Share Your Stories from your e-fed past

[Franky Higgs]

Hey guys,

I thought a fun topic might be to share things that have happened to you since you've been in e-fedding. Interesting stuff, stories that you can now look back on and laugh, e-fed pet peeves, etc.

The topic came to mind while I was watching some 90's WWF this weekend.

Me personally, I started e-fedding on the old Prodigy service, which I don't know how many of you remember. I guess it was kind of the precursor of America Online. But anyway, you had these bulletin boards, and that's where I found out about e-fedding, or as it was known then, "fantasy wrestling."

The first fed I ever joined, and I don't remember the name, probably something really original like American Wrestling Federation, was a real wrestler fed that had shows every week. The roster was pretty full at the time, but I was able to sign-up with the devastating stable of Mr. Hughes, Kendall Windham, and the powerhouse that is Skinner, all managed by the Doctor of Style, Slick.

So I saw that this coming week Skinner was booked against the Undertaker. I looked and saw how people were "roleplaying", and I followed suit, with what I thought at the time was a great (but looking back probably terrible) series of rp's which desperately tried to make Skinner look somewhat interesting. It was hard, as I had nothing to work off of, with the guy who handled the Undertaker posting exactly zero rp's to my four.

So I sat there with baited breath awaiting the card. We were the third match in, and when I started reading the results, I was pumped to see my hard work pay off.

Imagine my surprise when the bell rang, Skinner was hit with a chokeslam, tombstoned, and beat in about 20 seconds.

Confused, I went to the fed head, and asked him why I would lose when my opponent hadn't even bothered to write anything. His response was "Dude, Skinner would never beat the Undertaker."

That was the last real fed I was in. I started in a no real wrestler fed and haven't looked back since.

One trivia note - one of the guys that handled in that same fed was future ECW manager Joel Gertner. I forget exactly who was in his stable, but he wrote himself as their manager.

[TooSexy]

I love this idea, hopefully more will reply with their stories... but here is my first one:

So it's 1998, John and I have only been rping for a few months I believe when we joined this fed, i think it was called "SWF" or something of that nature, with TooSexy & Quark. We got billed as the "invading heels" which was new for us because we had never rped as "heels" before. It was fun, we took an obvious nWo approach to the whole thing and week after week went up against the top faces of the fed. This went on for at least a month, with two shows a week if I remember correctly.

Well at the big ppv, the owner made a "control for the company" match, putting john, myself and our partner (who for the life of me, I can't remember anymore) against the three top faces they had. Keep in mind, back then there wasn't alot of "backstage" talk about what the results would be or how the match would work... so we read and ppv and see that we "won control of the company". We think the fed head would ask us what we wanted to do each week, but to our surprise... he says: "You won the match, here's the passwords to the fed... it's yours, I will be back in a month, have fun."

THE OWNWER ACTUALLY HANDED THE FED OVER TO US!!!! we couldnt believe it, but it was fun because on the main page, we took their main company logo and had a graphics guy (at the time I didnt know how to make logos yet) and "spray-painted" our group name across the main logo, and put it up on the site. That drew alot of heat and more fun times.

Who's next?

and just my own pet peeve: I can't stand any fed that has real wrestlers in it, or ppl that refer to real wrestlers... ruins it for me. So nick, I applaud you for never going back to a "real wrestler" fed.

[Alexander Rose]

Alright, this should be interesting. I was probably about 2 years into e-fedding, so this was over a decade ago. I joined some little fed with about 8 guys in it called BAWF. By some luck I ended up the champion of the fed in like 2 weeks, mainly cause nobody else did anything decent. A month after that, the fed head just bails. No goodbye, f u guys... nothing. So I started running the fed and bailed on my character. During my recruiting, I ran into some guy from Texas who was about 4 years older than me. Long story short, I let him take over the company. Bad move, I guess. This guy was a sociopath. He was the type of guy who wrote 4 paragraph RPs, and was always the champion.

