I started playing during the Alpha testing. I still say that if AE would have been able to deliver what it promised, it would have been one of the top games ever released. As things go, Istaria is still a LOT of fun after all these years. This has been my longest break, by far and am glad that I still have some friends from Order, who I have known from the very beginning. Now I'm on Chaos because Cixi and her "alt cohorts" are there. We were in the guild named "Strata". I have a few other posts about the early days, Brady Games etc. so I won't go into that history here, in this re-introduction post. I look forward to seeing some of you on Chaos. QuO aka Quonan and Qiznar on Chaos (I moved the first two from Order) and aka Quizzle, Quazik and QBallas on Order.