[Redhawk]

thank you so much for the constructive criticism. i did some pondering about last nights trip into the crypts and realized that stump's muteness and efforts to communicate need to be vastly improved. 1) it is a failure on my part to think that if there is a sword in one hand and a shield in the other, that stump can communicate at all -- beyond emotes (pants, pointing, etc). 2) low intellegence is low intellegence -- i have been pondering the fact that low intellegence in stumps case has a lot to do with the fact that he can't speak, also keep in mind that stump did learn sign language or was taught sign language by a very patient elf (it's all there in the background). Whipsers and tells are not how i want to go, it negates the ideas behind world immersion -- same reason i will never say OCC and then speak.... this of course becomes MONSTROUSLY close to impossible when i'm trying to work around the fact that stump can't accept a barter. Stump is routinley mocked, ridiculed and i get at least one tell a game that i need to change his name. which confuses me because the floaty name isn't really visible to the characters -- he introduces himself as *points to chest* *makes sign for stump* it will get better as i sort out the details, last night i made some mistakes and i will have to learn to live with the fact that stump isn't going to be all that well accepted and understood -- i choose the character concept because it challenges me. i did not know about the sign language ear, i will put in a request for it. thanks for your patience and your pointers, redhawk