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Joined: Thu Mar 15, 2007 6:14 pm Posts: 4250 Location: Digging around in the dusty archives, uncovering Uru history.
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I just learned this week that Zardoz passed away over a year ago (May 24, 2014). His name recently appeared on the Explorers Memorial (Mark “Zardoz” Plummer) and Wafna tracked down an obituary for him: Mark Plummer 1954 - 2014. I thought it would be nice to have a thread where we could share our memories of him. For someone who was in the Myst/Uru community for over 13 years, I'm sure there are many.
If you do a search on this forum for “Zardoz”, you’ll see the results are filled with people thanking him for something, quite often for providing historical Myst/Uru information. Being one of the original explorers in Prologue (he let Phil out of the Bahro cave in Eder Kemo) and a member of the community long before that, he was quite knowledgeable about all things Myst & Uru (as well as many other subjects) and left us a priceless treasure in his website, Zardoz's realMyst Easter Egg Hunt and other Goodies.
He was intelligent, witty, kind, helpful, realistic, creative and humble.
MOUL Memories thread by Zardoz, Feb 04, 2008
A thread about Zardoz wouldn't be complete without mention of his pony, but lacking his quick wit, I can't think of anything pithy to say, so I'll just summarize past posts:
It was a common joke for explorers to ask Cyan for a pony and in July 2009, Zardoz claimed the pony as his own. In The Official Begging & Pleading Thread, he posted simply, "I would like a pony. Thank you." JWPlatt replied by posting an image of a little girl crying with the caption, "No, You Can't Have A Pony." So, Zardoz wrote a " Dear Cyan" post about the pony and later another one. After that, he would frequently use the pony reference as a metaphor for whatever was the topic of discussion. Soon, other posters, including RAWA began referring to "Zardoz's pony" in their posts. (There are too many references to list them all, but here are RAWA's and if you do a search here for "pony" many of the results in the first six pages are about Zardoz's pony. RAWA, Nov 09, 2009; RAWA, May 12, 2010; RAWA, Oct 06, 2011; RAWA, Oct 06, 2011) The last references to the pony were in 2011 when RAWA ended a lengthy post "with love to Zardoz's pony" and Zardoz ended his next post with "Or at least, that's what my pony told me. She hoof-paints, you know ..." Sweet dreams, Zardoz. I miss you.
Edit: Replaced broken link to Zardoz's realMyst Easter Egg website, now hosted by 75th Trombone.
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