Shattered Kingdoms

Well, Virsn is gone!

As those in the harlequin forum and maybe a few others I chatted to, I've been wanting to give something else a go for a while. Despite enjoying him whenever I logged on (when there were others around anyhow) I wasn't really in love with the concept anymore - hard to explain. I took a few breaks, and none of them helped for more than a couple of days. I wasn't overwhelmed at getting loot whipped after I died exploring, however I don't think this is a rage delete either. I've just been wanting to move on to pastures greener!


Virsn reflected me in his belief that doing something was good (magical), doing nothing (boredom) was evil - that anything was better than nothing. All emotions and "stuff" were magical, and it was better to be loved or hated than to be ignored. Therefore I tried, every time I logged on, to annoy/hurt some folk and to help some others. Even by annoying someone I was enriching their lives.

I never really had a massive background. That wasn't really what mattered with Virsn. As it happens he was a sorcery student from Craeftilin, who had failed at the sorcery and was learning about magic in a different form - something other than the incantations that he failed at. I have no complaints if no one believed my version of what magic was (ie emotions etc) - it is a mystery after all. But my prayers worked somehow so something must have been right.

To start with I wanted to be a friend to everyone - I'd randomly gate to folk to help them - help them level if they were low level, or enchant something, or whatever. The "negative" magic came in the form of annoyance - mainly for various fist members it seemed. One of the funnest times for me online was trying to get Tyler to say stuff during her enforced silence. I didn't particularly pkill to start, except to help defend groups I was in against Antiira it seemed.

Then after a while it seemed there were no darkies at all, so I ended up just fighting folks (Ailee started it!!!), mostly in Nerina. Despite never really feeling like I had much chance of winning, I had an absolute ball for a while, until it became clear I could never win, and annoying folk with warp and scatterport was only funny for so long. Fortunately I messed up yet another formation and got beaten in that war!

Soon after Valobrim and Ibej both deleted or disappeared, and I went into another less violent mode (except for some pretty minor stuff with the peacekeepers who took winning far more seriously that the talons had, and therefore the whole thing was less playful and fun for me) and I never really came out of it. To be honest their disappearance came soon after realising that warping and scattering wasn't that funny or satisfying, and the character was paling rapidly. There were some super fun moments, but by then the harlequin were pretty well populated, and I started to feel (ooc) like I wanted to do something else (I've never been good at being on the populated team).

IC the last straw was that my lovely shovel given to me by Achernar after he accidentally junked my corpse - A shovel HANDMADE BY A GOD - broke - not digging in stones, not digging in mithril mines, not using it like a flail to beat someone up - it broke digging in sand!!! I certainly considered deleting then and there in front of Viera and Galdor, and in hindsight I slightly wish I had.

I won't remember all the people to thank, but thanks anyhow to: Some Hammer I rolled with when I first created, Tyler, Dufelt, Ibej, Valobrim, Ailee, Syric, Draklos, Antiira, Houltay, Marik, Galdor, Rorey, Aver, Absalom, Ivstnesr (who I never really met, but somehow always liked - no idea why), Aestyr, Atlera, Thela (the love of Virsn's life, even though they only met like 5 times, and he helped kill her once), and no doubt many others!

Aw, damn. Virsn was always really fun to be around, even if he did get a little annoying sometimes. He was very helpful to the last two characters i've played and I was looking forward to RPing with him more on this new character i've been leveling up (trying, if leveling werent so boring).

Good luck with the new character you make, your characters have always been a blast to play with and i'm looking forward to see what creation you come up with next.

I loved, loved, loved, loved Virsn, and I am totally heartbroken that Menkh wasn't on your thank list.

One of my favorite characters I've ever interacted with. Virsn was a blast. Really, I think you rock. I wish our playtimes lined up better so I could have seen even more of Virsn. I understand what it's like for a concept to get tired, and I wish you luck with your next endeavor.

Oh, what everyone else said! I liked Virsn a lot - from the moment he called Zala 'bug', to the time he tried to convince her that Atlera et al wanted to sacrifice her. I'm glad I got at least some glimpse of him.

Oh, man.

Dorgan, this makes me supersad. I loved him.

Excellent character.

Sometimes dying is just a fitting end to a character you don't want anymore or has kind of turned out bad. It's not always a rage delete. I've had characters I don't want anymore linger for weeks before I finally died exploring or was pked and gut up the gusto to delete delete.

I donno. Sometimes you just keep trying to make a char into something you like and it just doesn't happen. I've been down that road. Then one day you die and you just don't want to pick up the character again and rebuild and stuff.


Virsn himself was kind of odd, but he was good at being mysterious. That's a quality I liked about him since he was of Mira.

Orac.

I liked Virsn although he did kill Kaiya on accident while helping her level....

This was my first Death on SK, thanks Virsn for making it a good one!

Virsn was a great concept!