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The Arch-Nemesis Unveiled - GrimFinger - 04-01-2011
I really need to go to bed. It's fairly late, here, and I have to get up early in the morning. But, sometimes, a man's gotta do what a man's gotta do!
All this time, all these years, my arch-nemesis in the Play-By-Mail game of Hyborian War was right here under my nose - and I didn't even realize it. Until now.
If you are one of the fortunate souls in the universe to have a copy of Issue # 69 (November/December 1994) of Paper Mayhem magazine in your possession, then go and retrieve it from that secret stash of old Play-By-Mail magazines that you've got tucked away where only you know it exists, dust off the cobwebs from its cover, and flip it open to page # 41.
There he stands, second guy from the right.
Eric Nakayama!!
It was he that was Asgard's bane in that very first game of Hyborian War that I ever played in, HW-85. I ruled the Aesir, and Eric Nakayama held sway over the evil Hyperborians. That has to be the same guy! It just has to be.
Three straight peace treaties he slapped my kingdom in - and then he dropped out of the game. Why did he drop? He had cut my kingdom in half early on. He had every reason to continue on, and yet he did not. The scoundrel! He left me in a void of wonderment, frustrating me by departing unannounced, depriving my Aesir kinsmen of their just and due revenge.
Maybe that's what happened to him. Maybe he simply drifted on to other games, such as CTF 2187. I never played it. In fact, I never played in another Play-By-Mail game with Eric Nakayama ever again, after that, as far as I know.
I remember raiding the hell out of Hyperborea, after he dropped out. His countrymen paid a severe price for his thrusting them into war with me, only to then abdicate his throne and leave his subjects to pay the price of Asgardian wrath unleashed.
Funny, but in that photograph of him in Paper Mayhem, he doesn't look anything like I imagined a Hyperborian would look.
>sigh< How very disappointing!
And what about you? Who's your arch-nemesis in Play-By-Mail gaming?Come on. I know that there has to be one. Spill the beans. Let's hear all about it. You need the release. It will do your soul good.
NOTE: Originally posted in 2010 on the old PlayByMail.Net forums.