And his storylines were disgusting. He insisted everybody was gay, and wrote them being gay into the results. He took everything entire too seriously, and believed, wholeheartedly, that this e-fed was some legitimate wrestling organization, and he would always talk about how he was going to put WWE out of business. I changed S/Ns at least 4 times to get away from this guy, and the freak kept finding me and harassing me. The guy actually threatened to sue me over an e-fed, and insisted I was a racist. The guy was a white guy, and I was just completely fed up with his crap. In the end I had to actually get a restraining order against him just so he'd leave me alone.

So yes, that was a fun little adventure in my e-fedding career.


My pet peeve: People who take this stuff too seriously. It's a game, nothing more. No need to start flaming over a game.

[BDC]

There was this one guy in WpW who cancelled Gold Push 49 due to his dramtics @ this time thanX. Caspian Sea-ya!

[Trent Raven]

Gather round children, and I'll tell you the tale of how the legendary NEW was started.

It all began a long long time ago (1997) in a far away place called Monticello, Arkansas.

I was a newly transferred student from Texas and was in an aquaintance's dorm room when I met Lyndrick "Mckai" Collins. One day we were surfing the web on the slowest computers since the advent of the PC, and I mean these things were slower than an Apple IIe. He found an online organization known as the ICW (Internet Championship Wrestling). We joined right as the owner was passing the reins to Russ Karr AKA Boomer, Wicked Clown, etc...

Lyn and I formed the tag team of the Spice Guys. Basically Trent Raven and Mckai Collins were a boy band knock off. Trent lost his first few matches to jobbers but Mckai was pushed hard and won the title in his first month. Lyn quit, but he introduced me to Steve Reaves who had also joined recently as Stunnin Steve. Steve spent a few nights in my dorm room and we hatched a plan to take over the fed a la NWO. Really, all we wanted to do was cause some controversy and create some cheap heat. That was our original intention. We talked to a few guys who handled names like Destructo, Hardcore Jay, and RCW's very own En Fuego and Ares. The more we talked to, the more they wanted us to completely break from ICW.

I started designing a website, and Steve organized the members. Within a week, we had a site that was twice as good as the ICWs and half the roster had moved. As Dan so aptly pointed out on another thread here, I basically sold myself and the fed on every other feds boards begging for members.

By the time we had our first card, we had about 20 solid RPers, half of whom handled 4-5 characters each putting out 4-5 rps per card. It was about this time we met AJ (Grendel) and he provided a lot of insight on how to run the fed. We had a great time and we can proudly say we were the first Efed to host live chat shows, monthly supercards (PPVs), and a healthy roster. I dropped out of management so that I could start winning titles and such, and turned into a title chaser. All the while, Steve was the lifeblood of the NEW. He ran it well, and he loved it. It almost gave him a sense of purpose and revitalized him.

I on the other hand became somewhat of a casanova, and pursued, ahem, other interests. I got married 2 years later and lost complete touch with efedding. You can ask some of the other guys I mentioned here to fill in the blanks, but Steve eventually got disillusioned, and handed the reins to Trey Reed and Jade Diamond (Travis Martin). They merged the NEW with their independent e-fed EGWA to form the NEGWA. I joined for a short time but because Steve and I tended to screw people out of titles a lot, (and I never really realized that until just about a week ago when looking at our old shows) they jobbed me in every match I was in, no matter the amount or quality of RP. I'm sure they still have beef with me, but I'm over it.

So I started a poorly ran TWO (Texas Wrestling Organization). I lack the organizational skills to run anything, but I was so full of myself then that I couldn't see that. It lasted a couple of months and then I was back to taking care of my newborn daughter.

I did a stint or two back in the NEW when it reformed here and there, but nothing like I did before. I declared myself done with e-fedding.

Then Ross (Isaac Comelightly) finds me on facebook and gives me the link here. As soon as I saw En Fuego (Dan Ashe) and Ares (Nick Z.), and Grendel (AJ Supreme) at the helm, I was sold. I filled out an application as soon as I found the silly thing.

And we all pretended to be wrestlers and lived happily ever after. The End.

I hope you all enjoyed the story. Please be quiet as you leave so as not to rouse the ones who succombed to peaceful slumber during the tale.

