Post on the news board on March 23rd, 1999.


 

Deep in the Silence

 Lost in a dense mist,
 My heart is clouded.
 I cannot persist,
 With eyes shrouded.

 Why Lord, why this girl?
 Is it meant to be?
 Is she my pearl?
 Or is it just a dream?

 Why Lord, why let her
 Break my warrior's code.
 I swore to never,
 Let my love be sowed.

 My mind is not mine;
 I lift not my sword;
 I drink not but wine;
 I keep not my word.

 I will keep distance.
 Secluded in Klein,
 Silence the ardor dance.
 All will come in time.

 When my heart is calm,
 When my mind is clear,
 I will return with my sword in palm,
 To fight again with my friends so dear.

   -Sir West, Knight of Legend

   Why did West decide to post this? Obviously the subject of affection in this poem is Minako. At the time, Minako was already widowed but West was still reluctant to pursue the destined course. It was clear that the Knights, excuse the cliché, needed a fighter not a lover. The best advice I can give to a pkiller is to become emotionally detached. That is the best and most proficient way to succeed. Once entangled in a RP, it will become increasingly difficult to maintain a successful pkiller as you will most definitely be caught out in the open unprepared with a dagger down your back, spewing blood across the ground. West violated the golden rule that I set for all my pkillers. I wanted a break from it all and took off for a couple of weeks. That is why West says he will be secluded in Klein; he hopes to become a fighter again. Now it is clear that all this failed and West was now part of the relationship permanently. He retired from pkill as a result knowing that there would be no way to succeed on both fronts.
    As the player I must mention this, if it wasn't for all the friends that I have made with West, I would have perma'ed West about the 3rd week into March. By that time I was level 50 for quite a while and knew through repeated losses that 100 dex/str was not the way to go and would not succeed. At the core of Legend, it is still dice rolling and it is still a game of chance. Granted, much of that can be remedied with spells, potions, arrows, and whatnot, but skills will be dependent on the dice. No matter how much damroll you have or how much hitroll you have, you WILL roll 0s or low numbers from time to time and that will kill you in pkill. As Leatherface put it, and I know this is definitely true even though I never did want to admit to it, 'if your bashes don't land, your ass is grass.'
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