History for Jean_Paul:
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Jean Paul was born on a small island off the coast of Japan. His parent,
being traditionalistic Japanese clan ninjas, named him after the leader
of the Miotsuke clan in 1852. Jean paul had a rather simple life as a
child. Stay alive, keep your head down, use brains to outweigh brawn and
skill to overcome odds.
At the age of 15, he journeyed from his homeland to seek his fortune.
This has now led him to the town of NC, where he discovers new challenges
to be faced and power to be grasped. At the age of 15, he journeyed from
his homeland to seek his fortune. This has now led him to the town of
NC, where he discovers new challenges to be faced and power to be grasped.
Note: yeah yeah, its incomplete and ill fill in the blanks later on. Deny
it if you wish and I'll make it better if I decide to stick around =)
** Denied by Cheetara at Wed Mar 28 16:14:56 2001 EST **
As you suggested, I'm denying your history. Good start, just take some
time to fill out all the details and resubmit it.
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You've got to love it when someone asks you to deny the history right
at the end. Self-defeatism never fails to amuse me on some level. |
History for Azriel:
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Azriel was born in Neo-Chicago on March 08, 2005. He grew with his dad,
who as always working trying to earn the mighty buck. His mother was killed
in an acident shortly after Azriels birth. Azriel's father ( who was an
ex-navy seal ), taught Azriel everything he knew. In small lesson Azreil
learned from his father how to defend himself. In school he was picked
on so the lessons of how to fight and defend himself paid off. Finally
when Azriel turned twelve his dad thought it was time he sought knowledge
he couldn't provide. Azriel took kung fu class. He loved it and trained
everyday, becoming skilled with the sword and at stealth. He learned well
when he wanted to. He graduated high school in 2023, he obtained his diploma
but just barly. After graduationhe joined the army. He was trained there,
to go behind enemy lines and kill. The army sent him in all on thirteen
missions, all completed to perfection. They called him a black-operative,
and told him if he was ever caught, they would disevow all knowledge of
him ever working for them. He served six years in the army beforee coming
home, when he finally did get home, he found the place torn apart and
his father gone. No one knew what happened. Azriel didnt know what to
do, so he packed up and left. He wandered around for almost a year until
he came across New Carthage, once there he stayed.
** Denied by Indigo at Mon Oct 2 17:46:18 2000 EDT **
I consider it an insult to my backside to have been forced to sit here
growing carbuncles while reading what is probably the worst excuse for
a character concept since Arnold Schwarzenegger as Arnold Schwarzenegger
in Conan the Barbarian, an otherwise fine film. How a character with an
intelligence of 10 would even be able to find his way home after siz years
is beyong me, but I suspect that a character who managed to survive serving
in an Army Black Ops team with no firearms skills whatsoever possesses
some sort of amazing improvisational abilities that I haven't even conceived
of in my wildest dreams. The amount of testosterone in this completely
twinked-out combat borg of a character raises the question of why every
other man on Earth doesn't resemble Oscar Wilde by comparison. Please
attempt to devise a concept that serves as more than a thinly-padded justification
for a package of 4 maxed out combat skills and I may not consider you
a danger to the mere existence of the concept of roleplaying.
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Another great Indigo rejection. To give you an idea of this twink's
stats, all they really took was offensive martial arts, stealth, dodge,
and swords. A few extra points were stuffed into shock.
This has got to be one of my favorite rejections ever. |
History for Deriot:
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Born Herman Webster Mudgett, Deriot started his criminal career as a medical
student by stealing corpses from the University of Michigan. He used the
corpses to collect insurance money from policies taken out under fictitious
names and sell their implants. When he moved to Neo-Chicago he started
a drugstore empire from which he made a fortune. He built a hundred-room
mansion complete with gas chambers, trap doors, acid vats, lime pits,
fake walls and secret entrances. On the top floor he built a training
room and personal lab, it was were he attempted to _teach the flesh_.
Deriot was convinced that someone could train flesh to hold the memories
after a skill chip had been used to train it. In strange sessions deriot
would torture his flesh, bones and reflexes in strange Bruce Lee style
Kung Fu. A practice which left him with a terrible tick and a _hack_ of
a surgen at best. During the 2013 World's Fair he rented rooms to visitors
and the few medical followers he had from online. He then killed most
of his lodgers continued his insurance fraud scheme and then he would
graft, implant and redo himself with their left overs. Flesh and implants,
the source or the manner of implant mattered, it was this practice which
would destroy the last bits of Deriot's empathy and mind. Though he needed
the aid of micro-computers to remind him of daily doings and affairs he
still found time for a social life. He lured women to his "torture
castle" with the promise of marriage or black market plastic surgery.
