Kymer's 10th Anniversary

Hey, this is a big file. At the bottom it should read "The End" or you didn't get it all, in which case give it a reload. I hope you enjoy, below you will find various screen grabs, web cam snaps, and a transcript of the conversations I shared in Kymer on the night of its 10th Anniversary. Our very special guests were Oracles Teresias and Vaserius.

Vaserius: "My daughter is pretty good with the computer, so she won't let me use it."

Acolyte Aloha: "xopllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllllll!!!"

Necrolyte White Rose: "I remember temple parties..when you'd get a 2 close friends and use the 3 person room to sort through "

Nem: "k, gotta finished what I started before I lose track lol... wanted to say hi "

Vaserius: "With the glasses on, it's like you're resting your chin on your chest."

Catolyte Marvelous Melinda: "yaknow whats crazy.. this is the same exact head I bought out of the vendo 10 years ago "

Catolyte Marvelous Melinda: "White, here.. was the first friend I had IW, talk about memories <g>"

Catolyte Marvelous Melinda: "hows the weather over there? we got tornado watches"

Vaserius shows off his Vaz Doll on the web cam.

Rabbit: "ah thats the news Vaz since I last saw you I have a 5 year old daughter now"

Lord Xopl tries on an Ancient Porcelain Mask Head, that he thought was going to be painted like a Slaver or Thrall head, but by coincidence it matches Starchilde instead.

Left to Right: Lyliana, Rabbit, Vaserius, Abbi Bi SeXXyy, Lord Xopl, Starchilde, Cain Lancer, Kaiserfuchs, Head Hunter Chief, Stue, Necrolyte White Rose, Catolyte Marvelous Melinda.

Catolyte Marvelous Melinda: "darnit.. I came in too late to win stuff me thinks <g>"

Left to Right: Cain Lancer, Rabbit, Vaserius, Abbi Bi SeXXyy, Lord Xopl, Starchilde, Kaiserfuchs, Head Hunter Chief, Stue, Necrolyte White Rose, Catolyte Marvelous Melinda, Isabeau

*Isabeau, Cain Lancer, Starchilde, Headhunter Chief, Necrolyte White Rose, Catolyte Marvelous Melinda, *

*Rabbit, Stue, Vaserius, Lord Xopl, Abbi Bi SeXXyy, Kaiserfuchs, and 16 ghosts.*

Vaserius: "It's a non-profit, and he runs a community for people with learning-disabled children.,"

Cain Lancer: "later all dont be a damm stananger X look for me As Azrael cains hardly ever used "

Lord Xopl: "he's still mad about me and my buddy ESPing him about those bricks of pot in his oracle robes "

Catolyte Marvelous Melinda: "youd think this new laptop could handle two wa screens "

Necrolyte White Rose: "last night when we were walking around I swear if it was possible the girls surrounding Ter would have "

Kaiserfuchs: "btw fox trivia resumes next week again after the pause baceuase of my move"

Kaiserfuchs: "but he looks good for his age, the leafs are all green and fresh "

Vaserius: "I would like to say that it is extremely awesome to see you all here tonight."

Stue: "Yeah I bet you don't miss them crashing you whenever they entered a locale though lol"

Lord Xopl: "yeah... it's kinda weird having your previous everyday avatars being oracles now"

Abbi Bi SeXXyy: "RW Puics of the ORacles Uni, Vaserius & Teresias from Ferret Smooch!! "

Rosaleah of the Jungle: "beer just proves that Morpheus loves us and wants us to be happy"

Lord Xopl: "There used to be this bleak marble room behind one of these temple doors... Teresias summoned me in "

*Why is it when we talk to God we are praying, but when God talks to us we are put into the loony bin? *

*Haloween did not start off to be depressing and evil. Its a shame that some ppl think it is. *

Vaserius, with the smaller beard, sits next to Teresias. Is that Newcastle?

Rabbit: "absinthe hmmm thought only newer stuff was available or I mean legal in Europe"

Catolyte Marvelous Melinda: "lol man I remember when those lil bananas were really rare"

Kaiserfuchs: "here is a Kaiserfuchs picture from last year: pix.alysma.org/kf/kfp1.jpg"

Guinevere: "did ya ever think you would see me in what nicos calls my "blue junk suit" again????"

Necrolyte White Rose: "from head to uni to martian (cause star was was so trendy and new) to Teddy"

PuReAnGeL: "so that's why it won't work.. it keep vanishing right away when you place the url on it."

