FL Player's Bio (lengthy, autobiographical replies expected)

[Diten]

Hello, everyone.

It has recently come to my attention that I have been playing this game since I was twelve - that, for those of you who do not know how old I am, is thirteen years of dedicated (addictive at times, including now) FL playing. As most of you have probably figured out, this is the new handle of Djriacen/R.Twendrist/Spark215 - that is:

Djriacen

Ehoannei Midyaerr

Alleiagh (sp?) (Something)

Deralius Knelling

Kallendarius Knelling

Rezom Twendrist

Zudarthan (Something)

Claudis Tok

Instia Everh

Rhompt

Kahnt

Invqda (Something)

Azrahn

Qidjziel (later Primusoach)

Araeund Zyther

Fliblin Ballyshack

Kripffip Blagstrap

Rilithin Corimak

Nikolovic Vernoff

Fjor Ibex

Szaen Wood

..and many that I simply cannot recall.

I have butted heads with most of you at one time or another, who hasn't? The progression from newbie status to veteran status means that you, at some point, will do something that is entirely OOC, hurting your relationship with whatever recipient was unlucky enough to catch you at a weak time - a clear case between f0xx, J.Twendrist, and myself a few years back - something that I have always hated happened, but I feel we all were able to move through it. f0xx, I am still ashamed and sorry that I, not Fliblin, resorted to spitting. That being said, I hold NO ILL WILL TOWARDS ANY OF YOU. In fact, it was you all that helped me through many phases, trials, and near suicidal times in my life. For that I thank all of you, especially Anume for being the glue that has kept this digital therapy running.

Now to the point - I do not have a face, history, or name for most of you. Whether this has been done or not on the forum is beyond me, but I thought it would be a good time to try to bring myself into the RL side of the community. My name is Ryan Zimmerman. I was diagnosed with congenital fibrosarcoma at birth and, at three days old, had my right leg disarticulated at the hip. Nine months later the cancer metastasized to my left lung and, with a thoracotomy procedure, they were able to finally send me into a now twenty three year long remission. A patient of St. Jude, my incredibly willful mother drove me from Dallas, Texas to Memphis Tennesee at least twice a year for the first ten years of my life. After such I moved into the annual visits of "phase 2," eventually graduating the program at nineteen after my last cancer scare. At five a neighbor tried to murder me by slamming my head into a gutter. At seven my parents got divorced. At eleven we were homeless, resorting to living with my alcoholic uncles and abused grandmother. My teenage years were not easy, either. Just one year after starting FL my father died of what the coroner reported as "sudden death." Drugs, FL, and self-loathing ensued. At sixteeen (seventeen, perhaps) I had a mild heart-attack, at the time thinking it was a mere panic attack. Cancer scares, frequent health issues (a side-effect of the mustard gas composite used in chemotherapy that left me unable to reproduce and the unlocalized method of radiation therapy used in 1990 - hooray proton beams!) made up most of my childhood memories.

That being said, one man's fate is another's unimaginable reality - we all go through life, and as a result must deal with the inevitable tumult that ensues. Each of our worst memories can be empathized by any other person who has experience pain. It is, after all, subjective. Perseverance, integrity, and love are what, personally helped to drive me towards the light side of my history. Riddled with statistical doubt, I proved my doctors, family, and friends wrong on an almost daily basis. Becoming sponsored by a local skate shop at sixteen, I was as able (in my own way) as my peers (them often dubbing me handicapable.) I managed to collect free merchandise from Tony Hawk, Globe Shoes, FastForward Skateshop, and Fast Times Skateshop. My senior year of high school saw a resurgence of my childhood love for soccer and as a result saw to my joining the the varsity soccer team (mostly filming, but I played a few games.) A child of St. Jude, music (specifically blues guitar) became an integral part of my life. Continuing to be the only hobby (alongside FL) that has never wavered. I currently live in Portland, Oregon with my girlfriend (an esteemed Pianist named Rachel Olsen) and am working on my first formal lessons (having studied music on my own since the age of 11.) Once I've some recordings (I've promised a few of you these and am sorry the process is slow going) I will post them, for free, here (note: this will take some time.) Throughout all of this, FL has been there for me. Each one of you have played a character that I love and respect. That means I love and respect all of you for your creativity, passion, and willingness to take the risk of showing what stories you are able to come up with. As an outsider (i.e. a cripple) there is nothing more empowering than playing a healthy, able bodied character who benefits most from their physical prowess (hence the inception of "brootle" and my dim, strong Giants.) As to avoid my norm of rambling I will give a honorable mention to my best friend, my brother, my rock through the years: Richard Romans, or, to you all, J.Twendrist. He, Morgan, Phillip - EtsoShex - (friends since High School and before) and I were once inseparable, even in the FL world.

