Thread: Nidor Memorial-21/3-Nidor Rock

"Death smiles at us all. All a man can do is smile back"

Bruce Rosenberg, known to us as Nidor, did this with courage. We are poorer without him here now. Moments like these make us realise that it's not some animated, artificial intelligence we're playing with or against in our beloved Ettenmoors. It's human beings. Bruce was indeed someone who took this to heart. He treated everyone with respect and played this game to enjoy himself. To have fun and lighten the mood of others. In many cases he mentored me on dealing with drama in a tribal situation, internally or externally. Even when drama was thrown his way, he laughed it off and made fun of it. He took nothing for himself and shared his joy and happiness with others. A rare example in the greedy and cynical world of today. Bruce was indeed a shining light from the shadows.

As we eat ice cream on the 21st of march, let us gather and remember.

ALL creeps and freeps, please, at at 10pm servertime on wednesday the 21st of march, please come to Nidor Rock, and join creep vent (if you have been banned, I will discuss with Mere a temporary lift for this). Music, and remembrance of our friend for an hour will be the order of the day. Speeches in vent and in game in honour of this wonderful and amazing human being. Please turn up, even if only for a few minutes. Perhaps an ungrouped slaughter fest after, in his remembrance.

Creep Vent Info (100 slots):
brandywine.vent.nfoservers.com
11160

Nidor Rock location:






Ade mein freund. Mein herz brennt.


P.S-Spider raid for this will come soon.

Evil you are really a good hearted person, and this is perfect.

Submitting leave application for work as we speak A nice idea and i will be there. Going to buy some TP and re name my WL in honour (yes with a U) of nidor for this occassion.

I'll link several industrial tunes that Bruce was so fond of. .can't really say anything more.. too numb.

Devs,
please sticky this thread for the time until the event so as to keep it at the top of the forums, and so we don't have to keep bumping it.

-Thanks,

-Brandywine Creeps

I think this is a great idea and will try my hardest to be there and in vent.

I will attend on my spider in his honor. He taught me much about how to play it.

I will celebrate from afar and remember the good times I hope they play Ministry wherever he's going

I will be there.

It's a great idea. I'll be there and spread the word.

I'll be there as well, rendering honors to this fallen soldier of Brandywine.

I wish I could make it...cannot opt out of my plans.

I'll be there and on vent. Still in shock...

I will be attending & I hope to have a little something special to share in Bruce's honor.

Doing it myself right this second. Been killed twice by Freeps. Including familiar names, ahem, despite having my Weaver's add renamed 'RIPNidor' and selected.

Disgusting behaviour

Originally Posted by CarltheRed

Doing it myself right this second. Been killed twice by Freeps. Including familiar names, ahem, despite having my Weaver's add renamed 'RIPNidor' and selected.

Disgusting behaviour

Not everyone reads the forums or cares.

I will do my best to be there, assuming my work co-operates.

I wanted to stop by this thread and offer my condolences to the creeps and freeps of Brandy.

I only knew Nidor through limited back and forth over the forums, but as a long time spider I always respected him. I learned a good deal about my class from reading his posts, and never heard anything but good words from players who knew or fought against him.

Sad to hear of his passing :/

This is a great idea, for a great person... I wish I had more time to get to know him better. He was a great guy and will forever be an icon, he established the bar to which all spiders in lotro measure themselves.

try to come to the memory of a man
Life is unfair, freaks living and great people die so early

For some moments in life there are no words.

My heart goes out to his little girls. My old man died at just about the same age as Nidor. I don't know if they will ever be aware of the feeling shown by this community for their father but if they do I believe it will be a great comfort to them and for that, I would thank everyone who has shown the courage and humanity to express their feelings. There will always be time and cause for cynicism. This isn't one of those times.

Originally Posted by CarltheRed

Doing it myself right this second. Been killed twice by Freeps. Including familiar names, ahem, despite having my Weaver's add renamed 'RIPNidor' and selected.

Disgusting behaviour

For what it's worth, I was out there on the rock this evening, unstealthed, for about 30 min. Said a little prayer, had some drinks, quite a few creeps ran right past me with no issues.

Rock Hill man’s death from cancer – surrounded by love
By Andrew Dys - Herald columnist

In front of the house at 263 Kirkstone Lane, in Rock Hill’s Stafford Park neighborhood, stands a huge heart, carved from styrofoam, about four feet tall.

It is covered with Christmas lights – and little messages to a guy with cancer so bad that it almost wasn’t cancer anymore.