Vaserius: "Torgersen Teddy was named after Mike Torgersen, the VP of Operations (my boss)"

Guinevere: "I should have put my roadshow turf of collections in the Kymer Kollection "

Guinevere: "had to go get my pics of all the gathering out, was sooooo much fun"

Vaserius: "The decision was made that Dreamscape was not the kind of world for guns."

Necrolyte White Rose: "by the way, the poop had... well, it made it out, not as a head thoughL"

Lord Xopl: "So can we officially put the rumor to bed that HHC was either Teresias, Vaz, or Uni? muwuhahahaha"

Necrolyte White Rose: "I have had conversations with him...seems like he was a kid, who grew up"

Lord Xopl: "How did you feel about the various nefarious characters causing trouble Vaz? Was it a fun social "

Stue: "Once again if you read the interview we did in the VP you'll see Vaz laying the smackdown on someone "

Vaserius: "I'm in Aptos, CA, which is south of Santa Cruz, which is south of San Francisco."

Lord Xopl: "somebody sent me to the void when I complained I'd never been there"

Necrolyte White Rose: "I got to go to SanJose when I was in CA 2 years ago. we got ti visit the Winchest Mystery "

Necrolyte White Rose: "was there ever a plan to build something in here like that??"

Vaserius: "I wouldn't say we loved the trouble makers, but it was fun, kind of."

Vaserius: "And if it wasn't for HHC, we wouldn't have had Charles Faulter and the Void."

Lord Xopl: "Did you guys have any idea how complex and real the economy would be?"

Vaserius: "Before we opened, Teresias and I went to Winchester Mystery House to learn about giving tours."

Vaserius: "If anyone remembers, one of the first things we did was give tours, and we learned how there."

Rabbit: "the thing that amazed me is you seldom if ever saw Vaz Ter or Uni loose their temper in public"

Kaiserfuchs: "and suddenly, the whole room emerged into a battlefield with everybody shooting"

Vaserius: "One gave a worse return rate, so Piemer created an image of him hauling it off in a truck."

Lord Xopl: "Could you guys run queries on the database... and see if certain items' counts had gone up... or the # of "

Lord Xopl: "Ever come into work to find a big chunk of new tokens in somebody's pocket?"

Guinevere: "have not heard from him in a long time, but still lives close to me "

A new camera angle on the Oracles, logged in together on their laptops.

Necrolyte White Rose: "What do you think it was that safed us? the people? luck? someone upstairs who knew what they were "

Teresias: "I also think that the expansion of the staff and allowing more input from people in making stories, objects "

Kaiserfuchs: "was it the broad acceptance of the internet that changed the original Kymer?"

Teresias: "I'm not offended. But I think we were limiting a lot of what we had."

Teresias: "Being able to have a rich MMORPG for $10/month added a lot of pressure."

Lord Xopl: "I have to say, what killed the world was the pricing model when it went to the web."

Vaserius: "When Dreamscape went web, they charged $20 for Dreamscape and $10 for the other worlds."

Vaserius: "I thought they were taking advantage of the Dreamscape people because they knew they would pay it."

Lord Xopl: "When it went web initally it was still per hour... and everybody left"

Teresias: "Little of both. I have an Engineering degree, but I haven't used it at all in 15 years."

Teresias: "Why do you think I made TOny stand in front of them all to announce it."

Lord Xopl: "what was that... 97? 98? I'd come in and get the "Everyone is somewhere" message"

Kaiserfuchs: "IMO, the old Kymer broke when RW money was introduced into the economy"

Kaiserfuchs: "of course, we shuld not forget that there were quite some licensing costs to pay"

Vaserius: "I'm not against using RW money, but the impact on the economy was not well understood."

Lord Xopl: "I wish there had been more of an effort to keep ties when people had left"

Teresias: "I know I had a lot of pressure to keep introducing new unique items."

Hanging out at the North Fountain.

Left to Right: Lord Xopl, Kaiserfuchs, PuReAnGeL, PaperSky®, Daisy, Vaserius, Rabbit, Stue, Necrolyte White Rose, Guinevere, Mondkind

*Daisy, Teresias, MissJ, PuReAnGeL, Kaiserfuchs, Guinevere, Rabbit, Lord Xopl, Necrolyte White Rose, Stue, *

Kaiserfuchs: "hey, it runs fine without oracles in Korea and makes a lot of money with a few locales"

Teresias: "In my opinion, Fujitsu backed out because they felt the DS was not recouping costs and they wanted to "

Teresias: "When licensing turned out to be a dead end, I think DA worked them for a deal."

