metaversaliens (the staff)

To keep our quality high and our costs low (and pass the savings on to you, the consumer!), we maintain a stable of consultants to supplement our full-time staff. Unfortunately it has recently been brought to our attention that the Department of Labor does not allow us to pay our consultants in hay, regardless of where we house them.

Will was viciously attacked by a grand piano as a child. Since that traumatic event, he has been working towards conquering his phobia of large musical instruments by working as a sound designer, guitarist, and mild-mannered dolphin rider. Will has black hair, and would thank you to remember that he grew it himself, though not without the assistance of a herring named Sal and a bucket of thermal grease.

Doug was born at a very early age in Scituate, Massachusetts, a quaint seaside town best known for its pivotal role in the 1987 film The Witches of Eastwick. Doug was raised by a wandering troupe of summer stock actors, and endured a traumatic childhood filled with low-budget community theater and constant feelings of alienation brought on by incessant alien abductions. This forced Doug to have his childhood memories surgically repressed, and he moved to Ithaca, New York, where he studied Cinema, Sociology, and Philosophy (none of which he has the faintest use for today). Perpetually drunk from touring the local wineries, Doug completely forgot to move back to Massachusetts, and to this day, he still makes his home on the shores of Cayuga Lake (“the Middle Finger Lake“).

Melissa Misicka has been chasing the title of "renaissance woman" for years and years, and might actually catch up if she'd just invest in new sneakers. As a Multimedia Studies and Music Technology dual major at Northeastern University (Class of 2003), Melissa dipped her fingers in as many artistic disciplines she could (which resulted in fairly frequent hand-washing). Evidence of Melissa's exhaustive research capabilities can be found on her senior thesis website.

When not attempting to idiot-proof Metaversal's game rules (a challenge which requires extensive role-playing), Melissa spends her spare time avoiding hand loss at the gleaming teeth of her local woodshop's tablesaw, vanquishing foes of spelling and grammar, and eating her weight in strawberry shortcake.

Chris "C-Sic" Siclari attended school at Northeastern University, earning degrees in computer animation and coffee slinging. On occasion, he simultaneously applies these skills at Metaversal. Chris grew up in the backwoods of Connecticut as a Yankees fan and now resides in the heartland of enemy territory: Boston. Chris survives by keeping a low profile, never provoking the locals and always eating his vegetables. Whenever threatened, he simply mimics the Bostonian's call "Go Sox!", emits a cloud of ink, and vanishes in the confusion.

Born inside of a strip mall in Lodi, he was originally named by the mall security guards who found him. Young Orange Julius was sent to live with a traveling circus where he undertook lion's cage duties and low-level acrobatics. After outgrowing his uniform he set out on his own, hoping to find something real. During a chance hitchhike across the Badlands in the early '90s he happened upon a magic pencil sharpener in the back of an old mans cargo truck. Orange Julius and the pencil sharpener quickly became friends and colleagues and set out to make their fortune. They moved to the Northeast where they briefly wrote a pilot script for a sitcom based on their lives. After much disappointment the sharpener turned to the drink and Orange Julius found that it was time to move on. He changed his name to Tyson and enrolled at Northeastern University where he began studying Animation and Multimedia lore. Tragically, the pencil sharpener was never heard from again.