There are friends waiting for you.

from left: Mimiru, Helba, Bear, Tsukasa, Subaru, Crim, Sora, BT

Image borrowed from a chinese site, by way of Wikipedia

I may replace it with a better one if I find one in the DVDs that just arrived.

.hack//SIGN was on Toonami back when Veritas, my guild in Ultima Online was still mostly active. Taking away from the main plotline (which, in the text of the characters themselves, really is a subplot), the interactions of the characters and their non-RP-ness in doing so reinforced all the cool things about MMORPGs that kept me with UO as long as it did.

I haven't logged into UO since Thanksgiving. Most MMOs are very boring to play without other people to play with, and there aren't that many people that play in a manner which fits my playstyle: too many people are busy trying to "win" UO, instead of realizing that it, like any game, is an escape, nothing more. I enjoyed playing it when I did, and I might get back to it. Right now, though, Team Fortress 2 and spending time with Amanda is more fun than getting it back up.

I still have two accounts, though. If anyone wants to play on Napa Valley with me, I could be bothered to start it going again.

And Yantri, yeah, if what happened to Sora ever gets close to happening to me, you still have permission to smack me, hard.

-KIE (aka Cephas)