Michael Ilott

Michael is Dork Tales resident graphic designer and creator of most of the graphics seen across the many Dork Tales game streams.

Born, raised and residing in Victoria, British Columbia Canada, Michael lives with two cats and his significant-other, Kelle Belle. Michael refers to his location as 'Down the Hall' in response to Kelle's location of 'Up the Road'.

Michael is also a professional graphic designer in the local sign industry that typically creates storefront graphics, signs, stationery and business cards and specializing in vehicles wraps with over 17 years of experience, Michael enjoys making graphics for Dork Tales as he sees it as a hobby to utilize his skills for something fun and community building.

Growing up, Michael was an enthusiastic Boy Scout, Little League Baseball player, bicycle commuter, video game player (starting on an Atari 2600!), avid reader, and dabbling artist/writer. Michael continues to enjoy video games (now using a PlayStation 4), watching movies, YouTube videos, reading, graphic design and cooking! He is a massive nerd with a lot of pop culture trivia, quantum science knowledge, biology education and a passion for local craft beers and spicy foods! The Dork Tales team has been an amazing outlet for creative energies and Michael strives for high graphic standards as well as making and playing fun, funny and thought-provoking characters with a lot of heart!

Fun Facts

 * 1) Has two tattoos and two ear piercings, because he got one piercing in his early 20s and soon realized most earrings come in pairs. So he went back for a second!
 * 2) Spent time creating a real-life drag queen persona and has extensive make-up, make-up skills, wigs and costume accessories that culminated in entering a pole-dancing competition where he came in third place!
 * 3) Was funded by the Canadian Federal Government for a year to go to design school where Michael learned design basics, website creation, digital animation and special effects. This is why he enjoys making cool frames and video effects to show off in Dork Tales streams!
 * 4) Michael has several fully painted Warhammer 40,000 armies; primarily a bristling retinue of Khorne Chaos Marines with their support hordes! Blood for the Blood God!
 * 5) A massive fan of the Ghostbusters RPG (Has the original 1st edition box set from the 80s), Paranoia RPG (has the original 1st edition boxed set from the 80s), Toon! (A Steve Jackson RPG, also from the 80s!) and Advanced Fighting Fantasy RPG (Has all the original release Choose-Your-Own-Adventure gamebooks, surprisingly, from the 80s!). Has the unrealistic goal of eventually GMing all of the above games on Extra Life.
 * 6) Runs a rarely operated Twitch stream called 'SylvesterSlays' where Michael gets to spend some quiet time playing various video games, If you see me streaming, I am either bored or stressed out and I just need a break from reality. Come say hello!

Aberrant: Utopia North

 * Donnie 'Ignition' Hoyle (5 Episodes)

Call of Cthulhu

 * Stanley Ace (3 Episodes - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3)

Candlekeep Mysteries

 * Envee D'eath (2 Episodes- Part 1 and Part 2)
 * Warchief Bork (1 Episode)
 * Xan "The Plan" Kovicks (Assassin) (1 Episode) - After becoming a hired enforcer for Count Strahd of Barovia, Xan became much more lethal and aggressive. In this, his final outing, he captures a prize for his dark master that will finally allow him to buy his freedom and retire onto a small potato farm with his feline companion! Watch this -after- you watch all of the Curse of Strahd campaign to get the whole story

COD: Network Zero (Hunter the Vigil)

 * Red 10 (10 Episodes)

Curse of Strahd

 * Xan "The Plan" Kovicks (Rogue) and Hookfoot the Cat (20 episodes)

Cyberpunk Red: Spitfire

 * Vale Fender (8 Episodes)

Deadlands: Blood Drive

 * Trenton William Skinner (5 Episodes)

Dungeon World: Animal Adventures

 * Jasper Macadamia (1 Episode) - Jasper was named after an actual cat that was up for adoption at the time of this recording and Michael loved the name so much that he had to use it for this character. A super fashionable feline wizard with a blatant (and terrible) voice that sounds oddly like Homestar Runner in a lot of ways (that was also on purpose)!
 * The Stoat (1 Episode)

Monster Hunter Academia

 * Finn "The Chosen One" (3 Episodes - Part 1, Part 2 and Part 3

Shards of Nyrn: Generic Fantasy #17735

 * Skafrem Grimhammer (5 Episodes - Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4 and Part 5)

Sprawl, The

 * Chase 'Haze' Miller (2 Episodes - Part 1 and Part 2) - Haze is essentially a 'prequel' to what would eventually evolve into Vale in Cyberpunk Red: Spitfire. The costuming, the character and the play style is all very rough. But everyone has to start somewhere, right?

Star Trek: Curiosity

 * Lieutenant Commander Fallon Graves (8 Episodes)

Ward, The

 * Thurston Hammer (1 Episode)

WOD: Horror of Longbarrow Farm - Sticks & Stones

 * Albert "Eddie" Rayburn Jr. (2 Episodes - Part 1 & Part 2)

WOD: Hunter the Reckoning

 * Gary Singer (1 Episode)

WOD: Hunter the Vigil

 * Griffin Vickers (1 Episode)

Shards of Nyrn: Generic Fantasy 17735

 * Season 2: Episode 13 - "Fetch Quest" - Donating to Dork Tale's Extra Life 2019 Charity, Michael wrote this episodes plot which included Sally and Sylvester Sassafras, a pair of adventurous Ogres that carried over from a previous Changeling: The Dreaming LARP and who appear throughout the Dork Tales game multiverse in various places. This same character is the inspiration for Michael's Twitch Channel persona.

Ghostbusters Inc. (Extra Life 2021)

 * "The Day Shift" - Michael's debute on Dork Tales as a Games Master (Or the Ghost Master in this case). A continuation of a non-streamed game of West End Game's Ghostbusters that involved the Dork Tales team as the titular 'Day Shift' at a franchised branch of Ghostbusters Inc. This is a fun romp that also saw the awarding of a very special award within game! Be sure to check it out and leave your feedback on how I did!

Twitch Opening Videos

 * 1) Cyberpunk Red: Spitfire
 * 2) Deadlands: Blood Drive
 * 3) Baldur's Gate: Descent into Avernus