Previous Clubs

[Jane]

There are lots of returnees to Triad and a lot of people around who have long histories in Pern Fandom.  I know from his LJ that AJ has just done the big count up of former clubs, but what about the rest of us?  How many clubs have you belonged to?

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I met fandom with High Reaches but the relationship was brief.  I found the round robin format difficult to deal with in a non-US time zone.

After that it was Ridges of Pern which I regard as my 'real' first club.  I met some of you there.

I briefly stuck my head in the door at Dragonriders of Pern but they were in the middle of a rape plot and I'm a wimp so we parted company almost instantly.

Then Star Lake Weyr, Dragonsfall Weyr, and Pern Shadows.

After that it was Anchor's Fall Weyr with a brief side serving of Golden Gate Weyr.

Recently I was lurking in four or five clubs before I discovered Triad Weyrs.  Especially with the influx of new and returning members I can't imagine I'll be needing another club for a long, long time.

1999 - 2007; I'll call it 7 clubs, leaving out the very short memberships.

[PastMember]

Did I hear my name mentioned?  8)

Since I only gave a number in my journal, I'll give the rundown here of what clubs they were.

1.) Seaside Weyr
2.) South Seas Weyr
3.) Far Western Weyr
4.) Seacrest Weyr (club inactive -- technically still a member)
5.) Lakesedge Weyr  
6.) Rocky Crater Weyr  
7.) Rocky Crater Weyrhold (club inactive -- technically still a member)
8.) North Ranges Weyr
9.) Eastern Shoals Weyr
10.) River Cliffs Weyr
11.) Triad Weyrs
12.) Dream's End Weyr
13.) Shattered Lands Weyr
14.) Arolos Weyr
15.) Ridges of Pern
16.) Dusk Forest Weyr
17.) Mirror Lake Weyr
18.) Monaco Bay Weyr
19.) Southern Alliance (Weyr)
20.) Andryvar Weyr
21.) Wings of Pern
22.) Phoenix Fire Weyr
23.) Dragonriders of Pern

Add to that the non-Pern clubs:
24.) Pony Express
25.) Hogwarts
26.) Victorian Hogwarts
27.) Just Like Before
28.) Rome
29.) Greenwood City

Now, do you want me to list all of the PCs and NPCs I wrote for in those clubs?   :twisted:

[Bree]

In 1995 & 1996 I was a member of DR. In the FAR distant past, when we still posted by copying everyone's e-mail addresses into the "To" field. ;) In 1996 I went to live in Austria for a year with almost no internet access, though, so that was the end of that.

I didn't rejoin anything until 2001 when I joined Pern Shadows, and eventually Dragonsfall. Since then I've pretty much been bouncing back and forth around here. ;) In and out and all about, but no where else has ever felt like home like it does here!

[Mikel]

I had started with Dragonriders of Pern but left for some reason (I've slept since then, as we say here at work).

'round about late 2000 I joined Dragonfall, then Triad when it originally opened.  Maybe Pern Shadows as well.

mmmm, have I been stalking Bree?  :twisted:

[Bree]

:shock:

I'm running away!

[PastMember]

You can run, Bree, but you cannot hide.

[Mikel]

HEY!!  And I got you that nifty teddy bear.

I'm a pleasant stalker

[Bree]

HEY!!  And I got you that nifty teddy bear.

Did I ever show you who ended up stealing the teddy bear?



We had to take the jacket off, though, because the SmallKittenThing tried to eat it. :p

[Mikel]

Well, at least the Bear still has a happy home

[PastMember]

OH MY GOD LOOK AT THE KITTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


It is cute and tiny and perfect! Look at the little itty bitty paws! I WANT ONE!!!

[PastMember]

Ok. Back on topic. The only other club I was ever a member of was Dreams End.

[Avery]

I've done a fair bit in my time! Under multiple names, however, as a.) I don't like my real first name and b.) my mother prohibits me from using my real first name online (so I use my middle, mwa.)

Under my first name:

Summer 2003: Dream's End Weyr
I really really really liked DE. Unfortunately, I felt like I wasn't a good enough writer for there and was intimidated by the quality of everybody else and the lack of quality of me (or so I thought at the time- I wish I had those old posts and my old first persona to see what I was like!), so I became a lurker and stayed a lurker till the club shut down.

The reason I'm here at Triad now is because I really missed DE and wanted to get back into it now that I was a more seasoned rider, but of course it was shut down, so I figured Triad would become my friend. I still miss DE sometimes though, when Triad seems just a tad bit big at times. (In terms of all the places and all the plots, even though big is awesome!)


