Fable Q&A

Tolden · Post by **Tolden** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:47 am

Heeeeeey Fable, I've got some questions for you!

1) Do you go to work in an office? Do you work out of your house?

2) I think it's pretty safe to say that everyone wants to see a real life sneak peek of you! Go on, link a photo, your Facebook profile, or anything! I'm curious!

3) Where did you go to school?

4) Moderating is a full time job? How else does Fable fill up the day?

5) Does Fable watch TV? What shows?

6) Is Fable a dirty hippy? A fundie Neo-con? A progressive moderate? Some sort of primitive tribalist?

7) What's the real Fable story? Child of Colombian insurgents, raised by German cheesemakers? Born to a family of Swedish volleyball players but ran away to Mongolia for a life of internet moderation?

Inquiring minds want to know!

And no, http://www.gamebanshee.com/forums/speak ... post193670
does not count!

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:53 am

Sorry, but the sticky threads are all you get.

Now, tell us about you. A first timer who immediately posts a joke in BG2. Then sees the thread was found funny and moved to SYM, and decided to make a personal thread there, instead. We need to definitely know more about you.

Tolden · Post by **Tolden** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 8:59 am

fable wrote:Sorry, but the sticky threads are all you get.

Now, tell us about you. A first timer who immediately posts a joke in BG2 that targets me. Then sees the thread was found funny and moved to SYM, and decided to make a personal thread, instead. We need to definitely know more about you.

Mmmmm first time poster, very long time lurker!

You've always been a mystery to me. Sometimes a bit of a stick in the mud, but usually pretty neat-o bandito. Sometimes pretty funny, but also quick to lock threads. You're a big bag of confusing contradictions. I decided after writing that April Fool's thing, I needed to finally stick it out there and interrogate you. However, not answering my fun and exciting questions was not part of my elaborate plan to throw you a fiesta.

But really though, if anything, the office or home question was serious, I've always wondered how moderators worked.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:07 am

Uhhh - Fable's got a stalker .... ehh, I mean fan. :laugh:

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:07 am

Tolden wrote:You've always been a mystery to me. Sometimes a bit of a stick in the mud, but usually pretty neat-o bandito. Sometimes pretty funny, but also quick to lock threads. You're a big bag of confusing contradictions.

I am already married, and monogamous. I...I'm flattered, but...it just wouldn't work out.

I decided after writing that April Fool's thing, I needed to finally stick it out there and interrogate you. However, not answering my fun and exciting questions was not part of my elaborate plan to throw you a fiesta.

But really though, if anything, the office or home question was serious, I've always wondered how moderators worked.

Each mod does that their own way, I suspect. And if we seem a little tight-assed at times, it's a matter of enforcing the rules set down by Buck. Sometimes these are mistaken for our opinions, but those aren't the same, at all. For instance, I used to enforce Buck's "no profanities" rule. When he removed it, I didn't just stop enforcing it, I also put back in the ****s, ****s and such that I regularly use in my foul-mouthed life.

Tolden · Post by **Tolden** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:08 am

Xandax wrote:Uhhh - Fable's got a stalker .... ehh, I mean fan. :laugh:

shhhhh don't let the cat out of the bag

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:09 am

Xandax wrote:Uhhh - Fable's got a stalker .... ehh, I mean fan. :laugh:

Alas, doesn't mean I can afford a fountain in our front yard that gushes claret, like the one Buck has.

Xandax · Post by **Xandax** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:11 am

fable wrote:Alas, doesn't mean I can afford a fountain in our front yard that gushes claret, like the one Buck has.

Wouldn't know about that - I usually only get letters written with some weird red substance, so that is way out of my range

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:15 am

Gotta head out to run some errands with my wife. Should be back in about 90 minutes, or so.

Tolden · Post by **Tolden** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 9:18 am

fable wrote:Gotta head out to run some errands with my wife. Should be back in about 90 minutes, or so.

Ah hah! So you do work from home!

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:02 am

Tolden wrote:Ah hah! So you do work from home!

You never had your wife meet you at work, to run errands?

Okay, I'll give you a hint. I'm really László Lajtha, a Hungarian composer and ethnologist who died in the 1960s.

dragon wench · Post by **dragon wench** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:10 am

Careful Fable...
I'd suggest that you begin keeping a careful eye on any odd glints coming from a distance that seem directed at your windows...

And also, watch your back for lurking Bloodstalkers, BS will be jealous that now you too have groupies

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:15 am

dragon wench wrote:Careful Fable...
I'd suggest that you begin keeping a careful eye on any odd glints coming from a distance that seem directed at your windows...

And also, watch your back for lurking Bloodstalkers, BS will be jealous that now you too have groupies

What? You think that BS will be on my tail?

Actually, that thought turns me green. Let me rephrase.

What? You think that BS will launch a preemptive strike?

I must batten down the mizzen haslings, and preorcinate the dwarven throwers!

Fiberfar · Post by **Fiberfar** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 11:56 am

There was a die hard fable fan in one of these other threads as well, so you're gathering up quite the fan base here.

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 2:47 pm

Fiberfar wrote:There was a die hard fable fan in one of these other threads as well, so you're gathering up quite the fan base here.

He probably liked Fable the Game, which I didn't. I just chose the moniker because I've been known to manufacture fables on the spot as a means of teaching.

Yes, the truth is out. I'm not really László Lajtha. I'm actually Aesop. Only less Greek, and with a better beard.

Kipi · Post by **Kipi** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:09 pm

Fiberfar wrote:There was a die hard fable fan in one of these other threads as well, so you're gathering up quite the fan base here.

And is it so big wonder? Fable is GOD, afterall. Every god needs at least small band of followers, and it's obvious that Fable is right now forming such

fable · Post by **fable** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 3:20 pm

Kipi wrote:And is it so big wonder? Fable is GOD, afterall. Every god needs at least small band of followers, and it's obvious that Fable is right now forming such

No, no, no, only a god, a slumming one, in fact, from Babylon. This has been established in SYM years ago, so of course, it is fact.

But GOD? That's Buck. Who else beside Buck and Michael Jackson is fit to wear one glove?

Maharlika · Post by **Maharlika** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 6:02 pm

I can't wait for BS' new entry in his Tunneling where he accidentally ends up in fable's sanctum sanctorium.

Bloodstalker · Post by **Bloodstalker** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 7:59 pm

I'm not sure about a preemptive stike. usually I just wait on the defensive while awaiting the occasion to launch an attack on my enemies flank. Although I'm pretty sure that doesn't make anyone feel better come to think of it.

@Mah...if that old thread wasn;t already dead and buried, the image you just game me would have killed it anyway

Lady Dragonfly · Post by **Lady Dragonfly** » Tue Apr 01, 2008 10:04 pm

fable wrote:You never had your wife meet you at work, to run errands?

I think Tolden is "she".

Not that the possibility of a wife's existence is completely ruled out...

No, no, no, only a god, a slumming one, in fact, from Babylon.

You mean your real name is Marduk?

...He has fifty names many of which are those of other deities whose attributes he usurped. He was of proud form and piercing stare, born mature, powerful, and perfect and superior. He has four eyes, four ears, and emits fire from his mouth when he speaks. He is also gifted in magic.
He rides his storm-chariot driven by Slayer, Pitiless, Racer, and Flyer, poison-toothed, tireless steeds...