FED MEET AND GREET
with HELLO, BARON OF WESTWARD


March 5, 2000


A man blubbering Hello has appeared with a shimmer of teleportation effect.

Chiefsgirl asks, "Do you know the format, Hello?"

Chiefsgirl giggles and bounces

Hello thinks about you bouncing, "wahoo!"

"not really, could you skim over it real quick", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl blushes and laughs

"Sure...", says Chiefsgirl.

"Basically it's a live audience interview session.", says Chiefsgirl.

"To begin, you'll get a chance to tell about yourself, your history, your plans for the future, and just general background info", says Chiefsgirl.

"And the audience can jump in with questions for you as we go along", says Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "Cool"

"It lasts for an hour", says Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl says, "Sometimes we run over"

Chiefsgirl says, "But usually I try to stick to the hour because there's another event at 10"

Hello says, "ok, thats good, I don't have massive amounts of time to run over, I have an essay to write tonight due tomorrow, but I can go over if necessary"

Chiefsgirl nods

"Usually it stays within the hour", says Chiefsgirl.

"Cool", says Hello.

Hello says, "but I gotta be done by 10:30"

Chiefsgirl says, "ok, we definitely will then"

Hello asks, "So how many people are here to insult me?"

Singapore grins

Singapore nods at Hello..."That would be me." :)

"I'm here for the free booze and to grope CG", says Kao.

Chiefsgirl laughs

Chiefsgirl has given Kao a friendly grope!

"LOL", says Hello.

Singapore chuckles merrily for no apparent reason!

"I just realized this is my first Meet & Greet since December 19", says Chiefsgirl.

"Wow", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl boggles

Singapore sighs....he's never first...er...ah....never mind...

Hello says, "And its me, not a good way to start off the new year"

Chiefsgirl says, "What with crashes and my system crashing and holidays and super bowl and guest no shows"

Singapore looks innocent

"Well, Tickenest started off the year", says Chiefsgirl.

"But Phiddie substituted hosting that one for me", says Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "Ahhhh, ok, so I'm YOUR first of the millenium"

"you are indeed", Chiefsgirl says.

"that ain't a good way to start", says Hello.

Singapore sighs again, and moves up behind Hello, surreptiously...

Chiefsgirl giggles

Hello hides

Chiefsgirl exclaims, "It is a very good start!"

Chiefsgirl says, "This will be fun"

Singapore barely misses Hello with his spy-dagger!

"Curses! Foiled again!", exclaims Singapore.

Hello asks, "hehehe, Who put Cg on happy drugs??"

Singapore pulls out a blow dart...

Chiefsgirl laughs

Chiefsgirl smiles, "I'm always happy"

Singapore blows a dart at Hello, and accidently hits Cgee!

Hello says, "hehehehe"

Singapore exclaims, "Oops!"

Singapore checks the dart....

"Sleep dart.", says Singapore.

Singapore looks relieved!

Cgee eeeeks and falls over in a heap but continues to run the video camera

Singapore exclaims, "Bye, gotta go!"

Singapore runs for it!

Secret Agent Man, Singapore has just vanished.

Chiefsgirl laughs

"hehe", says Hello.

"He's such a goof", says Chiefsgirl.

Andy exclaims, "Past instances, in which I professed to liking you... were FRAUDULENT!"

Hello laughs

Andy smiles, "Well... I insulted him, per his request, farewell"

Chiefsgirl glances at her watch and stands up, clearing her throat

"Good evening and welcome to tonight's Meet & Greet", says Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl says, "I want to thank you all for coming out tonight"

"The Meet and Greet is held every Sunday evening at 9 eastern right here in The Duff Modem Pub", says Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl says, "Tonight my guest is Hello, Baron of Westward."

"He'll tell us a bit about himself and his plans", says Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl says, "Feel free to ask questions or make comments"

"however, please give Hello a chance to answer", says Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl exclaims, "And now without further ado, please join me in welcoming Hello!"

Chiefsgirl applauds wildly as she takes her seat on her barstool

Hello Wobbles hello for you

Hello says, "Ok, first off hey everyone"

Chiefsgirl waves and smiles at Hello

"ok, Well, As some of you know I'm an old timer from 2.95 Aol-Fed", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl didn't know that but loves to learn new stuff

Hello says, "hehe"

"who were you then?", asks Juel.

