Erick Wujcik is gone

[zdashamber]

Erick Wujcik died Saturday night, 6/7/08. The press release from Palladium Books with further details can be found here. jimhenley asked me to repost the bit I sent to the Amberlist: perhaps I'll elaborate it a bit further later on, but for now, being rather too sad to embroider, here it is.

I was lucky enough to meet and game with Erick a couple times once he moved out here to the Bay Area... I was pretty daunted (as one is when one runs into a guy who's created a thing that is awesome, which thing you have suggested at perhaps firey length has shades of non-awesomeness about it) and putting up a good face; he was generous and easygoing. I very much respect that he made the ADRPG that is awesome and then set it free to mutate without stepping in to stomp on the odd fronds it put out. He seemed like a good guy. My deepest sympathies to the many people who were his good friends.

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[amberdiceless.livejournal.com]

O_o Oh my god, I don't believe it. The last I heard he was responding unexpectedly well to the chemo. Course that was a while back.

Man, talk about an unexpected punch in the gut. Thanks for passing the news along, though.

[zdashamber.livejournal.com]

I'd been touching in with people who knew him well, like Simone C and Eric T, and knew he'd stopped responding to the chemo and had been taken off it and was sort of drifting into lower energy states. Eric T sent an email this morning about how his sweetie "Kay and her daughter were with him, holding his hand as he went."