This one remembers clearly the events of that night leading up to the metamorphosis. While still a "he," this one had returned from work and booted up his computer to play City of Heroes. This one had logged into...
Excuse me. It is difficult to normalize... my ... speech or writing since the Event. "Normal" speech feels terribly rude. Do not even try to get this one to use chat abbreviations.
I had logged into one of my lower-level alternate characters to see who was online at approximately 9:50 pm.
[The Legendary]Message of the Day [01-14-2007 21:34pm]: Congratulations to Minuet Mac Hine, our latest 50!
[Broadcast]Mairzy Doats: lvl 13 mm lft pst
[Request] 00b3r l33t: B100D 5KULLZ, a new VG is recruiting pst
[The Legendary]Foxboy: Greets!
[The Legendary]His Lovely Wife: Hey, Foxy!
[The Legendary]Drenivian: yo
[The Legendary]Foxboy: WOW!
[The Legendary]Foxboy: Looks like almost everyone is on tonight!
You have defeated Wolf Spider TacOps
Lazy Dragon has defeated Blood Brother Chopper
You have defeated Marcone Capo
You have defeated Mook
[The Legendary]His Lovely Wife: Care to join us on Wide, Fox?
[The Legendary]Foxboy: Sure! Just let me park Arbmu and I'll switch right over
I quit to the log in screen and relogged into the Virtue server. The character select screen came up and this one's life changed forever. The lights in my room began to flicker, and my parent's TV clicked off. Oddly, my computer seemed unaffected. In fact the screen seemed to glow brighter... I could vaguely hear my parent's shout of concern as I toppled out of the chair, then I passed out.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll
Excuse me. It is difficult to normalize... my ... speech or writing since the Event. "Normal" speech feels terribly rude. Do not even try to get this one to use chat abbreviations.
I had logged into one of my lower-level alternate characters to see who was online at approximately 9:50 pm.
[The Legendary]Message of the Day [01-14-2007 21:34pm]: Congratulations to Minuet Mac Hine, our latest 50!
[Broadcast]Mairzy Doats: lvl 13 mm lft pst
[Request] 00b3r l33t: B100D 5KULLZ, a new VG is recruiting pst
[The Legendary]Foxboy: Greets!
[The Legendary]His Lovely Wife: Hey, Foxy!
[The Legendary]Drenivian: yo
[The Legendary]Foxboy: WOW!
[The Legendary]Foxboy: Looks like almost everyone is on tonight!
You have defeated Wolf Spider TacOps
Lazy Dragon has defeated Blood Brother Chopper
You have defeated Marcone Capo
You have defeated Mook
[The Legendary]His Lovely Wife: Care to join us on Wide, Fox?
[The Legendary]Foxboy: Sure! Just let me park Arbmu and I'll switch right over
I quit to the log in screen and relogged into the Virtue server. The character select screen came up and this one's life changed forever. The lights in my room began to flicker, and my parent's TV clicked off. Oddly, my computer seemed unaffected. In fact the screen seemed to glow brighter... I could vaguely hear my parent's shout of concern as I toppled out of the chair, then I passed out.
''We don't just borrow words; on occasion, English has pursued other languages down alleyways to beat
them unconscious and rifle their pockets for new vocabulary.''
-- James Nicoll