Instead, he would force them to sign over their savings (of convert them
to a cyborg), then throw them down an elevator shaft and gas them to death.
In the basement of the castle he dismembered and skinned his prey and
experimented with their corpses. Some sources say he had a small strike
force made for the parts of dead females, even fewer suspect he made them
int olove dolls and sold them on the black market. When police grew suspicious
about Deriot's activities, he torched the castle and fled. No-one is sure
how he found out, some think he might have one of his lab projects bug
either the police station or a police officer. In the burnt hulk of the
building, authorities found the remains of over two hundred people. Deriot
was caught when one of his insurance schemes was unravelled by Pinkerton
detectives. He escaped on May 7, 2096, in one the first sensational cyber-crime
escapes in America. Not only was Deriot the first American cyber-serial
killer he was also, according to author Scheckter, the first "celebrity
cyber-psycho." Although he never had the historical presence of his
contemporary Jack the Ripper, he did leave behind an impressive trail
of blood unequaled for almost eighty years. It is clear now that Deriot
changed his whole internal structure as he ages completely slower then
a normal human being. IN fact most of the police who arrested him have
died. While on the run Deriot pulled off one of the greatest switches
in history, he became the very thing that had taken him down: A Pinkerton
detective. Even though he was three times the age of a rookie Deriot passed
all the testing needed and was given his shield in the summer of 2097.
He has since then used this badge to completely attempt to spread the
art of killing across the country. He has most recently come to NC to
hide and work on getting a small group of followers. His plans are to
revamp not only himself but the why crime is commited. He wishes to hack
a market in bootleg and dirt cheap implants.
** Denied by Indigo at Sun Jul 30 16:43:14 2000 EDT **
Hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha. *clears throat* Sorry. I was laughing
about something else. Str 40, Agl 40, Int 10.. yep, those are definitely
the stats of a 100+ year old evil genius. He escaped jail (because we
definitely put people who've killed 80 people or less in minimum security)
in 2096.. hmm.. that's 66 years AFTER the present CS date. I'm not entirely
unreasonable, so I'll tell you what. We'll approve this history in 2066
when our dates have caught up with your character.
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The history is actually pretty damn good and funny. But Indigo's rejection
of it is even better. |
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History for Example:
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Example's mother was a slave. This poor child grew up doing the dirty
work for a number of people, most the lovers of his slave mother. At
the age of ten when 20 men were gang raping his mother he took out a
gun and killed them all. He decided at that moment guns equal power
and can override all social classes. He traveled off the money stolen
from rich people at gun point. He took car at gun point. He made apoint
of firing 1000rounds a day to make sure he could hit what he is aimming
at. Along the way he started hanging out with underground freedom fighters
who taught him that he hasa gift. A gift he should never use to line
his pockets.
He became a fighter for the weak, a force that evil would need to face.
He came to NC to help those who are trapped by the evil forces of the
corps and the vile killers ofthe westside. He expects to die, but he
knows those who rob and steal and more scared of death then he is.
OOC: This is my history. I have made a fighting character and this is
his story. He fights that is all he does. He doesn't talk, do jobs or
anything he fights. DO not think I am trying to make a character that
has any depth beyond fighting. I have done that 5times in the last two
weeks and they all get killed. This time I am making the only character
class on CS that can live. A fighter.
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First off, you've had three characters in the past two weeks. Not five.
Please do not lie in an attempt to make a point. Seriously, your history
does not explain how you got the black operations training. You mention
'underground freedom fighters', yet without the level of detail or description
that would merit said advantage. Doubly so for faceman. then we get
to coroner. Please re-read your history. No, one more time. Ok, WHERE
IN THE FLAMING HELL DO YOU SEE SOMETHING THAT WOULD SHOW THAT YOUR CHARACTER
IS A FUCKING CORONER? Thanks. In fact, other then quick draw, I do not
see one advantage adequately justified in the course of your short history.
Other then that, nice job. Try again. Thanks.
|
No, really, I just love it when people try to use OOC excuses in their
histories. Really. I also love it when they totally distort and lie during
said excuses.
