A request... in memoriam of those players who have passed
By
Ael Rhiana,
Posted on: 2012-10-11 19:45 in CoH and CoV General Discussions
Mind Twist @Mind Twist, she was deployed to Iraq for the second time in 2009 and we never heard from her again. She was an original member of The Sisterhood on Liberty Server. We consider her MIA.
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Thanks, Sera|
Originally Posted by Sera_Ash
Paragon City Search and Rescue on Infinity lost Pure Empathy in March of this year. I don't know her personally, as she had stopped playing by the time I had joined the group, so I don't have much information on her. I've asked some of the other PCSARs if they have more info and given them the link to this thread.
This is a lovely idea, and I can't wait to see the finished product. |
Many thanks to my fellow PCSARian, Sera, for posting this about Pure Empathy. Pure Empathy, AKA Ramona Sepulveda (aka Tequila to her friends and familiy), died of cancer in March of this year. Tequila was my sister, my beloved friend, and a treasured part of my PCSAR family here in CoH. Tequila left behind several other family members who played CoH, including another PCSAR member, Galen's Curse (aka Wendy, one of her sisters).
She is sorely missed by one and all, and she is a big part of why I was drawn into patrolling and eventually becoming a PCSAR member, and indeed investing myself in an MMO period.
Her last cherished motto was "Choose Hope," a phrase I find eerily appropriate for our current state of affairs in CoX and indeed, the world in general.
I will look for screenshots of her character Pure Empathy to share for this project. She created an amazing blog during the last few years of her journey, called "Fear Not Woman" at Blogspot.Com. The title of the blog was "Must Not Fear." Tequila had an amazing sense of humor and compassion in abundance, and I recommend her blog to anyone -- it is full of love, light and wisdom, and is well worth checking out. I believe it still stands as testament to her courage and love of life.
Rest in peace, my dear; you are loved and missed, and remembered by many whose lives you touched.
My grateful thanks to you for honoring our beloved fallen.
Love, Peace and Joy to everyone,
Michelle (aka Lilith Owlwoman of PCSAR on Infinity)
The original Bobby Bomb from Victory server?
There was someone I met in game back in 2006. I only knew her for about 10 days, but we teamed frequently and had a lot of fun.
Her name was Katherine Weeks, from Pinnacle server. Her character was Stainless Steel Kat. In real life, she had lost the use of her legs after an accident that took the lives of her parents. The game was her place to go and be able to walk, dance and fly.
I still have some screenshots and a piece of memorial art. Also - somewhere - I have a few demorecord files with a couple of her toons. I'll PM them to you as soon as I find them.
Test Subject 42 - lvl 50 Sp/DA Scrapper
Oku No Te - lvl 50 MA/SR Scrapper
Borg Master - lvl 24 Bots/traps MM
Pinnacle
Nyghtfyre - lvl 50 DM/SR Scrapper
Champion
Contact @SuperJimmy, he was with Veil One in HVND and might have footage of him in or outside Arena events.
Questions about the game, either side? /t @Neuronia or @Neuronium, with your queries!
168760: A Death in the Gish. 3 missions, 1-14. Easy to solo.
Infinity Villains
Champion, Pinnacle, Virtue Heroes
Please add Derek "Sailor Rush" R. to your list. His global was @Sailor Rush. He played mostly on Virtue and he loved this game very much. We all in RO miss him greatly. He passed on September 7, 2010. We're coming up on the anniversary of his passing.
Here's his .costume file.
http://www.repeat-offenders.net/sailorrush/
Here's a picture of his main: Sailor Rush - MA/Regen Scrapper
http://www.repeat-offenders.net/foru...56_9_39559.jpg
If you need any more details, please let me know.
