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Layonara is so much more than a game. We started off as a tabletop Dungeons and Dragons campaign more than a decade ago. Since then we have developed into a fantasy world with as much compelling and engrossing detail as you will find anywhere.
Our current showcase is a Neverwinter Nights version of Layonara, where our world comes to life in a finely polished persistent world which you can play free of charge. These forums are set up to support and accentuate our player's experiences, but it goes far beyond that.
After years of passionate effort, our world is so well developed, so detailed, so refined that any of the handbooks, maps, historical accounts, legends, descriptions of artifacts, creature reports, character biographies, short stories, novels, movies and original art which populate these forums can surely serve as resources or inspiration for your own fantasy endeavors, whatever they may be. And our world is endlessly evolving, so resources are frequently added and updated.
There are also years of sage advice and commentary on role-playing, gaming and online community development stored in these forums. If camaraderie is what you seek, we offer that too. Our community is as active and supportive as you're likely to find on the internet. In short, these forums are a resource for you to use for whatever purpose or project brought you here.
We're confident that you will find what you are looking for, and likely, substantially more.
Please be our guest and browse around the forums which are available to you. As you do, keep in mind that you are sampling only a portion of what Layonara has to offer. Membership in our community is free, and allows you to establish a Layonara identity to pose your questions and share your thoughts on the forums. When you join you'll also be able to communicate privately to other members (PMs), establish and respond to polls, upload and download content and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free. So please. join our community today!
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#1 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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|  Greetings.
Without looking through the other introductions, and without further ado...
Name:
My name is Stephen Zuckerman. That's my real-life, legal name, too. Admittedly, I've got a middle name, but it's spelled wrong.
Age:
At time of posting, seventeen. Some people take me for older, but I don't try fudging this little statistic. 
Time at Layonara:
Since... Wow. October of `05. About a year and a half, now... Niftycool.
What's kept me here:
The community is my reason for staying. We've got a great thing going here, guys. I do my best to support that, and (usually) don't screw it up too bad.  The RP is great, overall; the separation of IC and OOC is brilliant compared to other places I've been; the people of Layo get together to make things happen. We had something like a hundred-plus people for the SoaLA finale, all getting together to play NWN and sit in front of their computers for several hours. It's a powerful thing.
Playstyle:
I strive to give my characters life and breath of their own; each is a deeply complex individual with his or her own faults, strengths, and dreams. I've stood by to watch as Pyyran Rahth has gone from an uncertain boy no older than I am, to a seasoned adventurer my father's age, and seen (and played!) the progression in maturity appropriately. I've gone through numerous characters simply because I couldn't fill the shoes I cobbled for myself when I submitted them. It's not that I'm spamming descriptive text constantly... It's that I try to have the characters act as they would were they real. That's the fun and the challenge, for me.
A few things about me:
Well, I'm a failing student in Highschool, I'm racing ahead in life to move out of my family's home and work my way into a decent college (after getting my GED and Associate's), I'm physically in terrible health, and I honestly think life could be a heck of a lot worse. I like music of all kinds, my main passions being jazz and rock (on the heavier side). Art draws me like a lodestone, in any medium. Visual, musical, physical, textual... I love Waffle House food and think that a scribbled-all-over $1.50 birthday card is worth more than an iMac. I'm an optimistic, pantheistic, realistic, neo-transcendentalistic, Poe-esque pessimist who takes time out of life to offer a soliloquy every now and again to my lovely audience of three: Clotho, Lachesis, and Atropos. Pulp Fiction is my favorite film for oh-so-many reasons.
Closing words:
Hey. We're doing well, here. Let's keep rollin'.
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03-12-07, 09:55 PM
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#2 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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|  Re: Greetings.
Oh, and a pic.
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03-12-07, 10:15 PM
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#3 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Staffordshire, England
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Woah only 17? I thought at least 20 -you're one of the most mature players I've met.
Nice hair by the way long hair rocks - mine used to be butt length til I shaved it a year ago :P shoulder length now!
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03-12-07, 10:21 PM
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#4 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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03-12-07, 10:26 PM
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#5 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Staffordshire, England
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Yeah I've been commented on having mutated hair before, I made it down to below waist in barely 3 years!
