Belderon the Leader of the Tribunal, Voice of an Empire

[Trick]

 

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Belderon is using:

<used as light>        (Glowing) (Humming) the Ancient Banner of Illisidar

<worn on finger>       (Glowing) a Ring of Accuracy

<worn on finger>       (Glowing) a Ring of Accuracy

<worn around neck>     (Glowing) (Humming) a necklace of linked grey fists

<worn around neck>     the Cloak of Moving Shadows

<worn on head>         the Ranger Lord's Stetson

<worn on ear>          (Glowing) (Humming) a werewolf's tooth

<worn on torso>        (Humming) the Torso and Arms of Adeptus

<worn on arms>         (Glowing) (Humming) the Bracer of Serpents adorned with an emblem of Gear

<worn on hands>        Order's Unending Reach

<worn on legs>         Soulreaver's shadow

<worn on feet>         the Boots of Stomping

<worn about body>      (Glowing) (Humming) a Major Globe of Invulnerability

<worn about waist>     a long coral belt adorned with a demon tongue

<worn around wrist>    a Vargo family heirloom adorned with an emblem of Gear

<worn around wrist>    (Glowing) (Humming) a glass bracelet adorned with an emblem of Gear

<wielded>              (Glowing) (Humming) a promethium snare drum

<worn on face>         (Glowing) (Humming) the Orb of Fear

<floating nearby>      nothing.

<strung on back>       (Glowing) (Humming) the Bone Bow of Anduin

<in the quiver>        (86) hunting arrows

<coiled on shoulder>   (Glowing) a winged earth dragon

 

You are carrying:

( 5) a gyvel potion

     a small canoe

     an Executioner's hood

     (Humming) a glimmering white staff

     a simple wooden wheel

     (Glowing) a guayacan drum

     a surgeon's face mask

     (Glowing) a pyerite xylophone

     (Glowing) (Humming) a red diamond bodhran

     (Glowing) (Humming) a jadeite bagpipe

     (Glowing) a imperial topaz zither

     (Glowing) (Humming) a black opal bongo

     (Glowing) (Humming) a tourmaline drum

     a sturdy backpack

     (Humming) the Dragon Slayer

     (Glowing) The Ring of the Sea-Elves

 

 

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| Belderon       || Hand of Law of ADJUDICATOR                   |

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| Str: 21(21)^15 || Level: 50 Sex: M      Age  : 336(602h)       |

| Int: 18(18)    || Class: bard           Ethos: lawful          |

| Wis: 21(21)    || Race : dwarf          Align: neutral         |

| Dex: 18(18)    || Hp   : 1163/1214      Exp  : 54600/611400    |

| Con: 25(25)    || Mana :  357/884                              |

\ Lck: [||||||]  \/ Move :  271/520       +Hit: 82   +Dam: 72    /

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|     ARMOR      ||      SAVES       || Deity : Zoichan          |

| Slash :  -396  || Spell      : -34 || Faith : Order            |

| Pierce:  -398  || Afflictive : -15 || Weight: 331/425          |

| Blunt :  -410  || Maledictive: -15 || Items : 32/37            |

| Magic :  -489  || Mental     : -4  || Prac  : 9     Train: 2   |

|                || Breath     :  0  || RP    : 257              |

|                ||                  || Gold  : 14K   CP: 6.7k   |

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/ Condition: You have a few cuts and bruises.                    \

| You are ready for a cabal promotion.                           |

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(Scorecard is with the black opal bongo worn.)

 

 

Listing AWARDs for Belderon (+704 rp, -39 rp, [743 rp] lifetime):

 

 

 

 

 

 

Belderon is officially retired. I fully enjoyed all my time as this character and achieved almost everything I had intended to. During the course of Belderon’s life I met a lot of characters and I can say that the majority of my interactions were pleasant. The ones that were not involved people raging on me, saying that my character isn’t even allowed, or that I am abusing a combo that shouldn’t exist. 

 

Despite this nearly overwhelming amount of negativity, I did have many, many more enjoyable interactions. I interacted with some tremendous characters such as;

 

Acele - Probably my favorite character to interact with. I fully believe you are the single best RPer in the game as far as emote uses go. Your character felt incredibly alive and vivid through every instant.

 

Karishin - We did some fun stuff and had some cool stuff happen along the way. Wish I knew who was behind this guy!

 

Ellix - Always enjoyable to play against and with. Still sad we couldn’t get that carnival thing up and running. Would have been great.

 

Lisko - You and Addir killed me the most, I think. I’m a sucker for getting caught behind the cabal guard, traps, and the infamous murder/flees! 

 

Harasin - I wish you were still around. You provided me with an amazing opportunity in the form of RP. 

 

Lloth - We had a rough start, created some magic, then you just vanished on me..

 

Zoichan - An incredible Immortal and great cabal IMM. You made a lot of things happen for Belderon and we did an awful lot together. I wish Zoichan had more emotions! Hard to talk to someone that can’t display feelings.

