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Post by Mahn on Oct 13, 2005 21:42:18 GMT -6
You all know me as Mahn but my real name is Daniel Michael Ferrero. I was born on Thanksgiving night in 1987.
I had a natural talent in video-gaming and sports. I still have an Atari somewhere along with my NES, SNES, and Sega consoles. I also played several years of soccer, football, baseball, and basketball. I have played many games over the years and developed a liking to RPG/RTS games.
It was 6 years ago that day I met Kija and his twin brother and been through alot ever sense. I was first introduced to BYOND...well...the date on my key. The first game I came in touch to was FF:THG. I came into "obsession" with that game along with MLAAS. I survived the warfare and feuds from Version 1 and lasted till Version 4. I played for about, a year straight on Version 4 to become a level 36 Whitemage.
During that time, we heard that FF:THG stopped with production and I took the liberty to talk to Dagolar about taking over. I later then took it over with Kija and enlisted help into making Version 5 possible. After several years of Version 4, Version 5 was released and got a major intaking of players. Version 6 was released shortly after and then Version 7.
I have stuck through this game's good and bad days and aren't leaving yet. I may be called an asshole and a Nazi because of my major "whip-cracking" but it is needed with the community. I was asked a question awhile back..."Mahn, why do you and the other admins make this game?" -- I feel an obligation to give the people what they want. I enjoy making the game, you enjoy playing it, so it is a win-win situation. Despite what bad things people say about me, get to know me well, I'm a good guy.
This is a little information about me and I hope everybody else does the same.
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Post by Mettool on Oct 13, 2005 21:46:48 GMT -6
I am Mettool and I am a pimp.
...I'll post more later.
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Post by Hiroshima on Oct 13, 2005 22:05:35 GMT -6
Obviously, I'm Hiroshima, my real name is Ryan Douglas Keiser and i reside in Pennyslvania, i was born January 9th 1990. I am also the youngest Brotherhood member to date.
ever since i was young i have played some sort of video game although i never got too in touch with anything lower than a N64 (which i regret) due to my age i still love video gaming.
Sports i would play if had the endurance (the running for long periods of time during practices) include football,Soccer,Ultimate Frisbee.
I came into FF:THG through Kija and a friend of ours. it was Version4 so i cant say i've been here as long as some but oh well. throughout Version 4 i played with Kija mostly and i got to a lvl 31ish with my WM then i just stopped going onto BYOND in general. 1 year ago before Version5 came out i remembered about FFTHG and came to check it out.
I dont do a whole lot for the game as of yet, my coding lessons from Kija stopped when school came 'round but do have jobs which you'll all notice in Version8. heh heh heh
thats about it for me so uhmm...yea.
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Post by talon on Oct 14, 2005 14:52:16 GMT -6
In game, I am Reap, one of the newer, and yet older BH members. I was born in 1985, which makes me 20, and roughly 3 years older than most of my active comrades, it seems... Outside of the game, I'm known as James, and as Talon to a rare few, hence the forum name. I don't quite go out much, as I dislike crowds of all sorts, not into sports, or going to school. But rather, when I'm not at home, it is usually due to errands and work. But, while I am here, I am often online, which I always keep the game up, keeping my overly hyper-active dog out of trouble, or playing games, which I as well have a talent for it seems. Four years ago or so, I first came to Byond. An old friend showed me the website, games, and the likes. During that time, another friend that I got to join Byond, showed me this. That was back in version 4, after it lost it's host(s), and was openly hosted by the public. However, I've lost the internet during which for a few months and came back to find version 5, hosted by an admin, and I have been here since then and possibly always will be, if not forever an admin, as a player as I do enjoy this game. I try to be the kinder BH, as I believe everyone deserves a second chance, unless it is something that will be harshly repeated. Like spamming, I don't deal well with it, and will ban you as fast as my commands will let me. But, as with other things, I try to be reasonable, and think about you/the other person's view, and not my own to determine what the outcome will be. May add/word better things later..
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Post by talon on Oct 17, 2005 14:02:48 GMT -6
Slick - My whole name is Ainsley Stephen-David Popwell II( i hate being called a "jr.", born on October 3rd 1988 in Queens, NY. My parents are both from Trinidad, an independant island on the north coast of South America, i love it there btw. That explains my British whiteboy name, i go by Stephen...Well, when i first came onto byond, i was maybe 12, my original key, slick8052, was used for the really old proelium and Final Fantasy Legacy, where you could kill the boss over and over again, then i remember just, leaving it alone for a loooooooooooooooong time...yeah and i just played most of the dbz zeta games and killed newbies, the good life...after dbz:hight for honor died, i went back to proelium, and i can't remember the keyname to this date. Anyhow, i started trying different games out for fun, one day, when i was about 15, i saw Sarm(who i knew from proelium) on my pager on this game, which is how i normally came into a good game, i asked him for like 20 minutes what i should do, until i decided to figure it out myself, my first char, Sliq the Daine Dragoon was born, and i have been a goon lover ever since, i began to realize a lot of my proelium pals playerd THG as well, Rapta, Sandstone, Kyou, Sarm, Danny, and now even Pooly, probably more i haven't listed, i barely play proelium anymore, this game is too fun, and ask anyone from the proe community, this community is much better despite mahn's "whip cracking" I used to give the guys a hard time, but now i try to respect them, especially Kija and Reap, they just seem really fair, they suit the position right, what i would expect out of an admin. But i like the BH, a cool bunch of guys, all of you, lol, well that is my input. Love, peace, chicken grease!
