Name: Jophiel Malkira (or offline, Joe Hill)

Age: 24 (DOB available on request- sometimes)

Starsign: Scorpio (rather fitting, too)

Gender: Male.
Abode: The eleventh plane of the Outer Darkness (AKA Loughborough, UK)

Physique: 5’4", 70kg, normally recumbent to some degree.

Features: Brown eyes/hair (hair long and normally tied back), beard & moustache, scar on side of throat.

Religious Position: Apathetic Agnostic (I don't know and I don't care).

Dress: Normally black combats/anime-print t-shirt, Magnum boots, either a leather jacket or Italian Army greatcoat when it's cold out. And mirrorshades.

Ornamentation: Signet ring (silver, set with amethyst and hematite, engraved with personal rune-sigil), Silver finger-claws on three fingers of left hand (four-joint type with dragon skull at base, slimmer multi-jointed spinal design and combination of pewter spike ring and fingertip talon).

Favourite Colour: Midnight blue, especially counterpointed with hematite or silver

Hobbies: Reading (anything but ‘literature’, mainly sci-fi, fantasy, tech-thrillers or manga), writing (short fiction, normally sci-fi/low-fantasy), watching movies, computers (both using and messing around with), the hindernet (I swear it’s impossible to work with an active connection), cooking and eating the products (and God- ME- made Tiramisu...), listening to music (see below), Anime, roleplaying (Shadowrun, SilCore), collecting replica weapons, and, of course, staying alive.

Malkira Likes: Doritos, high-speed internet connections, cinnamon, garlic, days that are pleasantly warm and breezy but not too bright, cycling in The Hague at 2am, cats, militaria, long coats, fun email addresses, free will, people who know what they’re talking about and don’t subsist on bullshit, commitment, creativity, caffeinated beverages, chocolate, good food (Italian, Oriental or Mexican by preference), being made to laugh.

Malkira Detests: Doritos 3D’s, mushrooms, trendiness, peer pressure, photos of myself, spiders (acute arachnophobia; don't test it, I don't see the funny side), other arachnids/insects/crustaceans (they all make my skin crawl), compact city-cars, bullshitters, religious fanaticism, ‘better’n’you’-types, most Americans (see previous three entries), hot bright sunny days with no wind, being rained on, stress, decaf, small yappy dogs, techno, gabber and similar music (if you can call it that), off-key singing (hence why I don’t sing), competitiveness, l33t d00dsp3@k, ‘literature’, people who think they’re being amusing when asking me if I’m a Satanist (and no, I’m not, I said I was an agnostic), loud people and other uncontainable extroverts.

Favourite Authors: Terry Pratchett, William Gibson, Robert Jordan, Shakespeare, TS Eliot, Barrington Bayley, Neal Stephenson, Dan Abnett.

Favourite Flix: LOTR Trilogy, Appleseed (2004 version), Ocean's Eleven (remake), Thirteen Days, Apollo 13, Equilibrium, Troy, any Miyazaki/Ghibli film.

Favourite Music: NIN, Rammstein, Paradise Lost, Queensryche, Rush, Tapping The Vein, Evanescence, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Juno Reactor, Marilyn Manson, VAST, G'n'R, Lostprophets, random Anime theme tunes.

Favourite food: Bolognaise, lasagne, cannelloni, chili con carne, roast animal with all the trimmings, unusual fish (eg. swordfish, shark), Tiramisu, chocolate (white or milk), ice cream (Ben & Jerry's), pancakes.

Favourite drink: Real ales, single-malt whisky, fresh coffee, Vanilla Coke (though I may be the only one...)

Favourite saying: "I always aim for the stars, but sometimes I hit London." -Werner Von Braun, father of spaceflight and WWII German rocket designer.


The Shadownet was created on the following system:
Processor: Athlon XP 3200+
Motherboard: MSI nForce2
RAM:Crucial Ballistix DDR 400FSB, 1GB Dual-channel
Graphics: GeForceFX 5600 256MB
Display: Hyundai ImageQuest Q995 19" CRT
Sound: Onboard 6.1, run through 4.1 Quadraphonic Speaker set
Additional Hardware: Dual-layer DVDRW, ZBoard/Razer Diamondback user interface.
Software EnvironmentWinXP Pro, Office XP 2003, Macromedia Web Suite, Adobe/JASC Graphics Suite, Corel/Curious CGI Suite, Nullsoft/MPC Audio/Video.