Aaaugh! likes being at the start of lists.

Abulafia - Conspicuously absent after some tormenting dreams about baking muffins for a Tom Bombadil reading, and serving them in red paper muffin cups.

Adidas Demon - mood-killer and occasional thief. If you see him online, try to make his acquaintance: he'll refuse, but it may still annoy him.

Ahnassi Hamlet was the first GNE player to contact this zine!

Alex Massie popularized the practice of games-playing and scavenger hunts; a tireless paper-maker, she donated nearly all her wealth as prizes.

Amanda, a fan of Mr. T. (I have read and loved her Theodore Roethke pages, but I had no idea she was a GNE player too!)

Angel of the Abyss - Abaddon, The Destroyer.

Anton Vowl is not Anton Vowl's real name.

Benny - Grand Architect of the Emerald City. Moody but kind of cool. Answers only to GOD and Loli.

Bhikku to whom this site owes an enormous debt, I haven't yet gotten him to write a blurb in this directory.

Blink: Formerly obsesive about xp and making skill now at level 12 getting to know the better part of the game.

Blotto: c??\T?¨?{a?.¡v???Q?¯rZ{¡tz?}??`kW¸.

Brooke Edel, says Stewart, is cool, funny, and radiant. She's shy, though! It's endearing!

Capablanca An Antipodean Ant at play.

Capodistria - increasingly intriguing, polyglot, sometime-performance artist.

Caterina likes cotton balls, fun, and snowshoes.

Cephisus of Bindor Try to make as much thins as you can,cause you get lots of positive things from it(plus the made item itself).

Chewy: Perhaps you've seen him sharing his desire. Perhaps you've seen him partaking in his favorite pastime, eating any and everything.

ChrisH - Always seemingly on the wrong side of the world, GNE sucked him in and made him dream of gold nuggets, cows and thingmyjigs. He may also have been bored one night, and created this: GNE merchandise

dana is a red frog hat with cheese.

dashcat likes to lie down in sunbeams. She also likes pouncing on colored pieces of paper, and finds credit card shaped objects very intriguing (even mesmerizing!).

DeathsWill is the greatest minion a Satan is Santa could ever ask for.

Derxus: Bureau-bored studied mathematician that fancies a career in advertisement texting...my chair at my current job is starting to get annoying and the work is draining. Need more output!

Desi is a reclusive writer who stays home most of the time, eating and drinking and watching a Robin on his home-made zoetrope. 14. Male. Australia.

Devon Rosecrans: "Huh? What?"

doubleA exists merely due to the fact that pink ice wafer cookies are only 98 cents/bag across the street.

Draven: Touring the facility and picking up SLACK - "Cake"

Eglantine, ex-slimeball queen, is now the author of this zine.

Eleanor Rigby: An imaginary friend who is yearning to come out of the dark. [Hey Eleanor, congrats on your new level 12! —ed.]

Emil PugAchev: I like to wander around and pick up random things to give to people. Say hi to me!

Esmeralda Helmsworthy is tragically shy, earth-shatteringly melodramatic, but an all-around girl next door all the same.

Ethan Slate - Born in the U.K., now residing in Canada (the great white north). Loves cooking, reading, art and a cold glass of beer. He came, he saw, he conquered. Go Manchester United.

Eric - If you see him online you may IM him and not get a reply. This is because he is busy with actually writing the Big Game; it's his javascript voodoo that created the Matrix in the first place. All hail Eric.

Faux Reves is a crazy, sexy chick who likes to draw and play saxamaphone. She can often be found in Bobbleton and Media Shire.

flippy rice - Habitually contributing to the CPU tanning of America's college-aged youth since September 2002.

georgie parker spends far too much time chatting to concentrate on progression. Unnatural fascination with lard.

Gertrude Geikafinkle - Salt pinches, condom distribution, and other various chores of the rich and homeless.

Graham was once simultaneously #10 on all three high score lists, and figures it doesn't get any better than that. A wicked good shot with the bubble gun.

Grandpa - Four teeth, two hairs, ears like a wingnut! He's a randy old grandad though, though a bit creaky.

Helcat is off fishing for very large trout. Ware!

Hundertwasser - His enjoyment of the game was gravely reduced by Adidas Demon.

Inspoetica - Perpetually #1 on GNE High Scores. Enigmatic Artist, Philanthropist, Capitalist. "Gandhi" with an MBA.

