It’s nearly 4 am as I’m writing this, so one could argue that I’m not entirely awake… We came in earlier than usual, as today is the last day, and we’ll be launching jets out for home in a few hours. There wasn’t breakfast for us at the hotel due to the early hour, so I hiked down to the shoppette to grab something, and ended up getting a Krispy Kreme doughnut. But it was as I was hiking back, savoring the taste of that doughnut that I realized something… It’s hard for me to have a Krispy Kreme without thinking of the guys from the Wingless Cafe.
I discovered the stories of Toad and the Wingless back in high school, and was thrilled with every single one of them, and this is where I heard of Krispy Kreme even before I had ever seen an actual store that sold them. They originally started out on the alt.games.warbirds site, but have since moved to http://agw.bombs-away.net. I took some part in them under the name Iceman, as those days I was pretty young and impressionable, images of Top Gun fresh in my mind, and I’m afraid to say that a lot of what I wrote could be considered godmoding. A few years later, having matured quite a bit, I relinquished the name out of respect for one of the developers of Warbirds, but by that time I had drifted away. Sadly, these days the interest in the Wingless has died, and there hasn’t really been a post since 2008, and I honestly think that it started dying a slow death when one of the core members, Carrot, succumbed to cancer several years before that.
But I know that, like myself, the Wingless will always hold a place in the hearts of those that visited it, and as such will never truly die… So here’s to all you guys – may your guns never jam, your engines never fail, and your bullets always find their mark.
- “Serrus”
