A Land Far Away

My alfa inbox is full. In honor of this event, I share the first message in there (I must have deleted earlier ones)

*REDACTED*

27 Oct 2005

(my bad)

March 9, 2004 is the date of my oldest PM, it was from traind.

There were many many more earlier PMs though, long before 2004 I think.

I've been sifting and deleting PMs for years in the middle of the 16 pages of PMs, it's fun to look through them all sometimes and see all the people I've played with in 10+ years. I took a few breaks from ALFA in the decade+ but never substantially long breaks. Been a fun time.

You do know that this is an Infra offense right ?

If the people who sent you these messages reports you up, my moderation team will give you a strike.

Please don't do that.

Don't listen, Snowden this up, Rumple! Viva la resistance!

My first received PM, Feb 17th 2012:

And things!

Tech team communication skills, go!

Sorry, the man has beaten me down with his rules.

Viva is Spanish.

In French you would say : Vive la résistance. Please note as well the funny accent

More seriously, sorry to be killjoy and all but I had to post this before someone posted a more recent message with something important and/or Meta in it.

My first non-deleted PM is Dec 2012. Anything I had from NWN1 is long-since gone. I envy you PM-lite peoples.

My first PM was from Ronan, it said:

Ronan wrote:I will kill you bloody.
Welcome to ALFA.

Funny thing I never even sent him a PM. I think he must be plotting to kill me.

Ronan wrote:My first non-deleted PM is Dec 2012. Anything I had from NWN1 is long-since gone. I envy you PM-lite peoples.

I was thinking the same thing... 2012 and all my old stuff is gone forever.

Hialmar wrote:You do know that this is an Infra offense right ?

If the people who sent you these messages reports you up, my moderation team will give you a strike.

Please don't do that.

Sorry. It has been edited to protect the weak. Thank you for the information Hialmar, it's all good.

How on earth is your inbox only just full Le Rump?? I've been clearing that sh*t for ages and currently ride a nifty 799 messages (I live on the edge....). But I am nostalgic so mostly delete the more recent threats from Ronan rather than old msgs. My oldest non deleted message is a reply to something I can no longer see and is from Rion of Erb dated January 17 2005, from the Shadowdale days. I was arranging to for his PC to converse with Storm Silverhand about something or other. It was all to do with rping and building off his bio. And probably telling me I'm awesome. Definitely that too.

Well, I did take a few breaks for a few years each.

You guys are que popular. Mine has never even come close to filling.

My first is a character bio some person called 'LeFantome' sent to me for his elf on Shadowdale. Apparently I was still listed as a DM there for a while after these new forums went up and I was gone.

I hit the 800 PM limit ages ago, and have to periodically delete pages of messages and/or shift them to Saved. Right now, the oldest message I have in my Inbox is from 2008 from Wynna, about an event we were planning on the OAS (I didn't delete it because it has draft text from the flavor part of the Event announcement and it makes me smile). My oldest PM in my Saved folder is like, from 2005, and most of the stuff in there is stuff related to disputes, nasty things people have PM'd, blackmail, extortion, admissions of strikable offenses, etc.

OK I might be kidding about the last few, but I generally DO keep the really nasty PMs people have sent me over the years just so I have a record of who's been naughty and who's been nice.