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*foomp* Hellooooooooooooooooooooo nur... Er. That is to say: Helloooooooooooooo, forum!

My name? From Zork, specifically Zork II, the first computer game that I ever played and thus one that occupies a special place in my heart. My older brother, who introduced me to Zork and thus to computer gaming in general, christened me with this name because I'm a small person and have a certain tendency to be very quiet - in both voice and movement - and to scare the ever-lovin' *bleep* out of people when they turn and find out that I've been standing right behind them. The day I got the name, I had entertained brother A immensely by sneaking up behind brother B, tapping him on the shoulder, and startling him enough to make him scream like a girl, try to perform a vertical leap from his chair, and pour Coke all over his lap, the chair, and his keyboard. I guess you just had to be there. And you have to have siblings. Anyway, the name has lasted me many years, and it's stuck well as a board handle, because these days about all I ever do on any message board I inhabit is lurk... - grue Oh, and the avatar...it's simply something I stumbled across on a BG portrait site, and it appeals enough to me that I've since adopted it.