[TooSexy]

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[Isaac Comelightly]

I look at threads like this and realise that I have a terrible memory. I think I fell victim like most of us of joining the first e-fed I saw, which had 20 members, of which 3 RP'ed, and RP'ed badly (me included). After a series of shows a new wrestler showed up and won the World Title despite being a horrific RP'er, turns out it was the fed head as an alias, needless to say I left very quickly.

I'm quite fortunate that despite being a fed-whore in my time, and at one point was in 5 at once in my 'peak' I can proudly say I've been in more good feds than bad ones and had the pleasure of meeting and working with many brilliant people.....RCW included...yay us.

[Pure Original]

My experience of running an e-fed was one I had just taken over from someone else and at the time I was the World Champ, which pissed most members off...Even though I stated time and again that I would be dropping the title on the first show. Which I did.....the battle for the championship became a three way and I awarded the belt to my original opponent...After discussions with several members it was ruled that he had slightly better RP's and was out RP'ng the new guy. Needless to say the new guy left and convinced half the roster to leave with him....After that I joined a fed called the ICW and was there first champ...Then the fed hed decided to do bullet results....

ie....Falcon wins with Falconslam...Brett Johnson attack after the match.

After a few weeks of crap like that the fed folded.

[BDC]

I remember when Trey tried to merge the NEW with a real fed, the PGA or something.......Sorry man, but that was horrible. LOL.

[Trent Raven]

The PCW. It would have been fine if the d**khead who owned it didn't lie out of his a** to me.

It was cool, though. I did get to hang out every Saturday with Lance Hoyt

[Franky Higgs]

OK, another sad story of e-fedding woe:

Still on the Prodigy boards, and I joined a fed called the UWA. It was awesome, I got to develop one of my favorite characters ("Panther" Ron Steele, whom some of you may remember as a member of the BOD in that fed we used to be in), and the prez of the company, a dude named Jamar, who apparently is some sort of artist now, was a good guy. When the 2nd in command left, I assumed a lot of his responsibilities. I would write up the cards (usually 6 or 7 matches, with the majority in paragraph long recaps, and the semi-main and main fully written out) based on the results he'd send me, everything ran pretty smooth.

Unfortunately, the time came, and Jamar's real life commitments were going to force him to shut down the fed. Matches were announced, and people rp'ed in bunches. One of my other characters was going to be the corner man in the main event, and Steele was doing a prelim match. But a problem came up, and my family had to get out of town. Desperate, I contacted a guy on the roster named Tom, who handled a character called "Mr. Magnificent" Tom Adler (it's crazy I remember that name, this must have been 93-94.) who had a Ric Flair style "long time heel going babyface for one last run" deal going, and had already volunteered to write has match, which was the semi-main. He happily volunteered to do it. I got all the stuff from Jamar, sent it off to Tom, and went to San Diego.

I came back a week later and first thing, checked my "message box." The messages I got ranged from "What the hell?!" to "You guys suck!" Confused, as I thought Jamar and I put together a hell of a show, I went to check it out.

Well, this show would forever be known as the Tom Adler show. In a 7 match card, Tom Adler ran in for a babyface save 5 times. He also cut 4 promos, including one after the main event which was about 10 paragraphs long.

[Franky Higgs]

BTW, since some others have named some, which I agree with, here are my e-fedding pet peeves:

-People who sign up for a fed, post a bio, and are never heard from again.

-People who "live their gimmick" 24/7, both in an out of character. Examples of this can are: People who refer to themselves as their character, possibly even in the third person ("Franky Higgs'll be right back, going to get some coffee.") Obviously, Phil is excluded from this one. & E-fed heels who will act like a jerk ooc just to further or start an angle.

-People who sign up for no real wrestler e-feds whose character is "Even Colder" John Austin, the "Texas Sidewinder" whose move is the Stunner, and whose pic base, entrance, and merchandise are Steve Austin rip-offs.

-People who refuse to make their characters three dimensional, and make them out like supermen who are never hurt or have any emotion.

-Handlers who write with no semblance of realism. Examples:

1. If a guy signs up with a character whose gimmick is "fresh out of wrestling camp, looking for his first break in the business." Yet when they send you a segment for their debut match, they're getting a crowd response coming out like they're Hulk Hogan in 1987.

