Greetings Earthlings!

[Pokey]

Greetings all!
My name is Lauren, I'm still a closet diehard animorphs fan despite now being 21 and have been in fangirl love with Tobias ever since I was 8 *hangs head in shame*. Now that I've scared everyone off with my first line of my introductory post, for those of you that still remain (probably as an emotional wreck rocking in the corner of your nicely padded cells), I'm from Brisbane Australia where I am currently studying at the University of Queensland, currently completing my BSc honours (gradated last year with ecology/zoology major) and looking at declines in woodland birds in different regions of Australia. When I'm not working of studying, I am off adventuring by myself or with friends, or playing games, I absolutely adore the outdoors and wildlife, and spend as much time outside as in (when study permits). I also love games, all kinds of games, pc games, console games, card games, board games, tabletop RP games, anything that allows me to indulge in that bit of fantasy that real life seems to like to stamp out of people after childhood Though I've said it in my post already, I love animals (and have all my life, thus why I am studying zoology/ecology) and am quite passionate about conservation and animal rights and welfare. Because of this I am vegetarian, have my own vegetable patch in my yard and backyard chickens which are rescues battery hens, (it never fails to amaze me that such great characters spent their entire lives in a battery cage, and would be chicken stock along with the rest of their fellows now had they not been rescued). Despite the serious sounding nature of my post (kind of happens when you've spent all day studying before finding this site) I'm actually an really easy going person (so much it can probably be annoying haha) and revel in being an absolute nut-case with my friends . After reading other people's posts for the last hour or so, everyone on this site sounds absolutely awesome and I wish I had discovered this site sooner! (I have joined other animorphs groups online in the past but all the members were inactive, and pretty soon after I followed the same trend haha). Anywho I really don't know what else to say, I'm terrible at these introductory things.... So I guess I'll leave it at that, I'm really looking forward to getting to meet everyone here!

(This is what I love about the internet, it can bring people with the same interests together in a way that has an absolute blatant disregard for geography! )

[Stephquiem]

Welcome, Lauren... umm... your avvie is staring at me! D: *hides*

[DinosaurNothlit]

Hey, Lauren, you sound pretty awesome!  Lol, did you really think people were going to be scared off by your introductory post?  That first couple lines could have easily been written by me.

Anyway, I'm DinosaurNothlit, but feel free to shorten it to DN or Dino.  Welcome to RAF!

[warren_bearclaw]

Suddenly, a large dark-brown bear enters the room. He appears gentle, and is curious about the newcomer. <Hello! I am Bear. Are you new here? Let me show you around!>

<This is the 'RAF Social' Board. We really get to know each other here. You've already introduced yourself, and you can also have your own Member Profile here, too!> The Bear lumbers back through the doorway, leading Pokay into a hallway. There are many, many doors here.

<This door is the way to the 'RAF Projects' Board. Lots of RAFians work together on all kinds of cool stuff, like producing Animorphs audio-books and  "RAF: The Animated Series"! It's a really good show....> Bear moves over to another large door.

<Here is the 'Bored Board'. We play games and love to waste our time here! It's a lot of crazy fun. You should join us here!> Bear continues down the hall, speaking as he goes.

<These three doors are for the Animorphs Section. We discuss the books, TV show, and anything about the series in the 'Animorphs Forum'. The 'Animorphs Role Playing' Board is exciting! RAF always has active RPG's, and lots of cool players. I hope you like to Role-play as much as I do....> Bear's short tail wagged. <And we have some talented writers who share their 'Animorphs Fan Fiction & Art' in here. I like that room.> Across the hall, there is another set of three doors, side by side.

<That is the 'General Board'. We can talk about anything there... the weather, funny quotes, or anything you like! We also play all kinds of non-Animorphs RPG's in there, and we have way more neat stories and artwork in that last door.>

<Oh yeah! And there's the 'Media Area', where we talk about movies, TV, the news.... And we talk about 'Other Books' in that room!>

Bear sits on his haunches and looks at Pokey. <It's a big place, but it's so much fun here! We're glad that you came. Tell us a few things about yourself here, and what species you are here.>

Bear begins to walk farther down the hallway, which opens into a thick green forest. He looks over his shoulder and says, <You'll see me around. Welcome to RAF!>


Well Howdy! I'm Bear, though we already met in RAFchat. Sorry about the wall o' post there.. well, sorta. You see, me and a few other RAFians kinda have this contest to be the first to greet the newcomers with obnoxiously long introductory posts. And... I win! TAKE THAT DAMEG!!!!! ...


