Eighth Topic: Jake Meyers

[judecorp]

Impress everyone by telling them you know Jake Meyers. Talk about the old MUSHing days. And let them know that I know everything because I'm Grendel.

I know Jake Meyers. Intimately. You may find this hard to believe but I assure you that it is true. So you've heard he runs the city? You've heard he can crush people with a wave of his little finger? Also true. As sure as the spurs on his boots.

Ha! Those were the days!

I will never forget when rizzo41 came back to our dorm room one night after some time in the computer lab and said, "I found a new MUSH, it's another roleplaying MUSH, but it's set in Pittsburgh and it's about vampires." Neither of us had ever so much as HEARD of the White Wolf vampire roleplaying game system and were not even remotely what you would consider "gamers," but hey, who doesn't like vampires? I mean, really. Vampires, dudes.

So we made some characters (once again realizing we knew NOTHING about the game system) and started playing. I never got into tabletop role playing and don't really understand the appeal of hanging out with a bunch of rule books and dice and whatever, talking to people face-to-face about wanting to use power A to defeat enemy B and get reward C to build experience and buy D. Just thinking about it makes me feel a little silly. But online roleplaying, to me, ended up being more like group story-writing. And I can dig a little fiction. Somehow I gravitated toward other creative folks, folks who were less interested in "winning" and dice-rolling and more into choosing words carefully and painting a good picture. I guess that's how I shimmied my way into the power-players.

So Jake Meyers, Prince of the city, ended up being a really funny and sweet guy that we all know and love - my dear friend Guy Incognito. You will know him as the Ultimate Ratbutt in our yearly Superbowl bet (even though I lost this year, pooey!), and even though I haven't seen him in forever, I think of him often and am really glad I played that silly vampire game back in the day or else we'd never have met.

Come to think of it, I think he /caused/ the big Patriots upset. Because he's Grendel.

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[etherial.livejournal.com]

I never got into tabletop role playing and don't really understand the appeal of hanging out with a bunch of rule books and dice and whatever, talking to people face-to-face about wanting to use power A to defeat enemy B and get reward C to build experience and buy D. Just thinking about it makes me feel a little silly. But online roleplaying, to me, ended up being more like group story-writing. And I can dig a little fiction.

LOL. We have exact opposite opinions about face-to-face vs. online roleplaying.

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

And that's okay! :)

Um...

[laurajones.livejournal.com]

No mention of your favorite NANNY??

Re: Um...

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Different game, baby. Different game.

But as for the nanny... I'd hit that!!

[yerbrainondrugs.livejournal.com]

Yay! We DO need to get together one of these days. I wants to meet da Punk!

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

I want to see you so badly! Perhaps someday I shall have to sojourn back to the Jewel of Columbia.

[yerbrainondrugs.livejournal.com]

I'll even try to pick you up in a timely fashion and not leave you out in the snow this time around! :)

Wait, whut? :)

[tashewolf.livejournal.com]

Begging your pardon oh-so-humbly, madame -- and hullo!

Allow me to walk you through this, if you would.

Insomnia's a funny animal, but REALLY, what are the odds that this evening it would cause me to google Jake Meyers Grendel, I ask you...? Oh right, maybe cos I ran out of stuff to read online and was skimming the "lost players" LJ community and reflecting that I am (or easily could be) in touch with a good percentage of those I'd wanna talk to. But by no means all, and so my very first thought on that front sent me here to you!

Considering we share lu3ke as a particularly eleet LJ-friend and clearly an interest in things Grendelific, we must somehow at least slightly know each other as well?? Certainly if you know that Dark Gift is just another name for The Damned, tho I played it both ways. So curious! IT COULD KILL ME, YKNOW!!! :) (I know, I know; it'll be so disappointing if we somehow don't, cos it's hard to imagine under the semi-obscure circumstances.)

OK -- how strange, how strange. Best of wishes any old way!!!

PS I realize I should at least mention SOMETHING identifying, even if obscure. That being that I remember being really tickled back in the day when it somehow came out that apparently Senor G and myself were two of the tallest people in the real world out of a certain sphere -- but were playing the two physically tiniest characters. More to follow if you want to play this particularly obscure game with me!

Re: Wait, whut? :)

[judecorp.livejournal.com]

Ha ha, google is a funny, funny thing.

I do remember it as The Damned. Before the great schism or whatever it is that happened that always seemed to happen online when too many people with too few social skills as teenagers all got together in one "place." Good times. At that time (the time of The Damned) I knew next to nothing about the WoD and sort of stumbled along because I thought vampires were funny. The JM/Grendel connection was the first one I actually knew about. My roommate whispered once in the computer lab (aah, the 90s), "Jake Meyers is Grendel!!!" Starstruck, I tell you.

I don't know if we know each other, but I've known lu3ke since the MSVL days, so it's possible. I ran around online with the name "D'Arcy" sometimes. xo