Jaen Padryga whuf's the GNE.

James: "uhmm.. i hope i can change this later lol"

James Holloway: Ape shall never kill ape.

Jason Illuran: Jason's a mild-mannered network engineer by day, but by night, he fights crime with Batman, his roommate.

Jean Baudrillard - Scandinavian furniture artist.

Jen continuously strolls through the meadows and forests, looking for things to eat.

Jeremy: Human / 3 / Sol / Milky Way

Jewelies - The mighty, mighty dorkus...

Jezebel Destructed enjoys releasing Fireflies for the pleasure of others, as well as dropping the Funk!

John Fretaila: I will be back in December...

Kallese - quite obviously bipolar.

kandinski - A Spanish freelance writer-lecturer. The proverbial Spaniard in the works.

Kati is a European girl, procrastinating studying for exams.

Kit Panther is a young mountain lion at heart. You figure it out.

konamouse - A cute little rodent, nibbles around the hubs, keeps a well stocked kitchen for visitors.

Kostya: Sex, literature and the Second Law of Thermodynamics.

kurtdevious: I am.

Kyle Stein - An enigmatic raconteur who likes distributing genomes and worshipping at the altar of Mira.

Lady Blank - She was naive. She met Traducer.

ladysera: I WILL make a piece of purple paper if it KILLS me!

Laia Odo: Hmm.

Lauren Logic plays a mean saxamaphone.

leslie is exactly like you.

Lia tries her darnedest not to play GNE out of fear it will cause her dropping out of grad school. [And though I really liked it back when she played, I'm glad she's been able to stop; good for her. —ed.]

lil jinx: i'm gonna start my own cinema in GNE. if ever stewart and the rest of the gang gives me an open space or a dark basement that's swell.

lint: Just a simple GNE player.

Liorean is like nobody else.

Loli: bright eyed spunky feather in everyone's cap! Loli is always willing to lend a hand, give advice, and make everyone's day a little brighter.

Lor Douro Playing from London. Originally from London. Usually play during the week and every now and again at the weekends. Thanks!

Loraybreyan would like you to know that he's a guy. Please don't make him change his name!

Maiko Eveready is playing his shakuhachi until the world ends.

majick, an imaginative prankster and gamester, was one of the early openly creative personalities in the game.

Mary Elizabeth loves GNE and wishes everyone in the real world acted as kindly as her fellow GNEers do. Holler a hello her way sometime; she's quite pleasant and sometimes even clever!

Matilda Dacuycuy - A nomad who has a particular fondness for moving in and out of houses.

mattan hides his purple papers under his pillow.

Metrocake: I wear black on the outside, but am sunny yellow on the inside -- a bouncing goth chick! :)

Mi misses her wombat whistle.

Mina - Says Yogi: "Imagine cute. No, cuter than that. Cute like Amelie cute, only with longer hair. Now imagine that kinda cute as cute as you can *possibly* imagine it... got it? Good! Now imagine ten times cuter than that. Can you imagine that? Of course not, it's ten times cuter than the cutest thing you can imagine! And it doesn't matter, because Mina is even cuter."

Miss Trinka wears a big, pink, floppy hat and wishes there were kittens hiding in the meadows. A very centr-ed person.

Moondawg - Blessed with the knowledge of what is best to be done and totally devoid of the will to do it.

Mojito - Mysterious and sassy.

Moth was so tired from nights in the GNE that it slept through the End of the World.

Mr Coil Eyes: Creative listener, treehouse-dweller, collector of New Economies and thus has chronically horrible karma. Throw him a breath mint if you see him.

Mr. Dawgg - rambunctious troublemaker, generally considered a nuisance. Reportedly a 16-year-old male.

Ms. Dive - Her retiring nature keeps her perpetually under the radar.

neb - Ludicorper Emeritus and "neverending architect". blame him for the tinkertoy energy/mood/karma ontology. oh yeah: there's also that whole 'nebulation' meme that seems to have some traction ;)

neddles - Perpetually running late and plagued by an upside-down antipodean dial-up connection. Has been known to drop off without warning to others or herself.

nepenthe - For el-hrairah to cry

OldTasty lives in St. Louis. OldTasty loves the game.

Ollie can get slightly too involved in the production of red paper and genomes. Do help her get out more often.

ooo has always wanted a perfectly symmetrical name.

Outis: I'm supposed to enter a description here but I'm too busy writing poetry.

