Monday, January 5, 2004

Finally Flash!
Never thought I'd see myself posting a message on this wacky new system. Heh, seeing as I'm here now, I'll start from the beginning.

Some of you don't know me. Hell, alot of you must not know me. Well in short, I'm Flash, a former Super-Moderator--Wait, no, 'Category Moderator' from Otakuboards. I registered around March 2001, same time as legends like Warlock and... Erm, Warlock. Of course, we didn't know each other back then.

Up until then, the Only message board I'd ever been on were the ones over at GameFAQs, and all I'd ever done there was visit the Roleplaying and Fanfiction boards. Seemed I had a strange taste for online text roleplaying, probably due to my passion for writing and creating. I fell in love with OB the first minute I reached the Games and Stories forum.

My first post was a Sign-Up for an RPG called 'Dragonball Z - Battlefield'. I had some great people join, like PiroMunkie, Sephiroth, DragonballZman, Warlock, AJ and many more, in the first few months. As the time I spent on OB grew, so did the RPG, clocking up 60 members over it's time, and spanning more than 6 very large threads.

In the later stages of the RPG, I was privilleged to write alongside the likes of Chaos, Raiha and even Seph, Warlock and PiroMunkie, who stayed with me to the 'End of the Universe'.

I wrote and participated in a whole lot of other RPGs, but for me personally, none of them live up to DBBF (Still the biggest and longest running RPG on OB!). Heck, I even tried to bring it back mid-last year; but my interest in the Internet was dwindling, and I didn't feel as motivated to involve myself in the RPG. Thusly, it failed.

Hybrid Vigor, Meteo City, Z Warriors, End of the World, Mercenaries, Online Another World--I've been lucky enough to be involved in some of the best pieces of online rp'ing to ever grace the face of the web, and then some. (Right now, Maverick Hunters: Personification is my only real legacy that's still going, so my first goal now that I'm back is to weave my way back into the spotlight, and get that show on the road!)

Anyway, I got made a moderator, after like, eight months or something. Final_Flash, Moderator of the Final Fantasy forum. It was about this time that I began talking to James. I guess you could say we became buddies (Although I didn't like him when he first 'showed up' as an Admin on the boards... o.o ). After a couple of months, there was a staff shift, and apparently, I was gearing to be a Super-Mod! See, the menace, Kuja, made sure I didn't get the spot.

Now Kuja, he was something else. He was the single whinyest, ignorant, arrogant, illiterate member (not to mention super moderator) on OB--And he was my Superior! I danced for joy the day he got fired, and eventually, banned.

Back to my story. I became a Moderator of the Roleplaying forum as well. I even managed to be the Gundam moderator for awhile. A few months down the track, I became a Super-Mod! It was great. During my erm, 'reign' as a Category Moderator, I got to work with two of the best Mods OB had to offer--Chaos and Warlock. With us three in the Roleplaying Arena, OB was in a happy, happy time.

But sadly, times change. After a couple of years since I joined, I began to grow apart from OB, and earlier last year, I finally resigned from my position of Super-Mod. It simply wasn't fair on the other members to have a Moderator who simply didn't want to be involved anymore. I left Otakuboards, for what I thought would be forever. Millions mourned. Warlock cried. Chaos blew a central-european country to pieces. DeathKnight ate a muffin. James filed for divorce. Kuja laughed. Adam slept through it. Desbreko didn't even shed a tear--He's such a little trooper!!

Anyway, like any good fast food place, Otakuboard's convienient location (ie Anywhere), free novelty straw and tasty, inexpensive menu finally reeled me back in, after like nine months.

So here I am, humbly gracing you all with my presence of pure awesomeness as you bask in my modestly radiatiated beams of funkirificism. The King has Returned--Just like Tupac Shakir, except he didn't come back. And without the rapping. Or the assassination.

May I hang around long enough for something really cool to happen. ^_^

Derf!
-Connor
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