Former SOE head honcho John Smedley put out a S.O.S. on Sunday for one of his former employees who is recovering from alcoholism and an emergency trip to the ICU.
Gordon Wrinn, best known to the EverQuest community as Abashi, put up a GoFundMe page to help in his recovery from medical woes that left him penniless. Wrinn said that after 15 years of alcoholism, his body “decided that it was time to die” and sent him to the hospital for emergency treatment.
While he was able to pull through after a lengthy stay in the medical system, Wrinn admitted that it left him destitute with only a job and a computer. He is attempting to raise $4,500 to get back on his feet, out of which $3,403 has already been donated. “My situation is a Catch-22 in that I need a place to be able to work, and I need to have money to get a place,” he wrote.
Abashi worked on the original EverQuest as the associate producer for the base game and its first three expansions, and then moved on to EverQuest II in 2004 and 2005 as one of the MMORPG’s main programmers.