The heart is almost as big as the heart that was inside the house, until around 4:30 Monday afternoon, when Bruce Rosenberg – Rock Hill’s Jewish champion of Christmas lights – died in the arms of his wife and oldest daughter.

An entire neighborhood gathered around the house and wept.

Death came in a hospital bed, next to the king-sized bed in the bedroom, that big huge bed where the neighbor women had held a “slumber vigil” with Bruce’s wife, Julie, Sunday night, when there was little doubt that death was just hours away.

It was not the first time all had crammed into that bed like 8-year-olds. They played a game where all tried to think of every word that begins with “P.”

The words “party” and “pugilist” and “poop” and “pee” certainly were accompanied by fits of the giggles that rolled through the house like ocean waves.

“That’s what family does,” said neighbor Julie Derry, no family by blood – but family certainly.

The hospital bed was where the neighbor men – including a burly former college football player and a chiropractor and other tough guys with strong sinewy arms sticking out of their T-shirts – had placed Rosenberg after carrying him through the house like a king.

The same bed where these tough guys had stood, crying, and watched death in the afternoon. The same bed where, for days that turned to weeks, neighborhood men had sat vigil through deep nights so that Julie, the wife, could find a few hours of sleep in a life that had no rest.

“The man was a giant,” said Scott Ball, a neighbor and a lot more.

In Abu Dhabi and Florida, New York and down the street, hundreds of people who had been part of the life and death of this guy, Rosenberg, cried. He was a man with a wife and two daughters who never, not once, asked anybody to feel sorry for him.

He attracted Christians and Jews, Muslims and agnostics. He was a favorite of cab drivers and doctors.

He loved them all.

Rosenberg’s idea of sorrow was, on March 21 – the day he was diagnosed with cancer last year – to tell people to eat ice cream for breakfast. His idea now has a national following on Facebook, along with a Pit Crew on Facebook – named for the arm pit where the horrible tumors were first found.

Instead of self-pity, he took on a mascot – a flatulent unicorn. The house has so many rubber and plastic unicorns, it looks like a zoo for mutants.

Thankfully, the gassy part is make-believe.

Rosenberg, a self-confessed science-fiction geek who loved “The Lord of the Rings,” laughed about it all, even on the day doctors took out a lung with a robotic machine that looked like science-fiction death with all its gleaming steel.

When his hair fell out he grew a beard, just to show the whole world he would laugh right to the end.

On his mantle, lit for months, remained steer horns, longhorns, wrapped in more Christmas lights.

The horns were one of thousands of items donated last summer in a city-wide yard sale organized by neighbors to benefit the family that had to deal with medicines that are poison and hospital stays that last for weeks in Florida – and a husband who could not work.

All through this past weekend, a tough, seasoned hospice nurse named Barb McGoye, who says, “I have been a nurse for hospice so long I am embarrassed to admit it,” was with the family and saw all this with her own eyes.

Hospice usually means death is imminent. Hospice is brought in to ease death and make it as palatable as possible, while celebrating life as this guy and his family and neighbors surely did. McGoye has seen a thousand deaths. Her uniform under her smile and her grace, a job of love, could be the robe and scythe of the grim reaper.

She had heard the teenaged daughter, Ella, tell her father before he died that someday his grandkids, when there are grandkids, sure would eat ice cream for breakfast every March 21.

“What I watched was amazing, incredible, just unbelievable,” said McGoye. “The family, awesome. But the neighbors – it was a sight to behold. It was, well, it was love.”

Because Bruce Rosenberg laughed until he could not laugh anymore. He worked as a stock broker, then for a financial firm, but his joy was his wife and kids, and the people he could bring a smile to.

In Stafford Park’s annual Christmas lights contest, which raised money for charity, Rosenberg with the Christian wife and kids draped his house and truck. Any more lights would have caused a roof collapse.

Except one light always was added until the eaves just about sagged. On the roof was the Star of David – the symbol of Judaism.

“I believe in love of all and everybody,” Rosenberg told me the last time we talked, when his body was so sick he dropped the phone and said, “I can’t talk any more.”

Julie Rosenberg, after a year of her husband’s pain, remained Tuesday surrounded by those people who had come in shifts, in waves, over days and weeks. A year ago, Julie, tough as a bear, figured she could go through her husband’s cancer alone – and shepherd her children, too.

The neighbors, and the online group, changed her forever.