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Terribly sorry for your loss, Michelle. My god, your sister had a joyous smile, even amidst all that.|
Originally Posted by Hildegard
Thanks, Sera
Many thanks to my fellow PCSARian, Sera, for posting this about Pure Empathy. Pure Empathy, AKA Ramona Sepulveda (aka Tequila to her friends and familiy), died of cancer in March of this year. Tequila was my sister, my beloved friend, and a treasured part of my PCSAR family here in CoH. Tequila left behind several other family members who played CoH, including another PCSAR member, Galen's Curse (aka Wendy, one of her sisters). She is sorely missed by one and all, and she is a big part of why I was drawn into patrolling and eventually becoming a PCSAR member, and indeed investing myself in an MMO period. Her last cherished motto was "Choose Hope," a phrase I find eerily appropriate for our current state of affairs in CoX and indeed, the world in general. I will look for screenshots of her character Pure Empathy to share for this project. She created an amazing blog during the last few years of her journey, called "Fear Not Woman" at Blogspot.Com. The title of the blog was "Must Not Fear." Tequila had an amazing sense of humor and compassion in abundance, and I recommend her blog to anyone -- it is full of love, light and wisdom, and is well worth checking out. I believe it still stands as testament to her courage and love of life. Rest in peace, my dear; you are loved and missed, and remembered by many whose lives you touched. My grateful thanks to you for honoring our beloved fallen. Love, Peace and Joy to everyone, Michelle (aka Lilith Owlwoman of PCSAR on Infinity) |
This thread is breaking my heart. I don't envy Samuraiko one bit, but my hat's off to her for doing it.
The Alt Alphabet ~ OPC: Other People's Characters ~ Terrific Screenshots of Cool ~ Superhero Fiction
The video I have in mind is a very simple one (as compared to some of my more complicated efforts), but watching the rough cut version I have is still enough to move me to tears.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Here is a thread with information about @Lucas. He played on Justice and Freedom, loved to PvP as well as run PvE task forces, and was a member of the Forum Cartel with over 11,000 posts.
He is somewhat infamous for having spawned Kronos at one of the Original Hamidon Raids on Justice with the comment, "Kronos has a hold, noob!"
50s: Inv/SS PB Emp/Dark Grav/FF DM/Regen TA/A Sonic/Elec MA/Regen Fire/Kin Sonic/Rad Ice/Kin Crab Fire/Cold NW Merc/Dark Emp/Sonic Rad/Psy Emp/Ice WP/DB FA/SM
Overlord of Dream Team and Nightmare Squad
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I'm fairly sure I have a demofile of this character somewhere. I'll send it tonight if you haven't already.
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Originally Posted by Memphis_Bill
MOre used to Muad being from Victory... 's where we played, at least.
Character I'm used to seeing him on: Acoustic Delusions:  ... dont' know that we have demofiles of him or anything, fairly simple costume though. Have to try to recreate. |
My story arcs: #2370- Noah Reborn, #18672- The Clockwork War, #31490- Easy Money
Sartre once said, "Hell is other people." What does that make an MMO?
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Stale, I was on that event, I have a number of other shots. It looked very familiar to me, I'll post a bunch of those that I believe to be the related event on my photobucket account shortly.|
Originally Posted by Stalemate
Here are the shots I managed to track down in relation to Heather Hoffrman:
The Comic Book Cover:  |
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Here you are, and as always feel free to rummage around in my directories for whatever. Just don't repost things without telling me where and why.
This is an exception to that, anything in here can be used for this.http://smg.photobucket.com/albums/v3...ents/memorial/
Please read my FEAR/Portal/HalfLife Fan Fiction!
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Bob "Doctor Von Bey" Willis (@Duskthorrne, I think; we didn't use globals much back then, but that's the global attached to his characters in our SG). Founding member of the Awesome Power Ninjas on Liberty. He had a number of other characters whose names I've forgotten; Windmill Calhoun is one of the few that sticks, and I might've gotten that one wrong. Lost him to a heart attack in 2008.
One forum name, two members: Molly Hackett & Heliphyneau.
AE arcs:
27327 - Enter the Homunculi
176837 - Homunculi 2: Tectonic Boogaloo -- UPDATED
Thanks again Samuraiko, what you're doing is awesome.
Okay, here's the information for @Crimson Sun (it was his global name as well as his main character) His real name was Thomas Altamore.
I actually managed to find a real photo of him
And the SG couldn't locate any good, solid, screenshots of his costume so I recreated it:
Simple enough, sure, but just in case, here's the costume code to make it easier for you- from a tailor/costume creator file made into a .txt file.
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He passed away on June, 20th, 2011. He was a proud member of our SG, The Legacy Foundation. I think it would make him happy to be immortalized in this way. This game meant a lot to him, and him, to us.|
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Thank you so much again for the opportunity, Samuraiko.
