Dead MU*s you remember fondly
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Emerald Dreams
Um…that one ran by the two terrible women…Shadowed Isles? Shattered Isles?
Mednights
The larryghost one who’s name I’m also blanking on with the shattered veil
AmberMush
The one where I played October the Moros.I’m bad with names. And remembering them.
Understandable, have a nice day.
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@Luna said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Emerald Dreams
I got really excited for a second because I thought this might have been the name of this obscure little generic urban fantasy/horror place with a homebrewed system that I have been trying to recall forever, but it looks like a few different places went by Emerald Dreams.
It was Emerald…something, I am pretty sure. Staffer bits were named after like, the good fairies from Cinderella or something weird if I am not just completely tripping?
Does anyone else remember this place? It was kind of awesome but very short-lived.
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Mass Effect: Alpha & Omega. My creativity and energy as a staffer really peaked in that game. I loved it. There are things I’d do differently now, lessons I’ve learned, but honestly-- it was so good. It was a good staff team, it was a good story, I loved the characters, and the game finished out its season arcs and ended with actual closure. I’ve never been more comfortable generating theme material and I’ll never have that much creative energy again, lol.
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@Pavel said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
This might be a lukewarm take, but Firan.
Way back before I knew any of the garbage around staff, or any of the corruption or any of that, I really earnestly enjoyed my time there. It was something different for me, something exciting. I really enjoyed it.
Which makes all the negatives all the more bitter to swallow.
I’m going to agree with you because I remember Firan rather fondly too. I wasn’t popular/important/whatever enough to know that there was a game within the game so I actually quite liked playing there and met a few wonderful people. It wasn’t until Firan closed down and I started reading MSB that I realized there was crazy magic in the world and all the other weird shit that went down lol I was just completely oblivious.
Also wanted to add: Crossroads MUSH, where a lot of the players were from Las Vegas. I went to one of their meet ups the year before the game closed down and it was the first (and last) time I LARPed. I had fun on the game
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@oknow said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Riffing off @imstillhere’s thread, a place to reminisce about dead MU*s you remember. Smaller and more obscure the better.
I’ll start:
- Armageddon (not the MUD)
Armageddon MUSH’s db is up if you’re interested.
No players, but for nostalgia.
galaxy.silvren.com 6666
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There was a small oWoD MU* a few years back that I really loved. The premise was a smallish city in which Reality Was Fucked – everything was screwed up for all the Spheres, but in interesting ways.
Changelings didn’t have to worry much about Banality, but Bedlam was a constant danger.
Werewolves had no trouble with Banes, but Wyld spirits were running amok. Even worse, there were bizarre instances of Wyld and Weaver spirits combining to produce fresh dynamic horrors in the Umbra.
Vampire bloodbonds just straight up didn’t work. The place was considered off-limits for Tremere and Sabbat and became an Anarch stronghold overnight. Without the mental compulsion from the bloodbond, the Cammie power structure was in ruins as former ghouls rebelled against their masters.
And something went Terribly Wrong in the Mage sphere (where I was), to the point that the Technocracy and Traditions were assigned to work together to figure out what the fuck was going on. The previous Construct and Chantry had both become unstable, with all the personnel mysteriously disappearing.
All the Mage players were great and it was an absolute blast discussing the difference in outlook between the Union and Traddies while trying to chase down the mystery. We had weekly meet ups in the backroom of a bookstore to share information. My Void Engineer would bring donuts!
Sadly, the staff had RL interfere (it was run by a husband and wife team, I think) and had to shut the place down. Still, it was great while it lasted. Some of the best oWoD RP I’ve ever had there.
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Devilshire, my very first (public) MU in which I played a shy college student werewolf and a cocky wizard in a magical mob family. It was a Buffyverse MU. The headstaffer was a tool and there was a ton of drama, but I still remember it fondly.
Universe Unlimited, my very first comic book MU, which lasted a while and it was super fun. We told a lot of stories on there.