Just do yourself a favor and don't shave it... I think it was a moment after the ponytail was cut off that I fell into deep hair-depression :O
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neppakyo: I wish people wouldnt metagame about dwarves smelling bad. Cause he bathes like an elf.
ycleption: I wish people wouldn't metagame about elves being clean.... cause mine bathes like a dwarf.
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03-12-07, 10:31 PM
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#6 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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Yeah, seriously. I'm thinking about cutting it short enough for my costume at AWA, but then it would still at least be shoulder-length. I think I'd freak out if my hair were short enough that I didn't need to part it.
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03-12-07, 10:40 PM
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#7 | | Mind Flayer Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Staffordshire, England
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Hehe yeah, imagine going from as long as I had it to clean shave in a matter of 10 minutes :P
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#8 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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I'd have needed a rubber room. *Shudders.*
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#9 | | Adamantium Golem Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: CWU, Ellensburg, WA
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Long Hair FTW!!!! i'm surprised your 17 too =O. You look older in the pic too lol. Good to finalyl put a face and a man behidn the screen =D
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03-13-07, 10:08 AM
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#10 | | Beholder Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: England, UK
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Need hair like my 'emo' (apparently) hair *grins*
Oh and Hi Stephen!
Great to play Karn with Pyyran as always but on that note...where has he gone? I've been playing a wemic lately, but I check every now and then and haven't seen him around. That two day experiment go so well you're extending it?!
Anyway you're a great player, and Pyyran is immensely complex.
See you around
Dan
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[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Thu Apr 05 01:32:50] Ogre Warrior of the High Peak Clan killed Karn
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Thu Apr 05 01:32:50] Soul Save vs. Soul Mother : *failure* : (4 vs. DC: 11)
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Thu Apr 05 01:32:51] Welcome to Layonara
[CHAT WINDOW TEXT] [Thu Apr 05 01:32:52] You have bled to death. 
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#11 | | Lich Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Philadelphia
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Heh, general comment but I'm going to post it here: I like the way everyone's replying to everyone else's intro threads with things like this. It makes us get to know where everyone's coming from a bit better.
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#12 | | Adamantium Golem Join Date: Feb 2005 Location: Exeter, England
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Witch Hunter  Hehe yeah, imagine going from as long as I had it to clean shave in a matter of 10 minutes :P | Man, as a fellow long-hair I will tell you that losing it over an extended period (curse you, male pattern baldness!) is A LOT more painful 
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Feniox lives!!
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#13 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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Originally Posted by kenty191 Need hair like my 'emo' (apparently) hair *grins*
Oh and Hi Stephen!
Great to play Karn with Pyyran as always but on that note...where has he gone? I've been playing a wemic lately, but I check every now and then and haven't seen him around. That two day experiment go so well you're extending it?!
Anyway you're a great player, and Pyyran is immensely complex.
See you around
Dan | Heheheh, you're cute. Even the emo hair can't ruin that.
Anyhow, the compliment means a LOT. It really does... That's what I strive for, honestly.
My little experiment is more than over, but I just haven't really found the time and inclination to get on and play, with all of the side-projects I'm working on, and midterms.
I'll probably be back on regularly before too much longer. *Knock on wood.*
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#14 | | Gamemaster Join Date: Jun 2006 Location: Melbourne, Australia
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*Tries to decide whether Stephen, Witch Hunter and Talan (circa 4 years ago) are all one and the same long-haired person*
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#15 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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Naaah. I have prettier eyes.
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#16 | | Adamantium Golem Join Date: Jan 2007 Location: Western Pennsylvania
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Seventeen...SEVENTEEN???
My partner and I have a hobby of guessing ages of players based on aspects of their roleplaying. And, in general, we're finding we're pretty much smack-on. But I can honestly say (and I mean this in a good way) we had both pegged you at more like mid-thirties. THAT'S good RP!
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#17 | | Ancient Dragon Join Date: Oct 2005 Location: Look at me still talking when there's Science to do...
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Wow! Thanks! *Grins.* Gods know I have the knees to go along with a mid-thirties age, but not the number on my license, yet.
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