Jonny, angry Jonny..... I wana blow you........ away......

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Why did you leave us? Where have you been?

Interview with a Jonny*

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Well when last I left you I had planed to go offline permently. However, I am here now. So the obvious questions are: Why did you leave us? , and Where have you been?

Why did you leave us?

I left for one main reason, and that was the fact that I was spending between 6 and 8 hours a day on online stuff, mostly war2. So I was determined to cut down on this. I wanted to do more things with my life besides war2 (24-7) . I guess you could say my habbit was a little out of control, a sort of war2-a-holic.

All the fame that came with being a war2 legend, also started to take its toll on me. Even after I was out of the IWL I would still get a damm lot of email of people asking me to be in my clan. But clan mail wasn't the only war2 mail that I was getting. I also held many training sessions for different people on kali that had some ambition. It was the greatest compliment to me seeing someone go from being an ok player into one of the best. I took great pride in making worthy opponets for the war2 community. The only thing was..... I didn't always have the time to train people, so I felt bad when they asked me to. I had to start refusing people, there was just too damm many of them....

It seemed that my fame only grew, as did my responsibilities to my little trainies. It became totally impossible for me even to come into kchat and hold a single conversation anymore. Here is how it would go ... ( ==#== indicates person number, yellow = private /msg)

Jonny* has just entered kchat
==1== hey Jonny
<Jonny*> hey
==2== Hi Jonny*, can we play a game
<Jonny*> maybe
==3== hey, you up for finishing my training today
<Jonny*> yeah, we might be able to fit it in
==1== so Jonny that was a riot last game, we really kicked there asses!!!
==2== common Jonny, you know you want to .....
<Jonny*>yeah we did good against em, they weren't expecting that
<Jonny*> hold on ...
==1== yeah exept I was hurting in the begining after that first rush.
==3== Jonny I'm positive that I'll do better this time the training is paying off!!!
==2== well are we going to play or what?! COMMON LES GO!
==4== Hey man wana go 1 on 1? If your good enough?
<Jonny*> hey guys umm only public /msg to me, I want you all to know how much I have to deal with!!
==5== blah blah blah hahah just kidding with ya Jonny*
==2== lets get it on... I wana play a game ... waaaaaa waaaaa !!!
==4== you dont have anyone /msg you, your just chicken and dont wana play me !
==1== man it was funny when I got that last peon though .....
==3== I need the magic training :) or else I go bad :(
==1== he was only 100 short of a new hall, hahahaa!!
==5== so are ppl really /msg you allot or what?
==4== why dont you answer me ??? !!!! at least do that !!!!
<Jonny*> arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrg!
Jonny* has left kali chat

So as you see it really was difficult to hold 2,3,and 4 conversations at once. I know I could of /ignored them or something, but sometimes there was just too many of them, and besides I think ignoring is kinda rude :) I had to start using fake nicks sometimes to get into kchat and have a private conversation.

Anywayz, like I said before... It was mainly the time restraints that got to me though. So I made the decission to quit playing war2, so in order to do that, I would have to go offline. Looking back on it now, I relize that I was addicted to a point but also I just had a bad time-managment system going for myself.

Where have you been?

Oh boy ! ...... the tales I could, and will, tell you all. It's been a long and lonely journey. I have seen and done great things since we last talked.......

After I officially retired, I still had a month to go until I was actually kicked offline by my isp. During that time I went into hideing and loved it. There was noone to bother me anymore, just me, myself and I. But then one day it actually hit me.. I sat down to get online and nothing happened. I was offline :___ ( ...........woooooooe is me ...........

Durning the next month I found myself doing more productive things, but also I found myself watching allot of bad tv late at night. You see sometimes I dont get off untill around 12am to 4 am , and there isn't allot of things to do at that time....

About the same time my girlfriend had to get online to do a project for school. But I didn't have my internet so too bad for her :) also I started to notice that just about every advertisment for anything had a url adress beside it, but I couldn't look it up because I didn't have my internet. Well you get the picture, basically I started to notice how much I used it for all sorts of things besides games (mostly games though :) I also caught myself making puds for the first time in my life. A sign that I was truely board. But I did enjoy making some of them.

Well I wasn't about to ignore the obvious thing to do ........ I decided that I would go back online!!! I realized that it was poor time-management rather than war2 that was making me crazy :) At the time I had been off for about a month or so.

