Posted by Gwyythinniel/Liandrumiel/Landroval on March 22, 2000 at 23:53:08:
Well ... guess this is my end. The University installed a firewall, making me unable to play any kind of on-line game, including cf.
I have been playing cf for more than two years now, having the most wonderful time ever on a game. Some friend of mine back in Antwerp introduced me to the game, and within hours I was addicted. Some couldn't understand what possible attraction there be in just words, without drawings ... I started as a real newbie with names like Bill, Arathorn or Aragorn .. some really fucked up characters: no rp, lousy stats, those original names, yelling al the time 'newbie seeks group' or whatever... Anyway .. I got better rather quick and started a storm giant Mandroval (also a name from Tolkien, but less known *laugh*) In the mean time I was beyond salvation, spending 12 to 14 hours on the game. He reached 36th rank, but I then had the luminous idea of joining empire .. stupid thing to do, but eh .. as long as I was having fun .. I saw my con dropping from 19 to 3 in no time.
Then came Landroval (yeah I know, but since Mandroval had fairly no friends). She lived for more than one year real-time and I spent some 460 hours with her (only reached hero at 350 hours). By then I really wanted to know Thera better, but a warrior adventuring .. (I still remember a quest with which the imms enjoyed us: Aurelia being kidnapped by Blackbeard - Redbeard being our guide in all this .. in the end Julias had to slay Blackbeard but it was so fucking great !).
Then there was Liandrumiel, an elven bard. I still remember Vella, Scaurus, Korvin, Norsinow, Getch, Randpilk and so many others ... She was my first attempt to really rp, and with those who rp'ed themselves she did quite well. As soon as she heroed, I started exploring Thera, going to almost every place where one can go on her own. So fucking marvellous !!
Finally Gwyythinniel, an arial bard. She helped everyone, be they evil, neutral or good .. as long as they weren't imperial or scarabite. She also heroed, but again .. very slowly ( took her about 220 hours) ... At about the 32nd level she met Zorszaul .. in an unpleasant way, i.e. pk ... but she got really interested in him and the Barons. Some time passed and at level 45 we started to meet 'regularly' .. something no-one actually knows .. I really wanted her to write Zorszaul's biography (after having read Istendil's in the Lyceum) and I made it clear to him ... he was unwiling to talk about it most of the times, but if I could have stayed just a little longer I think I could have done it. Anyway .. I had some great time with everyone: barons (*tickle kleea*), masters, sylvans, troupe, ragers ... just making sure that when I was with masters, I didn't encounter ragers or sylvans; and so on. I reached the highest stats with her ( 1200hp 900ma 800mv), but she was a greedy bitch sometimes. I really got to know Thera well by then, making me able to run to places no-one regularly comes; discovering 15 shrines; going to Thar-acia, the duergar caves in the underdark, hell, isle of forgot-the-name, Whistlewood swamp and what is behind, wastes of non-veil and the rest, and many, many more ; discovering several quests (the one that gets you the bag of tricks is really really cool). In the end I started to make maps of all kinds of places (Talshidar caves, Eryn Galen, Dol Guldar, the Dwarven caves in the past, the sewers in Galadon, the lost elven vaults, Barovia, the elven city, and so on).
Now this has all come to an end .. I thank everyone for his/her help, love, understanding, hate,etc.
Gwyythinniel aka Liandrumiel aka Landroval.
Just two more things
1) I only played women, but in fact I am a male - they are just far more fun to play
2) give the imms a break, they are doing great stuff and spend a lot of time on this all
Bye.