Blood Jester
First Post
Let me say, to all who have suffered a painful loss, may the holidays fill your head with memories of the good, and so let bittersweet smiles shine through the tears.
Remembering Chairman Kaga
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Mathew_Freeman
Adventurer
One for anyone that feels like they lost a friend they never actually met.
Duncan Haldane
Explorer
A toast to the Chairman, and a thought for his family.
But I don't know who Bjorn is/was - can someone enlighten me?
Thanks,
Duncan
But I don't know who Bjorn is/was - can someone enlighten me?
Thanks,
Duncan
King_Stannis
Explorer
Duncan Haldane said:
I'm pretty sure Bjorn was Balsamic Dragon's brother. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.
William Ronald
Explorer
King_Stannis:
I was thinking about Chairman Kaga when I posted on the Happy Holidays thread. It has been a rough year for his family, as well as for Balsamic Dragon.
I would like to make a toast for Peter, for Balsamic Dragon's brother and all whom we have loved and lost.
"To old friends whose memory the heart still holds bright." (J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: Sleeping in the Light, Sheridan's Toast)
I was thinking about Chairman Kaga when I posted on the Happy Holidays thread. It has been a rough year for his family, as well as for Balsamic Dragon.
I would like to make a toast for Peter, for Balsamic Dragon's brother and all whom we have loved and lost.
"To old friends whose memory the heart still holds bright." (J. Michael Straczynski, Babylon 5: Sleeping in the Light, Sheridan's Toast)
cardinal sinister
First Post
It's been a rough year for me. When CK and I met we were just 8 years old. We were more like twins than friends, totally inseperable...
He changed some after 9/11, got a little darker if you know what I mean...everyonce in a while his old self would shine thru though and it reminded me that I had to be patient, that he would be ok.
He had really just started to get back to normal when he was killed.
Christmas was his favorite time of year, no matter what was going on in his life you could count on him to be wearing a big smile and a Santa hat from the day after Thanksgiving to Three Kings Day...his attitude was infectious...kinda like the Griswalds from Christmas Vacation...you just couldn't be down with him around...
I am trying to fill his shoes (or his hat as it were) this year, and it hasn't been easy...our current roster has been together on and off as a game group for almost 15 years...so they miss him, and so do I...quite a bit.
His widow, is getting a little better according to my spies in South Jersey...she is actually leaving the house now and appears to be ready to pop any day now. While it's true that she never read any of the responses to her initial post here and at Nutkinland, I did relay everyone's thoughts and well-wishing to her.
I'd like to thank everyone who keeps him and his widow in their thoughts and prayers...he could be a cantakerous old goat when he wanted to be, but nowhere on Earth would you find a more loyal and giving friend...I'd have followed him into hell if he had asked.
From myself, and the rest of his group (FelixSPQR, Ninjaboy13, Roadrage, Polaris, and Ferris the Menace), and for his wife Lisa, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and may the coming year be better than the last.
Cardinal Sinister
KS: LOng time no hear, how are you felling buddy?
He changed some after 9/11, got a little darker if you know what I mean...everyonce in a while his old self would shine thru though and it reminded me that I had to be patient, that he would be ok.
He had really just started to get back to normal when he was killed.
Christmas was his favorite time of year, no matter what was going on in his life you could count on him to be wearing a big smile and a Santa hat from the day after Thanksgiving to Three Kings Day...his attitude was infectious...kinda like the Griswalds from Christmas Vacation...you just couldn't be down with him around...
I am trying to fill his shoes (or his hat as it were) this year, and it hasn't been easy...our current roster has been together on and off as a game group for almost 15 years...so they miss him, and so do I...quite a bit.
His widow, is getting a little better according to my spies in South Jersey...she is actually leaving the house now and appears to be ready to pop any day now. While it's true that she never read any of the responses to her initial post here and at Nutkinland, I did relay everyone's thoughts and well-wishing to her.
I'd like to thank everyone who keeps him and his widow in their thoughts and prayers...he could be a cantakerous old goat when he wanted to be, but nowhere on Earth would you find a more loyal and giving friend...I'd have followed him into hell if he had asked.
From myself, and the rest of his group (FelixSPQR, Ninjaboy13, Roadrage, Polaris, and Ferris the Menace), and for his wife Lisa, I wish you all a Merry Christmas and may the coming year be better than the last.
Cardinal Sinister
KS: LOng time no hear, how are you felling buddy?
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Buttercup
Princess of Florin
King_Stannis said:
Not exactly. Balsamic Dragon's brother was killed in a mysterious and horrible way. (If I recall correctly, he disappeared,and was found dead in his car some time later--he had been murdered.) Bjorn was a pseudo-Norse god of drunkeness that the two of them used to jokingly worship in their D&D games. She asked us to raise a glass to Bjorn in her brother's name.
I now think of Bjorn as the spirit of all D&D players who have passed on.
reapersaurus
Explorer
Very classy, Dr. Midnight.
Seriously.
I didn't know the Chairman, but no one should be denied the infinite pleasures of seeing their child (son?) grow up.
Seriously.
I didn't know the Chairman, but no one should be denied the infinite pleasures of seeing their child (son?) grow up.