*mutter* |
History for Kano:
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Kano grew up in the wastelands of Nevada, amongst a nomad tribe , he was
taught to fight and defend himself at an early age.. Both of his parents
were killed in battle.. Kano became bonded to the village elder, and learned
much from him...He eventually became a warrior of the tribe, and led them
into many battles... But, feeling some loss, Kano decided to travel alone,
to the west, where he eventually ran into New Carthage..and so, the saga
begins...
** Denied by Kingfox at Tue Apr 11 21:16:57 2000 EDT **
Absolutely not. So many tribal nomads are reporters that speak Japanese.
I'm sorry, but NO. You must think we are foolish and blind to even believe
that we would approve such a history. No. I repeat, NO. Please submit
a decent well-written history that bears some sort of semblance to your
stat/skill/advantage selection.
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This person was a kung-fu reporter, with ammo loading and Japanese skills
to boot.
I can understand picking up Japense somehow. But the reporter skill? What,
was he doing live broadcasts of mantlion hunts? |
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Sometimes I really love Indigo. Times like these, I really really truly
do. |
History for Dupre:
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I'm working on this as you read this.
I'm working on this as you read this.
I'm working on this as you read this.
I'm working on this as you read this.
I'm working on this as you read this.
I'm working on this as you read this.
I'm working on this as you read this.
** Denied by Indigo at Wed Apr 5 00:23:20 2000 EDT **
Then don't send it until you're done, then don't send it until you're
done, then don't send it until you're done, then don't send it until you're
done, then don't send it until you're done, then don't send it until you're
done, then don't send it until you're done, then don't send it until you're
done, then don't send it until you're done, then don't send it until you're
done, then don't send it until you're done, then don't send it until you're
done, then don't send it until you're done.
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Did I ever mention how much I love Indi-glo at times? |
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History for Jet-Li:
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He is twenty-one years old. He was born in New Carthage. Nut there was
a complication. He had died after a couple minutes after birth. They
oly way to save him wast to do an experimental procedure on him. It
suceeded. He woke up in a large glass jar. filled with a strange fluid.
He then continued his life. He is the only child of a averge mother,
who worked hard. His mother was a store owner. She sold illegal guns
to people, and other supplies. He was too young to know what that ment.
When he was ten his mother showed him to use large weapons but he didn't
like guns. So his mother trained him to fight with martial arts. He
was always at home, doing the cooking and cleaning. At the age of eighteen
his mother told him to go visit the city of New Carthage. So with his
talents, he walks into New Carthage, wanting to explore the city.
** Denied by Kingfox at Sat Mar 11 15:23:27 2000 EST **
No. Your mother taught you how to use large weapons, but you have no
gunnery skill. You say you were born in New Carthage, yet you also say
your mother told you to go to New Carthage. Yet you never mention relocation,
unless it happened during your 'jar' stage. Finally, there is a gap
between the age of 18 and 21 that is entirely unaccounted for. Sorry.
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Normally, I'm not so anal about histories. Really, I'm not. But this
was a person who used alts, twinked out regularly, etc. With the character
Jet Li, they were in a cell, after a wiz compiled a list of evidence that
they were an alt. Finally, Jet Li ended his time on CS with this exchange:
Jet-Li says, "You never toaded me."
Jet-Li exclaims, "Wait whats the point!"
Jet-Li says, "Yes you did toad me."
Jet-Li says, "But what can I say, I love this MOO. It is good"
Jet-Li is now a toad.
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Damn you! We're holding already, chill the hell out!
And what the heck's wrong with Dazer? |
History for Pyrotech:
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Born in Coprp coity 16 December 20042005 to two low-ranking corp execs.
They had little time for me , often laeaving me with a babbysitter (sorry,
ubug t my typing is atrocious) all day. Thus , as I grew older, I decided
I doid not want otto bgo corp if, as I had observed, they would require
such total dvevotion to the job to the exclusion of all else. When I was
18 (last year,), my perarents were fired, due to an other executive blaming
them for an unsuccessful weapons test. They (and I) left Crorp city, and
soon after , they were killed by a random gang strike. I swore that I
woulsd not let the same thing happen to me, and I decided to become a
mercenary.
Enter your reasons for denying this request on the line below.
I can't understand this at all. Please re-word it, fix it.. something.
It's like a foreign language.
