Whoa... I've stumbled onto a time capsule.

[Resin]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Hoooooolllllyyyy shit! It's just as if I'd never left... this is unfuckinglievable. I cannot believe TOWS is still around after all these years. Now this takes me back.

Except... not everyone is here...? I hadn't spent much time nosying around but... is Slappy White, RHFactor, Viper, Sabin, Wolfsamurai, Andrew Taumarioouighoiuh (sorry can't remember his long ass, ridiculous name) still around?

And who am I? Eh... no one you would remember. :'P

Heh... still using the old wwwboard (albiet, as heavily moddified as ever) script... how antiquated. :'P

Cheers,
Resin</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Slappy White - Dunno...would like to know myself. He introduced me to a lot of good music.
RHFactor, Viper, Sabin - Ditto
Wolfsamurai - Left after a spat with Seeker...won't come back
Andrew T. - He's still around and posts every once in a while.

As far as the script goes, I'm going to change the layout a bit, but not right now. Probably in the next few weeks, though.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Heh! I remember I used to type Andrew TamaiohjsKLdhgtksethwe just for fun....until Andrew threw a coconut at me. What handle did you go by again? BTW....I'm new here.</div>

[Agent 57]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Welcome back anyway, of course.

As far as where people are, Sine's summary is pretty accurate...although I think I remember Slappy being around here more recently than anyone else (except for Andrew, who does indeed post from time to time). Rh has pretty much disappeared off the face of the earth - haven't seen her around here since '99 or 2000. I think Viper and Sabin were gone even earlier, and Wolfy's been gone for about two years or so.

So were you always a shriner, or did you come over from the other forums (sega-saturn.com, etc.) like EsquE and I did? (Anybody else still here who was an import? G-man doesn't count because he was the one who told us about this place.)

And I must say, I like the RPGboard interface a whole lot more than phbBB or EZBoard or whatever the hell most forums use these days. Trying to navigate a thread on those things is damn near impossible, what with everybody having these gigantic garish sigs and the posts being just stuck smack dab on top of each other so you can never tell who's replying to what unless everyone quotes everyone else...gah, it's just stupid. I have no clue how that style managed to get so popular.

One last thing - be glad this place is still around to come back to. Every time I read a "Weekend Web" feature over at Something Awful, I appreciate this place even more. ^_^

<i>-57</i></div>

[ManaMan]

<div style='font: 12pt Arial; text-align: left; '>Hmm... I wonder where all those people went to?</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Last I gathered about Slappy was that he moved to Colorado. Probably closer to his childhood friend, El Kabong, to start life anew. Sabin and Viper were lost when the Shrine was shut down for a few months back in '98 or '99.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>RHFactor, there may be only one person who can contact here and that's Zhuge Liang. They worked on a project together many winters ago so he may still have her email.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>hmm...just goes to show you I can be a part of this Shrine for over 3-4 years now and STILL find people I've never met</div>

[Zhuge Liang]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>it's her ucla email. I'm not sure it's still valid. still, it</div>

[Zhuge Liang]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>it's her ucla email. I'm not sure it's still valid. still, it'd be good to hear from her again, along with the others..</div>

[Agent 57]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I remember her UCLA email address too. Only one way to find out if it's still valid...</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>To start life anew?</div>

[Agent 57]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Yeah, I remembered her UCLA email address too.  Sent an email, and it immediately came flying back at me. No dice there.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>Yep.</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>its an old community.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>If Aquademesne were still around......I still remember seeing the calm waters. That place was like the Wild ARMs saloon for a while.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>No, is a damned old community. Been here since '98... give or take a year, right after the switchover from Aqua Demnese to tOWS I think. And I still see occasionally see some old fogies I never met. As far as the internet goes, this is probably like Stonehedge or the Pyramids.</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>We should just call ourselves "The Ancients". ;p</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Try rhfactor@ribbit.com. I'm not positive without a name (or even partial name), but that may be it.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Sabin/Viper = epsilon@michiana.org (maybe). Slappy/Kabong...I'm not sure.</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Early 1997, when this place began we were still discussing plot details in Chrono Trigger, Lufia 2, and Final Fantasy 3, by that point those games were still relatively new =P</div>

[KluYa]

<div style='font: 10pt "Stylus BT"; text-align: left; '>Man do I miss the demesne... =( =( =(</div>

[Nev]

<div style='font: ; text-align: left; '>I still have copies of almost all the early Shrine versions, including AD and the eRPG forum.</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>Same here. I was on the demense for about a week before the shrine came about. And I really hate the poeple that made wild arms. ruined our board</div>

[Derithian]

<div style='font: italic bold 14pt ; text-align: center; '>hey send me an ICQ message. I lost yer UIN a while back and have been looking for it forever.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Heh...you got a index page of one of those?</div>

[Flip]

<div style='font: 12pt "Cooper Black"; text-align: left; '>hmm, demanse is too early for me, i found Sine's board when his and Mental's tOWS were still seperate forums.</div>

[the Gray]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>Malhavoc/Arioc/theGray agrees. I also miss HappyBoy, Acidlover, Cope, G-Man....</div>

[Julius Seeker]

<div style='font: 12pt ; text-align: left; '>G-man is still here, he's just crazy now.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>He's a loon.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>alztheimers, I hear</div>

[Eric]

<div style='font: 11pt ; text-align: left; '>Side effect of the Viagra Ish spiked.</div>

[G-man Joe]

<div style='font: 11pt "Fine Hand"; text-align: left; '>He also hates cats.</div>

[Ganath]

<div style='font: 9pt ; text-align: left; '>Huh? I thought it was called "Old-timer's" disease.</div>

[Tessian]

<div style='font: 11pt Dominion; text-align: left; '>same thing</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>AcidLover was a fucking dick.</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>Did you go by the nick Resin before?</div>

[Gentz]

<div style='font: 11pt arial; text-align: left; '>I already do!</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Damn...that bounced.</div>

[SineSwiper]

<div style='font: 10pt "EngraversGothic BT", "Copperplate Gothic Light", "Century Gothic"; text-align: left; '>Bounced, too.</div>