Shattered Kingdoms

No point playing something you don't enjoy. That's what I've heard over and over and it's true. I stopped having fun on him.

Osore was an experiment that I tried. With my little experience of the mud, it was a big failure. I tried taking the abherrant allignment to the extreme, which gave him a somewhat peaceful attitude because he simply did not enjoy killing. The only time he would was to get revenge or if someone insulted his honor bad enough. Admittedly, he was not stupid and picked his battles carefully. This means that if 5 people in a room were trying to goad him into attacking, he was smart enough to let their insults slide.

The character was fun at first, but then about mentor level things started going downhill. Enough of the mechanics.

Background

Osore was originally zhenish. Born and raised in the bamboo forest east of there, a Deep Elven Necromancess killed his family and took him to sell in the North as a slave. He witnessed his parent's corpses brutally tortured, hung from a tree while still alive and watched them gutted slowly so they saw their intestines dragged out as they died. Then witnessed as the corpses were animated into ghouls. Oddly, this gave Oso a strange outlook. He detested both Deep Elves, mostly females with superiority complexes, and Necromancers. He was seven when this happened.

While in the North, a Hellion that the Deep Elf swindled showed up and cleaved her head off in vengeance. Oso didn't blink, but watched, smiling the entire time and even thanking the Hellion afterwards. The Hellion, impressed with his attitude, took the young boy and kept him as a servant. From there Oso cleaned his house, cooked food and opened up more time for the Master to train. When he wasn't busy, he would peek in and study carefully what the Hellion would do.

At the age of fifteen, he started playing with a dagger he found laying around when the Master walked in. When he saw this, and was impressed that despite the beatings and servitude, he still was not broken after so many years, he nodded. Teaching him how to use the dagger, the Hellion ushered him off to Krychire, which wasn't too far away from where they resided, telling Oso he would make a great Hellion. Oso got his code from the Hellion.

1. Never kill unless it's warranted. Vengeance and Honor are the only reasons to kill.
2. Respect Paladins, yet hate them. One cannot exist without the other. Just like light and shadow.
3. Only teach those that are worthy.

These three things are what he lived by. When it came to teaching, he would generally teach them while young, but once they reached Jman or Expert level, he would ask them to prove themselves by trying to break through his aura. (None got past intimidate at that level generally.) Instead of leaving empty handed though, he would teach them three skills that they chose, or one or two if that's all they wanted.

It was later in Teron that Jinjan and Bhreq killed him. Swearing vengeance, he went on his way to collect some armor when Algorab voiced through his mind. My first Imm experience and was scared to say the least.

Algy threw him around like a rag doll, and ultimately threatened to crush his skull in front of his enemies again if he ever showed weakness again. This changed Oso completely as he became more quiet and collective, instead choosing his words very carefully generally. He also became a bit more volatile to attack in which he eventually did get Jinjan back.

After that is when Oso joined the Council of Necromancers. This was odd as he hated Necromancy, yet at the same time remembering what happened to him, he didn't want others to suffer the same as he did. His goal was to infiltrate and take over the CoN and find a way to restrict Necromancers, put them on a leash or find some way to control them, not let them run around mad killing whomever they want. Admittedly, some of the other Councilites shared this view with him as well so instead of just trying to overthrow it like he had hoped, he would work with them instead. And that's it.

Because of this and his dark nature, most rarely gave him a chance to speak and being conversational was who Oso was. He would often times explain to those who completely misunderstood the faith and explain to them. I believe he did actually change the way some lighties perceived the chuch of fear. If so then it's still a small success.

Ultimately, he failed, although i did like the idea, I wasn't skilled enough to pull it off effectively I suppose. All his spells were at superb, cause light and hellfire mastered.

All skills were at superb, with intimidate, meditate, and a few others mastered. Cleave never mastered sadly..It got rooted at Superb.

And that's it. Enjoy.

I was genuinely very excited when Osore joined the Council, but then sadly disappointed when he spent very little time with other members. I loved having him around the few times I did. I was hoping to see more of him to say the least.

Sorry he didn't pan out, but that's the way it goes some times. You're a great player with a good attitude most of the time. Good luck with your next and I hope to see you on the dark side again soon.

If he is who I think he is, Elriorith met him only once randomly.

I must admit, he reminded me some Hellions of Old times. Honorable and wicked to the bone, the worse kind of Hellion to cross your path.

Too bad we did not have the chance to meet on the fields, as promised.

From what little I saw of him, he must have been good. Pitty I could not get to know him "better" as in pabraw

Take care. Good luck with next one.

I was dumbfounded when I heard you deleted, and even more so to see an afterlife post. I will never forget the many times I stood up for you or the very first time I met you.

You played very well, I believe you played the way most of the darkies out there should. With respect. Not with a cocky attitude. Though that could be said of the lighties too.

Please do come back, you were great fun and awesome to RP with.

I'm sorry I PKed you. If it helps I kind of tried to avoid you after that so I didn't have to do it again.



Your RP was good, though I suspect you let a little bit of ooc creep in when you became frustrated. For your next character, I can only suggest that you create one more willing to let bygones be bygones

I totally agree with you Jardek. I was the Voice of Algorab, so letting bygones be bygones in a faith that places Vengeance above all is impossible to do. =/

And yes, when I did get frustrated, at times I did end up stepping out of character in his demeanor, though I tried not to. Thanks for the support from all of you. Maybe he wasn't as much of a failure as I thought.

You gave my elf a bit of a moral dilemma for a few IC months, but she got over it quickly.

Enjoyed the few interactions we had with my lightie. . . Stocaryn hated his face, but I still think he was a well executed character.

Good luck with the next one.

I enjoyed my interactions with Osore over a few different characters I've played recently.

I think he held to the code better than most hellions do.

I liked Osore's story, and I enjoyed all of my character's interactions with him. It's my hope that you didn't take our final interaction personally (OOCly), and that it didn't contribute to your deletion, as I was looking forward to dealing with Osore in the future.

Didn't you get that War temple in Exile?
I talked to you a few times and was impressed with your roleplay.
Enfield respected you as a foe, I don't think I ever attacked you either even though I knew you were in the council