THE PRODUCERS strike again (my code dump is ded)

I never realized it was silver. I always assumed it was "silver", like the silver scorpion goblets, which looked like the real thing but were actually laminated wood.

That character had a really colorful life, though.

He took control of a half-demon pleasure slave from Nenyuk, which was an active clan at the time that handled apartment and house rentals. Yes, you could rent houses and yes, if you had the influence and the money, you could get more than two keys for your procession of mates, friends, friends mates and everyone who stole the key, since they didn't automagically reset every time someone else took over the property, meaning clever thieves could (and did) have key rings with keys to almost every player rental property in the game.

He had the last armed noble house stand-off in the games history, in the Traders, with Oash I think. It was like battle lines forming up, weapons out. A very cool scene. Even the frilly Aides had their daggers out, ready to rumble.

At one point, he was tasked with disciplining some bratty noble girl who was running around embarrassing her house, like he had some kind of golden pimp hand.

There was a literal coalition of nobles and merchants who wanted to kill him out of jealousy, because he would sit around in taverns, with his grotesque sword, ruined face and disgusting physique, entertaining all the noblewomen, aides and more or less every well-to-do with a vagina. The flirting alone was absurd and sometimes occupied two, even three tables. He was actually banging a Borsail nobleman, if I remember right.

It might have been his Borsail noble that was banging the Oashi lord, though. Basically, he banged a lot of noblemen, is what I'm getting at.

He was involved in some sorcery, but I'm not too sure to what extent. Nothing compared to the notable Oashi at the time, though.

There's a lot more on top of that, which made life all but impossible for the Warlords/ladies that followed in his footsteps, because no one could quite live up to his legend. There was a Warlady who did really well, after she teamed up with a Templar played by Ysania... until the both of them were outplayed by the former Warlords new Borsail noble. The Templar was killed by those politics and her corporal (same one who wore the silver earrings/ring) disappeared without a trace. The Warlady faded and I don't remember how she died, or if she died.

He was such an amazing Warlord and balanced the politics and clan agenda so perfectly, they had to retire the role. No one else could sell it.

The player, Clegane if I recall correctly, was one of the better and more controversial players the game had and as far as I know, left the game over a dispute with the staff at the time.

I preferred his Kadian, though. It takes some guts to hinge your murder plot on the whims of a mekillot.

Hah, if by 'around', you mean still above ground instead of below it, yeah...I'm still kicking. But not even remotely 'around' in the MUD community. I doubt I've logged into this board or the GDB more than twice in a decade. Like I said, I only wound up here last night through sheer serendipity.

And, for the record, I did try to special app a character after being asked to do so by a couple of Staff members in...hrmn...2011 or so? They pitched it to me over drinks (one of them was a ST at the time for the House I was apping for) and we worked up a neat-as-fuck concept, for which I submitted about 10 pages of background material and had a few old-timers onboard ready to roll with me (Zagren, Cerebus and a few others). Ness shitcanned it personally and threatened to boot out any staffers who approved me for a special app involving a noble or merchant house. I even countered by offering to make him an illegitimate with no real power in the House and was told to go fuck myself. He apparently put a note on my account that ANY special apps or House characters I applied for needed to be run through him directly or they'd be force-stored and the Imm who approved them would be abused.

In actuality, my invalid Borsail, Vedelarin, was written under similar threats back in 2002. Cerebus had asked me to come play a noble for him since Borsail was flagging. Ness shitcanned it and said that I was 'toxic' for the playerbase. That interacting with other players in an IC authority position was forbidden because I didn't understand the game world and would ruin newbies who tried to follow me. I wanted to play the character, so I countered and pitched to Cer that I'd play a cripple with demophobia who never even left the estate. He was worried I'd take over the City as a mindbender, so I offered to app Ved as a basic merchant instead, which I did. About 6 months later, Ness booted Cerebus out as Borsail ST specifically because we'd 'broken the agreement' and I had my fingers in too much shit, despite never even leaving my bedroom. he asserted that I had to be doing it all with a network of OOC information.

Truth be told, I still have zero clue why Mark has had a hard-on for me since about 1998. Even Sanvean and I buried the hatchet years ago after the Gypsy thing. But Ness actively worked to keep me from playing the game for almost 2 decades. He still does. I think it had something to do with when I played a Reynolte noble back in 1997. Anyway, he's an assfuck and he worked very hard to single-handedly kill my interest in the game. I'd say he more or less succeeded.

tl;dr Thanks for the kind thought, but I ain't comin back.

Might have also been bad blood between Clegane and Adhira.

there's no point being made. i was curious how you went from arguing with ppl about how the game was fine, better than before and having good experiences, to now describing it as being "disappointed" so i asked you a question.