Matthew John Schiernbeck (1965-2010)
The Original RoachKing

We all called him"Shaggy, "the Incredible Shag Monster" or just plain "Shag" and he was the original RoachKing - founder of the campaign along with Jeff F@rr.  Shag put a lot of passion into everything he did and he was especially passionate about role-playing.  Below are some pictures of Shag over the years.  I've tried to put them in chronological order, but some of them I can't reliably place in any particular year, so a few may be out of order.   Of course, there are lots more pictures of Shag than any of the others because he was a ham for the camera . . .

An early pic of Shag:

Shag & Jeff just outside Charlie's 21st birthday party, 1984:

Shag from the group pic, 1987:

Charlie, Shag & Tom, probably early 1988

Jeff, Charlie  & Shag at Tom's birthday party in the park, Sept. 1988

I believe this is in a park in Mtn. View, probably from the late-1980s . . .

Some pics of Shag, perhaps on a visit to Texas in the late 1980s or very early '90s . . .

Shag probably at his happiest - at his Comics Conspiracy shop in the early to mid-1990s . . .

At the Gates of Hell, Rodin Sculpture Garden, Stanford University:

Shag rehearsing with Ruckus . . .

One of Shag's Myspace pics:

Some pics of Shag with Charlie at Pismo Beach in August 2006

Some pics of Shag from the launch party for Hexed! Products, fall 2006

The Dread Pirate Shaggy

With Mark Baumann on Halloween:

The Shagster, honorary Ghostbuster

A couple pics of Shag at the RK gathering in August of 2007:

The shirt says: "Chaos - it's not just a theory, it's my life":

Shag drumming on his computer desk . . .

These are screencaps of Shag at his Austin, TX, apartment
during some of our many online RPG sessions, 2008-'09: