A bit about the award...
December 1, 1999 - (from our annual Christmas newsletter we send out. Hubby wrote this part.) As most of you know, our beloved little cat, Shadow, died of cancer last December. The holidays were rough for us last year. But January brought an interesting tribute to our dearly departed feline. A friend introduced Lisa to a role-playing game on the web based on the Broadway Musical Cats. Within days, a new cat had wandered into that electronic junkyard. She was a jet-black short hair named Shadowcat. It seems the spirit of our little tomcat now lives in cyberspace.
On August 17, 1999 my friend Mistoffelees opened a Cats Choice Awards. This was open to anyone who wanted to nominiate a player for their excellent Role Playing ability and felt he/she should recieve a Role Playing Award for their character. The catagories were the cats from the musical, (i.e. Bombalurina, Grizabella, Rumpleteazer ...) but his last category was for a made-up character. Someone nominated my character Shadow, from both The Junkyard (Jemima & Bubbles' board) as well as The Jellicle Junkyard (Similyn & Shadowcat's board). [See History for an explanation of how I ended up with Shadow (same character) on two different boards.] Due to the nature of the voting, the nominees were not told who nominated them.
"Shadow is a good player, and her range of emotions run the gauntlet ... she has a very good player and a good person in RL ... One time Shadow licked the nose of a cat who had his ice-shield on, and her tongue got stuck! .. the rest of the thread was hillarious as her tongue was frostbitten... she is a fun player.."
On September 23, 1999 I wrote up a short description of my character Shadow to be used in the voting of who RPed the best Made-Up Character. The 5 characters listed in this category were: Nick-Ko-Las, Similyn, Gaelic, Shadow, and Baba.
"Shadow is a shorthair black 4yr old queen with a splash of white at her throat and green eyes that turn yellow when being mischevious. A smart cat, she comes up with solutions to problems; one of her famous hare-brained schemes that tend to get others into trouble - herself more often than not! A mother herself, she tends to mother those around her."
On October 8, 1999, in honor of CATS first opening on Broadway, Mistoffelees gave out the awards. Imagine my surprise as Shadowcat won first place! Because of the numerous nominations of this catagory, Misto also had a second place, Similyn, and a third place, Nick-Ko-Las.