I wasn't about to make the same mistake though and go back to playing my old nickname, so I decided to do something different and I started the process that I now call charactoring. Its little different from smurfing (invented by Shlonglor). The basic difference is that charactoring is that when you win ( or lose) you don't tell the other person who you really are. In fact you kinda forget who you really were. You start to be a fresh new name. You have to build the name up. Since Kali has gotten so big that older veterans don't often play new people allot, I couln't just go into a game that was created by a veteran. So I had to start out as a nothing and build the name up to play with the intermediate players and then build the name up to play with the good players, and then build the name up so maybe I would get to play one of the old skhoolers :) It was a fun game that I played with myself. And I enjoyed it very much. So you might be asking if you ever played me?! Well your in luck because I will reveal my charactors.

First of all charactoring takes a long time, because you have to build trust. Its not like smurfing where its short term. And also I never went back to my true identity for any games at all. So basically here is how it went... I went offline in late november of 1996 and was on again before the new year. So I would say in about 4 months I was able to develope 3 good charactors.

My first charactor that I developed was called (drum roll please) ..... ... .. *retired* !!! haha, I just called it that because I was retired right? :) Well that charactor did good and actually got into some games with Warangel and 2 other old skhoolers, and several times they made attempts to guess who I really was, and actually did guess Jonny* one time, but I didn't let on at all. It was kinda funny cause I devised a pretty much fool proof system. Instead of using Kali95, I would use Kali for dos :) you see .... dos had seperate files for the kali nickname and the kchat nickname. ruuhahah! so I would sign on a really wierd name on kali and then sign on as *retired* on dos kchat. It was funny, man were people confussed. However, at the time then only person I told about anything was Shlonglor. I trusted Shlonglor , and knew he wouldn't tell anyone who I really was. Besides I really needed someone to talk to, because although being a war2 legend had it's price to pay , being a war2 noone was starting to get lonely. I would have to put up with all sorts of things, with people who thought they knew everything! Man I was realy mad at some newbies sometimes. I felt like saying "Hey! do you know who I am ? I was playing war2 when you were still in diapers!!! " But instead I had to restrain myself, so I wouln't blow my cover.

My second charactor was (drum roll again) .. .. ... .... One Bad Orc .. .. .. Man I spent allot of time on this one, and actually made some friends that I didn't have before. I started playing with some other latenighters on st. louis. I though it was neat that I had made new friends. I guess thats an advantage of charactoring. The fact that you can make new friends that you wouldn't if you just hung out in one group of old friends all the time. I think " One Bad Orc " made it pretty far amongst the war2 world and actually also picked up some games with some old skhoolers a few times. *note* games with the old skhoolers were getting harded to find now because they all became a more tight knit group.

Well I bet you want to hear what my third and final charactor was right? Well sorry I'm not ready to tell that one away just yet. hehe sorry to get your hopes up.. All I can say is that he has done real good in the past and had many games with the old skhoolers.

Sorry for not telling you that last little thing there, but as you can see I've been quite busy developing the three charactors.

I remeber some time during all of this diablo came out, and I got it, and I played it, and I realized that it could never be like war2 cheats or no cheats. It was just not as good of a game. What made diablo great was the fact that it was indorced by practically all of the old skhoolers. (well at first anyways) So if your friends are going to play it.... arn't you? haha well not anymore (trashed it ) . And to quote Forest Gump "And thats all I got to say about that"

Well with all of this behind me now, I want to get back to being the old Jonny* again. I know war2 probably died for allot of people, as it did for me, but untill another game comes that can completely take its place, I wont stop playing it! And the most noble thing that I think I can do now is just make it more fun for everyone else too by telling them what I know :)

"and unto the light, Jonny* was taken, as he rose from his war2 grave" Jonny* 3:14:2

Jon Williams

Jonny*

p.s. It seems everyone had been asking me what in the world "Ruuuhahaha" meant :) Well a long time ago Shlonglor (or someone on his page) coined the word Muhhahaaha as a title to a story. Well, being the rebel that I am, I chose to upset the natural ballance of the univerce and say Ruhahaha instead of Muhahha. It kinda caught on for a few people. And I still like it, and thats all that matters!! so Ruhahaha on you :)