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Post by talon on Oct 17, 2005 14:03:17 GMT -6
Sarm - My full name - Spiros Panagiotis Niforos (NOT A WORD - I do NOT have an RPG name) I am 21 years old. I've been chatting online for at least 6 years and have experienced more of my share of drama (spanning at least 10 forums). I first arrived on the internet while searching for Gameshark codes for Zelda - Ocarina of Time. Following a few links, I made my way to an old website, known as HTLOZ. It was, at the time, the most popular and well-known Zelda fansite on the internet. I stayed for a little over a year, and met some online friends who I still see to this very day. It was quite a blissful little community, where the "newbies" and "elites" of the community didn't look down on each other and general nonsensical fun was had by all. I first got into the idea of roleplaying there, and have used the same character since (though he would not be given a proper name yet). One habit of mine that I broke early on was my style of manually placing each line in my posts (I'm doing this now as an example). I first started posting with an explanation how to to beat Dark Link as a child via Gameshark (which was a popular topic at the time). The first reply I got was from a person named Red XIII, with one word. "Cheater" After a while, as with most forums it seems, we got invaded. The community countered with their own invasion and a forum war broke out. It ended when someone hacked the message board (or so I hear) and the site went down soon afterward. I migrated to an EZboard where I stayed for another year or so. HTLOZ had reopened by then, so I tried returning but it didn't feel the same. I retreated back to EZboard, and only later do I find out that my beloved original site had gone down, up, and down once more as history repeated itself. After a while, I tried out Graal Online (my first online game). At the time I was looking for an online Dragon Warrior game but Silk Wizard would not have started it for the next few months. I spent a couple of years on Graal, and from time to time tried out some of the "playerworlds". One was a roleplaying server, and the name "Cyberventurer" wasn't allowed. I was thrown into a name-jail until I changed it. This was where Sarm came from, and became the name that my roleplay character finally adopted. Graal was rumored to become P2P at the time. While chatting on a form of WorldSay in the game, someone mentioned how one of his friends was making a new game called Runescape. I tried it out and got hooked for a while. Unfortunately, I misyped my password and lost the username Sarm, so I came up with Fennos instead. I'd use this name for an RP character as well. I, shamefully, was talked out of all of my equipment by someone and it annoyed me enough to not want to play the game again. Meanwhile, I would discover another splinter forum that broke off when HTLOZ went down the last time. I shared this with the people on the forum I still went to and most of us migrated there. In time, HTLOZ would reopen as HTWOZ but would go down in days. We were instantly forum-invaded, but it was actually the website host that decided "no forums" and shut the site down without a refund. (We'd later reopen anyway as HTLOZ again, www.htloz.net. I still go by "Cyberventurer" there, and everywhere else online as Byond is the only place where I go by Sarm. I did this with remembering the name-jail in Valikorlia, the Graal playerworld and figured my Cyberventurer name wouldn't fit well. Type "Cyberventurer" in Google and you get nothing but me. I feel so unique. ) I'd wander the internet a bit more before finding Dragon Warrior Online and Byond. I joined sometime in December of '01 but I would end up losing my internet connection for the next few months. When I returned, the game moved off of clicking a monster to attack and into the window system. I stayed there exclusively, up until DWO's final days. I heard soon after that FF:THG was being updated to version 5, and read that a pwipe was required. I decided to stay away from the game until then so that I would first experience a proper game instead of what I heard of as a "broken" one. I knew Druid Mettool for quite a while already, and asked him for a class suggestion that would "fit my personality". He suggested Ranger, but in retrospect that was probably a furry joke aimed at my expense. I went with BlueMage under the assumption that I'd gain a lot of stat-increasing spells since I loved playing with those. Boy was I wrong! I ended up liking the class anyway, but my one gripe was how spells seemed to cost so much or me. That is how my Pure MP build eventually came about.
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Post by talon on Oct 17, 2005 14:03:39 GMT -6
Gamer201 - My full name us Andrew Loren Peil. I'm 18 years old and I live in Alexandria, Alabama. It's a small town that I'm not even sure is on the damn map. Mmyes, sad, isn't it?
I don't remember how long ago it was that I came to BYOND. I DO know that it was before GTA:SA was released. I'll explain that a little later. I first came to BYOND thanks to a good friend of mine, whom I've known for over 2 years and have never met face-to-face because he lives in South Carolina. I remember being unbelievably bored one day, all my games, boh online and otherwise, seeming very unappealing at the time. I expressed this displeasure in an attempt to get him to RP with me. (We are admins of our own RP forum that has about 3 active members, one of which barely even counts as active.) The first game he introduced me to was Dragon Warrior: Shadows of Erdrick. The first key I made, also the first character, was named U Dye(the character was a Soldier). I saw the name in an animation somewhere. I don't remember where, but I think it might have been stickdeath.com. I also created a Ranger named Master. I was at a loss for a name, so I picked that one because I kind of liked it... well, actually, because that's what Millie called CJ in GTA:SA when they first met (when I told this to someone, it roffled his waffle).
After a few months of SoE, I started checking out other games on the site. I spent a couple weeks on Dragon Warrior Quest, then moved on. I found FF-THG. I came, I saw, I liked. My first character was the L.57 Knight named U Dye, who we all know and either love or want to kill for whatever reason. When I first reached IC, I got sick of having to rely on others for healing, because I thought most WMs kind of sucked at their jobs. Thus, Rose was born (the name was a bit unimaginative, but who cares?), and the rest is history.
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Post by talon on Oct 17, 2005 14:03:57 GMT -6
Mettool - Y HALO THAR
My name is Daniel Joseph Rohelia. I am 18 years old, and currently living at home.
I'm home because I applied to college too late, meaning I have to wait until january. I am also unemployed, because many employers think I am a Homosexual because of my long hair, and that I am quiet and look like a drug addict. I have applied to over 20 jobs in the last 3 months and was turned down for every single one ; including the supermarket that is not even a quarter mile from here.
