Sun Jan 13 03:24:16 2008

At 11 o'clock PM, Day of the Sun, 6th of the Month of the Winter Wolf
on the Theran calendar Chirikaw perished, never to return.

Work goes nuts for me for the next few months, so that had
a hand in all of this...

Other than a handful of things...
My first thief past say 20 or so. yippee.
(Part of my plan to eventually hero every class/race combo)
first arial past 20 or so. *rofl*

I initially decided to try a binder when Valryn had one of
my characters totally trussed right outside the fort, people
were inside and I couldn't call for aid, and he did this creepy
RP about what to do with me since I was all tied up.
He ended up making me laugh instead of getting all pissed
or frustrated. So I thought I could make a thief that was
not just universally despised.(Bad move #1)

I learned alot about thieves and had I sat around 30 for a
while I'm pretty sure I'd have ended up pretty deadly all by
my little self.

Other than that everything about this character was an abysmal
failure. I accomplished nothing for the character that the
character was supposed to want. I played too much to the players.
"Man I hated when I got jacked and my whole inventory was emty
when I woke up, we'll let them keep all that stuff."
I was sphere greed! What the hell was I doing??!?!?
Once I got semi-known for doing that sort of thing I returned
damn near everything I took from anyone.
All the goals I should have been after I wasn't, and couldn't.
I was going to go for the nice SOUNDING evil guy who guts you
when you weren't looking. I ended up just a nice guy with a
couple of rough spots. I mean if you were a total (explative deleted)
I'd knock you out take anything I liked and call in people if even
one binding failed. Most of the people who got jacked up by me
it wasn't even me that was after you, someone would say over CB
they were looking for so and so, and If I could harm you I'd knock
you out and tell them where you were, bind you up and go to town.
Chiri was like a poor support cast. At hero I couldn't manage anything
alone, so I was pertty much stuck setting up the kill for others.
(Which I got REAL sick of) Like the constant trip him trip hims.
Dude at hero how many of the potential pk's are flying?!?! okay a few
villagers aren't and even a few of them were! That's it. If I had
good reason to believe that trip was gonna work, okay, if not let it
go. (yeah yeah and we already talked about how I had a soft spot for
the village and so what if I didn't want to trip them to death.)
Again if I really liked the imperial I was with ... trip trippity
trip away.

Let's see Oh I had really thought about age death, (one of my goals
since I never have pulled it off) but after that last bit, I was
headed back to my corpse and thought what's the point? I had realized
that there was no way I could meet ANY of the characters goals, I had
ruined the character and role way way long ago. and was just trudging
along out of stubborness.
The stubborn bit was the only thing that got me past where snoring
boy got me so riled I wen't completely ooc, and ended up revealing
my forum personality. Every other time I've done something remotely
like that I just delete the character, even when he is doing well.
What can I say He told me who he was and after all the garbage we
had just been through over the brat, I went ahead and answered when
he asked. I still get a little mad thinking about it. *rofl*

So that all was "failure" for me. I *DID* have fun with alot of it
until I didn't anymore, then I played a little longer to see if I
could have fun again and I didn't so.... delete delete.

What am I forgetting.... oh who ever did the dark voice thing when
I was running around arguing with scanlon, that was cool and sorry.
My girl popped in and made a big thing about needing me to help her
so I had to go.
The archangel at the fort was nice too, but yeah you knew you weren't
really meaning to stop me from reaching the palace.

Oh if I ever decide to play a binder again, I'm just gonna kill a
pile of folks. that combo of thief points ended up where I saw loads
of potential nastiness out of it. *insert evil laugh*

Advice for anyone wanting to play a binder? If you think it's gonna
be like other classes where you can practice up the important skills
on mobs, forget it, you'll need a long lived race for one and spend
a hundred hours or more practicing binding, probably way more.
I never mastered ANY of the bindings, nimble fingers was the only
thing I got to 100%.
What else... in pk unless you have a tank with you, if the blackjack
fails flee.... if it works and even ONE binding fails, and you aren't
prepped to the nines AND have something they are vulnerable to, don't
bother, you can stab them for fun if you want, but unless they are a
newbie don't expect a kill.
*grin*

Hrm lots of people I should say something too, but I'll forget more
than half. so I'll skip it for the person chiri would have said
something to.

My empress: Well what can I say, I felt like the lowbie healer in
the middle of a mass hero battle, I could maybe pitch in here and
there, but not really effectively. Sure once in a while my actions
would totally save the day, but not often. It was a pleasure to be
of service.
(Besides Dalgorin never completely paid you back, so Chiri's loyalty
partially came of that. hehe. Again with the playing to the players
and not what I should have.)

