http://rangerwiki.net/api.php?action=feedcontributions&user=Van+Man&feedformat=atomRangerWiki - User contributions [en]2024-03-29T14:04:28ZUser contributionsMediaWiki 1.26.3http://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5929Van Man2011-08-05T10:00:22Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
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<div></div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5928Van Man2011-08-05T10:00:10Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 9 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5927Van Man2011-08-05T09:59:55Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 9 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5926Van Man2011-08-05T09:59:45Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 8 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5925Van Man2011-08-05T09:59:33Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 7 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5924Van Man2011-08-05T09:59:23Z<p>Van Man: /* About */</p>
<hr />
<div>== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5923Van Man2011-08-05T09:59:12Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 5 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5922Van Man2011-08-05T09:59:04Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 4 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5921Van Man2011-08-05T09:58:55Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 3 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5920Van Man2011-08-05T09:58:45Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 6 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5919Van Man2011-08-05T09:58:35Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 2 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5918Van Man2011-08-05T09:58:23Z<p>Van Man: /* Anastasia */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5917Van Man2011-08-05T09:58:01Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
''Content removed for blatant plagiarism (Original material located at http://www.theacorncafe.org/phpbb/viewtopic.php?f=2&t=27402)''<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5913Van Man2011-07-29T06:37:21Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Titanic has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if she doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: She must... She must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5912Van Man2011-07-27T06:24:13Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
2:30pm</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5911Van Man2011-07-27T06:22:41Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 9 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man is in a conference room.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5910Van Man2011-07-27T06:15:52Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 8 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
Entering the Kremlin at 8:00am.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5909Van Man2011-07-27T06:13:20Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 7 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
Mansion<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5908Van Man2011-07-27T06:09:44Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 6 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
The writings of Alexandra and Lenin lay on the table.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5907Van Man2011-07-27T06:04:10Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 2 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Bad guys shooting at Van Man.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5906Van Man2011-07-27T06:03:40Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 5 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5905Van Man2011-07-27T06:03:24Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 4 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5904Van Man2011-07-27T06:02:03Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 4 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Russian Archives.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5903Van Man2011-07-27T05:57:19Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 3 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Hotel<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5902Van Man2011-07-27T05:25:12Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
Van Man rises at 4:00am when there are no distractions and when he feels most productive, in order to give symbolic importance to the first order of business each day. He keeps an antique hourglass on his desk, so that he can stop briefly every hour to do push-ups, sit-ups and stretching exercises to keep his blood flowing. Van Man does his writing in his loft. He has also told fans that he uses inversion therapy to help with writer's block. He uses gravity boots and says, "hanging upside down seems to help me solve plot challenges by shifting my entire perspective."<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5901Van Man2011-07-27T05:13:21Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Lost Symbol</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5900Van Man2011-07-27T05:12:54Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5899Van Man2011-07-27T05:12:27Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
[from trailer]<br />
Chip: [lying in a hospital bed] We were in this together, and then you were gone. And now this evil's rising. Van Man has to come back.<br />
Van Man: What if he doesn't exist anymore?<br />
Chip: He must... he must...<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5898Van Man2011-07-25T03:23:42Z<p>Van Man: /* Anastasia */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These paranormal forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5897Van Man2011-07-25T03:21:09Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5896Van Man2011-07-23T05:36:52Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
Irina Spalko: After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5895Van Man2011-07-23T05:07:53Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
