Irene Ellet
"So, are you still playing Irene?"
No, I'm not. So the Red Guild can breathe a sigh of relief, my reign of terror is over.
It's time to pack it in. I genuinely hate retiring a good character before their time, but I don't have the time or interest to continue playing Irene Ellet, and I'll be taking a lengthy break from EFU until the itch strikes again, so you can consider her retired or a NPC or whatever suits your fancy. Irene was my first
successful politician, and a rather long-lived PC at that. When I first made Irene, the political scene in Sanctuary was utterly dominated by Red Guild PCs, and they needed some opposition. Some of them appreciated it more than others, but all in all good times were had. She started, ironically enough, as a simple vehicle for me to make an EFU newspaper: The Writing on the Wall, a horrendously biased propaganda rag that pandered to the commoners of Sanctuary because they were the most plentiful readers.
Then I had to create the kind of persona that would go with the writer of such a thing, which resulted in her being ornery and smarmy and two (or three, or four) faced. Moonlighter plays another cunty halfling, no one is surprised. She was very anti-authoritarian, and I figured that if she'd ever become a Prefect it would be for Crane as she was helping with his election campaign. Well, certain things got in the way of that, and I eventually wound up working for Ma Murik, which sort of changed the course of where the PC was going.
Anyway, I don't have the attention span for a long writeup but I do have a bunch of great pictures to share of memorable interactions and the like.
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[hide=Crane]
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Irene had Crane's ear from the beginning, even if she wasn't exactly what he was hoping for in a fan and supporter. Though she was pretty, she was about two feet two short for him. Missed opportunities!
[hide=Azriah Chand is DEAD! Also, one of Irene's friends.]
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RIP both Azriah Chand and Cornelius Calhoun (who'd pushed for Irene to join the Civil Service)[/hide]
Nicodem Skalarius was an amazingly played Spellguard Agent, and planted the seeds for Irene's paranoia and dissent regarding them. They had a common enemy (Aurelia Larskul) but Nicodem's ruthlessness was a frightening thing to behold. He had a big influence on my character from the beginning.
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Irene gets hired into the Civil Service, making the Writing on the Wall Sanctuary's OFFICIAL Handbill. Probably a big mistake from a Red Guild Prefect in retrospect.
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Putting the screws to Jasmine, who was a great friend and rival at times. I get kind of nostalgic looking at this one.
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Irene took the rank of Courier in the Civil Service. Largely so I didn't have to do much more forum work than I was already doing, so I could tell people off when they were asking me for tenancy authorization forms.
[hide=Courier Days]
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Your plot items delivered or your money back!
(I think this was Cmenden's first real DM quest?)
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Crane wins the first election.
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Well, shit.
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Nobody mind the halfling lying in a puddle of her own vomit.
(They actually went off and did the DM quest without me. I had to catch up after Lado told me that it grew slightly more tolerable after the immediate exposure.)
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Good times. Tanking every DM quest in my clerk's outfit with my courier helm was good fun. I wish I could have saved some of the DM emotes from Caster, BOM, and Cmenden commenting on it.
[hide=Date with a Goddess (Not Really)]
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Just remember, flattery will get you everywhere, kids. Just remember to take EFUSS painting, and get some /e worship in.
[hide=The Meat!]
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A great Christmas quest from D_I. I never did get my present, though. I honestly would have laughed at (and kept forever) a piece of coal. It was worth it entirely for the adventure, though.
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Irene hated Mystryl. She felt that she was a fickle goddess who didn't really give a rat's ass about the mortals she was sworn to protect. All the much better when a Thayan Cleric of Mystryl is her chief rival! She also received her sorcerous magics from Mystryl, which she didn't really want or understand. (I deliberately only started taking Spellcraft at level 10 to signify that she'd gotten some understanding of the art's many nuances.)
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Irene studied quite a bit about the Withering when she was active, which made it pretty cool that we got to go on a quest involving all sorts of withered oozy stuff. A PC got some Wither Roots, and Irene took objetion to him having him, as he was a loud and proud Banite and would likely use them for evil. So she beat him up, and tried to take them, but he used them all on her in the course of the battle. Unfortunately for him, I could only fail on a one.
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[hide=Raid on the Housing Vault]
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When Irene would brag that she was the first one in and the last one out when the Formians attacked the Housing Vault, she wasn't bluffing. I got there a little early as the DM was still placing enemies and spawns popped up all around me and nearly killed me to death. So I just roleplayed it as a brave halfling cutting her way into the enemy ranks single-handedly.
[hide=A Date with a Director (But not really)]
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Here she is, after the raid on the Housing Vault, getting selected as a Prefect by Ma Murik and given her 'holy mission': Be as loud as possible for the people.
... Being a champion of the NPCs was great fun at first, but it did grow somewhat tiring as time went on. Still, it was a great angle to work, and those few lines of conversation gave me months worth of RP ideas.
A great character who I'm EXTREMELY surprised wasn't murdered before retirement! Hope you get a good recharge while you take a break, I'll look forward to anything you come up with next.
Fantastic fantastic fantastic. She filled an era with fun and I only wish I got to see more of her paintings which got me itching to play a painter.
Fun, witty, and I am more than happy with your PC.
Good stuff Moonlighter! Come back when you are ready to knock more socks off.
I saw and interacted with Irene with so many of my different Characters... For the better and the worse. More than anything I shall miss my favorite newspaper :(
Irene was amazing, even if ariana hated her guts, (as you said, that was a horrible mistake on her part, funding that paper.. lol)
End to a good character.
She did cool things. Wish she went out with a bang but oh well. :C
I'm sorry I took my (still ongoing, unfortunately :( ) hiatus while this character was in full swing.
She will be missed! Really awesome character, was a blast balancing that line between friend and foe.
I like the idea of a pc that retires without being brutally murdered in this setting, it gives us a sense that you can, in fact, survive and thrive in efu