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 Post subject: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:56 pm 
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Garnon is no more.

Garnon went quietly, on a lonely trip back to his clan, on Day of the Great Gods, Sun 12th, 1420 T.A. wearing only his symbol. He disappeared on the Zhang mountains.
May the Gods keep him, and make his final days with his clansmen and his children long and enjoyable.


He was created to bring back a group of players who had long retired SK, and play together for fun. I succeeded in that, and it was a good ride.
Some people liked Garnon, others hated him, each is entitled to his own views. I personally loved every bit of him.
His accomplishments were many, and those who need to know them do. I will spare you the boasting and long history.
Garnon lived a good, full life, set his own rules and followed them. I personally consider him much more honorable than many characters "of honor".
He was a strong enemy, he was a loyal ally. He lived, ruled, had fun and did everything his own way. And he succeeded.
Losing the HRO (probably due to inactivity because of my job) cost him the extra 12 years I was planning to keep him :( Oh well, cue sera sera.

I bid you all a very very fond farewell.
I am uncertain if I will make anything else anytime soon, since I will probably be deploying again for 2-3 months by mid January.
Only thing I regret yet understand, is that every time I went out for work, I knew I'd lose my eq, coin, flags... I felt as if the anti-hoarding system was penalizing me every single time. I know it's needed and it works, but personally for me it sucked :( It's mostly what could prevent me from re-rolling.

I would like to thank his (my) friends, and they were plenty in Garnon's full life. I will not go in specific names since I don't want to forget any. If you were a friend to Garnon, you know who you are and what you meant to him. You know what place in his heart you held.
I'd also like to thank Garnon's enemies for making his life interesting :) Well done and hat's off to you all.
Finally, I'd like to thank the staff, who might screw up on occasion (since in RL they're only human), but I had no such incidents on Garnon. They've been very helpful.

For those of you who love stats, here goes:
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[Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Retired Shogun, Splitbane Clan


The giant towers well above the average for his kin.  His neck resembles
a tree trunk, massive and well build, resting upon wide shoulders.  His
hands seem to be equally massive in both volume and definition.  A wide
well-build chest protrudes, evidence of years of labor work or other similar
excersise.  The rest of his body appears in a similar fashion, clearly of a
person who's not a stranger to hardship and pain.  His white hair are long,
forming a pony-tail that hangs idly between his shoulderblades.  A thick
white beard and moustache complete the well formed jawline, while his tired
gray eyes seem to constantly be peering about in what could be considered a
state of alertness.  Myriad wrinkles have made their way around his face,
cruel evidence betraying a long long life.  His very late age is also
apparent by the deathly white color on his skin. 
Overall, you are in excellent condition.


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 o [Attributes] Garnon, Retired Shogun, Splitbane Clan                       o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o    Status: Grand Master(1)   Race: Giant            Class: Barbarian      o
 o       Age: 84                 Sex: Male              Size: Giant          o
 o Alignment: Miscreant    Handiness: Right handed  Religion: Dabi           o
 o      Born: Heat 2, 1335                          Birthday: 18 days        o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o       STR: Titanic            INT: Dim                WIS: Naive          o
 o       DEX: Nimble             CON: Hardened           CHA: Distant        o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o Carrying capacity: 16 items with a maximum weight of 425.0 pounds.        o
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 o [Scores] Garnon, Retired Shogun, Splitbane Clan                           o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o    Status: Grand Master(1)   Race: Giant            Class: Barbarian      o
 o   Kingdom: Zhenshi       Religion: Dabi                                   o
 o     Cabal: The Harlequins (Member)                                        o
 o  Tribunal: Talon of the Feathered Dragon (Member)                         o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o     Coins: zero                                                           o
 o  Carrying: 0/16 items                    Load: 4.0/425.0 pounds           o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o    Health: Excellent       Mental: Pulsating     Physical: Fresh          o
 o Attribute points: 0        Wimpy:  20 percent    Mode: Kill/aggressive    o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o You are standing.                                                         o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o You have earned 80 loyalty tokens with this character.                    o
 o You can spend 110 loyalty tokens for this character.                      o
 o You have 190 unspent loyalty tokens in total.                             o
 o===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===-===o
 o You may advance to the next level.                                        o
 o You have played 926 hour(s) so far.                                       o
 oOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOoOOOo

