And I'd recently had some serious problems with one elf bard who spent 90% of his interview time lying about buying from evil shopkeepers and using evil healers. Locate command is OP, and after that I took to trying to strain some added RP quality out of all of the fortress as a result. The whole task was mainly an excuse to get you talking to the other fortress people - the answer was a piece of piss and i knew as much - but the idea behind it was to get you vetted the quick way without asking you to grab recommendations and slowing everyone up. Did you eventually get in? I can't remember now.
Damn I miss Hyzin. Makes me really want a hero char, thinking of the good ol' days.
Yhorian