Well howdy everyone.
I started back then in 'Teen' or 'Tenaria' as Tygon_Magelok, but quickly left that behind in favor of more robust RP experience in Ayenee under a variety of names.
I was a Darglore, a Cinderbane, a Bloodtide and I founded the Deathbringers as well as played Gregor_Unitarius where I was one of the founding fathers of Star Wars offshoot of Ayenee (Expansion of the Force). I had a handful of other aliases as well, but they were typically guises for the others: Cyaxe_Orchidrot and I cant remember the rest.
Its funny, a guy name Cory used to RP has Gargauth the Hidden Lord and, back 20 years ago I thought he had just made him up with his story hook trying to steal the material plane and create a tenth level of Baator. Several years later I learned that Gargauth was actually an almost forgotten demigod in Forgotten Realms with very sparse references through the novels and D&D source books, and indeed have that story arc.
That story arc has stuck with me (along with that of the Darglores) for about 20 years and now that life has slowed down a bit (work, a side career as a DJ playing 12 cities across the country, throwing events in Seattle and more than a few relationships kept me pretty busy) I was looking to DM a campaign for friends and wanted to use this story arc. Well I started digging in more to ol' Gargy and as it turns out is one of the most mysterious but persistent characters in the Forgotten Realms universe. In the past month ive put bits and pieces together about more of his history than is documented in any single place and discovered some old messages boards that have existed nearly since the time of Ayenee in Yahoo Chat where the creators and many authors of Forgotten Realms have actually slyly confirmed when fans have uncovered a new tid bit of information about him
So I just wanted to stop in and say hi to anyone who may be still around and say; thanks for the good memories that have influenced more to come.
Cheers,
Scott