Orbst: What was I doing, again? (Durn distracting chat window.) Have a massage certificate!

Pants ORyan: Doing his best to keep the game interesting with generosity, quick wit, innovation, and sexy knickers.

Penguinix: Proprietor of SINEKOW and Exit 42

Peter Verona. Ignore that cleaver through my skull—Im just another quester after the Truth

Pink Twister - Orphaned flowerchild from the 60s still residing on a floating barge at Gate 5 in Sausalito.

pixel a. shun: Desire is good. Sleep is bad.

Pixelkitty On the run since her unsuccessful attempt at gain, PK hides out in the lesser-known regions of GNE.

Plurp grows somewhere on the Web. Plurp is something you can mock.

PolarBear: Highly addicted to GNE. Can't wait till The Big Game comes.

poxaV - a kempt and gruntled (but unemployed) network engineer.

Rebecca Illuran - How is she related to Jason Illuran? No one knows, but she's the +originator of the "I dropped beef" meme.

RedWitch - Anti-marshmallow dagger activist, information provider, loves a good barter session. Banter, too.

Regedit is a fast-changing chick who can't stand the depression of the lost utopia.

Rhiarian Brendon, quiet but fun, loves Brendan Fraser!

Rogue Drone is breaking free of social rules. His name? rubberducky84 -> rd84 -> RougeDrone84 and dropped the 84 for GNE.

Samantha: self-described drop-dead gorgeous geeky girl and gossip editor. Lacking a life of her own, she trolls Stencilton peeking in people's windows looking for news.

Satan is Santa - Buyer and seller of souls, and a cult leader. Watch out for Satan's Cult in the big game.

Selva Morales - also known as the "absinthe fairy" for her particular brand of guerilla generosity.

Shiri Masen nibbles on the edge of a paper enlightenment while waiting for the Big Game.

shmuel: "How much of me is me and how much is me pretending to be someone sort of like me?"

Snowgoon: A non-frequent wanderer, treading uncarefully on the grass...

SorchaRei: Unemployed, over-employed, insomniac.

Star Light wanders aimlessly for hours, looking for a stronger, faster, better way of life... or, maybe, just wanting to be loved.

Stewart - the Boss and founder of Ludicorp.

Syrinx: A student of dead languages who doesn't really need yet another procrastination tool, but has found one in GNE.

TacoConsumer: the lovable loser.

Teena used to be such a joy around the game. Now does nothing but show up briefly now and again to mope about the GNE stealing her fortune.

Thymic is the most camp camper of them all.

Tier nan Gorduin: A friendly guy, who has a lot of stuff in his backpack he can give out to players in need.

Thurgood Marshall has to spend his time somewhere, being a deceased Supreme Court justice is otherwise unentertaining. He's looking forward to being more of an architect and less of a sweatshop worker.

Toru - Devout user of public transportation

Traducer: As the name suggests, slanderer, liar and seducer. He will try to move you away from any treasure site to remote and dark dangerous areas of the GNE - where the reward will be dust and ashes. He is totally besotted by Samantha.

tupelo honey: the disheveled one

Twee discovered the Monday night infinite replication bug that had Civic Center swimming in purple paper.

varin: doot!

Velveteen Goodbar strolls around Stencilton looking for the blues, but never wallowing in them. Pastimes include knocking down the tents of campers and rushing about following the words of GOD.

Weegee: No, I'm not a photographer but I played one in graduate school.

Wintermute, a.k.a. Jason of "squeeze a Jason" fame - one of the Ludicorp developers, he moonlights as God, but he hasn't actually read Neuromancer for years.

Yeoz (pronounced 'zooey') is the cookie loving, LOOL saying, statue guardian of GNE. Yeoz demonstrated great powers in the alpha, to the amusement of players, and the consternation of several devs. One of the most down-to-earth and most adored of the alpha's senior players, he is Loli's hero.

Yogi: The GNE's self-declared underworld kingpin. He's got a lot going on, running the "C" game on the streets of Stencilton, but the bear still knows how to "take care of his friends."

Zion El-Dar is a sweet-natured nudge who tries to keep all the GNE kids playing as close to the rules as they can manage. He likes late night trivia contests, humorous jibes, and almost everybody he's met through this last month.

Zvona - Ambitious player, who's ready to take over the control of whole GNE imperium. Yes - YOUR money and YOUR family!