I have one story from my personal experiences with him, and one story one of his friends from Pacific ( I forgot their name) told me years ago.
The one from his Pacific friend:
On the Pacific shard, during the early years of UO, Whitefire organized a guild devoted to helping new players and teaching them how to play and have fun in the game. He used to take his group of new players and guild members all over the world, teaching them the tips and tricks of how to have fun. There was one particular experience that the members loved, Whitefire and one of his emissarys would place large dragon ships in the ocean, letting the guild members board them. The ships drove in opposite directions for about 20 seconds, then circled around. As soon as the ships were within sight of each other the guild members on board would begin shooting arrows and throwing explosion potions at the crew of the enemy ship, they would fight, and circle around as many times as necessary until the last crew member of a ship was killed. Then everyone was ressurected and round 2 began, the ships parked next to each other and one ships crew boarded the other ship and began fighting the enemy crew with swords and bare fists until one crew was dead. This activity taught new players about ships, archery, potions, and pvp at the same time, it was a very fun way to do it.
The one from my personal experiences with him:
On the Atlantic shard around the year 2012, I and multiple emissarys from my guild and HHYC were discussing guild and alliance related things with Whitefire in New Haven, when a player with a (young) tag ran up to our group and began asking if we had any advice for an eager new explorer of Britannia. A lot of people would have simply ignored him and continued with the alliance meeting, but not Whitefire, he immediately jumped up and ran over to them, handed them a huge amount of new player supplies he had in his bank, a few million gold, and invited them to his HHYC guild. The new player was so excited and happy he had made a friend. Many people would have stopped at this point and let the new player fend for himself with the gifts, but of course, not Whitefire, he began to give the new player a tour of all the dungeons, the main pvp areas, the stygian abyss, taught him how to craft and imbue, made him a pretty good sampire suit for free, wrote a book with specefic details on how to build archer, swordsman, mage, and PVP templates to give to the new player, and placed an 18x18 which he gave the new player for free (a week later he also taught the guy how to decorate houses and assisted in the deco process). I followed them for some of the time, in total Whitefire spent about 14 hours straight teaching and helping the new player.
Whitefire was one of the most generous and caring people ever to play UO, and his efforts to help the new player community throughout all of UO's history were absolutely amazing. I feel honored to have had such a wonderful friend for so many years.