Hello says, "Well, yeah, I played under 2 characters, one was Coold4, the other, gliddonm"

Psylock says, "wow, that's awhile ago"

Hello says, "yep, I've been playin' a Loooooong time"

"3 and 1/2 years now", says Hello.

"i think I might remember Coold4 (not at all sure.) I used to play on aol ages ago", says Skunkfunk.

"Kewl, love to know I made an impression if you do", says Hello.

"Have you stuck with Fed through all its changes? Or did you leave and come back?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "nope, I've stuck around the entire 3 1/2 years"

Chiefsgirl smiles

"I never left, I stuck around through the free web-fed, and the hourly stuff, right through now", says Hello.

"What changes have you noticed?", asks Chiefsgirl.

"oooooo, i've noticed a lot, I remember the times when 9 wasn't used for bitchin', insults or duchy wars", says Hello.

"When there was a NORMAL pyramid of ranks with a few dukes and TONS of commanders", says Hello.

"I must say that I wish fed would return to that", says Hello.

"how many people do you think quit when they started charging hourly and didn't come back?", asks Psylock.

Chiefsgirl nods

Hello says, "Loads and loads, I remember Aohell fed constantly fillin' up with 700 people, with massive lag"

Chiefsgirl says, "good riddance to the lag"

"thats the one thing I won't miss", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl says, "Tell us about how you started and who you knew and where you hung out as a lower rank"

"I miss the people", says Psylock.

"but back then, before I found fednav, I learnt to type REALLLY fast", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl loves hearing about the old days

"As a hauler you had to", says Hello.

Hello says, "But I didn't know many people, I have a couple friends, most of which left, mainly though throughout really thane, I hung around with thomkat of katbox"

"he hung up his threads though aboput ]]", says Hello.

Hello exclaims, "Ack!"

Hello says, "About the time fed moved to the web"

"I've been friends with SJW here for quite a while haven't I?", asks Hello.

Sjw nods and smiles

Chiefsgirl smiles

Sjw says, "been my pleasure to have gotten to know ya"

Chiefsgirl asks, "What has been your favorite rank so far Hello?"

"yes, And its a pleasure to be in your duchy SJ, I'm glad you kept it through the change to flat rate", smiles Hello.

Chiefsgirl is glad Sj is still around too

"My favorite rank, To be Honest, was hauler", says Hello.

"I loved haulin'", says Hello.

"Like Commander, Captain, Adventurer?", asks Chiefsgirl.

"what level Hello?", asks Sjw.

"it was hard work back in those days, your fingers became fast real quick", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl shudders at the thought of hauling anything

Hello says, "Captain and Adventurer mostly"

Psylock grins and nods

Hello says, "yeah, it was fun though"

Juel is so glad to have droids do all the work and save the nails

Chiefsgirl laughs

Hello says, "Even the search for the wiley GM was fun"

"ugh!", exclaims Chiefsgirl.

"It took me 3 weeks to find the GM", says Chiefsgirl.

"yeah, its was tricky but fun", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl was ready to give up

Hello laughs

"yeah, so was I, I even bought a GM finder", says Hello.

"do you remember where you found him Hello?", asks Sjw.

Hello says, "didn't work"

Hello says, "yeah, both times earth"

Chiefsgirl is curious to see if Hello remembers where

Chiefsgirl smiles

"my GM was in one of the shacks off the venus shuttle", says Kao.

Chiefsgirl says, "I think mine was eventually on Titan somewhere"

"Coold4, which accidently died about 1 week before fed moved, in the mansion, by the Staircase", says Hello.

"and Gliddonm, which is this guy, was right outside the officer block", says Hello.

"my GM was in mars when I played when they weren't charging and on the moon

this time around on this char, bye-bye", says Psylock.

"you have such good memories lol", says Dancer.

Chiefsgirl says, "I was just thinking that"

"Yeah, I actually promo'd My first alt durin' the christmas break, and he was on venus, but it was fun", says Hello.

"I only remembering searching titan each time", smiles Dancer.

"How long did it take you to get your planet Hello?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "Planet took A LOOOOOOOOOOOONG time"

"took me till the first may after hourly fed", says Hello.

Hello says, "And that was ONLY because I got given large sums of cash by Dd'in' and nice Po's"

Ditzy remembers her first planet quest... and shudders.

