How did you get there?

[Andy0687]

- Started playing back on Classic, cool, but un-interested at this point
- Started completely back when Elven Lands was put up, addiction formed
- Played Elven Lands constantly, untill I got my first job as LAT
- Had a chat with SK, and became intrested in scripting
- Eventually EL goes down, and I migrate to Mithica
- Become NAT at mithica
- Leave due to problems, and mithica is gone when I return
- Randomly pick Babylon as the server to start graal on again
- 9 Months after my return, I become Manager of Babylon
Skip to now
- Currently trying to finish UC playerworld

Im sure a lot more things happened, absenses, funny happenings on each server. Turns it into too long of a story.

[syltburk]

lol Neo, TAZ was pretty funny.. he sucked at pking but got first to 10k on UN, since he was on 24/7

[Minoc]

- Started playing Graal during 2000 (version 1.36 or 1.37). My first account = Omega Red.
- Created my newbie guilds: "PK Hunters" and "The Royals" (which was a bit newbie-successful for a while).
- Upgraded to Gold March (might be April) 2001 played both Graal2001 and Classic. Joined NBK right after upgrading.
- Got jailed on Classic for some reason, and created the account Minoc.
- Paid someone about 170 gralats to upgrade Minoc to Gold for a year.
- Was hired for FAQ on Graal2001 by some guy who hacked Spanky's account (I didn't know that ).. fired shortly after.
- Became a GP on Classic sometime during 2002.
- Quit GP two months later.
- Rejoined GP sometime during 2003.
- Got fired from GP for "being too arrogant" after being suspended for false reject-players complaints.
- Quit Classic yesterday.

[Shiftk03-]

-Shot a dog one cold november. Felt no remorse.
-Started playing Graal.

[Questa]

*started in july, 2001
*built my house on UN (longest living house, represent. It's in Neo Town, you all should visit it at least once. It's the only one I know of that has a time machine.
*Formed Red Mages, an exclusive club of sorts
*lurked around UN and had a difficult time with quests, so i was always doing them.
(Hence: Questa)
*became an FAQ in 2003
*quit FAQ like a couple weeks later because being staff sucks
*trolled the UN boards a little bit
*quit playing Graal consistently, but I come on every now and then. This graalpeople (now dead) interview is the last thing I've every done with the Graal community

http://www.graalpeople.com/Humor/1ce/questa3.txt

[Fry]

- no idea, started playing on Main/Planet Graal Server somewhere around 98 or so (absolutly not sure..)
- later played on Atlantis (former Planet Graal)
- 2k1 came, played on it
- New Atlantis came, played on it, later became "Server Scripting Team Cadet" (well, it DOES sound better than NAT
- became something with Levels Team on 2k1, later head (but did a very bad job, jep, I suck at managing)
- well, back to New Atlantis, continued with NPC Admin, later Admin (NA owned :/)
- they reverted back to Old Atlantis, bah, stopped playing for a while (not very long)
- began working on OA
- something with 2k2, but I'm not sure whether the NDA ever expired, I don't have it anymore
- Atlantis again
- some extremly long break, must've been a year or two
- started extremly playing/working on Atlantis again (2004)
- cooled a bit down and didn't play regulary anymore
- well, it's the present time and I am partly doing stuff on Atlantis

[zell12]

I don't exactly remember the servers I played on previous or while playing on Mithica, but all of my time when Mithica was alive went into that. I tried for ages to become staff on there, but Kerin was a prick and hated me from the start. ^_^ (Still does today)

So eventually when Gabani was pretty much managing the server himself I got on as a LAT, and eventually moved my way up. After I shut Mithica down (omg kill excal) I moved onto other servers like Bravo and servers like that. Worked at GK and G2k1 for a bit as well.


BLEH

[Mykel]

Wow.

-I played Delteria for a few years around '99-'01 until I upgraded.
-At some point in there I got my first staff job at Mithica as a LAT and met Excalibur for the first time, although I doubt that he remembers that.
-I played 2k1 a lot.
-I started working on Cira Baen with Spark, Karsh, Excal, Chastin, Chibi, and some others.
-Random PW jobs and PW projects.
-Back to playing Delteria about once a month when I get bored and posting on the forums.

[Phayze]

Hm.

