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Date of Birth: 21 NOV 1966  (Scorpio / Year of the Fire-Horse)

Marital Status: Married (Closed Marriage, locked & barred, in fact)

Occupation:   Computer Gumby / Rote Trader

Significant Events of Childhood and Adolescence:
I was a pretty unpleasant kid.  Quiet, brooding, alienated, you know
the type.  Adolescence didn't improve me any.  It wasn't that my life 
was all that terrible, I just didn't ever fit in.  Awakening didn't help.  
I 'Self-Awakened' at 14 (about the same time I started Role-Playing, 
though I'm sure that's just a coincidence), but I didn't Awaken into any 
power.  For me it was this dark, muted, sort of revelation; I knew the 
world wasn't what it apeared to be, but I couldn't quite reconcile the 
whole thing.  So, I had a few odd experiences as a teen - saw ghosts, 
vampires, and werewolves, even helped a friend through his Awakening, but 
I never really worked magick - unless you count Arcane, which I had in 
spades.

Significant events of Adulthood: 
It's really the mundane events of my adult life that I treasure the most.  
Falling in love and getting married.  Finally graduating from college (no 
mean feat for the profoundly Arcane, I might add).  
Still, it was as an adult that I came into my own as a Mage.  My mentor 
found me in a junior college computer class, she didn't realize I had 
already Awakened, so it's no surprise that I passed the subtle 'tests' she 
gave me.  I must have seemed quite the wunderkin.  She was terribly 
disapointed in me when I gave up on my training.  It was years (and several 
'mentors' of different Traditions) before I was able to come back and 
demonstrate enough competence to be formally initiated into the Virtual 
Adepts.  And that only grudgingly, I have a poor reputation within my own 
Tradition, to say the least.

Significant events seen awakening:
Well, none that I'm really comfortable talking about... I mean, my last 
Epiphany was certainly significant, but really, just too painful to discuss.
Likewise, the one time I tried to really accomplish something in this inane 
conflict we call the Ascension War, the results were unifomly disasterous:  
I got an inocent young mother killed, a supernatural orphanage raided by 
the NWO, my wife's career and fortune destroyed, and more than a few 
inocents pointlessly slaughtered.  I just tried to help one little girl... 
I'm sorry.  Like I said, nothing worth talking about.

Alignment and Attitudes:
Alignment?  Choatic Nuetral, I guess.  ;) 
Seriously, I don't have a particular dislike for any faction.  I rather 
like Garou, and avoid Vampires in as much as I can without offending them.  
I try to steer clear of the Ascension War as much as possible, though in 
extreme intances I'll oppose Nephandi if there's no one else to step in.  
Generally, I find something positive in all the Traditions - and some of 
the Conventions, for that matter.
Attitude: None. Well, I guess I do try to act differently from what people 
seem to expect.  People seem to expect Virtual Adepts to be wierd nerdy 
types or arrogant 'Elite' cyberjerks, so I generally come across as pretty 
normal, even a little on the conservative side.

Tragedies:
Oh, I've had some bad times, like I said.  But, ultimately, I survived, 
Rosa and I still have eachother, we're reasonably young, we've gotten past 
the worst of my mistakes, I hope.  I could go on about how dark my Awakening
was, and all the horrible things I've seen, and the mistakes I've made, but,
 I won't dignify any of them with the label 'Tragedy.'  

Hobbies:
Avid Gamer.  Role playing since 1980.  Started with D&D, still plays AD&D, 
RQII, and Gamma World for nostagial value, but mostly prefers Champions/
Hero System.  Doesn't think much of Black Dog Games, though Warlock: the 
Pretension isn't that bad...  
As a mage, I enjoy collecting Rotes (which I consider more of a business) 
and learning about the 'praxis' (as a Hermetic might put it) of other 
Traditions and Supernaturals. 

Phobias and Allergies:
Phobias?  No severe ones. Dogs, though, definitely make me uncomfortatble - 
maybe it was a childhood trauma, or maybe I was devoured by wolves in a 
past life - I don't know, but, I can shake hands with a Crinos form Garou 
without so much as a flutter, but if they shift to Lupus I get awfully 
nervous.  That, and driving - I positively panic if I have to get behind 
the wheel of a car.  
Allergic to Spring. ;)

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