That's a good point, however, I'm getting inclined to believe that a significant portion is age, this computer is about 6 years old and, being a laptop, been dropped a few times...
I gotta fix this thing up anyways, been meaning to sort out the registry and defrag the HD and archive the stuff I never use... that's on the to-do list along with taking the Trans-Siberia railway and swimming across the English Channel...
Edit: Ahh, so the intestine thing was a Mohrg... pity I didn't have that knowledge IC, I'd have been able to make a joke about it not returning books to the library... Jeez, that thing is creepy.
Hmm, Shadow Evocation is quite a useful spell to a sorceror... might be worth picking up.