Maclean, Tori (Starlet) is still there from what I've heard, and will be glad to know that she is being missed. She was wearing so many hats at the time of release and was deludged soon after. (IIRC, she was handling the website and some beta testers, as well as doing customer service and popping in here occasionally to answer questions.) She managed to keep a smile, too. With a smaller core group now, I doubt if her workload has lightened much, but she is probably still able to smile when she answers the phone. An avatar (such as Mavis Beacon) might be "suitable" for expressing the combined point-of-view of a company which makes software enabling virtual people to exist, but I strongly suspect that Woodie's kin would be unsatisfying in the longer run. Our personalities come through when we type, so if the voice behind the avatar changed at all, we'd know it. Carolly