Have fun everyone!

I see how it is, but maybe I was one of those "annoying" guys that told you to trip too much. I hope not, since we had a pretty good thing going I thought. You focused so much on Kingpin that I totally flew by you in sect donations, and you never seemed to make an effort to catch up. I really liked Chirikaw though, because I could always count on you to mix things up with me. We were a deadly combo, but alas both of us have had less playing time lately. I got a promotion at work which has cut my playing time down, but I still go for a few hours every other day if I can. Anyway, come back with something strong. I didn't think Chirikaw was a failure at all.

Hehe happy to trip for you man. Happy to. You also didn't
seem to mind that every other one we did when the guy got low
enough I'd circle stab and steal the kill *rofl*

We were pretty nasty together, I wouldn't have wanted to face
it. I just left out everyone besides the empress because I know
I'd have forgotten most, but had I done goodbyes to individuals
you'd have been at the top of the list. (before the empress, no
offense eoria. )

About the failures, well chirikaw might not have looked like one
from the outside but he was not anything like what he was supposed
to be, and about the time I put in the role about going for the
bandit king iltch races from so-so guild donations to astronomical.

Though on sect donations once I realized I was never going to catch
bandit king, I put it quite a chunk during the time you were away
for a while. I was near you but hadn't passed you yet when I deleted.

Have fun, be a good shadow lord. When work slows down again I'll probably roll another something or other.

That elf applicant dropped link everytime you jacked him
Three times? I never went ooc like that.
I actually sent a LOG of that via note to village, but erased it
right away. Thats how he killed me I come to remember.
Regaining link when you where away, and I was stuck and killing me
and sacing everything, which was garbage... I told him dont bother
playing with that char, I threatened posting notes to Imps, village, Dios, Carrionfields...but I dont do that.

Hell yeah I remember, that was the bit in my post about snoring
boy and going all ooc and being pissed off above.
We got him though eh?

Chirikaw was always up for a fight, and showed about ten times the cojones of some other imperials I can think of. You were as persistant as a killer bee, and I never underestimated what you might be able to do if you managed to knock me out.

I can't tell you how bad I, as a player, felt after killing you that last time. Everyone involved wanted you to come get your things back, and I think two or three things had been taken, tops.

What struck me most about you was your amazingly cool attitude. The only thing I suggest is that when you play an evil, try not to "exude" that obvious trait of your personality so much. I don't mean go and snuff it out, but give off that evil vibe a little more and let your actions do the talking (such as not full looting, nodding at those ever-so-important moments, etc.)


Good luck with whatever else you do.

Hahaha, yeah man invokers were my friggin' bane. hands down. I'd do
as well facing ravon as any one of the invokers. sad yeah?
(I DID manage to knock out ravon once, but it was passing by in a
maze and I was following eoria, during the lag from blackjack we missed any oppourtunity there, not like it mattered much he had
a necro buddy with a small army there too. but I jacked him once!)

Don't sweat the last kill bit. It was kinda funny. I knew the song
the bard was gonna sing, I was typing in my shortcut for hide;sneak
when we passed and fumbled reaching across the keyboard for north.
I went nw
Huh?
dooooomed!
I knew it, but it was already time for me to delete was past time
actually. but I figured hey one more day right? It was just a good
oppourtunity for me to accept that the character was over and done
with.

As for evil. I had a kind of semi-friendly evil, but still evil
RP going on when I was younger, and I slowly acted nicer until I
was a step from, hell acolytes wouldn't have been as nice, let's
put it that way.
I can hold it off for a while, and I can either to maniacal evil, or
creepy evil, sick-twisted-bastard evil (which I haven't done since
they made the point of what some people find offensive as that had a
fire giant who sexually assaulted the corpses of elves before saccing
them. that sort of thing.)
And with this guy I don't know how to explain the friendly, but certainly evil guy. He would talk about the kindness he was doing (to
groupmates)when he would tell and elven child to relax and shhhhh darling it's okay. just before backstabing them. then explaining how
it was cruel to leave the child without parents to fend for them
since we had just killed those. That kind of thing... which is hard to
do in pk. but I was hoping for a chance when I had someone completely bound and awake again. emote wiping the sweat off thier brow and whispering how it will all be over soon, not to worry.
I only had the one chance to do it and I was in a hurry since buddies of his I expected along at any moment.

No matter what I do though, I can't seem to hold the "evil" going
for too long, it always slips away. I have too much of my fun making
sure other people have a blast, whether they kill me or I kill them.
(unless it's those who base thier self-worth off pk in a text game
then they only have fun if they kill me, but who cares about those
guys?)