The Reach. Listen. I had a lot of characters and a LOT of fun times there, as well as so much drama. But rose-tinted glasses are what they are.
Eldritch. My own little nWoD MU that didn’t last long, but it was a nice try. I also repurposed the setting for a series of novellas I wrote (will try to continue writing? I don’t know) so that gave some fruit.
In Occam I trust.
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I had some really amazing times on Chigaco by Night. I think 2010ish. It was my first time back to mushing and I loved it, it was a violinist cannibal psychic haunted by the ghosts of his victims.
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@IoleRae FUCK YEAH DARK METAL
That shit was like the wild, wild frontier of WoD goofiness back in the day. I totally forgot its existence until now.
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@Coin said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
The Reach. Listen. I had a lot of characters and a LOT of fun times there, as well as so much drama. But rose-tinted glasses are what they are.
We had good times. Thinking back on some things, we even had some YouTube Minecraft SMP level base pranks and it was kind of amazing. Doing things just to wait for logs to go up to see what happened is pretty funny.
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Project Infinity - A really fun idea for a superhero game. The place was a trashfire when I got there, was great in the middle, and was progressively going downhill when I left, but it was my very first MUSH and I still talk to a lot of the people I met on there. Including my husband!
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@Coin said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Devilshire, my very first (public) MU in which I played a shy college student werewolf and a cocky wizard in a magical mob family. It was a Buffyverse MU. The headstaffer was a tool and there was a ton of drama, but I still remember it fondly.
Devilshire was a lot of fun. I have a lot of fond memories of playing an awkward half-demon iguana (lol), in particular how engaged, enthusiastic and helpful the appstaffer was.
I think that was also the first or among the first games to ever have like, established families on the grid you could app into, which was really cool.
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A Moment in Tyme. So many years spent on that game.
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Fear and Loathing.
It know there was a fair amount of dislike for the place floating around, but it was my first real MU RP experience. I met a handful of really amazing people, did some of my best RP (even now), and made a character who still holds a special place in my heart.
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@Sammich Hey!! I played there! Don’t remember what or who or how long but I was there! Totally forgot about that!
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I wanted to give a more serious post to this instead of just being little more than an anecdote . But I really should’ve given Ithir more time. I think I just went into it with the wrong expectations. As well as just not giving it the time it deserved. I think I would’ve really enjoyed it. But at the time I was so entrenched with the two other mushes I was played, I didn’t give it a a fair shake. I regret that and wished I played this more. The whole concept of exploring an old once-lived in land was fascinating.
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A Moment in Tyme
Chicago MUSH
Knights of the Old Republic
The Fifth World
The 100
The Savage Skies -
I have very vivid memories of some of my scenes on the 100 MUSH, because it was my first MUSH ever (I was strictly a MUDer before), and my first time in a RP culture where writing more than one paragraph per pose/emote was considered permissible, let alone normal. I remember being super intimidated when someone hit me with a multi-paragraph in a one-on-one scene, and deciding I wanted to try my hand at measuring up to that.
For the record: I don’t actually think that multi-paragraph poses are inherently better than brevity, but I do like having the option.
And this is a little funny to me because anyone who’s RPed with me within the last few years knows that I’ve since become an uncontrollably verbose monster. I struggled a lot to adapt to another game where a quicker pace was expected, afterwards.
The game I miss most out of them all though has gotta be the Celestra. I don’t know if the person who made it reads these boards, but I bet he’d be surprised to hear me say that. It had a brilliant setting, very cool modern systems, and got everything right that his other game gets wrong. I would play it again in a heartbeat, although ideally with an entirely different playerbase.
I low-key miss Starmourn as well, which is an IRE MUD. It’s technically still running, but it is dead in the sense that no one RPs there anymore. In its heyday, right after launch, I found it a lot of fun to explore even though I know most people on these boards aren’t into the more gamist side of things, but it also had a thriving RP culture. I tried giving it a whirl again recently, and just felt sad at seeing the wealth of lost potential.