- Tried it out around new years '98-'99 and got hooked for a bit. Got bored and left.
- Found Graal later in life after attempting to script my own PHP RPG games. (<3 Golden Warriors Guild) Got bored and left.
- Found Graal yet again and got hooked for a week or two, then left again.
- Worked a bit on old, old, old Bravo Online. Became 'GP Chief' (I remember shockedfrog reviewing Bravo and giving it a good rating on Graal Help!).
- Played on some gservers.
- Did some evil stuff.
- Got hired as a webmaster for an under-construction playerworld around the time Kharlia and Crime Graal were uploaded on Classic. That later turned into the redundant "Coasta De Agua."
- Did some more evil stuff. Got bored and left after someone else registered "Phayze."
- Met some cool people that still played Graal, so I visited. Saw some familiar faces running Era and helped around.
- Introduced Angel and Rick, creating the unbreakable tri-bond relationship we hold. ()
- Played Graal2002 for a bit, left.
- Played Graal2002 for a bit more, left.
- Got my account deleted by Nemesis.
- Got the account "Phayze".
- Left Era.
- Got convinced to help out Era again.
- Left Era. Began work on SWG. Got bored and left.
- Returned to Era as a Developer.
- Remains on Graal despite many real-life dramas.

[Brad]

mid 99 or late 98 I played classic and I said osweet its like zelda. Then I joined Elven Lands and just bull****ted my way to the top. I had no talents at all, and this is when EL was actually decent and had a hard working staff. I became an Admin and was there for a long ass time. Met some cool people like MERLIN. Gave a guy a job on EL for an account upgrade and moved to 2k1 after about 2 weeks after it was put up. Joined the forums a month or so after they were released as well. Worked my way up on 2k1 BS'in just like I did on EL. I was pretty much mr events team since I was always fighting about it and went like 2 years before I finally became the admin. I've been fired more times than anyone on 2k1, and have banned more times than anyone on the forums. Stayed on 2k1 forever until it finally died. Hopped on the band wagon and joined GK and played there and became awesome there. Was known for having the best weapon ever put on that server. Got a job on debug after becoming the forest leader. Even after my 1 week reign they let me stay on debug until I started to hate Tyhm. We hated each other for a little bit then he convinced Stefan to fire me. I got sick of kingdoms and just quit graal. Decided I was bored again and moved to the new Maloria where I was pretty strong. Got bored after less than a month and now I don't play graal.

[haro41]

• Joined Graal community in october of 2001. I found it through a link at the now defunct Zelda-Temple website.
• The server was crazy with haloween decorations and I had no idea what was going on. The server overworld seemed so huge back then... good memories.
• After about 6 months of learning how to make gfx for graal I got my shot at a GAT position on UN and held my job for about 5 months. Fired for inactivity. Blookat was the Gfx admin in the beginning but quit and Darkestmatter took his place.
• Re-hired about 7 months later after one sweet summer. Fired for uploading copywritten GFX. This master chief was just too cool to ignore.
• Found Zenkou and the trouble it was in at the time. Hired as a GAT.
• After going in no general direction for a few months we finally created a tropical setting and decided upon the daunting task of creating an RPG system. It pretty much all spawned from a palm tree i was messing around with.
• Still working at Zenkou now as Co-Manager.

[matt8891]

Saw my cousin play it. It looked stupid at 1st. Tried it out and then auto addiction.

[KuJi]

Rofl.

My Story:

