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Dead MU*s you remember fondly
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I have very vivid memories of some of my scenes on the 100 MUSH, because it was my first MUSH ever (I was strictly a MUDer before), and my first time in a RP culture where writing more than one paragraph per pose/emote was considered permissible, let alone normal. I remember being super intimidated when someone hit me with a multi-paragraph in a one-on-one scene, and deciding I wanted to try my hand at measuring up to that.
For the record: I don’t actually think that multi-paragraph poses are inherently better than brevity, but I do like having the option.
And this is a little funny to me because anyone who’s RPed with me within the last few years knows that I’ve since become an uncontrollably verbose monster. I struggled a lot to adapt to another game where a quicker pace was expected, afterwards.
The game I miss most out of them all though has gotta be the Celestra. I don’t know if the person who made it reads these boards, but I bet he’d be surprised to hear me say that. It had a brilliant setting, very cool modern systems, and got everything right that his other game gets wrong. I would play it again in a heartbeat, although ideally with an entirely different playerbase.
I low-key miss Starmourn as well, which is an IRE MUD. It’s technically still running, but it is dead in the sense that no one RPs there anymore. In its heyday, right after launch, I found it a lot of fun to explore even though I know most people on these boards aren’t into the more gamist side of things, but it also had a thriving RP culture. I tried giving it a whirl again recently, and just felt sad at seeing the wealth of lost potential.
As with most MUDs, what killed it was poor playerbase moderation. That’s one thing I’m grateful to have never found lacking on MUSH, in comparison.
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Savage Skies. It was there at the perfect time when I had the time and brains to be active and to storytell stuff but was floundering and feeling kind of down on my other games. Staff was super kind and the players I ran stuff for overlooked my foibles and were giving of their time and energy to every scene I ran or participated in! I felt seen and like people wanted me around. My time was short bc life kicked me in the face but it was such a fun concept and nice people.
RfK - crazy ass shit going down but fun and engaging. Loved the headwiz. Met one of my most favorite people in mudom there. Most heartbreaking ooc ending though but it doesn’t fully taint the good times.
Star Crusade - i still long for FS. Loved my PCs there. Didn’t love some of the weird ooc meanness that came in waves there. But some of my favorite crazy fun RP happened on that place and there was a neat concept of getting different groups to wheel and deal there that I really enjoyed.
BITN - loved the concept and had tons of great stories with my nutty/feisty tow truck driver (best concept for WoD Hunter ever, especially with the vehicular fighting styles).
A historical vampire place set in San Francisco in the 1920s that I forget the name of. Consistently high quality RP there and very nice and kind players.
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So I complain about it everywhere, and I’ll complain about it here, too, but I also did enjoy my time on that one New York City mush (legit named NYC or New York City, I forget). It was a WoD game that popped up before HM closed, but also didn’t close until after TR opened, so we did technically have three nWoD games running. HM didn’t want to add Geist, and NYC did (but didn’t want to have Changeling, so it was the big three + Geist).
Sure… none of the vampires could be from NYC because they would have first-hand knowledge of the MYSTERY PLOT, where everyone but a few NPCs died… no, you couldn’t even be a local who left before THE MYSTERY… nor could you be from somewhere else and know who the previous Prince was, or which covenant they were a part of, or anything.
To preserve THE MYSTERY. Could JJ Abrams have been the Headwiz? We’ll never know!
This is the game that ‘Galloi Nosferatu who wants to use Ordo Secrets to become human again, so she can be embraced by the Daeva’ was too common a background, trust me I googled it, but ‘Bimbo Daeva’ was not over-done anywhere in the history of the internet. Also, Headwiz (who of course was Prince) let the Mage Wiz (who also played the Sherriff) sexually assault and/or attempt to start to diablerize my character. In front of the Prince. In Elysium. With 0 consequences.
Speaking of the Mage Wiz, 9/11 wasn’t caused by terrorists, or mages being so full of hubris that they influenced terrorists to fly into the World Trade Center, killing a bunch of people and using the death and destruction to fuel a ritual. No, because that would be thematic.
Instead, the Mages were doing some MYSTERY ritual, and paradox made the WTC blow up, whoopsy. Planes? Uh… paradox, too! This would later be retconned into just some other random building blowing up for no reason, but still… go solve the MYSTERY!
I couldn’t tell you what the Werewolves or Geists were doing. I know there were Spirit plots going on, but I think the plots stayed focused on the Central Park pack, which I was not a part of… I just spent my time down by the Library and Bryant Park. Limit to 3 spheres kept me from going ghostly, which is fine, because the game was pretty small, and I’m sure TR dragged everyone away.
WHY do I remember it fondly? The other players! Most notably, it’s where I met Darwin, who shortly dragged me to TR, but there was a cool Moros Death Ninja Lady whose name escapes me, and a psychic named Tinkerbell (that was really more like Elsa with the ice powers, but this was before Frozen came out), and all of the vampires who weren’t fucking creepers. Werewolves were cool, but territorial, so we never really crossed paths.
I’m sure I’ll think up another dead MU to ramble on about how weird it was, and how I enjoyed it despite all that. Probably one of the versions of Exalted, now that the latest Kickstarter has it on my mind.
