Conteck the Gamesman

Until he met Barbara, Michael used to spend much of his free time playing games. Not computer games, but sitting round a table with some friends being sociable. You might even have called him a Board Game Geek. As well as table games he also likes Role Playing Games where the players spin a story in which they are the major charactarers. This is an activity he first took up seriously in his student days at UEA. While he thinks they work best played face-to-face, lack of time means they are now more often played by email. Here is a link to some tales of one of his characters, Duplar of Calbeyn.

The reason Michael bought his first modem (oh so many years ago - it ran at 1200/75 baud) was to play games, specifically the Multi-User Game "MUD II". He has always played them under the name of Conteck. Here is Conteck's story up until he realised there was no room in Avalon for a true healer. Conteck also manifested in "Lap of the Gods" and more recently "Cardea" and "Evarayn". Since getting married he no longer has time to maintain a serious persona in any MUG.

Michael does play computer games too. His current favourites are "Trade Empires" from Frog City and "Railroad Tycoon 2" from Pop Top, but he would also commend "Majesty" from Cyberlore and "Arcanum" from Troika Games. Yes these are all older games, but technical problems with DirectX limit him to games requiring DirectX 7 or before and no 3D programs run on his kit.

More trivia about Michael...

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The UN flag Country Quiz at the Blue Pyramid classifies Michael as the United Nations!
"Most people think you're ineffective, but you are trying to completely save the world from itself, so there's always going to be a long way to go. You're always the one trying to get friends to talk to each other, enemies to talk to each other, anyone who can to just talk instead of beating each other about the head and torso. Sometimes it works and sometimes it doesn't, and you get very schizophrenic as a result. But your heart is in the right place, and sometimes also in New York."

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