I started BYOND with Dragon Warrior Online in September 2002. Waited 2 Years for the 1.9 that never came, then moved onto FFHG. I started playing FFHG in Version 1, and became a Bhood member in Version 3, probably because Dagolar was stoned at the time and thought I was somebody worth hiring.
I'm only gonna be on BYOND for another year or two, because it's gradually turning into a hellhole of corruption and elitism. After that, I don't know what i'll do on the Internet.
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Post by talon on Oct 18, 2005 13:42:04 GMT -6
Areon - My name is Charles Barrie Cook III...lucky me I guess, currently 18 till Nov 4. I have had a job since 6th grade at my house on a horse farm, raising raise horses and caring for ours and boarders. It's not glorious work but I miss it now that I'm in college amazingly. I have had to compete with my parents and 4 brothers and sisters to use the comp as well -.- Byond and here especially have been some of the best net stuff I've done these past years. The only forum I visited was the DW 4 on gamefaqs where all the crazy challenge quests are. One day Balzack made a post to join DWO in 2003(I think not too sure) so I joined byond and got hooked instantly. After playing till the end of DWO I didn't join any other games(unless you want to count the strange DWM game dragon lord made with a real-time battle system, but I didn't stay there for more than a few months. I remember Sarm and Druid from there). Then someone talked about DW:SOE so I migrated there and made two chars before most of the major upgrades. Hey U Dye I didn't know you were Master I remember playing with you a few times. Well anyone who played SOE at the beginning knew that there wasn't much to explore until Smack's Cave was added. Then once that had been overcome, my chars were both lvl 40ish and I wasn't able to find anyone to party with since the community all left...damn them. Then one day I partied with Delwarren and he wanted to play FFTHG and told me about it, so I jumped the boat again. This was in the middle or end of ver5 I couldn't tell at the time. I remember partying with some high lvl in dainaria who was being begged to go Ruoze training and refused. I got to ToTe on my lvl 51 bluey...maybe 52 or 50 on Mahn's server. When they pwiped I changed class because of all the new blm's being created and made a bb. I'd only seen Neo and that ZZZ guy whatever his name was...as high lvls. Now I have a bb in ToTe once again and a rm heading there soon(I hope). Now I try to split my time between here and SOE but find it hard to return to DW with the smaller community, don't get me wrong they're nice but most will multi-key or are staffers who sit in PK, so lonely. I don't really plan on or have been interested in any other byond games. I hope I'll be able to stay here, but I'm in college now without a comp so I can only play on the weekends at home or if I bum one of my friends comps here. It's been nice knowing people from game to game, as I mentioned U Dye, Dorn/Delwarren, along with Firestarter/Brand, LST, FrremanWarrior(one of the SOE crowd that left me , Druid Mett, and others I can't recollect now it's been great. -I hope this doesn't involve too many out of game referances but it tells how I came here and all. If you want to cut anything feel free I don't mind.-
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Poolyxpop
Investigator
The Light Within
Posts: 14
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Post by Poolyxpop on Oct 20, 2005 15:59:00 GMT -6
Ya'll know me in game as either uh ... Megami, Michii, Timaeus, Rinoa, Makoto, Bella, Mistress, Blue Bell, Trinity, Empathy, Kimahri, Quistis, Bright Eyes, or Burning Mandala... [yes I have 14 chars. >_>;] But outside of this place, I'm known as Paul Michael Murphy... I've had the nickname Pooly for about 5 years now, hence the key I mainly use. It was given to me by my friend Tarren, I think, since she had a very thick New York accent and it sounded like she was saying that instead of "Pauly" and it stuck.. lol. I live in Sutton, Massachusetts and I've lived here for 4 years now. I moved here so I could switch schools, since I had missed like two-thirds of my 7th grade year because of problems and still managed to pass for the year coz I went to summer school and aced everything. The state testing here gives out scholarships for state colleges depending on your scores, SAT scores, and grades in school.... and I qualified for a full college scholarship to any state college I wanted to go to in Massachusetts, with perfect scores in Math and Biology, with a 266 out of 280 points in English... ... but I threw that all away when I dropped out of high school because I couldn't go there everyday feeling lonely, oucasted, and depressed because people refused to associate with me for being gay. I had "friends" so to speak, but they'd always make jokes about me and talk behind my back, so ... not really friends. More like people I'd eat lunch with so I wouldn't be tempted to cry otherwise. I came to BYOND about a year and a half ago [April of 2004] when my ex introduced me to it. I started off playing Celestial Conquest as a Mage class and became the first Wind Adept [advanced class], and last of the 4 original adepts. [Earth, Fire, and Water had already been taken]. Soon, the game disappeared and I moved on to Mystic Journey on Exilient's server, where people I had met on CC played and one of them had GM commands. After about 2 months of playing there and dealing with people in the game and enforcing rules as a non-GM, the host finally gave me administrative commands in August of 2004 and ... I'd probably be compared to Mahn with how I used them. We had a rulebook there and to me, that should have been the first and only warning needed before action was given if a rule was broken. Exceptions were made if the person didn't have a rulebook ... He stopped hosting, though, due to GunBuddy being an absolute moron... -cough- So then I moved on to Proelium religiously and bought a subscription months later, then became the top Druid class... Even though everyone calls me a 'noob' because of the wolves Druids use, but eh... they get kills. I've played on DW:SoE before when it was in the Unpublished section of BYOND, but... never really got into the game because of the lack of lower-leveled players. I was a very active member in the DMO and DME communities, before DMOers started harassing me over AIM for no other reason than to be complete arseholes and DME removed the Full Deck Editor and I lost my administrative commands, OOAK team status, and tournament director position... I played FF:THG on Version 4 and started off with a Blackmage and really liked it, but stopped playing when I broke up with my ex... I started up again on Version 5 and played with a Ranger/BM combo and learned to love Rangers and they became my favorite class quite quickly. Now, on Version 7... I have 1 of each class, except for Blue Mage, which I have 4 of - 2 for a dream of a friend, 1 that I kind of gave up on, and the other to help support another friend in leveling ... and ... If ya'll wanna get to know me or whatever, just IM me sometime on AIM. <3 always, Paul [Pooly]
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Thorg
Explorer
Brotherhood Retiree
Posts: 28
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Post by Thorg on Oct 27, 2005 19:59:22 GMT -6
Dale Kenneth Thomas McClurg, 24th of August, 1987.
