- Kilroy
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The quote text that follows is a sort of mini autobiography of what I have experienced in my time on b.net. I do not expect you to read it, but you are more than welcome to and it would be awesome if you did. But I do ask you to skip past the quoted text and read the paragraph that follows, at least. And then, hopefully reply.
Once upon a time, there was a console. It was known as the PlayStation 2. It was born into greatness, destined to lead the market during it's prime. I tried to get one when it first launched. I ended up getting one on it's 2nd holiday season. It was the best thing evar, or so I thought. I played FFX, Kingdom Hearts, and a few other games. But, for the most part, the PS2 did not live up to the hype for me.
My friend had an XBox. I had heard about this game called Halo(who hadn't heard of it?). It was supposed to be awesome. I played it at my friends house and was hooked instantly. I was always a fan of the FPS. Chex Quest got me into gaming. So, I was overjoyed to play one as awesome as Halo. But there was one problem. I hated the controller. So big. And the white and black buttons were impossible to reach. But then, came the S. I know longer had any excuse not to buy an XBox. I got one for my birthday, and immediately picked up Halo: Combat Evolved Game of the Year Edition. I loved it.
Hours every Friday evening were devoted to playing slayer gametypes with 3 of my friends. We would go to Seven Eleven, buy a 64 oz. pop, and go to my friends house for Halo. We switched of teams every game. We became very good. We spent hours as aforementioned, cooped up in a small room, with an XBox, TV, and Stereo. It got really hot and sweaty in there. But it was fun.
As I said, my copy of Halo was the Game of the Year Edition. This came with 3 special features. One announcement trailer for Halo 2. A gameplay trailer for Halo 2(both trailers shown at E3 at first). The last was the Making of Halo 2 trailer. They were amazing. I watched the Gameplay trailer every day. I had to know more. I couldn't live with just a trailer. So, I watched it carefully, and noticed a very small "Bungie.net" emblem in the corner of the screen at the very end of the trailer. I went to it, and discovered the best site I've ever been to.
It was Spring '04. I read every Featured Article in existence when I discovered B.net(wasn't many back then). One notable experience was reading about the Commercial Warthog(go way back in the featured articles to read about it). A Warthog that was like the Hummer of 2552. It was awesome. I read the Weekly Whats Update every week. I checked B.net every day for any news articles whatsoever. They were few and far between at the time, but I followed nonetheless.
I became an expert on Halo 2. I knew everything there was to know. For months, all I could think about was November 9th. It loomed closer, and the days grew longer. GameStop said my Limited Collector's Edition would take an extra week to arrive. I was dissapointed. But then, on November 9th, I got a call from GameStop. My sister ran me over right after school, and I picked it up. Played for hours. It was amazing. The graphics! The physics! The Battle Rifle!!!
I continued to follow the Weekly Updates for a long time. Then, one hot summer day in August '05, I was bored. I was looking on b.net for new news articles, then decided the time had come. I was to join b.net. I did it. I made my account, Kilroy. I immediately realized that I was not the only Halo fan in the world. Far from it. I was a noob. Even though I knew all about Halo, I was not prepared for coming to forums. I had no idea what a forum even was. After several days of posting topics in the septagon, asking noob questions(what is a ninja?), I got the hang of it.
The first thing I did to contribute to the community, was read a fanfic and reply to it. It was written by one Sir_Brilliant. It was a sticky. I was inspired by this awesome story. I wrote my own fic. It was a blast. I gained some of my best b.net friends through this(I'll explain further down)
It didn't take long for me to notice the spammers. I immediately took on the role of Forum Cop. I became quite (in)famous for it. Many people knew my name, because of my public display of Forum Copness. Because of this, I received many a group invite. I recognized that most of these were invites that were copied and pasted and sent out by the hundreds. But I accepted them anyways.
One guy invited me to a group called something like Halo Addicts. It only had a few members. I quickly set up a mass-invite system(yes, I spamed inboxes as a noob), and the members poured in. I led the group from about 5-40 ish members in little time at all. Then one Kodemyster came along. He was amazing. He devoted so much time and effort into inviting people to the group. The group got to about 300 people.
