Shattered Kingdoms

Screw locking this thread, deleting it would be a far better solution.

Ditto, why are we all praising someone who took the cowardly way out?

Dying like a coward is one thing. Living like one is quite another.

Guess who I'm looking at.

Darkone, I understand and appreciate that you have a hardon for me, but trying to make a thread of a subject such as this one all about me is a bit silly and a bit self-defeating.

The difference, if you need educating, is this: I do not, and did not, like OVT the person. This is because he threatened my life via PM on the forums several times. As such, I am not really inclined to say terribly nice things about him now, because I don't believe in doing someone the disservice of dishonesty just because they've moved on.

Phiezel is mocking other people for their loss, an entirely different prospect. I understand and sympathise with them that they've lost something important to them. While I don't appreciate that they get on my case when I say things that aren't all glowing about their friend, I certainly understand it and I'm not going to sit here and snipe at them for it.

Hopefully that clears it up for you. Now, if you really want to continue to try to make this about me, which is at least as disrespectful as you're claiming I am, then you're more than welcome to. For my part, I'm going to try to steer clear of this thread from now on because as I mentioned, the things I have to say about OVT the person are not going to rub his friends the right way, and I respect that.

Good. Now this thread will be worth reading once again.




I was just thinking up the names of some of his characters. Some of the memorable ones for me were Revin, Kemilla, Coryn, Falicis, Lamek....I know there's more. I remember his stories about Mortimor, I never got to meet the character though.

OVT was Lamek? I forgot that. Now that was an interesting character. Very flawed, but enjoyable to interact with at times.

Falicis



Try not to laugh

And here I figured you to go and say something "far-fetched" about me.
I haven't made this thread about you, you have all on your own with your negative two cents here and there comments. I never addressed phiezels comments in this thread because in my mind they were clearly just following your lead in here.

So we both can leave it as is, considering you shouldn't be back in this thread replying to me, right?
Sorry to all OVTs friends on my back and forth part in here. Hopefully the memories of a fellow Sk player will continue on without all the side dramas.

Well, it makes me sad that I got to this so late. I can't even express how sad I am, and it's been 4 months since it happened, though it may as well have happened yesterday with having just found out today. Brady was the singular reason I got as much knowledge early on about SK as I did. It was a mutually beneficial relationship between us, because he seemed like he needed a consistent SK "friend" at the time and I needed someone to get me into the game. I wouldn't have invested the hours I did had it not been for him. He was also one of the coolest people I knew I on the YIM environment, and I was always looking forward to conversations with him when I logged on. I've never been to Wichita, but I felt like I was one of the "krew", with how much Tyler and Brady chatted it up with me and we got along. I know he was a great person and I would have done anything to help him, had I been presented the opportunity. It's hard when you're hundreds of miles away... I know he's in a heaven of his creation right now, where he's no longer a slave to his environment and he finally gets to choose his happiness.

For all of you that don't have anything nice to say, or plan to say anything unkind when this comes back to light after my post, you have a lot of maturing to do, no matter how old you are. In honor of Brady's legacy, I'm sharing my knowledge and wisdom I've discovered with the rest of you, in hopes you find your path to understanding of the situation. I'll leave these quotes in dedication:

"Fly free and happy beyond birthdays and across forever, and we'll meet now and then when we wish, in the midst of the one celebration that never can end."

"If it's never our fault, we can't take responsibility for it. If we can't take responsibility for it, we'll always be its victim."

"You have no birthday because you have always lived; you were never born, and never will die. You are not the child of the people you call mother and father, but their fellow-adventurer on a bright journey to understand the things that are."

"Nothing happens by chance, my friend... No such thing as luck. A meaning behind every little thing, and such a meaning behind this. Part for you, part for me, may not see it all real clear right now, but we will, before long."

"In order to live free and happily, you must sacrifice boredom. It is not always an easy sacrifice."

"Every person, all the events of your life, are there because you have drawn them there. What you choose to do with them is up to you."

"Remember where you came from, where you're going, and why you created the mess you got yourself into in the first place."

"The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each others' life. Rarely do members of one family grow up under the same roof."

"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls a butterfly."

"Don't be dismayed at goodbyes. A farewell is necessary before you can meet again. And meeting again, after moments or lifetimes, is certain for those who are friends."

"You are led through your lifetime by the inner learning creature, the playful spiritual being that is your real self.
Don't turn away from possible futures before you're certain you don't have anything to learn from them."

"Your only obligation in any lifetime is to be true to yourself. Being true to anyone else or anything else is not only impossible, but the mark of a fake individual."

"We wait all these years to find someone who understands us, I thought, someone who accepts us as we are, someone with a wizard's power to melt stone to sunlight, who can bring us happiness in spite of trials, who can face our dragons in the night, who can transform us into the soul we choose to be. Just yesterday I found that magical Someone is the face we see in the mirror: It's us and our homemade masks."

This last one I leave as a personal testament to you Brady, for your journey.

"That's what learning is, after all; not whether we lose the game, but how we lose and how we've changed because of it and what we take away from it that we never had before, to apply to other games. Losing, in a curious way, is winning."

(All quotes courtesy of Richard Bach.)

Kevin Couch

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