A memorial epic

_Swish_ · Post by **_Swish_** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:03 am

Hi, I am Swish I used to be a frequent player of Illarion. I left without ever saying good bye. So this is like my story how I started to play Illarion. Old players, my popular char is Ssafar Zakarrr.

Here goes...

It all started when a friend of mine told me to go to this website and said it was the best game ever. I am like sure whatever and I came to this website looking for you know the regular type of game where you shoot people, kill stuff and move on to next level and so on. When I read the main page of the website I kinda of figured out it was something more. But I never read instructions nothing. I registered and took the test, new players we used to have a test for RP, suprisingly I passed. I logged on and you know I didnt know OCC or #me or anything cause like I said I didnt read anything. Then one guy I forgot his name, omg this is really bugging me what was his name!, taught me step by step. I soon learned good RP. It was so much fun. As time passed it became much more exciting. I still remember the quests where the server would crash right in the middle and 20 something players, i am confident every single one, would either keep refreshing the server status page or refreshing online player list, I do not know if this happens anymore but back in the old days if server crashed everyone would be logged of but you would still see yourself as logged on in the online list so if you kept refreshing and when server reset it would say 0 players online and thats when you know your good to play. I remember all the quests I did. One was the fighting match my partner was Arameh. I won a key which was supposed to be for a treasure but the GMS kept postponing and then I left and I guess it's forgotten. There was this dragon quest which was alright but after that I got turned into a cow! And then I got turned into a golem once. I still remember the lizard city we were building uhm, Taliss and some other person that I forgot.
Then it happend...

One bright day when the sun was out, well I dont know if it was a bright day or if the sun was out you know I am spicing it up, the staff decided to let people in without the RP tests. And thats when it happend. Every week constantly old players would start leaving cause they would get sick and tired of..."how do you attack in this game oh never mind I got it...*dies* damn it how do I come alive again?" Well this continued, by like 2 months most if not all of the old players left a few remained. This is the time Illarion changed. I am not blaming the staff they only did this to increase amount of players and I admit it was boring havinng 12 people all the time. Many scream at the staff but I for one say they didnt mean it and some good came out of what they did like new players but lot left thats the bad part. I logged on a few weeks ago and saw new players. RP has changed like anything. They say shit??? And I miss the old player's RP. But the new players are not to blame, I mean like when I started game I could learn from the amazingly great RPERS but since most of them are gone they really dont have people to learn from. Who knows maybe in the future some will return and maybe things will be better. I can't say enough thank yous for the illarion staff and all the players for making my experience here great. And for all those times if there was a bug or a glitch or some sort of error, when you threw your real life and sleep just so we can play again, thanks for that too. I WILL COME ON OCCASIONALLY.(SO DONT DELETE ACCOUNT OR ANYTHING PLEASE)
Many new players will come but I doubt all of them will ever understand the great game called Ilarion. They won't understand RP or what makes this game so great, which is something that can't be explained but only be recognized when you play. A decent amount will come to this game looking for shooting and levels sort of game. When I grow much older and I remember my childhood, Illarion will be a big part of it. I thank you for that Illarion staff. *tears nah just kidding I am not that emotional*

Illarion, in my book, the greatest game ever programmed/made.

Thank you all.

*thinks of all the good times...realy does get a tear*

Arameh · Post by **Arameh** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:23 am

Hey mate

Lance Thunnigan · Post by **Lance Thunnigan** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 3:53 am

You wrote that Swishy?
<3

Korm Kormsen · Post by **Korm Kormsen** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:10 am

the Swish is back!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

who wrote, they ALL come back??????????????

HE WAS RIGHT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1111111111111!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

ROFL

welcome back, swishy!

Taliss Kazzxs · Post by **Taliss Kazzxs** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:31 am

Nice to see your still alive and everything, hope you stick around

Frederick D'Aubigne · Post by **Frederick D'Aubigne** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:33 am

_Swish_ wrote:When I grow much older and I remember my childhood, Illarion will be a big part of it.

