Your first game?
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@Pavel said in Your first game?:
@Aria I never did play the DigiChats, at least not for any length of time that made them stick in my memory, but I’ve heard that they were a layer of hell all unto their own.
I played on the oWoD ones until they rebooted them with the release of Vampire: the Requiem, then played/staffed on the nWoD ones until they shuttered entirely in 2008? 2009? Somewhere around there. So basically almost their entire lifespan.
To be frank, they had their problems. Sometimes particularly horrific problems, usually caused by the ratio of players to staff and thus the reduced ability to catch unpleasant shit unless it was really, truly egregious. The worst bits of WTF that I could recount from those years are definitely, uhhh… let’s go with ‘special’, including the guy who was single-handedly responsible for the 18+ age rule for exactly the reason you’re thinking.
That said, they also had their high points and their charm that I look back on fondly, and they heavily influenced my views on staffing, some of which I still hold to this day. I’m not going to pretend every staffer there was awesome or lived up to, like, basic decency, let alone professional standards… but the vibe is very different when you’re working on what ultimately amounts to a marketing tool for a company than a private game. And I think in a lot of ways, the level of accountability that was supposed to come with it was better, at least when they had rolled over to the nWoD games and I could see behind the curtain. I wasn’t staff for the oWoD bits, which is where I remember the worst of the really questionable stuff happening and can’t speak to the behind the scenes there save what I was told by friends who were.
Also bear in mind it’s been a decade and a half since those games closed, so I may be looking at them through rose-colored glasses. Especially because I got to travel internationally because of them, still have a few friends I made on them 20-some odd years ago, and know three different couples that met on them that are still married–including me and my husband.
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@Livia Dragonlance! I wish there was one of those around today. Dragonlance or Ravenloft.
I never played at Dragonlance MUSH and was sad I had never herad of it sooner than I had. -
I started on a DIKU MUD called Dark Castle – no RP, just mob-killing.
After a little bit, I wandered over to The Weave, and then to A Moment in Tyme. That was the first game that really got me hooked on MU*ing as I know it now. It was an RP MUD that provided XP (eventually) for both killing mobs and for posing, and then even more eventually the mobs were removed and it was only XP for posing (but the stat system was still otherwise all MUD-style).
That was way back in 1994.
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@Aria My very first scene on New Bremen my character was meeting her new packmates (on New Bremen you had to start in a pack so there was basically LFG/PUG packs on the game).
She walked in on one of her packmates cuddling/kissing a Pookie. In their animal form.
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I feel like my very first game was a Robotech one called Protoculture or something like that. There was a Heavy Gear one out there. I think my first WoD game was something like Haight Ashbury where I knew nothing and people had to explain a lot as I was trying to interact in it.
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ChaosMUCK. SANIC THE HEDGHEG!!! As a young starryeyed idiot, the concept of feature characters was new and insane and extremely exciting, even if MU*s were intimidating. I may as well have been RPing (poorly) with THE REAL ACTUAL SONIC. FC Sonic RPer, if you’re out there, thank you for being kind and patient and cool to someone who could barely string sentences together.
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My very first was Uncanny X-Mush playing on text based Lynx browser in the very early 90s. I then bounced round so, so many superhero places.
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I started RPing on forums and pbems. But my first MU was Soucon. I created as pernaholic, my hotmail username at the time, before realizing I was supposed to use a character name and panic figuring that out before anyone was able to say anything to me.
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I recall playing on a Heavy Gear MUSH back in the day - died while I was overseas in 04.
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@Floof Soucon was a good time; I was there for a few years around 05-07. I recall Shakti was a heck of a lot of fun.
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@catzilla said in Your first game?:
@Aria My very first scene on New Bremen my character was meeting her new packmates (on New Bremen you had to start in a pack so there was basically LFG/PUG packs on the game).
She walked in on one of her packmates cuddling/kissing a Pookie. In their animal form.
@catzilla I don’t remember that rule, though I’m not sure if it was because it didn’t apply by the time I made my Fianna or if it’s because in Werewolf, I mostly played a Kinfolk…
…who was the mate of Sturm Magnarsson. Ohh, god, the horror stories I could tell that came as a result of dipshit late teenage me being like, “Well, she has Survivor as a Nature and he’s the alpha of the Fenrir and he’s asking for her, so it makes sense IC.”
