My life:

I went back to school. Yep, 33 year old Kyle is back in school. Same place where 20 year old Kyle dropped all his classes, never shown up, and played Shilla. Yeah… not the greatest times and nothing I'm too proud of.

But I just finished my 1st semester with straight A's. Hell yeah!

Goal is to finish the rest of the 2 year program in 1(including summer classes) by the end of the year. That'll be my 2 year degree.
I would like to transfer to a 4 year college but time/money/etc… may change my mind but that is the goal.

This takes up a huge amount of time plus 40 hour work weeks, social life with wife, 2 cats, dog, etc… I'm a busy person.

I hope everyone has a great 2019! I'm sure I'll find time now and then to visit and see if anything or anyone thinks of Shilla.

~BP/Kyle

It is interesting to read about your stories over the years as all of us, including me, had moved through life and spent a bit of time with Shilla. Thank you for that!

I can't believe it's been 8 years.

I still miss it for some reason I just can't explain. Even though I'd never play it again… I just miss the past.

Real life aside… I'm married and we own a house. I guess that makes me grown up huh?

The wedding was great, and I had invited a few Shilla players… AA and Loco made it, Blink and Nappa couldn't. Napp… we still need to find a time in life to meet up. Blink… I'm sure down the road we'll get together.

Guess there really isn't a whole lot to say…. but I'll keep this site around always until they take it away from me, so I hope we keep getting the random people saying hi from time to time.

Maybe one day it'll come back again…

Kyle(BP)

Just popping in once again to share a quick hello. To step on my previous posts, you may remember me as Blink180dude, or Blink. I had other names which were not as popular, but during the Dark Traveler times, MediaThrall asked me to step in and help with the game design for the remake. My admin name was Chrome. I didn't stick around for more than a few months, but I was the person responsible for making the Mount Olympus area.

I come through every once in awhile and read comments left by former players, which about 85% of you I do remember (the name at least).

The last time I was here, I had offered my services on helping recreate this game, and I'd like everyone to know this offer still stands. As my programming skills are quite limited, I can only offer monetary funds to help pay for the domain, or costs associated with recreating the game.

I'm not the 12 year old smart mouth kid I used to be when I first started playing in the late 90s…and I still pop by here and the Shilla.org site every once in awhile to see if anything has changed. Nothing but a fool's hope I guess.

As a way to salvage the information we have, as it seems quite a bit of it is spread across all players, I'd like to see a drop box or file central of information that people can contribute to include information such as game information like what is on AA's site or even Sotrin's site… or possibly even some of the back end coding information. I have read that a few former admins do look at this page from time to time and I think it would be vital for us to have a centralized location with information that people could access, should anyone be attempting to recreate the game. Maybe just a fool's hope as well.

Anyways, I hope all is well. I recently became married, and am currently a Director of Operations in hotel management. It seems we all grow up to be something should it not be the 1300 Wall Score giant, draconian, elf, or kobold we dreamt to be.

Josh (Blink)

Different name on here, I don't go by my older names. Have not in a very very long time. If anyone sees this, you might remember me as Ashaint (Or Radagast when I became an Admin, sorry for those of you who may not remember me fondly (at all LOL) <__<; ). I saw posts from JK on here and I recall talking to him quite a bit back in those days. I remember BP, Bonzo, Thinkso, Hestas, Melkor … I had a really good friend I chatted with a lot, she was from Australia … I never knew what happened with her … I wish i remembered more names …

My cousin played too, I remember his character got stuck in a room (eternally) which got removed from the game at one point … ended his short career in Shilla. I remember all the crazy weddings we did, the chat sweeps … Hestas' crazy rainbow name tag … I could almost still recall the exact RGB code he used to make the admin's names "perfectly gold" as he once told me. I remember spending (what felt like) MONTHS it felt like updating all the code for the ocean, which I got shafted into accomplishing during the big reset (for those of you that don't know … the game engine was a nightmare to update as each "room" was a separately coded .html HTML/OS file … and the ocean area was massive … the html/os text editor was more evil than Melkor too …). I remember getting in trouble with Hestas for making diagonal directions in the "random" mapped volcano area because it made it easier for people to figure out. What was it? "Oops, dying sucks?" making me ragequit more than I care to admit …

Has anyone noticed or have any info why shilla.org is back up with some of the old graphics? Has someone bought it and remaking the game? I used to still have everything I worked on pretty well documented, even hand drawn maps from when I made some of the newer areas during that long reset where we updated a lot of the old HTML/OS code. When Melkor joined up and him and Hestas started making a lot of really complicated changes … I kind of had a hard time following and decided to quit. I think over the years though I've lost most everything to harddrive crashes. At one point Thinkso and I were working together on a different game I was coding in perl … but I ran into a lot of issues as the engine got larger and more complicated, mostly stuff at the time I wasn't skilled enough to sort out.