Started Elven Lands, played until the last three weeks and then I asked for a Job their. They are like: "Ok, your LAT". I was look cool, when do I get my staff boots. Then they gave me them, so I pked on tag w/ boots until I was fired (Took about a week). Then I played until the last second it was up then Stefan or Unixmad (Don't remember) said goodbye elven lands. Or maybe that was Nemesis. Not even sure. So then they shut it down, I went to N-pulse. Killed people with 3 hearts, lvl 1 sword. Then err, graal2001 for a good year until Era came out. Though I played graal2001 till the last couple of minutes aswell. Then I played era as private, graal kingdoms occasionally. Then I started Maloria where I met JellyFish, then wen't back to Era for another 6 months. Then JellyFish imed me some wierd link, I was then IP Banned for "hacking the forums" for clicking the link. rofl. Was IP banned for like 1 year. months. Wen't to my moms house a bit and then was given a job on Enigma Graal. I scripted their, learned NPC Server stuff etc... Then I wen't back to my dad's and then joined up with JellyFish on Anti-Unixmad. Then I probally had half of the graal onlines player's accounts and watched JellyFish delete everything off YOUR PLAYERWORLDS as I backed it all up ;-P. Then Unixmad called my dad after I didn't cooperate with him and my dad forced me to shutdown anti-unixmad. Then Unixmad gave me my account and unbanned me in one month after "no illegal activities". Which I did, he did not answer so I had to do the "Make Unixmad answer me" technique. Which is host a graal 139 server on my linux dedicated server until Unixmad replied. I even pmed stefan the information of the gserver. Stefan told unixmad, unixmad replied. I was finally unbanned after a week or so. Yay. Then I was given Graal X back by Spark. Which the server was given to me, even though I did not officially own it I used the ORIGINAL reciept of GX to get access to it all. Rofl. Then I fired the owner of that server, (he changed name to Graal X which he shouldn't have been able too.) Then he got Spark, Calani, Ning and all the other globals. Then I bought Graal X once again on Friday. Then I uploaded all my stuff back and then added some new stuff onto it. Then Loriel/Ben finally logged on and worked on the Inventory as he said he would. (Woot). Then today, I told Stefan to Enable Gscript2 through a forum PM and would hope he would answer. Then I logged on CS:S then cheated a bit on that game then wen't back to graal for 5 min. Looked at RC for 2 min. Said Hey to Loriel. And Finally I have posted this life story. I should write a book :-D.



Also, btw: In between most of that stuff, I have hosted ATLEAST 10+ Illegal Gservers (139). Their is a TON OF MORE STUFF I left in between the story. I will make a MORE DETAILED one later.



My Life Story by KuJi (Which is me ;-P)

[PrinceDark]

lol. Now thats an interesting story.

[Evil_Trunks]

KuJi you're such a badass

[Lance]

I was introduced to Graal by Nappa (Yes, I know you hate him.)

I met a heck of a lot of cool people, did a lot of stuff, and here I am today.

[Fry]

Originally Posted by KuJi

Stuff.

Well, you suck

[KuJi]

Originally Posted by Lance

I was introduced to Graal by Nappa (Yes, I know you hate him.)

I met a heck of a lot of cool people, did a lot of stuff, and here I am today.

Guess you didn't do that much, as your still a nobody to a lot of people.



j/p ;-P.

Anyway, I am going to add onto my story Friday. :-)
But here is some more:

Then I finally recieved this debit card from the bank, (..finally), then I put it into my paypal account then ordered another debit card from paypal. (Doubt I will even use it, but what the hell?) Then I wen't to ebay, added in my credit card for a seller's account, then it tells me they want my checking account also, if I want to sell. (This pisses me off :o). So I am like, whatever I shut it off, ill do it again later. So then, I read my email and seen I was spammed 4 emails overnight. (Figures.) I deleted them all, then I read that this guy finally gave me my Diablo II mule that i paid like 2.00$ for rofl. So, then I am like finally and then I decided to read the forums, then type up a couple of new stuff into this thread.

-KuJi

I will add about another page of my life on these dates:

Report Card --> Thursday. (Rofl, this is like OMFG HALARIOUS :O!)
Friday --> Plans to take over the world
Sunday --> What I do in school/art class (Rofl, this is a good 1.)

[PrinceDark]

lmao. keep them coming and I'll read this forum more.

[Splke]

Hey, Kuji, you forgot the part about that ****ty ass server GraalX. Or did you? I don't care really, that server blew ass kthx.

[zell12]

Kuji, paragraphs are cool too. <3

[prozac424242]

