Posted by Malaeth on June 24, 2000 at 14:12:42:
Well, after way the hell too long, I've deleted. The original concept for the character was to do someone *not* fucked up.. not a caricature of Evil, not a demented imperial mage lusting for the throne. My role began "His parents are alive..." and went from there. Anyhow, the end result is, I kind of got bored with myself. Stopped caring if I lived or died, which results in a rather depressing character (though I am proud of the time I solo-pk'd a fully equipped mace warrior in an effort to kill myself). Plus, I've had 0 hours to mud for a couple months, which means most of you have no idea who Malaeth was. A 42 imperial mage, nothing to stand out, just a naturally selfish tailor who joined the transmuter's guild on a scholarship because the warrior's guild had high equipment costs. Things followed from there... why was he evil? Because he wasn't good, and he wasn't consciously spiritual enough to live a 'balanced' path... his highest goal was to live a comfortable life in the background, with the realization that all the real heros and leaders died long ago (Jorin died shortly after inducting him, and the Empire went to hell for a long extended time with that). Again, not the most exciting role. I deleted after dying to some wrathing paladin (incidentally, I wonder if volleying wrath and dying to my own wrath counts for me or him) and then thinking "why didn't I just teleport?" and realizing "who cares?". If I had had the time, I wanted to hero and start logging all the items in the game and mapping and stuff, maybe try for a 'Treasurer of the Empire' title or something. Zulghinlour's the coolest, he does a great job and continues to do so. I'd say he needs to get off the all-must-be-uber-evil thing, but, well, I didn't get anath'd, so I think he really does only anath idiots. Not that I was very good. I play a mage like a rock flies, and if you're reading this, you probably killed me. For other goodbyes, well, I outlived everyone I really interacted with. Enough rambling. I'd post my lengthy role, but really, who cares? And you can critique if you remember me, but again, I don't care. I liked my normal-man concept, maybe I'll do it again when I have the time to play.