Over the past 6 months I have never had much time to play. My schedule with work and school had me all over the place, spending only a few short hours at home before rushing out the door again. When I did have time for anything, I'd usually spend it working on different local bands I manage. Booking, stage set up, travel. I haven't been as heroic. One of my band members invited me home to meet his family. There I met his brother, Quinten. Q had such a great personality, but was stuck in his house all day and all night fighting cancer. I decided, since I hadn't played as much, to offer him my CoH account and allow him to play freely, either on my characters or his own. He fell in love with the game as hard as I did in the early summer of 2004, and often told me being a hero gave him more reason to fight. His goal in CoH was to get a level 50 and fight in one of the Hami Raids I'd told him so much about.
On Tuesday, May 19th, I got the call that Quinten had lost his long battle to cancer. I've taken a couple weeks off and spent time with the family, mourning, talking of good times he'd had playing baseball as a kid, running, learning to play the bass guitar and forming a great band with his brother.
He never did get to have a level 50 and never got to see Hamidon, therefore I decided a much needed vacation is at hand. I'm going to, very soon, take another long needed week off from work, where i will spend that time getting the character he'd always talked about creating to level 50 and leading a raid with it. After only a few months of knowing him, that is the only justice I can think of to give him.
Hug your families tonight. Spend every moment you can making sure they realize how much you love them. God Bless.
-Xisha
...when someone comes into the room and covers your eyes while you're playing... and you proceed to defeat the mob you were facing anyway.