After the Boardcon experiment of 2005 board members had collective experience socializing with each other. The barrier had been broken. Coincidentally along came Teamspeak, a nifty little program that allowed “rooms” to be occupied by multiple microphone connections for the purposes of gaming. A link to download the program was posted on Odyssey and within days Khakain had a Teamspeak channel up, running, and bustling with activity. For the first time, Khakainers could mass chat with mics and hear voices never before heard including Keiran, XD, and Archdeco among others. Later Khakainers switched to Ventrillo, a similar program with an added bonus: hilarious talking chat voice. Often times people simply typed into the chat to hear the funny voice mess up words rather than actually using their mics to chat. The fad died out between 2008 and 2009, but occasionally Khakainers will boot it up and chat. SOIS.

Zelda Universe is currently the biggest Zelda fansite on the web by a wide margin. Of its 40,000 members, several were growing weary of the legions of children and the constant staff drama. Capn was already working against the site, but he decided to break away from their board entirely and cause a mass exodus of its best members. He enlisted the aid of HTLOZ, who led him to us. With Fletcher's help we were able to take control of the entire site for a night, and then take control of it again three more times. By blaming the whole affair on Anonymous we were never found out and Capn is still friends with the staff. The "elite" of ZU moved to Zelda Informer, a front for VGRC. Everything under the Capn umbrella eventually became Zangaroa. They remain the newcomers to our extended family.

It seems like AIM chats have been around forever. Board members will remember chatting with each other every night, talking about religion, sex, or video games most of the time. Occasionally chatters would venture into other AIM channels and invite lesbians and gay men into the Khakain chat for a good time. Within the last 5 years, however, Plastic Grass Face became synonymous with the idea of Khakain chat, due to an infamous chat where VGX linked everyone to shemale porn. (Foreshadowing?) While AIM was still the preferred vehicle for chatting it adopted the PGF title as soon as Erin coined the phrase. Later, IRC emerged as a severe threat to AIM. Many brushed it off as a lame nerd chat about nothing but Pokemon, but it continued to become more popular. Abby and Lauren defended AIM more than anyone, claiming that it encouraged constant conversation and participation, something IRC couldn’t claim. AIM eventually would lose the battle of the chats because it was just too damn ancient, but the valiant effort to preserve the nostalgic chat window did not fade into history. Lauren reminds IRC of it every time she logs in. PGF occasionally returns to AIM chat for one night stands.

Treecko is one of those people you have a hard time believing is real. He fails at everything, period. His faulty memory means he gets his facts wrong 70% of the time, the simplest of tasks seem out of his league when he attempts them, and he will make you his enemy for reasons he makes up in his head. But, his failures were always in a loveable, comical way. The implication that he somehow gets up in the morning and functions in the real world made you more hopeful. Sadly, it turns out real life is something else he fails at. After a less-than-enjoyable day with Treecko, Tempest and Capn decided that he had failed his way right out of their good graces. Sworn off Khakain for no reason and currently forbidden from HTLOZ and VGRC, Treecko left only his legacy of failure and a nasty clog in Tempest's toilet.

And so it was that on November Second of the year of our lord 2008, the Khakain Messiah was born, and he did look down upon Khakain and scowl without mercy or remorse. With that kind of attitude it's no wonder we never got around to sending him that teddy moose. Not only was Reitz the first vet to get married, to a gal that already had a kid no less, but he was the first to have a kid of his own? How fitting is that? Reitz is, after all, our surrogate father after VGX kicked us out. The best part of this whole thing, to me, is that he has not stopped being a regular member. Even after we Coryal Law'd his wife. That means that hopefully Reitz will keep us updated about Daniel. Maybe we'll buy his first bike or something. I don't know, is that too sappy? I'm hypotized by that kid's stare. You make a great dad, Reitz!

In a sort of "Cabinent Noir Part III," Dratini was given her own board, Dratini Drive. After a long period of her absense, Disco demanded that the board be given to him and renamed "Disco Demolition." Upon return, Dratini struck a deal with Disco for the board's safe return. She was to make a video of herself wearing a football helmut, impersonating a wookie. Strangely enough, she complied. Being Canadian, she had never heard of football, so she made a helmut out of paper mache. Not only did she fulfill all requirements, but she added an extra scene where she battled Lobsty Francois while dressed like Link. In bed. This scene would inspire Toby's wife to spice things up and make her own link suit, so good times were had by all.

March 2007 saw William hosting Shirecon, a minicon involving he and his NY pals in his hometown of Cheshire Connecticut. December 2007 saw William totally flipping the fuck out at supposed NY pal Luke in a way that suggested something had been brewing for a while. Luke entered a thread involving William and his new female interest, the squirtle maiden Katey, and decided it would be the perfect time to make a reference to Orky’s penis. William saw nothing but deep-seeded brooding hatred in the post and ripped into Luke, claiming he was in so many words the most failurific Khakain stalker ever in addition to being extremely jealous of William. The board sat back with popcorn ready. Luke eventually replied, defending his honor and stating “you aren’t important enough to me” amidst other comments regarding William’s seemingly fragile state. The two remained bitter until sometime in 2009 when apparently they both forgot why they were mad. Maybe now they’ll remember. You can find the argument in “pictures from the past few days” in the Hall of Fame.

Emo Khakain was a messed up place, even if you disregard all the people that were really us in disguise. None was more bizarre than Nick Nack. He didn't sleep, and he didn't eat. What he did was post. At all hours of the day, at a rate fit for Gaia, on a board barely anyone else was posting on. Castle Guard tracked his posting, and every update our monocles popped out in shock. Now that Nick Nack has integrated with us, he explains that his overzealous posting was not out of admiration. Quite the contrary; he wanted to gain favor with VGX so he'd be granted modship, and mess with the board himself. He never did explain how he managed to make 189 posts in one day without outright spamming.

They say missing board members end up in one of several ways: in the army, in jail, on drugs, or dead. In the case of Lady Oriana such fates remain far off in time. In February 2008, Lady Oriana returned to the good graces of Khakain by claiming “sometimes I get lonely in bed.” Everyone with a penis began to pay attention. Soon it came to light that Oriana was in fact a former board member who had left for no apparent reason. Some couldn’t remember her, but it turns out she held the distinction of being included in Maxwell’s play, something not just any n00b could claim. Oriana became a regular contributor on the boards and even attended Boardcon IV in San Francisco. Oriana quickly began dating the man known as Orky sometime in late 2008 and the two evolved into an entity now known as Orkiana. They can be found these days confusing people by posting under an ambiguous screen name. Maggy does not approve.

In November 2007, Gomania was in a heated battle with Dratini’s Domain for rule over the Cabinet Noir. At this time Dratini’s board exceeded Gomania by several hundred posts while Gomania lay rotting at the bottom of the noir due to admin abuse. In an effort to gain a following once again, Joe used his most treasured resource: Dave. Conversations With Dave was born. The thread contained everyday AIM conversations between Joe and Dave, but in addition to being naturally amusing it also fed off of hilariously peculiar classical music selections provided by Dunkinbean. The thread eventually succeeded in thrusting Gomania back into control of the noir. To date the thread features 38 conversations spanning 5 pages of posts. The thread has also spawned various spinoffs including Conversations With Joe, Conversations With Sona, and Conversations With Dratini. The original can still be found on Gomania.