-College roomate introduced me to Graal in mid-late '99 just before version 1.28
-Found that you could make a level and npcs (I was a computer science student)
-Made my own head (head242 is still available!) after my own handsome face
-Summer 2000, started up a gserver, Argos, in the old college dorm
-got like a few dozen accounts on that 1.28 gserver ... even with only 8 ppl on at a time
-Sabin comes online and wants to work on a bigger playerworld, an official one, Sanstrata was the name we decided on
-Word gets to Stefan that I was running a gserver and he asks me to please shut it down, and I did. He said that there would be an option for players to have their own servers in the future, but not to use the 1.28 server (took about 3-4 years but it happened!)
-After much level making by Sabin, and much npc scripting/quest creating/making the original storyline for Sanstrata by myself, the fruit of almost a year's worth of work gets officially online
-We hire some staff for gfx events gp levels other nat's ... till there's like 30 staff ... that was mistake one
-Server starts getting hacked, like it's the unofficial test ground for every trainer and hex editor on the planet
-Staff went corrupt and not much progress was made on the server due to staff arguments
-Levels get deleted, hundreds of hours of work gone, some people are just jerks, and have no idea how much emotional pain they put through the creators of this virtual world
-we make New Sanstrata, new overworld map, with the help of a talented level maker ... who later on deleted all the levels ... again
-Quite a few changes in ownership .. i leave for a few weeks
-Sans gets shut down b/c some girl could not handle the pressure of the arguing amongst staff
-I come back to graal a year or so later and buy a spot, Realms
-Realms of Destiny comes in and not I can't log into Realms b/c of the name config error
-I choose to rename the server to Argos
-I try argos as a gravity (mario) style server ... would have needed a new tileset and no one wanted to make the new tiles
-I try a huge overworld map. real life did not allow time, no return on the investment. if Graal would pay me to make an awesome pw, I would gladly do that as a job, knowing to aviod the patterns of failure I learned from Sanstrata
-Try a smaller map, try hiring one or two people at a time.
The don't stop asking for more rights, they just wont stop bugging me ... server gets hijacked a couple of different times by some a-holes over a couple of months b/c I am a nice guy. levels deleted, they disable my account that i pay for which is the same as stealing money from my pocket.
Lousy criminals.
-I get my rights back, fire their butts, ban and block the traitors.
-Recents months ...
Had enough of being burned, I wont take an ounce of crap from anyone anymore.
Decided to help with Sanstrata again, under the new management (Don) but he needs a break from the year or so that he has been 'working' on sans but gotten not very far.
-Having fun making npc's again!

LESSONS:
-You dont need more than 10 staff on any graal pw
-if you own and pay $ for a pw, NEVER give anyone rights that would jeapordize your control over the pw
-ALWAYS have a backup of every level and npc on yur hard drive
-If someone keeps on giving you a hard time or starts to argue ... don't feed the trolls. Because they are no more than a wretch under a bridge that is evil and wants to make you miserable. Block them, ban them, report them, get rid of them any way you can.

and ...
-Do what makes you happy!

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by prozac424242

If someone keeps on giving you a hard time or starts to argue ... don't feed the trolls

To be fair, people that argue aren't always trolls. Sometimes they have legitimate concerns, y'know?

[ZanderX]

Why not.

• Early 2000: Introduced to Graal by Zander/Jackal.
• Mid-2000: Got heavily involved in Kharlia.
• Mid-2000: Met Malak, Vermain, Drak, bunch of others.
• Mid-2000: Kharlia becomes Valikorlia. Insane stuff happens.
• Late 2000: Left Graal for a while.
• March 2001: Bought Gold account. For Graal2001.
• April-June 2001: Didn't use my Gold account. At all.
• June 2001: Started posting on the forums a lot. Started playing Graal2001.
• Somewhere in December 2000: Introduced Birdbird to Graal. Forgot this.
• Summer of 2001: Played lots and lots of Graal2001. Got in good with some staff.
• Also Summer 2001: Birdbird gets popular. My fate is quite intertwined with his early on.
• Late 2001: Birdbird becomes Manager or so. Hard to remember.
• Late 2001+1: Head Auctioneer. Also Police. Also King of Dustari now.
• Early 2002: Still King of Dustari. Still Police. Still Head Auctioneer. Played a bit of 2002, didn't like it.
• Early 2002: Causing mayhem on the forums with Marle. Account is deleted somewhere around now.
• Most of 2002: King of Dustari. Assistant Manager for a short while. Assistant Police Chief for like a day. Forum mayhem continues. Am now campaigning to have the most posts.
• Sometime in 2002: Manager of Graal 2001. I think. This was pretty cool.
• Late 2001: I forgot about this. I convinced Tyne to make me Manager of Providence.

You know what, this is too hard. I have too bad of a memory and I've done too much stuff. Does anyone want to help me remember the past five years of my life?

[prozac424242]

Kai, you are not always a troll. You have imitated one in the past, but I know better than to argue with you, because no other view than your own will ever be acceptable to you. Have a nice life. No hard feelings. Disclaimer: any appearance of being a troll myself in this post is unintentional. There is just no nice way to reply to almost anything Kai says.

