Dead People on My Buddy List

Not so much on AIM, but in irc. I knew a guy (an operator) of #apprentice on efnet. I was a huge fan of Magic: The Gathering for many years, and there was a program which allowed you to connect to someone and play a virtual version of the card game. It was called Apprentice. I was even opped in there for awhile.

He was known as _Urza_ and he comitted suicide at the age of 16 or 17, I can't remember which. At the time I was 16. It was on the news, apparently. Nobody knew why he did it and his parents never revealed what the reason was (or if there even was a reason) to the public.

Him, myself and a few others were apart of a sub-channel from #apprentice. Sort of a "home away from home" place which I started up personally in 2002. The channel changed names a few months later, and around 2004 it died. People idled in it until around the middle of '05, but now it's empty.

Urza was one of the people who used to frequent the channel, along with #apprentice. After Urza died, another member left for the military, and it started to break up. It was really sad.

Jam it back in, in the dark.