As with most MUDs, what killed it was poor playerbase moderation. That’s one thing I’m grateful to have never found lacking on MUSH, in comparison.
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Savage Skies. It was there at the perfect time when I had the time and brains to be active and to storytell stuff but was floundering and feeling kind of down on my other games. Staff was super kind and the players I ran stuff for overlooked my foibles and were giving of their time and energy to every scene I ran or participated in! I felt seen and like people wanted me around. My time was short bc life kicked me in the face but it was such a fun concept and nice people.
RfK - crazy ass shit going down but fun and engaging. Loved the headwiz. Met one of my most favorite people in mudom there. Most heartbreaking ooc ending though but it doesn’t fully taint the good times.
Star Crusade - i still long for FS. Loved my PCs there. Didn’t love some of the weird ooc meanness that came in waves there. But some of my favorite crazy fun RP happened on that place and there was a neat concept of getting different groups to wheel and deal there that I really enjoyed.
BITN - loved the concept and had tons of great stories with my nutty/feisty tow truck driver (best concept for WoD Hunter ever, especially with the vehicular fighting styles).
A historical vampire place set in San Francisco in the 1920s that I forget the name of. Consistently high quality RP there and very nice and kind players.
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So I complain about it everywhere, and I’ll complain about it here, too, but I also did enjoy my time on that one New York City mush (legit named NYC or New York City, I forget). It was a WoD game that popped up before HM closed, but also didn’t close until after TR opened, so we did technically have three nWoD games running. HM didn’t want to add Geist, and NYC did (but didn’t want to have Changeling, so it was the big three + Geist).
Sure… none of the vampires could be from NYC because they would have first-hand knowledge of the MYSTERY PLOT, where everyone but a few NPCs died… no, you couldn’t even be a local who left before THE MYSTERY… nor could you be from somewhere else and know who the previous Prince was, or which covenant they were a part of, or anything.
To preserve THE MYSTERY. Could JJ Abrams have been the Headwiz? We’ll never know!
This is the game that ‘Galloi Nosferatu who wants to use Ordo Secrets to become human again, so she can be embraced by the Daeva’ was too common a background, trust me I googled it, but ‘Bimbo Daeva’ was not over-done anywhere in the history of the internet. Also, Headwiz (who of course was Prince) let the Mage Wiz (who also played the Sherriff) sexually assault and/or attempt to start to diablerize my character. In front of the Prince. In Elysium. With 0 consequences.
Speaking of the Mage Wiz, 9/11 wasn’t caused by terrorists, or mages being so full of hubris that they influenced terrorists to fly into the World Trade Center, killing a bunch of people and using the death and destruction to fuel a ritual. No, because that would be thematic.
Instead, the Mages were doing some MYSTERY ritual, and paradox made the WTC blow up, whoopsy. Planes? Uh… paradox, too! This would later be retconned into just some other random building blowing up for no reason, but still… go solve the MYSTERY!
I couldn’t tell you what the Werewolves or Geists were doing. I know there were Spirit plots going on, but I think the plots stayed focused on the Central Park pack, which I was not a part of… I just spent my time down by the Library and Bryant Park. Limit to 3 spheres kept me from going ghostly, which is fine, because the game was pretty small, and I’m sure TR dragged everyone away.
WHY do I remember it fondly? The other players! Most notably, it’s where I met Darwin, who shortly dragged me to TR, but there was a cool Moros Death Ninja Lady whose name escapes me, and a psychic named Tinkerbell (that was really more like Elsa with the ice powers, but this was before Frozen came out), and all of the vampires who weren’t fucking creepers. Werewolves were cool, but territorial, so we never really crossed paths.
I’m sure I’ll think up another dead MU to ramble on about how weird it was, and how I enjoyed it despite all that. Probably one of the versions of Exalted, now that the latest Kickstarter has it on my mind.