This somehow worries me..

Lrmy · Post by **Lrmy** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:37 am

When I grow much older and I remember my childhood, Illarion will be a big part of it. I thank you for that Illarion staff. *tears nah just kidding I am not that emotional*

Totally agree. : )

Achae Eanstray · Post by **Achae Eanstray** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:52 am

Hello and hope to see you ig... I didn't RP much with you before, but saw quite a few posts...

AlexRose · Post by **AlexRose** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:53 am

:O:O:O

SWIIISH! XD

<3

Welcome back

Llama · Post by **Llama** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 9:53 am

Swishy ^ ^

Just for the record, the lizard city taliss and others were building is still being built

Glad to see you got your caps lock to work

Welcome back ^_^

Post by **Jupiter** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 4:01 pm

Hi Swish^^ , welcome back!

Retlak · Post by **Retlak** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 5:34 pm

Heya there Swish, long time no see!

Skaalib Drurr · Post by **Skaalib Drurr** » Mon Sep 10, 2007 11:16 pm

Not swish I bet lol. Although he got the OCC bit right....

Nalzaxx · Post by **Nalzaxx** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 12:44 am

Illaroin

xBaurusx · Post by **xBaurusx** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 1:41 am

Zafaarr was popular?

pharse · Post by **pharse** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:07 am

hey ho Swish! Many funny experiences come up in my mind ;O

_Swish_ · Post by **_Swish_** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 2:23 am

Okay dang, sorry I want to answer quite a few of you without double posting…

xBaurusx wrote:Zafaarr was popular?

lol i mean like in all my chars...the most popular one...

Lance Thunnigan wrote:You wrote that Swishy?
<3

Yea I grew up a lot since the last time I played…I mean I matured more by personality than age.

frederick and lrmy wrote:
Swish wrote: When I grow much older and I remember my childhood, Illarion will be a big part of it.
This somehow worries me.

it was like a drum roll for the moment… I was trying to make it sentimental and …ah I don’t know you know the big words that reading teachers and people who love writing.

Achae Eanstray wrote:Hello and hope to see you ig... I didn't RP much with you before, but saw quite a few posts...

Yea I know I never post right

…
I think its weird but because of Illarion I got the no look typing thing and I was kinda of excited about that, I think that explains why I blasted the forums like there was no tomorrow

Alex and Hadrian whats up…We used to ditch each other like mad! Good times…Good times….

Retlak, Skaalib, Arameh, Nalzaxx and everyone else who I used to RP with all I gotta say is sorry I ditched you for an iPod. ( For those of you that don’t know or forgot…my parents were mad I was playing so much illarion so they got me an iPod but in return I don’t play) Ah well I got permission to play again and I wont come on ever for like a million hours, 20 minutes tops? I missed Illarion so much all cause of stupid iPod the damn thing isn’t that cool anyways.

xBaurusx · Post by **xBaurusx** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:20 am

Zafaarr was popular?

Frederick D'Aubigne · Post by **Frederick D'Aubigne** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:26 am

He means his main char.
Be nice.

Richard Cypher · Post by **Richard Cypher** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:28 am

Yes, he was popular the biggest n00b and most annoying one Illarion had ever seen.

xBaurusx · Post by **xBaurusx** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:31 am

Be nice.... Swish was cool. Remember back when he was Swish1....is this swish 2? or swish 1.5....all i can remember was you would be awsome. Then curse everyone out on the forums. then claim to be drunk. then be cool again.

Frederick D'Aubigne · Post by **Frederick D'Aubigne** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:49 am

You people are mean..

