Originally Posted by
Tayron
Oh hey, it's me! You actually got that spelling right too, which is surprising since it's been so bloody long since Pen went down!
Man, I put an embarrassing amount of time into Penumbra back in The Day. But I was there for the lore the DM/programmer created. It was just so good!
A few of us formed a D&D group with him some years later, and played for...man, years, he's good people.
I'm fuzzy on the details, but it was sad and awful. I think in short, they were bought by some french company, who did some shady things and drove them into the ground, and being in france, the previous owners had no legal recourse.
But yeah, people say the internet is forever...but really, there's a lot of things that just kinda, vanish without a trace.