If there were ever a lesson in “It’s what my character would do!” blowing up in a player’s face but in exactly the wrong way from how it should, that was it. That was it right there. No, little baby Aria. No. You tell more people to fuck off when they start getting weird at you. (Adult Aria, too, honestly.)
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Serenity MUSH.
In my mid/late teens.
I’ll let you all guess how that went.
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@Aria said in Your first game?:
@catzilla said in Your first game?:
@Aria My very first scene on New Bremen my character was meeting her new packmates (on New Bremen you had to start in a pack so there was basically LFG/PUG packs on the game).
She walked in on one of her packmates cuddling/kissing a Pookie. In their animal form.
@catzilla I don’t remember that rule, though I’m not sure if it was because it didn’t apply by the time I made my Fianna or if it’s because in Werewolf, I mostly played a Kinfolk…
…who was the mate of Sturm Magnarsson. Ohh, god, the horror stories I could tell that came as a result of dipshit late teenage me being like, “Well, she has Survivor as a Nature and he’s the alpha of the Fenrir and he’s asking for her, so it makes sense IC.”
If there were ever a lesson in “It’s what my character would do!” blowing up in a player’s face but in exactly the wrong way from how it should, that was it. That was it right there. No, little baby Aria. No. You tell more people to fuck off when they start getting weird at you. (Adult Aria, too, honestly.)
That name kind of rings a bell but I don’t think I ever properly played with them. I did play a Shadow Lord kinfolk that was mated to a big shot PC named Aldrich something? I can’t think of anything the player did but the PC provided a bunch of drama/trauma for my kinfolk (in what I remember as a fun way).
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Nostalgia dump? Nostalgia dump!
I couldn’t tell you the first game I played on, because I don’t remember it. It was a Wheel of Time MUD that a friend invited me to (disclaimer: I never had, and still have not, read any of the novels. I did watch the first season of the show.)
I have a vague memory of playing on Yuriba, which was just Legally Distinct All Lady Shang without the problematic lore.
There was another game I got to tinker with basic build code, the name of which has been lost to time or maybe not I would just have to spin up a cursed 20 year old laptop that still has all the logins saved on it.
Efforts were made to play on BTMux but I didn’t have the know how to get Java to work for it. I eventually figured this out, but there was 0 Roleplay, it was all people just wanting to play Mechwarrior before there was good online Mechwarrior capabilities.
I know I made a character for Shadowrun: Seattle but never logged in again. I could not tell you if this was in high school or later. I tried to get through chargen on Shadowrun Denver during my senior year of high school in '04-'05, but didn’t finish at the time (I would later return.) I only know this specific detail because something something marching band practice, something something chargen on a laptop at a friends house, which only happened my Senior year.
The first MUSH I played on with actual serious RP, where I learned that @emit was a thing and you didn’t only have to use say or pose… was Star Wars: Age of Alliances. I no not recall if 20 years ago, it was the problem that it is today (see: that one thread that keeps going). I made a character in the Spring of 2005, went off to drum corps from Memorial day to the second Saturday in August, came home having forgotten everything about the character I made, and promptly made a new one that I would sometimes use raw telnet at the School of Music’s library to log in with.
I should perhaps, at this point, mention that I am a summer baby; I did not turn 18 until summer of '05, which was after many a lewd on some of these games. Scandal!
Shadowrun: Denver was next, Haunted Memories was… an attempt. I got out of chargen but never really managed to do anything. SerenityMU happened at some point a couple times; I don’t recall much that happened during the first go, but I was shipmates with Nano’s alt when Nano went out and got +noms from the whole game.
I did keep trying to get into WoD, new and old, but never managed until I stumbled across a specific WORA thread about this insane nWoD game that opened just after Geist dropped. They did not want to add Prometheans or Changelings, it was just Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, and Geist. I have said why this was insane before, but I will tell the tale again.
9/11 was not an inside job. 9/11 was not Mages doing a ritual to kill a bunch of people and ride their deaths to Atlantis. 9/11 wasn’t even terrorists. No, 9/11 was just ‘A Mage did a thing one time, oops all Paradox, towers fell!’ This was eventually changed to another building just randomly exploding in like, 2008. I joined this game in the Fall of 2009/Spring of 2010, had a vampire in Elysium be attacked by the Sherriff (like, dude tried to do a Diablerie) in front of the Prince, who did nothing. Someone else stepped in. Also, no Vampire could be from Manhattan. It was very mysterious. Everyone died in 2008, and nobody even knows which Covenant was in charge, at any point in the history of New York, before 2008. Even if you lived there, no you didn’t.
