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Prologue: I am Vortex_Master
Hi. My name is Joseph. I go by Joe. This is the story of how I came to be in the VW community. It all started one hot July. I was bored, and I needed a game to keep my attention. I was pretty good at the board game Risk! so I thought I'd look for an online version. I found a game called Vortex Wars on Google. I played as a guest every now and then. VW was still young, and it was not even on Kongregate yet. I didn't play very often, at first. About a week and a half later, I found the game on my preferred site: Kong. I immediately started playing off of there. Guests were not hated on as much back then, and I didn't mind not having many goodies. I kept playing as a guest up until Version 1.5. I finally got a Kongregate account because Boosts were disabled for guests, and I was starting to make friends. I was a cocky person back in October, so I thought I was a master. It gave me the brilliant idea of naming myself Vortex_Master.
Chapter 1: Friends Are Made
After I created my account on Kongregate (which I will refer to simply as "Kong" from now on) I started getting to know people better, and this time, they could actually remember me. I met a variety of people from Mipster (a mod) to aboad (who could never spell correctly), from Karen and Habit (more mods) to L0llero (a grumpy old chap), from techgump (the highest level at the time, and a mod) to highlander (a great player, and second highest level). Among all these people that I got to know, one by the name of Kalendan1 got my attention. We quickly became close friends, and he promptly showed me to his friend ace199212. Ace was a nice guy, and very charismatic, so when Kalendan told me he had a clan, I was immediately interested.
Chapter 2: The Forum
Kalendan told me to check out a place called "The Forum." I decided to take a look. It was a vast, majestic place. Kalendan directed me to a part of the forum for Clans, in which I joined the Brotherhood of Honor, by ace. I quickly made my way up the ranks, and got to know more people. I became friends with susanasaade (ace's #2) and JeremytheEmporer, a player who was quickly making his way up the leaderboards. I played with these people very often, and I became increasingly obsessed with Vortex Wars. Ace kept changing the name of the clan, and there was one point where the clan disbanded for a while, before long ace decided to revive it with a new name. However, I had other plans than to rejoin ace, though he remained a good friend.