Oh, fucking HELL

[entelein]

I just got this e-mail:

Excuse me for interrupting your day. I have been asked to infor you of the death of Bruce Cain-Whitlock.
Bruce became ill at home on December 9th was taken to Saint Francis Hospital. He passed away December 12 at
5:55pm that evening. His mother will be holding a memorial service sometime after the first of the year. I do not have her adss at this time but will forward to anyone wanting it. I can be contacted at:
michaelhowell1757@att.com

My sympathy to you.

Mike

For those of you who don't know, Bruce was a Puppetmaster for both Lockjaw and Metacortechs. He was (infamously and famously) the author for the character of Wongmo in the Metacortechs game.

I can't even think right now. oh my god.

I have no words. None at all.


edited to add: the email Mike provided bounced back when I tried to write to him, so I wrote back to Wolf's address to ask for memorial info. I'll post it here when I get it, as I am not likely to be able to make it.

Comments

[lunesse.livejournal.com]

I have no idea what any of that stuff is, or what it means in terms of who Bruce is or what he does. But I am sorry for your loss.

[entelein.livejournal.com]

A lot of the game design work I do is centered around Alternate Reality Games, and the first two full efforts I worked on were named Lockjaw and Metacortechs. As grassroots efforts, we did this for the love of it - in our spare time after work, etc.

During the Metacortechs game, which was based on the Matrix universe, Bruce wrote a lot of content for a New Age-y con man character named Wongmo. Lots of really funny stuff.