It all began about three years ago with a "mild-mannered" guy, a book series, and a computer... I was introduced to Redwall by a cousin of mine. I saw him reading "Lord Brocktree", and I asked him why he was reading a book with a sword-toting badger on it's cover. He told me of the fascinating Redwall series. His description immediately captured my interest, and as soon as I was able to find "Redwall" at a bookstore, I was hooked. For a while, I couldn't be found without a Redwall book in my posession. And soon, I discovered the online world of Redwall...
   My first exposure to the "ROC" was at Redwall.org (I just typed it in because Redwall.com didn't work) and subsequently Snowfur's Redwall Encyclopedia. I found them both very interesting, but I also found myself wondering if there were any Redwall sites where one could discuss the books with other fans. Enter "The Long Patrol". I was introduced to a Redwall club and and all-around wonderful site. Here could be found all manners of Redwall things - Book Reviews, Pass-Along-Stories, Redwall News, a Redwall forum... the list rolls on. TLP showed me what a Redwall website could be, and planted the first seeds of webmastering ambition into me...
   I decided to join the Long Patrol. Not surprisingly (as I wasn't new to these sort of things, although I was new to Redwall online), the joining form told me to pick a nickname for the club. It only seemed natural to me to share a name with a Redwall character. My first impulse was to take the name (believe it or not) Dumble, but scrolling through the list of names I saw it was taken. So I decided to take the name of my favorite villain... Slagar! "The Cruel" seemed natural to me as part of the name. Thus I gained the first of my ROC aliases... Slagar the Cruel.
   I heard some people talking about a certain Starfire's site, forum, and RPG at the Long Patrol Forum. I decided to drop in, to see what this whole Redwall Roleplaying thing was. (Before I did, however, I checked up on a few Roleplaying tutorials to avoid doing things wrong. No, seriously!) I took it upon myself to make an original character - not some daft invincible badger or an unrealistic super-fox. I decided to play a horribly under represented species - a bat! Thus Alapalo Zannala the northern spy-bat with a double accent was born. ...in hindsight, he probably wasn't too good of an idea. Double accents can be annoying. Moving on...
   For a while, nothing too terribly eventful happened to me ROC-wise. Then, I saw an ad in one of my favorite Redwall E-zines (the currently dead Redwall Online) for a roleplaying contest - ROC: Survivor. It sounded great to me, so I signed up, never expecting to be picked for the competition, seeing as I had only roleplayed at a few places. To my surprise, I was chosen. I didn't know it then, but at that point, my writing was terrible! Still, everyone put up with me surprisingly well. Besides that, it was a good experience for me.
   I know that many, at this point, are asking "well, when are you going to get to the site?!" And my answer is... um... whoops, I got carried away about my "ROC career" and forgot! Okay, so I remember, on a Redwall site at some point, reading about how there are no sites "run" by moles, bats or voles. I decided right then and there that I would become one of the few, the proud, the hard to understand... the mole sites. I created "Foremole Dinny's Redwall Webpage". I still like how I designed this site: it was actually four sites in one! The Main section, The Wuddship (a whole new approach to book reviews: reviews by "actual Redwall characters"!), Togget's Mustelid Facts (Weasels and Badgers abound), and finally Slagar's Hideout. Slagar's Hideout was full of fun and games - thus, I'm pretty sure it was everyone's favorite part of the site. Actually, many of the features from this section have survived, diffusing into STCP... anyways, I liked this site. Unfortunately, few others did - people saw my choice of design as "confusing", at best. The site was also hard to update, as A) I had to switch accounts to update each section, and B) it was on Geocities, and I had to boot up their Web Publisher program all the time. So after a good, healthy run, I closed the site - with the promise that there would be another. -
   Now, before I go into the creation of STCP, let me explain to you the origin of the tiny little Slagar that may greet you at the beginning of some of my pages. There is a type of computer "art" called spriting. Spriting is when you take a "sprite" (a frame of animation of an object from an electronic game) and edit it so it looks like it could be FROM that game. It sounds dumb, I know, but spriting has it's uses. One of which is the little Slagar guy, who I've claimed as a digital self-representation. I took a sprite of "Tails" from Sonic the Hedgehog, removed one of his two tails, and added a mask. That's basically it.
   As I began on my new site, I had my mind set on a Slagar-based site. The first problem I faced was that my main alias was shared by the subject of my site! So, I abbreviated my alias of "Slagar the Cruel" for the site, reducing it to "STC". The next thing I decided is that I wanted my site to produce all kinds of things. So, what kind of name would cover the subject and a broad range of content? Slagar the Cruel Productions. Originally, I was going to put the site up on graffiti.net, because graffiti.net doesn't have banners, but Angelfire was much quicker, and so I designed my site to look proper regardless of the banner. From there, I simply began to work on content. And so STCP grew, and eventually I decided to free STCP from bannerdom by getting it hosted off of Angelfire. It soon arrived at nelie.org, with a new layout. Nelie.org crashed, however, leaving the nelie.org STCP forever un-updated. (It's a shame - I can't put any notices up about the situation.) So, finally, I turned to techneaux.mine.nu, finally finding the perfect niche for STCP. Thus bringing us to today - STCP 3.0.