Shad's heroic sword quest
the night of our We Love Nyx Afterparty at South Salt Creek Beach, an OrangeFire member's uniquely-made kevlar-and-steel firesword was left behind along the way as we left. when its absence was realized, Shad volunteered to go back down to the beach alone, with a lantern staff & his photons as his only light, & search for the lost sword. most of an hour later, he found it, after diplomatically investigating other camps rumored to have pirated items among them, saving beached squids, & fighting off live ones which threatened to bite him with their beaks. it was lonely work, he could only see a few feet at a time, & the sword lay in a trench in the sand, where he found it, not even by sight, but by determined reconnoitering, the 3rd time he passed over it in the darkness of the trench's bottom. sword in hand, our hero climbed back to the city above where a ride came back, on its 3rd time, to pick him up.
global props
Home of Poi & all its wonderful peeps, for bringing our core crew together with a burning desire to share our desire to burn. . . yo, giving birth to OrangeFire!
props across town
Krista for offering with her beautiful heart to pick up any firetoys in Thailand for OrangeFire family. . . e-mail us at OrangeFire411@yahoo.com until her email's posted in the Member Directory
dulce for so much! for uploading her photos of OrangeFire2, for offering to pick up any firetoys for us at Renegade Juggling when she was in Santa Cruz, for helping people with our Lost & Found, & for sharing her San Diego retail kevlar ribbon source, which we'll soon post up in our Firetoys section. great meeting her husband & friend at Seaworld, hope to see them more!
pozee, Raymund Phule & Wink for hosting Nyx of Connecticut & showing we love her with totally incredible gifts & hospitality, then driving everywhere across SoCal to share "Lady Night" with all of our family
Angie Lin & Kurt for the most beautiful, elegant, & artfully cut circle of Spanish paper-bag candle lanterns as a surprise beacon to guide our people to the end of the beach & the way to the secret pass at the We Love Nyx Afterparty
Bumble for arranging OrangeFire3 & making a rare appearance online to test out working version 2.1 of our new website
calvran for checking in during his travels in Hawaii & NorCal to arrange OrangeFire4
Squirtle for maxing out our quality with real Krispy Kremes at South Salt Creek Beach, FireMike had such a grin from his ordinary glazed & cake donuts being trumped by Squirtle bringing the real true thang!
FireMike for becoming a webmaster overnight
ingpongball for droppin' us her love
lluhmas (sam) & John the Kiwi, Home of Poi members, for advising us about website hosts, what forum technology to use, & sharing their experience. lluhmas has a tres cool tres chic black screen site on a specialty free host for creative writers, check out his writings at lluhmas.blackglass.org/, & visit John the Kiwi's site, "commercial free since March 2002," at www.johnthekiwi.com/, complete with pages spinning fire with his wife Kristen, & a real cool rushing firewad which i'm putting below, cause he says we can all use his images while giving him credit, but i'm gonna squash it sideways to fit our column:
so you can take a copy too, or use it on your OrangeFire Member page, just make sure to give props to John & point out his site as a courtesy we recommend & do right here!
wanna give lluhmas or John the Kiwi a shout out for helpin' us? go here: help us! thread at Home of Poi, quickly register at Home of Poi if you haven't yet, all of us serious pyros belong there, are give them back some love by posting a reply in that thread!
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