Angelsboi passed away 16 Jun 04 (was: Angelsboi Health Update)

[Pinotage]

Prayers

Angelsboi once played in a PBEM game with me. I remember him and his character fondly. My prayers go to him and his family in this sad time.

Pinotage

 

[hong]

Damn, and I thought _I_ was having a bad week.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

*Sniff*

I first met Angelsboi as an online personality through these boards, and then -- completely by surprise -- met him in person when I joined a new gaming group after moving to the Atlanta area. He had an amazing sense of who he was, and his imagination and dreams were bigger than all of us. When I later took over DMing, he brought some of the most memorable and emotional characters and moments to our game in the form of Bernadette and Sir Richter Belmont (see the early parts of diaglo's Banewarrens d20 story hour to relive some of his best in-character moments). He always brought tremendous fun to our table, and it was a great loss when he stopped gaming because of his illness. He will be missed.

Though collective memory may be the best memorial, is there anywhere on this site we can memorialize him and others (ChairmanKaga) for the future?

Edit: Here's a sample of some of his storytelling in a series of adventures he DMed.

 

[johnsemlak]

For reference here are searches I made of posts by Angelsboi:

Posts made by Angelsboi

Threads started by Angelsboi

 

[Carnifex]

Rest in peace, Angelsboi.

 

[Li Shenron]

Poor guy... And even more sad to think of his mom, I remember he said she had been going through a lot in her life, but no parent should ever see her children die

I want to... try post a smile here. Maybe it's a stupid thought, but I have the feeling he might have appreciated

See you

 

[Nightfall]

May angels grace you, wing you up on high and carry you unto the Light of Heaven.

Angelboi, we'll all miss you.

And for myself, a great loss today, but hope that now he's beyond the pains, struggles, and toils of this world.

What dreams may come, may they be better than any can imagine.

God grant you his grace my friend.

 

[diaglo]

Ryan,

i'm just glad i had the chance to know you.

David





(for those who never met or saw Angelsboi's posts visit the story hour in my sig pages 1 thru 19.)

 

[JeffB]

Now he can begin his new journey without suffering and pain.

He will be sorely missed here, but not forgotten.

God Bless.

 

[Mathew_Freeman]

My own greatest memory of Angelsboi isn't a specific event. It was a general sense of him, back when I was new to the forums here.

It was, quite simply, this: He was so open about who he was. In an online environment, where so many of the people you interact with are strangers, it must be so hard to be up-front and honest. And yet here was this person who was gay--and open about it, and happy about it--in a forum not specifically devoted to that topic.

And it didn't matter to anyone.

I'm not sure why that's so important to me, except that it, more than anything else, proved to me what a great community this was. The fact that he was comfortable here proved that this was not a place of hatreds or judgments or misperceptions.

Angelsboi, by himself, helped shape my perception of EN World as a community, and as a good place to be. I really didn't know him very well, but I think maybe he'd have liked that.

This echoes, pretty much, my experiences and thoughts of him. To meet someone who, by their enthusiasm and by the joy they have, makes something that can be so contentious uttelry irrelevant...it's rare.

Best wishes to his loved ones, and if it's possible to archive this thread once it's done I think it should be.