...so anyways... nice to meet ya! And yeah, isn't the internet great? I love it hear. Here's hopin' you will too!

[radgeek]

Hi, Pokey.  I'm Rad.

Welcome.

[Pokey]

Hahahahaa, I changed the disconcerting owl profile pic He's trying to scare people away with his super-intense-stare-of-doom!

[Nero's Fury]

Hi. Hope you enjoy your stay in RAF....noone ever escapes! N you can call me Ryno or Tank

[Josh (J)]

Hey-lo, Lauren! *shifty eyes* Welcome to RAF, officially. A note of warning. There are a few things you need to look out for. *nods* ..if you haven't met them yet.
1. A French talking Yeerk.
Yep, that's right. But she speaks English too for...English speaking reasons? *nods a few times* Careful with her, she's kinda spooky. She'll lead you down a hallway and introduce you to the RAFipedia, the Audiobook Project, Graphic Novel, smiley project, Animorph translation project, RAF: The Animated Series, RAFparody animation project, Project Planet, Animorphs: The RPG, Animorphs Command-line game (another video game), an Animorphs Body Count, the musical aspects of RAF, One RAFian, one volume of Animorphs (a really interesting project), and then little projects. And she'll mention how to add your species, age, where you live, and how to go to school. Yep, we have school here. *nods*
2. A telepathic Bear.
He looks gentle. But be careful. He can get really mad. Of course, he won't tell you that. But if you anger the bedtime bear, or anything...let's just say that bears cause some damage. *nods again* He'll tell ya about RAF social, and just in a sentence about the RAFprojects, who you can turn to Dameg for more detail. Then you'll see about the Animorphs stuff. There's the Animorphs forum, Animorphs Fanfiction and Art, and Animorphs Roleplaying. You should check those out. *nods again until his head starts to spin* Ow...sorry 'bout that. *clears head* Then he'll lead you to General Board. It's just what the title says. Anything general. There are also, as he'll show you, non-Animorph RPGs. Several, actually. And more fanfiction too! And finally he'll tell you how to say some more about yourself. Pretty easy stuff, actually. *nods again, but his head is so loose it finally falls of* Uhh...you wouldn't mind picking it up for me?
3. Finally, 2 kids out to take your sanity.

Oh wait, skip that last one! I'm here--along with Myth, when she gets here--to take out all of your sanity, whatever you have left of it. It's what we do best. *nods* She'll be here shortly. Pardon her rude bumping into walls habit. I have to deal with it. *sighs*

So....did I ever say welcome?

[Ash]

Nice intro Welcome to RAF, Pokey! I look forward to seeing you around the boards. I already know you'll like it here

[Nar Klawip]

Welcome to the forum Pokey, it's great to meet you.

And you shouldn't worry about scaring people off on this forum, we're all pretty crazy (in a good way).

[Dameg]

*ignoring Bear* Pfft!

wHELLcome, Pokey!
I'm Vis... I'm Dameg, another RAFian. Come with me, please, I have something to show you. It's here, after this door *Open a heavy door* We call them the RAFprojects. *Lead Pokey to a long and dark hallway, with many doors, some in the dark, some with light coming from the other side. Arrive near the first door* Here at your left...

- RAFipedia: http://rafipedia.wetpaint.com/, an encyclopedia headed up by Estelore, our star (a true star, who make light and burn in space... but she has a body to come on Earth);

Next it's...

- the Audiobooks project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?board=15.0, a full-cast audio version of Animorphs who need more "actors" and voices, headed by Kit Cloudkicker (Jess), MrGuy, Morfowt, and Wildweathel;

Facing it...

- the Graphic Novel project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,416.0.html and http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,2276.0.html, a Webcomic headed by Gafrash.

You also have...

- the Smiley project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1691.0.html, we make Animated gifs, smileys about Animorphs (Andalites, Hork-Bajirs...);

here and facing it is...