Hello says, "and remarkably, i think You were one of them CG"

Chiefsgirl smiles

Hello says, "I think you were the one that maxed my stats"

Chiefsgirl says, "I like passing out my cash to those in need"

Kao nudges CG "that ain't all ya pass out"

Hello says, "hehe, thanks CG, you saved me months of work"

Chiefsgirl blushes and tickles Kao

Hello laughs

Ditzy smothers a chuckle.

Kshandria hides a smirk behind her hand

Singapore blinks at Kao, and hurriedly writes something on his datapad...

Chiefsgirl pulls us all back on track, "Now Hello, how did you come up with your planet's name?"

Hello says, "hehe, Well, that's a strange story"

"Westward was the name of my house, back when I lived in England", says Hello.

"this was when i was real you", says Hello.

Hello says, "young rather"

"oh! you lived in England?", asks Chiefsgirl.

"your house had a name?", smiles Dancer.

Chiefsgirl gets all starry-eyed and thinks she might swoon with delight at the thought

"yeah, Some old English houses do, but Yep I was born there and moved out to Jersey later", says Hello.

"so it was also the direction we came", says Hello.

Hello says, "it was just an interestin' name"

Juel asks, "off the English coast?"

Hello says, "Wrong Jersey, New Jersey"

"oh my", says Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "however, the name for this character was just sorta dumb luck"

Kao says, "Silly me...I thought it meant like "Westward HO!""

"Hehehe LOL", says Hello.

"i've wondered about your name..", says Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "Yeah, I was in a playful and sorta stupid mood, and just sorta said hello to the new computer"

Hello says, "it stuck, obviously"

Chiefsgirl laughs

"I would think it's sort of difficult to have as a name at times", says Chiefsgirl.

Dancer smiles, "I remember when you first came in with Hello"

"it always made me feel it was friendly", smiles Dancer.

"Hehehe, Yeah, I think I remember you were one of the first people I talked to Dancer", says Hello.

Hello says, "your name sounds So familiar"

Dancer has a poor poor memory. ..

"Well, I think you were", says Hello.

"Anyway", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl smiles

Hello says, "the last 22 months I spent promoin' to baron"

"with very little money", says Hello.

"Ohhh yeah I also spent a lot of time with Furgas", says Hello.

"Do you have any plans to go further?", asks Chiefsgirl.

"he was my main drive", says Hello.

Hello winks and says, "Drive to promote anyway, just beating Him was my goal"

Hello says, "My future plans involve Baron till at least this summer or winter, and then i'll go on and do the duke puzzle"

Chiefsgirl asks, "oh, you are?"

Chiefsgirl asks, "What sort of duchy do you hope to have?"

"yeah, I will, But I'll also go back a couple times just sort of for the fun of it", says Hello.

Hello says, "my Duchy will be a democracy, The second Complete Democracy duchy in fed"

"What was the first?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "The first being from my old Duchy, before Astral, Deceit"

Juel was curious about that too

Hello says, "it was my First duchy, and until I moved about a month or so ago, my only duchy"

Juel asks, "is there a story to the move?"

Sjw grins and sits back to listen to this one:)

"well, as you probably know, tbar took over rattty, and Well, I found that the democracy started to decay under his rule", says Hello.

Hello says, "but for the Record, He's no longer Tbar, just a new character he's playin'"

Kao says, "democracy decline under Tbar? Say it ain't so"

"hehehe", says Hello.

"I know", says Hello.

Hello says, "but ohh well"

Hello says, "Essentially that's the whole sad tale of my existence"

"Does anyone have any questions for Hello?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl looks around the audience

"Ohh yeah, anyone who wants to join my duchy when i get one, you're welcome", says Hello.

Hello hands out a sign up sheet

"any fed loves Hello?", asks Sjw.

"Ohhh yeah, i've had a couple", says Hello.

Hello says, "my first and only real one was Foo"

Hello smiles, "we had some fun"

Kao thwaps Hello :That's not what you said in my jello tub"

Hello says, "kao's been some fun at her parties"

Hello says, "Ouch"

Kao has given Hello a friendly tickle!

Hello has given Kao a hot tickle!

Hello says, "I still have some of kao's jello stuck to me" ex hello

>ex hello
you see a hint of a green bikini hidden deep within the dark recesses of the blubber rolls, unfortunatly, it could be lime jello, Hello wobbles for you

Chiefsgirl giggles

Kao says, "Thought i got it all"

Hello frowns and says, "fraid not kao, that tounge of yours missed a spot"

Chiefsgirl asks, "What do you find most enjoyable around fed now, Hello?"

