Your first game?

Roo

I recall playing on a Heavy Gear MUSH back in the day - died while I was overseas in 04.

Roo

@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.

Aria

@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.)

Hobbie

Serenity MUSH.

In my mid/late teens.

I’ll let you all guess how that went.

catzilla

@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).

Jennkryst

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.

watno

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.

Tori

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.

KDraygo

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.

crawfish

@L-B-Heuschkel Heeey this was my first MU, around the same time too.

Pavel

@KDraygo said in Your first game?:

I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy

Oh man, I have to re-read these.

Aria

@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?

Solstice

In hindsight, I was really waaaaay too young to be on the wild west internet of 1996, but roughly around the same time:

Redwall MUCK - For when I needed to be a total edgelord and brood in the shadows or have swordfights with ne’er-do-wells, whilst being a squirrel, the objectively best Redwall species.
Furcadia - I was blown away at the idea that you could RP with a graphical representation of your character, and spent so much time making ‘Dreams’, and stealing all of the pillow objects and hoarding them in a single building so no one could sit down.
Prides MUCK - I also really loved The Lion King, but was intimidated by the rules of TLK MU* when I looked that up. So, this felt like a better fit. A very mixed bag of great players and infamously bad ones.

Redbird

PernMUSH.

Logging on through dial-up internet. I remember the thrill of getting Searched, and Impressing. There were so many people on, back in those days, hundreds and hundreds instead of these days’ much smaller crowds.

somasatori

My first game was a RPI MUD called Iconoclast, which blended cyberpunk and genepunk elements, set around a post-apocalyptic city called New Aurora built in the very center of Oregon in what was once Bend, OR. Following that, I joined Night City MUSH for a while in 1997-ish. Night City was a modern setting that had a lot of different supernatural types running around, from vampires to demons to fae. I played a vampire private eye, but I remember basically nothing else about him.

After that, I went to Santo Domini around 1998. Santo Domini was a World of Darkness 2nd edition game that had Vampire and Werewolf, with antagonist groups (BSDs and Sabbat). I played a character in the Sabbat, I think her name was Selestia? She was a Lasombra. IIRC I was a staff ST at Santo Domini for a few months before it fully imploded. The founder of the game, who had been absent for a bit, had come back and decided to close down the game. I can’t remember the reason, but I do remember him being a little flippant about people being upset to lose their characters, which struck me as a little cold.

Edit: oh yeah! I was on Towers of Jadri for a bit there too at the same time I was on Night City and Santo Domini. My character’s name was Aria, she was a caller and I dropped off the face of the earth before she advanced past the apprentice level. Towers of Jadri was an RPI MUD set in an original fantasy setting.

labsunlimited

ElendorMUSH when the LotR movies came out. I was twelve and a revolving door of orcs, then a Beorning named Atli, who was a child of a chieftain in the Amduin Valley.

L. B. Heuschkel

@crawfish said in Your first game?:

@L-B-Heuschkel Heeey this was my first MU, around the same time too.

Haha, who were you? I was Kae/Tancred/Marcel et all!

Ominous

Crossroads MUSH. I don’t think anyone else in this group ever played there.

Gashlycrumb

LambdaMOO, which isn’t an RPG but a social thing. Followed by Ghostwheel MOO, which was more like a MUD than a MUSH.

Then PernMUSH, the original one. Then a WoD game, Dublin by Night. I never actually played the original Masquerade, but sometimes chatted as a guest there.

DrQuinn

God this thread just reminds me how ancient most of us are.

My first time RPing was a total accident. I used to watch the Disney Afternoon and at the end of a Gargoyles episode they were like “Come join us to chat at #gargoyles on IRC!” and i was like what is that?

We had a brand new tiny computer at home and I figured out how to get in (with Homer!) and joined and…there was no one there. Eventually someone came in and said “Hey no one is ever in here. Come into this place instead.”

‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong and I ended up in Gryphontavern for years and @Herja and I have a shared Infamous History with a Certain Someone who is like a legend of powergaming in the early online RP world.

Then I drifted away and one day a friend from there sent me an email and said hey, I’m playing on something called a MUX, you should come play!

And I made a truly horrifying stereotyped Irish character (as we all have done at least once) on Project Infinity.

I am still friends with people I met there like, 30 years later. WE ARE OLD.

I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it just…it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I don’t feel like I missed out!