A few random notes in passing (my passing away, that is, har)
I've played most of the islands. The Colonies is hands down, by far, the best.
Now that the travel times have been halved, it is even better. Best people. Best cultures
(as in distinct and unique, where I found pure homogenization everywhere else, all like the other.)
This board was like a walk down memory lane. So many great and interesting characters
have roamed the Colonies through the years. I'll add a couple that I didn't see mentioned,
The Mighty Wolfgang and the Noble Margrave. Both enemies, both men of character and honor.
There is plenty of RP. It's just not the fake, idiotic, pretentious, pretend RP of other places.
It's the real deal. Real people saying real things about the in game activities they are engaged in.
But yes, it is true that we have killed so many for so long, that it really is just business to us and
we do not really put the effort into making the passing of our enemies as special as they deserve it
to be. I am completely serious about that. It is lazy and disrespectful, and, if I had it to do over again,
I would try harder to let the corpses on the end of my sword know how very much I appreciated them
being there for me. har On the other hand, I do not think you will find anyone saying we ever said anything
disrespectful to or about them, neither are we braggarts and buffoons, drunken with self affection.
OT is my favorite realm. Don't get me wrong. My heart belongs to Lukon, but OT is just the most fun.
There is just nothing you can say to them that puts them off in the slightest and they will always say something
spunky and crazy and in your face and funny as hell, no matter what the odds or potential outcomes.
I like it that the Assassins are allowed to exist and operate pretty much unfettered by the other realms.
Lately, they have been acting more like a normal, land grabbing, out in the open warring, Colony kingdom.
But the idea that all the realms (well, save Wetham maybe) accepted them as an interesting part of life,
said a lot about the unique politics of the Colonies.
I wish they would open that little island (Linden Stones) as a two region realm with a boat or bridge to mainland.
I wish you could go to the Anrak area and find monsters and stuff to fight.
I wish wars were easier to fight and harder to win. And there was a more complicated battle system for city attacks.
And that rogue regions quickly healed themselves and returned to the nearest fold. This going around starving out
entire realms without fighting a single battle is just hella, mega lame. No rural area that has enjoyed trade and goods
and markets and the culture of their urban neighbors, is likely to willing slip back into primitive subsistence.
I don't know if it is a secret, and I do not want the "Forsooth Fair Lady..." crowd to even think about it, but again,
the Colonies are the best. A TL can make a mark there and not be lost in the crowd and ignored by the cliques.