There is not nearly enough room to properly convey to all of you just who I am, but I hope, for those interested, this is a good start towards humanizing myself with all of you. Thank you for keeping this going for so long, thank you for the memories, and thank you for your responses to this. I will avidly keep up with this post, hoping to learn all I can from the people who have been in my life as long as I can vividly remember. Godspeed, you Brootle Bastards.. Godspeed.

DISCLAIMER: PLEASE DO NOT SEE THIS AS A REQUEST FOR INFORMATION YOU ARE NOT COMFORTABLE POSTING. I HAVE LEFT PLENTY OF DETAILS OUT AND ONLY WANT THIS TO BE A TOOL TO HELP BRING US TOGETHER AS A COMMUNITY. USE IT HOWEVER YOU'D LIKE!

[Enethier]

I am Enethier, and I am responsible for many terribly played berserkers, bards, and a hodgepodge of other classes I don't PK with. I've had one other forum name years ago, but I can't remember what it was and can't be bothered to comb through the user list and look for it. I wouldn't know the password, anyway. My characters largely pass without note. I've never been great at PK, and I kind of just do my own thing with RP.

 

Ones that some of you may know:

Fizzie Ironsprocket

Laelanis Zareerae

 

That's it. The rest have been minor at best and I don't want to humiliate myself by naming them.

 

I don't have any endearing story to tell, which makes this follow-up post the worst ever. I started playing FL when I was 19, after hearing about it through a friend of mine that I worked with. Before that, I was always a big fan of fantasy and RPGs. I'm a D&D nerd, although lately Pathfinder is the much better game between the two. I've always liked the story-telling aspect of these kinds of games. Once upon a time, this fascination fueled a desire to become an actor. Unfortunately, life didn't agree, and in order to pay for an education, I enlisted in the U.S. Air Force. It was a pretty sweet gig, and they paid me far more than any 18 year old should ever have access to. I developed a strong love of alcohol, which lasted until 2013 with a "come to Jesus" meeting with the man in the mirror. After deciding that I wasn't where I wanted to be in my life, and that boozing my nights away wasn't helping, I filled the hole left by being sober on the weekends with another: I played FL religiously again. Since then, I like to feel that I have found a balance in my life. I left the active duty to pursue a civilian career, though I still serve in the National Guard. I am going taking a few non-program courses this semester, and will begin working towards my degree next semester, a double major in computer science and business management.
 

Now, as much as I love FL - it has some competition. I have been hooked on League of Legends since the beta. I really dislike Teemo, though... At first, I got into it for the lore more than the gameplay. It has a fantastic world when you take the time to read it, and the periodic "in-game" newspaper they released for a good long while was an experience that really helped separate it from the other MOBA startups at the time. Sadly, it's lost that in recent years, though since then I've gotten decent enough at the game to actually be enthusiastic about solely the gameplay. My champion pool changes a lot, I have a terrible time sticking to a single thing for too long. If something gets routine, I tend to lose interest. That said, there are a few that I always come back to. Viktor, Xin Zhao, and Nasus. However there is one champion that never bores me: Poppy. Poppy is the best thing ever. If there was a game built solely around Poppy, I would sell my soul to play it and only it with each breath until the day I die. Inb4 poppy rework inc - they always remake my favorite champs (RIP old Karma and old Viktor).

