Hello everybody,
I just realized when I was browsing the site today that I never made one of these despite posting otherwise. My name is Dustin, I'm 26, and I like in Calhoun, GA (basically a hop, skip, and a jump from Wyrd's offices over there in Marietta.) I got into minis, one might say, through playing 3.5 in college and finding that having a nice set of minis to use made navigating maps a lot more entertaining and fun. The hobby itself I first got an interest in through my roommate who was an avid 40k player over at a (now closed, I think?) store in Douglasville, but in college I never had the money or the space to get into the hobby in earnest.
And then, a few years later I discovered Malifaux while browsing a FLGS with a few friends and wondered "What's this, then?" Those two friends weren't sold on the idea, being 40k and Warmahordes players, but I decided to give it a shot through an awesome demo at Dragon*Con during my next visit, and well, it was enough to get me interested. One other demo game later (both as 2E Rasputina, note) and I was hooked. Admittedly I haven't had a chance to play a proper game with my own minis yet, but the transparent Tara, Ortegas, and McCabe sitting on my shelf in various states of assembly and painting are itching to see use one day soon when time permits. Haha. It's sometimes a surprising amount of work teaching as an adjunct at a technical school! (And the drive and lack of a dedicated community in Kennesaw or Dalton does pose a problem...)