Lord Xopl: "It seems like this was a strange endeavor for Fujitsu in the first place"

Teresias: "Sorry, there was a bitter exchange about being compared to housewives at one point....."

Lord Xopl: "It seems like somebody didn't quite get the cash in = cash out or bad model right"

Teresias: "Quote: why do we need three full time orcales when I have part time housewives doing it in Japan?"

Lord Xopl: "and no offense... I am not in enough to say what kind of job they are doing... but I sure liked the full time "

Teresias: "When people make business decisions about something you have gotten emotionally involved with..."

Teresias sporting a magnificent beard.

Necrolyte White Rose: "only interaction I ever had was he told me there was a paintable teddy head and wanted to know if I was "

Necrolyte White Rose: "planning on doing more...really got me excited about doing them, when I no experience in it. He gave me "

Lord Xopl: "How did you Oracle folk get your news regarding inworld happenings... there were some pretty intense "

Vaserius: "I went to Electric Communities with Randy to build the next version of this stuff."

MissJ: "potions and chit, every time i turned around was getting hit with somwthing"

Lord Xopl: "How did you guys keep up with the culture in this place... when so much was happening between so many "

Lord Xopl: "I mean... now do you have your hand on the pulse when there's so many things going on"

Kaiserfuchs: "there must be many old-time internetters who are not anymore on the hunt for the holy money?"

Lord Xopl: "it used to be a different demographic... smart, early adopters of the internet"

Teresias: "I think we are seeing such environments. They just show up in different places."

Necrolyte White Rose: "Best Memory for both of you. something that warms your heart or something you will never forget."

Kaiserfuchs: "second life is technically at least 3 years behind a stabile state"

Teresias: "I know the guy who bouth Meridian59 from 3do and is having great success as a small world"

Vaserius: "Yeah, he's updated the graphics engine and it looks pretty good now."

Kaiserfuchs: "yes, I think what I would favour is something that brings in the costs of operation"

Rosaleah of the Jungle: "that there's a point at which a community becomes too big"

Teresias: "Mainly the copyright thing where people get to keep their copyrights."

Lord Xopl: "Ever play some of these simple 3D platform games... like mario or zelda for Nintendo 64.... where you can "

Vaserius: "And, as Chip Morningstar aptly stated: The took the Sims out of the Sims."

Daisy: "Vaserius & Teresias. Any plans on building a duck pond? We left a whole world of friends on our island of "

Lord Xopl: "he plans on spending the money on fulltime PR people and everything"

Teresias: " Of course, they would say the success of the DS is that we have HATS"

Kaiserfuchs: "I find it plain silly to hear and see, when I want that I go into a local pub <g>"

Rosaleah of the Jungle: "I stopped lookin' at the webcam cuz all I saw was bottles of booze"

Vaserius: "They suspended all work on the consumer service and focused on Military dev."

Kaiserfuchs: "and anyway, there is only a showcase for their technical platform I think"

Kaiserfuchs: "didnt they want to go to produce mainly the technical platform..."

Lord Xopl: "somebody needs to make a virtual world that is as interactive as a 3D platform video game"

Kaiserfuchs: "but then, what is SL doing - isnt that exactly the same path they try to go?"

Lord Xopl: "basically... it's like Zelda Ocarina of Time but with other people in it"

Vaz passing out with a big bottle of Absinthe in the foreground.

Kaiserfuchs: "I think that is the long term goal, a similar model that AW is pursuing"

Kaiserfuchs: "non-competetive worlds where people just live an alternative life?"

Kaiserfuchs: "when I say virtual worlds, most people think about ego shooters <g>"

Teresias: "I was going to say, I think VE is the term used by the game folks to differentiate from a MMO."

Necrolyte White Rose: "my grandmother (who does not really understand computers) thought I was watching cartoons all day"

Teresias: "It was made worse when There and 2L advertised themselves pretty much like games."

Guinevere: "My Bf does not understand why I would rather be here than out deer hunting"

Vaserius: "And even WORSE when There described themselves as an Online Destination'"

Rabbit: "hmmm my five year old says daddy can we look at the cartoonie world firends of yours now"

Teresias: "I BEcause here is dry and warm and deer hunting is wet, dirty and sometimes loud?"

