Hi everyone! I am Podolak and occasionally speak in the third person as the title seems to indicate. I've decided to throw anonymity to the wind and post under the same name I post on for every forum. I've read a lot on these boards and you seem like some real nice honest folks. Repay respect with respect seems like a good start.
I technically started on LS back in 1999. I had just graduated high school and a RL friend who played since beta thought it would be a good idea to introduce me and another friend to the game. DAMN HIM! I mean no no thank heavens he brought this "occasional" pastime into my life. Fortunately the UO addiction did NOT get me kicked out of college. Back to LS. I was on LS for a week when it started having some serious problems with connections so I jumped over to Catskills and never left. I technically consider Catskills my "home" shard though I rarely play there now. The population has gotten really low and everyone knows everyone and there are so many politics its absolutely insane. You can't turn in a BOD without stepping on a butterfly and having the whole shard breathing down your neck. Soo....in 2009 I moved to Atlantic and that is my primary place of residence. I did play on Drachenfels with Crazy K for a bit a few years ago too and I've played on Siege on and off since 2000. I've worked up a Mage/Myst/Weaver on almost every shard just in case a friend needs some help. I can't PvP worth a darn so 60 spellweaving and pixies for a possible win. I also play Hybrid and Demise. The only time I was technically inactive is when my first son was born in 2006. I didn't want UO to interfere with my attempts at fatherhood so I actually cancelled my subscription for a few years. When I came back I hit Demise first and then went EA again. Sooo, that is how that all got into the mix. But the end result of this paragraph is Podo plays Atlantic, mostly. I don't pvp as a Podolak character but just look for the worse mage who is clensing his enemies and ebolting his allies and you've probably found me.
So as I said PvP wise I either play a Myst/Mage w/60 Spellweaving OR a disarm archer because as I said I'm crap so I need to play the gimpest template. I never did get on the garg dexer bandwagon for pvp though. PvM wise I rock a sampire like most everyone but I did just finish up a 55 LMC necro/mst/mage template that uses a complete scrapper slayers set. He seems to have good survivability as a spawner and good spawning ability too. I am not a terribly rich player but I have what I need and have a good time. I do enjoy trade once in a while but usually am too lazy to sell stuff! I run with a good group of friends though. We are small and die lots but sometimes we just have a good day where we do a few successful raids and log out feel good about ourselves because we could kill a spawning guild. OK fine...we are a bit pathetic but we pay our fees and enjoy it how we can! (If my friends are reading yes, YOU ARE PATHETIC TOO!)
Ohhh, scripting wise. I wanted to mess around with being able to AI or whirlwind on my sampire and not have to think about it too much. I did some googling and found some code posted on some group. I had to modify it a bit but I successful created a script that allowed me to AI if enough mana and LS if not or just whirlwind. I was pretty proud of getting it all working and actually gave it to a friend to use who has had success with it. I also came across this site while googling and created an account. I honeslty didn't spend a lot of time here at that time but have since read through some things and thought it might be nice to join.
My wife's measurements? Well I am married to a super model of course just like every other guy on here so just pick one and there you go. Seriously I love my wife even if she does infringe on UO time. She is leaving me alone right now to write this intro so I should be thankful right? She probably thinks I am working on a server for work or something. Ohhh, or she thinks I am flirting on-line. I better tell her its UO related. UO, my other "wife". Actually UO was first damnit! UO then college then marriage then kids. Kids are the most important though all joking aside. I've got a little boy who is about six and a half now and a little little boy who is 17 months and kicks the crap out of all of us. He is such a bruiser the little devil. I am not sure where he gets it from because I am a wimp! (physically un-intimidating). That doesn't mean Podo relates to Frodo. I am not short damnit!
OK, its 11:46 PM where I am and who knows if anything I've written is even coherent. Off to watch MythBusters with the wife!