[Kaimetsu]

Originally Posted by prozac424242

Kai, you are not always a troll

Did you really need to make this personal?

[Hiro]

Originally Posted by Kaimetsu

To be fair, people that argue aren't always trolls. Sometimes they have legitimate concerns, y'know?

YEAH MOONIE *COUGH COUGH COUGH*

[Googi]

Originally Posted by ZanderX

I have too bad of a memory and I've done too much stuff.

I'll say. You're describing your time as 2K1 manager as "pretty cool".

[KuJi]

Originally Posted by Splke

Hey, Kuji, you forgot the part about that ****ty ass server GraalX. Or did you? I don't care really, that server blew ass kthx.

You forgot the part where you wouldn't ****? Keep your opinions to yourself. If we ask for your opinion post it, otherwise, just DON'T post.


Also:
I have not done much lately so I am going to hold back on the stories until I do something fun. Though, this is something that happened friday, at school and some other stuff until today.


I am in science class and my teacher's like..totally stupid. A kid behind me kicks my chair because he wanted some candy I was eating ;-P. Then I wen't to the kid next to me, gave him some candy and my teacher goes...Joseph (my name) what are you doing. She pulls out a chair and put's it in front of the black board and makes me sit their for the rest of the period. Then she start's telling us to copy notes of what she was saying. I ask her where I am going to write as I was sitting facing a blackboard with no desk, she is like I don't care you weren't doing nothing anyway. Then she told me she is going to call my house and asks me for my number. I am STILL waiting for that phone call ever since. ;-P.
Then later I was kicked out of some stupid event for being late like 40+ times to school. So I had to sit in a classroom with 5 other student's for 2 periods. (1 hour 30 minutes). So I just listened to my iPod the two periods and wen't home.
Then I did absolutely nothing yesterday out of boredom. Today, my brother just got Empire Earth 2, which is pretty fun though it does get boring quickly. The weather system in it is great. Anyway, I was playing with him for three hours and I had him beat through out the entire game. At the end he send's these bombers to all my airport's. I was stranded in an island, no way to get into his base. I made nuclear silo's. I had about 8 nukes ready to attack him..What do you know he has this satellite thing over my head and see's my silos and destroys them five seconds before I launch the nukes. I just gave up so then a computer took my character over and owned my older brother somehow. My brother cheated as far as I am concerned ;-).
I also made some portable staff house thingy for fun. I can warp it to anywhere I want. Inside/Outside places anywhere. Linking is about perfect as far as I am concerned. Only thing I have to finish is to sense when it moves for the people inside to get warped correctly. I am going to do this today, then in a bit. I will post some more stuff. Also, these stories give me posts and their sort of on topic. :-)

[Curt1zzle]

Originally Posted by Darlene159

I started off playing Classic (most of the time defending my seat on top of Deeto's house I believe it was) pre P2P, joined TAW right before they found out the owner was a guy (Go Contego!), eventually becoming Queen.

Made Goddesstown after practicing level making for awhile, and tried to get it uploaded onto Classic back when you had to upload your levels to be approved online, where it was denied several times...eventually, I got mad and sent my levels to N-Pulse (to Geosgirl), and she asked me if I would be interested in becoming a LAT there.

Gave up Queen of TAW, moved to NP, and became a LAT, then LAT Captain, LAT Chief, then Manager when Geovanie gave it to Moon God and I.

After years of Managing NP, I finally handed management over when things came to a stand-still...I finally became a GP to help, then GP Captain, then became a LAT because they needed help in that area...then quit as I refused to work under the Management (NP changed Management a couple of times after I quit).

