All the stories I had heard about being a GM gave me nightmares.

I went from Trainee Counselor to Full Counselor in about 3 days and then I zipped straight to the near-top as a GM (Game Master). Within 2 months I was accepted to the ranks of staff as a Trainee Counselor. But I stayed vigilant and continued to help out the shard in any way that I could, being a player.

I was initially turned down due to circumstances regarding my roommate. and dealing with Icrontic changing hosting and ownership and downtimes as a result) I applied for a staff position. After about 3 years of being with Icrontic (off and on. In these last few years I've probably tried out around 50 other free-shards, but I have yet to find one that compares to Icrontic. I spent about the first year of my free-shard career on Icrontic before I decided to strike out, see if there was something better. It was called Icrontic back then (it went from Icrontic. All the fun, and more, of a paid OSI account without having to pay? You bet I'm on top of that! I started with one shard right after leaving OSI. I played on OSI paid-servers for about a year and a half. Sure, certain aspects of it get old (like the people who do nothing but trash-talk about peoples' PVP skills), but I don't think I will ever get tired of the game. I've been playing Ultima Online for about 7 years now and it never gets tiring. Even though the game is quite dilapidated, I can never seem to tear free from it's hold.

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