Eighth Topic: Jake Meyers
Mar. 18th, 2008 09:27 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
judecorpImpress 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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
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.
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.
