July 11 2006. Location: House of Dan Black.
Present: Ivan Black, Dan Black, John.
What was feared had happened. A ban had been issued and was escalated without reason to a permanent status. That meant that RON and Ronnel had no longer access to the srver, and RON was banned from forums as well. Could I help in building something new? Apart from the brothers Black there was a third person known as AGENT.
And by mixing the letters an interesting name had been found: Argonath, a place from the Lord of the Ring saga. This opened opportunities for character names and some fun with characters.
Time to reserve the domain, ArgonathRPG.com
But just a website account would not help, the server files and scrips needed to run.
While in preparation nobody would use their known nickname, meaning that people interested would have to work a bit to find out who was involved.
RON received the name of ARAGORN, the fighter and king who could spend a lot of time and would defend fiercely against any attacker within the game.
Agent received the name of LEGOLAS, the second in command within game and also capable fighter and actor.
Ronnel received the name of GANDALF, as he would provide the script magic
And I would receive the name of SAURON for providing the building and overseeing the hardware.
I found a resonably priced server in Canada, just Eur 30 per month for a VPS to run the server.
Gandalf had found the base scripts and after planning which scripts needed was adjusting the base and writing the new parts. Testing would begin in 3 to 4 days.
The website of Argonath RPG was born. A first server would be up the next day, still closed to the public while in testing.
The adventure begins.....