[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 other Mods.
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Roleplaying was something that my friends and I began doing unintentionally when we were children, ranging from running amok outside pretending to be our RuneScape characters to writing hilarious(ly bad) and surreal short stories to which we all contributed. Very similar to what [@Mahz] described. We all forgot about it and left that kind of 'playing pretend' by the wayside when we became older. You're all probably familiar with this -- we lost the infinite suspension of disbelief that children possess and picked up other hobbies instead. 

In 2007, when I was 14 years old, I discovered a now-defunct website called Jurassic Park Legacy, or JPLegacy for short. Being a tremendous fan of the films (and a dino-nerd in general) at the time, I signed up. JPLegacy ran a wildly succesful and popular persistent world roleplay called Live the Legend, in which the players all assumed the role of a dinosaur roaming about on Isla Sorna, doing dinosaur stuff. Everyone did their best to keep it somewhat realistic so there was no dialogue at all, just vocalizations and the kind of pack or predator-prey dynamics you could expect in the wild. That said, I'm sure we all exaggerated the intelligence of actual dinosaurs because otherwise there'd be awfully little to write about. That was my first foray in play-by-post roleplaying. 

That forum also had a more general roleplaying board, which was less popular but active enough for me to try my hand at several other fandoms like Star Wars and Halo. After about a year of this I thirsted for more and I turned to Google with the exact words (I still remember) 'roleplaying forum'. And just like today, the Guild was the first result that popped up back then in August 2008. 

As you can see, I never (really) left. My road to moderator/co-admin is indeed another story entirely, but it's a fun one because I used to be one of the biggest troublemakers around. Just ask [@stark]. I'll write it all down if people are interested.