Dead MU*s you remember fondly
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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.
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Do games I really wish I had been able to play on count? Because damn I’m sad I missed the Mass Effect game, and also the 100 game, and also Second Pass.
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Spirit Lake
NorCon
SouCon
PernMUSH
Gray Harbor
Glitch
HorrorMu that second one
Fort Bloodshed but only because I wasn’t chased by an effing bear gdi -
@tsar said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Fort Bloodshed but only because I wasn’t chased by an effing bear gdi
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It did have moments though!
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@bear_necessities said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
@tsar said in Dead MU*s you remember fondly:
Gray Harbor
Glitch
HorrorMu that second oneSame
I need to toss Santa Rosalia in there too. Man, IDK. I missed like four whole ass places this afternoon. Bleh.
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Game of Bones, of course.
From way back when, A Time Endless, which was that The Sandman themed one. I’m a bit bummed that the teevee show hasn’t caused another to appear.
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