"I play characters. I have to have a very strong visual appearance, backstory, name, etc. to get involved with a character, otherwise I simply won't play it very long. I'm not an RPer by any stretch of the imagination, but character concept is very important for me."- Back Alley Brawler
I couldn't agree more.
Cool, thank you for continuing to get information for me. I'm going to keep this thread going until the end of September to allow as many people as possible to see it, and then in October I should have the finished version for everyone.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Zukunft lost a wonderful person by car accident, her Global was @Lady Evil.
RIP
Steven Lomax, @Zoriel aka Avenging Fox and Colonel Savannah on the Union server and Colourless Girl on Defiant.
He left us on August 30th 2007. It's hard for me to believe that was 5 years ago.
Steve was born with a whole list of things wrong, including a twisted spine, defective heart valve, and having only one lung. He was pronounced dead just after birth, but confounded the doctors and medical science in general by refusing to stay dead, and then going on to live for a further 27 years.
He told me once that having already been declared dead as a newborn, every moment he'd lived after that was a bonus, and that was how he chose to live his life. Steve was just a little guy, physically, but his character and personality cast a huge shadow.
Roleplaying was his thing, and he could often be found in the Pocket D on Union and Defiant. His nickname IRL was "Darkfox" and he certainly did have the cunning of a fox, framed in the sort of dark humour you might expect from someone who'd cheated death.
His borrowed time did run out eventually though, as he always knew it would, but even in death his rebellious sense of humour prevailed - the song he had played at his funeral service was Monty Python's "Bright Side of Life".
One of my characters on Union exists today for the sole purpose of keeping Steve's old solo SuperGroup existing. And when CoH finally closes, that little part of Darkfox too will go with it.
I've updated the initial post list with the names I've gotten via PM and in-game. Please let me know if any corrections need to be made (or if you can help me fill out player info, such as RL name or whatnot).
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Malibu Sally's real name was Staci Lansford.
We miss her more and more each day. 
Thanks for doing this, Michelle.
Everlasting Ruling Authority@President SK
im glad malibu is being remembered..her avatar alone always put a smile on my face when i saw it. she was very clever!
Here is a real life picture of my late husband Derek Rushing aka @Sailorrush. You already have a pic of his toon that used to run on Virtue and the costume file (posted on page 3 of this thread by Altoholic_Monkey). Thank you for doing this.
A quick bump to keep this visible - please preview the OP and let me know if there's additional info that I'm missing or a name that should be included.
Michelle
aka
Samuraiko/Dark_Respite
Dark_Respite's Farewell Video: "One Last Day"
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
THE COURSE OF SUPERHERO ROMANCE CONTINUES!
Book I: A Tale of Nerd Flirting! ~*~ Book II: Courtship and Crime Fighting - Chap Nine live!
MA Arcs - 3430: Hell Hath No Fury / 3515: Positron Gets Some / 6600: Dyne of the Times / 351572: For All the Wrong Reasons
378944: Too Clever by Half / 459581: Kill or Cure / 551680: Clerical Errors (NEW!)
Ah you can add protector steve's last name? Steve "El Cazador" Zamiara.
And I found an article with a photo of him along with a friend's statements about his life.
http://mondoricko.blogspot.com/2007/...body-dies.html
Please read my FEAR/Portal/HalfLife Fan Fiction!
Repurposed
Dan Collins (@Novus) passed on March 17, 2006. He had been my college roommate and one of my best friends until his death. He started in Beta and played actively to the end.
Here is a picture of his first 50 "Novus" from Protector:
If I can locate a good RL picture of him I will post it.
Hello Ms. Lady of the Triumph server and the Les Femmes Super Group.
http://boards.cityofheroes.com/showthread.php?t=296502
She was a good friend, a dedicated player and was a Vietnam Vet that passed away 2009.
Thankyou for doing this your very thoughful.
Frostyfrozen lvl 50 Pure Ice Blaster @Les Femmes Mystique
Meltalika lvl 50 - Snowdriftta lvl 50 - Icesong lvl 50 -Frostyblue lvl 50
Have Fun & Stay Safe
Here are the shots I managed to track down in relation to Heather Hoffrman:
The Comic Book Cover:
Heather herself:
And sadly, this thumbnail is the only thing I have left of the wallpaper done of the actual commemoration event:
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