Kiriashi Passed Away

[Polraudio 122]

Note: Kiriashi is alive and well, of course. He came forward to us and admitted his mistake, and confirmed he has left the site for good.

I put this in the news section because he was a very big part in our community. Without him we wouldn't have made it this far.

Kiriashi died a hero by pushing a kid out of the way of a truck running a red light.

If your wondering how i found out

4:09 PM - Tatazaki: o.o
4:09 PM - Kiriashi: This isn't Michael.
4:09 PM - Kiriashi: Or kiriashi rather
4:09 PM - Kiriashi: I don't know if tyou knew his name or not
4:10 PM - Tatazaki: =o
4:10 PM - Tatazaki: did something happen to him?
4:10 PM - Kiriashi: He passed away
4:10 PM - Kiriashi: a couple months ago.
4:10 PM - Tatazaki: ....
4:10 PM - Tatazaki: omg....
4:10 PM - Tatazaki: ;-;
4:10 PM - Tatazaki: who is this...?
4:10 PM - Kiriashi: Yeah..
4:10 PM - Kiriashi: I'm his girlfriend's little brother
4:11 PM - Tatazaki: ah.... ;-;
4:11 PM - Kiriashi: Did you know him well?
4:11 PM - Tatazaki: yes; to me he was one of my best friends
4:11 PM - Kiriashi: Mine too.
4:11 PM - Kiriashi: He saved my life once too
4:11 PM - Kiriashi: You said he'd been missed
4:11 PM - Kiriashi: is there anyone else who should know and doesn't?
4:12 PM - Tatazaki: yes
4:12 PM - Tatazaki: on steam
4:12 PM - Tatazaki: his name is Polraudio
4:12 PM - Kiriashi: I'll talk to him I guess.
4:12 PM - Kiriashi: Or you can
4:12 PM - Tatazaki: I will
4:12 PM - Tatazaki: thank you for telling me....
4:12 PM - Kiriashi: Yeah
4:13 PM - Kiriashi: Now I can't stop thinking about him
4:13 PM - Kiriashi: =/
4:14 PM - Tatazaki: T.T this is probibly gonna hurt me... but
4:14 PM - Tatazaki: how did he die? ;-;
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: He pushed some kid out of the way.
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: of a truck running a redlight
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: Didn't even know him
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: a complete stranger
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: Just gave his life up for him
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: He survived the crash for a couple hours later
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: so he got to say goodbye.
4:15 PM - Kiriashi: To everyone

T.T

[kellessdee 48]

This, is terrible news. I am actually very upset about this. I didn't know kiriashi that well, but I do know he was an amazing member of our community, and was a great staff member.

 

It's sad to see, a good human being lost to another impatient idiot with a vehicle.

It's an amazing, selfless act, but I wish it didn't have to happen that way.

 

R.I.P. Kiriashi <3, you will be missed greatly

Q_Q

[Jon Bon 43]

I don't think I ever had the honor of speaking with him personally, but he was definitely one of the names of the members I noted when scouting this site originally, and one of the reasons I joined here. Such a sad day to hear this news. I can only hope to go as honorably as he did when it's my time to go.

[Moonpearl 32]

I only had a single contact with Kiriashi. He sent me an e-mail with heartily appreciation, which made me join this community, and also encouraged me to come back to game development after a long time off. If it wasn't for him, I wouldn't be there and most of my works would still lie dormant in a corner of my mind. I guess he didn't even have the chance to read my reply... Farewell Kiriashi, I hope you're at peace, wherever you might be.

[Bob423 52]

oh my god...i...i dont know what to say. no wonder he hasnt been online. wow...

as with kell, I didn't really know him, and didn't think of him as a friend, but i know we all loved him T.T

[Heretic86 25]

I will remember that he was the first one that made me feel welcome anywhere in the RMXP community, even across several different boards. The best thing about that is the only memories I have of him are good ones. He will be missed. :(

[Tomo2000 60]

Fuck :'( ... I wondered why he never got online anymore... I scanned RMXPU for a few posts by him but couldn't find any recent ones. When I first read the above message copy I wasn't sure whether or not it was some massive elaborate troll or if it really had happened.. Michael was a dear friend, to more than a few of us, too. I had spent many years with him, Polraudio, Marked and countless amazing others working on random projects, like.. I believe it was called The Collector[/b with Polraudio, and we had planned to make our own project a few days before we lost contact.

 

Michael was a dedicated Christian and, although I don't sway to any particular religion, I truly hope he's found the Heaven that he deserves. You will be missed, bro :'(

[FranklinX 37]

I'm so hurt by this. I was wondering why he hasn't been on the forums lately. Kiriashi was a great friend and a truly devoted member. I will miss him as if he was a brother.

