{"id":10,"date":"2013-04-10T16:46:39","date_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/realmsofdespair.info\/blogs\/tharius\/?p=10"},"modified":"2013-04-10T16:52:19","modified_gmt":"2013-04-10T16:52:19","slug":"there-and-back-again","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.realmsofdespair.info\/tharius\/blog\/2013\/04\/10\/there-and-back-again\/","title":{"rendered":"There and back again …"},"content":{"rendered":"

After many years away I decided to check out what’s been going on with the Realms of Despair<\/a>. \u00a0I was active in the game\u00a0from about 1998-2003 or so and returning after so much time has been quite the experience.<\/p>\n

I logged in on Thursday April 4, 2013 and created a new character, hoping to find either someone I knew or perhaps even the keeper of my old characters. \u00a0It wasn’t long before I found Zistrosk, the Guildmaster of the Guild of Druids, who has been a friend of many years. \u00a0With a loaner avatar from him I was freed from the constant need for food and drink, a simple but annoying part of pre-avatar life!<\/p>\n

Even logging in and sitting at Guild of Druids recall brought back a flood of memories. \u00a0When I regularly played in 2002 I was engaged to a lady who also played the Realms, known as Aurale. \u00a0When we broke off our engagement I simply left the realms and didn’t find a way to play the game on my own again. \u00a0It seems odd after all this time that I would have to face that, but that’s exactly what came to the surface … mourning an old relationship that we both have moved far past as if it was still fresh. \u00a0I also had memories surface of the time I spent with the immortal Julie off the MUD and my grief when she died but I did mourn her back then and so while sad, the hurt was an old one and perhaps better healed. \u00a0I have to admit, it was the hardest part of rejoining the Realms.<\/p>\n

There are many, many friends who are no longer in the realms; people from the Guilds of Druids and Rangers, from the Order of Dragonslayers, from the Symposium or the Newbie Council, the immortals I was\u00a0acquainted\u00a0with, heck even people who were just characters everyone knew. \u00a0So here’s a little shout out to some of them, drop me a line if you ever visit: Alisia, Illiana, Shingo, Pheayre, Hoerkin, Xopus, Forgrim, Dirca, Hawpch, Linda, Edmond … The list grows all the time as I wander the Realms, wherever you are, I hope you are all doing well.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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