Doh! It seems everyone has cool fantasy names, yet I use my typical forum name. I may have to change that at a later date...

My names Anthony David Rosenthal (yes I'm proud of that name... it just sounds cool) but you may call me that, or Tony, or 6string... or whatever really. I've been a christian for oh.... I guess about 6 years, and I'm an administrator on another forum called The Jesus Joint (no it has nothing to do with drugs.... joint as in slang for place or hangout). I'm a long time fan of fantasy and I'm currently working on my first story called To The Valley Of Dragons. I'm not looking to publish it for money however... I'm simply doing it for fun. Something I've always wanted to do.... and I just want to see if I can pull it off. My favorite all time fantasy characters are, Aragorn from LOTR, Tanis Half Elven and Sturm Brightblade from the Dragonlance Chronicles, Lan from Wheel Of Time.... ok I have alot of favorites so I'll just quit there.

I happened upon the Holy Worlds Facebook page and then Tim directed me here. I'm already a part of a few other forums... two regularly and one of which I'm an admin, and there are a couple for musicians and recording that I visit from time to time. Something tells me I may enjoy this forum however, so I think I'll be trying to visit quite often. I want to say hello, and may God bless you all, and thank you Tim for the support you've given me already concerning "To The Valley Of Dragons."

....and I totally dig the old parchment look of the forums Now if only we could type in Old English

As it is thy desire, so thou shalt do. Often thou shalt find those who use the archaic speech when typing upon device of mechanical communication.

I decree, in honor of Lord Tony, all welcomes and greetings on this thread shall be spoken in old English as is befitting to our surroundings.

[inside joke] Is it time to pounce again?[/end inside joke]

Given the most illustrious decree of our recently-knighted Honor Roll Member, of the Lady Janin of Yen, I shall abide by thy whimsical moods and wishes and consent to communicate in a tone befitting of the Old english stylage. It is my humble wish that thy desires and pleasures may be satisfied by this noble gathering of like-minded Knights and Ladies. If thou hast any story excerpts or other knowledge to share with us, we should be most humbly grateful and in thy debt.

eruheran

Haven't turned on that side of the brain in a while....

You all know I don’t follow the trend, so no old English for me. Welcome 6string! We are glad to have you aboard and hope we don’t overwhelm you too much with our enthusiasm. By the way, love your introduction! You gave me a lot of information about yourself outside of fantasy, something we all forget to do a lot of the time. We’d love to hear about your stories if you are willing to share.

P.S.
Tim, as in Tim Sleeper?

Tell us about thy username, Lord Tony. It seemeth to bear great meaning and import. Does the sign thou seekest bear six strings? Or dost thou bear six string while seeking thy sign? And what is this sign thou seekest and what does in entail?

Janin, you crack me up!

I'll have you know I had to go over that post three time to makes sure I'd used thy instead of your and thou instead of you. I'm seriously out of practice with this old english thing. Time to start reading more Shakespeare!!!

(I'm doing the Tempest in a few months, my old english should spice up quite a bit then. )

That's why you crack me up!

lol... I'm lovin' the Old English!

Tony, have you checked out the Holy Worlds Fantasy Music thread? They're are trying to get an album of fantasy music together and it sounds like you like music and recording!

Oh yeah... Welcome to Holy Worlds!

Abby a.k.a. PrincessoftheKing

Trying to put him to work already Princess.

Hail, 6stringedsignseeker! I most humbly claimeth the wondred title of being the two from thrice "unranked" member of this calm and nobly minded forum to post on thy marvelous fair introduction.

You're very observant Shawn, I hadn't noticed that.

Thou art welcome in this marvelous forum considering the topic of fantasy tales. If thou seekest an avatar, thou may possibly obtain one by navigating to the 'Announcement' forum, in the thread entitled 'Free Avatar'

Aaah, forget the old English. Welcome.

I still haven't figured out what he noticed.

Oh wait, I mean: I have not yet discerned what that marvelous observation our friend Shawn hath seen.

Well Jannin... basically my username goes like this... which I use on my other forums as well... 6stringed (because I play guitar) and signseeker. I'm always looking for signs that could show the time of our Lord's returning is near. I love prophecy.

Airianna... I would love to share my story so far. I haven't had a chance to look through the forums to find the appropriate place to share it though.

Princessoftheking.... that username sure sounds familiar. Did you used to visit the Jesus Joint.net?

Yea, I had chanced to wonder that I was indeed the two from thrice "unranked" member to welcome our minstrel friend the the fair Holy Worlds.
*pulls a string. Sparkling, shiny confetti flies into the air, spelling the word 'Welcome!'*
Draw thy sword, miscreant! And know that I am Tirian, King of- Oops, wrong forum.

Nope, I've never been to Jesus Joint.net. Maybe someone stole my username!

Janin,
I thought it was observant of Shawn to notice that everyone before her was a colored name.
Hi again 6string!

Oh. After much hard pondering of thy marvelous words, friend Airianna, I have convinced my dull wits to fathom the depth of friend Shawn's observation.

plain english: I now know what you're talking about.

I came up with old english for my real name. Any guesses on my real name? (No telling, Airianna! )

Welcome, oh Anthony David Rosenthal, from Elizabeth of the Kirk in the Woods.