- the Translation project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,1907.0.html, a recently started project/mutual support group for translations into other languages; currently only in French (Tocade, Anidragon and myself), Chinese (Morfowt), Indonesian (Nat), Swedish (Mira and Zana), and Esperanto (Wildweathel); we translate only the volumes never edited in our countries/languages, to make the ebooks;

Next door is for the special project:

- http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3738.0.html: the adventures of the RAFians;

At the end it's for the little projects:

- the http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3810.0.html;

- the http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3911.0.html to make the planets we hear about in Animorphs;

- the paper-RPG project: a role-playing game (on table, with paper, pen and dices...) about the World of Animorphs; I head this project, and it'll be write in French at the beginning, but we need help to find, class and write everything we know about the species, the planets, the powers we see in Animorphs, fix them, see what we keep and what we can't keep (because of the KASU, not clear, exception for the main characters/books, etc.), complete the knowledges about species/planets we know and even create new species/planets...; this project will be on my own website, so if you wanna join, ask me the link ^^;

- the RPG project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,4069.0.html to make a video game about Animorphs, with RPGmaker;

- the Command-line game project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3787.0.html for another kind of video game about Animorphs;

- the http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3773.0.html where we count all the people killed by the Animorphs;

- the RAFkaraoke: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3150.0.html and http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,3635.msg245735.html#msg245735, where we make songs (and sing them?)...

- the One RAFian On Volume project: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5317.0 where everybody take a picture of him/herself with a volume of Animorphs... <= We need a lot of RAFians to participate! You only need a volume of Animorphs (rented if you don't have any) & a camera/webcam

and some other projects who come and go. Please check the list: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/board,13.0.html

*Standing in front of Pokey* I hope you enjoyed your visit. Oh, and I also invite you to add your species on this list: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,2154.0.html 'coz everybody isn't Human here. And we like to know who is what... For example, as you'll probably see, I'm a Controller. ... and if you want, you can add your age too: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php/topic,318.0.html... and say where do you live here: http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?topic=5049.0 so Marie can add you on the RAFworld Map!
We also opened a http://animorphsforum.com/forum/index.php?board=36.0 to teach to each others our languages and other stuffs.

Now I have to go, I don't invite you for the meal, sorry. *Beginning to go down dark stairs. Pokey can hear a cry coming from the cave.*
Have fun!
*Dameg disappears into the darkness, Pokey is now alone in the hallway*

[Mythgirl]

*runs into the room and DOES NOT run into the wall* Yes! Victory is mine! No victory laps this time, though. I learned my lesson last time.

Anyhoo, hey-lo, Pokey! I'm Mythgirl, but you can call me Myth. We met in chat last night, but just suffer through my ramblings a bit longer. I'll stop eventually, I promise. Probably around the time I die.

Well, now that I'm here, J and I will take your sanity. Sorry about the beginning of my post, I have an unfortunate habit of running into walls, which my partner-in-crime J has already told you about.

I hope you enjoy all the completely insane members and awesomeness RAF has to offer, 'cuz once you come here, you can never leave. Have fun!

[Myitt]

Hiya Pokey!  I'm Tara, although you can call me Myitt (like My + It) if you're so inclined.

Welcome to RAF!  Don't worry about feeling old and still into Animorphs, I'm almost 27 and many of us here are in our early-to-mid twenties--comes with the territory of reading Animorphs when it came out, I guess!   If you like roleplaying in type format I'm pretty active in the Space Bar thread (and I guess I have been, on and off, since I was 14 XD)...it's fun stuff, pretending to get hammered and getting into dramatic mischief, and mostly Animorphs-based.

I was a biology undergrad major, it's cool that you're into conservation!  My focus now in grad school is in museum studies and paleontology, so I'm more into looking at animals that...are preserved, more than need conserving, but biology rocks!  (Or is that supposed to be geology rocks? XD)

Anyway, welcome to the group, hope you enjoy it here!

[Josh (J)]

Well, I'll be. Myth hasn't bumped into a wall. *blinks* Miracles can happen, eh?

So, Pokey, can we have your sanity?

[Nar Klawip]

You might as well give it to him now... you'll lose it somewhere on RAF eventually