[Arryn]

Originally posted by Zen:
I also suggested Earth and Air previously Arryn But you have your own personal standards, didn't want Earth because you wern't familiar with it and Air, for whatever reason . Astral is just the next down the line of simplicity to use.

Zen, thanks for all the insights, and for the encouragement.

I'd like to clarify one small thing though, hence the quote above. The conversation we had went something like "What are you familar with?" I said I was familiar with R'lyeh and Jotun, and the Ashikaga mod. Since I had just played a dual-bless Jotun pretender in MP blitz (and done badly), you opted to stay with Jotun and I agreed, so you selected the Wyrm, which was one of the two Jotun pretenders I've used before. I said I'd used Astral, Nature, Death, and Water magics with pretenders. I neglected to mention that I am also familiar with Air and Fire, but not on pretenders. You mentioned that Earth was good and all I said was that I was unfamiliar with it. I did not say I didn't want it. What I did say was that I was uninterested in *Blood*. Air was not mentioned at all. Considering we were doing this at roughly 3-4AM Central time, after many hours of being awake, I am hardly surprised we overlooked it. After mentioning Earth, you proposed Astral. And we proceeded from there.

My purpose in relating this is so the readers will understand *what* led to the choices that were made, on my part, and *how* it was done. Zen has already given the reasons *why* he suggested what he did. So that's the what, how, and why of it.

[ February 10, 2004, 21:57: Message edited by: Arryn ]