OOC: About Us
In the darkest hour of the IR, Kaboom created a thread called Who Are You IRL?
I have copied this thread and pasted it here.
I thought it appropriate, and that it would help Mr. Draco with his effort.
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Understand something, my friends.
I did not end the IR, and say: Whew, what a relief that's over!
I am, instead, depressed.
I am suffering from IR letdown.
I had to close the book.
I did not feel it was a good idea to continue the IR under the Doctrine of Endless Struggle, which TSR created.
I felt that the IR would rot, if I did that.
Rot, decay, losing player after player, until only a few remained, playing in a game gone utterly stagnant.
There had to be an Ending.
In my opinion, at least, all well written books have an Ending.
So, I brought the IR to an Ending.
It hurt to do so, but I did it because it had to be that way.
I hope it was an Ending that left most of you - apparently so, based on your responses - feeling satisfied that the story was properly concluded, and no artificial contrivances were involved (you all almost did die, by the way - I wasn't joking about that when I posted my message to Melkor.)
I wanted an Ending that was climatic, heroic, and grand, something that would be remembered.
I couldn't do it myself - you made that ending possible with your dramatic roleplaying on the last day, yesterday.
The unfortunate thing is that, the better the book, the greater the pain after you read the last page.
At least, that is my experience.
The horrible thing is, if there is no pain after closing the book, the book was probably a failure - at least for me it was.
So I guess the IR was a success for me, for I feel lousy, and I regret badly having to end it, and close the book.
Melkor, I am sorry your side did not have a better ending.
Please remember you almost won. You came within an inch of killing them all.
Even I did not know what the final outcome would be, until this morning.
Melkor, you put a really heroic effort into your playing, your roleplaying, and into the spirit of everything you did.
I salute you, Melkor. Cheers!
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Here then, is the thread I copied, which was created by Kaboom, and which you can still find on page five of the In Character Forum:
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kaboom
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(IR)Who are you IRL?
During the long and recently aborted IR, I have been wondering what you are all like
IRL. I will start.
I am an 11-year-old home-schooled boy who goes by the name of Ben Levin. I have a
7-year-old sister who can sometimes be great and sometimes be a horrid brat. My
family has no pets, we had a dog but he had a bad case of separation anxiety and we
had to take him back to the pound. We live in a big house out in nature with hiking
out the bake door.
Who are you?
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dagger
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Not much info on me, I have a wife and no pets.
Here is link to a pic of me..........
James Lima
Oh my name is James Lima.
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Yes, I have been around all variations of these boards since June 2000......and yet I am
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kaboom
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Dagger, you look like a gamer.
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dagger
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I hope thats good and I'm not a freak of nature.
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"In 1972 a crack commando unit was sent to prison by a military court for a crime they
didn’t commit. These men promptly escaped from a maximum security stockade to the
Los Angeles underground. Today, still wanted by the government, they survive as
soldiers of fortune. If you have a problem, if no one else can help, and you can find
them, maybe you can hire, the A-Team."
Yes, I have been around all variations of these boards since June 2000......and yet I am
not a bit wiser.
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Anabstercorian
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I'm a public school 16 year old from San Antonio Texas, and I like my gaming.
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Darkness
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Anabstercorian, I must say that the MM illustration of your species is much more
impressive. Here, you look so... harmless.
Myself, I'm 24, Austrian, male, always the GM/DM/whatever-it's-called, and doing much
less of everything (including running and planning for RPGs) than I should - except for
surfing the 'net, LOL.
And I love cats.
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Mr. Draco
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16 year old sophomore high-school student in Southern California.
I love reading, playing guitar, rpgs, computers, internet, chess, science, and math. Oh,
and working myself to exhaustion because of AP and Honors courses and extensive club
work.
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Mr. Draco:
Resident Chess player,
math/science geek,
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God of Star Wars parodies, chess, and depresed things named Marvin.
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Supreme Commander Kas of the Union Military, The Godslayer, God of the Union
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Sollir Furryfoot
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15 year old freshman in highschool (MO, USA)
I like playing video games, RPGs, watching anime, some strategy games, chess, piano,
drawing, ummm, thats it for now If I can think of some other things i'll edit it in.
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Kalanyr
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17 year old high school student. (Started school a year late). I like RPGs, computers,
maths, science, chess and reading.
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Uvenelei
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Location: Madison, WI
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My name's Ben. I'm 18 (19 in a few weeks), and I'm going to the University of
Wisconsin-Madison. No major yet, but I'm leaning towards History or Theology. I like
gaming (of course), anime, ancient history, and kitties. I'm in a Dark*Matter game and
an Exalted game, and I'm going to start a Champions game when the 5th edition Hero
rules come out later this month. *sigh* I wish I were gaming more often...