Became supermod of the Graal forums

Finally decided to get NP back because Management was corrupt, and here we are

I had a TAW tag :P

I was LordCG Messiah (NBK)

[Shaun]

I do not claim total accuracy on these events or the order in which they appear. I can recall things I left out but have no idea of where they fit in at all. My memory is fuzzy on this, so I'll try my best:

-I was looking for more information on the new Zelda 64 game that was coming out soon. I was excited, as I loved the Legend of Zelda series and there was going to be, for the first time, a 3D version. I believe once I typed in a search engine "Zelda Online", looking for an Zelda 64 information online (as in on the internet). I stumbled upon a neat little java game that looked like Zelda for the SNES. The neat part was there were other people on there. They tried to shoot arrows at me, but the arrows were really slow, so you could dodge them. Because I only had a 28k modem, stuff was slow, so I didn't really play this too much. I believe this started sometime in '98.
-One day, I noticed a link on the website with this game, that link being GraalOnline.com. I registered an account and started playing it. It had a slightly more active community.
-On Main Server, the first guild I almost joined was a guild *JasoX was trying to make. People were different in Graal back then. I was a newbie, but that was a cool thing. He approached me and asked me if I wanted to join his guild or wanted help with anything. His guild requirements were that one had to wear only black or gray or combinations of those colours. I ended up not joining after I couldn't find him anymore.
-I started playing on these fun playerworld things, using programs called GServers that came with the latest Graal version. I played on Damasca, Odin, and a little bit of Bravo Online. I also tried a little bit of Mantara (through Stefan's brother Matt's house) and Khalaria (you entered it through main world down in some swamp I think).
-I found out that my friend, Hylian, at Zelda-Temple (where I used the alias 'Culex', because I really like Mario RPG :P) also played GraalOnline. We talked about it and such, and eventually we got KawaiiSaRia of Zelda-Temple to try Graal. She later had amazing success as a graphics person, I believe.
-I became very interested in Graal levels. I was very amateurish though, ignoring putting mailboxes (with the grass on the tile edges) over sand tiles. I became friends with Bar Giora, Ange, and Zero33 of the LAT on Main Server. With their aid, I eventually got a lot better with levels, and it became my interest.
-I briefly joined the Shadow Dragons, who at the time were really important for playerworlds and such, as they had many npc's available for download. My time there was brief because they shut down and disbanded shortly after my joining.
-Graal Online started to host playerworlds itself, making many traditional GServers shut down to use the newer Graal engine. My friend, Richard, whom I had known in real life and introduced to Graal, tried getting me to join various levels teams. Eventually, he landed me spot of Head LAT (Head of the LAT I guess) for a server awaiting going online, Dolphonia. Dolphonia was made by Delph Inc. and Delta. There I remet KawaiiSaRia, for she was GFX Admin there. Dolphonia was really nice and I gained much experience from that. Unfortunately, Ghost_Hacker well, hacked it.
-I had joined the Main Server LAT. My time was brief, as I enjoyed an administrative position better and got really bored with the LAT job. I liked having the creative power. I really prefer macromanagement to micromanage.
-I had played on Damasca, when it came to GraalOnline's servers. Unfortunately, it shut itself down, refusing to aid GraalOnline (previously GraalOnline had released the GServer for everybody to use, but later said it was "illegal" to use it and went around shutting GServers).
-I started hanging out at a forum called AllGraal. Others that were there included Bhala, KawaiiSaRia, Kaimetsu, and DarkCloud.
-I joined the Main Server LAT again, thinking I could try to work on the team this time. I worked on a pyramid quest, but then left afterwards.
-I started trying servers and stuck with Mithica for awhile. Soon enough, Graal was going p2p (it was project NewMain's coming. We did not know at the time one day Graal would be completely p2p). I was protesting this on Mithica until the end.
-I started playing on a beta world called Sanstrata. It was a lot of fun, and eventually I got a position on the LAT. I was charged with more responsibility and thus creative power than I had for Main Server. Eventually I became Assistant Levels Admin (the Levels Admin being Sabin who was also Owner). When Sabin left, Prozac became owner and I became the Levels Admin.
-Sanstrata was eventually hacked, and rather than put up the old levels, new levels were worked on. A lot of chaos happened and I personally didn't like the new Sanstrata.
-Sanstrata ended up being shut down. I played on Main Server until they announced it was going to be full p2p. I left.
-A year or two after I had left Graal, Crono AIM'ed me to tell me to help with something. I updated Graal and went to Delteria, as he had requested. I found the pk'ing fun, now that I had a cable modem (not the 28k I had before). I ended up staying, just to pk. Eventually, somebody upgraded my account for me. I had a bit of fun for a year and a half, but I left Graal to work on my own game project, Everworld. I pretty much don't care for GraalOnline anymore. I liked the community, I don't like the product.

[KuJi]

Originally Posted by Shaun

Very long post

I wrote more then you and everyone. I think I posted about 12 paragraphs or more :o.

