We just so happen to snag an interview of our very own PQ's content director, pickle juice rumored upon Caryn "Hellchick" Law. She was cool enough to want to go along with our interviews section, and we ended up with a goody! So read on down for what you thought you knew about Hellchick, you're about to learn more! I bring you, the Hellchick interview.

Kiltron: So Hellchick, most of the community pretty much knows who you are, but can you give some of the new folks a bit of info about yourself... what your "really" like when away from the PQ madness? Hobbies? Freetime? Music? Sexlife? Ok no details on that one!

Hellchick: As my bio says at www.planetquake.com/hellchick, I enjoy randomly screaming at passing cars and collecting cheeses of the world. When I'm not doing that, however, I can be found playing my bass guitar or watching bad movies with a certain friend who runs a certain website about a certain something awful. Music-wise, I'm into everything but country (I've killed large men for breathing the name Shania Twain), but I love to play music, and when I do, it's blues or jazz on my bass or classical on my piano.

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Kiltron: Give us some insite on what you use to do before heading PQ? Previous site experience? Other bogus jobs, you might not consider real jobs? (We've all had them!)

Hellchick: Before I came to PQ, I received my bachelor's degree in astrophysics from the University of Wyoming and I was full-time teaching undergraduate physics labs. I was also doing research in theoretical astrophysics (anyone who's actually interested in what I researched can email me, it's fascinating stuff...no, really!) and running one of the observatories at the university. In short, I was well on my way to a career whose main selling point was the opporunity to make lots of jokes about Uranus. Previous to that, I worked in bookstores a lot and before that, of course, had my share of bad jobs in fast food. That was until I held my entire restaurant hostage by threatening to throw random people into the deep fat fryer unless they gave in to my demands to let me run the shake machine.

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Kiltron:  Since the move in coming to PQ, have you thought of anything new that could've been added to the new site that just didn't quite make it to the final relaunch? New sections? Contests? Etc.?

Hellchick: There actually wasn't anything really specific that I had plans for that didn't make it into the relaunch; GameSpy pretty much gave me free reign as to what I wanted in the final design as far as content went. Well, okay, they wouldn't let me have a shrine to the eighties band sensation Menudo, but other than that, I had free reign. The main goal was to really focus on having a lot of stuff on Q3A so people would have a great resource for the game.

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Kiltron:  On an average, how much mail would you say that you receive pertaining to how you do your work? Good? Bad? Don't care as long as it's you doing it?

Hellchick: I receive quite a bit of mail pertaining to how I do my work. Most of it is really positive, telling me that they like what I'm doing. I can't actually recall getting any mail telling me that I'm a horrible, horrible person and I should be destroyed, and that if they were my boss they'd sooner jab hot railroad spikes into sensitive orifices of their body than allow me to continue running PlanetQuake. Oh wait, Spyke said that to me just last week. Well anyway, the majority of the mail I get is really cool. And let's not forget the occasional piece of mail that says, "THERE IS A GIANT MECHANICAL SNAKE IN THE SKY AND IT IS CHASING ME!!!!!!" It's that mail that really makes my job so worthwhile. (wipes a tear from her eye)

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Kiltron:  What did you do over the holidays? Party? Work? Party? :)

Hellchick: More like Work? Party? Work? I went to Washington -- my dad lives just outside Seattle and my sister and I went there for the holidays to spend it with our brother and dad. During that time I worked on PQ remotely from my dad's computer and tried to get all my work done in the morning so I could hang with the family during the day. I got to hang out and jam with my dad's band a bit -- he's a blues bass player in a blues/jazz/rock band called The Billy Moss Band (http://www.mossbrothersband.com/) and they play in some clubs around the Seattle/Tacoma area.

Then of course there was Beatdown 2000. I spent New Year's Eve hunkered in a LAN party, awaiting the destruction of the entire world because of Y2K. And like most, I was disappointed when it didn't happen.

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Kiltron:  Do you play Q3A? And if so, give some folks an idea of the whereabouts you usually go! I'm sure the community would like a chance to frag ya a few times! :)

Hellchick: Do I play Q3A, he asks...*ahem* I run PlanetQuake? That should help answer THAT question! When I play online, I tend to just pick a server that (a) gives me good ping (not hard, as I have a T1) and (b) isn't empty. A lot of people ask me where I play, though, and I promise I'll start keeping track of the servers I jump onto. Maybe I'll leave the IP or something on www.planetquake.com/hellchick -- hmm, I should code a script that does that automatically...

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Kiltron: What was the biggest and hardest time you had while getting the PQ relaunch in order? Deadlines? Layout? Harrassing phone calls in the middle of the night?

Hellchick: It was actually organizing our hosted sites so that we presented them in the
best possible way. Community is really important to PQ, and we spent a huge amount of time determining what kind of listing we wanted for our hosted sites. Did you know that PQ's hosted sites number in the thousands? Yeah, I didn't either until we relaunched. There's so many sites with so much great
information that we wanted to be sure we presented them in a way that made them easy to find and gave them the best possible exposure. As for harrassing phone calls in the middle of the night, I told you I've rehabilitated and that I don't DO that anymore...

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Kiltron:  If these characters were real, which one would you date? Why for the picked one and Whynot for the others? 1.Buzz Lightyear 2. Pekachu 3. Papa Smurf 4. Homer Simpson 5. Mr. Belvedere? (He's not real, nobody is that proper!)

Hellchick: Oh God, are these the only choices I get? I guess I'd have to go with Buzz Lightyear. The only problem is that he's so short. You know, being a kid's toy and all. But if we really loved each other, we'd work around it. Why not for the others? Look at the choices, man!

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Kiltron:  Will you be appearing at any conventions soon? Lan parties? Fragfests?
Grand opening of the new hit movie: "Spielberg, Lucas, Burton in: The Three Bendehos!

Hellchick: Well, you just missed me at Beatdown 2000. As for upcoming stuff, I'm sure to be going to E3, and I'll of course be attending QuakeCon 2000. I have no other appearances scheduled; however, I'm willing to fit some into my schedule at $2000-a-plate "speaking engagements". I don't know what I'd talk about, probably how the sewer backed up into my kitched last week or something. But hey, people love that sort of thing, don't they?

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Kiltron:  Ok, before we pull the plug on this, it's tradition that we ask you what would you like to tell the community about yourself, or anything else that we could consider intersting about Hellchick? And yes, you can tell us what you want for your birthday!

Hellchick: I'd like to tell the community that all the rumors they've heard about me are true, except for that one about the badger, the pickle juice, and the blender. That's blatantly not true -- it was mayonnaise, not pickle juice. Thanks for giving me a forum with which to clear that little misunderstanding up.

Well I'd like to thank Caryn "Hellchick" Law for providing The Mean Arena with yet another cool interview. We do hope you enjoyed this one. And I'm starting to see a crazy interviewing theme emerge from the depths of my something.....not quite sure yet...when I figure it out..I'll let ya know! :)