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Do games I really wish I had been able to play on count? Because damn I’m sad I missed the Mass Effect game, and also the 100 game, and also Second Pass.
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Spirit Lake
NorCon
SouCon
PernMUSH
Gray Harbor
Glitch
HorrorMu that second one
Fort Bloodshed but only because I wasn’t chased by an effing bear gdi -
@tsar said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Fort Bloodshed but only because I wasn’t chased by an effing bear gdi
🥲
It did have moments though!
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@bear_necessities said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
@tsar said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Gray Harbor
Glitch
HorrorMu that second oneSame
I need to toss Santa Rosalia in there too. Man, IDK. I missed like four whole ass places this afternoon. Bleh.
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Game of Bones, of course.
From way back when, A Time Endless, which was that The Sandman themed one. I’m a bit bummed that the teevee show hasn’t caused another to appear.
'You ride the mechanical bull, you do not fight it.'
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@tsar said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
I need to toss Santa Rosalia in there too.
Very much Santa Rosalia.
PernMUSH. Silverskies.
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@Luna said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Um…that one ran by the two terrible women…Shadowed Isles? Shattered Isles?
Mab and Morrigan. Mab was Isis when the game was Dark Wine and Roses then they took it over and turned it into the trainwreck that was Shadowed Isles.
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@Wyrmsign said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Mab and Morrigan. Mab was Isis when the game was Dark Wine and Roses then they took it over and turned it into the trainwreck that was Shadowed Isles.
YES!! Ty!! I forgot about DWR being the predecessor somehow. That game was around at such a bad point in my life, I didn’t have the spine to say ‘uh how about no’. Awful awful awful but there were honestly so many super cool people too.
My inability to set boundaries is my bad. There are been far worse and legit dangerous game runners so could have been worse.
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Old PernMUSH - I remember Kristine(?) in yellow footy jammies in Ruatha Hold back before they had to close it being always good for a lot of laughs. Ofira, Selchin, and Selandra being names to this day I miss.
Loads and loads of old friends I have since lost all track of from there.
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Not a MU*, but Black Bayou on AOL got me into RP and was my hook into MUSHes. It was a wonderful WoD knockoff set in the Louisiana bayou. I have a lot of fond memories of that game, even as it went through a lot of turmoil when AOL stopped supporting it and it moved to private chatrooms.
Goes without saying that I miss Savage Skies, The 100, and Fifth World.
I’m also still woeful over the game that @Roadspike and I have pretty much ready for play but don’t have time to Staff solo. So it sits, Schrodinger’s game, both existing and not existing at the same time.
I also miss early-on Grey Harbor and Spirit Lake.
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I wouldn’t say I miss Metro but I had a lot of formative experiences there.
I also definitely don’t miss every absolute psychopath who was a Mage staffer (except for Iago, Iago was cool).
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@SpaceKhomeini Was Metro the game where if you apped a Mage, you needed to provide not just a backstory but dates for every event in it?
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@Roo said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Old PernMUSH - I remember Kristine(?) in yellow footy jammies in Ruatha Hold back before they had to close it being always good for a lot of laughs. Ofira, Selchin, and Selandra being names to this day I miss.
Loads and loads of old friends I have since lost all track of from there.
I was Kindre! Back when Ruatha and Benden were things and we had to move to Telgar. I’m actually FB friends with a handful of old NCers like Jehrina and Nimiriel and others whose NC names I forget. I miss the bovine ppl! To moo, bovine
I remember Ofira and Selandra I thiiiink. NC friends drug me to firan in like 2001 and I think I totally stopped playing in 2002. Good times though omg.See what happens when @KarmaBum summons my dino bones - I get all excited and can’t remember 1/10th of the stuff I was excited about haha.
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Fear and Loathing. It was the game I played after an almost 10 year hiatus from the hobby so it’s something I mostly remember fondly, but maybe I just miss my character I played there.
I do actually miss Haunted Memories too, despite all its issues.
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@Tori said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
@Roo said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Old PernMUSH - I remember Kristine(?) in yellow footy jammies in Ruatha Hold back before they had to close it being always good for a lot of laughs. Ofira, Selchin, and Selandra being names to this day I miss.
Loads and loads of old friends I have since lost all track of from there.
I was Kindre! Back when Ruatha and Benden were things and we had to move to Telgar. I’m actually FB friends with a handful of old NCers like Jehrina and Nimiriel and others whose NC names I forget. I miss the bovine ppl! To moo, bovine
I remember Ofira and Selandra I thiiiink. NC friends drug me to firan in like 2001 and I think I totally stopped playing in 2002. Good times though omg.See what happens when @KarmaBum summons my dino bones - I get all excited and can’t remember 1/10th of the stuff I was excited about haha.
Right? I’m trying to remember all my friends from there. Always planned on heading up to High Reaches as I loved the people you had there at that time. Met a bunch of the High Reaches crowd at DragonCon 99 too. As to FB, PernMUSH Refugees I’m assuming?
Remember trying to get some WoD VtM stuff to Shasta from SouCon, but never did manage to pull it off.