 

Writing has become another hobby of mine, and League of Legends was the basis of my firsts attempts at writing anything for other people. I'd written short stories, works of prose, etc since high school, but they were always just tools for me when designing a character, or seeking ways to better understand roles I would play. Now, when I say writing about LoL, I don't mean fan-fictions. That kind of stuff is boring to me. My work was always about origin stories, plot synopsis, theories, and alternate wordings of pre-established pieces.Shameless plug: http://www.reddit.com/r/leagueoflegends/comments/1aily3/leblanc_is_the_last_high_councilor_of_the_league/

 

After failing to find work in Riot's lore department, I've since moved on from that and have been getting back into writing short stories. My current project has actually been inspired by my character, Laelanis, and I hope to make a full-length novel of it. If ever I finish that, I'd gladly share a link to it for anyone that wants it. While I love to write, I don't want to make a living off of it, so I feel that if I do make it a regular thing, I never want to charge anyone for wanting to read something I've written. To me, that somebody cares what ideas I wrote about means more than making a buck.

 

Back to FL, I have made quite a few friends here, which is nice because the friends I had who played before all quit playing a long time ago. To those that have spent time talking with me about all the things old and new, you have my appreciation. I'm very passionate about the things I like, and this game is one of them. To exchange ideas and reactions with people that feel the same way has always been fun.
 

[Twinblades713]

I am Twinblades, you probably know me as a smartass who plays a lot of shamans, thieves, and invokers. I was a newbie for a long time and even now I have too much to learn, especially among the myriad of (as I perceive them) recent changes. I had a lot of rage in my early years and I've slowed down a lot lately. RP has been the chief allure of this game for me. There is so much talent here it makes my head spin, from one of my best friends Deykari to Anume who has kept this game alive for countless years. Djriacen has been around too long, I remember beating your early characters down and now I'm lucky if I can even get you to run away in a fight. I remember becoming the last Demon crowned by Malchaeius, and the first (and only as I recall) Psionicist Avatar. I have played too many games to count in my life and I have zero doubt that FL has accumulated by far the most hours.

 

I started playing FL circa 2003, when I was 13. I'm 24 now and I have a character, the time goes by. Aside from all the failures and characters I can't remember to name, I have played:

 

Dendor

Wiimu Smurblin

Yxcelyss

Dzrilx

Ulyth

Perniciant

Koortu

Shenzar

Wuuipo

Seleca

Kumspytch

Kyril Vaelon

Nikalotl

Oppressant

Scorvale

Nezzar

Velian

Tenodera Aridifolia

Gardric Calgary

Malin Kalendys

Saunic Distora

 

I grew up in a trailer park as an only child, raised by my mother. We moved a lot but stayed in the same area, and I remember playing FL on Dialup before I even got to highschool and screaming at my mom whenever someone would call the house and drop my connection. I didn't have my first pinned character until I was about 18, five years after I started playing. The above list doesn't even mention most of those subpinns because I hardly remember them myself. The game and world within was so magical I got lost in it and never really had a clue, in addition to having played Telnet for the first several years before I figured out what a client even was. I've taken several healthy breaks from FL but as has become evident, one cannot stay away. I've got my own house as of 2011 and I live in Eugene, Oregon. (Djriacen, we really gotta get a beer) I've lived here all my life. 

 

I also play League of Legends rather religiously, since my best friend in highschool got me into the beta in 2009. Since grade 6, I had not been in school without studying at least two languages. I'm roughly fluent in spanish and french and speak severely broken japanese. I own a business, taking care of disabled adults since 2011, and I have a 2 year old pitbull. I met a wonderful gal from Australia who, coincidentally, I am marrying in February of this year.

 

I'd like to take this opportunity to thank everyone here who has given me a great part of my younger years, and to apologize to any I've had unresolved issues with in the past. New beginnings are always wonderful and I've gotten to appreciate both the real time applications of this game and the nostalgia that lies within it from many years ago. This place is and always will be great.

[Insepiddeception]

You still dancing, Twin?

[hotspring monkey]

Hello,

I go by name Mika in real life and I think I started playing here in 2001 or 2002. One log I managed to find from old network54 forums confirms at least the 2002 part.

This was not my first mud I started in, as I played one another in 1997-1998 to 200something. My chars have not been very successful or known and I have had no knowledge of OOC forums before I returned in here in 2013 as complete newbie again.

 

Some chaps I recall and am willing to name:

FL1.0

Nazdreg Urdgrub, Warmaster ogre warrior (I nicked the name from WH40k books back then)

Khaine, assassination rp ninja

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FL3.0?