Anywho, glad to see that some of the players are still trying to kind of keep in touch! :) I have a few friends I had gotten pretty close to at the time, which I still think about and miss quite a bit …

I look back at this and still remember the good times…. hard to believe we are coming to about a decade since shilla died. Feels like yesterday I was clicking away mindlessly and now I tend to just laugh at myself for doing it for as long as I did.

Real life time….

This year has been sad. I've lost 2 important people in my life. My mom and a co-worker who was my 2nd mom. My mom was having health issues for years and my co-worker was a tragic accident. Both these things took a long time to get over but at this point I'm doing much better mentally with life.

Better news…

I'm getting married!

That is something I honestly didn't think would ever happen but next year me and Nina are getting married. I couldn't ask for a better person to marry and I'm happy it's going to happen. Likely going to be inviting some old shilla friends so loco, nappa, an, blink, and Alyssa are going to get invites..

I still check this site now and then… I'm glad people from time to time talk about this game.

Jk's version I wouldn't know what is going on with it…. me and him were tight in the day but I don't think people use aim these days(god how old am i here?)… so I can't ask him.

I'd be down to see a mobile version just for fucks sake but all us young people are old now… getting married and stuff so I can't envision it happening.

Miss you all, until next time,
BP

These days I'm living with another girl… her name is Nina. Love her to death. Met her at Walgreens. Have an endless amount of things in common. I didn't think I'd find another girl to spend my life with, but you just never know what life may bring at any point in your life.
I just know I'm a very lucky guy and I spend every day reminding myself how lucky I am, and trying not to take it for granted.

Still work at Walgreens. Can't imagine it being a whole lot longer though. Lot of changes within the company that I'm not a fan of, people leaving because of them, basically coming down to work more, paid less. I got promoted last April to a keyholder/Shift Lead position which was a goal of mine, and now that I've done that… I'm interested in doing something else perhaps. Question would be what exactly…. and I haven't answered that one quite yet.

I'm hoping everyone in life is doing well, and I miss you all.

Kyle

What's new with me?

After doing some traveling from New Orleans, Louisiana to Miami, Florida I have ultimately ended up back in my hometown of Toledo, Ohio just in time for winter. Great, isn't it? I managed to find the love of my life though, which is always a plus. Life throws twists and turns everywhere and things happen for a reason. I truly believe that now. Maybe Shilla went down for a reason? Maybe that's why when MediaThrall attempted to recreate our game it failed, because it was meant to be dead? We have all met people over the course of the time we've played that stay in our minds. The community is what made this game special and will always keep places like this helpsite around.

I've kept in touch with a few people since, mainly my best friends Locojoe4 and BP. We talk a few times a week, keep in contact through Facebook and such. I can't imagine not meeting them now and there's only one game to thank. To a much lesser extent Ann, Karli, and AA. Even though I talk to them less frequently it's still nice to have them around and to be able to see what they're up to.

I mainly spend my computer time playing things like World of Warcraft, reading up on sports journalism, and in my other gaming time - on XBox playing Battlefield.

If any of you would like to get ahold of me via Facebook, search for me under my E-Mail "moc.liamtoh|luuZtoN#moc.liamtoh|luuZtoN" I'll gladly accept any requests that come my way. On XBox my Gamertag is "SimplicityCode" and you can Battletag me through WoW under Miakis#1917

Hope everything is going great and may Shilla live through us as it always has, the community.

-Nappavas

~MAD~

I doubt many will see this, but I wanted to let everyone know I still think about this game all the time. During the Dark Traveler times I was given access to help reshape the game, and I'm here to say if it were ever taken by someone, I would give my heart and soul to help remake the game. I would only hope helpsites like this never went away, as it has been close to 20 years since I started playing.

Hope everyone is doing well, from the bottom of my heart.

Oh, and BP, let's not forget 12 years ago at the big reset who reigned king in Fargo:

32 Blink 11912 gladiator giant
33 Bizarro-phoenix 11835 gladiator giant

Sincerely,

Joshua Williams
(Blink180dude, Blink, Darkflarez, Nightflamez, and many others I simply can't remember)

I really hope they don't renew it, or that anybody even attempts to remake Shilla.

It's 2014, not 1994. Focus your time on a game for a smartphone. Let Shilla rest in peace with the memories of players who once played it.

