Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log
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@Tat you found it, you’re a hero
The joke was great
But also terrible.
All of my old rp is terrible. I can’t read anything from before the vague indeterminate category of “now” without suffering like I’m watching The Office.
Edit: but actually I agree now that you have actually posted it, it’s not bad. What was not good was Percival’s obnoxious email voice. I legit wanted to go back in time and take the keyboard from myself.
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@DrQuinn
OMG I don’t have any logs of my MUD days but this is 100% the content of most of my early Aalynor’s Nexus scenes (‘scenes’). There was almost no RP except going to the bar and getting code drunk on the coded ale. -
This would literally be anything from AOL’s Conference Rooms “The Arena” I don’t even know what it was about to be honest. Someone randomly IMed me, I must have typed ((laughs)) and they said “Oh, do you RP?” I said “What’s RP?” and that was it. My intro to the world of online role play and then it developed into playing on AOL RP rooms that were all Tavern based or Vampire based. All of which the RP was horrible. No logs. You’ll just have to believe me.
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@Birdie Were you still RPing on AOL when people started making their own “games” and playing in IMs? I ran a town-based soap opera game for like 5 people lol we’d have horrible websites and DEADJOURNALS, because deadjournals were so much better than livejournals.
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@bear_necessities something like that. I think it was like Milan After Dark or Italia after Dark. I don’t remember but I was so sucked into WoD even though those games were “free form” like, imagine there being a 3rd gen Vampire running around. Now imagine the kind of RP that comes from that lol.
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Damn you. This made me find the oldest random log I have, about a year before I started logging regularly…
Tyche sits on the half-wall, and sighs.
(Pacifica, July 27(!), 1999)There are many other poses that competed, but this won because no one else was there at the time.
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@Ren Ooof I just had a memory at the fact that I used to pose to empty rooms on the off chance a staffer was lurking invisible.
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This thread has made me realize just how bad my sense of time is. I’m currently looking through my long-term file storage, and like ‘oh, yes, that character was before this character’ and…no. No, we’re talking it was ten years more recent. I am actually kind of broken up, I have nothing from before 2000. I was hoping I could share poses from when I was a literal child.
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I posed to empty rooms several times on HT back in 1999, because I thought you were supposed to, because clearly, you are the protagonist of your story and if you’re in the room you should interact with it.
But I also wrote journals in Neverwinter Nights and while those save files are long gone I look back fondly on the rper impulse to “storify” an rpg.
I’ve been bullying my stepmother into playing Mass Effect and watching her make choices based on how she is developing her character in her head is so cute.
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@sao someone might’ve been firelizard spying, you never know
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@farfalla I’m sorry for spamming whoever that was 23 years ago
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@farfalla said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
@sao someone might’ve been firelizard spying, you never know
You mean FLIT spying.
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@Tez said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
@farfalla said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
@sao someone might’ve been firelizard spying, you never know
You mean FLIT spying.
Ew. Stop.
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Jfc, this thread makes me so sad I never thought to save my stuff online instead of on old hard drives that have long been lost to a bajillion moves.
Just know that if you are ever feeling too embarrassed about your past rp, you can always have a good chuckle over the fact that in the course of my illustrious RPing career, I played (in no particular order):
- a Lion King panther with a huge, bulging demon-possessed eye that not only blatantly broke the thin rules of that game, he was desced so badly I found it like ten years later on a website dedicated to hilariously bad descs
- a catboy Gundam pilot on that beautiful fever dream once known as Yahoo Chat
- a blatant Silver Surfer ripoff called the Golden Surfer (ugggghhhhhh) who regularly hung out with the Power Rangers
- Jecht from Final Fantasy X, who became involved in an incredibly melodramatic relationship with Beatrix from FFIX where they spent days in bed talking about all the people they murdered
- a literal slimy ball of tentacles and SHAME
- basically Eugene Hutz as a Twilight vampire
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@Wizz Respect.
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@Wizz said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
a Lion King panther with a huge, bulging demon-possessed eye
That isn’t how I expected that sentence fragment to end.
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nods
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@Wizz said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
basically Eugene Hutz as a Twilight vampire
I need to hear more about this masterpiece, please.
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As silly as the premise sounds, I actually remember being pretty proud of the work I put into him! I spent a lot of time researching the Roma around the time of like WWI I think it was, and had fun adding tons of detail into the vampires that snatched him away from his life and their zany adventures across the century.
The head staffer must’ve thought so too, because she basically made the character a “roster” and let a buddy of hers just copy and paste the entire background without asking after I’d idled out, lllloooooolll. The only change the dude made was the PB, to fucking Stuart Townsend. I’m still scoffing in disgust like fifteen years later.