Ernash Roin, stormgiant zerk

Ottakai Suihi, slith thief Syndicate 

Neggimthrug Towntrampler, ogre zerk Warmaster

 

 

 

History:

I was born in 1983 to cold, grey Finland that longed heavily for its neighbor - Soviet Union.

Childhood? I survived. Only just that Chernobyl explosion happened and my country is not that far away from Ukraine. We had radioactive fallout rain on us - but luckily I was not raised in the most heavily radiated places. At about same time my parents divorced and in trade for mom I got evil step mom from hell. We were banned to see our real mom and the step mom wasn't really there for us. That has just lead into situation where I don't know my real mom nor care for the step mom either. This has caused some conflicts and the aftermath of those reflect to my life today. 

 

My interests were in playing hockey, computers/video games, real life war games, hiking and such. I rolled the quite shy trait, so I wasn't that lucky with girls in my youth.

 

Step mom kicked me out from the house in 2002 when I reached adulthood and graduated from high school. The year after that I spend in the Finnish Army. I really enjoyed my time there and perhaps got rid of the shyness that had limited my pimp powers earlier. I got out in January 2004 and I started my studies in university of applied sciences.

 

Blah blah blah

 

I was bit lost on what I wanted to do "when I'm more grown up", so I stopped my studies at work and went to work in airport security. Perhaps I spent too long in this area, as I saw its glory and downfall. I should have left the airport in 2009 when we got fired due other company winning the deal for the next three years. But I chose to continue on this job and went to work for this rival company. Probably a bad decision? 

 

The year 2010 till today has sucked badly. There has been some good moments in there but lately I just remember the bad stuff.

2011 I met the love of my love.. but never put your willie in crazy and I ended up being her pallbearer later that year. Some therapy and stuff followed that ordeal. Still, I remember her with warmth. I remember we had talks about death rate of same aged youth from her hometown (oh we had talks about joyful stuff too). I remember jokingly suggesting that Chernobyl fallout might be the case. I didn't think much of that.. just genuinely wondered why so many of her friends had died in that town due different reasons as I had no friends that had died so far. She had some tumor growing in her female parts, but that was not the reason she died. It was plain suicide.

 

My family did me a trick and evil step mom saw this to be a great opportunity to have a little payback for the crime of not thinking that she is my mother. Ha! Never I will do that. Some drama followed this, but it's all good again. I also ruined my good credit so I got in debts and eventually in foreclosure. The idea of staying at the airport for rest of my life started to look bad so I started to try to get back to university again.

 

In 2012 I met the woman whom I am with nowadays. Looking back now, I just wonder what the **** was wrong with me to go with her? Well this was too close to the death of my loony ex so perhaps that had something to do with that. We had good times, but in the end she tried to change me too much to be a perfect husband for her kids - which she wanted in hastened timetable. Everyone enjoys some good pressuring right? She is also from the town where my EX was and apparently they knew each other in their youth. She has hypofunction of thyroid gland and some other bad genetic issues. Coincidence with the fallout from Chernobyl? I think not. Her aunt has thyroid gland cancer and she also lives there. This alone and learning about her families bizarre sickness' made me think that I will not have babies with this woman or at all. I am asshole too. We have been to relationship counseling in the end of last year and we both knew this relationship was dead, but she was hanging on and I did not have the balls to call it quits. And now I am stuck.

 

I will return briefly back to 2013 which was good year.. I got back to university and started playing again here in FL. At least something good for a while as this reminded me of the time of "safe youth" of going to high school and mudding too much. I got to know few people in the game and after outside of it. Most have been helpful and you know who you are. Keep on trucking!

 

2015 was a good start in FL, shite in real life. My gf / wife in law found a tumor from her right breast and it turned out to be bad one. Complete removal of right breast within few weeks. I feel bad for her as I was about to truly end this relationship in spring ... 

 

F me and from totally selfish point of view; F my luck with women. 

 

TL;DR Don't date radiated chicks.

At least I will graduate in Q1/2016. Telecommunications engineering.

 

 

TITANSPEED

[egreir]

Wow you guys. Just wow.