Innate    - boulder            (mastered)    bash               (mastered)   
            enhanced damage    (mastered)   
Amateur   - spear              (mastered)    axe                (superb)     
            dagger             (superb)      flail              (good)       
            mace               (superb)      polearm            (mastered)   
            siegecraft         (not learned) sling              (good)       
            staff              (good)        sword              (mastered)   
            whip               (superb)      parry              (superb)     
            swim               (superb)      taslamaran tongue  (mastered)   
            uxmaln tongue      (mastered)    zhensh tongue      (mastered)   
            empire tongue      (mastered)    aghelian tongue    (superb)     
            sylvan tongue      (mastered)    firmyrn tongue     (superb)     
            deep tongue        (mastered)    zhensh writing     (mastered)   
            empire writing     (good)        aghelian writing   (good)       
            sylvan writing     (very good)   harlequin cipher   (superb)     
Novice    - dirt kicking       (superb)      self defense       (superb)     
            second attack      (mastered)    fast healing       (mastered)   
Initiate  - berserk            (superb)      brawling           (superb)     
            shield block       (mastered)    alertness          (superb)     
Apprentice- rescue             (very good)   suppression        (superb)     
            third attack       (mastered)    blind fighting     (mastered)   
            butcher            (mastered)   
Journeyman- disarm             (very good)   dodge              (mastered)   
            endurance          (mastered)   
            toughness          (mastered)   
Veteran   - fourth attack      (mastered)    climb              (superb)     
            tracking           (mastered)    wild fighting      (very good)   
Expert    - counterstrike      (mastered)    fury               (mastered)   
            leadership         (superb)     
Mentor    - head butt          (good)       
Master    - aura of negation   (good)       


Alas, all good things must come to an end.


So long, and thanks for the fish.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:58 pm 
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Loved Garnon, he will be extremely missed..


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 12:59 pm 
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I got to kill him, so that was fun!

Sadly, I didn't really interact with him otherwise, but whenever he was logged in I still felt like it was a good thing, because Garnon had a presence to be felt in-game.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 1:33 pm 
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I wish I started to play when Garnon was in his prime. I think that would have been fun. Hope you make another when you come back from deployment.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 2:26 pm 
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I agree Korri, I wish I started playing again during the prime of Garnon, loved the character and hope the player returns. Kodus.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:16 pm 
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I was super unimpressed, which was disappointing because of how fun the battles between him and Qulrokil and his friends ought to have been.

During his "prime" - which, in retrospect, was when there was nobody playing any sort of meaningful opposition to him or his allies - he stomped newbs, posted all sorts of smack talk (including on the Morean board), and generally created the image for himself that others have referenced. Then, once he was offered the opportunity to back up the badass personality his character had assumed, he and the rest of the Splitbane crew went into hiding. He, and his friends Garga, Phobos, and Gromgore, usually stayed logged on for ~5 seconds - long enough to see that there was someone who knew what they were doing who wanted to kill him and type quit.

Like many others, you seemed more interested in telling others about how tough you were than showing them how tough you were. For your next one, don't play a leader.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 3:35 pm 
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Mcbeth wrote:
I was super unimpressed, which was disappointing because of how fun the battles between him and Qulrokil and his friends ought to have been.

During his "prime" - which, in retrospect, was when there was nobody playing any sort of meaningful opposition to him or his allies - he stomped newbs, posted all sorts of smack talk (including on the Morean board), and generally created the image for himself that others have referenced. Then, once he was offered the opportunity to back up the badass personality his character had assumed, he and the rest of the Splitbane crew went into hiding. He, and his friends Garga, Phobos, and Gromgore, usually stayed logged on for ~5 seconds - long enough to see that there was someone who knew what they were doing who wanted to kill him and type quit.

Like many others, you seemed more interested in telling others about how tough you were than showing them how tough you were. For your next one, don't play a leader.


More to a character then just their PvP, I saw a lot of great things from Garnon and little from Qulrokil. Does not mean you did a poor job with the character.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Thu Jan 07, 2016 4:36 pm 
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I wish I had seen more of Garnon. He was always fun to interact with. Well played, hun. :drunk:


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Fri Jan 08, 2016 8:32 am 
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Well, another succesful and memorable character after Elriorith and Skotosha. Well, i had the chance to meet your char with one of my fistor priests i create from time to time and i must admit he was pretty cool and despite the opposite aura, he helped my char on his first steps to Pyrathia. Well, i also heard that many fell to his blade on pk and it really provokes me to start a new char by myself so to be pked by all those haters of mine, once again. A great add to the game for sure like your previous characters and can't wait to see your next.


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 Post subject: Re: [Gia Brb][RAG][HRQ][TLN][PAR] Garnon, Splitbane Clan.
PostPosted: Sun Jan 10, 2016 11:18 am 
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Garnon was fun. Hope to meet your next!


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