I have to go back a little farther than 1985.

--snip really dull Jeff history--

Then, by strange chance, when Jeff went to tell Sunil about this neat new game sometime in January, Sunil had just been invited to play with a bunch of "other" people by Randy Way (whom, as it turns out, was a buddy of Steve's in an earlier incarnation, ie, in Grade 9 when they both went to Central, and who would turn out to be the sister of [redacted]).

This was a whole different crowd and Jeff met a lot of people here, none of whom ever come into this story again but all of whom were really important in their day and the source of many many good times.

In the spring of 1983 Jeff went to a D&D game with Sunil and some others among whom was Fred, whom Sunil had met at the International Students Association at the U.

That fall, Jeff started classes himself, moving into College West. It should be noted that by this time he was seeing less and less of people like Paul Baconfield and Russ Eckstein, for various reasons.

The Boys 520 included Jeff, Murray, Kevin and Richard. Richard was from Redvers and was the only person that Leen (who lived down on 4th floor) knew in Regina, so through Richard (who was a retard, and exits very quickly from this tale) Jeff and his new friends Kevin and Murray met Leen.

We also met Andy about this time, but I'm not sure how. He lived in 512, I seem to recall. Also, at the first College West dance of the year "Carel" Sadlowski and Darrin Bailey went from table to table of people they didn't know saying "Hi...we're Carel and Darrin and we're *not* your RA's..."

Murray was very popular because he had a computer in his room and a really neat game called "Loderunner" on it. In September of that year Murray met this dippy brunette named Holly Carswell, who by October had moved in to Murray and Kevin's room (leading to "The Case of the Crusty Pillow"). Also that fall Jeff met Scott Boyes, in passing, in Soc Sci 101 (Introduction to the Marxist Perspective on Mass Media).

Fred and Jeff got to be pretty tight in those days, both being evil biker dudes. In 1984-1985, Jeff started playing D&D with a group that played at College West, was run by Gary and included (or grew to include) Scott Boyes (see above), Andy, Leen, Kevin, and others. (Maybe Scott can flesh out this bit). Jeff brought Sunil, Fred and Bug with him, for which Gary was not to forgive him.

The classic lines from this campaign were "Cut the ropes! Cut the ropes!" and "Amulric...I am going to kill you!"

Later that winter semester (March 1985) Jeff met Kathy Wilde and her friend Joan. Kathy being terribly cute, Jeff decided to spend more time with this bunch, and managed to get himself invited to a late night D&D game at - of all people - Dave Roberts' house. Steve was there, a person who Jeff originally thought was Kathy's boyfriend.

This was the infamous "kill the biker" game. It should be noted that it was Gary's idea to get the other characters - okay, Steve, specifically - to kill the biker guy's character, and later that spring Gary was thrown from a moving vehicle, hit his head and was never quite the same thereafter. Coincidence? You be the judge.

Jeff never did make it anywhere in his pursuit of Kathy, altho' they had some very nice times together riding Jeff's motorcycle and visiting Gary in the hospital. In July Jeff moved to Vancouver for 4 months to work, thus missing out on the First Round Lake trip.

When Jeff returned in October he was invited to a D&D game at Murray's place ("Castle Amber" for those who were there). This was a very good campaign, but the best part was going to the bar afterwards. On one of the first bar trips he and Steve discovered they had much in common and became fast friends after Steve apologized for trying to kill him at Gary's instigation earlier that year.

There is a bit of confusion about dates and stuff, ie, Shelley wasn't at the 1985 Round Lake cuz she was still in Imperial just thinking about going to University. But Scott did get horribly pissed and make a pass at Kathy which did fail. So he's got that part right. And John, I didn't realize you were in Hayford/Conway's Social Science 100 class (Introduction to Mass Media) with Scott in the fall of 1983...I just remember Scott from there. I suppose with the beard he was a little more memorable. Or terrifying.

I can see someone is going to have to sit down with this and work out a chronology.

I think we're still sitting around late 1985 or early 1986 at this point....hmm...

It seems to me that we left off in sort of a grey area between 1985-1987. Lots of things happened those years including our introduction to various types of Schnapps and of course Southern Comfort. Plus poker - a part of our life so important that Faye Rafter, Manager of College West, later referred to us as "The Poker Gang". Steve bought his motorcycle that year, which was good because Fred stopped riding and it gave Our Boy Jeff someone to boot around with. Ummm....we've already heard about Shelley and the Girls of 436. Some of us had a lot more fun with The Girls of 441, which is where Shelley lived in 1986-1987. Jeff fenced for the fall of 1986, but drifted off after Christmas.

In a fit of depression, Jeff graduated at the end of the 1986-1987 year and both he and Leen moved out of College West at the end of August. I think we were the last to leave; Steve left that spring, I think? Murray and Fred were long gone, Kevin...who knows? Mike Sosteric had joined us for a while but he was gone. Scott and John were gone before we ever got there. Carel moved out in 1986. Kathy got married in May or June. An era was over.