It is with great sadness that I bring you the news which you all already know: While captured by some sort of aliens, after being abducted through subspace rifts, Admiral Graag, the Fleet's Second Officer, died because he didn't catch a stone. Or well, he caught it, but it was too heavy.
This grave news has of course shocked all of us. I therefore asked several people who happened to be in the chat, about their reactions.
Guido, our GM and FCO, said this: <Guido> So? Barclay will use his magic finger to put the stone aside and then Graag can stand up again. :P
<Guido> It's after all just a strange simulation. ;)
<Bobby> Aha! So Barclay is involved!
<Guido> Dunno yet. Haven't written my next post yet. ;)
Interesting, readers... interesting! Maybe F2O Graag isn't dead at all! Maybe F2O Graag will live on, as FCO Barclay shows his god-like powers!
Meanwhile, I asked another person who just happened to be in the chat that day. Clare, who plays FFO Tir, had time to answer this question, about what her first reaction was to Admiral Graag's death. Her reaction was the following:
<Clare> Bram killed himself?
It is indeed hard to believe that this could happen. Why don't we ask Bram, the player behind F2O Graag, himself? Well, that's a good idea, but... we'll do that, later on. First, we interviewed Sussie.
<Bobby[newspaper]> Sussie, what do you think of Graag's death? :P
<Sussie> uhhh
<Sussie> fun? <G>
Interesting... the plot thickens. Guido reveals that Barclay's god-like powers will bring Graag back, (as he said: [23:07] <Guido> Well, Barclay will use one single finger to push the stone away so that Graag can get up again.), Clare believes that Graag is Bram, and Sussie thinks Graag's death is fun.
A day later, I asked Ben, Rob007 and Adrian... here's what they answered:
* Rob007 will role the stone away and see Jezus has resurrected
<Bobby> You mean Graag? :P
<Rob007> Then you get Graag religion
<Ben> I was surprised. Not exactly shocked, because I didn't really believe it. In fact, I still have my doubts. :P
<Aridd> I was shocked.
<Aridd> And I was shocked again when I read the post. ;)
Most of these reactions make sense. Shock, surprise, and... Graag religion. Interesting. But... what does Bram think of it? Alas, when we asked him for comment, he said this:
<BramP> sorry Rob, the reason will not be revealed until the special edition dvd is released with my commentary :P
This rather cryptic answer was later supplemented with the next statement:
<BramP> I kinda killed him because the towel stuff made it impossible to ever turn him into a serious admiral character again later
<BramP> however... now he will be remembered as the towel guy forever...
Interesting... very interesting. Well, it seems that Admiral Graag's death came as a shock to the Frontier fleet community. Well, not to all of course: some thought it was fun, which of course is all in the eyes of the beholder. Maybe Graag made some enemies, so people liked it that he died...
Whatever the case, Graag's death had one definite advantage: without it I couldn't have written this article. A rather silly article, I might add, but that's okay. The Tribune could use some silliness. Which is why I'll ask someone else to kill his or her character next time. Maybe I could write an article about that as well! So... any volunteers?
