Your first game?
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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.
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Mine was also Ansible MOO, where I met @junipersky ! Most of us on that game were SO YOUNG and there was a lot of pretty serious drama. I’m still in touch with a number of players though, most of which turned into pretty cool adults. Leopard Army 4 Life.
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@L-B-Heuschkel gods I could not tell you. I was a literal child just fumbling about hacking and slashing.
But I remember random names like ‘Casperkale’ and ‘Pala’ and neither one of them were me. -
@Muscle-Car oh man i am definitely thinking of a different game called Crossroads, sorry to disappoint. The one I played was a L&L game not a WoD one
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My first text game was hellMOO.
I will be taking no further questions.
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My first MUSH was the old Tales of Ta’veren Wheel of Time place. I’d dipped into some MUDs before that but they weren’t really RP places. My mind was blown by the pose command.
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@Snackness said in Your first game?:
An RL friend got me into Harper’s Tale (Pern MOO) when we were in high school. I have long since lost touch with that friend, but I’m still MUing!
It was my sister who got me into it when we were in jr. high or high school. I didn’t tend to play very many games at a time, so HT was my mainstay for a long time although I dabbled in others.
Years later when @Tat and I met on our X-Men game and staffed together we discovered that we had actually played together on HT which was fun.
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Oh and first WOD was one NOLA game, Bourbon and Blood. I tried it because Katrina just hit and I was fifteen. It was humiliating to be fifteen on a WOD game.
