Your first game?
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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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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@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!
Any pronouns. Come to Chincoteague. We have ponies. http://keys.aresmush.com
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Crossroads MUSH. I don’t think anyone else in this group ever played there.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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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.
"This is Liberty Hall; you can spit on the mat and call the cat a bastard!"
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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!
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@Gashlycrumb said in Your first game?:
I never actually played the original Masquerade
All I remember from the original Masquerade was that there were lots of people who’s go-to IC introduction was “Are you supposed to be here?”.
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@DrQuinn said in Your first game?:
‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong
I was on one of those AOL chats first too! I didn’t think that counted, but yes. I don’t know if it was ever formalized or structured, and I don’t believe I was at Red Dragon Inn but it was something like that. I was also maybe 12 years 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!
WoD calls to its own
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@KDraygo said in Your first game?:
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.
Oh man. I really enjoyed those books.
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@KDraygo said in Your first game?:
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.
Same! My buddy in college recruited me to SW1. That was where I learned to MUSHcode, making some stupid datapad object or something.
I also loved Robotech. I was re-watching it recently with my kids and realizing how much my interest in post-apocalyptic settings started so early with Robotech and Battlestar.
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@Ominous I PLAYED ON CROSSROADS MUSH!!! I actually went to the LARP they did <.<
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@bear_necessities My memory is v bad, but my first games were some mix of Ashes to Ashes, Masquerade and Cajun Nights reboot for a bit. If you remember Eyrkah the Mortal or Arienette the Tremere (whom I also played a couple other places), hit me up.
Got what you wanted, lost what you had.
