"There are songs about the heroes and the great things they have done
And the hell they went through to get this far
But this song is for the cowboy who never been a hero
And the hard times he goes through all the while

He gives it all he's got, but it's never quite enough
Oh, the Lord and him alone know how he's tried
But he'll try and try again, although he'll never win
And all that he's got goin' is his pride.

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He's never been a hero and he probably never be one
But in his heart he knows he gave his all
My hat goes off to you my friend
And to the champ you might have been
If Lady Luck had smiled on you at all.

The broncs are just too tough, and he doesn't have enough
Of what it takes to make it to the top
What makes him want to go - well, Lord, I guess I know
He loves it too damn much to ever stop.

He bites the dust once more - gets up to hear "no score"
Then he stumbles to the chutes to ease the pain
And underneath his breath he cusses to himself
I'll ride him if I get the chance again.

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If Lady Luck had smiled on you at all" ~ Chris LeDoux "Not For Heroes"

There has never been a better description of how my life has been since I started trying to be a hero than this song.

I'm not perfect, far from it (except as a lover, I excel at that). But I do try hard and apply myself to things that need my attention.

Most of the stories on here are universal but the game itself took place in several different worlds that are mostly identical.

In the main universe the game ended well after the space ship mission that brought about the end of the 1701 verse.

In the universe 2 (Universe 1 ended with a Thanagarian invasion that was handled so badly that it required reset) I survived the ship mission and we where able to blow up the ship but it cost the lives of 48 or so of the people who went up there.  I was not permitted to go do the blowing up part that I probably could have survived so we lost one member of the team that way.

In the aftermath we went through some struggles and we ended up rearranging some things.  Because of the mass influx of new characters needed we moved to a new school, my school.  I had constructed a school facility and business head quarters for Large Mouth Industries my mining company in Idaho.  So the few of us almost adults moved there and I started to administer a school.  This gave me a way to have my wife close like I liked, I got to give her things she wanted and I got to be in charge of things.  Now I wasn't the best admin the system had ever seen but I didn't even get 6 months to work it out.

After a few problems and a couple of disagrements I ended up relocating to Nevada to be closer to my mining properties.  This was also about the time that my ability to collect materials started to fade.  Now I've still never seen any evidence of real X-Gene mutants having there powers fade but that's a different story. So I was having to find a way to do things the right way when I had been cheating.

This was part of a long standing feud in the gaming group where people thought I used the money to bypass things.  And if buying plane tickets and getting a car from a dealer instead of finding one used is cheating, I'm guilty.  So now in this Brave New World I'm told flat out that the GM will never let me have my own money again.  Not that we are hurting for it but seriously, what's the point of working harder that ideas and accomplishments if you cant build a reward in game?