- Mon Dec 02, 2013 9:09 am
#179547
My story, as best I can remember it:
I joined at the behest of pds314 the day I bought Minecraft (August 2nd or 3rd), and explored spawn in astonishment (it was like nothing I had ever seen before!) for a while before settling down on a public realm somewhere in spawn city and making a dirt hut. Coincidentally, I ended up joining at about the same time some player or other was leaving the server and got some valuable stuff from him, including iron, lapis, obsidian, stone tools, gold, and redstone. Unfortunately, the realm got bought, a few of my items got stuck there, and I moved on. I decided to build a house underwater to discourage griefers, and went straight to the ocean nearest spawn at that time, which, as I recall, was still within the bounds of Spawn City. I dug down beneath and made a snug little hole house for myself and created a strip mine, then a quarry mine under there. Unfortunately, part of my underground house ALSO got bought and someone built a castle over it, preventing me from accessing the rest of my valuables and forcing me to either stay inside or get locked out. I kept my /home there so I could still access it, and continued mining in the public portion, and hoping that I could contact the realm owner to get my stuff back. I ended up moving to Korriban (while continuing my attempts to procure the realm of my old house) after Darth_Regnier and Darth_Lynch decided to generously give homeless and relatively new players a discount, and eventually abandoned my old home. I never did end up getting my stuff back.
I lived in Korriban for a few happy months, building farms in and below my house, finding my first diamonds ever in the community mine that I could access from my basement, farming Nether Wart, exploring Korriban, and hanging out. I also started a quarry mine a couple hundred blocks away from Korriban, and eventually got enough credits to buy my first realm (the quarry mine). Those were Korriban's glory days. Then, Cannabin0l attacked. He and his buddies started constantly camping our portal, and it eventually escalated into an all-out war. I tried to help, but Cannabin0l's side was too numerous for us to fight, and the Darths gave up. Frustrated with receiving no help with Cannabin0l's trolling, they left the server, leaving a message outside the door of their house in Korriban saying that they might come back someday if the server got better (people who have seen them on other servers report that they didn't want to come back). I only disovered this when I came on one day and decided to check on my house (I was spending most of my time at my quarry) and discovered that it had been disbanded three days previously, and had become quite griefed. I asked Agent to roll it back, but he could not, and lacking the credits to buy the realm myself, I gathered my remaining valuables and left.
After I finished my quarry, mining it down almost to level zero (just a bit above, to leave room for farms on the bottom), I started enchanting at the .com quadruple spider grinder—well, at that time, I believe it was the Imperial quadruple spider grinder, but I digress. Anyway, I also hung out at spawn quite a bit, exploring and spawn PVPing (this was at the time of the garden/fountain spawn) and got to be pretty good friends with OneManWo1fPac. One day, while I was at the quad grinder, he jokingly sent me an invitation to his guild. I accepted, and that's how I came to join Vortex.
It was around that time that, finding some valuables in a realm near mine that had been disbanded for a month or two, I asked my fellow MOI about the two-week rule. They confirmed it, and I took the items (don't worry, I've talked to staff about it), sharing them also with my brother artraf, who was living on my realm at that time. There was a variety of items there, but most abundant was iron, and that's how I got to be dlgn the iron salesman and how I started up that silly rivalry with JackDeCkEr. I also sold iron I mined, but I continued enchanting at the .com grinder frequently until I found the Vortex Triple Skelly Grinder, whereupon I switched to there. It looked very different back then—the grinder was in the center of the room, it didn't have any fancy redstone contraptions, there was a decorative lava lake covering one side of the room, fenced off with Nether Brick Fence, and it was connected to the (fairly easy on the eyes) basement storage areas of several Vortex members. Anyway, I started posting more and more on the forums and becoming more and more active on the server, became friends with a lot of people, including many who are sadly gone or extremely inactive (jackavsfan, for example), and became quite a bit richer, though I still only had one realm, as well as gaining the highest post count on the forums—without outright spamming. I also helped DragonSlayer155 rewire the Skelly Grinder when someone broke its circuitry. I started becoming more and more manic and insane, took over Aurora©orp and rechristened it as Deel©orp, discovered I had no soul and started taking those of others and making delicious smoothies out of them. Completely coincidentally, I also made friends with krinbros.
And that, ladies and gentlemen, is how I got to be where I am today.
~dlgn
I am the whirring thing past the corner. I am the darker patch under the bed. I am the tapping on your window; the extra steps on the sidewalk; the voice whispering your name. I am Stalkerbot, and I am watching you.
