So I wanna talk about Grim.
A few years after I got out, I dropped in to lurk the old barhah.com forums to see if the horde was still a going thing, and lo and behold there’s a Hall of Legends thread by some guy named Murray.
The entries were very insightful (and flattering in my case), but the one that really got me was Grim’s. Because it was spot on for somebody who was as much a builder of the horde as I was.
When I finally did talk to Murray about it a month or so ago, he said that Moloch was his Grim, which I can definitely see, and to me there’s no higher praise to be had.
Grim was not my second in command, he was my other half. He was one of the very first people to step up and start bringing order to the chaos. When we talk about the early RRF, there were two major elements that attracted people. The first is that we made things fun (my job) and we got things done (Grim.)
Grim gave me the luxury of being able to pick a course, say “Let’s do this” and know that in the main the bulk of the horde would be doing this. I could focus on diplomacy, personnel, public relations, any number of other things, because Grim was making sure that survivors couldn’t casually walk the streets of Malton.
On any given day, he knew more about the actual operations of the horde than I did, because he did his job so well that I didn’t need to know about or worry about those particulars.
Grim was the soul of our horde, my cat-herder in chief, my warmaster, and my friend. We’re here to day as much because of his labor as anyone else who’s ever been in this horde of ours.
Wherever you are, old friend, barhah.
