Guildmates reunited

Way back in the day (and when I say back in the day, I mean before Diablo II had even come out, to give you an idea of how long ago this was) I was in a guild on Battle.net. We tore it up in StarCraft and were big into those silly channel moderation wars back before chat bots were restricted. I had a couple of good friends who stuck around for a while and with whom I ended up playing in Diablo II.

I’m not entirely sure what happened, but I think Diablo II eventually got old and I moved on to other games, coming back for a while when the expansion came out, but I lost touch with most of the people I had hung with. Fast forward a few years later when World of Warcraft comes out, I’m in a new guild, really open, social and casual – meaning we let in pretty much anybody. I was playing on one of my characters named Coldfire – the same handle I had used since the beginning of my time on the Internet.

This guy in the guild I had never seen before starts giving me guff about being unoriginal and having jacked the name from somebody (for a period of time, I was well known in certain circles on Battle.net). I responded that I had been using the name for almost eight years, through Kali and Battle.net and various other games. He said, “Wait, you were Coldfire on Battle.net?”

Me – Yes
Him – Coldfire from 666? (666 was my old guild)
Me – Yeah, who is this? Do I know you?
Him – Dude, I thought you were dead. This is Damian.

Turns out, completely at random, one of my old friends from Battle.net had just so happened to roll a character on my realm, and just so happened to have joined the same guild I was in. It was the biggest coincidence I’ve ever seen in my life. We’ve kept in contact since then and every once in a while tell old stories about the trouble we got into on Battle.net. World of Warcraft for the win. :D