I can maybe do a super honorable village evil, but I probably can't
do any other kind. *sigh*
Darascus was pretty awesome, barring all the charred feathers
the little talks now-and-again were top notch.
Did Ya like how I got my periapts back? Hahaha. Really I was just stepping into the room lifting one and moving on, after that I was
just having a little fun pokin' at ya.

I liked what little I saw of Chirikaw. I remember (on more than a few occasions) seeing you head to the Refuge to counter raid with plenty of foes in range. And while you might not have been able to pull off the counter, you had your share of successes - or at least made life more difficult for your foes. You were pretty funny on the Cabal channel as well. Seems like folks had a positive impression of the character, so nice job!

Keep trying, you'll age die one of these days!

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Yep age death. next goal. and probably still the next goal after
my next character... I have every other arial combo to go since
I've never played them before, and in theory they should be easier
to age kill yeah? If not then it doesn't matter, and I'll keep
plugging away at it.


Hehe for a thief the refuge is just crappy to retrieve from. *groan*
The Cb stuff is just part of my player personality. I try to keep
everyone in good humor. It's probably most of the fun I have playing.
(maybe because I died so much with most of my characters that I had
to have SOMETHING going for me?? )

I remember seeing you around and woundering what you were up to

Alpha-Q

Hehe, for the longest time, you were the only person online who could
even sense me in the lands, so I avoided you, then when you came into
range, I had been told you were a herald, so I figured as long as I
didn't go out of my way to mess with you, you probably wouldn't go
out of your way to kill me (ever fought an assassin with a thief?)
As long as I didn't talk to you I would have to be forced to RP
the If you are not going to help me, hunt my enemies, or join the
empire I'll have to try to kill you bit. By the time I had a way to
'handle' heralds with my character's rp it was habit for me to avoid
talking to you.

Always amazed at how speedily would flee and blackjack. Alone it was just an issue of how empty my pockets would be, but man when you had some backup it could get dangerous.
I liked watching Chiri and loved battling him. I think you definitely raised the bar on binders, and developed some great tactics.

Lets see what's next

Shoooot, you think THAT raised the bar? Pfft.. you just wait.
I worked out towards the end of this character some really cool
ideas for tactics. Muhuhahahahaha.
Okay so for me going from the idea to effectively putting something
to use.... awww man. I'm shafted.
Chiri with backup WAS nasty though hehe.
I wish I knew more about thief class before, but then again
I know more now. I think I'll probably lay off thieves for
a while though, I like charging in too much.
I don't know how many fights I KNEW I should walk away from
but nooooo, I just sighed at the keyboard trying to think of
how I was going to replace gear and typed backstab <whoever>
Surprisingly, the returning gear thing went over well and almost
everyone gave EVERYTHING back. sometimes I even got coins!
So how could I as a player take stuff from people after that?
it just ruined the whole idea of thieflyness. hehe.

I got sidetracked I don't know where I was going with this...
oh! the worst thing was having someone down and out and half
tied up and people would come out of the woodwork and start untying them. A binder IF they get someone out AND all the bindings work
has a fair chance at a close battle (as with everything in Cf variables apply) but when cabal enemies of the guy you have tied up
start untying them Grrrrrrrr. Heh I just assumed it was because they
hated the empire (or me specifically) more than they did the other
guy.
It might have been Hey let's untie the villager and if he kills this
guy I'm going to try to grab that *insert item here*

Well anyway I dunno when I'll roll up my next, I feel like it now as
I suddenly have a few days off from work, and it's too cold to work
on armor outside, but I know about the time I get really into the
character work will get too hectic for me to do anything, I'll come
home and end up mudding when I should be sleeping. hah!

Just wanted to pop in and say hello to an old friend. Good to see you're still kicking on having fun (for the most part!).

I even got to fight you a bit with Philisrhynga in a damn close fight though this time I had no idea who you were playing (In the past I would get this weird feeling who you were playing...probably because of the crazy combo of charging into any situation and you exuding good natured vibes). Anyway, I still remember the days of Lerrik and Silmareen tearing up the east road.

I'm back in school now and can't play much, but I'm sure we'll run into each other again.

Take it easy.

Philisrhynga was pretty cool, and yeah I loved the couple of fights
I REAALLY thought you were dead.. hehe. and there I was suddenly at
my pit going wtf?!?!