*staying on topic* Hi 6strings!

Oops, missed your post in reference to me 6strings. Okay, you'd post under Story Excerpts for Discussion! I'll keep an eye out for your name.

I won't tell a soul *holding hand up*, scouts honor.

Methanks thou, Airianna!
Correction:
Welcome, Lord Anthony David of Rosenthal, from Elisabeth of the Kirk in the Woods.

A malfunctioning computer (Dell or Mac, which ever you prefer to have blow up) appears, shooting off sparks shaped like penguins. The computer explodes, and the flames shoot up into the air spelling-

Dani: Smiley fan!

Me: Stop appearing in my posts. You can meet 6stringedsignseeker later. I just installed a barrier for now.

Dani: I- *barrier takes effect*

Me: Sorry about my impetuous MC... Anyway, the flames spell "Welcome to HW, 6stringedsignseeker!"

Welcome! I am the little yellow named person who cannot think of a better greeting that "welcome" because my siblings are noisy, and who cannot speak Old English. Welcome to Holy Worlds!

Ha! Thanks for the warm welcome everyone... now I must come up with a cool fantasy name like everyone else. I'll remember, Airianna, to look for that thread later

Or you could pick up Luke the Mindwielder's new mantra, 'Go against the flow!' At least, that's what he told Jonathan. I like your name though, it has depth. You are welcome to change your name though.

I like it as well... I use it on the other forums I frequent as well. It doesn't seem to fit with the atmosphere here, however. I posted my story so far.

I know, I edited the prologue on my way to a meeting. Good job my friend! Shawn, you should go over and read it, I was pleasantly pleased.

I just read it! I will comment on there so as to not completely derail this thread... I will say that Airianna is an excellent critiquer, whereas I need more experience.

Welcome to Holy Worlds! I am a super fail at Old English, so I hope Informal English floats your boat.

Woo hoo! Glad to have another member!

You are all super awesome... thanks again for the warm welcome everyone. I really like the forums thus far. Now I'm going to see things on the valley of dragons topic.

Mae govanne, 6stringedsignseeker! Thou shall find this forum very enjoyable, I believe, just so long as thou understandest a basic thing... Smilies rule. Smilies are used at least after every sentence. Sometimes they break into sentences and sometimes there's two after a sentence. So, if you don't use enough smilies, you will be banished. j/k. But someone may use this smilie on you **all the characters that shouldn't be here but are run and hide**

Also, you should ignore most of what I say, because it's pretty goofy. Especially when I'm using a smiley after every sentence. Just listen when it seems I'm actually imparting some sort of advice/critique/etc.

Thank you for the warm elvish welcome Amanda. I too am a lover of smileys.

Then you guys will work well together 6strings, because Amanda K uses smileys after everything all the time!!! I always know which posts are hers based off of how many smileys are in it. She makes the posts pretty. She also uses them in the Chat room all the time. Sometimes she just responds to what you’ve just said with four smiley faces.

Wrong! I've never used four. I use three. And it's not quite all the time either... but 99% of the time. Which is close enough, I guess.

Thou art welcome, 6strings. And since you love smilies so much... I declare smilie war! (um, and that last part can be considered some of my goofiness... I don't know how to start a war. Though capturing a princess and blaming it on Guilder works pretty well... ;D )

You have used four before! The first time I was on chat with you because I happened to mention that I noticed you had a smiley fetish. You gave me the evil emoticon (like so ) and asked me what was wrong with smileys. I promptly declared nothing, I was just making conversation and then you gave me four smiley faces. I remember it very well.

Dani: (whimper) *runs and hides in the charrie intro thread*

I actually wish you had more smileys here... theres really not many. The admins should go to my main forum and steal a couple of ours to add here... we've got some super cool ones. We wouldn't mind I promise. I came upon another forum as well recently, called The Fantasy Forum (it's secular... so be careful if you venture there) that has some nice smileys.... There be dragons there

No way! Dragons?

Dragons... AWESOMESAUCE. Pretty please Sir Emeth? ::puppydog eyes that Airianna imagined:: ;D

The "bloodthirsty hound" seconds the puppy eyes.

Funny Amanda K, but Jay's not going to know what those look like if he doesn't do some research on the chat room. *Amanda makes cuter puppy dog eyes than Eruheran*

:shrug:: I know. It was meant to be funny. Inside joke. ya know?

Awesome. I do think we need more smileys; a laughing smiley, an evil grin, a waving smiley... but I don't think finding new smileys is very high on Sir Emeth's priorities. After all, it's rather less important than making sure we can all log in all the time, right?

@Janin: Oh yeah! Jay's a busy guy, so fixing the site's technical problems is much higher on the to do list than get Janin an evil grin smiley to use on all of us.

@Amanda K: Oh the inside joke was funny alright; I laughed my head off when you said that. I totally got it

FYI, whenever I start a forum, one of the first things I do is to deliberately go in and remove the vast majority of all smileys from the system, and if possible substitute static smileys for animated smileys, etc.

I honestly don't like very many smileys.

Then a small number of smileys it stays lol! Nice to meet you, Sir Emeth

Haha, glad to meet you too. Welcome aboard!