ICON Lifestyle Magazine Vol 5 Issue 1 Jan 2013

I asked Ahn how he came across SL. He told me that back in the day when Yahoo! chat had user based chat rooms, he was often found in a Gorean chat room ‘role playing’, in a chat based client, as a slaver. One of his girls had found SL and asked Ahn to try it with her. Apparently that little interlude only lasted two or three days since his computer at the time wasn’t compatible with SL. He returned about six months later on his own, albeit with a different avatar.

After his initial start-up and epic technological fail, this avatar was dormant for over three years. When he returned, he headed straight for the Gorean role play. After about six months he found himself partaking in MENstuff’s first hunt, helping others in chat while trying to find those elusive blue shirts himself. He quips “I must have done something right because, before long, Ivy hired me on to be her assistant and eventually manager of the group.”

I was curious as to where the display name Ahn, came from and he explained that it was chosen for him by a former Gorean owner who was part of a group called Darkest Ahn. His (then) owner had such fond memories of the group that it was decided he should be called ‘Ahn’.

Ahn’s job with Ivy Maverick’s Menstuff Hunt Group is where he makes a difference in everyday residents’ lives. When he started, his job was to check the stores to see if they qualified for designer status and then get them set up or politely decline them, check to make sure notices were in compliance with the group guidelines, add to the designer directory, and serve as a general purpose customer service rep. During hunt times, he gathered the store LMs, checked to make sure they had their group inviters up, put together/delivered the shirts and double check them to make sure they were ready for the hunters. Ahn was quick