Howdy all,
I'm Blaise and have a reputation around the free shard community but I'll try to summarize here for those who haven't had the (dis)pleasure of my presence.
I'm a serious UltimaNerd(reddit handle), who's been a fan since I played the crap out of Ultima VII when I was 14. I had UO on launch and played through 99ish until my son was born. I never 7x GMed anything and never PvPed outside of trying not to die when attacked on OSI.
I started up on UOSA in early 2011 and played for well over a year and made a lot of friends and a few enemies. I learned a boatload more about UO than I ever knew before and became a supporter of the game in their IRC channels and forums. Ultimately I grew disenfranchised and took off for UOR before it launched and brought my whole guild along with. I, along with my guildmates, helped grow UOR significantly and were the largest guild on the shard for quite a long time. Many things changed, specifically the shard, and I've not really been playing much UO at all as a result of that and rejoining the single masses RL last year.
Anyway, no one would remember me from OSI. My main on UOSA was Sturm (a swords/archer/parry dexxer with no Magery lol) but I have my self-named nox fencer and Rick Astley my bard. On Renaissance I'm Larry LaLonde, Blaise (again a nox fencer), Caramon Majere, Rudyom, etc etc.
Not sure what I'll do here yet but I hope it's good enough to keep me excited about logging in. Great to see a bunch of old hats here, most of which I get along really well with.
Cheers fuckers.