I guess since you guys are here and AG didn't post my speech I'll go ahead and do it anyway.


One day this kid Sean was sitting around in his room thinking, "Man, I really need a girlfriend". Again.

"That MandeePandee Bear shows her bewbies to everybody but me." .

He decided he was going to do something but had no idea what that something was going to be. It wasn't very long after that, I imagine three days but I don't have any idea what I'm talking about, that he figured it out. He was going to make a website to pick up ALL the chicks! This was back in the cowboys days of 1999 when the internet was still an undomesticated wild frontier. He instantly knew it would have to be a Final Fantasy VII website. Murking his way through the dark laboratories of his computer he frankensteined the place together.

"Now", he thought, "how do I get the chicks? There will have to be a way to talk to them." Going on a safari in search of answers Sean discovered the ancient mystic secrets of message boards and chose to learn the magics of EZBoard Arts. Once he gave life to the beast it was named The Highwind and Sean appointed himself "Cid", high leader of all the Highwindians.

Things went well.

Over the next several years Cid would appoint several Knights to enforce the law of his land and even a select few Administators to rule in his name.

It was during this time that Cid would meet She Who I Will Not Name In Case Cid Does Not Want Me To. His plan was a success! The beautiful woman fell in love with him and they eventually got married to run away with each other and have grand adventures. It was because of these grand adventures and She Who I Will Not Name In Case Cid Does Not Want Me To's exquisite taste that he eventually ran out of moneys, sell the site and blamed the government for it all


(Cid was pretty cool. I never got to moderate with Cid as the owner but I was a member of Site Staff for several years while he was around. He was always willing to do whatever would be for the good of the place and would make improvements any way we found possible. He deserves this.)




Of Ogres.

It was during the early years of my story that one day Sean turned to his friend Mike and said, "Hey, I'll get the vodka if you'll get the Red Bull". This happened many times over the course of the story. As it turns out Mike, who was known as Big Ogre Umaro around the forums, was pretty savvy in the web design trends of the time. It was during one of these vodka with Red Bull nights that BOU did something so wonderful, and yet so incriminating, that Cid got photo evidence of the event and used it as leverage against his smelly friend. He used it as leverage saying that as long as Ogrehead would make and continue to make pages for his website he would never show the pics. I have no idea what these pics were because BOU got to work immediately and didn't stop for a long long time. Bou has done more things for the frontsite and then for the forums as an admin than most can imagine. Then one day he decided it was enough. He changed his name to GokuNUMBERS to remain anonymous and then ran away forever, hiding in several small caves along the way.