Howdy.
Many years ago, the Glorious Lord SuperTom (My Brother) invited me to play Ultima Online on the ABCUO freeshard. I joined him in conquest in the days predating Imbuing, and before the coming of the Samurai lands. It was a difficult age to be a newbie, Razor was the only scripting engine available (that I knew of), but I didn't use it... I used book on keyboard macros playing as a Necro/Dexer. Many hours where spent doing battle from my Slackware computer, running UO under wine.
The shard had no trammel at that time, so I would frequently be PKed before I knew what was happening. Occollo was the new player town, and the guard zone was very small. I took up Taming, and killing Travesty with my guild, MR Crazy and SuperTom. I was able to find a talisman, and with much hard work, I managed to tame an amazing Hyru (they spawned in the lost land at that time). The Hyru was glorious.... AntiTrust would dismount me to PK me, and the Hyru would kill him. Good times. Then I got married, and my account decayed.... and I was so upset about loosing my hundreds of hours of taming I swore I would never play again.
Fast Forward to two years ago. Again, the Glorious Lord SuperTom drags me back into the fold at ABCUO, but this time he becomes mostly inactive, being distracted by the terrible world of Warcraft. So I leave his guild, the Luna Knights, and study under my new mentors in CBL guild. Quickly, with the advent of imbuing, My Mage, Kahless, is far more powerful than any character ever was the first time I entered this fine world, but I still am missing something. So Kortar, my Vamp Bushido Dexer is born. A dexer who can easily solo anything the abyss has to offer (except the mighty slasher). I am now the monster under the bed that gives the Fire Deamons nightmares. I also learn of powerful new tools of battle, in the form of EasyUO, OpenEUO, and UOS. I am in love with the power of UOS... but I feared of its possible demise, so I began searching for a replacement. My search has led me to this fine community. I am intrigued by everything this group of adventures has to offer. Better scripts, more powerful scripting, a headless client for my lonely bot that runs in the Amazon Cloud if I can port her. Perhaps adequate performance for her to have a sister. I am highly intrigued by the apparent ability to script in Python, a language I have wanted to learn for years, but have not had a project for. If only I could script in UO in bash... but I digress.
I run a teamspeak server for my guild, if anybody wants to drop by for a chat, PM me and Ill send you the address. I hope that you will have me as a member of your community, and that this will be the opportunity to learn a new language, and take my scripting to the next level. I love scripting in borne shell, but have much to learn about UO scripting before my fun scripts can be nearly as useful as the ones I build at work. Hopefully, this community will be able to help me bridge that gap. If there are any truly spectacular examples of documentation I should read first, or read again and again, I hope you will point me in their direction.
For those who are wondering, when I am not in the lands of Britannia, I am a Senior System Administrator for medium sized company, and a HAM Radio operator... president of my Radio club in Pittsburgh. I look forward to seeing you in the forums, and perhaps even on the shard!
-- Kahless / Kortar / Brian