I never guessed you either this time, but we also used to roll up
characters at the same time, and half the time we followed each other
in cabals and the other half opposing cabals, so there was alot of
interaction either way. so we were 'around' each other alot. more
often than not with similar outlooks.

P.S. Lerrik yells 'The eastern road is ours!'
That was the dumbest move ever, but WOW it was fun.
Ahh those were the days... hehe. Corpses piled everywhere.
(I think over half of them ours.)
It was best when the villagers esp assassins and thieves came
and backed us up. Makin' me all sentimental. I'll have to
roll up another 'This are my ideals and I will not be swayed'
character soon. It's been a while.

Had some cool fights, and yes, I was always so suprised when I got most of my stuff back after getting half of my weaponry stolen. hehe

Cool char, perhaps when it comes to the RPiness of a goodie/evil thief. heh

That started out because so many people carried piles of extra
weapons that it was just too heavy. If I had hung on to it I'd dodge
like a brick. So I just started dropping most of them where I was.
Or nearby if lowbies were scavenging. hehe. Then I ended up with
the semi-nice thing going on so I just kept at it. (occasionally
I was reaaaaally not wanting to give people back stuff, but I
had given everyone else stuff back (minus a couple of trophy pieces
or just something too sweet to pass up) so I just kept doing it.)
The first time we fought was a true surprise. I had just been told
you were a villager and was trying to get my blue hide back.
The watcher is friggin' mean! haha.

You handled interactions really well, and made things fun.
You where the oppositve of evil prick, it was evil fun.

I like how you squeezed around sect laws and loaned coins at
reasonable rates, Like when I was nearly dead from something
and you gave me coins for the healer... and Chirikaw forgot
about it, you didnt *smile*

Wish I stop deleting chars, roll one up now even... cause I am missing out on some good people to interact with over long term.

Kraevu was paranoid of other thieves so thats why I told you
"Only a dark lawbringer such as I can truly understand the worth of
a shadow order such as yourself" .orsomething, and you where Like heh cool. Im so pissed I deleted that thief, I was going to be vindi quick, had Zridv and Chirkaw to work with on the side, ect
ect.

Curious, why not the success of other binders? I know of the "GAH
they are one with foiling the blackjack'Kelteon/Daracus thing.
Was it low int? Me being a #### with that one character ranking with you in cragstone saying to not waste time practicing binds? sry

I hope I get to interact with the next one.

Jeez you know how many people owed me money? hehe. Yeah as a player
I let it go, but occasionally chiri would point it out to someone.
or my favorite was after they returned a favor, or saved my hide
at the last minute (even on accident) I'd absolve them of the debt
just after or some such. That made it where I could feel like chiri's
debt collection was being met without being an ass.
Next imperial I play though no one gets a loan of any kind and
everyone is paying in one form or another for every damn thing.
I got sick of it after a while. heh.
I'd have oaths swear personal loyalty to me after sect and empire
in leiu of paying me for bloodoath or promotion.
(personally I thought paying to get in was silly. I can see the
promotion though it's like bribing your way up a corrupt entity.)

as for poor success as a binder.. I just never sat down to practice
the bindings long enough I guess. I mean I used them often enough
but ye gods there was just no way really to master the bindings
without level sitting as you get each one, or JUST practicing them
on mobs for hours on end. I am not really fond of that. I like to play. but I think maybe twice in my life I got all the bindings done
on someone, one I killed, the other got untied by someone else while I was doing it or something.

Kraevu and gularys were around when I was still being 'evil' before I got too 'nice? honorable?' and yeah that was a fun sort of evil.

Why the delete when so close as an arial?

Thanks for getting my Thunderlance back that time and not destroying it, as you easily could as another sect. You made a lot of Imperial life tolerable since it was usually just me and you around quite a bit.

Good luck with the next!

Hehe I almost didn't get you the lance back, but I thought
what the hell right? (I also thought I was going to tie
aritu up enough to make and end to him. but decided to hand off
the thunderlance before hand.... in case he killed me. he damn near
did, it was funny, I had him on the run and bam bam, I was messed up
he was still kinda on the run, but I was to jacked up to finish it
with any real hope of survival. fun fights with that guy.)

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heh you too basta.. er I mean...
That time you guys went in and I intended to jack you at the
cents since you left the palace alone, I was SURE I'd have the
codex back, and poof, I was being hit before I blackjacked.
Grrrr. but well done. I should have stood on the OTHER side
of the cents and waited til you hit one to jack you.

You were the only reason I decided to keep going as long as I did. Thanks for a great character!

one of the only people to pay me back in full! heh.
I though shulty was cool man. I was a little down when
it looked like you were fixin' to delete.