History of Pyrotech denied and mail sent. |
A GM mailed me this. The sad thing is, I can actually understand it
just fine.
It's your typical, "I was born with a silver spoon in my mouth, but
I rebelled to justify my combat skills. My parents were killed to justify
my lack of strings, and I decided to become a mercenary to explain my
role-playing centering around killing and money."
I swear, New Carthage is the largest orphanage I've ever seen. |
History for Yourmom:
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yourmom [C was only 13 when the small town he lived in was destroyed.
He was taken in and raised bytaken in and raised by Nomads and was raised
to be an Assasin. He came to New Carthage to earn a living.
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See what I meant about orphan mercenaries? Would have been better if
he had at least tried to justify the name.
At least he's being trained to be a secret nomad assassin. We've already
got tons of Shaolin monk trained assassins. |
kaya
when you look at her, you immediatly want to have sex with her. she is
just one od those girls whos lips are just the right shade of red for
kissing or whatever...her hair is long and blond, and seems just the right
type to run your hair through. her eyes are so blue you feel you could
fall in them. she smiles at you through lashes so long you thing her face
should be sWALLOWED IN THEM.
. Covering kaya's body from her shoulders to just below her knees, is
a gun-metal grey overcoat. The overcoat appears to be made of a thick,
durable, metal and seems to offer decent protection. It is fastened up
the front by a set of durable snaps, and a belt made of the same material.
She is in excellent health.
kaya is holding a credstick.
History for kaya:
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i was born in 2010 to a fairly small family. i had a sister and a mom
and a stepfather. i guess i had a happychildhood, but i never reallyliked
family life. i was always fighting with everyone because i was the one
with boyfriends, andi liked to get drunk....i supose its the typical
teenage thing, but i still took it personally and ran away when i was
sixteen. i came to new carthage because i thought i would be exciting.
i lived on the the streets for a while, stealing when i could and begging
for money.
one day a this guy came up to me while i was digging in a dumpster and
he told me that he would take caer of me, and clothe me, and feed me,
etc. i fell for it and went with him. when he got me to his place he
told me my clothes wouldnt do, and he gave me some clothes that i my
mother would have said were much to mature for me. after i put them
on, he pulled my up to hi mand asked me if i liked to have sex. now,
im one of those people who just cant get enough of it, so i told him
so. he asked me if i would like to repay him be having sex wiht peeople
for him. i agreed. for 2 years, i lived with him and whored for him
he taught me how to load, draw, and shoot guns.
i enjoyed my time with him. it was a hell of a lot better then home!
until one day he was shot by the cops when they raided him. i wasnt
there, but i found out when i got home. i wandered around, whoreing
myself for drugs and food for a while, then figured i could probably
find a better job, maybe toruring people who like it..im up fer somethin
new.
** Approved by Darkstar at Wed Jan 5 15:51:43 2000 EST **
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This is one of those special cases where a description needs to be included
with the history. |
History for Iggy:
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Born Jan 6, 2000 on the streets of NY by Nancy Worths, a gang member of
'RaTz'. Being brought up into a porn enviroment he would have to steal
to get things he wanted, and ate anything that resembled food to stay
alive. Being part of a gang he had to provide for them since they provided
for him all his life. He started to steal small items at first, then moved
into larger things. As he got better they decided to take him on bigger
missions with higher pay. He did that for a few years until he turned
26 then he left the gang and went solo. Masterful with both pistols, smg's
and hand to hand combat he decided to become a contact killer, and has
been ever since.
** Denied by Kingfox at Mon Jan 10 03:09:26 2000 EST **
Please read help theme and help world-history before writing your next
history. NYC was blown up in 2005. You would be a pile of radioactive
dust floating somewhere in the murky depths near the Hamptons. Radioactive
dust is not fun to play. Thank you.
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I'm sure they meant poor, and not porn. But it would be fun to imagine
Iggy growing up in a porn environment. |
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History for Zeiri:
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Zeili was born as Dante Larkin on february 16th, 2011 in a small suburb
of the former New York city to a rich mother and father. His father,
a genetic engineer and head DNA technician at NYC CA was a man of incredible
intellect and knowledge and his mother was an English professor at Columbia
University. Dante grew up most of his childhood as any other human,
studying his way to college where he had planned on majoring in medicine
in hopes of working along side his father. He was classified as a child
prodigy, brilliant much beyond his years and graduated high school at
the age of 13.