Under an alias:

Fall 2003: Dawn Meadows Weyrhold
Dawn Meadows was my second club. Full post, like DE, but a smaller club with only a few routinely active writers. Also the post quality was not stellar. I'm not saying it was BAD. There were some amazing plots there, including the weyrlings-lost-between-on-an-island-and-have-to-find-their-way-back (which I'm proud to have been involved in 'cause damn that was fun) and the time when the weyr flooded from a hurricane. My writing wasn't totally perfect then, either, although it started to improve. I mean, I was writing both halves of a romantic relationship myself! That was a lot of fun, actually, and you can get good writing out of it just like with a novel, but somehow it seems a bit silly in a coposting club to write it all yourself, right?

On the other hand, there was jealousy and politics, which imploded the club. See, Dawn Meadows and Dusk Forest were two sister clubs who eventually merged. The two BoDs became one and started power-playing. I was elected to fill the vacant spot. Imagine that: 2 DFers, 2 DMers, and the random person who's like "wait wtf is going on" and caught in the middle. yeah that sucked. But I loved the club LOTS and was sad when it went down thanks to the fighting. This was also my first club with premade dragonets for you, which I LOVED.

Spring 2004: Fallen Stars of Pern
FSoP was an awesome club, and the place where my writing went from adequate to much much better (imho). I had some amazing plotlines there and amazing characters, one of which I've napped over to here and REALLY need to do more with. I had a few good friends there and one exeptional writing partner who I miss lots. I know it's silly to leave a club when your writing partner goes away, but even though I had 4 personas, my best and most fun and developed was K'ran, and when Jade went away everything, all those plots, all that fun, just fell through and then it wasn't as fun anymore. I lurked for awhile before finally leaving (though I'm a wee bit miffed they kept and changed my bronzer to a brown, but I guess 'cause of the storylines by then they couldn't just erase him.) FSoP was awesome, but my time there had really run its course. This was also my first experience with creating a new location for a club. ^^ I came up with the idea of a convalescence/retirement place in a warm location for SEVERELY injured dragons and riders (served as a Healer and Dragonhealer training hall as well), and that went over well, so I was happy.


Clubs now:

Summer 2005: Triad
No statement needed, right?

Summer 2005:Cibryen Weyr:
My first ever round robin club. I love Cibby because it's big, it's active, and it has a hell of a lot of fun plots. (Blowing up Igen Weyr? Dragon plague? Twisters show up during Fall and throw around a bunch of riders and dragons?) I still maintain a membership here, mostly 'cause I've always wanted a female bluerider thanks to my Dawn Meadows days (and never got one BECAUSE of the damn BoD powerplaying *cough*) and Cibby finally allowed me one. ^_^


So there's my sordid tales of the past.

[Vix]

I've been in a few but out of fandom pretty much for the past two years as I studied . . .

Ridges of Pern
Dragonsfall Weyr
Pern Shadows
Starfall Weyr
Triad Weyrs
Dream's End
Arolos (not for long -- that was sheer craziness)
Dark Fort
Lakesedge
GoldenGate
Rocky Crater (Weyr and Weyrhold)

Non-Pern:
Hogwarts
Victorian Hogwarts

AJ, am I missing any?

[Dana]

Well, I first really got into writing/role-playing my Freshman year of high school when the first Lord of the Rings movie came out.  (It seemed like another lifetime ago!)  Me and some friends got together and started writing our own stories in Tolkien's world.  We also dabbled a bit in Pern, but LotR took over our lives for about three years.  

My first role-playing club was called World's Apart.  It had a LotR section, a Matrix section, and a LotR+Matrix section.  I never went into those threads.  It was scary in there  :D  But I had a lot of fun in the LotR part, playing in alternate universes and writing about things that happened to certain characters BEFORE the War of the Ring...  Yeah, I'm a nerd  X)  But it didn't last, what with the hype of LotR going _way_ down and all, so I began searching for a new place to write--a place where I could expand my skills and imagination.

That's when I joined Triad.  My Senior year of high school.  I've learned so much over the past years, and am still learning and enjoying every moment of it!

[Mikel]

Well, I first really got into writing/role-playing my Freshman year of high school when the first Lord of the Rings movie came out.  (It seemed like another lifetime ago!)    

:bigsmurf: I am way too old for this world!