I started to play and enjoy, then someone said "hey, are you on winamp"? I said, "Winamp, what's that"? I then found out about Gridstream Productions, and the shout cast and how real people had added something so special to the game. The parties, and contests the social part of the game. It brought such pleasure that sometimes all I did was log on rush over to Reets or sneak into Omni Entertainment and hang out at Rhompas!
And then darkness fell, I transferred in my job and landed so far in the middle of no where that even getting a decent dial-up connection was nearly impossable
A second mishap resulted in a HD failure and the resultant loss of my AO Client. So staring at a "time left" counter of weeks to download the client with all the updates I just hung my head and closed my accounts.
I am still in the middle of no where, but I have a satalite connection now and while I am not at the blistering speed of cable or even DSL I can easily out match a dial-up and actually do large downloads
The thoughts of the game tickled my memory, but the thing that made me what to come back the most was the music, and all the fun going to the parties and events set up by Gridstream Productions! DJ Tarryk and Veldrin would be real again, Tasty Vixen and all the rest. The GSP dancers, the fun of making the dance scrips again. It would all be real again for me
It took 24 hours to do "The Lost Edan" client download. It started out at 179 kb/s and a time to download of 5 hours. I set it going and went to sleep. Upon waking up with great anticipation I turn my monitor on only to discover 1.8 kb/s and 440 hours to complete! The time to complete bounced around allot and the avg time to complete was 72 hours, still a incredable amount of time. In case some of you don't know, most wireless ISP systems ascribe to what is called "Fair Access Policy" or FAP! What that means is, if you try to download more than 350 MB < in the case of my provider> you're band width is cut to almost nothing for a period of 12 hours. I put in on pause a few times and eventually the speed picked up and I was able to complete, as I said, in 24 hours!
My character name is phonetic spelling of my forum name, since my name was taken
I've use this name in 3 other games and it shocked me to see it was taken My in game name is "Desmonaya" it's pronounced exactly as it appears - Dez - mo - nay - ya
I've started a new character and she is a level 10 Doctor for the clan. I am in West Athens, I think thats the area. There is a little quiet place there called "The Cup"! I have to relearn the game and if anyone wants to give a hand I'd certainly enjoy the company:)
See you at the next show
Des
Are you on RK1 or RK2 with your play characters so far? I say "so far" because you'll eventually be on both for GSP shows. 