Female Russian Agent: After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this case, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5894Van Man2011-07-23T04:43:20Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this novel, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5893Van Man2011-07-23T04:42:59Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this novel, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
Van Man: The holy grail 'neath ancient Roslin waits. The blade and chalice guarding o'er her gates. Adorned in masters' loving art, she lies. She rests at last beneath the starry skys.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5892Van Man2011-07-23T03:52:21Z<p>Van Man: /* Anastasia */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Seven days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this novel, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
The Holy Grail neath ancient rosilyn waits. <br />
<br />
Adorned in masters loving art she lies. <br />
<br />
The Blade and Chalice guarding are her gates. <br />
<br />
She rests at last beneath stary skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5891Van Man2011-07-23T03:43:29Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Five days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Van Man, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Van Man starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Van Man finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this novel, Van Man travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
The Holy Grail neath ancient rosilyn waits. <br />
<br />
Adorned in masters loving art she lies. <br />
<br />
The Blade and Chalice guarding are her gates. <br />
<br />
She rests at last beneath stary skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5890Van Man2011-07-23T03:41:31Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Five days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
'''The Romanov Prophecy'''<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Miles Lord, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Lord starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Lord finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this novel, Lord travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
The Holy Grail neath ancient rosilyn waits. <br />
<br />
Adorned in masters loving art she lies. <br />
<br />
The Blade and Chalice guarding are her gates. <br />
<br />
She rests at last beneath stary skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5889Van Man2011-07-23T03:40:22Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Five days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
After weak governments and the communist era, the Russian people voted to bring back the new tsar, who will be chosen among the closest relative of Nicholas II of Russia from the surviving Romanov clans. Miles Lord, the protagonist, is tasked to do a background check on the favorite contender to be tsar, Stefan Baklanov. After almost being killed in the center of Moscow, Lord starts to discover new facts and documents that could threaten Baklanov's aspirations. Based on the diary of Felix Yusupov and a prophecy of the famous Rasputin, Lord finds out that there could be a direct descendent of Alexis and Anastasia, children of Nicholas II, living somewhere in the world. In this novel, Lord travels to Moscow, St. Petersburg, Starodub, Vladivostok, Atlanta and San Francisco trying to find the inheritor of the Romanov family. If he has success, Russia will find the real tsar, if not, Stefan Baklanov will obtain power, and nobody knows what he will do with the country.<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
The Holy Grail neath ancient rosilyn waits. <br />
<br />
Adorned in masters loving art she lies. <br />
<br />
The Blade and Chalice guarding are her gates. <br />
<br />
She rests at last beneath stary skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5888Van Man2011-07-23T03:34:50Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Five days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Van Man: It'll be like finding the Holy Grail.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
The Holy Grail neath ancient rosilyn waits. <br />
<br />
Adorned in masters loving art she lies. <br />
<br />
The Blade and Chalice guarding are her gates. <br />
<br />
She rests at last beneath stary skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5887Van Man2011-07-23T03:33:29Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Five days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
Ending.<br />
<br />
The Holy Grail neath ancient rosilyn waits. <br />
<br />
Adorned in masters loving art she lies. <br />
<br />
The Blade and Chalice guarding are her gates. <br />
<br />
She rests at last beneath stary skies.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5886Van Man2011-07-22T04:44:30Z<p>Van Man: /* Anastasia */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the benefits of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Five days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5885Van Man2011-07-22T04:42:31Z<p>Van Man: /* Anastasia */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes the Rescue Rangers and I are the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5884Van Man2011-07-22T04:41:48Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 1 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5883Van Man2011-07-22T04:41:07Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 10 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5882Van Man2011-07-22T04:40:50Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 6 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man says goodbye to the Rescue Rangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man's space ship departs into the night sky with him in it.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5881Van Man2011-07-22T04:40:40Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 5 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
