I was twelve, I think, when I discovered a sub-forum on a Sonic the Hedgehog forum. It was called “Roleplayer’s Guild”, which yes the irony isn’t entirely lost on me. But yeah, it was in September of 2001 when I saw these interactive stories—which I was sort of familiar with as I participated in some terrible “choose your adventure” type of websites. But I jumped into the first RP that caught my eye “The Ultimate RP”, how grand it sounded and there was none of this sense of profiles or anything like that so you could jump in and I did. I typed terribly and got fair criticism for it to which I adapted as it went on, but really that’s where it begun for me. Eventually I joined other websites in search of sharing my fandom and finding RP.