[Bigace360 38]

oh my god ops, That makes alot of sense. Now I feel really really bad about that mapping thing, and now I apologies. Well like every said didn't know him that much so not much I can say but R.I.P.

Edited May 21, 2012 by bigace

[Kevin.ds 28]

R.I.P kiri and thank you for everything

[isaacsol 10]

Oh wow, it is sad when we lose members, but the death of a member is something we've never had before. Kiriashi was a good fried here indeed and was an integral part of this place. We will miss his dearly no doubt. Though he wasn't Jewish, but Christian as Tomo2000 has mentioned, I say this prayer for him, our friend:

 

Ayl mo-lay ra-chamim, sho-chayn

ba-m'romim, ham-tzay m'nucho

n'chonoh al kan-fey hash-chinoh,

b'ma-alas k'doshim ut'horim

k'zohar ho-roki-a maz-hirim, es

nish-mas Mikhael

she-holach l'olomo,

be-abur she-nod'vu tz'dokoh

b'ad haz-koras nish-moso, b'gan

ay-den t'hay m'nucho-so, lo-chayn

ba-al ho-racha-mim yas-tiray-hu

b'sayser k'nofov l'olomim, v'yitz-ror

bitz'ror hacha-yim es nish-moso,

adonoy hu nacha-loso, v'yony-ach

al mish-kovo b'sholom,

v'no-mae omayn.

 

And in English for those who don't read Hebrew:

 

Oh G-d, full of compassion,

Who dwells on high,

Grant true rest upon the wings of the Divine Presence (Holy Spirit),

In the exalted spheres of holy and pure,

Who shine as the resplendence of firmament,

To the soul of Michael who has gone to his celestial world,

For charity has been donated in remembrance of his soul;

May his place of rest be in Gan Eden (Garden of Eden/Heaven).

Therefore, may the All-Merciful One shelter him with the cover of His wings forever,

And bind his soul in the bond of life.

The Lord is his heritage;

May he rest in his resting-place in peace;

And let us say, Amen.

[Marked 197]

In the event of acquisitions of insensitivity, I write this post under the assumption that Kiriashi is not dead. Over the last day until now I have been searching in obituaries.

When I first read the above message copy I wasn't sure whether or not it was some massive elaborate troll or if it really had happened

Kiriashi's computer was probably not very secure from trolling family members.. On more than one occasion he has told me that so and so was his older brother using his account who is out to annoy him or whatever.

 

So I don't believe the above story, certainly not one chat transcript by itself that was passed on to Pol and then to us. The nature of the story compounds this. I just don't accept he died, and while something tells me its for the good of the community for me to assume its true and act more sympathetically, instead I'm going to attempt prove or disapprove the above story. I owe him that much at least, if the story is true.

 

Someone like Kiriashi (who uses the internet a lot and has many accounts) would leave behind a lot of evidence of his existence. I have thousands of his IP addresses logged, I know his real name and location, etc.

 

Once I'm certain this is true, I will take reasonable steps to ensure his memory will live on in RMXPU. But in the meantime, I will personally consider him to be alive and well. Just on one of his many, many sabbaticals.

 

I invite anyone with any information that may assist me to send me a PM.

 

EDIT:

 

It's something...

 

4 days prior tot his topic

 

[kellessdee 48]

Mark, I really really hope you are right.

 

To be honest, I've been trying to find info online myself (He mentioned once where he lived to me). Unfortunately, I think, this is something that only Kiriashi himself could disprove (unfortunately, it's much easier to find records of people dying as opposed to records of people definitely being alive)

 

So, I dunno. I hope you are right, but I guess it's on the table until we find something definite. If he's okay, I hope he comes back soon; if not, I only can wish the best for his family, and say that I'll miss those times when he would finally return here and be an awesome member and such.

[Mistereyedee 1]

Kiriashi and I had very little contact with each other a few years back, but I can say that judging by his reputation here he must have been quite the guy. Too bad I didn't get to know him quite well, but that's life.

 

I'm with Marked on this. I believe his absence from RMXP Unlimited may have been triggered by a sudden lack of interest in RPG Maker. Or he didn't have a whole lot of free time like he used to. Or shit, he could have gone to jail for a felony. Who knows?

 

If he is alive, either someone's trying to fuck with us or he just forgot about this place.

 

If he is dead and what this "girlfriend's brother" says is true (and this requires more evidence than a mere MSN convo) I'll be sure to send him my farewell.

Edited May 23, 2012 by Mistereyedee

[Bob423 52]

yea, mark after you said you were looking for obituaries, i tried finding some on the internet. the tacoma news tribune, and other sites with local obituaries. found several michaels, all either too old, or not in the town he lives/lived

so maybe im just terrible at searching for stuff, or maybe he's not in there. maybe he's alive and someone is making tons of people worry for nothing. if i knew where he lived and had my own car, and didn't have parents breathing down my neck, i could go find out. in fact i'd probably know the truth, as I know for a fact he lived/lives relatively close to me. I hope he's ok, and would help if I could, but sadly, I can't.

