ScumFlash: Xristen went Xenophobe

Ladies and Gentlescum, meet our latest level 300 player: Xristen! Congratz. We cross our fingers that you saved many dungeons to get out this XP valley of the doomed and that your journey to Halfway Evil is smooth and quick.

War Dreams, Chapter 6

Siarah GASPED and sat up. She looked around as she reaches up to test her neck, her breath in ragged bursts. Slowly she starts to understand that she is back in the cavern. She tears back the blanket and dashes for the door, her hands over her mouth. Twisting out of the doorway, she drops to her knees and crawls to the longer grasses. Vomiting repeatedly, the woman fights back a swell of panic over her inability to breathe through the bile spewing out.  

A bird lands besides her, eying her for a minute. It was one of the smaller ravens, probably trying to earn honor by watching Siarah, and finally saw a chance for that. It leaps into the air, taking flight into the woods. It’s noisy cawing announcing its urgency to its brethren, the sound retreating as it plunges into the dark foliage. 

Soon, the Raven King emerges, its mighty wings making short work of the distance, the flap of the wings followed by his court, for all the birds were of a curious nature. They were as fascinated by the little girl as their king, and even more entranced by the kings reaction to her. The king cuts low to the ground as he nears Siarah's home, changing to human, and then adjusting his body down to Siarah's size as his feet land in the grass. He scoops up water from the rain bowl, and brings it to the little lass. 

"Siarah, what is the matter?" Gregeori takes advantage of the situation to touch the girl for the first time, helping to rinse her mouth, and then lifting her into his arms to carry her back into her home. As he nears the bed, Siarah starts to flail, fighting him, refusing to go near the bed. He looks at her in confusion, and backs away to the doorway, where he presses his back against the wall and slides down until he is sitting, and she is upon his lap. She is crying and burying her head into his neck. Gregeori pats at her awkwardly, and stares at the orb. This was not how he ever dreamed their first touch or hug would be like. His fingers tangle in her hair, and he nuzzles into her, unsure of how to comfort her.

Several times, when she started to calm down, something would set her off, and they would be back outside, her throwing up and him rinsing her off. Finally, he gave up hauling her inside, and just held her outside. The ravens around the couple stare quietly, with one or two slipping off to share the news to the others. Soon, the wall of cliff where Siarah’s home was nestled was covered in ravens of all sizes. With a single look, Gregeori motioned to the ravens to find food, to find things to ease Siarah’s pain. Many took off with a cawing to accomplish the tasks. Several taking buckets – those with the king’s blood, those who could shift. They would see to a warm bath for the girl.

When Siarah can no longer stand, and there is nothing in her stomach to leave, Gregeori picks her up, brushing back her hair to wipe her lips and offer more water. That is when the bruises around her neck were exposed to him and his court. Dark bruises the size of a warrior’s hand mar the pale skin around her neck. Seeing that, he roars - or would roar, the roar quelled inside of him instead of where he would scare Siarah. The court of birds behind him held no such respect, and cawed, flapping their wings in dismay and taking flight in short circles of agitation.

He lifts her to standing and starts to inspect her despite her tired and feeble attempts to push him away. The torn nails were discovered, and more bruising on her arms and legs, to his confusion. "What happened, Siarah? When did you do this?" He held up the hands, his eyes looking into hers.

She tugs at her hand, trying to hide them as she does her neck and the exposed body. She looks away, blatantly lying to her friend. "I did this gardening the other day." She reaches for the torn dress, too weak to put it on, and rests it over her breasts, feeling ashamed.

Gregeori, knowing her patterns, wanted to shake her and scream "LIAR" but instead he points out quietly, "It rained for two days straight, and then the battle before your doorstep happened. Your hands would have healed. Siarah, I am here to help, but you need to tell me the truth"

  

Siarah does not believe the truth, so she stares off into the distance. The birds who were gone when this happened were starting to trickle in, setting their gifts and supplies off to the side as they sense the agitation in their king. Gregeori crosses his hands, standing behind her, waiting. His anger at the harm done to her scares everyone in the area, including him. Better to sit back, better to give him time to cool, and Siarah time to gather her thoughts.  