At the age of 15 he began attending Columbia University where he excelled
in medicine and was due to graduate in the spring of 2029 with a doctoral
degree. His life could not have been any better, everything was going
well and everything seemed to fall in his lap, until one fateful day
in march, 2028 when he was caught in a gang fight on the way to classes
and shot by a stray bullet which killed him instantly. The police discovered
his mangled, cold body in a dumpster 3 weeks later and notified his
parents who hadn't heard or seen of him and began to worry. His father
was outraged and angry at the world and his mother ended up in an asylum
shortly thereafter with a mental breakdown from the deep trauma. Not
knowing how to handle the situation, his father decided to reanimate
his dead son in a way that would create the most durable simulant form
possible, yet utilizing the same DNA to assure an exact neurological
match....or so he thought.
After 6 months of prep work and mechanical fusing of nerves and skin
armor, the project was complete and ready for life. As his father awakened
him from his deep, painful rest something terrible had become vividly
apparent. His son's clone was extremely unstable and much more dangerous
than anyone could have predicted. After numerous attempts to calm the
newly created drone and multiple reprogrammation techniques the bugs
were finally ironed out and Zeila was born.....he deemed his project
Zeiri version 2.5b for the beta programming and testing which he had
completed, and let the drone free, to reconcile and/or destroy the parties
responsible for his death. Before Zeiri left, his father informed him
of some sketchy details which he had known about his death and that
he would be contacting him through neural synapsis for periodic upgrades
and OS work.
And so he was off....off on a mission to seek out any information possible
leading to the capture of the guilty parties who so brutally killed
him and dumped his body in the trash like last week's newspaper. He
began scouring New York, PA, Ohio and the entire East coast coming up
empty handed. He jumped from town to town throughout the US and Canada
and soon enough found himself upon the rotten soils of NC where he will
now continue his search.
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I'm sorry, but the history, while detailed, doesn't quite match
up with the stat and skill selection. So you expect me to believe you
attended Columbia and excelled at medicine. Yet you have poor intelligence
and no skills other then melee, dodge, and shock. No. I'm sorry, your
history is denied for not matching up at all. |
Bad Histories
History for Git:
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Git, even though named the three last letters of midgit, he must be the
biggest strongest man alive on this planet. His birthplace is unknown
but was found abandoned in an alley at Chicago. He was raised by a famous
wrestler known as "Steel" and from their he became a famous wrestler.
Reason he was named Git because he was found very small as a baby, but
after age 13 he grew so fast, he had to bend his neck when walking around
different places. After Steel died of heart attack, he gave up on his
wrestling career and decided to be a bodyguard and hitman for hire. He
heard rumors about New Carthage and decide to move there, to seek for
adventure.
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Someone's been watching a little ECW, I see.... |
History for BushRoot:
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Y-035 aka BushRoot was born on December 30, 1998. He was geneticaly
born in a lab miles below NC in a facility called Utopia. He is agent
Y-035, and part of an eleet special operatives team and one of the last
ever created before they started to make AI drones. He has been trained
since birth how to use rifles and how to sneak around. He learned
how fire a rifle and a pistol by shooting at moving targets setup in there
'COMBAT ROOM'. They taught him ballet, which made him light on his feet,
and to keep low which allowed him to sneak arround more effecintly. His
primary weapon is a rifle, and secondary weapon in a pistol. They also
taught him how to make his own ammo by using scrap materal and by mixing
different chemicals. He served them for several years, until the AI's
started to attack the base. Him, and the remaining operatives tried to
stop them but they started creating more, and more faster then they could
kill them. So they planeted bombs all around the planet, set the timers
and went up to ther surface. The rest of the operatives went there on
there own ways. They worked for local corps or left the city to find people
that would pay them for their services. Y-035 changed his name to BushRoot
and has been working for corps, and anyone that would pay him enough for
his services.
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Ok, lemmie get this straight:
This is a supersoldier, genetically designed. Taught Ballet.
Trained in the 'COMBAT ROOM'... And when things got bad he and
his fellow operatives "planeted bombs all around the planet".
Wow. Quite an operation. Good thing Y-035 knew ballet, or
circling the planet to plant bombs would have been hard.
