[AlkarenHyralt]

I started playing graal for a short time in 2000 or so. Maybe 1999...its been a long time so I don't recall which it was. This was when the GSCCC forum invaded graal and a majority of them got banned. Most for raping trees. I left after a few months since I didn't play too often.

I started playing again in April 2001. I played on classic for a few months, and became really good friends with then FAQ SnakeEyes.

I read the forums and watched the graal drama unfold and everything, and eventually wanting to become part of these forums, I upgraded in June 2001 and started posting.

Now as most old school people will remember all I did though was post on the forums. I *never* played the game at all. As time went on the forums started to slink into worse and worse decline due to neglect from unixmad and stefan (at this time kids the forums were not even remotely actively run and no super-mods had existed for a while, and many mods were AWOL.)

One night while playing classic though..I'd say in late september, galen came online. Knowing the past with galen and his level of importance back in old days (and the fact he was an administrator on the forums) I PMed him and talked to him about the state of the forums, and what I wanted to see happen and such, and basically asked him to put in a request to make me administrator of the forums, as no one else was attempting to do anything with the forums, as they were pretty dead as well.

He couldn't do that but he did make me supermod of the forums, and I started to run the forums through him (I'd tell him what I needed done if I couldn't do it, and he'd do it from the AdminCP).

I set up new forum rules and began to rebuild the forums. Eventually becoming reconized as the administrator of the forums I built them back up to a thriving place and put in place the supermod Vermain and Aftershock.

In november a few months later I was playing Graal 2001 to kill some time and Birdbird_0, the Police Chief at the time pmed me and asked me to submit an application for police. After a bit of convincing by him I did, (I never had considered an ingame staff postion as the forums were really all I cared about...and I only had like 40 hours or something). I was hired as a trial officer the next day and began my ingame staff career. The next day I was made a full officer. On the 2nd day of being a full police pofficer birdbird once again pmed me, but this asking if I would like the job of police chief as he was retiring from it. Unknown to me at this time Loriel, then GM had wanted me to become the new police chief (even though I hadnt tlaked to him once). I accepted the job and became police chief on 2001.

I stayed police chief for about 5 months. During that time the global postion make-up had changed. The old AA had been removed and Ageloas was made the new accounts admin which opened up a place for an accounts manager.

Ageloas wanted me to fill the postion but did not want to take me from Graal 2001...so birdbird, the manager of 2001 at the time removed me from the Police Chief postion and I was made accounts manager.

During all the time as staff on Graal and administrator of the forums graal itself had gone into a step decline and I had lots of plans and ideas for Graal and I knew how things needed to be fixed. For a long time the postion of game master had been empty and so no leadership was there since unixmad and stefan didnt take an active part of the game.

I got to be good friends with unixmad during my time as accounts manager (it was unixmad who gave me my RC as well.)

After being in the accounts manager postion for a few weeks I had a long talk with unixmad one night after talking to Nemesis the PWA at the time.

By the end of the conversation I became game master, with nemesis as asst. GM.

I stayed game master and forum adminstrator for over half a year or so, until due to a long, long argument with unixmad I was ousted from my postions and I left the game.

(by the way lyndzey it was me who made you accounts admin.)