I joined Tengaged at the request of a friend in the fall (rapidly approaching winter here in upstate NY) of 2008 and never imagined I'd still be here mid-march of 2011. In my first game I remember receiving PM's, but thinking that they were public private messages between everyone in the game, and I had to guess about who was messaging who. I imagined so many devious players telling each other that their dog just died and they needed T$ for a backhoe to dig the grave or that they just ran out of heroin and were feeling the sweats. Things like that. I had no idea what I was doing...but my interest was peaked. I had to play on.