I will always check on it sporadically, whether it's a month, 3 months, 6 months at a time, I'll always consider this my pet project and will always find a time and place to look at what people post or reflect on mine(and other's) hard work into maintaining this site, when Shilla(the Shilla we all once knew and loved) was around.

Best wishes and have a Happy New Year!

Kyle

And… I still don't have much interest in how things are there. I'm glad old timers like Stev, Zil, and Jedi still play this… but I just can't.

The thing that stood out to me the most, is the helpsite for the game. And I came back to this one to see the difference between the two and it's night and day. No comparison at all.

Now I understand that this version has been out for a few months, and information is gathered by a precious few people there, while old Shilla was around for years and years and there was more people who could be counted on to get that kind of information… but I really put my heart and soul into this along with AA, and Shillatime days, Alpha… and I'm proud of the work I did and that it did help numerous people get through Shilla and make it enjoyable/easier to get by..

So this is why I've kept this helpsite up, kinda a look back at the past and when I see this from time to time… I can look at it and 1) remember Shilla and 2) A reminder of how much I busted my ass for the game and it's players…

~BP

Just came to say hi

Still work at Walgreens. Been there going on 8 years now. Started July 04. Figure I'll see it to 8 years, but I may look for a change. Been doing the same thing for the last 6 basically with no real hope of moving up within the area in the company. I may move or just look for a new job.

Me and Mina(Annwynn) broke up a year ago. If you thought we were going to be the Shilla Love Story - Wrong. We lasted 3 years, which is a long time in my book for a 1st ever relationship, and we did the best we could. But the truth and reality of it was, we just didn't have enough in common. She's moved on with someone else, and she's having a kid this year sometime. Best of luck to her.

I'm playing a game called Parallel Kingdom with Alyssa(AA). It's a mobile phone game, and it can be really addicting. It won't ever be Shilla levels, but it's a nice thing to do to kill time on breaks at work, or whatever. I love smart phones. But the game just celebrated it's 1 millionth account, and even if 1/3rd of those are active, it's a very active community.

I'm back to school online again after a 6 month sabbatical after the breakup. Hoping to finish by this time next year.

Guess that's it for me. Anyone else who stumbles upon this can write how their lives are doing, if they so choose.

Til next time,
~Kyle(BP)

I was sitting here thinking about how there really wasn't any formal thank you's that I handed out. I'm sure half of the people I name won't ever come across this post, but just in case they do.

Thank you to the following (in no particular order):

First and foremost, I'd like to personally thank Not Melkor/Lumberjak for his devotion and time dedicated to maintaining a game when everyone else had given up on it or disappeared. Also, for giving me a chance to become an Administrator and for all the work we managed to accomplish on TVA.

I'd like to thank Bp for not only being a spectacular friend, player, and community member, but also for his contributions to Shillatime, this Wiki, and research/knowledge of this game. ~MAD~

I'd like to thank Alyssa_aarilax for his Wiki addiction and for putting his foot out to create this and recreation's Wiki before losing hope in a game that was getting nowhere. Also, for always helping any player in need. ~MAD~

I'd like to thank Alphablast for the information he got to put on Shillatime.

I'd like to thank Sotrin for his old helpsite.

I'd like to thank MediaThrall for trying to recreate the game to the best of his ability.

I'd like to thank the Owners over time: Blackhawk, Tim, and Hestas.

I'd like to thank the Shilla Admin's: Not Melkor/Lumberjak, Ashaint/Radagast, Thinkso, and myself, Nappavas/VooDoo.

Finally, the following players for helping newbies, being active chatters, clan members, or contributing to research:

Adira, Mikey64(and his 1000 other alias), Bizarro-phoenix (Bp), AA, Isaac, Bonzo <3, Teppomoose <3, Lich, Wizard, Spiderman (Joliath), The_wizard_of_death (TWoD), Always_never (AN), Alphablast, Shalena, Cobbie, A_pitbull, Ferrule (Envee), Paco/Lonewolf, Arthur, Bambino, Locojoe4, Kraal, Oberon(lol), Plankton, Engel, Darkenrahl, Thebusdriver (TBD), Randall23, Sirius, Betaprobe, Kalfir, Hellz, Halo420, Blackwolf, Potatoes(lol), Exoticcherry, Taalon, Thewalkingdude, Balmung (for being an idiot), Jots (ban him forever), Richardrhal, Anubis, Bigbob, Corolin, Nameci, Clearbrook, 0mega, Nousey, Broneh, Titan, Frostbite, Annwynn, Blackwolf, Kuja, Mikya, Bilbo, Elendril, Jaxom, Bluehaze, Waldog, Jk, Amber, Darknesdude, Magrat, DrSatan3:16, Kamrose, Kramnella, Gator_21, Karouck, Badger, Powerboss, Easygoer, Hellscare, Metzel, Msariel, Kramnella, Thumper, Crucial03, Alacazam, Major-mattel, Loxx, and Aizen.