“The love that was out there, that is out there, for Bruce and this family is truly incredible,” Julie said Tuesday morning. “I have the largest family in the world. Every one of them here, in other places – are you kidding me? They rocked.”

She said this as neighbors and family and friends clomped in and out of her house and living room as if the place was a barroom. Jokes were made about a memorial service to come in weeks, when the neighbors will drink the supplement drink Boost – as Bruce had to for weeks – spiced with something much stronger than vitamins.

Bruce Rosenberg will be buried at 2 p.m. today, quickly in the Jewish tradition after a service with a rabbi and a retired Lutheran pastor – making sure all bases are covered.

Sure there were tears, and preparations that are somber, but the house and neighborhood remained a place of hope and joy and love. In this neighborhood, for 11 months and three weeks, the trek to the Rosenberg home was a death watch.

But all these people showed something different, though. That the life lived, the joy given, the hearts opened, are what matters.

Just like the heart out front. Huge and for the whole neighborhood to see, draped with Christmas lights, shining the way.

Evil,

Nice. I'm adding the link for anyone who wants to print/save it.



http://www.heraldonline.com/2012/03/13/3817517/rock-hill-mans-death-from-cancer.html


I also emailed the author of the article to let him know there is another whole world of people who cared for this man and sent him the links to this forum to see what we are doing and attempting to do and get done for Bruce.

Originally Posted by CarltheRed

Doing it myself right this second. Been killed twice by Freeps. Including familiar names, ahem, despite having my Weaver's add renamed 'RIPNidor' and selected.

Disgusting behaviour

This behavior isn't limited to Freeps. Just got zerged by creeps while sitting on Nidor rock with my "RIPNidor" banner out. Congrats on the KB Snapbite.

What a beautiful sentiment albeit a little hard to read at work without showing emotion. Thanks for sharing. What a guy, what a guy....

Noob question. What time zone is the server on? Thanks. Don't want to miss this.

Originally Posted by fyafyta07

Noob question. What time zone is the server on? Thanks. Don't want to miss this.

EST Time. United States

Rei and I will certainly be attending.

I know Rei is most likely coming on her spider, but I will be attending on my warg.

In addition, Savage Fangs will be attempting to do some special things in memory of Nidor. Any wargs interested in participating with SF should let me know via a forum mail.

Cheers

I know some of the info here is repeated, and I don't mean to keep bringing everyone down, but there is a nice family picture of him here:

http://www.obitsforlife.com/obituary...berg-Bruce.php

Wow... just heard about it from Synapse. So amazingly shocking. One of the nicest creeps, very respected and loved when I was there ~a year ago. My sincere and deepest sympathies to all of you that were close to him. I can't imagine how you all must feel. Btw Evil, fabulous idea and a great time to show that human side you try to hard to hide. We all know it's there anyway.

I was hoping for nidor to get through ever since i saw him make the post about his cancer. I saw today that he didnt emerge victorious. I didn't know him at all but after seeing the posts in rememberance i feel for the loss of his friends family and fellow brandywiners and im going to try and attend the memorial session on the 21st and join in creep vent. I also happen to be a guitar player and am requesting (to who ever can grant permission) to play a song over vent in honer of nidor. This is a song that i wrote for occasions where words were not enough and to help myself and others get through rough times.

Originally Posted by Jeffor

What a beautiful sentiment albeit a little hard to read at work without showing emotion. Thanks for sharing. What a guy, what a guy....

Agreed, glad to be alone in the lunch room atm...

I only knew/got to run with Nidor a few times, but when he was in your group, it was a laugh a minute.
He was a good guy, and the moors will miss, peace be with you always big guy.

I'll do my best to be there with ice cream in hand.

Originally Posted by Jeffor

What a beautiful sentiment albeit a little hard to read at work without showing emotion. Thanks for sharing. What a guy, what a guy....

Originally Posted by Winterfell

Agreed, glad to be alone in the lunch room atm...

Doesn't seem fair that such an amazing person was taken from his family & this world so early Really gives you pause & makes you think about your own life, loved ones, etc. Gotta live life like there is no tomorrow, take advantage of every opportunity, and love those you care about as fiercely & passionately as possible.

For what it's worth, as a person who's never met Nidor, I've added a memorial in my LOTRO and SWTOR forum sig.

I plan on being there on my weaver, Dwynwen, the first creep I created and met Nidor on.....whom I always did and will hold in esteem, both as one of the best spiders on Brandywine, as well as a man with a loving spirit.

i have only talked and ran with nidor a handfull of times and everytime i had a blast will be greatly missed