One time Aspirant Monk (Part 1)

In your wanderings, if you happen to be near West Brit, do follow the road that leads pass the farmlands, through the path in the mountain to West Brit Cross Roads, Once there you will see a Keep and sandstone, if you keep walking pass these into the forest, you will find WispFelt Village. You will know WispFelt by the small trees which adorn the village's homes.
The Village has many open houses, please feel free to use them. The smith house has forge and anvil; tailor, loom and spinning wheel; bakery, oven and flour mill.
The tower holds a rune library and on the second floor, a reading library ( although at present the books cannot be read, tis a glitch, which the Gods of this world are working on), none-the-less, it is a peaceful place to sit and rest a spell.
While in the village, take a minute or hour to enjoy the garden, The Wisp which lives there, enjoys company.

WispFelt Village is my home and home to PVM Guild ( not to be mistaken with PvP guild.) We do not grieve ( in any form) other folks.


Role Playing. Your style of role play is well suited and most welcome to this world. I too, have done the same style, gave my character a history, and persona,and allowed the character to enjoy the world, grow and evolve with the experience.


Sorry, it has taken a while for me to read your tales. ( my time has been somewhat limited this year ) But I have enjoyed them.


Sincerely

Marjo Governess of WispFelt


Westra on IRC

Thank you for your appreciation, newme, it means a lot!

I will certainly do that when I am back in-game. Upgrading my software from Mountain Lion to El Capitan (the latest OS X) has meant I can't access U:O:R for now. No idea why, it has not negatively affected anything else. I have referred this to Chris and I am hopeful it can be sorted out.

It has been a long break after my UO:R collapsed. At the time I thought it was over, but it did resolve itself by following the advice of Ren, who must surely be a wizard with technology. Unfortunately, I lost all my characters and so had to start anew.

I have been going through my approach to role-playing characters. In OSI Europa. I always played a commoner, a simple blacksmith, living on a subsistence income, or woodsman, or a militiaman. I am continuing that tradition here. It was a long time before I got myself a packhorse in OSI, but in the end I could afford one and bought it, dubbed Spark. I never felt comfortable riding a horse, something that the upper classes did. This was even the case in the military hierarchy of the Yew Militia where I served as a footman for a couple of years. Only senior officers rode horses there too.

And for many years I was a serf, in a guild so named. Sally Buttons ran the guild (she was a tailor-seamstress), though the player has sadly passed away, a great loss. After that I bought my freedom from the Duke of Trinsic (Irvyn Middlethorn), played by another in a long line of gifted women role-players. The Duchy of Trinsic remains to this day and anyone can visit the website. It has recently added a Duchy Marine to its accomplishments. The third of the talented women is Gwen Irima, who ran the Elf Guild, and who gifted me Ye Olde Post Office outside Trinsic's North Gate. She also ran a popular tavern, The Trinsic Rose, in what became the Elven Quarter, where I often went after the week's work, for refreshment and music.

Even UO:R has its share of quality female role-players, and that cannot be a coincidence...

But all this is part of the background to my story, as I have continued the tradition of keeping my characters simple, and poor commoners. But UO is a world where it is not easy to stay poor. With the years come wealth however hard we try not to let it happen. Poverty is a transient thing that is particularly related to the early years of exploring and enjoying UO. The art is to enjoy those years and get the most out of it we can.