~MAD~ Co-creator.
~KOTR~ Elder.

That's all I can remember for now. If I forgot you and we were friends, I apologize and it wasn't intentional.

Shilla is one of the best experiences I've ever had in my life and I'd go back and do it all again in a heartbeat.

Sincerely,

Nappavas/VooDoo

All of you old Shilla players should come check it out. I think you'll find yourselves right at home!

Clicky » The Dark Traveler

Hope whoever comes here finds interest in nostalgia because that's the only reason this site is up. It'll be up until for whatever reason, it comes down. That would come from the site hosts, I would imagine. Though if given the option between $$ and this, I'd have to pass on paying to keep it alive.

This year for me was a year of adjustment, but I can safely say that it was probably for the best on my end that there's no Shilla 2.0 or whatever it may have been called. I've spent alot less time on the internet, and in effect, feel better about my life.

I still miss alot of you and hope everyone has a safe and Merry Christmas!

Kyle

so lets die down 3mana char and sell some green ;);)

there aint any games left to play that is fun :S

www.neflaria.com

I use the name "Raghn" there and am a member of Lethal Roses clan

I emailed him a month ago and didn't get a response from his hotmail. Napp has tried and AA has tried as well, I believe.

I had a problem with him pulling a Hestas and was worried about his personal life, but now I don't care about either.

Just was too bad that his ideas never got put to any kind of gameplay structure, he had a few ones I was interested in seeing but that's just the way it goes.

Best of fun to all of you in the future.

ohh.. and *Passes the vodka to Ann* hugs n stuff gals n guys!!

I read that the game had changed when I left. New monsters new weapons new everything. Remember people, I played in the Era of the owner known as TIM. lol I had the Vorpal Beta Sword and I believe the Golden Sword Of Truth Beta. I was always getting hooked up back then. I really do miss that game.

Well guys heres my email if anything ever pops up with Shilla moc.oohay|640enrybj#moc.oohay|640enrybj or if in the unlikely event someone actually remembers my Shilla screen name.

I started playing Shilla when I was 12/13. That's over 10 years ago. What do you do about something that has been around as long as Shilla has? Nothing. I can't ever forget it. I've said it before, and I'll say it again. Shilla is and always be my home. To me, it's not going anywhere. It was always be with me. And so will the memories. Some people have been long forgotten, some memories have as well. Can you blame me? It's been so damn long. I wish I could remember it all.

To everyone that remembers me, I'm sorry. I only realized not too long ago how much of a little shit I was. I can't take back what I said, but moreso would I want to? Would that not change the person I've came to be? The person everyone remembers? I think I'll just leave it at that.

I've left my mark in this game. I think that's pretty good. If it ever comes back you can bet your ass I'll be there.

PS Thanks for the shout out BP, it really does mean a lot. I can remember the sleep overs we used to have playing Shilla all night….. fun times.

And for future reference, to anyone that wants to know the best music to click to? Mortal Kombat Soundtrack. hands down. theres a lot of people who play(ed) who would back me up on that.

Joshua Williams
(Blink180dude)
add me on facebook!

I will thank Hestas for keeping the game on the server, and Melkor for keeping it running, even if he is an 'Evil' SOB, (or so that is the way he prefers to be thought of), I will miss it still.

I will plat TVA, but I truly doubt that anything will be the same— hopefully better, but I cannot say.
Time will tell.

I will say I miss you all, most of you have my msn; ' moc.liamtoh|allihS_fo_draziW#moc.liamtoh|allihS_fo_draziW' ,
or my aim 'moc.loa|827ziw#moc.loa|827ziw'
feel free to use tham to im or e-mail me.
I will be around, still searching for a replacement that will never come I fear.

How has everyone been, It's sad to see that the game that got me started in the direction of RPG's and the influences that helped me manage my life and have me end up a game designer myself :D So a special thanks to Melkor :P

Bye guys!

Big thing I am going to miss about the game is the family. No mater how bad a day I had I could count on Shilla to brighten it up. The people or the mind numbing killing, sometimes I would log on just to chat and I don't even like chat rooms.

I want to thank Melk (even though he is a Rangers fan) and Hestas for putting on a great game and everyone else who played for the great community that was built. Hope to see you all in TVA. You can all IM me on MSN.

Thank you all for making Shilla something to look forward to.

Loxx

To all those good times, PEACE!!!

The one and only, Diablo.

