Michael Moriarty
Michael Moriarty (5 April 1941 – 20 March 2024), more commonly known by his username Longo or simply Moriarty, was a Canadian actor best known for his role as Benjamin Stone on the television show Law & Order. He was also one of the first moderators on Esoteric Chat, and a prolific creator of conversations during a period in which the forum became popular. In addition to this, he was also present on several other communities, namely Total Freedom and The Right Server.
According to both John Mosley and Longo himself, he was a real-life friend of Mosley's who lived in Tulsa, was in his thirties and happily married. Corona eventually came to suspect that Longo was just another alt account of Mosley's, while the rest of the community did not believe this to be the case until much later. In fact, he always was a real person.
Esoteric Chat
On 6 April 2021, Longo became moderator on Esoteric Chat after being "tasked with the utmost responsibility of cleaning this forum up." He was, at the time, the third moderator (excluding ex-mods) after current_ and Corona, respectively. Just a few months later, the forum began experiencing an influx of new users and so Longo became regarded by the new community as an oldfag. Longo also occupied a Discord account by the name of Michael Moriarty which was used to talk to Corona, among others, and had a presence in various community servers, including The Right Server. In July, Mosley vc'd with Corona using both his main account and the Michael Moriarty account, through which Corona heard him typing as Moriarty and so it became evident that this account was part of his forum centipede.
Longo became the subject of many running jokes on the forum, including the phrase "Lingo Longo plays the bongos," which in some form or another has been mentioned in 14 conversations as of thus.
mudd
The mudd account was created on 30 December 2021. It began with the creation of generic posts that had little substance and eventually graduated to new conversations regarding the state of the forum. Mudd's typing style gradually changed from all-lowercase, partial sentence informality into the proper sentences which made up most of Longo's postings. As such, Khaleeb and others began to establish that Mudd was an alt account of Longo, and thus Mosley, although this latter fact was not known to the widespread community at the time.
The consensus of the forum's community as to whether Longo is mudd, although having readily pushed by Khaleed and others, remains unclear. Several members, such as Brian Krebs, argued that mudd was an alt account of Adolf Hitler.
Death
For several years prior to his death, Michael suffered from a series of cardiovascular incidents which impaired his ability to communicate and live on his own. Michael's final stroke incident occurred in August 2023 after which it became evident from reading his forum posts and Discord messages that he had become impaired. During the few months after this, Michael began to show signs of progress, attributed to the extensive recovery he had been undergoing.
On March 19 2024, Michael sustained a hemorrhagic stroke incident which severely impaired his consciousness and physical health. A day later, on the evening of March 20, Michael passed away. The cause of his death was later ruled as the severe complications of the stroke he had sustained just a day beforehand.