The Rescue Rangers find out about the truth about him after discovering the secret documents and old film.<br />
<br />
1977: Van Man was born in California at an unknown location inside of a UFO. His mother was an alien/mouse hybrid. He was put into an incubator because his fur was turning yellow. He stayed in California for 4 days and was sent to Area 51 where he had lived until the age of 18.<br />
<br />
Van Man only wished to rebuild his ship using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home, but was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force in order to learn from the creature's advanced technology and intellect.<br />
<br />
1995: Van Man left Area 51 at age 18 to finish high school in Ohio.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man says goodbye to the Rescue Rangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man's space ship departs into the night sky with him in it.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5880Van Man2011-07-22T04:40:11Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 4 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney & Wings<br />
<br />
The group is in the Diner talking about the freight train crash.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
The Rescue Rangers find out about the truth about him after discovering the secret documents and old film.<br />
<br />
1977: Van Man was born in California at an unknown location inside of a UFO. His mother was an alien/mouse hybrid. He was put into an incubator because his fur was turning yellow. He stayed in California for 4 days and was sent to Area 51 where he had lived until the age of 18.<br />
<br />
Van Man only wished to rebuild his ship using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home, but was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force in order to learn from the creature's advanced technology and intellect.<br />
<br />
1995: Van Man left Area 51 at age 18 to finish high school in Ohio.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man says goodbye to the Rescue Rangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man's space ship departs into the night sky with him in it.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5879Van Man2011-07-22T04:40:02Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 3 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
Life & Death Theme. "Lost" Michael Giacchino<br />
<br />
Van Man's Dad dies in a freak accident involving a plane he designed.<br />
<br />
FOUR MONTHS LATER<br />
<br />
"Easy" by The Commodores<br />
<br />
Chip and Van Man is at the Diner talking about camping at Devil's Tower.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney & Wings<br />
<br />
The group is in the Diner talking about the freight train crash.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
The Rescue Rangers find out about the truth about him after discovering the secret documents and old film.<br />
<br />
1977: Van Man was born in California at an unknown location inside of a UFO. His mother was an alien/mouse hybrid. He was put into an incubator because his fur was turning yellow. He stayed in California for 4 days and was sent to Area 51 where he had lived until the age of 18.<br />
<br />
Van Man only wished to rebuild his ship using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home, but was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force in order to learn from the creature's advanced technology and intellect.<br />
<br />
1995: Van Man left Area 51 at age 18 to finish high school in Ohio.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man says goodbye to the Rescue Rangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man's space ship departs into the night sky with him in it.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5878Van Man2011-07-22T04:39:52Z<p>Van Man: /* Chapter 2 */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
Pele is often depicted as a wanderer, constantly traveling from her domain. Sightings of Pele had been reported all over the islands of Hawaii for hundreds of years, but especially near craters and her home, Mount Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth.<br />
<br />
Pele is known for her violent temper,but also her common visits among mortals. She is said to appear as a tall, beautiful young woman or as a very old, ugly and frail woman. She often accompanied by a white dog and typically tests people. Myths are told of Pele wandering up to people in the form of an old beggar woman, asking them if they have any food or drink to spare. Those who share with her are rewarded and spared. Those who are greedy and unkind to her are punished by having their homes or crops destroyed, so that they themselves may have to rely on the kindness of others. <br />
<br />
Pele's most notorious legend is the curse she puts on anyone disturbing or stealing from her home.<br />
<br />
Van Man and Pele had a relationship going until there was a falling out between the two.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
Life & Death Theme. "Lost" Michael Giacchino<br />
<br />
Van Man's Dad dies in a freak accident involving a plane he designed.<br />
<br />
FOUR MONTHS LATER<br />
<br />
"Easy" by The Commodores<br />
<br />
Chip and Van Man is at the Diner talking about camping at Devil's Tower.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney & Wings<br />
<br />
The group is in the Diner talking about the freight train crash.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
The Rescue Rangers find out about the truth about him after discovering the secret documents and old film.<br />
<br />
1977: Van Man was born in California at an unknown location inside of a UFO. His mother was an alien/mouse hybrid. He was put into an incubator because his fur was turning yellow. He stayed in California for 4 days and was sent to Area 51 where he had lived until the age of 18.<br />
<br />
Van Man only wished to rebuild his ship using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home, but was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force in order to learn from the creature's advanced technology and intellect.<br />
