Thursday August 29th 2002
Official Forerunners Press Release { Gholsbane }
Courtesy of Gary "theBattleCat" Simmons, cofounder of the network:Forerunners had some serious server problems on our scheduled opening day Monday resulting in missing graphics and the loss of the ability to update the pages to fix the problems. This resulted in a "false start". Forerunners is sorry for any confusion this may have caused in the online community. We are finally back up and are officially sending out the announcement below:
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Have you ever sung a lullaby to a sleeping god while playing softly on a low-yield nuclear device? Is your computer a comm term with a rampant AI for an OS? Have you ever given your brother the Backbreaker while battling for the fate of the world because he pantsed you once in gym? Do you ever jumpstart your Warthog with high explosives? Have you ever driven all the way to the Great Devoid with dwarves in the back seat whining, "Are we there yet?", only to find it was closed like Wally World?
If so, then you are in for a treat! Introducing Forerunners.org, a new website composed of a community of member websites devoted to Bungie Studio's games: past, present and future.
The structure of Forerunners is simple, think of it as a central core serving Bungie-game-themed satellite hubs that link to related web sites run by members. Rather like corn dogs on sticks stuck in bigger corn dogs on sticks all stuck in a really big corn dog... on a stick. Where's my pills??
Anyway, Forerunners will provide members with online web space for their OWN Bungie fan site, bandwidth and email addresses as well as featuring forums, a hotline server, member generated news and MORE. Membership is free, all you gotta do is love Bungie games and know what your name is. Everybody is welcome to visit hl.forerunners.org on hotline or http://forerunners.org on the net. Hang out with the people who love the games you love.
To celebrate our opening we plan to give away some cool loot that Matt Soell of Bungie Studios has purloined from the Bungie vaults. Look for the sign up form soon.
Forerunners.org is another creation of Steve Campbell and Gary Simmons, the two idiots who originated Bungie.org. This time around we decided that the fan site should be created and maintained not by an elite few, but by the very people who visit it. When you are at Forerunners you are not "watching a movie", you are writing the screenplay! This all starts TODAY and if you get there soon you will see how disorganized we are. Catch us with our pants down and see why we should have said, "lets give it another week"!
Join the fun!
Gary Simmons
the Battle Cat
Sounds like fun. What are you waiting for?!