I started here a mere 7 months ago (nearly 8 now) with Avatar
Having played UO back on OSI in '97-98 on Atlantic and Catskills I had a rough idea what to expect. How wrong was I.
I lived my entire newbie life inside Cove, not knowing anyone or anything about the game anymore. Avatar was a complete newb char, having many skills (Like Abib) which I've now erased from his profile. Spending the time fishing to earn cash for armour, then running down to the orc fort to kill some orcs to get meat to sell, etc. Oh those were the days!!
I then stumbed across Wulfgar and Rovonero who were both newbs at the same time (Both coming from Suprnova). Life was good, we hunted around together and enjoyed our own little world. Wulfgar and I started miners to suppliement our cashflow. I saved up all my cash and bought a house just west of Hind Grove (which I still have), so we could mine and smith there. We trained some more. I even saved up for a guildstone, for the soul purpose of us being able to loot eachother if we died, and thus The Corporation was born. Then all of a sudden, Rovo quit. The whole events around his departure were very unclear, so I won't go into it... But, no sooner had he departed, Wuflgar and myself managed to coax him back into the game!!
I was convinced Avatar was a bugged char, not being able to do shit with him, so I started to go hunting with Wulf and Rovo with my miner char, Keyser Soze. Rovo hated it, cos he reckoned there was nothing wrong with Avatar... Strange as it may seem he was right.. I spoke to Cybervic one day and got him to decrease my str, then increase it... and voila, things were looking good.
Rovo joined Infernal Touch, just as I was GM'ing my first lot of warrior skills. Wulfgar disappeared from in-game with real life issues (universtity, dissertation, girlfriend) so I near enough dispanded The Corporation and joined Infernal Touch.
After being given sound advice from Gandalf, I turned tank. And since that day, spend most of my time hunting for cash to buy regs. It's taken me near 4 months to GM magery (which I actually did 2 days ago!!!) and it feels like the best accomplishment I've done here so far.
I then metup with Bruiser, and regularly purchased armours from him to further increase my tank lifestyle, he was working on bovver as well, so I used to accompany him to the docks where he was fishing so I could train my magery at the same time. Then about a month and a half ago, Garr asked me, quite out of the blue if I fancied joining his new guild. I was quite taken aback, not having anyone ask me if I wanted to join a guild before... I accepted, and took on my role as Grandmaster Banksitter.
Now times have changed once again. Garr cannot dedicate his time to The Crimson Syndicate so I've been voted guild leader in his absence. I've also created a new warrior character to replace Avatar. And thus Jimmy Conway was born, the original Goodfella
I've deliberately left out all the killing, maiming and horrendous masturbation from this lil story, as it bears no relevence to the actual topic of conversation.
I'm glad that Obsidian has a strong community, and it deeply saddens me when certain players test the spirit with their undue actions.
Tata for now. Ava.