Studying Biomedical Science at the University of Wales, Bangor with aspirations to enter Medical Research or possibly hospital work at the end (hey, maybe I could read for a PhD too!).
I guess I could say I was one of FFTHG's 'Founding Fathers' as I was there when the project started (under the clever guise of a spoon) as a programmer tasked with item and shop systems!
Long story short i'm still floating around. Enjoy yourselves and keep us above FFL! >=D
P.s. Mettool is teh pwns be nice to him he giev u cookie lol
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Dreamer
Explorer
Your Fission shall be thus Mailed.
Posts: 63
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Post by Dreamer on Oct 27, 2005 22:14:36 GMT -6
(Zomgwtfbbq wall of text, lololz)
My full name is Brandon Michael Averitt. My name litterally means "Little Raven, who is like God (?), ..." (I don't know what my last name means.) I was born in Aniheim, California, as of Augest 26th 1988. That makes me 17, in my last year of highschool, failing misrably. I'm a pretty smart guy, at least acording to my family, friends, random people in my class, teachers, and state test scores. I just hate school...the entire structure is just sad, every damn bit of it. It disturbs me sometimes, even. I cannot spell well, but most of the time I don't give a shit, as most of you know.
My father is a 61 year old Vietnam Vetren, white. My mom is a 47 year old black woman, currently without a job, like myself. This makes me an Oreo. Ironically, my father is much, MUCH smarter than my mom is, even though he droped out of highschool and was taught at an eariler age than my mother, who apparently got into college before having to drop out. They are both Christian, while I am an Agnostic Deist (pretend that makes sense...). Of course, we disagree on religion...
Paranoid Schizophrenia runs in my family. My grandfather had it, my mother has it (1 of 6), and I may have it, or get it later down the line. This also disturbs me...very much. I'm afraid I'll come out like she did...good God, I'd kill myself if I found out I would be like her.
I suffer from Clinical Depression. It is undiagnosed, but, honestly, I am only happy for around 10 seconds every 3-4 months. The rest of the time I am unhappy, depressed, suicidal, homicidal, etc. I always wonder, always. I suppose this is because I am an Agnostic, and wondering is the only natural path of an Agnostic. I don't know, but...I have to wonder. Sometimes I even wonder if I am God...
I started gaming when I was about...3-4. I liked it. I became addicted to it. I am an addict. Not exactly a junkie, but with the depression and the general lack of emotion I have for...anything...you can guess the rest. I came to Byond around late 2002/early 2003 in search of a good DBZ game. I found Majins and Mystics, eventually, which had a very good community, especially considering that it was a DBZ game. I picked up the name "Bastard" because that it what I felt like, a bastard. (For those of you who don't know, to bastardize is to combine two things to form a lesser being. For example, Pizza and Ice Cream.) That name stuck with me for a while. After Majins and Mystics died, I went over to Byond Arena, which had an AMAZING community. I am disgusted by the crap it's turned into now, considering that it was absolutely beautiful at it's peak.
I was constantly thinking. Constantly, constantly thinking. Forever. I even have created false memories for myself at times, which disturbs me. But, with my constant thinking, I came up with the name "Dream Maker Zero". I made dreams all the time when I was awake, but I could never dream when I was asleep. Does that make sense? I thought not.
I came to FF:THG in V4, pretty late, as Bastard the blackbelt. I think I got to level 16 or something, never beat Kaug, then I just stopped playing. Either that or it died. I came back in V5 and experimented with a Fighter and a Red Mage, Bastard (Later changed to Dratsab, and again to Drat Sab) and Balance. The Red Mage didn't work out so well, so I replaced him with the Blue Mage Dreamer. This continued until version 6, and Mahn's version 7, in which I became the second most powerful Fighter (not a lot of compitition there...) and the most powerful Blue Mage. (Note, I was not the highest level. I was the most powerful.) Then Mahn's server died, and I remade my characters, like most did, on Mett's server. I have been slacking, but I'm pretty up there in power I guess.
Most of you who care to pay attention have noticed that I act pretty stupid in game. I suppose this is mostly because I am rather anti-social in real life. I've found it hard to talk to people, I never really "fit in" with black groups or white groups. I am not black nor white...perhaps that is why. I don't know. I just hang out with a bunch of random people that actually let me hang around them. Very few of my friendships is actually "deep". I suppose this is why I act stupid...it's just easier. Funner. Even though I much rather enjoy thinking deeply, dreaming, wondering...I rather enjoy entertaining people also. I don't know why...
I don't know why...
