How I Got Here
Some 14 or 16 years ago, an Australian friend of mine sent me a copy of Freelancer over XFire. Yeah, the whole thing - over XFire. I don't know how the Hell that worked, either. Straight away, the first thing we did was get into Discovery, at his urging. We played a long while, some on the official servers, some on one I hosted, until we eventually lost interest. We moved on, and I left Freelancer to the realm of memories.
Fast forward to recent months. My old buddy is now distant, and I don't think we've spoken in years, but I still remember Freelancer. Many years ago, I got Starpoint Gemini 2 for free - part of a Humble Bundle, I think? I finally got around to clearing it off my backlog a few months ago. The story, in a way, made me think of Freelancer - based on a huge misconception that the nomads canonically destroyed Earth, when that's never actually shown in the campaign at all. So, I tracked Freelancer down on an abandonware site; I'm no pirate anymore, but I'm still flat broke.
After slotting it into my planner just before Marathon, I went through the campaign. I had more mis-memories along the way - for example, I was convinced that Tobias died in the campaign - but I think I remembered most of the plot well enough. Not long after finishing, I had a spontaneous urge stick into me, and I pitched the idea of playing Discovery together with a couple of my friends - who, funnily enough, are both Australian, too.
My first post was a not-so-glittering review of Discovery, but I still see a lot of good in the mod. So, I've hung around as best I can, and tried to make the most of my time in-game. Who I Am
Insano-Man is my name, and getting stuck in the ceiling is my game. I usually try to go by this name as much as possible, but it's sometimes infeasible. You'll find me in hyphen-allergic territories as Fegroider or Shefford. I think more people know me by a compromise name than one I selected for myself, at this point.
I've been roleplaying for a long, long time; I got my start in StarCraft: Brood War around the same epoch as when I played Freelancer. I've tried to fit roleplaying into just about everything I do, from games, to modding, to forums, and more. I've mostly kept to closed groups populated by my friends, but I've managed some kind of roleplaying in just about every genre I've played so far. My native environment has always been in real-time strategy games, but, as of about 6 years ago, I went full-time into pure-text Discord roleplaying. I've written about three settings so far, each more complete than the last, and I think I've finally settled on sticking to my most recent.
When I am not savagely beating the English language with my monotonous manner of speech, I spend my time visiting great and terrible cruelties on video games. That opening line is no mistake; I have developed a stubborn reputation as having a digital Pauli effect on every game I play. IhavefilledupmyharddriveseveraltimesoverwithvideosIhavetakentoreviewtheresults. It won't stop. I can't make it stop. Please send help. What I'm Doing
I am presently flying by the names of Blackrise and Copeland. Blackrise is my solo character, in a Rheinland black market frigate, and Copeland is my group character, in a Junker Salvager frigate. In groups, I usually fly with Arksan and Salvador_Campos, the two buddies I mentioned above. We're all on the Junkers ID as part of the unpublished story we have going, and mostly flying trade routes. Blackrise has mostly been retired, since I've run out of room to improve there, but Copeland still flies on odd days of the week, usually around 5:00AM EST with one of my partners (yeah, I'm in the US, and slaved to Australian hours).
I've been trying to work up the nerve to get more of my faction concept out into the open, but it's rough. Life is doing me no favors right now, so my energy's shot. I've been advised that my ideas are not an ideal fit for Discovery - on a multiple fundamental levels - and I'm not sure if I'd be able to surmount that through sheer force of wit. It's been a very long time since I've done anything public, and I've never handled any public events before. I'm all talk and no walk right now, and that's a hard fence to climb.
Still, I'm doing what I can, with what I've got. If that means I'm just going to be some doofy pincherboat that squirts unsolicited noise at people, I'll make it work.
I don't know where I'm going. I don't know how I'll get there. I don't know if I'll get there.
But I've still got all these fingers, noses, and toes.
HI there, welcome again, and well done on such an orderly introduction!
I'm glad you've decided to give Discovery a chance, even in spite your reasoned and elaborately expressed grievances. Unfortunately, there is little that can be done about the timezones; for the rest, though, we'll be more than willing to lend any aid we may, no strings or judgement attached!
Enjoy yourself, and don't be shy about asking for advice - even if it means poking our story guys for their take on that concept of yours
