Catskills Retirement Home

Kyle Duskwalker quickly became a dominant figure in Brenna’s life after she met him, although it was chance that threw them together at all.  He happened to open the Unsung Heroes’ tavern next door to Brenna’s pre-SL guild’s headquarters, and I jumped at the chance to have Brenna introduce herself.  I’d been following some of his adventures through stories online and a few snippets from UO Stratics.  As a player, I figured it was a good opportunity to open the door into the roleplaying groups I knew were out there.

Kyle Duskwalker quickly became a dominant figure in Brenna’s life after she met him, although it was chance that threw them together at all.  He happened to open the Unsung Heroes’ tavern next door to Brenna’s pre-SL guild’s headquarters, and I jumped at the chance to have Brenna introduce herself.  I’d been following some of his adventures through stories online and a few snippets from UO Stratics.  As a player, I figured it was a good opportunity to open the door into the roleplaying groups I knew were out there.

Brenna was my very first character in Ultima Online.  She was the first to make the heart-stopping run from Yew (where I started her) to Britain (where my other friends had gone), sneaking past monsters, other players, and a forest full of houses and tents.  Once in Britain, she became a miner while I figured out what the hell I was doing.

The first several months weren’t terribly exciting from a roleplaying aspect, simply because I hadn’t discovered it yet.  But once I got my hands on some of the fiction that other players had written… my curiosity was overwhelming.  I made a point of putting Brenna on paths most likely to cross with people in that crowd.  Sadly, I have no logs or stories from those earliest days.  I have no idea if the file was lost or if I simply never turned on the option to record.  I know we had a lot of game issues with the logs off and on over the years.  So I can only go by memory, and the few screenshots I have left.

Well now.  If you can’t tell, this is a new site under construction.  So I beg your patience as I figure out how all of this works!

But what is all of this?  Ahh, now that’s another story to tell.  You can call me Khara, since that’s my current online moniker, and I am a former roleplayer from the Catskills shard of UO.  In 1998, I started my first character on the shard.  Oddly enough, I wasn’t a roleplayer in the beginning – I wouldn’t really have been able to tell you what a roleplayer WAS in that context.  But during my adventures, I came across the fringes of a community of roleplayers who were really damn good at it.  Then I came across some of their websites, and the stories their players wrote hooked me in a way I wasn’t expecting.  Although I don’t remember all of the early ones, I DO remember stories from the Kingdom of Winterfell pages regarding the King and Queen at the time.