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Post by Takahashi on Oct 28, 2005 4:34:34 GMT -6
Well, I'm Scott. I'll just leave it at that for now. As some of you have heard from Mahn, I'm the resident 'old man' of the Brotherhood, having been born in January of 1977. Others may know me as Takahashi, either from my days as a regular in Dragon Warrior Quest or my pre-Brotherhood days in FFTHG. I've used several names in FFTHG, at one time having a character for each class that had gotten as far into the game as possible. Granted, this was in an early version, where the farthest you could get was the center of Ranook... but I'm wandering off track. I've been around BYOND for the a few years now, first showing up around March of 2002. I stuck with games based off of Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy, occasionally trying a DBZ game or some random game. I tended to stay in the background of whatever game I was playing until it'd been a few weeks, and I had gotten used to the general atmosphere. Fast forward a year or so; I'd 'beaten' a few of the DW games and was starting to get burned out on BYOND as whole. As luck would have it, during my browsing of the Unpublished Games section, I happened to come across FFTHG v4. Suffice to say, it renewed my interest, and I started playing. Eventually, I managed to become one of the highest level players in the game, briefly being the highest level Black Belt and Red Mage overall. On the side, I'd been making various guides and stat sheets for my personal knowledge. Things like an XP table up to level 30, a nearly complete list of all monsters in the game with stats taken from Scan, rough guesses at how 'unknown' values were calculated, such as damage and how the quality of hit factored in, etc. Come the end days of Version 4, it became clear that production was effectively dead in the water. Mahn, Kija and a few others agreed to take on the task of producing Version 5, effectively overhauling the entire internal game system in the process. I was one of those 'few others', in part due to the various guides and info I'd gathered. Suffice to say that the conversion was a success; the playerbase for Version 5 matched the highs that FFTHG had seen at any time beforehand. Version 5 led to Version 6, then Version 7. Version 8 is in the works and will no doubt be received with the same popularity as the version before it. I'm not the greatest example of a loyal member of FFTHG; I tend to have days or weeks inbetween visits to the game. Nonetheless, FFTHG is still my primary interest on BYOND. Every time I play through it, little things have changed. Perhaps it's a new version, introducing various changes to the entire game. Perhaps my character is using a different stat build, so I don't hit as hard as I did with an earlier character, but I last longer in fights. Perhaps monsters have been changed; that creature that used to be harmless once you had a certain amount of defense is now dangerous because it uses magic. It's never quite the same game twice, and those subtle things are the difference between seeing the game as a chore and seeing the game as a source of amusement. In-game, I'm not quite as blunt about my dickery as Mahn, but suffice to say that I've had my asshole moments. I'm somewhat distant; I don't go out of my way to avoid conversations, but it's rare that I'll go in-depth into a subject. I'm usually content with a few words of dry humor or some commentary, and then I'm done. Outside of blatant exaggeration, I rarely appear to be excited about anything, which I suppose can come off as making me seem bored with everything. I tend to treat criticism and praise equally; they don't mean much unless they're coming from someone who I trust and/or someone who knows me well... which leads back to my seeming lack of enthusiasm. I do what I can to help out others in game when the need arises, unless it relates to partying. I'm not quite sure why, but I tend to ignore party requests. Ultimately, if I were to be asked, "Why do you still keep up with the game? Surely after all this time it has to have gotten stale.", I'd answer that it's because I still enjoy the game. I can have fun playing with one or two of the various characters I usually end up having (only four so far, but time will tell), and I can also have fun just sitting in one of my hiding spots and keeping up with the conversations. The game never feels stale, even if this is roughly the 50th time that I've taken a character up to and into the Cathedral of Dainaria. It will be followed with my 50th 'first' trip into the Death Mountains and my 50th journey into Ranook... and I'll still enjoy those trips. Besides, I can't let Mahn hog all of the glory of being an unabashed major prick, and Met can't be stark raving nutters 24/7.
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Post by Rand on Oct 15, 2006 21:55:47 GMT -6
I'm known on FFTHG primarily as Rand, the Redmage. Otherwise, I'm known as Richard Nathaniel Whitlow, though I go by Nathan. The name Richard has been in my family for... 3 generations? 4? I'm not sure. I was born on December 13th, 1984, about 6 weeks early. I wasn't expected tolive, but happily I proved everyone wrong. As for Byond, it was told to me by an online buddy, and eventually I got around to forging my own key. I made it on December 21st, of 2003. I saw this game in the list for a long time, but I hadn't ahd the time to try it for awhile. It was Version 4 when I started, and people were hosting servers. Megan's was the one I came to, and my little brother Ken (Zaiyu//Skyfer) was on there, too. I've met a lot of people on here, some of which I still get to talk to. I've always been a Redmage on here. Everyone who remembers me yammers on about how I'm that class' king. I don't agree, but hey. I was known so well at one point here that I'd log on and be bombarded with party requests and hello's, which made me leave for awhile so I'd be more or less forgotten. And obviously, it worked. But I never forgot my friends on here, and I doubt I ever will. But, honestly. If anyone you play with has a dream of playing this game and you being in their party...you know either there's a problem or you're special.
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Post by Hiroshima on Oct 16, 2006 15:57:08 GMT -6
Mettool Never posted more later =[ and good to see this thread still exists...more posts people!
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Post by Jumin on Feb 28, 2008 16:41:03 GMT -6
This thread has been around for forever and i always intended on posting my own story but never got around to it.. but here goes!
My name is Michael Young Lee. I was born and raised in California on March 22, 1987. I currently attend UC Santa Cruz. Go Banana Slugs~ lol
A friend was telling me about MUDS and GMUDS and together we searched the web. We stumbled upon a game called DBZ-Spar. One of the first (if not first? don't really know) DBZ games on BYOND by Team Ebonshadow. I forged my first key on Jun 19, 01. It was extremely fun and was not like the DBZ games that you all know and love today =P
Ebonshadow, the author of Spar, for one reason or another decided to drop his game to pursue other areas, and i browsed through the other games mainly playing DBZ-NN and the sorts.
My next big interest was Dragon Warrior: Online. I got pretty far but lo and behold a pwipe occurred, and with the never ending wait for v1.9 i lost interest and left the BYOND community.
