Ode To Frogster

[Garis 210]

Earlier this week I went up to do some road construction near a friends' deed. The roads were a knot and needed to be wiped out and rebuilt. While up there, I got some croc aggro, and retreated to his fence gate so I could bandage up, and noticed that his templars weren't leaping to my defense as usual.

Well, I made short work of the croc but then noticed that the walls were decaying. Then it dawned on me. The settlement had disbanded.

"Strange," I thought to myself, "his fields are still fresh, like they were just planted."

I asked a few others in the alliance and nobody had seen him in a few days. Later that night I found his body on the road, south by the tundra. It was clear he'd died fighting. A few days have gone by, and we reluctantly pitched in to bring in his crops so they wouldn't wither in the fields. The road work is done. There've been some scavengers in local rifling through the bins, carting off anything that wasn't locked down, and who can blame them?

Where guards used to protect his mine from scorpions, scorpions now protect his mine from scavengers.

After dwelling on his mysterious disappearance for an evening or two, I've concluded that he didn't notice his upkeep was low, and the settlement disbanded from under him, then he logged in and didn't see anyone in alliance, his horses were gone, and he had no templars to protect him. Realizing all of this, he started south toward Tap Dance to buy a new settlement form.

If anyone meets a fellow named Frogster down there, please treat him kindly. He's a nice fellow and he's lost a lot this week.

And if this is the last we see of the man, then it was a great pleasure to have known him.

[Xallo 2,599]

What a shame. I've seen him around the area quite regularly.

Hope he finds his way home.

[ashoof 43]

He was a really nice guy,

will always remember the fun times we had in alliance chat

I hope all is well with him...