Howdy, I'm Stefan "Twoflower" Gagne and this is what I've been doing for the last ten years. It's all here. Everything I've written, in one comprehensive place. No more hunting around for pages or poking with URLs! Share with a friend!

Powerful multinational corporations aligned with corrupt politicians to gain power and control. A team of rebels, security system hackers, and hexcode compilers operating outside the law. Mutated beasts created by waste spills. Hulking mechanical security automatons with built in energy beam blasters. Dance clubs throbbing with synthesized music. Elven wizards who cast magic missile spells and summon dire tigers. ... wait, what? Huh?

Enter the world of the HeX coda, a campaign of single player story based Neverwinter Nights™ modules by Stefan Gagne, creator of Penultima, Penultima ReRolled, Elegia Eternum and Excrucio Eternum.

The first, and arguably the best work in Slayers to date. What starts as a simple quest to find some long lost magic eventually steamrolls into a battle for the fate of the world, digging deep into the backstory of Slayers (which I mostly made up as I went along, so canon twonks need not apply.) Won a few awards.

Also pioneered my preferred writing method: using the web to publish HTMLized stories, AS I write them so I can collect suggestions and comments as I go. Moved the fanfic experience from dry finalized ASCII in an e-mail to a living, breathing website with a small community of readers.

It's every Nethead's right to create his own personal godhead on the net in the form of a 'homepage', and I'm no exception. My stuff is scattered here and wide across the net, but this makes a good portal to getting there. So, it's only appropriate to make it my homepage and rant a bit about myself. This isn't what I'd slap on a business card, since I doubt employers want to see all this grey-area copyright violation stuff or my weird, possibly gay 'Twoflower' moniker, but for you guys? It's all love, peace out.

And now: The Bio.

My real name is Stefan Paul Gagne. I was born in Maryland, grew up in Maryland, and am currently residing in Maryland. Maryland sucks. According to Dave Barry the only claim to fame Maryland has is that it had the world's first umbrella factory. Still, it's my home, and I'm comfy cozy here.

My original handle, from the 80's era of BBSing, was Random Q. Hacker (from the Infocom game, "Bureaucracy"). When I got to college I had to shorten that to 8 characters for my new e-mail address, and with random and rqh taken, I decided to switch to Twoflower -- the bumbling, vapid tourist from Terry Pratchett's "Discworld" series. The nick has stuck ever since, which is why I named this page after it; people know me by this handle. (And it's also why my e-mail address is still twoflowr, without the E... 8 characters. Bleargh.)

But I digress. Back to the early years.

I slid through the school system with reasonably high marks while despising every minute of my experience there. I didn't feel any of the a-typical persecution you hear about, despite being notably handicapped (physically disabled? other abled? crippled? what's the accepted word nowadays?) as a diastrophic dwarf. No, I mostly just didn't like schoolwork. Schoolwork was boring. I had other things I liked to do... namely, play games, watch TV, waste time and most importantly, write.

In high school I finally hit a class I really could dig: advanced composition. I wrote FWLS there, and later got into anime which started up my anime fanfic kick and I've been rolling ever since. College mostly sucked because I originally was in the Computer Science department and I don't have a hardon for NP-Complete algorithms, but I later switched to a DYI major of Computers and Interactive Media (with plenty of literature, film studies, art studio, etc) and found myself in love with school for a change. Pity it ended 1.5 years later, but it was still sweet.

Nowadays I kick it old school with my mad homeys in the federal goverment, where I made web pages 40 hours a week. (It could be worse, I could be doing 80 hour mandatory overtime in some .com startup company about to fold before the IPO.) In my spare time, to stay sane, I write. You can find links to what I write above.

I'm a big time Japanese animation fan, but not all anime... just some of the more innovatively unusual stuff. I like pro wrestling for its storytelling, I enjoy cult movies and I tinker around with roleplaying in my remaining spare time.

Wanna rap? E-mail me.