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Drop it.
Join Date: Jun 2013
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A Bittle Bit of Backstory & Shawn Noel
For those of you that don't know, iZone uses the "Shangri-La" tileset. The "Shangri-La" PC server was a playerworld founded by Shaun Noel, aka Shawn64. In 2006, Shawn hung himself due to loneliness. The server was taken over by a fellow who went by the name of Madrox. Some time later, Madrox was killed in a car crash. The server was then managed by MysticalDragon, but was shut down while he was on vacation. Madrox's brother, Kenshin, wanted to revive the server. Shawn was given a memorial statue in iZone, which can be found next to the saber shop above the mission center. Madrox has a club named after him in iZone, which all of you have probably been to at one point or another. MysticalDragon is still alive btw, he is currently working on Delteria and has been for over 10 years. Here is a link to Shawn's "memorial thread" on the official GraalOnline forums, for those of you that would like to see some of the people that cared about him. http://forums.graalonline.com/forums...ad.php?t=63605 Jwd, iZone's first manager, had posted on that thread and thought Shawn was a great guy, which may have a connection with the use of the "Shangri-La" tileset. Fin. |
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Earning Unix dem stacks
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: In a fox hole somewhere
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Interesting how they people who created it died then the iserver pretty much failed in terms of player count
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NBP
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: UK
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Nice post. Very interesting
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Earning Unix dem stacks
Join Date: Apr 2013
Location: In a fox hole somewhere
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Oh yes ._. |
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Verified ✔️
Join Date: Sep 2011
Location: Australia
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Interesting and sad at the same time.
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: En La Caja
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Codein actually had nothing to do with Zone iPhone utilizing Shangri-La. Stefan and Unixmad had implemented it far before jwd came onto the server. They wanted to do it with several commemorations toward S64 and his girlfriend (which died six months before Shawn in a car accident). The original inspiration for the usage is unclear, but the skyworld is the only thing that is released to the general public, although there were minor plans to release the ground world during James' reign until Stefan rejected the thought then turned the ground image of shangri-la into an image of Classic iPhone. Shangri-La came into Zone iPhone nearly a year or two before James (Codein, JWD) was even appointed server manager or even allowed to the server at all, for that matter. The prior manager to James was actually snk, and he may of had some influence on the skyworld. Andrew (snk) was never fond of Zone's custom tilesets or sprites in general.
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Nyanpasu
Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: Kentucky
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Good. This was needed for a long time.
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Back from the dead?
Join Date: Feb 2013
Location: Australia
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I have no words. My face right now looks like this -> :O
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Drop it.
Join Date: Jun 2013
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Yep.
I knew Madrox was his girlfriend, but I had seen posts on the official forums stating otherwise, so I wasn't 100% sure. |
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2011
Location: En La Caja
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floating on
Join Date: Apr 2012
Location: GraalOnline Zone
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sad
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