Today I interviewed the dual wielding swordsmaster Chomp. He is often seen wandering with a longsword in each hand and a fearsome horned helmet.

I started by asking why’d they chose the name ‘Chomp’ to begin with. It turns out that the account originated as a lookout alt, since they had alts on all realms. His main was Rickbob, but they forgot the password to it one day and so Chomp became his main account.

As we talked more, I learned that he has three key goals in Aberoth:

They want to be able to train their polymorphed Orc form until it has a life level of 30. They want to be able to solo Forstyll. And finally, they REALLY want to be polymorphed into satyr and wear boots of agility while wielding a morning star and shield of the mind. Ambitious but somewhat realistic goals! 🙂

Some of you who pay attention to the Aberoth reddit might have seen that they were considering quitting the game. I asked what made him nearly quit at one point. He said it was down to the “disrepectful and raging community we have” and “the lack of Aberothian rights [he’s] getting”. He didn’t like how people would “kill someone over and over and over again because he didn’t know the mechanics of an npc when he was a noob”. And also he cited losing some good items as another reason.

The conversation moved more towards some of the things he’d seen on Aberoth in his time playing it. He recalled a funny event where his friend was flung to the rooftop at Christmas time by someone’s shockwave spell and at that moment. His friend panicked and used a teleportation scroll only to end up stuck at the edge of field, floating in the air without any means of escape, eventually having to log out to move again.

He also told of a spooky glitched player remnant he encountered in the rogue’s den. Someone put items around it and it looked like a player at a glance.

When it comes to ideas on how to improve the game, they said they’d like an open player vs player arena or area where players could fight and die but in that place it’s more like duelling, where no items or experience is lost. I think it’s a novel idea and could be fun. I don’t think already infamous or wanted players should be able to get in there though otherwise it’d be an easy way to escape their penalty without much consequence.

They had to leave soon after, but it was very interesting hearing their anecdotes and thoughts on things. 😀 A big thanks to Chomp for spending some of their time to chat with me.

P.S. About an hour ago Simple updated his Twitter… the first time since February. 🙂 Who knows… maybe this is a sign his break is over and updates for the game might be following this tweet of his. Let’s wait and see.