Players coming and going, who's coming and who's going?

I was just reading through the publicly posted GM log files and noticed an announcement from Big Crunch that TheKandiman has left TMW. Not sure why Kandi left, or for how long, but he seemed like I nice guy. I didn't really get to know Kandi or play much with him, but he always seemed to be around Hurnscald and always seemed to be pleasant and respectful. I know he was a developer, but I don't know much about the devs other than o11c and Freeyorp who have both helped me quite a bit. I should mention Frost as well. Thanks.

I took a TMW hiatus several times. I'm quite sure I was playing back in 2004 or 2005 when Tulimshar was it, there really wasn't anything else. A bit later you could walk from Tulimshar to Hurnscald (they were connected by land). I remember some older names Wolf1985, Wayne, Freya (who still plays). Perhaps some of these characters still play under different names...

My wife asked my last night why I was laughing while playing TMW. I laughed because I'd clicked on a player to see what they had equipped: a sharp knife and cotton shirt. The player had made it to Hurnscald and immediately started asking everyone for items. Sounded like someone who'd played before and was given a few items so they figured they'd just beg their way to a decent character rather than doing the leg work in Tulimshar.