 

 

Watchers - Keep on trucking. You guys are all doing great things.

 

Syndicate - Same to all of you. Make it feel scary to have a bounty again!

 

 

 

I had developed Belderon’s RP to be a journey of self-discovery and achieving and regaining lost honor through life as a bard. Belderon’s journals often displayed a certain mood I, as a player, were experiencing and it transitioned well into the life of a Tribunal. As a firefighter, there are moments that you wish you could change, do over, or not have happen at all and I feel as though similar things would happen in the world of Aabahran as a Tribunal trying their damnedest to save everyone through maintaining peace and Order. If my journals are posted, be aware that some of them are very emotional and I feel very vulnerable in sharing them as they display an emotional side of myself.

 

Winston the Blood Guard came along during a random RP session I had with myself and posted on Prayer. The blood guard was renamed and then began the story of Winston. Winston was a full character in his own rights and even felt more real than Belderon at times. He had a family, a back story, experienced tremendous loss and unimaginable pain as a parent that has lost their only child. Through several amazing interactions with characters like Harasin, Lloth, and Zoichan, it became a whole new way to play the game. 

 

The Road to Ofcol was an amazing opportunity to interact with characters on a large scale and several of us really came together to see it happen. Characters like Pew and Kimril really did well in this campaign. Sad to see that I couldn’t get the road 100% done, but that also leaves an opportunity for another player/character to take it up and literally pave the way. 

 

There were several things I had left that I wanted to accomplish, but I feel as though I only wanted to do them for the sake of doing them.

 

I had applied for the Order Tattoo, but my chances of actually getting the tattoo were low due to the strength of my character as the IMMs didn’t want to further unbalance Belderon and make it more difficult on my opponents. The final verdict had NOT been reached and there was still a chance I might have gotten it, but I feel as though it would not have felt the same. 

 

I had applied for the relic quest with my RP points. Zoichan put in a tremendous amount of work and I am VERY sad to have not had the opportunity to actually do it. It had been in the work for a total of four months, I believe, and I honestly apologize for making it all for nothing. Hopefully it created the basis and outline of what will be done in the future for applicants. Sorry for letting it go guys, but I feel like I was almost just waiting around to see it and would have deleted shortly after. I honestly feel like I’ve already achieved this despite having not officially gotten it.. If you would, I’d love to know what the artifact would have been in a PM!! Also, I didn’t want anyone else to see it done, BUT Zoichan and there are things at play that might not have made this possible, so I want to respect him and all the work he did by not having someone else run it. Thanks for everything you did here, for sure. It means a lot. 

 

With the remaining RP points I wanted to be the first to create an RP specific room and create custom mobs.. I was going to make Winston’s house in Val Miran with Alice and Winston being the mobs. Winston was to retire from the Tribunal following Alice becoming pregnant again. He would retire in order to preserve his second child from experiencing the life of a Blood Guards’ daughter. Alice would offer rabbit stew to someone that entered the house and give them a food source called: “ Alice’s Rabbit Stew “. A reference to a journal that was sent out to everyone after Elizabeth was found dead. (If possible, I’d be truly grateful if this could still happen..)

 

As far as bards go, I think they need a bit of work. I feel like the class is fully supported by their instrument and not their songs and that is a missed opportunity in my opinion. The songs have a very low success rate, one that is also impacted by me being drumroll I am told. I feel like the songs don’t do enough to illicit a victory in a fight and I hope that I showed that in Belderon. The main strategy I had was to; drumroll, refrain four seasons, open with dirt kick, and spam dissonance until they fled. Once they fled, I’d chase with murder or dissonance. If my instrument landed paralyze, it was generally enough to seal the deal against most enemies. Bard PK as drumroll is VERY straight forward and almost boring. I might make another bard to see what the other ones do, but I feel like if they are more focused on songs then they are going to suffer.

 

 

Its always a somber and depressing feeling to delete a character, especially one that was so involved in your personal life and much of their journals could easily pass for your own had the names and events been slightly tweaked towards the non-fiction. 

 

This is not a good bye from me as a player, although I MIGHT take a small break just to clear my head of Belderon’s RP and try to focus on something new. I don’t usually have more than one character at a time as I feel like you are more likely to produce sub-par RP and interactions. 

 

I truly hope everyone enjoyed Belderon as much as I did. Thanks for the amazing time!

 

 

(This post may be edited in order to add more kudos to characters as I remember them.)

 

Edit¹- It is a HUGE pain in the ass to sacrifice your character's stuff with this sacrifice lag..

[Celerity]

It is tough to let your good ones go, but you've followed your own advice and called it time.

Thank you for taking the time to add the class analysis as it is much more meaningful when backed by a character as tremendous as this one.

[f0xx]

I was't around when you rolled him and palyed him through his early (an more important part of his) life. But I see this trend in you, for rolling characters that have a significant RP investment and you've achieved things in a short span of time many of us would envy.

