Chimera Castle-in-the-air is the virtual abode of Andy and Beth Wheeler. Why "Chimera Castle-in-the-air?" Our RL home is "Chimera Castle" so it just seemed natural.
Andy is a computer programmer and analyst who's interested in roleplaying and board games, and Stephen King, fishing, rock music from the Beatles to the Violent Femmes, the theater (said with a snooty accent), writing poetry, science fiction fandom, filking, and other weirdness. To give you an idea of his evil nature, he recently ran a Toon version of "Deadlands" at Gamicon, a local gaming convention. Just try to imagine Loony Tunes characters running through a Western/Horror movie and you'll have the idea! He's an invertebrate punster (spineless, really!) but is kind to children and small animals (at least on alternate Tuesdays). He's also an excellent chef. He's known as Pattern Ghost on the ISCA BBS, but prefers to think of himself as Penfold, the hamster sidekick of Dangermouse on the British cartoon of the same name.
Beth (who has been known as Firedrake on everything from cb radio to ) generally stays at home with the childer, Dylan (a hamster-dragon crossbreed), Davey (a little elfkin with honest-to-God pointed ears!), and Alex (who has the longest toes in the known universe). She keeps pretty busy with other things, though; she's an aspiring fantasy novelist, who has just sold a short story, "Training Ground", to an anthology, In the Outposts of the Beyond, which will be out in print sometime this summer. Beth enjoys music (British folk and classical). She also writes filk (sometimes combining talents with Andy, who writes a pretty mean filk song himself) and poetry. She's been known to dabble in letterpress printing, crocheting scarves, making charm bracelets and other jewelry, drawing, painting clothespin people, and a ton of other projects, many of which are eventually relegated to the bedroom closet. She loves to (and is pretty good at, if she does say so herself!) sing, and also plays a (very little) bit of guitar, recorder, and piano. Due to Andy's incredibly sweet Christmas present, she is also attempting to learn the harp (folk lap harp, 22 nylon strings. It's beautiful!) With Andy she's interested in science-fiction fandom and roleplaying games.
The other denizens of our house are the aforementioned Dylan; fifteen years old, and interested in Mage Knight, videography, photography, art, video/computer games, RPGs, science fiction movies and tv shows, playing mandolin and piano, and asking deep questions about things like the nature of the fourth dimension. Davey is nine; he loves to read, enjoys jokes, playing video/computer games and the piano, and pestering his older brother. He's also interested in Yu-Gi-Oh and likes to surf approved sites on the Internet. Our youngest, Alex, is two. He's quite a determined little soul, loves music and climbing, and has an excellent vocabulary for his age as well as a mouth full of teeth. He's recognizing letters, and he loves the Muppets. The other household member is Europa, a tortiseshell cat who figures out how to open doors, and is a lot smarter than is good for her.
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