Ok, did my own quick research. Actually "Dark Past" was written by Jonathan, and James was involved as well. I was close enough about Eidan being involved, he did the 3D art for the story. It had it's own separate website back in 2012, and then a new one, shortly after that. Actually, Lyel, James sent you an e-mail on 27 of june 2012 mentioning "Dark Past", Though I don't know if it ever reached you.
Whoever did the Tropes definitely did his homework there... probably at least a part of it was written by someone closely involved, as the "Dark Past" never really went very public.
@anthony now that you mention 3D art it does sound kinda familiar. I may have at least seen that much of it somewhere but not know what it was.
It would be pretty cool to find this story archived somewhere.
@amaranth - Been there, done it, here you go 😉
http://web.archive.org/web/20130204235423/http://niklas.myartsonline.com/dpast/DarkChapter1.html
I'm rather good ad pulling the things out of the past, I guess I'm sorts of a "Hobby digger" 😉
Unfortunately it seems like the chapters 3 and 4 are missing from the archive 😓
Wasn't it one of Eidan's stories
Don't remember. Looks like I missed this one… I have been years off N&F… Busy with my own stuff 😕
Maybe you could post here some of the art?
Found some more archives, here's one old lost site for example: http://web.archive.org/web/20201101191353/https://sites.google.com/site/evenmorestories/home
I may need to spend some time digging through the internet archives
James sent you an e-mail on 27 of june 2012 mentioning "Dark Past"
2012!!!! Don't know HOW you found this (old N&F site archives?). Any clue to which address it was sent? Unlikely I can find it back anyway… the email I used back then is still the same, but the hosting company changed and all the old mails are gone…
I am going to reach Ravengrim and warn him about the new N&F website 😊
@lyel , Well, I've got my own archives, Along with some rather old e-mails 😉 I've forwarded you that ancient letter by pm 😊 .
2012... Dang, I was 15 back then... Thanks to the internet archeology I did to find that, I also found some really old photos of myself, that I didn't even remember. nice, two rabbits with one stone 😉
Say hello to Ravengrim and invite him over, I really liked his stories.
@anthony any chance you have the old forum saved some where? It would be wild to go through that.