Kaiserfuchs: "I really find it difficult, today more than ever, to tak to other people"

Necrolyte White Rose: "My hubby is an EQ addict so he understands my DS addiction...even got him helping me win games. <G> he "

Rosaleah of the Jungle: (Even when I SHOW someone, it still often doesn't get through)

Vaserius: "And it was in conflict with the "meet while doing" philosophy of the service."

Guinevere: "as much as my RW life has changed over the last 10 years, I know I can always come here and chat with "

Necrolyte White Rose: "When DS was down for all those months, I went nuts.. it was like my small piece of sanity was gone."

Lord Xopl: "I had this super surreal dream once where I was in here and it was the last day of Kymer"

Rabbit: "brings up an interesting curve... at work I constantly have department heads ask me to block certain "

Rabbit: "services as their empolyees are using the computers to relax and play at work"

Guinevere: "lol Uni said one time she knew she had been here too ling when she tried to "click" on a door to open it"

Is it something I said?

Teresias: "More like draming about being surrounded by crocadiles and using one of them to fend off the others."

Necrolyte White Rose: "I helped my hubby run a local science fiction convention in Phila. Because my hubby was the conchair, he "

Necrolyte White Rose: "was instantly visable and always had to be available. It was then I realized the true power of the ALT IW"

Lord Xopl: "So... Teresias, Vaz.... "Intertron," "Internets," "Interweb" or "Interlink" ... what is your favourite fake "

Apparently Vaz drank most of that Absinthe himself.

Lord Xopl: "Wow that was a dramatic change... it went from you two laughing to Vaz falling asleep at the wheel."

Teresias: "internet unless I am referring to goofy web sites then it's Intarweb."

Vaserius: "I know, but that's also a great example of why this place is special."

Lord Xopl: "Man how I wish I'd taken more screen captures and saved more text in 96 and 97"

Necrolyte White Rose: "Just because the Creators and Acolytes have the power to impose changes on DS and on NH does not "

Necrolyte White Rose: "give them the right to take a simple, straightforward idea and muck it up."

Necrolyte White Rose: "For example, the V-Mart Department Store was an example of intelligent design with a simple room "

Necrolyte White Rose: "numbering system. Somebody with no taste or sense of style came along and removed the escalators "

Necrolyte White Rose: "and rearranged the room numbers so that we have to hunt thro"

Vaserius: "Teresias and I have some thoughts about some lessons. Maybe not a book, but some articles."

Necrolyte White Rose: "simple park design. The changes needed to create a space for the museum was good, but now the "

Necrolyte White Rose: "museum has now fallen into neglect. and it is very difficu"

Teresias: "Yeah, but it's funny when we aren't the idiots mucking things up...."

Lord Xopl: "I wonder what I did with my short email interview with you Teresias?"

Guinevere: "oh the magic show was a hoot with John Wiz up there and then the dancing frogs in Piemurs lap"

Lord Xopl: "Wow... what if there were wiki's back in the day.... just think of how sweet that wiki would be to read "

Necrolyte White Rose: "No matter what you try to do, not everyone will be happy"

Teresias: "I have no clue. I did snag all the kymer Clarions and other papers from 96-97"

Guinevere: "well he was living up north someplace, but he was born and raised in Dallas"

Kaiserfuchs: "however, if that had not taken place, Dreamscape would have closed "

Is Vaz hiding his drunken state? Nope, I think that's just one of their daughters in the foreground. Look at that big Teresias smile! I love the beard, man.

Necrolyte White Rose: "he got under my skin cause he was talking about acos and O's and such"

Necrolyte White Rose: "he is doing well, and we talked nice once we got off the topic of O's and A's"

Teresias: "She just felt that uh amplified bodies were not the most apporpriate thing."

MissJ: "LOL i remember we used to patch paint these bodies to make our boobs look bigger"

Teresias: "Yes, but on the other hand, we had one guy in QA who refused to test an art statue because it had a "

Kaiserfuchs: "oh, that must have been when the Olympic Games were in California"

Teresias: "I was trying to figureout what the little half moons in the nu yu were."

Kaiserfuchs: "Hmm, does anybody know whether there was a Supernatural episode today?"

Rosaleah of the Jungle: (someone clue me in on where those masks are coming from?)

Morpheus Has Decreed!: " He has decreed that the time has arrived for the land to be traveled. "

brattyone: "Go take her out for her then give me a call when your done ok? I'm gonna get ready for bed."

Lance: "I may have to have Stormy email me his Hawks coat over til my luggage arrives.."

Lance: "Ok.,...wait....Ma when we watching GH?>U wanna watch it before me and Tammy talk?Or after?"