The Kwalish Threat
Before a lot of people start rushing to the defence of Kwalish Kid, like little chickens with their heads cut off, let's review the facts. Now, as many of you know, I am not particularly well educated, but I am British, so that means that my position of this matter is of some considerable weight. You will remember that Kwalish took part, some time ago, in the mailing likst for a number of White Wolf products. At the time, he would occaisionally slip into an "in character" mode where he would speak as a member of The Sons of Ether. He would, of course, evidence an obsession with clunky metal mechinery and the inevitable crustacean comparison. I seem to recall that in one post he mentioned building a clone device that could pick up the personality of another individual. I think that involved a rote with Life 5, Mind 4, Spirit 2, Prime 2 and Forces 1. Kwalish then proceded to mimick and mock the other members of the mailing list community. Of course, he would claim that this was all "in character" messages from the clones that were made of members of the mailing list with his cloning device. This claim was rejected, but even if it was not, there is a certain unethical behaviour of a Son of Ether using this device, so what Kwalish did was worthy of censure regardless of it being "in character" or "out of character". I believe that Kwalish was banned from that mailing list, though my memory is hazy about the timing of events. Of course, I thought that he should have been banned for bringing such an obviously D&D-type name to a White Wolf mailing list.
Now we move closer to the present. Kwalish brought this persona (wholly inappropriately) to the message boards of Eric Noah. Not content with merely lurking, he dove in, "answering" questions and making fun of the most prominent board members (myself, of course, included). Of course, no one but myself got the joke. Kwalish probably didn't even remember me from the White Wolf message boards, so his sontinuation of this inane copying of posters makes absolutely no sense. Of course, the weak minded of the board thought Kwalish rather funny. I guess that's an American thing.
So now it seems Kwalish is continuing his pathetic, miserable ways. At least he seems to have left White Wolf (the only true role-playing game company) out of his machinations this time. I would never tell the moderators of this board how to run things, so I will refrain from calling for the immediate banning of all things Kwalish.