2. There was a character in a fed once named simply "D" ( AJ, Phil, you guys remember him?) His gimmick was, he would kill the cameraman at the end of each promo. Not figuratively, he would literally murder them. Why would a)the fed continue to send cameramen to a guy who killed them routinely, and b) why was he not brought up on homicide charges, since there was videotape evidence of him committing murder? I know you have to suspend disbelief, but come on.



But please, keep those stories coming. I'd love to hear some from vets like AJ & Phil.

[The Legendary Phil]

Okay, wow, e-fed stories. Okay.

True story, in my first fed I ever joined, was a simmed fed. Most of you may not know what that is as it's ANCIENT in e-fed terms, but basically this is the way it works.

You still get a score on your roleplay on a scale of 1-100 known as a temporary push. Your wrestler also has stats like in smackdown. Stamina, Strength, Speed, Grapple, and Strike as the simulator was supposed to be a "realism" based fed. One of these stats that the player's didn't choose out of a point system was Permanent Push which you would gain one point per singles win, one point per person eliminated in a chaos match, and one point per chaos loss. Also, any title match you'd win earned you half of the opponents permanent push.

Each singles match or tag match you lose one point per loss, and each card you didn't appear on would be a one point loss of permanent push, but each card you'd appear on would be a one point gain.

So then comes this guy into the fed called "The Goatz"

Yes, his name was simply "The Goatz" and his roleplays consisted of only "I am The Goatz! Bring itz!". You'd think with a name, gimmick and roleplay system like this that the guy would stink it up. However, he'd title his RPs with a challenge to the no show of the week.

This went on for months. Months! The guy would post that as his only RP and would just beat them based on temporary push alone, as a no show would always be a loss. Regaurdless of his 5 point roleplays, the man eventally at 3 points a card (one no show victory, and one chaos loss as we did the once a show rumble, and one point for showing up) made his permanent push to something like seventy four in three months!

At this point, I should mention that the way the matches were decided were based mostly on permanent push as it was permanent push plus your temporary push, plus your overall wins.

26 + 74 + RP = 100 point score before he roleplays.

So that leads us to The Phil (c) vs. The Goatz

Not only does that lead us to The Phil (c) vs. The Goatz, with me having a nice win record of thirteen (I know, not the 26 of The Goatz) but also a permanent push of around 40. I didn't think the issue was going to be a big one with only needing a mediocre RP to beat the guy right?

So the first week passes, and I put out a roleplay, and then "The Goatz" busts out a roleplay that gets scored at 84 points.

I about crap myself people. This idiot busts out this "Tales of Caste" Raven-esque roleplay that just floors me and the rest of the fed.

So this Pay-Per-View match keeps getting closer and closer, and I have NO way to beat this guy. Two days prior to the Pay-Per-View, the owner closes up shop and leaves.

Just goes to show you had the owner not shut down the fed when he did the largest jobber in the W.A.W.F.'s history would have wound up with the World Championship Title just by working the system. Crazy is all I can say.

[Trent Raven]

I came across this link

www.geocities.com/archivedwrestling/history/index.html

Some old NEW stories

I read Steve's story, and I realize that I shouldn't run an e-fed, ever.

[Alexander Rose]

Okay, good stuff here, I think.

We're talking about the same guy as in my last story. So I eventually came to the conclusion that even though his RPs were crap, he'd book himself over me no matter what simply because he didn't like me. So I quit. I created a new s/n, and due to lack of creativity, just redid the Ice Kold character, and named him after Marco Heitala of NightWish, just as a masked Kane-like character who never talked. (That's where Tarja started as well.) So I rejoin this guys fed under a new name and new s/n. I did the whole work my way up thing for a couple of months, helping out writing matches and whatnot. Eventually it came down to me and him again. Since his matches were all predetermined from the start, He told me he was gonna drop the belt to me because he admitted I was much better than him. I offered to write the match, and sent it out directly to the fed instead of to him. I wrote the finish using Ice Kold's finishing move, and revealed who I really was. It was great to get one over on him, even if he did job me to himself the next card.