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Crispin Xavier

Crispin Xavier. A suitably exotic name for a Human colonist character. Let’s make him skilled in engineering, very creative, a good student. Don’t want to make him too exotic, so let’s make him human. From a colony… how about … Aries 7? Yeah! That would be fun!

 

Two years ago, a young man by the name of Michael Ian Davis came to Excalibur with an idea for a character. He longed to bring his creative talents to our Engineering section, to interact with the shipmates he met here, once a week, and too… well, to have fun!

 

We all sim to escape Real Life, I think. Whether you want to become a strong young engineer, a tall, dark alien, or a strong and virile Admiral who is only slightly graying at the temples, we can become, for one hour a week, anyone we want. Out character can escape the bounds of this earthly atmosphere, and the boundaries of our meager terrestrial existence, and travel to the stars.

 

In our minds we sit, not in dimly lighted rooms typing at a keyboard, but in brightly gleaming starships, shooting through the cosmos, exploring strange new worlds with our beloved crewmates, who, being of like mind, explore the heavens with us for a brief period each week, dreaming of places and situations that are quite beyond us. For that one hour, however, they are reachable. With a few deft keystrokes, we can join others, and soar to anywhere our imaginations can take us.

 

Micheal… (No, I still think of him as Crispin. That’s how he introduced himself to us, and that’s who he wanted to be…) Crispin became a wonderfully creative simmer, and soon rose to Chief of his department. The crew loved reading his logs, and interacting with him during sim. During that one hour each week, he could escape from the worries of earthbound existence, and be a brilliant engineer, racing through the stars.

 

Crispin rarely talked about his real life. I remember one quick note explaining that he was absent from some sims, because he had some surgery to go through, but it was optimistic, and the only reason he brought it up, was so his absence might not disrupt the sim. You see, this was his place to escape from real life. His friends here helped him forget the lurking illness that had prompted the note.

 

Crispin Xavier will no longer be joining us on our journeys. On October 7, 2006, Crispin took that Ultimate Journey to the Greatest Adventure of All. He will always be a part of our crew, and we will miss his creativity, his humor, and his friendship.

 

Warp Speed, Crispin,

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Wow.

 

I only came to Excalibur slightly more than a year ago. But I immediately found a niche there in Crispin's engineering department.

 

One of the things I noticed was that we always had something to do. Even if the mission at the time didn't call for a lot of engineers, Crispin would always have some sort of assignment or task for us on which we could collaborate and contribute. From time to time he'd PM me, just to check up. I appreciated the attentiveness.

 

All I can say, I guess, is goodbye, Crispin. I wish I'd gotten to know you better, and longer, but in our time on Excalibur I had a blast. :(

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Oh my God... I never knew... He helped me when I joined you all in Excalibur, and he was such an amazing person. My prayers go out to him and his family! May he enjoy better places! I salute you, sir!

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::wipes tears away::

 

Crispin ... I don't know what to say.

 

I knew you for so little time, then due to fact of life I had to leave excalibur.

 

I really don't know what to say. I guess it matters that we all care. Take care my friend. Let the fighter you designed take you to other dimensions.

 

- Zack

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From all of us on the Excalibur Family. We send Crispin's family our deepest Sympathies.

 

From the Stars we come, to the Stars we Go.

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(Not being of the Excal group, I hope it's alright that I popped in here.)

 

May the winds be always at your back Crispin.

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Good-bye Crispin.

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I was on the Excal before, but I'm not sure if I remember if Crispin was simming when I was playing. All the same though, I'm saddened to hear of his passing and offer my sympathies to his family. I'm sure he's in a better place, looking down on us all. :(

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My God.

I had no idea the situation he was in was so serious. Its strange how, even though most of us have never and probably never will ever meet eachother face to face we form these bonds with eachother as simmers. Though my time on Excalibur where I was able to chat with Xavier was short, I respected the imagination he brought to the experience and yeah definitely that character of his was pretty bitchin'! Pardon my language but it was! I'll miss the guy. I hope that if there is another place after this, he's in it, sitting in a hottub with Marilyn Monroe with a cocktail in his hand. I'll raise a glass to him tonight, I promise that.

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I never met Crispin, but my condolences go to his family and friends for his loss. God bless them all. =0]

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I never talked with Crispin in-sim or out-of-sim, having only been on Excalibur for a few weeks. From what I've read and seen, he was an amazing simmer, and person. My condolences to his family and friends.

 

-Aaron's Player

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I didn't sim with Crispin either, but, it's always sad to hear about the loss of a someone in the community. My condolences to his family and friends.

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This, this is shocking. As a friend and as a crewmate, may you rest in peace. This is really sad, it should've never came to this. :(

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I didn't know Crispin, I do know what it's like to loose someone that's family, even if in the extended, somtimes dysfunctional STSF family.

 

As we like to say in EMS, death is a stable condition; but it also means Crispin's gone on to a better place, one where we all hope he's leering at Rita Hayworth, Betty Page and Marilyn Monroe, discussing political theory with Marx, trading cigars (and leering at the aformentioned pinup dolls) with another Marx, while listening to Glenn Miller and an all-star Big Band.

 

Onward towards Glorious Strife Crispin.

Edited by will_marx

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I can't believe that I never saw this earlier. I believed he served on Reaent as well...and will be missed

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