Anyway, I started out life with Grendel as my handle, running crappy FB clean up missions for the 7th Lyran Guards on backwater Steiner worlds, but quickly grew tired of it and as a result of my complaints was offered up as bait by Steiner high command to lure the prestigious Wolf's Dragoons into a contract with the Commonwealth. Well the Dragoons liked what I had to offer and I got the gig, but they turned their backs on the LCW, instead accepting a contract with the Davs.
Focus... to make a long story short, after a while the WDMC became a bit stagnate due to some leadership issues at the top of the chain, so a few of the higher ups helped me fund my own Merc unit, which became wildly successful, employing on average 30 pilots at any given time. I had to spend all my time recruiting, it wasnt much fun for me, but my unit was sweet, fully loaded. The envy of the IS.
Anyway, a buddy of mine had been elected House Leader in Marik a few times and when Kesmai announced they were going to kill EGA and replace it with MPBT Solaris, we began working together to build up Marik (arguably the weakest faction) for the coming of the new age.
When Solaris came out in '96 the internet had changed from a place where a few thousand people sent emails through dos based applications over 12k modems, to the wonderful world of AOL where even your grandma can find a date in a chat room. There were Grendels everywhere! So I decided to change my name to something a bit more unique, so the new recruits wouldnt always have to ask which Grendel told them to stop attacking Liao. Being a mythology nut, I chose Amergin thinking no one under the age of 75 has ever even heard the name. Of course about a year later some dork wrote a crappy book about Amergin the Bard who sits on a dirt floor every night (cause everyone knows all Celts love dirt floors) and for years I had people telling me all about Amergin the Bard as if they had ever read a history book in their lives.
But it wasnt until a few years after UO came out that I saw another player using the name so I guess it served its purpose well enough.
We built up Marik to being by far the strongest faction and smoked everyone on the map for about a year and a half, until they announced that 3025 was canceled. Then I had to retire.
It wasnt my desire to be the best around, as the karate kid montage song suggests, but rather to show the other factions their error in treating their lower ranks as if they were truly of less value than themselves. Those bloated ego maniacs were killing the game for newbies and the devs treated them like they owned the place, so I just had to get some knocks in for the little guy. In a game like that, the higher ups are there to serve the newbies, not the other way around, but so few people could grasp that concept. They all wanted to live out their fantasy of being some kind of kingpin at the expense of everyone else. Just like the real world, I guess.
Oh and I used the name Amergin for my Elf CLAM in the original NWN on AOL. One of the few males brave enough to join the Temple of Lolth! I was constantly being whipped, tortured and generally smacked around by the endless army of Matrons. That was before every 9th person in an MMOG was named Drizzt. Drow were actually cool before Salavatore declared it
he was just cashing in on their already time tested popularity.Ok, I'll stop now.
Cheers!
...and like Heero and Rotku, I'm awesome 
