Gage Gritshaw

He also wore boots.

Gage Gritshaw was merely a great character - the kind with a real tangible personality you get a feel for. He probably stands out due to the loincloth/codpiece and the catchy name. RPIs could always do with more characters like this and less people trying to satisfy their egos by proxy.


I'd certainly say he was unpleasant, but not unhinged. There's a log on the website that features him although it's probably not going to give you the greatest insight, it involves someone being killed with a torch. Sorry I can't say which log it is, the layout on the site is pretty unfriendly.

I think I bumped into him a couple times, and that was my general opinion as well. Arm players really know how to wear rose-tinted glasses.

I bumped into old Gage with my dwarf-turned-Legionnaire Dargan, when Dargan was but a wee lad only a few hours old, in the Tablelands. He tried robbing me, to which I stubbornly refused, and so he attacked and I fled. He swiped my mount as I ran to Blackwing. He stashed the mount outside of Blackwing, came in and tracked me. What ensued was, admittedly, horrible RP on both our parts. Gage was chasing me through the outpost, blades out, attacking me any chance he got, and I was running around the outpost hiding in shops or anywhere I could manage. It was a rough lesson to learn that there was, at the time at least, no crim code. He was openly attacking in front of the outpost soldiers. Eventually I bolted out of the outpost and manage to find my mount to the southeast, jumped on it and rode off while he was still trying to track me down. That was my first run-in with Gage. Dargan never forgot him.

I ran into him in Luir's a few times, where he'd deny ever meeting my character, calling himself "Blue Fruit" and other ridiculous names and claiming to be part of this or that tribe.

Dargan eventually joined the Legions and spotted Gage in Tuluk. I contacted my commanding Templar at the time, who did come and accost Gage. Yet, despite my reports of him being a murderous bastard, the Templar decided to enslave Gage into the Legions instead of just banning/killing/etc him. It was one of the dumbest things I've witnessed in quite some time. I wish I could remember which Templar that was. Anyway yeah...the obviously inevitable happened and Gage manager to get away. I wasn't a witness to what happened/who he killed or whatever to get away. I privately put out a bounty on his head and then eventually heard he was dead.

I'll agree Gage wasn't total awesomesauce or anything, but he certainly provided my character with some motivation and plotlines. He was a character that Dargan loved to hate. And, aside from our first encounter where we BOTH were severely lacking in the RP, he was a good RP'er.

I know the player of Gage. We were good friends back in high school, and I can say with utmost certainty that he sucked at roleplaying when he started before turning into a pretty good player. Hell, I was a c.elf once and he was a human back when we first started. When some guy attacked us, he broke character and ooc'ed for me to subdue him and flee through the gates of Tuluk. Halaster abruptly swooped down and slayed his ass while I stood there taking swipes at his avatar.

We all have our personal favorite PCs we loved playing; Gage was certainly in his top 3.

There's a log of him in the original submissions on the Armageddon homepage. It's good.

i prefer laurentide. tbh.