🚀 go-pugleaf

In addition to all the good things that I've read about that should
be included in Ultima 9 the one thing I think should be included concerns 
the plot.

In Ultima 8 the Avatar trashed his virtues. It's happened. None of
us enjoyed that but it's part of the story now. The Guardian set out
what he planned to do. To make the Avatar the "pitiful hero of a fallen
ideal." (insert horrible laugh). In the course of the story now only
did the character have to steal and murder to advance through the game - 
(Thou has lost an eighth......) but by the end he leaves Pagan in even
worse shape then he found it. The ends should not justify the means.
At least not the a person who claims to be an Avatar.

Therefore in Ultima 9 some of the character devolpment should deal
with the Avatar trying to regain the virtues he lost and becoming the
Avatar again and not in just in name only. Origin could have some
wicked fun in this. We could find out that all the actions taken on
Pagan had a equal impact on Brittianna and it's the Avatar and not the
Guardian who in fact destroys Lord British's relm. Or LB, seeing the
depths to which the Avatar has fallen, could summon a new warrior to
take the quest of the Avatar and part of the game would be spent in 
competion with this computer character.

Of course my personal favorite is having a reformed Blackthorn,
maybe on the road to Avatarism himself, come in at the last min.
to save the day. He....He...He....

Jim