This is a tough thread to make for several reasons.
One: in spite of what my obsessive forum work might have you believe, I am very lazy unless I'm momentarily inspired. Two: I really miss Drusilla and I wish I was still playing her, so it's painful and relucant work to write her obit. Three: so many screenshots, so much to try to explain and tell about her that was never explained or told, so many spoilers to avoid, so many lovely PCs, players and DMs that I got to interact with on this PC.
But I will try -- just not right now! But eventually. I'm going to update this thread at a later time and add screenshots and things.
For now, let me just say that this was the most fun I've had on this chapter so far, and some of the most fun I've had on EfU since playing Alice Fairclow. And like that experience, playing Drusilla was extremely stimulating for my imagination and creativity. The theme that was slowly developed as Drusilla grew -- that of cosmic-horror divination, and chronomancy -- was just endlessly fun to delve into and explore.
This was my first wizard PC ... ever. It was also my first diviner. Both experiences = utterly amazing. So much RP potential here, especially with how this chapter deals with wizards (wizard madness, a scholarly community, potential cabals, etc).
Drusilla's ending is so spoiler-heavy that I can barely mention it, but I do want to say that -- though it was bittersweetly abrupt, it was also beautiful and very much a fulfillment of the original and primary character goal of my PC. That's something I've never really gotten to experience before and I'm very thankful for Halfbrood for making Drusilla's ending very special and very moving.
I don't even know the player or DM identities of even half of everyone who interacted extensively with me on this PC -- Drusilla's allies, enemies, and mental angels and demons. To all of you, a huge thanks for writing stories and creating suspense and mystery together with me. This was enormously rewarding, fun, thrilling and crazy!
Drusilla was only getting started ... and though her influence will quickly dissipate, her achievements be forgotten and her memory fade, I still feel like there are crumbs of a legacy to be found. I'm particularly thinking of the Tenth Faced heresy which, though still in its infancy, remains for future PCs and DMs to toy with if they so choose -- and I hope they do! (A comprehensive adversarium against the Niners was in the works, but Drusilla didn't have time to finish it.)
I'm hesitant to mention anyone in particular because I don't want anyone to mistakenly believe that I've forgotten about them, but I feel I have to single out two people for particular love. The player of Maxwell -- our rivalry was delicious and I regret not being able to see it to its ultimate conclusion which I think could have been potentially spectacular! And Abala, for running the most pivotal and the most amazingly imaginative event, where Drusilla truly came into her own as a diviner and mad wizard.
Thank you, thank you, thank you once again to everyone I interacted with, and thank you to Howland for creating this sleep-ruining, work-destroying, imagination-firing, creativity-spurring machine of insanity.