Richard Cypher · Post by **Richard Cypher** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:51 am

xBaurusx wrote:Be nice.... Swish was cool. Remember back when he was Swish1....is this swish 2? or swish 1.5....all i can remember was you would be awsome. Then curse everyone out on the forums. then claim to be drunk. then be cool again.

lol i remember when he would claim to be drunk lol...and yes some of us are mean Frederick but you would be tooo if you had been around during the swish era

_Swish_ · Post by **_Swish_** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 3:58 am

Richard Cypher wrote:
xBaurusx wrote:Be nice.... Swish was cool. Remember back when he was Swish1....is this swish 2? or swish 1.5....all i can remember was you would be awsome. Then curse everyone out on the forums. then claim to be drunk. then be cool again.
lol i remember when he would claim to be drunk lol...and yes some of us are mean Frederick but you would be tooo if you had been around during the swish era

I claimed to be drunk????????what... u mean my character?????

Frederick D'Aubigne · Post by **Frederick D'Aubigne** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:17 am

Richard Cypher wrote:
xBaurusx wrote:Be nice.... Swish was cool. Remember back when he was Swish1....is this swish 2? or swish 1.5....all i can remember was you would be awsome. Then curse everyone out on the forums. then claim to be drunk. then be cool again.
lol i remember when he would claim to be drunk lol...and yes some of us are mean Frederick but you would be tooo if you had been around during the swish era

Whatever he did, obviously he's young. I'm sure we did the same when we were his age, if we had internet access. I read some old posts, what did he do? Spam, post a bit silly stuff. So what? It's not a good reason to be mean to a player, especially a young player.

I guess I'm just taking the example of my kid. If my son came online (Whenever he'd hit 12 years old

), and he would get mocked, even if on the internet, I wouldn't like it..
If his parents came and read some parts of the forum, I can understand why they would rather him playing with an iPod than playing a game where everyone on the forums is rather insulting and offensive..

Gildon de Vymont · Post by **Gildon de Vymont** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:18 am

I'm lovin' to see the warm welcome for Swish.

Hey, Swish. <3

MacDoosh · Post by **MacDoosh** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:22 am

Frederick D'Aubigne wrote:
Richard Cypher wrote:
xBaurusx wrote:Be nice.... Swish was cool. Remember back when he was Swish1....is this swish 2? or swish 1.5....all i can remember was you would be awsome. Then curse everyone out on the forums. then claim to be drunk. then be cool again.
lol i remember when he would claim to be drunk lol...and yes some of us are mean Frederick but you would be tooo if you had been around during the swish era
Whatever he did, obviously he's young. I'm sure we did the same when we were his age, if we had internet access. I read some old posts, what did he do? Spam, post a bit silly stuff. So what? It's not a good reason to be mean to a player, especially a young player.

I guess I'm just taking the example of my kid. If my son came online (Whenever he'd hit 12 years old ), and he would get mocked, even if on the internet, I wouldn't like it..
If his parents came and read some parts of the forum, I can understand why they would rather him playing with an iPod than playing a game where everyone on the forums is rather insulting and offensive..

*starts slow clap*

Richard Cypher · Post by **Richard Cypher** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 4:28 am

@frederick: Nope he was just an annoying person and no matter how many times people tried to help him he was still an annoying person, and it is better to be told you are annoying right out then to wonder your whole life why no one likes you i figure so atleast you can try to change

@ Swish: and yes you claimed to be drunk rofl

Frederick D'Aubigne · Post by **Frederick D'Aubigne** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 5:09 am

Richard Cypher wrote:@frederick: Nope he was just an annoying person and no matter how many times people tried to help him he was still an annoying person, and it is better to be told you are annoying right out then to wonder your whole life why no one likes you i figure so atleast you can try to change

@ Swish: and yes you claimed to be drunk rofl

When you have kids, you'll understand what I mean.

Korm Kormsen · Post by **Korm Kormsen** » Tue Sep 11, 2007 9:00 am

Frederick,

i look at your date of arrival.
be patient.
you won't change us in a week and a half...

(and yes, Swish was a pain in the ass then. - there was no topic, without him stating something.)

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