Anab: San Antonio, eh? The whole of my father's side of my family lives there; in fact, I
just got back yesterday from my grandparents 50th wedding anniversary. Small world.
You wouldn't happen to know anyone named Plunkett down there, would you?
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Bugbear
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AKA Turrosh Mak...
Me?
I'm just a guy, y'know.
I'm 30 years old and work in the worlds largest outlet mall as a camera salesman. I live
in the wilds of northern Illinois, am not married, and spend way too much time on the
internet (probly because I'm not married )
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creamsteak
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Anthony Joeseph Heman
Male Human Gamer (12th); CR 6; Size M (5 ft., 6 in. tall); Age 17;
HD 12d4 -12; hp 14
Initiative: +0 (+0 Dex)
Speed: 30 ft.
AC: 10 (+0 Dex)
Attack +6 melee (+6 Dagger 1d4 + 0), or +6 ranged (+6 Paintball Gun 1d3 subduel)
Saves: Fort +3, Ref +4, Will +9
Allignment: Neutral
Str 10, Dex 11, Con 9, Int 13, Wis 12, Cha 11.
Languages Spoken: English, bad French.
Skills, Feats, and Special Abilities: Diplomacy +5, Games +15, Paintballing +5,
Knowledge: 3rd Edition +10, Knowledge: Anime +5, Knowledge: Games +15, Profession:
Nerd +15; Skill Focus: Games, Skill Focus: Knowledge Anime, Weapon Focus:
Autococker, Skill Focus: Knowledge: Games, Skill Focus: Profession: Nerd, Skill Focus:
Typing.
Summary of Gear and Abilities
Dagger (Or other conveniently available Sharp Thing)
Autococker (Ancestral Weapon)
Stats at 18 Point Buy
5+1 Feats (Normal/Human)
16+4 Skills (Normal/Human)
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William Ronald
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I am William Ronald, a 37 year-old male living in suburban Chicago. I have worked as a
reporter, a developer analyst, and plan to go into education.
My interests include creative writing, fantasy, science fiction, computers, RPGs, history,
literature, mythology, and news. I am a bit of a news junkie.
I am single, but still hoping to find the true love of my life. Hopefully, she is out there
somewhere ... on this planet.
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Zelda Themelin
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I am called Niina IRL, and I am a 30-year old female living in country of Finland.
http://www.saunalahti.fi/~zelda/Cat/Niina_2.JPG[/URL]
I love my cats, and they also were major reason for my lack of involment in gnome IR. I
have 8 cats currently, two of them are kittens.
My 'hobbies' include rpg, reading, computers, video/computer games, spending
way-too-much time in Internet, movies, writing, and variable amount of sport/martial
arts hobbies I regularily start and quit.
(fixed)
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zouron
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I am a gamer, geek, and a gamer freak hehe.
I am 22 years old, a university student at the copenhagen university, I live in a small
room that looks like I spend too much time on the net, and yes I do.
Obviously I live near copenhagen in denmark, I have an older sister, my parents have a
dog, I pretend to myself I ahve a girlfriend hehe (j/k) and otherwise I am pretty screwed
up but normal.
gaming experience is 16 years, both as a DM and as a player.
My character sheet can be found at:
http://www.bynw.com/zouron/zouron.txt
ohh was born in denmark grew up in greenland and games on the net hehe.
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Alyx
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The name is Alex Ef-you-Kay-amati. (Gotta get past the censors...)
I live in Jakarta, Indonesia, but took my first breath in Edson, Canada. My current
'hometown' would be Fairview, also of Canada; five years of my life were spent in that
small refuge, the longest my feet have stayed planted anywhere in the world. At various
times you could have found me in several communities in Canada, living in Turkey,
dwelling in Malaysia, and hopping about Indonesia. The places I've been to on a more
temporary basis are legion, as you all know from this IR alone (my Myanmar trip, and
several other brief absences from the boards).
I am a traveller, and content to wander for the momment.
I'm currently attached, and have been for the last two years.
My love of books and computers is evident to all who know me, and I have that uniting
interest in D&D and fantasy that many of us share.
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The Forsaken One
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I'm Kris Hulsen, a 18 year old male who lives in The Netherlands and who if all goes well
is going to be in university next year.
I got a little brother of 15 who's gonna turn 16 in May and 2 loving parents who are still
happily maried (seems like a miracle these days).
I spent the last 2 years as a professional gamer of the game Starcraft while coping with
school (which went well, don't ask me how) and playing to much other computer games
and since about a year D&D 3rd ed.
I would love to have a loving and caring GF but all girls do is get to close to me and we
get to well friends and they don't want to risk that **sigh** It's happening to me as I'm
typing this so I'm kicking myself in the head and I feel like crying and I really don't
know what the heck I should do about it
Traumatised by women at 18, I suck
So back to some bloody computer game and kick some newby ass there, try and make
myself feel good
Silently hoping this IR will be back on track soon... man I miss it.. big time.
