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I have been involved with the online Blades of Exile community since early 1998. I became involved with the Blades of Exile Arena run by Akhronath, and I submitted my first entries without having downloaded Blades of Exile and only being familiar with Exile III. I was an active member of all of the old Inside the Web forums - Aceron's Blades of Exile Board, the Monster Arena, and the Lyceum in particular.
As time went on, I became more proficient with the scenario editor, and I began to design better monsters for the arena and write and scrap several more scenarios. In September 2000, just as Inside the Web was going out of business and the Lyceum moved to ezBoard, I released my second scenario, a revamped Party Builder utility for scenario designers to include with their scenarios. ''[http://pub26.ezboard.com/fthelyceumfrm27.showMessage?topicID=261.topic Alternate Level Builder]'', as it was called, was never actually paired with a single released scenario. Still, it showed marked improvement over ''War on Bigail''.
In October 2000, the Arena made the jump to ezBoard as well, and I became the administrator of the forums, Arena Authority as it was called. Since Akhronath and Pokeytax had somewhat disappeared, I stepped up and ran seasons VII, VIII, IX, X, XI, XII, XIII, and XIV, as well as several seasons of the Titan Arena, a Rabbit Arena, and an SDA Arena. I won two of those seasons - VIII and IX, with Drake Demi-Lord and Mr. Potato.
... in March of 2001, Spiderweb Software created their own message boards, which the active Blades of Exile community flocked to. I became a moderator of many forums there. In September, 2001, Mariann Krizsan decided to move the company boards to UBB, for security and administrative reasons. We decided that I would become a temporary administrator to help set up the boards and smooth the transition.

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