Posted by Dural on June 5, 2000 at 19:45:26:
Well, I had high hopes for this character. Cloud Giant Ranger Sylvan. Can you say slow learner? At level 43 (ooh, I'm one of the 'buncha sylvan rangers around 40' - too bad I can fight all heroes, including Storm Paladins). I should have had my head examined for playing tonight. Thunderstorm. 27 people in my pk range - most of them master heroes - and lots of lag. But as I said above, clouds are slow learners and I figured I could get some practice in (level 43 and almost 200 hours and dodge is at 99, wilderness familiarity was at 96...I finally perfected parry at level 39). But rangers are just plain sick if you play them as they are meant to be (I used to cringe any time I would peek into a city and see other rangers hanging around). At one point the other day, I was tanking two elites and the storm commander. Wilderness Familiarty rocks. But any time I would start to think, 'Man, these rangers are overpowered', I would try to kill the Imperial Vanquisher and need three periods of rest to finish him. I broke 900hps at level 41.
So I'm practicing in the forbidden forest with a snare at the entrance...no problem, right? Then there was a huge bolt of lightning and my cable mode froze up...I'm pretty sure its fried, so here I am slumming around on netzero.
So I dig out the netzero files and load it up...I connect *fully healed* at the altar. That's always a good sign. Minor checking leads me to Bevrolmx who tells me he won't return any gear even though its my second flag (an ooc whine there which I kept to myself) because I have been flagged for so long that it wasn't warranted (Elmorel fulfilled my warrant on Friday: his note is still there).
So in a fit of anger I deleted. No real regrets other than the fact that I know I could have only gotten tougher as I ranked (I was already at the 20k+ per level point).
Here's a snap shot of me from when I was level 25. The only items I didn't take from the corpses of people I killed were the fire opal rings (replaced my two granites) and one of the wide coppers (the rings and copper from when Kamal killed Simka). At the end, I had the Axe of Conquest and the Girdle of Serpents to round out my suit, plus better neckwear and such).
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You are using:
<78%hp 100%m 100%mv> sco
You are Dural the Warder, level 25, 172 years old (64 hours).
You are mature.
Race: cloud Sex: male Class: ranger Hometown: Galadon
You are at 78% hit, 100% mana, 100% movement.
You have 0 practices and 0 training sessions.
You are carrying 27/30 items.
Your items weigh 401 pounds and 0 ounces (maximum of 562 pounds).
Str: 25(25) Int: 16(16) Wis: 17(17) Dex: 16(16) Con: 22(22) Chr: 10(10)
You have scored 177433 exp, and have 141250 gold coins.
You need 11767 exp to level.
Wimpy set to 0% of max hit points.
You are sleeping.
Armor: pierce: -161 bash: -161 slash: -165 magic: -79
You are divinely armored against piercing.
You are divinely armored against bashing.
You are divinely armored against slashing.
You are superbly armored against magic.
Hitroll: 30 Damroll: 56.
You are neutral. You have a neutral ethos.
You have chosen the sphere of Dedication.
You are affected by:
Skill: 'warcry' modifies save vs spell by -6 for 28 hours.
Skill: 'warcry' modifies hit roll by 3 for 28 hours.
Skill: 'herbs' modifies none by 0 for 0 hours.
Spell: 'detect invis' modifies none by 0 for 9 hours.
Skill: 'bark skin' modifies armor class by -37 for 0 hours.
Skill: 'acute vision' modifies none by 0 for 0 hours.
Spell: 'armor' modifies armor class by -20 for 0 hours.
In the end, I was 60-5. My first death was plain foolishness, as I fled and camo'd from the group I had attacked and just sat there as they got Barbedius to come and sing me asleep. The other 3 were from when I would rush in head long vs a group of three. The last, of course, was to Bevrolmx.
In order:
Taerom
Barbedieus
Kadath
Mystgral
Borkwarr
Feystrim
Borkwarr
Zedarin
Flavin
Perrewyn
Xyxzhithius
Karnag
Chandalen
Chazberin
Paouwer
Dolamock
Devlel
Nevelis
Devlel
Zorugg
Fridfinnur
Maedar
Berzabinax
Hybacus
Gelegrein (did an area spell which caused me to kill him)
Semamon
Raglek
Zilor
Semamon
Kachusa
Kachusa
Kyoumi
Volyanna
Teleknar
Volyanna
Teleknar
Zaelvorlan
Alimast
Xyxzhithius
Zlundur
Predix
Sonteck
Asyther
Sladin
Gaerak
Mystgral
Borkwarr
Devlel
Kolhagen
Staile
Wuslinoh
Galorim
Zeruel
Devlel
Wran
Lesivious
Devlel
Veolanda
Leceas
Staile
Killed me:
Cyrsantor
Caloren
Rhulvith (reboot was coming and I lagged trying to creep away from him in Kiadana)
Tyrion
Bevrolmx
I think I'm going to take a break before I start my next character.
Takashimi