No Birthday Bashes & More (June 2014)

Sadly, no Birthday Bashes & More for now, because someone broke our data gathering monkey. I'm nut sure what happened or who is responsible, but...

Halfway Evil: Evil Hym is halfway there... (to kick Lavidavi's behind?)

And we got another one. Ladies and Gentlescum, let me give you Halfway Evil Hym! At last one that actually looks the part too!

Let's hope many more will follow shortly. Looking forward to having half a guild that is halfway evil...

EDIT: And while we are at it... Check out this ancient Scum History (yes yes, I'm a link...) After more then a year of Silence and Absence we have the return of Lavidavi to the game. And this time he made the correct choice in joining the Scumarmy.

So... Lavidavi, a level 246 catriding scout with a scrapbook of 98% (see FiFi, that is how you do it) has a lot of catching up to do with all the game updates she missed. So enjoy that and welcome to the Severed Tongue.

LET THE POKING COMMENCE!

Birthday Bashes & More: May 2014

I thought we wouldn't have a Birthday Bashes & More this month, because Kamisama was tied down by female companionship again and I worried she might have broken him. But apparently he escaped, for a short time at least, and managed to spy on all of you again.

But before we go to the list of "who has enough new prezzies to be robbed blind again this month", first let me introduce you to some of our new scum.

First of all we have Nic1080. a level 280 dragonriding Scout with a very decent scrapbook of 98% instantly making him a member of our 95% club. Nic1080 is a big fan of counting as we can see in his character description and is most likely family of Count Count. It seems he has been here a long time already, because someone seems to have stolen his ring...

Then there is FFederica. A raptor riding level 260 mage, also with a scrapbook of 98%, joining Nic1080 in our 95% club. Not much is known about FFederica. She is Italian and has a thing for owls. Wich makes me wonder... can owls scowl?

We also have ViviIX, Cipio's new pet. A level 195 dragon riding warrior with a 53% scrapboo... ehr... what? Something tells me this Dark Elf has lost his way somewhere... See, even his character description says he is in the Dark Army... Something is seriously wrong here... Whatever happens here, I'm holding Cipio accountable...!!!

And finally Ninastar deserves a shout out! She finally had the plastic surgery she has been talking about for months now and has a totally new look. I Always figured she had a crush on Quilp. And her new features totally proof me right!!!

Welcome all and let's hope your stay in the ScumPond will be fun for both you and the rest of us!


Valley of Awful XP
Condolences to you scum.For you have reached an epic level, but will have to beat many dungeons to get out of this XP Valley.

• 325 – Ghettoforce
• 275 – Cipio

Nice Round Numbers
Congratulations to you scum, your level looks nice and round.

• 340 – Alyxyn
• 330 – Redwood18
• 310 – WTFmybeer
• 280 – CrusaderBin
• 270 – Veha
• 250 – FFrederica

Top 3 Levellers of the Month
Yes, that is it! Show those other lazy lowlives how real Scum does it!

• 11 levels – NGemN8r
• 6 levels – Veha
• 4 levels – Ghettoforce

95% Club
This month we have 4 new members to the 95% club, Nic1080, FFederica, NgemN8r (who gained over 11% in the last month!!!) and Jmardo... and we got a new worst scrapbooker in our guild with ViviIX. Come on ViviIX, 53% is totally unscumworthy. Get to work beating those small players and get their stuff. It is not that hard to at least reaach 75%

Random Data of the Week

Something Important to get you through the month:

• Check in totally sucks lately
• The fact we seem to be a lot stronger then Water Deep doesn't mean you can just run around and not check in.
• So get back in there and start checking in again. You know we attack twice a day. With a check in window of 10 hours, it shouldn't be too hard to join every single battle...
• 4 MIA's for our monthly dungeon attempt is WAY too much! We even did worse than our last attempt.
• On average we gained 16 spots on the HoF. I think we can do better than that though! So let's make sure we gain at least 25 more spots on average by next month! (yes Quilp, you too!)