I was concerned for the safety of this group. I had heard about these "conquerors" and "destoyers," but I had no idea what they were or how to protect my group. I approached one surf and skate. He directed me to a group called Conquerors Must Die. I quickly became involved in this little war against conquerors. But the people I worked with and against were all stupid. No one could stand eachother. So i left. Retired.
My fanfiction went along nicely, till about half way through the story. I had only planned the first half! I had writers block! It was horrible! I tried so very hard to finish....but to this day, it remains incomplete. It is now auto-locked. It is sad to see. But I don't regret it.
One time in Chapter Founders, much thought was given toward reactivation. We planned lots of things, but all we went through with was an interview with Achronos. We are still waiting for him to complete it and send it back, but I don't think it will ever happen. It's been a long time since we sent it. Then I got the idea to interview Marty O'Donnell. I did, and it was awesome. You can read the interview here. After doing so, I decided to interview Frankie(this is very important later in the story). I sent him a PM, and he said he'd accept if PR was okay with it, and supplied me with an email address. Many attempts at email, no reply.
Then one day I was in the Septagon. A big thread formed discussing the prospect of a Fanfiction Forum. It died. But in CF, the topic was recreated and debate rose once again. Sir_Brilliant had the foresight to realize that we weren't getting a FanFiction Forum any time soon. So he made a group dedicated to it. It was not for his personal gain, but to have a place for all readers and writers of Fanfic to gather. It was great. I immediately joined and pledges my support. From then on, the Official Fanfic Group(or OFG as we call it), grew.
There was talk of creating a clan out of the group, but nothing ever happened. Then, Christmas 05, I got XBox Live. I immediately brought all my b.net friends together to play. I started up the 0FG(yes that's a zero), and devoted myself toward getting it off the ground. I succeeded, I gave the control to Sir_Brilliant, and we had fun. We played lots of arranged and matchmade clanmatches. We often lost, but it was still a blast to play with my friends.
We continued on for a long time. Then, the clan grew restless. Two of our key players sort of fell in love with eachother(a guy in a girl, don't worry, no ghey). One of them essentially quit playing. He was always there, but not playing. This aggravated many people. The most notable being the man in charge of arranging our clanmatches. This tension simmered and boiled. Then one day, two of our clan left. This did not bode well.
I had previously created a gmail account, and switched my Passport over to it. I tried to email PR about Frankie one last time, using this account. It worked, to my surprise. I arranged an interview. It was supposed to take place over Live, and Sir_Brilliant was to be the camera man. It fell through the first attempt. The second, my alarm failed to go off and I slept right through the appointed time. Sir_Brilliant was furious, understandably, as was I. I was forced to send the interview via email. I still await it's completion(this was very recently, so it shouldn't be too long).
Sir_Brilliant refused to speak to me after that. Finally, Uberdawg(the man who arranged our clanmatches) and I, left the clan. We created a new one, which is still in it's early stages, but is progressing.
Then, OFG was attacked. A few simple mistakes led to it being conquered. Luckily, Achronos was online and was willing to lend a hand. Within little time, Sir_Brilliant was back in control, the perpetrators were booted, and the inside man was revealed. This little incident brought our clan back together. Not literally, but in the sense that we were friends again because our beloved Chapter was threatened. We are cool now, and remain friends. Some of our clan tried to be "anti-conquerors." I must say that this is foolish. I know from experience that it accomplished nothing and waste time. Conquering and Anti-Conquering is nothing but a male-body-part measuring contest. It's retarded.
I recently wrote a rant, because of a thread made by GJJ, encouraging others to be respectful and help out. I have yet to see if it helps at all, but hey! I tried.
I am happy now. I have an interview on the way, a growing clan, and a large friends list. Life is good.
I had a lot of fun writing this. Brought back old memories. Many fond, many not-so-much. I wish I could've written more, but ya know, character limit and all. But what I really want, is for you to write your story. It may be long, it may be short. It may be well or poorly written. But it's your story, and it matters. So please, write your story.