Edited May 23, 2012 by Bob423

[Mistereyedee 1]

Where did/does he live? Washington? I am in the south-eastern parts of it.

[Bob423 52]

western washington. (me too ofc) but lets not get off topic

[Jon Bon 43]

I never considered it. I generally take people at their word for things, and trusted the information through proxy, which is never a good idea. In any event, I definitely posses the deductive reasoning skills to easily find if this is real or not. If you have his full name, and last knowm city of habitat, it's extremely simple. Find his phone number, work information, anything using his name and city, and then call him or his family or someone that knows him. That would also give you the location to look into the newspaper's obituaries. I would just call him/his family/friends and ask politely explaining the situation how he was/is a member of an online community who holds him close to their hearts and was concerned for his well being and to the authenticity of his death. Any reasonable person either grieving or not would handle that situation well, in my opinion.

Then once you have validity for or against the claim you can post here accordingly. I would be more than happy to do this for you, but would need the base information. Activity on his accounts is circumstantial, you need hard proof from an eye witness.

[isaacsol 10]

True, the evidence is circumstantial. It is a razor's edge where we stand on where to go. If you wish to do that Jon Bon, then I think you could, if you wanted to.

[Jon Bon 43]

This entire post is made objectionably and is not designed to attack or sully the credibility of anyone.

There are many possibilities here. Because of the alleged circumstances around his proposed death it is entirely possible that the obituary was asked to be omitted from the newspapers so the family would not be contacted by other news and media sources wishing to cover the heroic nature of his death. Since we already know someone was on an account of his that said he had passed away, an activity on his other accounts could be the person in question who made the original statement. At this point the only fact we have is that someone on Kiriashi's account has told us he passed away as well as the circumstances of his death. The person could be Kiriashi himself, or as Marked mentioned, a trolling family member, or someone who has 'hacked' his accounts. Anything else is speculation, and many logical assumptions can be drawn to explain the other missing pieces of information, but they remain just that, assumptions. We could sit here and hypothesize all day to no benefit.

I will look into this for the community, and in honor of his memory attempt to find hard evidence.

[ShinkuAura 15]

Hey Everyone Kiriashi borrowed me his minecraft account....he said so i can enjoy minecraft when i wanted to play with his account. i only played with his account for a day, since my computer was very low on ram since then.

 

Polraudio should i give the account to any living relatives? or should i keep it?

 

Kiriashi is with us, in sprit and he's always watching us you been a wonderful friend for borrowing me your account even though i haven't played this game for a while.

Edited May 26, 2012 by Omar510

[Chief 30]

Not sure if true...

 

from steam:

Last Online: 42 hrs, 9 mins ago

[rgangsta 43]

Although sad, I don't quite believe this story. How would his family members know his password and website that he mainly hangs out at? And the story is too movie-like. Unreal. Not that Kiri wouldn't save someone, but the story and how it was told seemed unreal.

 

I really hope he's not gone. He was is a cool dude.

[Polraudio 122]

Not sure if true...

 

from steam:

Last Online: 42 hrs, 9 mins ago

I got that message at top from steam.

 

Although sad, I don't quite believe this story. How would his family members know his password and website that he mainly hangs out at? And the story is too movie-like. Unreal. Not that Kiri wouldn't save someone, but the story and how it was told seemed unreal.

I think its a shared computer and he has steam set for auto-login.

 

Wish there was more info we can go off of. I sent an email to him and got almost the same thing.

[Noob Saibot 38]

From past experience with the old fela...I feel a very bad joke from either him or a relative of his.

[FranklinX 37]

I am also getting the vibe that isn't true. It's sounds too fake.

[Noob Saibot 38]

I am also getting the vibe that isn't true. It's sounds too fake.

 

Yes, until proof is known...I call lie. The way he "died" sounds like Yu Yu Hakusho.

 

 

 

Sorry if you really are dead, but it sounds to hollywood to me.

 

 

[Bob423 52]

The way he "died" sounds like Yu Yu Hakusho.

 

huh, didnt think of that.

 

anywho...

the truth shall be known! if it's a lie, i will seriously consider punching whoever lied, and then decide not to cuz its a bad idea, and i wouldn't be able to find them. if it's true, R.I.P. Kiriashi

Edited June 1, 2012 by Bob423

[Knuckles 1]

Chances are this whole story is bullshit and untrue, but I can admit the gullible side of me believed it for a minute.

[Arkbennett 16]

Man. A week late to the party, but this is complete balogna.

I would go into obvious detail. But it isn't worth.