Whatever happened to...?

[Malifaxis]

That's certainly fall under "Banging someone important." But I don't really consider her to be down during a war.

Depends on your definition of down...

[boog]

 

You guys are too much!

[BadSkeelz]

That's what she said

HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Edit: In all honestly what did happen to Sera? Last I remember was dropping them off in Morin's.

[Riev]

That's what she said

HEYOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

Edit: In all honestly what did happen to Sera? Last I remember was dropping them off in Morin's.

It can't have been a year for that yet, though, can it? I feel like I remember her on Sergeant Rush, and he hasn't been a year.

Maybe I have no sense of time?

[manipura]

If we're thinking of the same Sera I'm quite sure it's been at least a year.
Could be wrong though.

[Feco]

Let's make sure it has been before saying anything.  I hate losing threads like these to careless IC info sharing.

[Riev]

I could be wrong, too. Or just a bad sense of time. I THINK I knew her on Rush, but Rush also survived quite a while so its entirely possible its been the year.

For that matter: What ever happened to that Crazy-fuck bowl-cut haired Templar's Aide? That guy was pretty awesome for an aide, and I've always been disappointed that I kept trying to pin shit on him that I knew wouldn't stick.

[deathkamon]

Alright, to whoever played that bowl-cut haired Templar: Well done, seriously well done. You played out the craziest, power hungriest Blue Robe Allanak has ever seen, and I loved your character to death. Serious kudos to that player.

[lostinspace]

I could be wrong, too. Or just a bad sense of time. I THINK I knew her on Rush, but Rush also survived quite a while so its entirely possible its been the year.

You were a runner for my Sergeant, and he died over a year ago, so I wouldn't be surprised.

[LauraMars]

Alright, to whoever played that bowl-cut haired Templar: Well done, seriously well done. You played out the craziest, power hungriest Blue Robe Allanak has ever seen, and I loved your character to death. Serious kudos to that player.

Thanks.

[Refugee]

Wow.  You?!  Scariest craziest templar ever.

[LauraMars]

Wow.  You?!

Yep. Me.

Sorry about that...all the things. Especially that one thing. You know.

#notreally

[Refugee]

Good job.  I am impressed!   

[BadSkeelz]

I still think Koranth was more balls out crazier but Lord Templar Bowlcut definitely reminded me of him. Fortunately I didn't have to work for both of you.

[Is Friday]

Alright, to whoever played that bowl-cut haired Templar: Well done, seriously well done. You played out the craziest, power hungriest Blue Robe Allanak has ever seen, and I loved your character to death. Serious kudos to that player.

Thanks.

If Bowl Cut hadn't been blackout drunk and murdery in regards to Samim that would have been the turning point for her to flip to the dark side. She was a devout and loyal descendant of a Tor officer who enlisted in AoD, then was asked to aide. But she was also a subguild sorcerer. There had been no IC reason for her to pursue learning spells, she never even tried or knew she could, and she'd never considered a Templar could ever be wrong.

I generally had a plan to wait for something that would cause her to waiver in her belief before she went down that route. She didn't run so she never had that chance.

I enjoyed playing around Bowl Cut as the aide for however long that lasted. He was a great character. I was generally left unsatisfied with Samim's ending because of how/why it happened. I'm not really all too surprised when it happened because of his temperament. Just feel like it could have been much more awesome as a revenge story. Oh well.

Not posting to blame or be bitter about it. Just making a #sadpost

[boog]

I could be wrong, too. Or just a bad sense of time. I THINK I knew her on Rush, but Rush also survived quite a while so its entirely possible its been the year.

For that matter: What ever happened to that Crazy-fuck bowl-cut haired Templar's Aide? That guy was pretty awesome for an aide, and I've always been disappointed that I kept trying to pin shit on him that I knew wouldn't stick.

I know who you're talking about! They're still hanging around here and they're one of my favorites! I wanna tell you, but I'll let them proceed.

[LauraMars]

Balthazar was intense and a lunatic.  His aides (all three of them) were brave people to play around him to such an intimate degree. In some cases, they were also dead people.

Apologies for all the casualties.  The world is harsh and cruel and unfair.

If it makes you feel better Is Friday I haven't really played the game since I stored.

[Is Friday]

If it makes you feel better Is Friday I haven't really played the game since I stored.

Heh, yeah, that experience kind of killed it for me for a bit. I took a break and haven't felt the magick since then. Had a string of unsatisfying deaths prior to that one. You know how it is.

[The Lonely Hunter]

I still think Koranth was more balls out crazier but Lord Templar Bowlcut definitely reminded me of him. Fortunately I didn't have to work for both of you.

Thanks! Koranth was lots of fun to play.

[Comfortably Dumb]

I still think Koranth was more balls out crazier but Lord Templar Bowlcut definitely reminded me of him. Fortunately I didn't have to work for both of you.

Thanks! Koranth was lots of fun to play.

Koranth was a great PC. Kolo was terrified of him.

Hey it's now officially been more than a year since Kolo, I'll have to post something when I'm not on my phone.

[Dar]

Balthazar was intense and a lunatic.  His aides (all three of them) were brave people to play around him to such an intimate degree. In some cases, they were also dead people.

Apologies for all the casualties.  The world is harsh and cruel and unfair.

If it makes you feel better Is Friday I haven't really played the game since I stored.

