Mike Mietchen (DM) and Jeri Jirsa

(Mike and Jeri being goofs for a friend.)

Since we're sharing a pic and live in the same town, I'm putting our stuff on the same page.

Mike:  (Note- written by Jeri for the most part, since Mike refused to do one for himself.) (Until Jeri started writing rude things about me!- Mike)  Jeremy Michael Mietchen, though they screwed up and put the Michael first on the birth certificate.  Made me messed up ever since.  Have been roleplaying ever since I was 10.  I'm 23 now.  I tend to DM, as I have more fun that way.  Actually, I even started out as a DM.  I'm trying to finish up a novel, which I hope to someday get published.  Knights of the Dinner Table rule!   It's frightening when that comic strip reminds you of your real life gaming group.   I'm a computer technician, where I play online most of the day.  Forgotten Realms is my favorite gaming setting, where I ran the infamous "Gecko of Power" campaign.  I like the music Jeri has listed below, and love anime.  And of course, my gorgeous girlfriend, who refuses to admit she's gorgeous.  Some day I'll convince her, and I'll also meet Elminster on that same day.

AOL Instant Messenger nickname- Mizzrym1

Jeri:  The full name's Jeri Jo Jirsa.   I'm 18, short, blond, have green eyes and am volumptuous.  Enough said.   *grin*  But really, I'm a massive nerd.  I spend most of my time online, playing computer games, reading books or Dragon Magazine.  I've moved around a lot, but now I live in Durango, Colorado, where I'm a student at Fort Lewis College majoring in Communications. Public Relations, to be more specific.

I hang out with Mike on my free time.  We listen to anime soundtracks, (BGC rules!!) Loreena McKinnett, Joan Jett, and the Goddess- Pat Benatar.  We also watch anime, talk about TOTD and have him torturing me about what's going to happen, and play computer games together when we're not role-playing with the RL group we finally managed to get together.  Oh, wait, forgot to mention worshipping the twin tiger-striped kittens that have claimed both of us as their slaves.   As soon as I can, I'll show you who's the REAL power behind TOTD.  Yes, he's really that wierd in person, and yes, I'm really this obnoxious.  *grin*  I'd have to say he's my best friend.  It's scary how much we think alike.  I blame him for corrupting me, though.  I wasn't always this scheming and vindictive!   :p

Two and a half years ago, I met my current boyfriend, who introduced me to role-playing and Japanese animation.  It didn't take any time to hook me, and now my anime collection is larger than his. I know all sorts of wierd stuff, and am often called a walking dictionary.  And TOTD is the best game I've been in. Except for the one with the Gecko of Power.  And then there was the game where I played a runewielder in the Palladium setting who, with another character, created an airship. (To Mike's dismay at our creativity.  *evil laughter*)  That same character wound up marrying my RL best friend's (female in RL, playing a female, me playing a male) character just because two others were getting married.   <heehee>

AOL Instant Messenger nickname- Deniellia

The Gecko of Power.
My first campaign, ever. I played a specialty priestess of Lathander, a female Gold elf named Lessa Polgara. There was a male lythari (elven shape changer) and female mage (who wanted everything as her familiar. She even wound up with the lythari and a dark naga, to name a couple) named Mai. (Pronounced my), and last but not least, a thrikreen named Thracky. (He ruled.) Our band was hired to stop an all-powerful demon from being called back into this world by an evil wizard, who was to sacrifice the typical nubile young virgin. The demon, Ankhtepot, had been trapped in an enchanted cage made by Gond, and bound with the essences of 7 gods. We got there right before the girl was killed. Unfortunately, however, the girl and the evil wizard were both killed by the over-enthusiastic thrikreen. Freed from his cage, which was destroyed and pieces thrown all over the realms, the demon discovered that thanks to our group, he had not recieved enough of the girl's blood to reclaim his own body. So he took the easiest body nearby. He looked down at himself, and found.. He was a gecko! He begain proclaiming, "I am the Gecko of Power!" At this point, the mage took her staff and squished the Gecko. "Splat." The demon fled from body to body, trying to get to his own, and discovered that he literally burned them out. We were charged with restoring the cage and capturing the demon before he destroyed the world and reclaimed his body. Aah, the stories I could tell on this campaign, if people would care to hear them... But one of the best was when the demon had taken the body of one who used spellfire, and Elminster, Dove, Storm, and our whole group together finally destroyed that body. Then he took the body of a cow. Our mage (and resident jokester), good old Mai, yelled out, "Come back! We need the milk!" to the fury of the demon and the bafflement of the Realms heros.