07-14-2009, 10:46 PM
Greetings to all of you out there, players of this rather amazing game and, in truth, entire world apart from the world itself. First of all, I would like to formally apologize to the few of you who have had to endure me during the past couple of days when I played on your server without having properly read up on the rules. You see, when I updated Freelancer to the Discovery version through the tip of a friend, and was recommended this server to play on, I foolishly mistook this game as merely yet another MMORPG, akin to so many others I have tried out over time, and when I logged in to start playing, I treated it as such, with no real goal besides accumulating credits, getting bigger ships and guns and shooting as many enemy ships as possible. Just the day before yesterday, I even wrote in the system chat as if it was just the chat of any MMORPG, and considered myself a member of the LPI just because I had bought the ID, without even realizing what a mistake I made.
Well, it was only then that I went here, at first simply to check which duties LPI officers really had and how to fulfill them, but as I started reading, I realized just how dire my mistake was. I realized that this was most definitely nothing like any MMORPG I had ever encountered before, and that playing here meant acting as a role in the game, and not just playing to win. I realized that achieving greatness here was far more than being able to blow people to bits and having more money than everyone else. I saw that this game required something else... imagination. Creativity. Acting skills. Patience.
Now I see how wrong I was, and how I wronged the people near me and the entire server. Therefore, I offer my sincere apologies to all of you, and hope that you might forgive my mistake and let me start over and give me a chance to play this game right.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I call myself Dark Jack, strangers call me Jack, and my friends call me DJ, but what my real name is, you will never know. I live in the peaceful little country of Denmark (the little dot of land on top of Germany), I am currently 19 years old, and am still undergoing education. Some years ago I stopped early in school to become an electrician's apprentice, but after just a month working as that, I developed arthritis in my hands and had to abandon that career. Instead, I returned to school and put more effort into my studies and I am currently earning some quite impressive grades, mostly A's, and soon I will join the local University to study physics. I am almost constantly in pain because of the arthritis, which has now also claimed my left hip, but I get the best possible out of life and try to enjoy every moment I can.
Although I study science, my real ambition is being a writer. By the age of seventeen, I finished my first short story that got published in Denmark and got some quite good reviews. I am currently working on my first novel, which I hope will be my breakthrough in that career. But when I am not writing or studying, I have been playing MMORPG's, as I mentioned earlier, and played some text-based actual roleplays to practice my creativity and try out my ideas and see how others respond to them.
When I realized how people played on the Discovery RP server, I was actually quite intimidated. I mean, I have written in roleplays before and I have been told that I am a pretty decent writer, but RPing like this - actually acting like your role, and not just writing about it - it seemed like a huge challenge for me, and for a short while, I seriously considered simply abandoning the game out of sheer worry that my abilities would prove insufficient. But I reconsidered, and after having spent several hours over the last two days reading through rules, requirements, laws and history, I have decided to at least give it a shot. But not as LPI... no, that is a bit too rough a start for me. I will start out a Freelancer, until I've worked out the entire trick of playing here. After that... we'll see.
But anyhow, that is the short version of who I am. I salute you, people of Discovery, and hope that you will have me here.
Well, it was only then that I went here, at first simply to check which duties LPI officers really had and how to fulfill them, but as I started reading, I realized just how dire my mistake was. I realized that this was most definitely nothing like any MMORPG I had ever encountered before, and that playing here meant acting as a role in the game, and not just playing to win. I realized that achieving greatness here was far more than being able to blow people to bits and having more money than everyone else. I saw that this game required something else... imagination. Creativity. Acting skills. Patience.
Now I see how wrong I was, and how I wronged the people near me and the entire server. Therefore, I offer my sincere apologies to all of you, and hope that you might forgive my mistake and let me start over and give me a chance to play this game right.
But I'm getting ahead of myself. I call myself Dark Jack, strangers call me Jack, and my friends call me DJ, but what my real name is, you will never know. I live in the peaceful little country of Denmark (the little dot of land on top of Germany), I am currently 19 years old, and am still undergoing education. Some years ago I stopped early in school to become an electrician's apprentice, but after just a month working as that, I developed arthritis in my hands and had to abandon that career. Instead, I returned to school and put more effort into my studies and I am currently earning some quite impressive grades, mostly A's, and soon I will join the local University to study physics. I am almost constantly in pain because of the arthritis, which has now also claimed my left hip, but I get the best possible out of life and try to enjoy every moment I can.
Although I study science, my real ambition is being a writer. By the age of seventeen, I finished my first short story that got published in Denmark and got some quite good reviews. I am currently working on my first novel, which I hope will be my breakthrough in that career. But when I am not writing or studying, I have been playing MMORPG's, as I mentioned earlier, and played some text-based actual roleplays to practice my creativity and try out my ideas and see how others respond to them.
When I realized how people played on the Discovery RP server, I was actually quite intimidated. I mean, I have written in roleplays before and I have been told that I am a pretty decent writer, but RPing like this - actually acting like your role, and not just writing about it - it seemed like a huge challenge for me, and for a short while, I seriously considered simply abandoning the game out of sheer worry that my abilities would prove insufficient. But I reconsidered, and after having spent several hours over the last two days reading through rules, requirements, laws and history, I have decided to at least give it a shot. But not as LPI... no, that is a bit too rough a start for me. I will start out a Freelancer, until I've worked out the entire trick of playing here. After that... we'll see.
But anyhow, that is the short version of who I am. I salute you, people of Discovery, and hope that you will have me here.