I left BYOND for a couple years. But one day i was pretty bored and decided to see what was new in the world of BYOND. I looked through the top ranked games list and i found Final Fantasy: The Hunting Grounds, the highest ranked FF. Being a FF fan, I immediately clicked on it and tried it out. I forged a new key just for this game on Jan 08, 05.
I started out as a knight but didn't really know how the game worked. Until one day, one of the TotEs came to the first hunting ground to power train the newbs. Subzer0 trained us and i came to fall in love with the class. Thus, Jumin the Black Mage was born! Since then, I have become the highest BM in the game, with all but the RM class classes in TotE.
It's been a little over 6.5 years since i've joined BYOND and my stay in THG is what has kept my interest on BYOND for the past 3 years.
With that said, I'm excited for the future and am looking forward to v8!
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Post by Sur Realis on Aug 23, 2008 17:05:26 GMT -6
I figure, now that I've been a part of the Hunting Grounds for almost a year now, being THG's un-official noob-beating stick, like Hikari-chan is THG's un-official mascot, I figured I might as well throw my own hat into the topic. First, though, I must buy a hat, but until then...
Almost everyone here knows me as something different, some people going so far as to calling me different names. Romashi, Rdy(jin), Realis, Surly, JRG. A few people call me by my first name, too. My full name is Shane Alan Blackerby - read that again, not berry, erby. It is Irish. Seriously.
My childhood sucked and is nothing short of what /b/tards, ED lurkers, Trolls, and others of that nature would call a 'sob story', but anything I say of my mother is true. She was a bitch. I was suicidal, and came close to becoming an hero. My first friend, some of you may know as Adokad in-game, helped me through middle school, and I am forever grateful for that.
I came across BYOND when I was about... I dunno, 11 or 12ish. My first key, Younglinkie2003, was probably made in 2004, if not then really late in 2003, though I used it because, well, Young Link + random variation + year I created it = Younglinkie2003. Sadly, I'm not in touch with any people that still call me Linkie, but you are free to call me that if you talk to me, since I still use it as my AIM and YIM. The first game I played on BYOND was... oh, Dragon Warrior Online, I believe. I had never touched a DW/DQ game, oddly, but it was just the first game I stumbled into. I soon fell in love with it for a couple weeks, and I met someone, whom I don't remember, though I do know I thought him wise and old (cause he was old.) When people disappeared and the promised next version never came, I left.
Most of the next games I tried really don't exist anymore, but I would have to say were the best games on BYOND ever. The Sky is Falling, Scarey Game2, Freeze Tag by Gunbuddy, the 'Golden Ages' of Mystic Journey. One of the games I still play from that time is Icon Ultima, where I met someone by the name of KnightBlade. I haven't seen him online in three years, and I would like to catch up with him, but that may never happen. He, more or less, dragged me into a number of online games, such as MU, Maple Story, Trickster, and other things. Maple Story was a huge landmark in my online life, because I very soon came to hacking it, which is quite an accomplishment with the computer I was using because hacking it would actually freeze my computer sometimes out of strain.
Besides Maple Story, I would occasionally play BYOND, too, and sometime around this period I stumbled across THG. I played it for about a week - this was before v8 Vallatio, I can tell you that much. I believe Wisdom was still powerleveling in Cathedral, and got me to create an alt. Yes, me, with an alt. Zalam and Zalem were created. Blue Mage and White Mage. I got tired of waiting for this supposed v8 Vallatio, and decided I wanted to see the rest of the game. Vallatio fell, Kaug got nuked, then just my mother died after I was officially out of middle school, and I no longer had access to internets because I was living with my dad.
Finally, the summer before I became a Sophomore, internet access was mine, and I could finally ravage the internets, play Maple Story, Gunbound, BYOND, pick up where I last left off.
Until I saw my best download rate was 3 kb/s.
Yeah.
BYOND, fortunately, still worked perfectly, if a bit slow and laggy at times, and now almost my entire day revolves around the games of BYOND. I stumbled across THG, again, sometime late August, I believe, and that's when I created Romashi, the pure-Str Thief that failed. After getting to Skyre, I remembered Zalam. And Zalem. And I went searching through my keys, that I had collected over the years of BYOND (I now have... like, 16) and finally found Zalem. I liked the Blue Mage better than the White Mage, but disliked multikeying (all of a sudden. I blame dial-up.) Zalem became SUPAH EMO!!! became Snow Rdyjin, the first in a short-lived series of Rdyjin. Snow Rdyjin, just so you know, beat Geyzer at Level 36 and was the most useful party member on a TotE run with five other people, two having Nuke. Hell yes, Blue Mages are awesome like that.
Finally I was tired of all my characters being split among 10 keys, and late December/early January I deleted them all and started the Realis persons. At first I hated only having one area to be in, but soon I found that it was a good decision not having to switch keys every thirty minutes.
So now I'm 16. I'm a big player of BYOND, like I can play anything else. And I'm sleepy. Good night.
(By the way, I don't like random people calling me by my name, and I will stab you in your sleep if you are a random person and call me Shane.)
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Post by lordphoenix on Aug 24, 2008 0:50:09 GMT -6
Hmph, why the hell not.
My name is Luke James Mason, but this post gives none of you permission to call me any variant thereof on these forums or in this game, and you will continue to address me by character name or variations thereof.
I was born September 9th, 1987, and had to be cut out since I had the notion that I would strangle myself before even having a proper birth. Smart kid. Most of my younger days were spent with no internet access and minimal knowledge of the internet, since it was still far from a mainstream, most-every-household-has-it commodity at the time. I was first introduced to byond in 2001 by a school friend, who showed off a game called Mystic Journey that I instantly found extremely cool because of the chrono cross MIDIs it featured in several areas. I dabbled in this game a bit, I believe I had a couple of trash keys, as well as playing on friend's accounts. Another school friend who had also found his way to the site would introduce me to the world of Final Fantasy Legacy, which I would also steal chances to play when I could.