Hello says, "Most definatly these parties and events"

"plus haulings fun as hell!", exclaims Hello.

Chiefsgirl laughs

"If you say so", says Chiefsgirl.

"hehe, well, with fednav I haul about 30K in about 25 minutes", says Hello.

Hello says, "but I spend a fair amount of time in the non-fighting events"

Singapore grins at Hello..."It's faster if you have a cable modem..."

Hello says, "I held a Pubcrawl about 3 months ago"

Sjw makes a note to raise taxes to maek a groat on all this hauling

"I know!!!!, I want one but I have to wait", says Hello.

"oh cool! how was the pub crawl?", asks Chiefsgirl.

"I was there and it was a hoot", smiles Sjw.

"yeah, That was fun", says Hello.

Hello says, "We had a blast, Sjw invited a whole bunch of his friends, all of which know how to have fun"

Juel asks, "still have all the pieces even if they aren't attached?"

"nope one or two got stuck somewhere", says Hello.

Sholevi winks and says, "A party here and nobody told me?"

"hehe, fraid not, just a chance to insult me and get some dirty black mail info", says Hello.

"Or is Mars going for the TTTT", says Sholevi.

"Oohhh, Meet and Greet!", exclaims Sholevi.

"So who else wants deep dark secrets", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl giggles and bounces

Hello says, "mmmmm CG bouncing"

"Yes, any one else have any probing questions?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Sholevi says, "Aw man, I'm coming at the end"

"How does the two LL differ from the O in hello?", asks Hellbug.

"A Pc nerd would say an Ascii code number, I'll say differant ascii number to play the slots with", says Hello.

"Now, What was that question of yours SJW?", asks Hello.

"no questions Hello", smiles Sjw.

Hello says, "I'll thwap you if you don't ask it SJW"

"What are your hopes for the future Hello.... besides being a duke someday", says Chiefsgirl.

"ummm, I'm hopin' to get the people back, as well as the snark", says Hello.

Hello says, "I want to do the snark"

Chiefsgirl nods

"You never did it?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Sjw asks, "is it working again?"

"nope, i missed it by a total of 2 month", says Hello.

Hello says, "months"

Sholevi asks, "No plans for duke, Hello?"

"yeah, I'm doin' duke this summer or christmas", says Hello.

"Or did somebody already ask that ;P", says Sholevi.

"oh kool", says Sholevi.

Hello says, "They already asked it"

"but its ok, we're not all as fast as the fed PC", says Hello.

"Any other questions for Hello?", asks Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "I'm just kiddin' Sholevi"

Bijou asks, "Hello...do you prefer to be greeted as Hello Hello, Hi Hello, Hey there Hello?"

Chiefsgirl laughs

Chiefsgirl says, "I've wondered that myself"

Hello laughs

Hello says, "hey squared works well too"

"but Really, Anything with my name in it will work", says Hello.

Chiefsgirl asks, "Any scandals or deep dark secrets we should hear about Hello?"

Hello says, "my worst is that I flew into the sun, ported into the sun, ported into the uranium room, and died porting to my own planet"

Hello says, "Plus I also sold and bought GM finders back in my early days"

Hello says, "Ok, well I've been warned to say something and then shut up"

Chiefsgirl laughs

"I was a bit nicer than that about it!", exclaims Chiefsgirl.

Chiefsgirl has given Hello a sloppy tickle!

Juel smiles, "your hour of glory..."

Hello exclaims, "Ok, well essentially, Visit planets, Explore, have fun in fed, don't rush the ranks, participate in fed events, I need people to beat!"

Chiefsgirl wonders if Hello uses whips or chains or paddles

"I'm spending more than 2 years at PO, willingly", says Hello.

"and yes, I do enjoy those things", says Hello.

"trust us, We know what we're talkin' about", says Hello.

"Don't accept massive sums of money, and be nice to the young ranks!", exclaims Hello.

"Feel free to hand out cash", says Hello.

"I'd like to thank you all for coming tonight and thank Hello for being my guest", says Chiefsgirl.

"I hope you'll join me next week when my guest will be Ryno, Duke of Checkmate", says Chiefsgirl.

Hello says, "yep, glad to waste your time"

Hello bows

Chiefsgirl applauds wildly for Hello

Hello says, "Wow, someone important next week"

Hello Bows and bows

Hello smiles, "hehehe, well thats it, i'm done boring"


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