During the great crash of 2004, many panaddicts found their way to Pan’s Den, a site set up on ezboard.com. As people wandered in from the cold night of Pan being down, they greeted each other as if they were long lost family members. A huge variety of topics were created. Novels regrouped. People shared tips on how to retrieve coding for their homes and dust jackets. There was a memorial board for characters that people felt the great crash buried in the rubble. There was even a board called what to do while waiting for Pan to come back.

Feyd Rautha Rabban told us that he began by tidying the office but then “ bought two lightsabers, made a third Sith light saber out of half a broom handle, painted some games workshops models, filled a small notebook with storyline ideas and tried to learn Huttese. Which is insane...Huttese is a made up language created by the sound guys for Star Wars...still it sounds fun to shout: Je killya um pasa doe beeska wumpa!!
Which basically means, kill me and ten more will rise in my place. Heh heh heh.
I'll be getting my Jedi robes in the mail soon...and then I will become an unstoppable force around my neighborhood.....feared by children everywhere...”

Zoe also cleaned and filed two months worth of paper, weeded, cleared her desktop and vacuumed. Clare begged for Pan to come back soon since as a cat she HATES vacuums.

Others worked outside and weeded including Dr. Taniko Kishimoto, who also filled time playing with graphics. The Drippin’ Shade was just frustrated writing “Trying to use one of dey blankety blank host yer own web sites...... *many rude words* and I am muchly miffed.... Grrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr”

Callista was logged in from her English Class—where she apparently was studying e. e. cummings. Others admitted that they were logging on from work and everyone was missing Pan.

Lord Chance and Beatrice created a 12 Step Program for us all. Here it is just in case you have an emergency!

• Step 1: Breathe deep. Admit you are a Pan-aholic (Remember, the first step is the hardest)


• Step 2: Log off the computer. (That's right, you can do it...)


• Step 3: Go outside (OMG - is that the sun??)


• Step 4: Ignore the shakes (They will go away)


• Step 5: Resist the urge to run back inside to your computer (Be strong, we know you can)


• Step 6: At dinner, actually sit at the table instead of in front of your computer.


• Step 7: Call everyone who couldn't get through because you were always online.


• Step 8: If you're having a relapse, call or IM one of your novel members to talk about your stories.


• Step 9: Commit to community service. (And no, we don't mean the kind where you introduce everyone to Pan)


• Step 10: Clean your desk, organizing all the little pieces of paper - notes, ideas, etc, that have been piling up.


• Step 11: Spend 10 minutes role playing in your living room by yourself!


• Step 12: And if all else fails, Check in to Pan's Den!

As for our fearless leader, Wyatt, what was he doing? He too was cleaning his office, but “I found a copy of the game Doom and I might just install that and kill monsters.”

For those of you who remember Pan’s Den, you just might take a trip back there and check the boards. It is a trip down memory lane.