Bill Slease

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Bill Slease

Bill Slease was Content Director at Cyan Worlds during the days of the original Uru Live. He did not return after Cyan's closure and subsequent reopening in late 2005.

As of 2007, he works for Cheyenne Mountain Entertainment/FireSky ^(Wikipedia) on the MMORPG ^(Wikipedia) Stargate Worlds ^(Wikipedia). He has also been working on a book.^[1]

[edit] Umbrella man

Slease is known for the following analogy he made towards the end of the original Uru Live run, in which Cyan is an "umbrella man". It purportedly depicts the way Cyan felt treated by the community at the time.^[2]

Man: Take my umbrellas! Free! They’re not perfect but they’re getting better!

Some People: These are great! Wow, thanks for keeping my head dry. When will the new ones be in?

Other People: What is it you’re not telling us about these alleged umbrellas?

Still Other People: Your whole umbrella idea will never work. I’ve used lots of umbrellas and these are nothing like them.

Some Mean People: Look he cries when I hit him with his stupid umbrella. I can’t believe he made these incredible promises of wonderful new umbrellas. Cry umbrella man! Cry!