User:Dervish
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| Dervish | |
|---|---|
| Name: | Dervish |
| Birth: | June, 6, 1008 |
| Rank: | Elder |
| Division: | N/A |
| Joined: | Founder |
| Xfire: | tgdervish |
| Website: | N/A |
| Country: | United States of America |
| [Source] | |
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The Ultimate Biography
Dervish was born in a small village somewhere in the world in the year 1008. He joined the monestary of some unspecified religion, and 80 years later, he realized he wasn't getting old or decrepit. The other monks thought he was a Nosferatu, so they drove him away, and Dervish took it upon himself to hide his immortal nature by living in a new life every few years, feigning passing on in one way or another.
Records place him in the 1200's as a sufi mendicant in Central Asia, the early-mid 1500's as a Hindu monk in West Bengal, the early 1600's as a buccaneer in the Caribbean, and in the late 1600's as a renowned duelist under the tutelage of Samurai Tokugawa Kyuzo. He was also an unpublished ace pilot during World War I, for the RAF. He is the ghost writer of Star Wars and Genesis Climber MOSPEADA.
His friend Nik approached Dervish about a new guild called Eternal Vigilance. Dervish was doing real estate seminar TV infomercials at the time and was not interested in helping found a guild. After Nik threw a DVD boxed copy of Genesis Climber MOSPEADA at Dervish and the sharp corner hit him on the head, Dervish decided to join EV.
Dervish joined Eternal Vigilance and is now the Tribunus. He is said to be an impeccable swordsman, pious theologian, and is able to hold his breath for one hour, survive 5 megaton blasts, and leap 80 feet into the air and deliver flurries of punches to 80 feet tall giants. He also possesses reactive body armor, multidimensional adaptability, internal transporter nodes, and multi-spatial personal shielding. It has been widely accepted that he is more good looking than Derek Zoolander himself. His weakness is that he hates disco.
OK, but Seriously …
Dervish was born in New York in the late 1970’s. He’s lived in New York and Hawaii, and traveled to a number of countries, as close as Mexico, and as distant as India and Iran.
Despite a penchant for travel, Dervish was an avid gamer especially in the early part of his life. He owes this to the doldrums of East Coast suburban life.
Gaming Beginnings
Dervish received a Nintendo Entertainment system in 1988. He found some games interesting, but especially liked role-playing games like Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy. In 1991, he was standing bored in a Supermarket, and picked up an issue of a PC games magazine. Flipping through it, he was quite impressed with a game called “The Secret of Monkey Island”. He persuaded his parents to get a PC shortly afterward, and finally enjoyed Monkey Island and Loom, both by LucasArts. Later on, LucasArts started to make Star Wars games like X-Wing and TIE Fighter. In addition ImagiNation Network was born, and upon the urging of his Australian friend who lived in his neighborhood at the time, Dervish embarked on a journey in the early dawn of online gaming.
The Dawn of Online Gaming
Dervish played The Shadow of Yserbius, a multiplayer fantasy RPG within the ImagiNation Network. Upon the first hour of playing, he was invited to his first guild, the Kingdom of Yserbius. In addition to RPG’s, Dervish would meet strange rich girls on the network from NYC who would tell him their woes of 300$ a week allowances that their parents forced them to spend in entirety before getting more the week after. Dervish then received a rare blessing in the process, permanently curing him of a common online gamer malady “Delusion that I’m going to meet a hot chick who loves gaming and lives 5 minutes away from me syndrome”.
He quit Yserbius shortly afterward, devoting his free time to console gaming. His favorite project was writing a walkthrough for the Japanese SNES RPG “Dragon Quest 5”, despite knowing only a little Japanese. His Walkthrough is still on gamefaqs.com .
More Online Gaming
In the mid 1990’s, Dervish briefly returned to Yserbius months before it would be permanently shut down by new owner AOL, meeting some friends who in turn joined him on the Realm (where his name was “Man of Chocolate”) and then Ultima Online. On Ultima Online, his first guild was named after an obscenity. He left this guild to join the League of Pirates, and has has remained friends with them to this day. At the same time, his friend from AOL Star Wars Fan Club “Ghent” started the The Last Starfighter, a league dedicated to playing X-Wing vs. TIE Fighter. Dervish loved LSF, and to this day has very fond memories of that group.
Online Gaming Ad Nauseum
Due to a series of serious family problems, Dervish retired from internet gaming in 1999, and did not return until 2003. He opted to play on Starsider Star Wars Galaxies with his old friend Ghent, trying to help with The Resistance Rebel guild. Due to multiple factors, including the Hologrind and a war against the elite PvP guild Fatalis started by TR top brass (officers of the guild who stopped playing SWG regularly, but saw fit to declare wars for others to fight in), Dervish quit TR. Shortly afterward, it was disbanded. Dervish’s friend Nik invited him to join The Guardians. Along with the encouragement of TG member Tal’Dras, Dervish joined TG in early January 2004. He continued playing SWG on and off until November 2004, when he sampled WoW beta, and became sadly addicted to it. In the meantime, his old friend Ghent joined TG.
As WoW entered retail phase, Dervish grinded levels quickly, due to pure boredom. While he was grinding levels like crazy, Dervish didn’t really notice what was going on with TG’s SWG division. People complained that TG SWG was being treated unfairly – when his friend Waagnba quit TG, Dervish “had a bad feeling about this”, but was far too busy grinding levels in WoW to really do anything about it.
As time went by, Dervish noted that the mood of TG was changing, in such a way that he did not feel like he was having fun, nor did he feel he was contributing to the general flow of their group dynamic. Dervish also noted that while some old friends of his in TG were becoming increasingly distant to him and politically minded, other friends were becoming disillusioned and talking of leaving. Some actually left, others kept complaining on private channels and stayed.
Eternal Vigilance
On the day before New Years Eve, 2004, Dervish awoke, showered, turned on his PC, and quit TG simultaneously on message boards and in WoW. Shortly afterward Nik and Farkrash quit (Nik might have quit prior to Dervish). His friend Doran quit days later. Dervish wanted to quit this whole business of guilds. After getting IM’s from Nik and Harelin however, Dervish felt that founding a guild with his friends might be a fun new activity. The new guild would be called Eternal Vigilance
Dervish reluctantly accepted leadership in the WoW division. Few EV members wanted to play WoW anymore, so he and Farkrash were charged with raising a successful guild chapter from the ground up. For some odd reason, a lot of European powergamers wanted the EV tag, but refused to submit applications. This aggravated Dervish. On the one hand, EV was overtaking Valor in the DKP raid system, on the other hand, these Euro-powergamers were insular and antisocial. It wasn’t what EV wanted to be. Irritated, Dervish took a week off, and then opted to close the WOW division.
Later, Dervish opted to take a more managerial role in EV, becoming Primus Pilus then Consul of MMORPGs, and finally Tribunus. Dervish hopes to use the vast experience accumulated since the days of Yserbius to do something positive. He probably wants to go away and do more traveling.
Fiction
Dervish reveres the works of Tolkien, and is also a devoted fan of Star Wars. In addition, Dervish is also a fan of the Japanese anime series Macross. Dervish's favorite television shows, past and present, include The Simpsons; Quincy, Medical Examiner; Star Trek; and House MD.
Pets
Dervish has a Papillon who can be heard barking on Ventrilo. He also has a mutt who likes to howl when she hears fire engines. Together, they make Ventrilo a better place to be.
