THE PRODUCERS strike again (my code dump is ded)

I mean he literally just said it was nessalin.

News to me. Most of my Staff baggage pre-dates her arrival in the game and I was already more or less out the door by the time she was promoted to Staff herself. Never had a single conflict or argument with her over anything regarding the game. I've had plenty of friends (and a few enemies) on Staff over the years.  Not a one of them has ever informed me of bad blood between Adhira and myself. Not sure what you've heard, really, in terms of gossip that pre-dates the Obama administration.  But I've never had an ounce of enmity towards the woman.  Sorry.

Hah, if by 'around', you mean still above ground instead of below it, yeah...I'm still kicking. But not even remotely 'around' in the MUD community. I doubt I've logged into this board or the GDB more than twice in a decade. Like I said, I only wound up here last night through sheer serendipity.

And, for the record, I did try to special app a character after being asked to do so by a couple of Staff members in...hrmn...2011 or so? They pitched it to me over drinks (one of them was a ST at the time for the House I was apping for) and we worked up a neat-as-fuck concept, for which I submitted about 10 pages of background material and had a few old-timers onboard ready to roll with me (Zagren, Cerebus and a few others). Ness shitcanned it personally and threatened to boot out any staffers who approved me for a special app involving a noble or merchant house. I even countered by offering to make him an illegitimate with no real power in the House and was told to go fuck myself. He apparently put a note on my account that ANY special apps or House characters I applied for needed to be run through him directly or they'd be force-stored and the Imm who approved them would be abused.

In actuality, my invalid Borsail, Vedelarin, was written under similar threats back in 2002. Cerebus had asked me to come play a noble for him since Borsail was flagging. Ness shitcanned it and said that I was 'toxic' for the playerbase. That interacting with other players in an IC authority position was forbidden because I didn't understand the game world and would ruin newbies who tried to follow me. I wanted to play the character, so I countered and pitched to Cer that I'd play a cripple with demophobia who never even left the estate. He was worried I'd take over the City as a mindbender, so I offered to app Ved as a basic merchant instead, which I did. About 6 months later, Ness booted Cerebus out as Borsail ST specifically because we'd 'broken the agreement' and I had my fingers in too much shit, despite never even leaving my bedroom. he asserted that I had to be doing it all with a network of OOC information.

Truth be told, I still have zero clue why Mark has had a hard-on for me since about 1998. Even Sanvean and I buried the hatchet years ago after the Gypsy thing. But Ness actively worked to keep me from playing the game for almost 2 decades. He still does. I think it had something to do with when I played a Reynolte noble back in 1997. Anyway, he's an assfuck and he worked very hard to single-handedly kill my interest in the game. I'd say he more or less succeeded.

tl;dr Thanks for the kind thought, but I ain't comin back.