Originally Posted by
bipper
The Avatar, possibly the most distinctive and wonderful advantages of community bulletin boards like Final Fantasy. The relevant origin of such a creation is relatively unknown, with accreditation often going towards old school MUDS, Ultima IV, and other internet related nerdom. The avatar is met to represent the person behind the post, or provide an even greater mask to protect ones anonymity and put forth an even greater facade of what they truly are. Named for a human form of a God, and a still under deserving title for such a powerful piece of graphical symbolism, the avatar stands as one of the most powerful mysteries on the interwebz.
What does it take to make a great avatar? Well, it depends all on the person. A great avatar can be a small joke that will invoke a chuckle or something that matches your signature, something that represents you or your account. What ever it takes, I cannot put my finger on it – but there is only one ritual that will determine the greatest avatar of the last six months. One ceremony of complete dictatorship dressed as democracy by Cid’s Knights and our opus of Admins. One symbol of power and glory wrapped into the bald headed digital rendering of what has come through out time to be known as the Ciddie, for best Avatar.
Which of our warriors of light will battle and embrace the powers that lock the universe into place and the secrets of anonymity together? Will Christmas take home this symbol of power to her nirvana of hate, where she will presumably use it to destroy Old Manus (for good this time) some how? Will Del Murder receive this golden grace and place it on a mantel with his other one, finally knocking that last picture of Mirel off the ledge of glory. Will Jebus gain the trust of this beauty, placing it amongst his collection of Buddha dolls and Buddha action figures? Perhaps LunarWeaver will weave the tale of snatching this golden thread from the Gods that be here at eoff! Meat Puppet has it’s eyes set directly on the statue to, and I don’t know why. Will Mirage’s finally admitting to being a guy help it retrieve the statue, granting him the power to assimilate us all into little golden bots? Prehapse Pike’s picachu rendition will shock us all with a win, or something? I can see Roto13 Indiana-jonesing over this statue, the sacred relic of all that is Eoff which can be used to create the biggest troll the fora has ever seen! The shininess of the object has obviously also caught onto Shiny’s eyes on homer avatar, This nugget of shininess would indeed make her more shiny. Meanwhile the Fonz is still searching for a way to be cool, will this golden aura-turd of the God’s be his ticket in? Or will Viveve’s.. Thing, swoop in and steal the prize?
11 warriors with aspirations of dreams of conquering the rest to receive this midget of a trophy, and the secrets of the EoFF anonymity. Their motives are now known. Who will we vote for? More importantly, who will Award Guy actually say won? We shall soon see…
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