FurryMUCK has been in operation for over thirty years. While it initially bounced around from site to site, as many were in colleges which eventually did not want a game being hosted on their resources, eventually it came to more private resources. The last of these was with Tor "Tugrik" Amundson.

Tugrik is an old-guard furry, hailing from the days of FidoNet and dial-up BBSes, and while his profession was with computer networking, he was a true Renaissance-style intellectual, trying everything from wood, metal and plastic to electronics, 3-D printing, digital audio, and so much more. His character, Tugrik D'Itchi, was a big blue monoceros, a self-created race that grew into a family. The big shaggy one-horn was fond of leaning on folks, nudging people about with his nose, and getting groomed with a rake like the elephant-sized puppydog he was.

Tugrik kept FurryMUCK running for literally decades. Sadly, due to a variety of issues, Tugrik's health began to decline years ago. A bout with Covid was something he never truly recovered from, only making things worse, and in the end complications from Long Covid ended his life. I'm going to miss Tugrik, even if we weren't the closest of friends, and a world of furry folk who used FurryMUCK to meet, explore, and be a community have lost one of the original big furry critters.

Keep galumphing in the beyond, Big Blue.