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History for MonkeyHead:
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Monkeyhead grew up with a problem...due to a genetic mishap, he was mutated
and now has a head much like a monkey's. He also gained a simian's proportionate
strentgh and quick agility. however, since he has the head of a chimp,
everyone has shunned him, made fun of him, and just generally made his
life a living hell. Therefore, MonkeyHead (Real Name: William Dilhum)
turned to violence as a way of expressing his feelings. His parents (now
dead after MonkeyHead's drug habit, mentioned later, caused him to fly
into a killing frenzy) had enrolled him in classes with a martial artist
by the name of Fugiata Neisho, who taught MH the ways of the White Crane.
Later, when MH began to experiment with drugs, he learned more about knives
and pistols, and became a very deadly opponent using a knife, and quite
'impressive' in the use of a pistol. MonkeyHead gained a real liking to
any and all drugs, especially DMT (a variant on the hallucinogen drug
theorems, roughly the equivalent of LSD to the fourth power...), which
distorted his reality in such a way that everyone could look the way he
wanted...in addition he took uppers to speed himself up when he wanted
to fight, and downers to calm himself after he was done....This caused
a rollercoaster effect that eventually drove him quite insane for a time.
On one of these aforementioned occasions, he perceived his parents to
be attacking him and he flew into a rage, killing them both with his pistol.
After he realized what he had done, he decided to go to New Carthage,
where he could just fade away...perhaps he would do something worthwile..but
in reality, he knew he was just going there to vanish into the biz....
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Hell, you know if you met a guy with a monkey's head, you'ld mock them
too. Even if they knew White Crane Kung Fu. Even if they were
'impressive' in pistol. Yeah, nice slip of an actual stat into the
history there. Not too obvious at all.
The best part was when MonkeyHead, some cat, and a midget were sitting
in the Syndrome. DocOc walked in, tripping on dancer, and started
freaking out about the midgets, monkeys, and kitties talking to him.
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History for Abraham_Lincoln:
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Abraham Lincoln was born Sunday, February 12, 1809, in a log cabin near
Hodgenville, Kentucky. He was the son of Thomas and Nancy Hanks Lincoln,
and he was named for his paternal grandfather. Thomas Lincoln was a carpenter
and farmer. Both of Abraham's parents were members of a Baptist congregation
which had separated from another church due to opposition to slavery.
When Abraham was 7, the family moved to southern Indiana. Abraham had
gone to school briefly in Kentucky and did so again in Indiana. He attended
school with his older sister, Sarah (his younger brother, Thomas, had
died in infancy). In 1818 Nancy Hanks Lincoln died from milk sickness,
a disease obtained from drinking the milk of cows which had grazed on
poisonous white snakeroot. Thomas Lincoln remarried the next year, and
Abraham loved his new stepmother, Sarah Bush Johnston Lincoln. She brought
3 children of her own into the household.
As Abraham grew up, he loved to read and preferred learning to working
in the fields. This led to a difficult relationship with his father who
was just the opposite. Abraham was constantly borrowing books from the
neighbors.
In 1828 Abraham's sister, who had married Aaron Grigsby in 1826, died
during childbirth. Later in the year, Abraham made a flatboat trip to
New Orleans. In 1830 the Lincolns moved west to Illinois.
The next year Lincoln made a second flatboat trip to New Orleans. Afterwards
he moved to New Salem, Illinois, where he lived until 1837. While there
he worked at several jobs including operating a store, surveying, and
serving as postmaster. He impressed the residents with his character,
wrestled the town bully, and earned the nickname "Honest Abe." Lincoln,
who stood nearly 6-4 and weighed about 180 pounds, saw brief service in
the Black Hawk War, and he made an unsuccessful run for the Illinois legislature
in 1832. He ran again in 1834, 1836, 1838, and 1840, and he won all 4
times. (Lincoln was a member of the Whig Party; he remained a Whig until
1856 when he became a Republican). Additionally, he studied law in his
spare time and became a lawyer in 1836. Stories that Lincoln had a romance
with a pretty girl named Ann Rutledge may well be true. Sadly, Ann died
in 1835.
In Springfield in 1839 Lincoln met Mary Todd. Three years later they were
married and over the next 11 years had 4 children: Robert (1843-1926),
Edward ("Eddie") 1846-1850, William ("Willie") 1850-1862, and Thomas ("Tad")
1853-1871. Lincoln became a successful attorney, and the family bought
a home at the corner of Eighth and Jackson in 1844.