Extremely dumb, and one of the few good things to come out of that game were a few cool people I got to play with (many of whom I have lost touch with, but shout out if you wanna!) Especially Darwin, who ended up dragging me to TR and I became a menace who was later told I could show up in my Werewolf Battle Minivan for that one EotW showdown, ‘don’t worry we will let people show up late’ cool, I get off work at 11pm EST and had been following poses on my phone all night and 'lo, at 10:30, ‘Actually we’re closing this to newcomers.’ But I specifically asked and told you all when I would be free and you said it was cool. ‘Sucks to suck.’
… not that I’m bitter
… and the tale goes on, but I that’s probably enough nostalgia for the one post, maybe more later.
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Early 90’s? There was a place called OceanaMUSE which I guess wasn’t really an RP but more like a sandbox and you could build stuff?
From there I played this game called WindsMARE for a good amount of time.
My first real role playing game was Strange New Worlds TrekMUSH which I must’ve played for what felt like 5 years or so.
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When I was in college in the mid 90s, I took an Argument and Persuasion class where we had to post opinion papers on the in-school bbs. It was all NEW and supposed to help eliminate bias (though we eventually figured out who was who). Someone at my school had created a Pern MU called Invocation as part of their senior project and sent invites to basically anyone using the bbs.
Not only was it a Pern MU, though, it also had a virtual dorm - I honestly forget if we even really used those. So anyhow, I joined, and there were a bunch of us in a computer lab one night impressing dragons. The head of the IT department pulled the game once she graduated and replaced it with a Pern MOO, which I didn’t join. I ended up on NC for a handful of years and then on to other games. Invocation was a public game for a little while a year or so later, but I got into NC and eventually stopped playing there.
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If I recall correctly, I got into MUSHing in the mid to late 90s and my first game was SW1. This kicked off because I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy (Thrawn trilogy) and I started reading more post movies Star Wars novels.
@RightMeow If I had found a Robotech MUSH, I probably would’ve played that since my first anime when I watched as a kid was Robotech.
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@L-B-Heuschkel Heeey this was my first MU, around the same time too.
I draw things! http://www.mahaldoodles.com
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@KDraygo said in Your first game?:
I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy
Oh man, I have to re-read these.
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@catzilla said in Your first game?:
@Aria said in Your first game?:
@catzilla said in Your first game?:
@Aria My very first scene on New Bremen my character was meeting her new packmates (on New Bremen you had to start in a pack so there was basically LFG/PUG packs on the game).
She walked in on one of her packmates cuddling/kissing a Pookie. In their animal form.
@catzilla I don’t remember that rule, though I’m not sure if it was because it didn’t apply by the time I made my Fianna or if it’s because in Werewolf, I mostly played a Kinfolk…
…who was the mate of Sturm Magnarsson. Ohh, god, the horror stories I could tell that came as a result of dipshit late teenage me being like, “Well, she has Survivor as a Nature and he’s the alpha of the Fenrir and he’s asking for her, so it makes sense IC.”
If there were ever a lesson in “It’s what my character would do!” blowing up in a player’s face but in exactly the wrong way from how it should, that was it. That was it right there. No, little baby Aria. No. You tell more people to fuck off when they start getting weird at you. (Adult Aria, too, honestly.)
That name kind of rings a bell but I don’t think I ever properly played with them. I did play a Shadow Lord kinfolk that was mated to a big shot PC named Aldrich something? I can’t think of anything the player did but the PC provided a bunch of drama/trauma for my kinfolk (in what I remember as a fun way).
Dude, if you’re talking about the PC that I think you’re talking about–and I might be wrong here since it’s been twenty years–he was awesome. The player was from Brazil, learned most of his English RPing online, and was still a better writer than 90% of the people I’d run into. We lost touch over the years, but I still tell stories about him and his Vampire PC in the VtR reboot as prime examples of how to play an asshole without being an asshole OOC.
Aldrich/Chris March/Eduardo, wherever you are in the ether?
