We’ve Lost One Of Our Own

[Punkrabbitt]

On Monday August 26, 2024 our friend Kyoteblue/Jonathan Keepers went to Valhalla. We lost him to complications from COVID.

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[Guy Farrish]

Very sad. I shall miss him and his thoughts on gaming. My condolences to all who knew him.

Thanks for letting us know.

[Steve Johnson]

Sad news indeed. My condolences to all who knew him.

[Whirlwind]

That is very sad news. I went back and checked – he posted over 5000 times on this forum over the last 10 years, and as far as I can recall always enthusiastic, always encouraging.  Loved this one, the idea of him and his wife playing Twilight 2000.

[Shaun Travers]

Sad news.  I shall miss him as well.  We did converse outside the forums a number of times over the last 10 years.  Despite the hardships he went through, he was always keen to talk gaming.

[OB]

He posted here recently saying he had a leg amputated, poor man.

RIP Kyoteblue.

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[Mike]

That has proper bummed me out.

[Who Asked This Joker]

Very sad.  Rest in peace, Jonathan.

John

"Nearly all men can stand adversity, but if you want to test a man's character, give him power."

--Abraham Lincoln

[Mike Headden]

Very sad to read that.

My condolences to his friends and family.

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[McKinstry]

RIP Kyoteblue. I’ve known him online only for 10+ years but his enthusiasm for gaming was uplifting.

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[Thaddeus Blanchette]

Oh, fuck…

And he was terrified of picking up COVID in the nursing home they put him in, too. 🙁

The diabetes was kicking his ass these last few years and, after he lost his wife (2017 IIRC), things went downhill. 🙁

I will miss him.

Thank you for letting us know.

We get slapped around, but we have a good time!

[AdmiralHawke]

Wow. I am very sorry to read that.

He was a gentleman. Always encouraging others.

I will miss him too. 🙁

Rest in Peace Kyoteblue.

[Logain]

Sad news. At least his most recent post showed him enjoying the hobby to the last.
Rest In Peace friend.

[Olaf Meys]

I can only echo the words above. A good man, and a loss to the hobby.

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[MartinR]

That is very sad. I remember him from TMP long before TWW. RIP Kyoteblue.

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[Patrice]

Very sad.

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[willz]

Condolences to his family and friends, another gamer has gone to the great wargame table in the sky.

[Ivan Sorensen]

Fuck 🙁

RIP and may Valhalla have a giant gaming table for you my friend.

[Rod Robertson]

When KB lost his partner Joyce I could sense his deep anguish and the dying of the light in him. When he lost his leg due to complications from diabetes and had to sell off or give away almost all of his gaming stuff I was heart broken for him. Soon after when he had to move to an assisted living facility I was devastated. This news has broken me. Oklahoma is a poorer place for his loss. Shine on John from pagan paradise and may the mead taste sweet in Valhalla.

RIP Kyoteblue. You are missed and mourned.

[greg954]

Sad news, my heart goes out to all.

[Andrew Beasley]

Apologies to all and his memory for the delay in responding.

Jonathan – I regret never having faced you over a table and spending a few hours chatting face to face as I feel we have been ‘internet friends’ for many years across different forums and technologies.

I’ve enjoyed your comments / thoughts / dreams and humour (even if they differed from mine) and I will miss the posts, notes, ideas, knowledge and messages you left for me and others.

I can only hope your passing was painless for you and all that came across you find succour in your memory and internet presence.

May I end with a piece based on your first post here:

Today, as I rode by,
I saw the brown leaves dropping from their tree
In a still afternoon,
When no wind whirled them whistling to the sky,
But thickly, silently,
They fell, like snowflakes wiping out the noon;
And wandered slowly thence
For thinking of a gallant multitude
Which now all withering lay,
Slain by no wind of age or pestilence,
But in their beauty strewed
Like snowflakes falling on the Flemish clay.

(Margaret Postgate Cole – 1915)

Rest in Peace my distant friend.

[Konstantinos Travlos]

Nooooo. I am so sorry to hear this. Kyoteblue was such a good person. He gifted me a massive amount of 15mm figures for nothing in return. May he Rest in Peace. A true loss of a gentleman.

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