked in lots of different app processes. The Tahril Mountains are NOT hard to find at all, and knowing them is essential to a rager, in my opionion. So, sorry it didn't work out for you, good luck on your next.

I am not referring to the kill a mage requirement that Lerimos had. You had applicants fight other ragers or applicants, to watch them fight and see how good at it they were. When, of course, you obviously weren't all that great at it. And you don't have to be great at it, but if you are going to hold others to that kind of standard... That's the problem with that.

You never asked me anything about the Tahril mountains. You just wanted to be your drow superior self and when someone did the same back at you for themselves, you decided that meant they couldn't be a rager.

Really this all goes back to a recent thread that ragers just want to have people answer in very specific ways and in their own molds, rather than have even a little bit of difference or creativity. That's part of what has created some problems in the cabal.

I'll go find the log of our conversation and post it later.

I never saw Ulthinius screw over any applicants while I played my rager. I also never saw what people were referring to about ragers screwing out creativity and uniqueness. I got asked a total of ONCE to say something about the tablet, which A) I could have found in the Lyceum, B) I could have guessed, but I chose C) To say that I had never seen it and that ____ was what I assumed. That sparked discussion and I never had a problem because of it. Did I memorize the tablet? No. Is it in a text file for referencing in case I get curious while I'm playing? It is now.

This was a guy who played a GREAT Drow scout, though perhaps a little on the suicidal side for my taste. As for fighting a rager, that had more to do with the commander I'm betting than Ulthinius. And it's not unmerrited if you read what's in the village after you get in, or if you roll a shifter and raid, then poke around. Really, it's not as bad as you make it out to be. I can't wait to read your logged conversation.

I really found it especially obnoxious the way you'd pinch my ass and every other Fortress chick's ass around from the shadows and out of range all the time. I honestly thought about praying about it because I found it so degrading.

Other than that - gratz on con dying Battle. Good luck on your next. Try and incorporate a little more RP into the ass grabbing.

Had you been in my range and doing that...I would have kicked your ass. Even an Acolyte can only take so much.

That you play a game where people butcher and kill indescriminately, yet you are offended by someone pinching your ass. I am pretty much as much of a gentleman as you'd ever find in real life, but is it really that big of a deal in a game?

It wasn't so much the ass pinching that was annoying. There are socials in the game that you can do to other people whether it's against their will or not - that's part of the game, and that's fine. But if I'm standing outside the Fortress trying to RP and I see..."Someone pinches your ass" Then someone does the same thing to Xilla, then to Razhalia, then leaves the room. An hour later...same thing. The next day...same thing. Now, this character never said one in game thing to me, just sort of drove by used that social many many times from hideen and then left the room. I didn't read this guy's role to see if there's a chapter about how it's the best time ever to do that to any female character you find - but I'm guessing it isn't there. (I'll have to go read it now)

My complaint really is that it didn't feel like it was RP - it felt like there was a 13 year old boy on the other side of the computer giggling because he could get away with doing something like that from hidden/out of range.

I guess - end of the story - if you want to put your hands on my ass, at least buy me a drink first!

n/t

I don't find this particularly horrible, but then, I'm not a woman and I only play male characters so I may just be immune to that particular grievance.

If not make them visible, consider removing "Someone" and just make it "You feel a sensation as if someone just pinched your ass." And make it so that you can't see it when hidden people do that to others.

Just something to make it more RP-ish and less, "Haha, I touched ur ass I R SO STUD".

Perhaps you could look at it less like a 13 year old boy giggling and instead as a male dark elf taunting a female elf from the shadows. Ulthinius played the whole dark-elf pakage right down to not being overly fond of women.

Well thats the impression I got from interacting with him anyways.

Allright, I'll respond already, since everyone seems to be after some sort of answer. Drunkzilla was much more correct. As for the goosing, I remember goosing Crys, MAYBE, twice. The fort bugs the holy livin #### out of me day and night, so I stop up there to see if I can cause some trouble, hey look at this, three ladies, lets give em a goose. That happened a grand total of one time. Now Sharwyn on the other hand, I goosed her a whole lot, but that's because she kept throwin me out of the Inn because I had her doll of her felar buddy stolen. So, sorry if it bugged you, not much way for me to get at the fort people when I'm not in their range and seriously restricted in openly hunting them by the plaque. And any human woman was completely considered a wench by the way, Ulthinius thought very low of humans, and elves, and half-breeds, which I think covers all of the goosed victims. Peace and hair grease.

PS I'm 24 and I no longer giggle, I snicker, the same way Will Ferrel does when doing his George Bush impersonation

We settle our disagreements with killing.

Or at least, you know, with savage beatings.

That would be cool if villagers could actually settle problems with non mages like barbarians but they can't.

I mean really they are suposed to be barbarians and the scariest mofo's in thera but they often get openly taunted and even hunted by non mages and are often times unable to do more then just take it.

>>I mean really they are suposed to be barbarians and the scariest mofo's in thera but they often get openly taunted and even hunted by non mages and are often times unable to do more then just take it.

Even according to the plaque, you only have to take so much. Someone calls you a ####, you _probably_ shouldn't go kill them for it. You _might_ get in trouble for it. You still might do it. Someone comes after you, you don't "just take it". With Battle powers, you don't always need the first strike to win. If they hit you, smack them down. Now, if you're talking about an out of range elf non-mage acolyte saying "You're soooo mean. Why are you so mean you evil meany poo?" Then probably pinching ass is about at the right level. Then grin because its funny, not giggle because your bytes touched someone else's bytes butt.

* I don't really understand the situation around this since I had nothing to do with it. But Battleragers are not required to play with hands tied behind their backs any more than good aligns are. They have restrictions to make CF a more fair place. People used to skyrocket their pkcount by killing targets that had no business being killed by ragers. The _slight_ restrictions currently standing reduce that problem. And you know what, I like that.

I take the serial Battle players complaints about how bad things are for Battle about as seriously as I took Dwoggurd saying Acolytes should kill themselves with altruism trying to heal the Fort inner in raids.