User:Choltai

Level 21, Student of Three. Legacy, Prentice of the Human Body.

Hell yeah I'm proud, can you tell?

The Player

I found ATITD during Tale 2 from Apple's download site, and being as I'm a fan of Egyptian things I tried it out. It was my first exposure to an MMO and I loved it. I was too shy though to really get involved, so things quickly got difficult for me and I quit. I wish I had stayed but I gave it another shot with the third telling and fell in even more love with the game. Played both betas (fun!) in addition to the real thing. I ended up leaving T3 too: friends stopped playing plus there was a death in my family and it became too much to keep up with.

I will finish this Tale. Really! I will!!

I like working on passing tests. I enjoy helping out with community projects. I'm always happy to answer questions when I can. Basically, I love this game. I don't have as much playing time as I'd like but I do as much as I can. Feel free to drop a line and say hi!

I'm hoping to really get into the Art & Music this time around; I've never hit the tech level necessary to do the fireworks and mosaics and gliders, etc, but I really, really want to. Music is a RL passion for me and I'd love to see how that translates into the game. I like doing worship tests because you have to work with lots of other people. Love doing Pilgrimage - running around the countryside is immensely more amusing with a group of people than doing it alone. Had a blast. Vigil is okay, have only done it sporadically before but I love the idea of it. Looking forward to trying out the other worship tests.

I like doing body tests because they're easy, but I hate that they take so much time. I'm indifferent towards architecture, though I tend to do obi because it's relatively simple. I'm going for a cut stone one this time around. I like doing others' thought puzzles but have never made one of my own beyond what was need for the T3 principle. I love puzzles, although I just don't understand EH even after reading the wiki guide.

I've done harmony tests. Did marriage, and the benefits kicked ass!, but never passed because we both stopped playing. I'm one that thinks when you do the marriage test you should be working as a team with your partner, NOT just doing your own thing and using your normal passes to help pass marriage. Taking the chance to participate in this test was the best decision I made all last tale. Hated prophet, thought it was stupid and mostly because I felt like I was never going to get the chance to pass. It's like a lottery for passing a test, bleh.

I do love to role play and try to RP Choltai as much as I can.

The Character

Background

Student of Architecture
Student of Harmony
Student of Body

I AM

I try to live honestly, to give help when and where it's needed, to always live up to my word. I'd rather decline outright than to let someone down. I try to live with kindness, with humor and light heartedness. I go with the flow, give others their space. I mercilessly tease and love my friends, I am devoted and completely loyal to them. I stand for what I think is right and won't give in to wrong, I won't back out of a fight. I'm always willing to have intelligent debates and I will listen with an open mind - turn to meaness or rudeness and you will have lost me forever.

I tend to waste time, avoiding daily chores and doing the bare minimum each day on the tests I have chosen. Not lazy, but slothful. I am easily distracted and will jump from one thing to next before coming back around to finish the first. But I finish. I can be annoying: singing in chats, chattering about nothing which prevents others from their work. I giggle too much.

MY STORY

Before I even arrived to the borders of Egypt I decided I wasn't going to settle in Khartoum. My grandmother spoke of so much love and happiness as well as the unendurable sorrow her life saw there. I thought, I should start where I have no ties. I did briefly consider her original home, Seven Lakes, but could not bear the hilly terrain or it's place in my family's history. I was turned around for a bit when I arrived to Egypt as the regions were changed from what I learned when I was young: Seven Lakes turned into Shabbat Ab and Khartoum into Queen's Retreat. A retreat ... my family had retreated from there because it had turned into hell. Oh, the knots in our lives.

I settled on Adn, a majestic and flat land punctuated by mountains that lies at the edge of the sea. I was lucky enough to find paradise there, a beautiful grove of trees with a variety of colorful plants and a view you wouldn't believe: ocean from my doorstep to the horizon! I didn't have to deal with the crowded town, neighbors so close they can look in your windows, the traffic slowing your progress. Just the sun and fresh, sea air. I was happy for a time but was beginning to get lonely and this weighed heavily on my mind. My multi-great grandmother had died from lonliness; my grandmother tried to run away from it. I thought I could endure it, but when the Gods saw fit to recognize marriage my trial became more difficult. Happy couples all over the place. Celebrations and dancing and fireworks. The partnership, the companionship and the satisfaction it brought. I had to find a husband.

I was region hopping for some reason or another, maybe I was herbing or looking for acro, and there was this... talkative... guy in Stillwater looking for a wife in regional. Everyone seemed to know him, though he didn't live there, and no one was taking him up on his offer. My ride arrives for Shabbat Ab and I thankfully get on, and so does the wife hunter. Same story repeats itself: everyone knows him, he offers himself in marriage to any woman but no one will have him. I walk up to him and introduce myself - SteveThePirate, meet Choltai. We agree to marry and I agree to move with him... to Queen's Retreat. I thought I could hear the Gods laughing at their joke, but I tried to push it out of my mind.

I forgot about it completely when I was introduced everyone in the community for there were many good people to meet: artists, metalworkers, farmers, a hermited knight, and would you believe it, I think one is a distant relative for he bears the name of my grandmother's husband! That first night was chaotic, trying to keep everyone straight, trying to be on my best behaviour. The wedding was scheduled and went well. Many days of hard and happy work followed with stories to keep us occupied. Steve slowly stopped coming home, he was out for longer and longer periods of time with no messages of whereabouts or when he'd be back. I tried to be content with my friends but the bard kept grabbing my attention. When he spoke, it was like the Gods themselves were telling me their secrets, it was as though I was hearing and feeling for the first time.

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