I totally loved Balthazar. Even if I was beginning a plot of framing him for the assassination of a Fale Lord. I was doing research on this virtual fale that died for some whatever unrelated someone elses plot reasons in order to find stuff I could use to frame Balthazar with, but stuff happened and I had to skip town.


That fale's favorite food was a dish of erdlu wings .

[LauraMars]

Balthazar was intense and a lunatic.  His aides (all three of them) were brave people to play around him to such an intimate degree. In some cases, they were also dead people.

Apologies for all the casualties.  The world is harsh and cruel and unfair.

If it makes you feel better Is Friday I haven't really played the game since I stored.

I totally loved Balthazar. Even if I was beginning a plot of framing him for the assassination of a Fale Lord. I was doing research on this virtual fale that died for some whatever unrelated someone elses plot reasons in order to find stuff I could use to frame Balthazar with, but stuff happened and I had to skip town.


That fale's favorite food was a dish of erdlu wings .

*explodes*

[Akaramu]

Hey it's now officially been more than a year since Kolo, I'll have to post something when I'm not on my phone.

YES PLZ!

[Large Hero]

For that matter: What ever happened to that Crazy-fuck bowl-cut haired Templar's Aide? That guy was pretty awesome for an aide, and I've always been disappointed that I kept trying to pin shit on him that I knew wouldn't stick.

As the player of Alme (the short, pech-haired man), Balthazar's aide, getting to play closely with bowl-cut was a real privilege. I can give him (and Laura) the highest praise: he made me log in every day, and made me hate to have to log out.

People gave Balthazar a lot of shit, ICly and OOCly, for being "too crazy, too over the top," etc.

But LauraMars gave the character internal consistency and depth that not everyone got to see. As his aide, Alme got to see it. I don't think I've seen another character better at embodying opposite extremes. Balthazar was unhinged, but consistent and believable; there was a method to the madness. He was dangerous and unyielding, but at times also vulnerable and uncertain. He was funny, but also tragic. He was often foolish and had unrealistic ideas, but was also cunning. What made Balthazar so good is that he could shift between these different extremes while clearly remaining the same, consistent character. It never felt forced, and if you learned to look for the precursors and signs (as Alme eventually did, due to how much time he spent with Balthazar), the shifts in behavior could be predicted. What's more, Laura was confident and fair enough in her roleplaying as to allow Balthazar to be influenced. If a character knew how to press his buttons, Balthazar could be calmed or enraged, or led to believe or doubt something. It takes skill and guts to let your character be malleable like that, and I take my hat off to Laura for it. In short, Balthazar was a very "real" person to me.

Balthazar is my favorite Armageddon PC, and the experience showed me that LauraMars is one of the best (perhaps the best) roleplayers in the game, for my money. She absolutely nailed the character.

Some memorable scenes involving Balty:
* In the first job interview, Balthazar dangling Alme over the edge of the city wall, while interrogating him about his thoughts on eating erdlu meat
* working with Lady Alisima Oash (another great boss that Alme was spoiled with the privilege of getting to RP with) to convince Balthazar not to marry his erdlu in public, in order to protect him from the political backlash
* being forced by a Great Lord to give up Balthazar's prize erdlu; an intimate dinner with the Great Lord, Balthazar, a Borsail Lord, and another individual, to follow
* after a failure, Balthazar summoning Alme to a private room in the temple, and with rage and violence, very successfully convincing me both ICly and OOCly that Alme was about to die. Alme successfully pleaded for his life while hiding underneath a table (sometimes it's good to be short)
* a dangerous public confrontation between Balthazar, Alme, Mint, Alisima, the wonderful Valorisk, and another individual
* many others


Alme got a lot of shit for being Balthazar's aide, as Riev noted above. Which was funny, because Alme was my experiment in "taking a 'lawful good' character and involving them in Allanaki politics." Alme was the kindest and most altruistic character I've played. He tried to help everybody, and worked to save several characters from death, even when they treated him poorly. His motivations were a lot like Varys' in GoT, who seems to work for "the good of the realm." Toward the end of his career, Alme's sense of morality began to wear down, but he was still very "lawful good."

It's funny, because I think a lot of people hated Alme out of a suspicion that he was turning Balthazar against them. On the contrary, he (usually) counseled Balthazar to be more cautious and less violent.

[Riev]

Well met, sandwich man!

Ratface definitely was in the mindset of "this aide is either too big for his britches, thinking he can control a Templar, or he really IS able to influence a Templar, which makes him dangerous".

I loved that he was one of the few people who understood "taking business into the alleys" and that it wasn't an outright death sentence to go in there. He was willing to "learn" and picked up on things very quickly.

Ratface just didn't want to give up his favorite toy (the assassin that managed to kill a noble) and unfortunately, that toy let slip some damning information. I HAD to play Ratface true to character, which was to try and protect his assets and pin it on someone else, despite the fact that NOBODY EVER believed Alme was behind any of it. And as I've mentioned to people before, he'd probably STILL be alive if I, as a player, kept to the idea that Guild Bosses should stay in the alleys. I was bored and wanted some RP sessions, so I went to meet with someone southside and got caught.

As a player, I never believed Alme would get blamed for the assassination, but Ratface thought if he made the story believable enough, there would be some doubt, and he wouldn't have to give up his toy.