In 2003 I would finally create a permanent key and would spend a lot of time with FFL and MJ, with on and off internet access throughout. After finally being at home again after a series of other living situations, I returned to byond yet again and spent a good deal of time with Witchinglulu's still existent mystic journey server as a head GM, and would also spend extensive time on uhfrank's FFL. Lulu's server would later experience crippling bugs that gunbuddy refused fix, it was not long after this that his key information was hijacked, causing him to abandon byond totally. Frank's FFL during this time also came screeching to a halt and fell apart from the inside. I had already begun dabbling in THG yet again while frank's FFL was still alive, and had become a more consistent player. After the death, as I saw it, of my two most cherished and longest running BYOND passions, I found myself an active regular of THG, during which time most of you came to know me.
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hawkus1
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Behold the Graymage!! also catch me on myspace ... http://www.myspace.com/hawkus1
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Post by hawkus1 on Aug 24, 2008 21:22:19 GMT -6
FFTHG and personal vital statistics -
Name : Marshall D. Cooper Online name : hawkus1 and hawkus1a D.O.B : 12/01/70 Age :37 Player of FFThg since : Sept , 2007 Popular alts I have created : Hawkus1 the Bluemage , Fatal Furry The Redmage , Medik the Whitemage , and Raigeki the Blackmage
As far as I can remember loved paying video games since the earliest consoles games were available (Atari , Colecovision , Odyssey) . When more modern consoles became available (Nes ,Snes ,Sega Genesis) , I was absolutely hooked , always have been , always will be , and God help me since I own my own personal computer , I haven't looked back since! (especially since i can emulate a few of those old consoles directly on my computer now hehehe!)
The first game I ever beat was the classic Nes game Megaman! , the second game was Final fantasy 1, Megaman took a couple of weeks to a month , but Final fantasy took me months (considering i was 10 -11 years old , I don't think this was bad!) Some of my favorite games of all times were rpg games (dragon warrior , Shining in the darkness , final fantasy of course, etc...
After doing rpg's for a while I played (and spent hundred's of dollars on) street fighter 2 , arcade, sega genesis , Snes etc..., then mortal kombat and the king of fighters were my next cocaine rush! needless to say I have an incredible addiction to playing video games. When i got my first PC I played Starcraft and warcraft till i puked!
As I got older , I realized that classic video games IMO were the games i enjoyed the most , but when something fancy spots my eye I usually try it , however i have shyed away from console video games a lot these days , due to expense and 9 out of every 10 games being extremely lousy , I cant stand investing in a high priced console system , only to buy a highly rated game , and come to find out the game sucks ballz , and was just a very well hyped up game. Besides like I said I use my Personal computer for most of my needs gaming wise.
After falling in love with a real person (yes I do have a real life) , and having my heart broken after she dumped me , my gaming addiction was called into question as the cause. Well I disagreed , and continued onward and upward , I met the woman that I want to call my wife 1 day , We have had a child , a very beautiful girl by the name of Martina "Phoenix" Cooper (take a bow LP , I was inspired and borrowed your online last name, and have always enjoyed the tale of the Phoenix , the mythical firebird that rises from the ashes and represents rebirth) , I work on a daily basis as a bus driver for Cincinnati public schools. and still play video games to boot!
I got bored one day! I had just finished playing and beating the single player campaign of mechwarrior 4 , and my mind flashed back to all the fun times I had playing final fantasy , but wondered "hmm I wonder if they have done any kind of online versions of final fantasy besides the playstation version " So I googled Final Fantasy , and literally stumbled on FFTHG, I misclicked on the results page , and accidentally loaded the Byond website home page . I was happy to find out about the FF fan games that had been created. And tried them all , but FFTHG was the only one that stuck , I did enjoy FF online for a time , but after creating a character and developing it a little , a player wipe occurred and FFO literally disappeared for a while. So I started playing "the hunting grounds" . I came to find out THG is "not" a Final Fantasy game , And when we see version 8 or better the "final Fantasy" name will be dropped , but THG is a unique rpg/strategy game that I truly wish to see come to life soon , and play often .
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Enni
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And the moon light shines like a luminous girl tonight
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Post by Enni on Aug 21, 2010 12:29:16 GMT -6
Hey everyone Enni here. To follow up on the "Who are you" thread where everyone posted their characters I thought I would attempt the daring topic of asking everyone a little about themselves. Post what every you wish, likes, dislikes; let us see how much we have in common. I realize sharing personal info is a touchy subject, but I felt like posting this anyway as the community does seem a bit frayed lately.
Please feel free to continue to post in this thread whenever you wish anyone in the Hunting Grounds to know anything about you, your day, how you are doing. Like a Facebook page everyone has the password to y'know? Thanks!
Myself: My name is Cyrus. My characters are Enni, Cobweb, Fig, Mubnub, Vellum, Toke, Zozo, Skipzy, and Fresa.
I am probably considered pretty old in the community(I will be 31 this November), but I am a comfortable regardless and hope to be playing the Hunting Grounds for many more years to come.
Currently I am in the the USS Navy, writing to you from an office on a LHD7 Amphibious assault ship in Costa Rica. When my term is up in a few months I plan to go to art school in Philadelphia to be near my family.
My interests are the arts, both fine and commercial, and martial. I enjoy writing from time to time, and reading especially. I am currently reading "The collected Sherlock Holmes", as I enjoyed the new movie with Robert Downey Junior very much. Really loving the adventures of Sherlock and Watson on a daily basis. I watch Anime, sometimes by the truckload, sometimes a little at a time. Play video games when I can(though I no longer own any of the newer systems) but I still love Halo, and am playing FF1(the original game"unmodified") on my blackberry, often when I should be working ::lol:: I love live music and going to shows and dance clubs but I have gotten to a weird place where I rarely listen to recorded music. I enjoy being outdoors, the sea, hiking, camping, practicing martial arts with my friends, and going to bars at night. Playing tabletop role-playing games. Wooing women. And going on adventures. Adult swim late night while the Hunting grounds scrolls by on the comfy porch of my mothers house with a beer on the table is my idea of heaven.
