Players

Players

This page will be for general information about the players (if they want to give it) such as a few personal details, other games they play in, links to pages they find useful, and email addresses.

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However ...

The GM for The Enclaves - Mel
Allen (player of Seth)
Aron (player of Simon)
Francesca (player of Jenever)
Heather (player of Opal)
Katie (player of Tobias)
Rob (player of Lazarus)
Tomus (player of Dot)
Theresa (player of Nora)
Brian (player of Haakon)

The GM for The Enclaves - Mel

I'm Mel, and I'm British. I live in Oxford with my husband Greg and our cats (currently two of them).

I've been a teacher (English, Film and Communication Studies), and now work in Rural Regeneration.

I'm into cinema, theatre, good food, and travel. And reading - a lot. I also have an abiding weakness for kitsch (although I usually claim it as a postmodernist attitude to new culture).

I've been playing pbems for about three years now. I started out with IRC-rp games, and moved into pbems. Oddly enough, I have never played face-to-face.

As a GM, I tend to favour freeform - I am not keen on stats, and very definitely not a rules freak! My strengths I see as plot and character development - although you would probably have to ask my players if they agree!

You can reach me at goldfired@oxmust.co.uk

I've been a GM on a game called Galactic Renaissance (which was an off-shoot from the first big pbem I played) since April 2000.

I also run a special Agatha Christie-style murder game each Christmas called, with breath-taking originality, Murder at Christmas. The first one was made into a web novel and can be read here. And the second one ... well, I'll get round to putting that up someday soon.

My first Amber game was Ancient Roots, Young Boughs - and I became an AGM there around March 2001. This game is really the new one from the same team ... with different co-GMs running different areas.

In addition to co-GMing these two, I also play in a variety of other highly enjoyable pbems - far too many to list here!

Allen (player of Seth)
Allen Veazey is a microbiologist/medical technologist who works and lives in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He lives with Amy (his fiancee') and Sophie (a very pampered cocker spaniel). Interests are music (esp. guitar), writing, and gaming.

Aron (player of Simon)

Aron was born in the usual fashion, as opposed to accompanied by omens, signs and portents, which would have been much more interesting. He has lived in many places, and been privileged to call the finest country in the world home, but now lives in the US. He would write more about himself, but doesn't want to seem like the self-opinionated tosser he is often accused of being. Instead, he is happy to have people write or chat at him about virtually anything, and, unlike Simon, he hardly ever bites.

Francesca (player of Jenever)

I am a college student at Oregon State University with a major in Theatre Arts. I am interested in music, dancing, and reading - I will read anything, especially good fantasy/sci fi/mysteries.

Heather (player pf Opal)

I work in the computer game industry as a programmer, have done so for several years. I've had the great good fortune to work on title brands like Tetris, SimCity, and The Sims. I have two cats, my partner Erik, and a nice house in the SF Bay Area. The rest is, as they say, subject to change without notice.

I've been playing RPGs since I was 12. I still get out once a month or so to indulge. I even created a hybrid game from the Star Wars system that included the runic magic from Ultima Underworld and elements from Dream Park. I ran a campaign using that system for 7 years. I'd post it, but it'd probably be at least one copyright violation. : )

I'm currently addicted to the Amber Diceless RPG, based on the Amber books of Roger Zelazny. I both play and run games in the Amber Diceless Role Playing System.

Katie (player of Tobias)

Mother of one, wife of one, she lives in the US, just outside of its
Capitol. Gaming is her favorite hobby, with art and writing tied for a close second.

Katie also runs the new Amber Play by Email dot Net board.

Rob (player of Lazarus)

Rob is from scenic Ohio River valley in West Virginia. He lives with his daughter Anne, and their cat Squeaky.

He first started role playing in 1979 (Dungeons and Dragons), and has never stopped. He has spent most of his face-to-face experience as Game Master, and started to experience PBEM games back in the day of local BBS message boards and 300 baud modems.

Rob has had limited success in running his own PBEM games... but has been very lucky in choosing games to play in. He came to ANOA/Enclaves through his contacts in the Ancient Roots Young Boughs game.

In "real life", he puts in his 40 hours every week as the Warehouse Manager of a local office equipment dealership.

Rob plays the character Lazarus, in ANOA/Enclaves.

Tomus (player of Dot)
	Tomus Cone has seen over half of the planet Earth in person, been divorced, been re-married, been involved in Military Intelligence, and is currently a student pursuing a course of study in "Mad Science." He will be playing Dot Sullivan.

Theresa (payer of Nora)

Theresa Thomas is usually at the end of her rope, raising a teenage daughter and younger son in the middle of Oklahoma. Besides her love of Amber, she is a strong proponent of the space program and gay rights, an
avid reader of sci-fi and fantasy, writes sporadically on an erotic horror novel and loves to play with Photoshop and web design. She plays in way too many games by her own admission, is usually running at least one, and owns and oversees the Shadows of Amber Message Board, where she manages to let herself be lured into even more games by evil temptresses like Mel and Katie.

Brian (player of Haakon
Brian Schoner is a computer programmer by day, a freelance writer by night, and a bass guitarist on weekends. He and his two cats live in Atlanta, Georgia, USA, and enjoys RPGs, almost all kinds of music, and writing about himself in the third person.