Welcome to Cove

I'd like to apologize for my general absence, failure to complete my Grenadier Trials, and also my lack of Tavern Security/Criminal doings. I've taken an extended leave of absence and I expect it to extend for quite sometime. There are, things, people, and personal stuff that have made me decide it was time to take this leave and come back when the BoC horizon got a little brighter and right now its looking damned dark. Especially with the general decline of the Europa server and RP in UO.

Some of you might say I'm running, well damnit I'm tired. Tired of trying to think of some great new idea. Tired of being told I need to do more. Tired of not even wanting to play my characters whom I once loved so much, they and RP have become a damned hassle. I've even made some new trial characters without anyones knowledge and found I felt the same, or that the community itself has some air of unapproachable to people. I can't say precisely what that feels like, but I've come about and amongst the various guilds as a blue and found myself completely ignored (Even when I had ditched my Arties for normal crap). If it ain't got a guild tag nobody wants to interact with it.

I've never been this weary before, not even when I stood 12 -16 hour shifts in the middle of Kuwait for 8 months straight and hardly a day off. I feel it in my bones so to speak, RP makes my brain feel fuzzy and numb. I love BoC, I've loved it since I stumbled upon Erik Arkay in the woods, and even when I couldn't be here, I wouldn't leave BoC for any other guild its truly been the best, but right now. . . .

Right now I need to be away, or to explore something diffrent. I'll return eventually, I just don't have the will or strength to try and help make it better.

I'll catch you all on the flip side.

Shane, player of Marcus Kobra/Maccen Korten

Your wording might be a little unwise, in that it has the potential to inflame, but generally it happens to all of us.

Those left just generally have to make do and accept that it's never going to be "the glory days."

UO's never worth IRL stress. Enjoy the real world, chap!

A dramatic speech from Mr Kobra there. :)

The root of what you're saying is bang on, if not a little flowered by vocabulary. As Su-mi says, it's how it's been for ages and everyone remaining in or out of the RP community either plays because they get -some- sort of enjoyment out of it and accept it... Or just leave.

Hope you find enjoyment elsewhere MK. You will no doubt!

Thanks for taking the time to message us all and express your feelings.

Take care and take it easy, things are a little inactive at the moment but it'll pick up again when people get that urge to come back.

Have a nice break!