<br />
1995: Van Man left Area 51 at age 18 to finish high school in Ohio.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man says goodbye to the Rescue Rangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man's space ship departs into the night sky with him in it.</div>Van Manhttp://rangerwiki.net/index.php?title=Van_Man&diff=5877Van Man2011-07-22T04:39:14Z<p>Van Man: /* Anastasia */</p>
<hr />
<div>== About ==<br />
'''Van Man'''<br />
<br />
'''May 30 1977'''<br />
<br />
Van Man was born on the west coast of California at an unknown location inside of an alien space craft.<br />
<br />
His nickname is taken from Steven Spielberg's “E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial” movie end credits. <br />
<br />
He is a brown mouse with blue eyes and black hair. His clothing matches Chip's so he can attract a blonde girl mouse some day.<br />
<br />
'''The Spirit of the RMS Titanic'''<br />
<br />
A blonde girl mouse was born on May 31, 1981, in Belfast, Ireland. She is to be known as "Titanic" by her family.<br />
<br />
==Anastasia==<br />
<br />
An update to everyone here.<br />
<br />
This post is going to be a hard one to write. It might also be hard to read, since it may be sort of long and confusing. It's a lot of stuff I have to say, but it's leading to a particular point at the end, so please bear with me if you will. <br />
<br />
I have to start by admitting something to you all. One of the fundamental facts of life about being a <br />
historian is that it comes with challenges. I really try never to complain about it, because in the grand scheme of things I feel privileged to be one of the few to do it, but the truth is that being part of the past is a hard life. It's something I never imagined doing before I started, and it's so far removed from any other experience that until I did it myself there was no frame of reference from which I could have fully understood it. I think maybe it's a little like my interest of antiquities. I think that the historian is probably, in turn, the same kind of situation to most people. For better or worse, people who do this are sort of different, and the uniqueness of it helps make us a pretty close group. However, it also makes it hard to talk about. <br />
<br />
Sometimes we're the ghost hunters.<br />
<br />
One of these is the fact that this job tends to wear people down. It breaks some people. Some people aren't affected much, but some are, badly. I've watched it take a toll on the lives of some of the men around me. There's people who drink too much trying to escape and it gets them into bad situations. Distance and separation drive wedges into personal lives sometimes. Relationships suffer, marriages fall apart, it seems like divorces are a constant occurance when bad spirits follow them home. <br />
<br />
The stress and the pressure make a lot of people unhappy. Answers for how to handle the situation can sometimes seem nonexistant because it seems like it just never ends. To some people this environment seems like too much to deal with and there's no good way out. These forces can push on people until they feel like they can't take it any more and drastic last resorts are all that's left. Four days ago, one of my good friends in our Russian house - someone I've known for over three years, and I went through my training with at headquarters while I was living in New York - tried to kill himself. Fortunately, he lives in a house that he rents with a few other people who are also in the house, so they found him fairly quickly and took him to the hospital. He wasn't hurt too badly, it was mostly just fear and suspicion. <br />
He'll be fine, but he's done in the house and probably soon to be out of the Rangers. He had a ghostly encounter with Grand Duchess Anastasia Nikolaevna of Russia.<br />
<br />
It was my day to stand duty in the house when we found out about this on July 17. At 1:30 in the morning, one of my friend's roommates, also on duty, was woken up to answer a phone call about what had just happened. I was asleep in the same bunkroom, so when someone went in to wake him up, I ended up being woken at the same time and finding out. Not what you want to hear in the middle of the night when you're already exhausted, even before any of this happened, because you've been working hard all day and you only expected to get the chance to sleep about five hours total before you have to get up and work another exhausting day. <br />
<br />
The worst part is that this isn't a lone occurance. A few months ago, a similar thing happened to another person, and in the time I've been at this house, at least a couple of other people besides these two. I also found out that someone from my own Ranger division might have to get out, or at the least will probably have to leave the Rescue Ranger community, because of worsening anxiety attacks and some personal problems that he has to deal with in his life. <br />
<br />
Considering all these things has reminded me of how important it is to stay conscious of and keep some focus on my own reasons for doing this. I joined to do my part to defend my freedom, my country, my family, and the places I call home. I joined hoping it would be the right way to help and defend the people I love. I know it was the right decision. Everything I've done and everything I've gone through has been worth it and I think it'll be something to be proud of for the rest of my life. I'm glad I joined and I aim to successfully finish the term of my enlistment and fulfill all that I made the commitment to do. <br />
<br />
With this in mind, I have to tell you all that the community here is a part of the reason that I do this, because after so many years, this place is somewhere that I consider a home and some of the people here I've known for so long are like a kind of extended family in some ways. One of the things that helps me feel a sense of great purpose in this is looking forward to the times when I can get back here again.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 1 ==<br />
<br />
