[bsftcs]

I entered through the swing door and strolled casually up to the bar. But I could hardly recognize the place. Was this really the place where up until recently there had been a constant din of visiting guests logging on and off? I went out again into the forum to check, but sure enough: This WAS the Boogre Bar. I went back inside, the thud of my boots resounded in the bar room as they left their marks in the damp saw dust. The bartender looked up from the bar counter grunting while still resting his chin in his hand. "What'll it be?", he asked scratching his loin. I was about to ask him where all the guests had gone when I suddenly realized that it had been quite a long while since the last time I was here, and thus my Boogre accent was a bit rusty. I paused for a moment to recollect how speak this dialect. I pushed forward my lower jaw, so that my underhung jaw almost reached the counter, and with a guttural voice, speaking as if I had a hot potato stuck in my throat, I asked him: "Uhm... where are uh... duh other guests"? He looked atme as if I were completely mad I suddenly remembered that boogres do not have a longer memory than about 24 hours. Realizing that he was not able to help me I sat down on the bar stool with a resigned jolt that made my chain mail rattle.
4 days!!! had it really been that long since any other guests had been here. Once again I checked the list of visitors to the topic, and yes: It had really been four days.
Ordering my usual decaffeinated Mana Max Potion I pondered my move. What was I to do to make my friends at the forum visit the bar more often. Realizing that I myself was not that regular a visitor I devised a simple plan: How about if I made the Boogre Bar appear on top of the forum? But to do so I had to post a reply, and to post a reply I had to have an embarrassing story or something like that to tell. So here is my list of top five embarrassing mistakes in the Gael Serran:
1. When playing the game first time I completed the game without ever finding out what happened when donating money at a temple. I just thought it was a waste of money.
2. I once equipped my top wizard with a staff of summoning. I did not hear the clink when equipping the weapon, and thus I did not realize that it was cursed until much later, when the curse had already zapped her for quite a number of statistics points.
3. I did not realize that entering either the Priest Guild or the Bushi Dojo would reset the quest to ascend to the role of monk. That caused my priest many days of running around naked while I cursed what I believed to be a bug in the game.

And last but not least the old classics:

4. The lever at the crypt took me three days to find.
5. Having fended off the pit crawler in the Boogre Caves just long enough for my wizard’s mana to recharge I forgot to change the spell before casting it thus incinerating both the pit crawler and my party with a firestorm.

I hope you fine ladies and gentlemen will join me in the bar again shortly.