[Crono]

lol shaun, interesting graal story

[Kaimetsu]

Moon Goddess: It's commendable that you're removing over-long quotes, but why didn't you do it to Curt's post?

[Redwizard]

quite drmatic i suppose..
1. Heard of graal from my cousin (illyich venmyr : crovaX_dark_lord).
My other cousins (Evil_Lord_Sparda and Khallos2k2 who r brothers) loved it too. They tried getting me to play it but i was saying 'omg graal is cr** its so ghey'. i had a reason, of course. this was in 1999/98 (when i was about 9 or 10)

2. downloaded graal on my computer for the first time. when the start screen was gray and had the picture of fung si yan on a horse. Loved it to shredds. Got it online after getting an account, went around the main graal world (one of only 2 servers at the time). Built up a name, then my cousin told me how i can make my own heads if i wanted to.

3.I opened MSPaint for the first time with an objective of creating some graphics in use with graal for the firs time on .. i think it was beginning of april '98. made a head. it didnt work. smashed my computer to bits and had to get a new one.

4.graphic worked later that year, i was over the moon. Was into customisation BIG time.

5. Under the name 'Freiza' i scoured every server, bravo, n-pulse, etc. looking for people i can work with. I didnt get a look into it, i was soo rubbish, no one cared.

6. Worked on a server that was in production called Dark Univers. Lied about my ability just so i could get a jop there as a graphics artist. Ended up working there for a few months, making random things. Downloaded many different graphics programs off the net to make better things.

7. witha feel for almost every product imaginable, i was armed to the teeth with newfound graphicing ability. ish. Got my first proper job on Maloria i think it was. Then UN. then as my server xperience list went higher, so did my reputation.

8. Made a lot of heads, asked kawaiisaria to critisize them for me and say how good/not good they were. By the end of graal 2001 (near begining of graal 2002 on the playerlist) i was better. Eventually got a job on kingdoms making loadsa stuff.

9. i am where i am today. one of the oldest players and staff of graal :-)

[syltburk]

-started at 98-99 playing classic, I was 9-10 years old.
-joined my first guild called "Final Fantasy" that was official.
-kept playing classic
-joined NBK
-started playing on UN
-kept playing there for years
-started making levels
-got my first job at Babylon when LH was manager.
-started playing Maloria
-started playing Classic and UN.

[konidias]

I'm terrible with remembering things I do online... so let me try to piece together what little I can remember...

- I found Java Graal (I don't remember how) and thought it was pretty interesting and then discovered there was a downloadable version. So I downloaded and started playing. (this was back when you picked your head from the start menu or something)
- Played on classic as Konidias for a few months... Basically just did all the quests, went around PKing, sparred a bit... then I got bored and left
- fastfoward a bit and I came back. I played classic some more and started to grow bored again. then 2k1 made it's appearance
- I waited a few weeks and then finally caved in and upgraded my account and started playing 2k1
- soon after I joined the staff team (I really don't remember what my first job was, it might have been gfx or auctioneer or something)
- worked my way up the ranking quickly and was eventually doing a lot of the dev work with birdbird and a few others
- stefan moved on to 2k2 (GK) and handed 2k1 over to Birdbird and myself to co-manage
- the co-management didn't last long because I didn't feel bird was suited for the job and I couldn't really work with him
- I left and I think shortly after birdbird gave 2k1 to kamuii
- I was offered to work on 2k2 when it was in development. I suggested some stuff and got some ideas shot down and whatnot...
- I started playing 2k2 and won the first ever event and got the war axe or whatever it was. I was promised it was going to be a one of a kind item, never to be given to anyone else. (hahaha)
- I became one of the strongest (if not strongest) players on 2k1 at the time. I had all the best gear available and whatnot
- I started my own playerworld (Oasis) I think I started this after I left 2k1, so it was during the period that I started playing GK
- got interested in developing stuff for GK and I heard that Unix was hiring people to help with GK
- I got hired as a cyberjouers employee and I was supposed to be game master of GK but I rarely was able to do that job
- played the role of a yes man for unixmad for a while... doing websites and documents and handling the forums and support center and everything when I was supposed to be holding events and developing for GK
- unixmad was disappointed in the fact that I wasn't doing all sorts of GK gamemastering on top of all the work he was handing me on the side. I refused to work on CHRISTMAS DAY and he got pissed
- unix wanted to change my salary or something rather and I was tired of arguing with him so I quit
- picked up working on Oasis again and went through nearly every well-known scripter on Graal. ran into a roadblock and nobody could/would help me, so I could no longer proceed with my server
- faded out of the Graal scene for a long while
- came back and now I post now and then and am trying to possibly rebuild 2k1 into a revised server (if stefan ever decides to reply to my pm, which he's apparently ignoring now)

I'm sure I left a lot out but that's all I can think of at the moment.