Attachment: kriske.bmp
This has been downloaded 11 time(s).
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LordMelkor{Talos}
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I am Michael Kulig, 17 years old, living in Poland. I love RPG, mythology, history, books(
especially fantasy and historical ones), Internet, Anime. My alignment would be CN with
evil tendencies.
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Mr. Draco
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Melkor: out of curiosity, where in Poland do you live? I have family in Krakow and
Gdansk (i know i mispelled that, sorry, it's 4am for me in SoCal right now).
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Mr. Draco:
Resident Chess player,
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sci-fi geek,
and all around nice guy.
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God of Star Wars parodies, chess, and depresed things named Marvin.
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Proud member of B.A.D.D. (Bothered About Disposable Dragons)
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Supreme Commander Kas of the Union Military, The Godslayer, God of the Union
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LordMelkor{Talos}
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I live in Lodz( it isn`t a proper name, I cannot spell it with english letters only), second
biggest city in Poland.
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(Melkor) may yet make other worlds to be gifts to those that serve him, so that the
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zouron
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Don't worry forsaken Kris, if you are traumatised now, just think oif how you will be at my
age! (as said I only pretend to ahve gfs never actually had one, suffering from the "I
like you as a brother" phrase.)
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The Forsaken One
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Hmm know what u mean... sucks like an elephant.... Well there's always the hope that
someday the heart will really break in such tiny piesces that theres none left so we can
game like mad whithout remorse.
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Spoof
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Well the name is Bryan Kelly
AS most of you know my wife and I are going to have our first kid next month, a boy to
be named, Sean Thomas Kelly.
I an 26 and am a construction worker doing estimating/Project Management.
I live in just outside of Charlotte, NC – USA, like y’all could not tell by my hick accent .
Alignment would have to be CG – nice guy but mess with me or mine and I’ll kick your
ass
Also where did everyone get their character name? I got mine from an old homebrew
character I played. He was a weaponsmaster that was able to get a magical sword that
had the souls of 5 vampire lords in it. Over time he slowly turned into a Vampire Lord
who had the abalities of all the other vampires in the Sword, and could manifest them at
will, slong with summoning them at will. A really cool character, but nothing like the one
played here.
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Kalanyr
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Kalanyr- name of a drow half-celestial I played once. Made it to 21st level (25 effective)
before we finished the campaign. It was cool. So Festy probably saw my betrayal of evil
coming since all my characters are Chaotic Good and Kalanyr was very righteous about it.
I'm Chaotic Good I'd say but due to a strong desire not to be arrested I come off
Neutral Good most of the time.
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The Forsaken One
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Vaeregoth I made up because it just sounds nice to me (Pronounced in dutch
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And Forsaken just cause I am to many times in my life
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Anabstercorian
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I got my name off the back of a cereal box!
No, seriously. I actually got it out of the "Names of the Underdark" article in Dragon
magazine. Technically it should be ALabstercorian, where Al means dead, Abster means
memory, and Corian means Master or Liason. Alabstercorian, Liason of Dead Memory.
But Anabstercorian sounds better.
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'o Skoteinos
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I'm 17 (9 days and I'm 18), male and I live in the Netherlands (unlike the forsaken one
I *do* live in a city ). Real name is Rom van Arendonk, I'm a computer freak (and
coincidentally, my sign in Dutch is Ram...sometimes you wonder whether everything is
already determined ) I have a younger sister (15), who is quite annoying (though
Forsaken one may disagree ) and an older sister (30).
Hobbies include Surfing, chatting, (C)RPG's, other computer games, playing tennis.
My character name is the same as my user name: Ho_Skoteinos. It mean The Dark One
(it's ancient greek). Also, it was the nickname of a philosopher with a rather pessimistic
view on life, just like me: Herakleitos.
Alignment would be NE...sadly...
Picture: I'm the guy with glasses in blue.
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Posts: 634
I'm 14, to be 15 in mid-May. I live just a few miles south of Green Bay, Wisconsin, in a
little city called DePere.
I've gamed since I was 5 or so, focusing on DnD and Final Fantasy. I'm also interested
in writing, genetics, programming, and psychology.
Recently, I also got into StarCraft. I'm known on BattleNet as "Phantom Fox", although I
don't go on too often.
My char's name - Kessel GnomeWorks - is derived from my screenname (name of a
gaming company I was going to start up), and the first name just came out of the blue.
As for the NPCs - most of them I made up. I've got an interest in Japanese, so one of
the names was Japanese in nature. A few of their names are taken from writers (Poe),
and a few are friends/relatives of mine.
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Gnomeworks: Yesterday I saw a transport truck from the company: "van Kessel"
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