Launched in 1965, Super 8 film comes in plastic light-proof cartridges containing coaxial supply and take-up spools loaded with 50 feet (15 m) of film. This was enough film for 2.5 minutes at the U.S. motion picture professional standard of 24 frames per second, and for 3 minutes and 20 seconds of continuous filming at 18 frames per second (upgraded from Standard 8 mm's 16 frame/s) for amateur use, for a total of approximately 3,600 frames per film cartridge. A 200-foot (61 m) cartridge later became available which could be used in specifically designed cameras, but that Kodak cartridge is no longer produced. Super 8 film was typically a reversal stock. Kodak makes two types of reversal film in this format today; one color (Ektachrome 100D/7285) and one black and white (Tri-X/7266). The Ektachrome 64T stock has recently been discontinued. In addition to reversals, Kodak also offers two negative stocks (Vision3 200T/7213 and Vision3 500T/7219). In the 1990s Pro-8 mm pioneered custom loading of several Super 8 stocks. Today Super 8 color negative film is available directly from Kodak for professional use and is typically transferred to video through the telecine process for use in television advertisement, music videos and other film projects.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 2 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
Pele, the Hawaiian (Polynesian) goddess of the volcano and fire, was born in Honua-Mea, part of Tahiti. She was one of a family of six daughters and seven sons born born to Haumea (a very ancient Earth goddess) and Kane Milohai (creator of the sky,earth, and upper heavens). There are a number of variations of how Pele first came to the Hawaiian Islands. One of the most common relates that she was exiled by her father because of her temper, most recently for fighting with her elder water-goddess sister Na-maka-o-Kaha'i, whose husband Pele had seduced. <br />
<br />
Pele's oldest brother, the king of the sharks, Kamohoali'i, gave her a great canoe, upon which she and her brothers traveled far from home, over the wide expanse of the seas, sailing on this great canoe eventually to find Hawaii. <br />
<br />
She carried her little sister, Hi'iaka, who is now the patroness of hula dancers, in egg-form, on the way over to the Hawaiian Islands. <br />
<br />
When Pele got to Hawaii, she first used her stick on Kauai -- striking deep into the earth but she was attacked by her older sister and left for dead. Pele recovered and fled to Oahu, where she dug several "fire pits," including the crater we now called Diamond Head, in Honolulu. After that, Pele left her mark on the island of Molokai before traveling southeast to Maui and creating the Haleakala Volcano.<br />
<br />
By then, Namakaokahai, Pele's older sister, realized she was still alive and went to Maui to do battle. Finally, the epic battle ended near Hana, Maui, where Pele was torn apart by her sister. Legend says her bones remain as a hill called Ka-iwi-o-Pele.<br />
<br />
Upon death, she became a god and found a home on Mauna Kea, on the island of Hawaii. Pele dug her final and eternal fire pit, Halemaumau Crater, at the summit of Kilauea Volcano. She is said to live there to this day and is thought to be very happy there because it was the Navel of the World, where the gods began creation.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 3 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
Pele is often depicted as a wanderer, constantly traveling from her domain. Sightings of Pele had been reported all over the islands of Hawaii for hundreds of years, but especially near craters and her home, Mount Kilauea, one of the most active volcanoes on Earth.<br />
<br />
Pele is known for her violent temper,but also her common visits among mortals. She is said to appear as a tall, beautiful young woman or as a very old, ugly and frail woman. She often accompanied by a white dog and typically tests people. Myths are told of Pele wandering up to people in the form of an old beggar woman, asking them if they have any food or drink to spare. Those who share with her are rewarded and spared. Those who are greedy and unkind to her are punished by having their homes or crops destroyed, so that they themselves may have to rely on the kindness of others. <br />
<br />
Pele's most notorious legend is the curse she puts on anyone disturbing or stealing from her home.<br />
<br />
Van Man and Pele had a relationship going until there was a falling out between the two.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 4 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
Life & Death Theme. "Lost" Michael Giacchino<br />
<br />
Van Man's Dad dies in a freak accident involving a plane he designed.<br />
<br />
FOUR MONTHS LATER<br />
<br />
"Easy" by The Commodores<br />
<br />
Chip and Van Man is at the Diner talking about camping at Devil's Tower.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 5 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
"Silly Love Songs" by Paul McCartney & Wings<br />
<br />
The group is in the Diner talking about the freight train crash.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 6 ==<br />
<br />
Super 8.<br />
<br />
The Rescue Rangers find out about the truth about him after discovering the secret documents and old film.<br />
<br />
1977: Van Man was born in California at an unknown location inside of a UFO. His mother was an alien/mouse hybrid. He was put into an incubator because his fur was turning yellow. He stayed in California for 4 days and was sent to Area 51 where he had lived until the age of 18.<br />
<br />
Van Man only wished to rebuild his ship using the shapeshifting white cubes, and return home, but was instead imprisoned and tortured by the Air Force in order to learn from the creature's advanced technology and intellect.<br />
<br />
1995: Van Man left Area 51 at age 18 to finish high school in Ohio.<br />
<br />
== Chapter 7 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 8 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 9 ==<br />
<br />
== Chapter 10 ==<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man says goodbye to the Rescue Rangers.<br />
<br />
<br />
<br />
Van Man's space ship departs into the night sky with him in it.</div>Van Man