*sigh*
Trebr, seriously, you need to start coming to EM events and discover this with the rest of us.
Yes, the Shadowlords were creating a new Gem of Immortality under the daemon temple on Fire Isle. In fact, you can still get to the cavern they were using..
Anyway, when the Shadowlords were defeated the Gem was confiscated by Dawn. About a week later we went on a quest to find a blackrock mallet and chisel. Once found, the Gem was taken to Blackthorn's Keep.
As Dawn was about to smash the stone, Casca appeared and begged for his life. What was Dawn to do? Allow the Gem to remain intact and hope nobody tried to steal it while Casca was put on trial? Or destroy the Gem 'now', regardless of the consequences to Casca?
She made the right choice; she put the good of the world above one evil man's life. And yes, Casca was irredeemably evil - there can be no question about that on GL. EM Malachi went out of his way to show that Casca was behind multiple treasonous offenses. In fact, I still have a copy of Casca's journal - he would’ve been hanged on that alone.
Dawn made the kind of hard choice that rulers have to make.
There now, was that so hard? I'm sure that there are plenty of other players besides me who'd like to know what's going on, who for one reason or another
can't make it to every event! Maybe can't make it to any.
I'll tell you honestly, I went to 2 events with unknown characters. And those two events were very much like the old days, where all I did was follow the gates and beat on evil beings, not do enough damage to get anything more than a few coins, and that was it. I couldn't even keep up with the story because it was moving so fast. Gate/go/gate/go/fight/waste time/gate/go... Now maybe these were not the norm, but how was I to know? You all, with your "inner circle" and all, never telling anyone publicly what happened or if anything happened, separating yourselves from the rest of us at Stratics, haven't been much help.
But here's what ticks me off the most.
I, I who was the
only UO player to make note of and research the
Black Necklace, and put all the time into that as I did over several
years, and not one, NOT ONE, of my old "friends" on GL told me anything about
this Gem? When it has so much to do with what I spent so much time on to bring to you? Besides the fact that all most of you did was give me a hard time about it. And you people expect me to want to join up with your group?
It seems like a waste of time, if people aren't going to talk about things and keep others informed. Unless, of course, I can make every event to keep up, which I can't.
And by the way, I'm not really as angry as I sound here. I'm just being dramatic. But I still have this point to make, and I feel like it has to be done, and I like the dramatic. I'm a roleplayer.

mkay?