I stumbled acrossed Layonara in October of 2004 while browsing a DnD website for more goodies to throw at my PnP players. It was there that I saw the link to a persistent world... having just finished the single player campaign I clicked over and browsed around. I wasn't much into online games at the time but I liked to role play so I gave it a go.
I almost left the world right away feeling totally out of place until I met one GM on his player character. He welcomed me into a group heading to the grey peak mountains and taught me some of the ropes. You can all blame Seth for my getting hooked on this place
It wasn't long into playing that orth further hooked me got me interested in building and helping him out with some smaller tasks he had, then Rhizome got me interested in GMing... from there I joined the team and really the rest is history.
Outside my online persona I am a 27 year old television production engineer. Ive worked for several affiliate stations and one live call in talk show. I now spend most of my pen and paper time as a player... though mostly we eat pizza and talk about things like Dead Rising and the evils of warcraft.