This section covers information about wraith-l and the customs, habits and members thereof. Or something like that.
Spam is a horrible little food made of horse meat, soylent green, ground up penis, and plasm. In general Net-speak, Spam is the act of posting mass messages to unwantingg recipients. Examples include "Get Rich Quick" scemes, Chain Letters, and warnings about the "GoodTimes" virus. Spam is sent by either greedy Trolls or newbies who are unaware of how annoying they are.
On Wraith-L, Spam is also the act of posting something to the list that doesn't really have anything to do with Wraith. Spam can be amusing, funny, serious, or just stupid. Some people love Spam, others hate it. Occasionally things get ugly.
The NetWraith Inner Circle is a secret society comprised of members of wraith-l. Every member has a number. Numbers represent status and membership. The elders of the list have the lowest numbers, NetWraith number 1 should be revered and feared. (Note: if anyone actually believed any of that as true, I pity you.)
Basically you join the NetWraith Inner Circle by giving yourself a number and a title. It's pretty easy. If someone else has that number, pick a new one. Nothing really fancy about it.
Originally some members of the NetWraith Inner Circle formed the Spam Hierarchy to further manage and regulate the distribution of Spam. Then some other members formed various heretic cults, including the Church of Spam, the Heretical Cult of Letters (whose members identified themselves with letters instead of numbers) and Yet Another Heretic Spam Cult. There are also now Spam renegades and myself, the Spam Ferryman.
If you now think we are deluded lunatics with too much time on our hands, then you're not too far off.
Deadguy is Richard Dansky's nickname. He's the developer for Wraith. He (mostly) wrote Wraith 2nd Edition. He's an all around swell guy. He also happens to be a fairly regular poster to wraith-l (and a very funny Spammer too!). We're lucky to have Rich on the list, because then we can avoid the inane rules arguments that plague the other White Wolf mailing lists.
Unfortunately for the aspiring White Wolf writers on the list, Rich isn't allowed to read anything like new Arcanos or Relics etc. You're just gonna have to submit them the old fashioned way.
THE BEAST is our nickname for Wraith 2nd Edition. It was originally Deadguy's nickname for it back during development, and it stuck.
Why is it called the BEAST? It's big, grey, evil and cursed. Sounds like a BEAST to me.
A while back, Adders wrote a review of THE BEAST for Arcane magazine and gave it a score of 9 out of ten. Since we all know that THE BEAST is a wonderful book and we base our pathetic little lives around it, we got revenge.
First we soulforged him into an ashtray, hence his nickname Adders, ATEO (AshTray on the Edge of Oblivion), then the 9/10 jokes started. Adders only has 9 fingers and therefore cannot count to 10, etc. (After his review of Oblivion, we now believe he is missing an entire hand. Sad.) He is now residing in a Spam Can. Note- An ashtray with missing fingers who lives in a small cramped tin can is a very desperate creature indeed, and not someone to be trifled with. Several Enfants have learned this lesson the hard way.
Jarec was also soulforged into a lovely Toast Rack for a review of his. He is now a TREO, or Toast Rack on the Edge of Oblivion
Finaly, Jeremy Close was once soulforged into a tasteful desk accecory for comparing Rich to Gary Gygax. Hence the title of TDAEO. (if you need me to explain that, you're in for a smacking)
Sometimes, heavy posters will separate their posts with { }. This indicates that their Shadow is talking.
Example:
I never really cared for Charles In Charge. {Oh, you know you had a crush on Scott Baio.}
Stuff like that.
Dave Seward, aka Bork, #4 of the Inner Circle of NetWraiths, has written up miniature "legion books" for the various Hierarchy legions. Most of them are very good. He has completed all of the legions now. If you missed any of them, they are now available on the Web at http://www.telenet.net/users/s/sewaka67/ He is now working on write-ups for various Renegade circles etc.
Special Note: If you just read the above section and you still want to be on the Wraith list I'm not sure weather to be proud of you or afraid of you ; P