What I didn't like was the shots of some people directed at you, for playing an "OP combo" that is not allowed to be played anymore. And I honestly feel that it's the IMMs' fault for this. First for not thoroughly testing bards, second for disallowing dwarves to be bards (due to them being op? - I don't think they are), and lastly for allowing that fiasco to happen on the open forums at first place. Either way, I hope this is taken as constructive criticism. We do want things to change, classes to be updated. But we want them to be thought out and tested, at least to some extend. This trend of changing something, then waiting for people's reaction to see if they whine enough to get it nerfed is bad.

That being said, I am, and not (since it's surely going to be painful), looking forward for your next.

[Lloth]

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PKs: 13, PDs: 5, Caps: 1, Jail: 85, Suicides: 1

Since I am not sure if it's cool to post the whole list, I will just leave the summary line for Belderon's PK record.

Well played character! Looking forward to your next, for sure. Glad we were able to have that talk before you logged out.

[kamikazi]

Damn, man...Now what...

Good character. Strong as hell. Props

[Anume]

Zoichan will probably be pissed ic for losing his L and ooc for having redone a whole area to enable your artifact quest (which is 90% finished for some time now, alas the problems with his hand that stopped him from finishing it).

A very well rped character, I enjoyed the Winston plot line.

[the_nightmare]

Good rp and stronk as hell. Glad to see you go ?

[Zavero]

I didn't interact with you much but your character has been an anchor for me as a player since I came back. Your presence as a character was palpable. Now he is gone. Thanks, ass.  

[Kyzarius]

great character Trick.

 

I feel your pain about being assailed by complaints for your combo. 

 

I think you had a very well planned character who was a pleasure to RP with and PK against. 

 

Good luck with your next project!

[Erelei]

7 hours ago, f0xx said:

I was't around when you rolled him and palyed him through his early (an more important part of his) life. But I see this trend in you, for rolling characters that have a significant RP investment and you've achieved things in a short span of time many of us would envy.

What I didn't like was the shots of some people directed at you, for playing an "OP combo" that is not allowed to be played anymore. And I honestly feel that it's the IMMs' fault for this. First for not thoroughly testing bards, second for disallowing dwarves to be bards (due to them being op? - I don't think they are), and lastly for allowing that fiasco to happen on the open forums at first place. Either way, I hope this is taken as constructive criticism. We do want things to change, classes to be updated. But we want them to be thought out and tested, at least to some extend. This trend of changing something, then waiting for people's reaction to see if they whine enough to get it nerfed is bad.

That being said, I am, and not (since it's surely going to be painful), looking forward for your next.

We've cracked down on the forum moderation, since apparently we need it (I was hoping we could be slightly adult about stuff on the forum). Completely my bad.

As for not thoroughly testing bards -- I'll be sure to make any new class changes in the future closed to the public. Thanks for the suggestion.

[FatMike]

I'll go back to celebrating the character instead of taking potshots. 

Great character Trick! I didn't interact nearly enough with him on some characters as others but every interaction was great. I'm sure you'll bring the awesome again with a new character. 

[tassinvegeta]

Very well played character. As Raynald we had some good times and some frustrating times I'm sure. But I suppose the drama was needed. Being in the same cabal as you made things a bit easy. I wonder if some of those other rp events went through after Raynald left.

[Lloth]

I was glad the Black Heart RP took off so well. I feel like there was a lot of discovery done on your part for Belderon, Winston, and their relationship. 

 

I will keep both of their souls in a very special place.

[Mmm Coffee]

I knew it was you hah.  I think I can tell from the way you PK.  Only interactions were on a very short-lived syndi shaman of mine (Anthezar).  Was a fun hour of fighting though

[Ambroas]

Amazing character!  You helped me so much on Arlin and made me grow to live the bard class.  Is it just me or does it seem like all the big names are disappearing?  Could be the dawn of a new era in Aabahran.

[egreir]

B+

[f0xx]

5 hours ago, egreir said:

B+

Generous.

[Trick]

Thank you to everyone for your responses to my deletion thread. Ultimately, I think this is what we all strive for at the end of our characters. Admiration, praise, and a sense of accomplishment. As much effort as I poured into Belderon, it was the interactions with all of you that made the character into what he was. It's a good feeling to know so many people enjoyed a character you developed and played. No matter how amazing a character is, if you don't have anyone to share it with it means nothing, so..Thanks!

[the_nightmare]

Roll something very evil and PK everyone. I haven't seen classical Nortak/Vanicus/Messalantha character for so long time. I have have been always thinking that there is nothing bad in playing "bad to the bone" character that silent PK's but will RP with you if you shatter the ice between you and him. 

[sarcon]

Awesome character. I always felt emersed with your RP everytime I interacted with you. As Yewtrunk it was a thrill and a pain everytime you were online. Can't wait to see what you roll up next!