[quote=@Exit]
...Technically site related?

Would you be willing to divulge the story of your journey to us? What introduced you to RP and ultimately to this site? Just to this site. The road to moderator is probably another story.

If it's too personal, you can forgo an answer (or pm me?). I only asked here because I thought others might be interested too.

It'd also be nice if we can get an answer from the others Mods.
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Ha, sure.

I was always a writer, since I was a little kid creating my own stories and using lots of construction paper and glitter to make them into books. (Yeah I'm a nerd.) My dad was a stealth super nerd, and I worshiped the ground the guy walked on as a kid. I can recall going to comic conventions and seeing stuff like the never-released Fantastic Four movie (because it WAS that bad), watching Star Trek every week with him, going through his comic collection, etc. 

So I'm a nerd, and I write. The roleplaying didn't come in until later in life, when I was around 20. I had a job (lifestyle?) that was on the extreme scale of tempo and stress: I worked on the flight deck of a US Aircraft Carrier, assigned to a squadron in a very intense part of the world (South China Sea region). One day after a 14 hour day, covered in heat rash, reading a book (my "rack" was called The Library because I was on the top bunk and used the ship hull nooks and crannies around me to store quite a lot of books delivered by Amazon) when I decided I wanted to write. 

Normally just writing was enough for me, but that isolated from society, just sitting down to write on a laptop word document wasn't doing it. I had SEEN Roleplaying online before, but it was never something I tried. It was all chatrooms and "taverns", but I knew it was around. So I did a few internet searches, and after looking at enough websites I came across the Guild. I signed up, proceeded to join a medieval adventuring RP (go figure), and played that until it died about a month later. I then didn't return to the Guild for the next six months, and probably didn't think I ever would honestly. I was back in Japan from deployment, friends and I were living it up, I was good. 

Then on a duty weekend (when you're on watch standing status, or on actual watch, and can't go out and do fun things) I was just bored sitting in a barracks room one slow weekend morning and the book I was reading made me itch to write. Powered on the laptop, went to the Guild, remembered the password and...never left.

The Mod story is less involved, honestly. I was in the old IRC (I rarely went in--seems most RP-centric Guild members don't really go into site chats) and I don't remember the exact conversation, but Mahz was in there chatting, a joke was made about Ruby becoming a Mod, and he was all, "Yeah, sure." My brain went, "Wait, what?" I had never chatted with Mahz before, so it caught me off guard. He can't be serious, right? Apparently he knew of me. They needed some help at the time, so I thought it over for a few hours and sent him a PM saying, "Sure I'll help." 

That's it.