But I've kept coming back… great game. Very enjoyable. I've been playing for the past year or so as Gatz… every few months I have been emailing adminmail to restore my account :P

I hope Shilla can return… I will be there.

~KOTR~

Your Fellow Shillian,
Easygoer

When I think of all the hours I have spent playing Shilla… LOL! As much as I have loved playing this game I really regret not seeing the glory days. I bet they were a sight to see. I won't lie and say that even after the short five years I have invested in this game that I don't feel true remorse with it's passing.

As I mentioned on the welcome page I will miss Shilla chat the most. Karli said she wished they (Melk and Hestas) would just have that open. I think that would be a fabulous idea.

I have a lot of great memories from Shilla; building Black Dragon forts with Annwynn in the Druid Keep, hours spent looking for Mimics in the Ice Palace (Damn, Mimics), hours spent THing with my infant daughter asleep on my lap, that sense of satisfaction of clicking that death blow against the Warlock, years spent chatting with a bunch of fine folks.

I've already said my "Thank You", but would like to add one… A ENORMOUS thank you to my wife… She was a "Shilla Widow" on more than one occasion.

Shilla was a great game, simply, fun, no thought required, and I look forward to TVA if and when it becomes reality. Will be very interesting be the start of something and I would imagine that I'm not alone when I say that. Until then I can always be reached on msn… moc.liamtoh|305retsofj#moc.liamtoh|305retsofj and don't be afraid to IM me. Worst I'll do is tell ya to F off.

Shilla is a simple game. Really, it is. The thing about it is that anyone could play who had a computer. You didn't need a top notch computer. You didn't need a high speed connection. Just needed a mouse, and a monitor. I played this game when I had a 7-8 year old Dell windows 95 computer and it worked for 4 years before it died. I got a cable modem like halfway through that. But I would play this game for hours, with my cd player with me, listening to the radio or a cd. It was fun. I loved it.

I got a new computer when I went to college, and I figured with that, I'd grow out of this game. Figured, new graphics, more ram, HD space, etc… I'd be set for Runescape or whatever was out there. But I still was stuck on Shilla. Really became fun. Online radio was an option as well, so I'd be doing the same thing over and over.

The point I get at is that it didn't matter if you were poor or rich, you could still play Shilla, and you could generally pass off as just another person. Granted, there was a few exceptions, but for the most part, you were just a line of text that looked the exact same as anyone else.

And through time, I've made many friends. Also made many enemies. Many interesting people. Also met my future wife. Shilla to me was just an easier way to socialize. When I was in high school, I wasn't very sociable. I've gotten better at that since I started working retail for almost 5 years, but back then I wasn't a high people person. But Shilla was easier to fit in with.

Obviously, the gameplay had to be decent enough to keep me. And it's made a lot of strides in the years Melkor took over. But the point/click aspect is something I found very enjoyable. And it was designed well. People may criticize it for being too serious, non-realistic, etc… but it's a game. And the people who didn't like it, didn't stay. The people who did, stayed. Simple as that.

I'd like to thank alot of people that I've met with over the years.

Erik, my best friend through high school, for getting me into this.

Josh(Blink), I could write a whole book about you… lol

I consider the time we played together really fun. We had some really good times, and some really bad times. I could go on and on…
But through it all, I'd consider you my right hand man in the grand scheme of things. I'd like to think that when you say Bp back then, you thought of Blink, and vice versa. We were a blast… lol

Bonz: You were like a 2nd mom to me once. We haven't spoken much in the years since you left, but maybe I'll accept your facebook invite.

Darth(Kat to a lesser extent): My character looked up to yours. Personally, in the years since that, I don't know exactly how you 2 are doing, or how you consider our friendship really. But you were like the 1st person to help me out in a clan. But you personally were a jackass at times, though we later patched things up. But I haven't talked to you in years as well, and I guess from my end, it doesn't really bother me.

CB, Lokar… your like my dad and bro. I miss talking to you guys. I hope you are doing well. I heard you guys went in the life of WoW last… maybe I'll follow.

Hestas: For hosting Shilla. Which is the only reason I could thank anyone else basically. And for keeping it around as long as you did.

Melkor: For changing Shilla for the better. I'd probably have quit way before you stepped in.

Loco: One day we'll meet in person. Until then we'll have to play Madden a bunch more. =P

Nappa: My ~MAD~ partner. Gotta love that. >_< I bet one day we'll meet in person.

AA: A really good friend and someone I can trust a lot. One day I'll meet you too.

Frost: Only reason I mention you, is because you were such a fucktard to my future wife that she left you for me.

Mina: My love of my life. I love you. You mean the world to me. =)