So I was searching for my name in the forums like I do every wee- I mean I happened to come across this thread and thought it'd be a good idea to post here.
Yup.
Started out in May 2012 with the account darkdova82. All the other dragon-related names were taken. I still have that account, use it sometimes for nostalgia purposes. Anyway, I played Single Player for... 4 hours straight, then logged out for the day. I was fucking shy, and was nervous of what people would think of me in multiplayer. For the next three days I beat the shit outta Uke until I could beat him consistently without my ghost on (I thought the people in multiplayer would be... better than they generally ended up being). Went on multiplayer the fourth day, and joined the beginner server. The one that people back then will remember existed, the one that allowed everyone into it, even if they weren't beginners.
I loved that server, and everything about it. So many varied people would join, we would all talk, people were generally pretty nice, helping out all the newbies, giving advice (mostly bad advice) and we all had a great time. Some people I remember from there, whether for good or for bad: Optiumax (aka deakmaniac), Stillbones, Aerofox, Luisxxxx (x's are numbers, cant remember them though), Thellian, Koco934, Plazma98, Sparem3, Vash7395, Ihasfuncakes, SanizGC (Kratos) and a few others.
Most of these formed the core group of people I hung out with for the first 7 or so months of Toribash. Others are just names I remember.
Bout...uh... July 2012, I made a new account, deaddova82 (I'm so original), and on the ides of July(15th), I joined the clan Psych Ward, a clan that was an offshoot of Saints. Had a great bit of fun there, We had our ups and downs, mostly downs, but still. Made clan rank 25, Clan started getting inactive, and I was handed leadership. Led for a few months, inactivity crushed us, tried to revive it a month or two later, Partially succeeded, Then I got fed up with being the only one online and I left. Right before I left I met Risk for the first time, back when he was Dyrisk (Pronounced Die-Risk, regardless of what he claims), right before he joined Zone.
Cue the loner phase. I was a 5th Dan, thought I was a bad-ass, didn't think I had anything more to learn. How fucking wrong I was.
Regardless during that loner phase, I was eventually kicked off my high horse, scrabbled around a bit in the dirt, and emerged a less pompous, more carefully observing person. All of this occurred in three days. I had my eyes set on the clan Zone, the clan my friend Koco934 had led and that Dyrisk had re-joined recently (by this time it had been about 1-2 months). I applied on the 4th of July, 2013.
I was accepted July 7th, 2013. Right away, I went about reviving the nearly dead clan. Dyrisk had since become inactive again (he's got an inactivity streak that mimics narcolepsy). The then current leader, NinofShin, resigned leadership to Dyrisk at that point (he became active again a few days after I joined). Then we set about reviving the clan again. We fucking SUCCEEDED. By the end of the ordeal, we reaped from our efforts a official clan, [Zone], an active member base, and a strong leadership. Got a namechange to Tempiar because I thought Templar was taken. I was wrong. Round this point, Dyrisk had become a Gm (actually right before we got official status), and then we met [Oblivion]. Fuckin' A+ bunch of fellows, [Oblivion] was. We started talking to them more and more, and within a few weeks of us becoming official as [Zone], we merged with [Oblivion] to create [Metagame]. Got my namechange to Templar.
Wight, Hawkesnightmare, Zanderhar, Ysome, Aoefanatic, and a few others that I can't remember the names of, these were the glorious people of [Oblivion] that we decided we liked so much we were going to merge clans with them. Our love of intellectual discussion kept us together, and we all just generally got along. Was a great time. Wight, Risk, Dannyrug and I were Staff around this era, Risk being Gm lead and Msquid, Wight and Dannyrug being a Gm, same as myself (we also had 2wc for a bit but he was only there for a week. Gets honorable mention). Good times, we were extraordinarily active during this period. Took over Risk's clan duties during this time because he was pretty busy with his staff load.
Then inactivity hit. Not hard, but hard enough for us to lose the clan apparently. Ah well, good things come to an end eventually. One thing I found out posthumously: Lots of people enjoyed our Skype-based recruitment process. I'm glad, we worked really hard developing it. List of people That were in Metagame(insofar as I remember):
Risk, Wight, Vradomor, Hawkesnightmare, Ysome, Aoefanatic, Zanderhar, Erif, Toolfree, Dannyrug, Duck, Koco934, hepimen, Laser, Clay(Soap), Fancy, TheMpk, Dartzpie, Twilight, Gentleman, Sh00.
There were more, but ya'll are the ones I remember best.
Few months later, after an EXTENSIVE (read: 4 months) break, I came to try and join TLL cause they seemed pretty chill.
Worst Best decision I've made. That about sums it all up. Still in TLL, Fear and Pv2Caribou and Arctic are all really cool people, same goes for the rest of TLL. Pv2 is the coolest though.
Oh, I also made
this thing.
G'day!
Last edited by Templar; Mar 10, 2016 at 12:59 PM.