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Post by lordphoenix on Aug 21, 2010 12:47:59 GMT -6
Mama's boy.
My name's Luke.
I'm on the doorstep of 23 and I feel 40 most days.
Go away.
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Post by Milenko on Aug 22, 2010 23:41:43 GMT -6
Why not? Name: Michael Main: Great Milenko or Sir Milenko Been around since roughly v4. I'm 19. I have two blown knees from sports and body building. I currently work for The Home Depot, grave yard shift daily. I can never sleep. I am currently reading 9 different mangas and have completed roughly 36. I love Mountain Dew, and have won a hat from them in a sweepstakes. I also read graphic romance novels, with my favorite author being J.R Ward/Jessica Bird. (Same person, different pen name) I have taken part in all of the V8 tests to date. I remember Stryfe before he was in the BH. And i'm doing this right now.. because I cannot sleep.
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Post by lordphoenix on Aug 24, 2010 0:28:13 GMT -6
Bro drink less mountain dew.
I wait tables right now.
Ive done every gay job ever.
EVER.
I do intense calisthenics training at the gym 3 times a week because Im going into the army and I want to be fighting shape.
Why are you still reading.
Go away.
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Post by Sur Realis on Aug 24, 2010 5:16:35 GMT -6
Now I know you be trollin' an Investigatuh, dawg.
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Post by lordphoenix on Aug 24, 2010 9:24:14 GMT -6
They see me trollin,
They hatin,
Patrollin and tryn'a catch me
Postin dirty
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Post by Sur Realis on Aug 24, 2010 10:45:55 GMT -6
Oh god. That's worse than Fresh Troll of Bel Air.
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Post by lordphoenix on Aug 24, 2010 19:49:50 GMT -6
I keep on postin I'm lulzin You hopin you gonna catch me postin dirty
Tryna catch me postin dirty Never catch me postin dirty Wish you'd get me postin dirty Never get me postin dirty
Lurkin to see if they can see me troll I keeps it legit as far as you know When you see me post you can hear em scream They whine and they bitch cuz I be so mean In rolls the new mod and he sez "hold up" Can't have you postin dis ima warn ya Just gotta say what i dun told ya, Ill put a whiner in a coma Mods you all know im crayzee like adolf hitlah Just tryna lulz, dont need no drama I keepz it clean, whine to yo momma Mods on patrol and you know they hate me (Know ya hate me) My typin speed up all the way to the maximum I got a keyboard, done already worn through some But I be packin somethin and what I have for um I'll have a nigga worked up to the maximum, scream and yell I'm grippin keys (Keys) I say it loud, whateva i please (Please) Fingers steady typin like "you bitches weax" Realis behind, brought to his knees Window is down, gotta stop da readin And then mahns like "my eyes is bleedin" Them's the skillz i got when im breezin Got warnings in every thread cept this/ But I still ain't leavin because
They see me trollin, They hatin, Patrollin and tryn'a catch me Postin dirty
Tryna catch me postin dirty Never catch me postin dirty Wish you'd get me postin dirty Never get me postin dirty
I keep on postin I'm lulzin You hopin you gonna catch me postin dirty
Tryna catch me postin dirty Never catch me postin dirty Wish you'd get me postin dirty Never get me postin dirty
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Post by Sur Realis on Aug 25, 2010 6:37:35 GMT -6
Yeah, okay, getting a bit off-topic. Reel it back in there brah.
To be on-topic, I am Shane. I am a homosexual in Texas. I wonder why I haven't been lynched yet.
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BigFatBob
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[glow=pink,4,150]Apprentice Soloist[/glow]
You can put TEXT here? AWESOME!
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Post by BigFatBob on Aug 28, 2010 5:24:57 GMT -6
Yeah, okay, getting a bit off-topic. Reel it back in there brah. To be on-topic, I am Shane. I am a homosexual in Texas. I wonder why I haven't been lynched yet. Because all the fat, lazy people in Texas like me are too lazy to get up off our asses and form a lynch mob, obviously.
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FenrirXIII
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[glow=red,7,150]The Original Gumdrop[/glow]
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Post by FenrirXIII on Sept 5, 2010 5:24:16 GMT -6
I'm Josh.
I discovered BYOND at age 14 in HS and played FF:THG v4 for the first time shortly after that.
By the time senior year rolled around I learned I wouldn't graduate on time in February when they pulled me out of senior picture day infront of all my classmates. I cursed the office lady out as soon as we were out of earshot and when we got to the office I heard a sob as she left me in the chair while she went to collect others.
I thought I'd be a computer guy so I did a semester and a half of ITT Tech which was the biggest and most expensive mistake I ever made, it cost $14k for that semester and a half, and by the time I pay it off I'll have paid them $20k-$22k.
I now sell shoes at DSG(Dick's Sporting Goods) and I'm really good at it. My boss is lucky I'm not commissioned.
I enjoy an active imagination and women with an IQ higher than mine or with an equally active imagination.
I can't write for shit but I'll be taking up drawing class or two in the spring to see if I can find a way to express my artistic side. Haven't been able to since I stopped playing the trumpet!
-Still waiting for v8 and plan to play when it releases, no matter how long it takes. Just hearing word that the BH hasn't given up or lost their spark is good enough for me.
-Just downloaded the FFXIV open beta client which is why I'm up so early. =)
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