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Arpeegy

Arpeegy are an ancient magical race of little creatures who spend their entire existence in the pursuit of knowledge. Arpeegy use this knowledge to advance science, build philosophy, inform others via storytelling, and for playing games. Arpeegy have an unquenchable thirst for literature and spend a preponderance of their time reading and collecting books. In particular, Arpeegy enjoy books written about exciting world events because these books encourage Arpeegy to combine storytelling and playing games, which is what Arpeegy do best.

Arpeegy resemble a human eye covered with fur or lint and can grow to be about the size of a ripe cantaloupe. Arpeegy have two furry legs and arms that seem to sprout directly from their center. They only have two toes on each foot and two fingers and one thumb on each hand. Arpeegy fur comes in a rainbow of colors and they have no mouth, but can manipulate their fur to resemble one and are usually seen to be smiling. Arpeegy communicate by rubbing their fur together to produce a series of chirping noises. On top of every Arpeegy head are two long whiskers with small balls of fur on the tip of each. These whiskers are highly sensitive to the “aura of imagination” which surrounds all books to some degree or another. Arpeegy whiskers are very sensitive to this aura, which gives them an uncanny ability to find books. The more a book can peak a reader’s imagination then the more aura that book possesses. The more aura that a book contains then the easier it is for Arpeegy to find. Thus, it is very difficult to hide a book from a curious Arpeegy…to include spell books.

History

Arpeegy began in August of 1996 as an on-line hobby shop with the name “The Elder Beholder E-Mail Hobby Shop” that the site owner ran in his spare time. The shop was small and mainly catered to the Advanced Dungeons and Dragons crowd.

In 1997, the store name was changed due to a request from TSR Games Inc, now Wizards of the Coast. It seems the request was a blessing because the site owner had been toying with the idea of changing the store name for some time. You would have to live in Utah to fully appreciate the irony, but members of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (LDS) refer to their missionaries as elders. Since the shop was based in Utah at that time, it was always bombarded with well meaning customers looking for church sanctioned hobbies to mail to their loved ones serving LDS missions. Although this was great for public relations, it was not so good for selling Role Playing Games. So the site owner went back to the drawing board and created a new word, complete with character and meaning, to serve as the store name, trademark, and mascot: Arpeegy. In short, it means Role Playing Game (Role Playing Game = RPG = Arpeegy). For those of you who know the site owner, you also know he uses this name as his online moniker and service mark.

Arpeegy Hobbies & Games grew substantially over the years and soon had thousands of customers from around the world, and it supported numerous game systems and products. A 30-minute a day hobby had turned into an over 8-hour a day job. This presented the site owner with numerous problems, the biggest one was where to get the time to do everything he needed to accomplish. Between family, his career, and Arpeegy Hobbies & Games he was fairly well boxed into a life of all work and no play.

After the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks, the site owner reevaluated his life and decided to spend more time with family and less time with Arpeegy Hobbies & Games. After all, his family is a valued treasure.

Arpeegy’s extensive inventory was liquidated and the shop was closed down on December 31, 2001. The site owner did this in lieu of selling the store because he wanted to keep the Arpeegy name, and his intellectual property rights to it, which he had created and worked so hard to give an excellent reputation.

In 2007, the site owner started a long educational journey to earn a PhD in Organizational Psychology. He maintained a full time career, and went back to school part-time. Still, the educational journey took an extensive amount of time, and he had no time to devote to maintaining the Arpeegy web presence. All of the site owner’s free time went to his family. The site owner earned his PhD in 2017, and now his children are grown adults.

That brings us to the present. The site owner decided to return to Arpeegy in his free time and use it as a fun online web presence. Other projects the site owner completed include The Arpeegy Role Playing Game (ARPG) system, contemporary thoughts on current American politics, and an exploration of deism.

Knowledge Created

The site owner’s completed dissertation was given to the world, free of charge, to be used to benefit humanity.

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