The Don
Hello
Lanfir, I am Peaten al'Kar aka "The Don". I saw your post on the
community
board and thought I'd help out :)
I joined at the very beginning of 2000. I
think I was the first DMer of the Millenium. I don't quite remember how exactly
I found DM, but I do remember posting on the ezboards asking for Demandred's
email. It was actually the Amyrlin who helped me out, So she's been on my Good
List ever since :) I found Demandred and became a Darkfriend.
Once DM was back up, I stayed mostly on the Shayol
Ghul and Silly boards. Here, Memnoch the Devil found me and took me under his
wing. I became a Shar Mahdi Trainee after a couple of weeks here. I quicky
became a regular at the Silly boards. I am now a veteran of the Wedgie Wars,
Food War, and Death Match.
It was in the Silly boards that I met people
from other Orgs. Seraph and Falcolneyes form the White Tower, Cora and Ehlana
from the Band, and various other silly DMers.
Soon I was a Shar Mahdi Apprentice under
Memnoch. But the Shar Mahdi disbanded the day after, so I became an Apprentice
Assassin (no big difference) Also around this time, I created a new char; Jaem
Caran, a Band Recruit.
Now that I've been here a while, things have
gotten even better. The Don is a full Assassin, Jaem is a Cavalry Recruit for
the Band, and I'm meeting even more people.
If I had to pick a worst experience here at
DM, I'd have to say it was this little recruiting war between DM and TW. I am a
proud member of both sites, but that was just plain childish. Not only that but
it took away permenantly two of the best writers I've ever seen; Memnoch and
Jardel/J'Ryth.
My best experience was probably the Food War,
where I met several really cool people. Other than that, doing my training
posts in the Tower of the Black Dawn.
I have yet to be in a huge RP, but I think my
current one is sort of melting into a bigger one. The biggest one I have so far
was my first DF post, when I went to the TotBD.
If I had to give advice to newbies it would
be this: Make yourself known. Plain and simple. This is a large community, if
you don't want to get lost in it, you can't take the back seat. I've seen
several newbies quit because they couldn't find their notch in an RP. If you
can't find one, make one. Through DM, I have greatly increased my writing
skill. In the beginning, I just wrote them down off the top of my head, leaving
spelling and grammatical errors. I quickly learned that to get ahead, good
posts were critical.
As for good friends, yeah, I have found some
here. From my own Org.: Memnoch, Janar Jagita; the Band: Lilli Mandragoran,
Cora Sara, Ehlana Toredall; Freelanders: Joker; White Tower: Seraph,
Falcolneyes; Black Tower: Garen; even the Children: Justen Diablos. There are
also several other names of people I have befriended Paityr, Demandred,
Karldin, Willow, among others. Sorry if this sounds too much like an awards
speech; feel free to cut it down :P
There you
go. The history of the Don. Hope thats what you wanted. Again, feel free to
edit whatever you want. This is just another one of those things that I'm
writing off the top of my head.
Peaten
al'Kar/Jaem Caran
Assassin/Cavalry
Recruit
Shayol
Ghul/Band of the Red Hand