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bkdoane
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posted 23 August 2001 19:30     Click Here to See the Profile for bkdoane   Click Here to Email bkdoane        Reply w/Quote   
I was flipping through the patchstring to locate something thatat the time I didn't know wasn't there. I got down to the merc names and what were the first two? Varaya & Khan. Aren't those the names of two of the biggest mod makers for D1? Coincidence?

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 23 August 2001 19:33     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
I once had a Jarulf for an Iron Wolf in ACT III back in D2 1.06b. I wonder how many others might be in there.

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bkdoane
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posted 23 August 2001 23:49     Click Here to See the Profile for bkdoane   Click Here to Email bkdoane        Reply w/Quote   
But, is it a coincidence. Or did someone at Blizzard decide that it might be nice to give some publicity to mod makers without actually saying that they support that they do?

By the way, who's Jarulf?

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Tontus314
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posted 24 August 2001 00:30     Click Here to See the Profile for Tontus314   Click Here to Email Tontus314        Reply w/Quote   Visit Tontus314's Homepage!
Jarulf is the god of Diablo knowledge. He knows how every aspect of the game works.

There are also other "real" people who have been turned into mercs. Gaile and Elly from Diabloii.net are Rogues. Flux is an Act 3 guy. I'm sure that some Blizzard workers have also put in wives/girlfriends or other friends.

So, while it is possible that V&K are just a coincidence, I doubt it.

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RexxLaww
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posted 01 September 2001 22:54     Click Here to See the Profile for RexxLaww   Click Here to Email RexxLaww        Reply w/Quote   Visit RexxLaww's Homepage!
Elly, Galie and Flux from diabloii.net all make an appearance as well.

So does Azreal from diabloii.com.

Blizzards homage to their fansites I guess.

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 01 September 2001 22:59     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
Like a book I once read. In the beginning of the book (from the Dragonlance series. Forgot the actual name of the book), the authors of the series actually portrayed themselves as characters in the book .

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posted 02 September 2001 00:16     Click Here to See the Profile for iowan   Click Here to Email iowan        Reply w/Quote   Visit iowan's Homepage!
well aint it about time they add something phrozen to D2 ?

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 02 September 2001 00:19     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
Yeap. They should release another patch and put all of us in there .

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posted 02 September 2001 11:08     Click Here to See the Profile for Goldark   Click Here to Email Goldark        Reply w/Quote   Visit Goldark's Homepage!
Just to clarify bkdoane's wonderings about coincidence yes or no...it isn't. Khan was in there in 1.08 - Varaya got added with 1.09 though, replacing a merc called Vhadrak or something.

And i agree...it's time for a phrozenkeep-hireable-crew This is a big step for the keep heh - mods even move on battle.net this way ( well part fo )

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posted 02 September 2001 20:37     Click Here to See the Profile for jbouley   Click Here to Email jbouley        Reply w/Quote   Visit jbouley's Homepage!
Sadly for me, "Jeff Bouley" would be too boring for any but the most desparate Blizzard programmer to use for merc name...and "JBouley" isn't even pronouncable.

Thankfully, Goldark immortalized me with Bouley's Thorn in his HoE mod.

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posted 03 September 2001 12:21     Click Here to See the Profile for Mephansteras   Click Here to Email Mephansteras        Reply w/Quote   Visit Mephansteras's Homepage!
Hehe...I can just see a bunch of poor players trying to figure out how to pronounce 'Mephansteras'

Mephasteras, Mepha..what the hell?????

Hehehehehehehehe....

For the record, it's just the way it's spelled. "Meph-an-ster-as"

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Magicawe
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posted 03 September 2001 14:52     Click Here to See the Profile for Magicawe        Reply w/Quote   
gasp!

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Mephistopheles
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posted 03 September 2001 20:29     Click Here to See the Profile for Mephistopheles   Click Here to Email Mephistopheles        Reply w/Quote   
That would be sweet to have our names in a LoD Patch as Merc.

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Zhoulomcrist
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posted 03 September 2001 20:34     Click Here to See the Profile for Zhoulomcrist        Reply w/Quote   
Yeap. That would rock. I'd like mine to be on one of them Iron Wolves. Of course, one of Greiz's mercenaries would work, too

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posted 07 September 2001 17:41     Click Here to See the Profile for Worldstone        Reply w/Quote   
Be very sure that i'll include yall people in my mOD......as rogues!! HAHA! no not really just joking!!probably as Barbs or something!!

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bkdoane
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posted 21 September 2001 23:57     Click Here to See the Profile for bkdoane   Click Here to Email bkdoane        Reply w/Quote   
Well, my name would be just as bad as using JBouley. That's probably why I usually use Beady when I play games online. I chose that as a joke because it's what you get if you say my first and last initials together "b-d". I even have a b.net character names that on USWest. I might just put that in my mod...

Maybe someone should get together a set of names of all the mod makers, forum admins, and other major people here and set up a string file with their names in it. Of course there would be some names that wouldn't work very well, JBouley, BKDoane, I'm sure there are others...

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