[Mafukie]

Originally Posted by konidias

I'm terrible with remembering things I do online... so let me try to piece together what little I can remember...

- I found Java Graal (I don't remember how) and thought it was pretty interesting and then discovered there was a downloadable version. So I downloaded and started playing. (this was back when you picked your head from the start menu or something)
- Played on classic as Konidias for a few months... Basically just did all the quests, went around PKing, sparred a bit... then I got bored and left
- fastfoward a bit and I came back. I played classic some more and started to grow bored again. then 2k1 made it's appearance
- I waited a few weeks and then finally caved in and upgraded my account and started playing 2k1
- soon after I joined the staff team (I really don't remember what my first job was, it might have been gfx or auctioneer or something)
- worked my way up the ranking quickly and was eventually doing a lot of the dev work with birdbird and a few others
- stefan moved on to 2k2 (GK) and handed 2k1 over to Birdbird and myself to co-manage
- the co-management didn't last long because I didn't feel bird was suited for the job and I couldn't really work with him
- I left and I think shortly after birdbird gave 2k1 to kamuii
- I was offered to work on 2k2 when it was in development. I suggested some stuff and got some ideas shot down and whatnot...
- I started playing 2k2 and won the first ever event and got the war axe or whatever it was. I was promised it was going to be a one of a kind item, never to be given to anyone else. (hahaha)
- I became one of the strongest (if not strongest) players on 2k1 at the time. I had all the best gear available and whatnot
- I started my own playerworld (Oasis) I think I started this after I left 2k1, so it was during the period that I started playing GK
- got interested in developing stuff for GK and I heard that Unix was hiring people to help with GK
- I got hired as a cyberjouers employee and I was supposed to be game master of GK but I rarely was able to do that job
- played the role of a yes man for unixmad for a while... doing websites and documents and handling the forums and support center and everything when I was supposed to be holding events and developing for GK
- unixmad was disappointed in the fact that I wasn't doing all sorts of GK gamemastering on top of all the work he was handing me on the side. I refused to work on CHRISTMAS DAY and he got pissed
- unix wanted to change my salary or something rather and I was tired of arguing with him so I quit
- picked up working on Oasis again and went through nearly every well-known scripter on Graal. ran into a roadblock and nobody could/would help me, so I could no longer proceed with my server
- faded out of the Graal scene for a long while
- came back and now I post now and then and am trying to possibly rebuild 2k1 into a revised server (if stefan ever decides to reply to my pm, which he's apparently ignoring now)

I'm sure I left a lot out but that's all I can think of at the moment.

How dare you not work on Christmas day!

All I remember is that Galen made my account manually around graal 1.2 and that it was a fun new experience. Then years passed and Star Wars Galaxies was released. Happy belated birthday Stefan.

[Lyndzey]

Well...

I started playing 1.0 back in 98 or 99 or something. I quit when 1.2 came out, but started playing again when Graal 2001 came out. I sucked up to Stefan and became Graal Help (my first job ), where I then worked my way up to FAQ Chief. I somehow got the Events Admin job (I don't remember who I sucked up to to get that job though) and then became Police Chief. Finally I became "ART Asst Admin". I don't remember what ART stood for but it had something to do with resetting accounts (extremely complicated task). I then went over to Graal Classic (I don't know if it's still called that these days...) where I worked as a GP. I eventually got the job as GP Chief even though I had barely been a GP. Soon Nemesis or someone I don't remember hired me as Accounts Admin. I don't remember how long I worked as Accounts Admin, but it was pretty near 2 years. I couldn't pay for my phone bill after my junior year of college, and so I had no internet. Eventually I just faded away...until today...

[Lance]

Originally Posted by Lyndzey

Well...[]

LYNDZEY. Welcome back! crazy things have happened