It took all of 5 minutes before I asked to PM the new player "Amber-Dusk" just a few short weeks after TLI opened to have a long talk with a clearly TLI etiquette ignorant and immature newbie, and it was simply one of THOUSANDS for both good and bad over the years......Along with some of the names you know there was also a "Richard Noggin" (one of Dani^Quik's old acquaintances), and a few others I simply can't recall it having been so long ago.
Though
eventually he took play here a bit more seriously then Amber the catgirl running about screaching "fuck me then beat be", he always never took it all too seriously though TLI meant very much to him down deep. It was a true escape from the cruel confinements of his body, his mind clearly always sharp, and above all his sense of humor was most akin to my own then any other I've met on the web.
Besides the countless PM's just as many light as serious, aspects of play between Marc's characters and my own I remember most was;
* Amber was beaten more times by Kaytoo then I can count from pestering me IC to rape her (which I never did hehe)
* A character of his whos name I can't recall had a bad habit of always getting into combat with Kaytoo (usually 1 hit he was out). However, Kaytoo having been shaman (much different then now), one day used the ability to bring him back from the dead as a slave or more true to form a Zombie...So the day was spent with Kaytoo killing him, zombifi'ing him, sending his character to pester others who would kill him, then bringing him back to life to do it all again......He must of died 20x that day and the zombie act was priceless.
* Another character during the purges by Korgewrath spent some time in Korgewraths dungeons (at Marc's bequest). When I last spoke with him he was still laughing about being "water boarded" before the Gitmo made it fashionable.
* We had a long running joke about Marc being anally probed so much a Buick was lost up there, then the spelunking crew searching for it.
* It was also I who campaigned for Marc to finally become an OP this truly his world. If you don't think that gave me as much grief as it did joy you don't understand Marot
However, wherein we all have vast options his recognition here you could see made a genuine point of personal growth happen feeling the responsibility.........In an odd way having watched his maturing here, and much of it via our discussions of things he would never be able to experience I always found it amazing how he grew and matured when he had the option not to. To what degree I felt a part of it, him letting me contribute between he and I........Though I truly saw in his time here OOC a boy become a man.
Countless bits of play and OOC that I'll always remember and ten fold that I've forgotten that will strike me when reminded by others words or actions.......and if you haven't noticed in the past I
never comment in goodbyes, passings of those I knew of, and so on.......However I could truly mark my time here since 2001 with experiences and conversations with Marc more then most others and he truly touched me.
My most deep sincere prayers will be said for him to finally find the freedom that never left his mind or soul....and his brother and "Mr. Peanut" who he leaves behind.....My life better for having met him even if just online.
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