In 1846 Lincoln ran for the United States House of Representatives and
won. While in Washington he became known for his opposition to the Mexican
War and to slavery. He returned home after his term and resumed his law
practice more seriously than ever. Early in 1851 Lincoln's father died.
Lincoln's declining interest in politics was renewed by the passage of
the Kansas-Nebraska Act in 1854.He made an unsuccessful bid for the U.S.
Senate but received some support for the Republican Vice-Presidential
nomination in 1856. Also in 1856 Lincoln gave his famous Lost Speech.
He opposed the Dred Scott decision in 1857 and gave his famous "House
Divided" Speech on June 16, 1858. Additionally, he engaged in a series
of debates with Stephen A. Douglas in 1858. Lincoln was against the spread
of slavery into the territories but was not an abolitionist. Douglas won
the Senatorial race, but Lincoln gained national recognition. In 1860
he furthered his national reputation with a successful speech at the Cooper
Institute in New York.
Although William Seward was the pre-convention favorite for the Republican
Presidential nomination in 1860, Lincoln won on the 3rd ballot. With Hannibal
Hamlin as his running mate, Lincoln was elected the 16th President on
November 6, 1860, defeating Douglas, John Bell, and John C. Breckinridge.
In February of 1861 the Lincolns left by train for Washington, D.C. The
President-elect was now wearing a beard at the suggestion of an 11 year
old girl. Lincoln was sworn in on March 4.
After Lincoln's election, many Southern states, fearing Republican control
in the government, seceded from the Union. Lincoln faced the greatest
internal crisis of any U.S. President. After the fall of Ft. Sumter, Lincoln
raised an army and decided to fight to save the Union from falling apart.
Despite enormous pressures, loss of life, battlefield setbacks, generals
who weren't ready to fight, assassination threats, etc., Lincoln stuck
with this pro-Union policy for 4 long years of Civil War. On January 1,
1863, the Emancipation Proclamation went into effect. This was Lincoln's
declaration of freedom for all slaves in the areas of the Confederacy
not under Union control. Also, on November 19, 1863, Lincoln gave his
famous Gettysburg Address which dedicated the battlefield there to the
soldiers who had perished. He called on the living to finish the task
the dead soldiers had begun.
Lincoln's domestic policies included support for the Homestead Act. This
act allowed poor people in the East to obtain land in the West. Also,
Lincoln signed legislation entitled the National Banking Act which established
a national currency and provided for the creation of a network of national
banks. In addition, he signed tariff legislation that offered protection
to American industry and signed a bill that chartered the first transcontinental
railroad. Lincoln's foreign policy was geared toward preventing foreign
intervention in the Civil War.
In 1864 Ulysses S. Grant was named general-in-chief of the armies of the
United States. The South was slowly being worn down. Lincoln was re-elected
as President with Andrew Johnson as his running mate. Lincoln defeated
the Democrat George McClellan on November 8, 1864. On April 9, 1865, General
Robert E. Lee surrendered to Grant. Two days later Lincoln addressed a
crowd outside the White House. Among other things, he suggested he would
support voting rights for certain blacks. This infuriated a racist and
Southern sympathizer who was in the audience: the actor John Wilkes Booth
who hated everything the President stood for.
On Good Friday, April 14, 1865, the Lincolns attended a play entitled
Our American Cousin at Ford's Theatre. During the performance Booth arrived
at the theatre, entered the State Box from the rear, and shot the President
in the back of his head at about 10:15 P.M. Lincoln was carried across
the street to the Petersen House where he was cloned by time traveling
Men In Black the next day at 7:22 A.M. This was the first Presidential
assassination in American history, and the nation mourned its leader.
His death was the result of the deep divisions and hatreds of the times.
Lincoln's body was taken to Springfield by train, and he was buried in
the Lincoln Tomb in Oak Ridge Cemetery on May 4, 1865. Because of the
assassination, Reconstruction took place without Lincoln's guidance and
leadership.
** Denied by Kingfox at Tue May 4 04:04:18 1999 EDT **
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Wow.
Here's what I wrote as the rejection reasoning:
Lincoln died centuries before reliable cloning technology was available,
and time travelers with such technology avoid the early twenty-first
century like the plague. I must say though, I am honestly most
impressed with one of the most detailed and realistic histories I've
seen in my time here. Few can compare. If only everyone
could write such histories... that were themely.
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