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"Why, hello, my child. It's been a while since I had any visitors... these days, all anyone seems to care about are the protoforms and their short-term goals. No-one thinks about the long term anymore, about our past or our future. And I've seen so much of both...

From the past come these pictures of George, most of them quite a few years old, and his various associates scattered across their planet. Alas, the dates and such information on some of them have been all but lost in the midst of time, like tears in the rain, but I will try to guide you through this portal of the past as best I can. Please remember, though, that many of these pictures are not as good quality as others on the site due to their age... technology has moved fast for your kind."

Here, with the time roughly at February 1999, George stands outside the Nottingham Headquarters of Games Workshop, a roleplaying games company, just before one of their first open days. Ah, yes, with a burst of youthful energy, he was worried at it being sold out, so ordered quickly... and got ticket number seven.






As well as massive games being played, a large quantity of old stock being sold and a bar that showed various animations from the roleplaying games world, there was an admirable museum at the headquarters which included life-size models of characters from the game world: like this Blood Angels Space Marine.





Many of the game designers and artists were there as well, including Gavin Thorpe (who spoke to George, however briefly, about Codex Inquisitors being delyaed due to the Dark Eldar) and an artist whom, although they're name has been forgotten, will forever be remembered as knocking up this Space Marine picture while talking to kids.






We fast forward a couple of months to Easter 1999 and find ourselves in the Ivory Tower, a shop that specialises in collectable card games, most notably Magic: THe Gathering, the first of such games. As ever, wherever George travels, he tends to meet people who are almost as mad as him (note almost) and here he plays with some of the locals of the area: St Petersburg, Florida




Another picture from later on in the Ivory Tower, this time with George playing against another lad called George. For the Magic buffs out there, the American George was trying to play a Green weenie deck that relied on the 1 mana cost of creatures, but Scottish George played an artifact from the then-new set Stronghold that increased all prices by 1 point of mana, thus meaning the loop of the weenie deck.

No, I don't know what it means either.



Hmm, strange, there seems to be some sort of psychic force acting on me now, a mind gap trying to force these events slightly out of sync with my time-stream so I can not trace them. Strange... these out to be in the summer of 1999, and judging from little I can see, this is Germany, but why I cannot see George or why my cheek hurts, I cannot say.





This is the only other picture from the same timezone I can sense through the haze of the mind-gap, and from there the furthest back I can go is October 2000. Bizarre.... it would take a mind similarly in-tune with the Matrix to attempt such a thing, and even then to block out so much... No-one has such power these days, no-one. Only the Cybertronians of old...

More pictures shall follow...

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