Your first game?
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My cool* young aunt who had just moved away to college used to mu so obviously she had to be copied. It was also one of the pern games. Lord knows which one. 20+ years ago.
*I now understand she was not cool
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So I didn’t start RP MUs until after I had been playing MUDs for a while, but I remember joining two RP MUs in the same week as I wasn’t sure if I was going to like playing them. One was a WoD MU where I played a Euthanatos Mage who spent more time using Entropy to cheat at gambling than actually doing anything even remotely related to the plot and the other was a Cyberpunk (possibly a Shadowrun game) and all I can remember from that is that my character’s truck got permanently destroyed almost immediately because one of the staffers on the game actually just hated the vehicle rules they were using and just made the effort to ensure that PCs didn’t have vehicles and all used public transport.
Apologies if I can’t provide more details, but I have this thing where I just sort of dumpster the majority of details about stuff I’ve played in the past to make room in my head for stuff I’m playing / running currently.
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@MisterBoring I still get in the mood to go find a good MUD of some kind to mess around in. I know we live in the golden age of open-world RPGs, but nothing hit quite like MUDs.
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Shadowrun Seattle and some weird vague MOO that I’ve forgotten the name of.
In 1994 or 1995 I think. Quickly followed by Twin Cities by Tea Time (the original). LOL. -
I was 12. I was there for the Pern MOOs: Dragonsfire, followed approximately 5 days later by Harper’s Tale and Starstones.
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Modeus Operandi, which was one of the 3 or 4 MUDS they had on AOL at the time. It was some where in the world is Carmen Sandiago spy game and I loved it.
The platform went pay to play and there was so much uproar about it. I ended up spending a significant time RPing in chat rooms and then found “groups” that were essentially running MUSHes in chats and IMs.
Simpler times lol
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LegendMUD back in about 1996 – it had a pretty decent RP aspect back then. No idea whether it does today, I haven’t visited in 20 years.
Any pronouns. Come to Chincoteague. We have ponies. http://keys.aresmush.com
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Battlestar Galactica (the original 1990’s version). though I was only there briefly. The flight sims and immersive code systems weren’t my jam, even back then. The game that really got me into MUs was Maddock (consent-based wild west game).
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Redwall MUCK waaaay back in the day. I was too young lol.
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I was 13 when my girlfriend introduced me to Vampire Wars a PVP Mud based on VtM. I stopped playing for several years, then at 16/17 I started on VW: Classic, a splinter game from VW. Just before I turned 18 I joined LAmush that friends from VWC convinced me to join.
I had been RPing in a kind of chat room/forum type hybrid thing. And was amazed at how much faster MUSHing was.
Then as soon as I turned 18 I jointed City by the Bay because baby Cobalt loved the Anitaverse, but you couldn’t play on CbtB unless you were 18+.
And baby Cobalt followed the rules, lol.
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I probably dipped my toes in various MUDs and such before this, but the first game I spent any decent amount of time on was TOS TrekMUSE back in coughcoughcough. Many an RP session interrupted because my mother picked up the phone and dropped our connection… ah the good old days.
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The unmoderated WoD server hosted by White Wolf, before they opened up their moderated New Bremen setting, way back in 1999/2000.
They used DigiChat, a Java-based interface that ironically looks a bit like the Ares web portal, what with clickability and sidebar navigation. I wasn’t on an actual MU* of any kind until Haunted Memories in 2011 and wasn’t on a Pern game until the 2020s. It’s like I did everything in reverse.
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@Aria said in Your first game?:
It’s like I did everything in reverse.
You didn’t even go through the Firan gauntlet. Gosh.
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@Pavel said in Your first game?:
@Aria said in Your first game?:
It’s like I did everything in reverse.
You didn’t even go through the Firan gauntlet. Gosh.
I did not! My first Lords and Ladies game was actually Arx. Unless you count a DigiChat based Legend of the Five Rings game that opened alongside Wanton Wicked, which was a privately owned WoD game modeled very much off of New Bremen in terms of game and website functionality.
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@Aria I never did play the DigiChats, at least not for any length of time that made them stick in my memory, but I’ve heard that they were a layer of hell all unto their own.
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@Pavel said in Your first game?:
@Aria I never did play the DigiChats, at least not for any length of time that made them stick in my memory, but I’ve heard that they were a layer of hell all unto their own.
Code wise or RP/player/ST/etc. wise?
Because yes.
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Dragonlance Mush! I started here because I always had a love of fantasy settings and Dragonlance in particular. I also found Ashirion: The Broken Sphere which was a homebrew fantasy setting from the game runner, which was probably not a great introduction to MU*ing but it was fun times.
I ended up on Dragonlance: Age of Mortals (the 3.5e D&D game) and that lead me to a group to go play on Haunted Memories. That’s right, while I’m pretty much just a WoD player nowdays, it took some time before I really found that setting, and I’m one of the few people with every little original World of Darkness experience!
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I was 22, I think, and my mom had recently died, so I was sort of–floating, I guess. Looking for something to do, I was hoping to find something online relating to In Nomine, a game I love with all my heart but could never find anyone local to play with.
I found Brass and Steel, an In Nomine MU. I connected on raw telnet, and played on raw telnet for a full year or more, because I didn’t know that “clients” existed. There were only a few players on, but several of them became great friends, and one of them became my best friend, a friendship that has now lasted more than two decades, even though they don’t MU* anymore.
It was a fun game, and still has some of my most fond gaming memories.
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I’ve been RPing since I stumbled onto a RP room back on AOL.
Like @Aria, I mostly played on Digichats since New Bremen.
But my very first MUSH/MUX (I still don’t know the difference lol) was a mortal/mortal+ only game called Bump in the Night.
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@Pavel said in Your first game?:
@Aria I never did play the DigiChats, at least not for any length of time that made them stick in my memory, but I’ve heard that they were a layer of hell all unto their own.
I played on the oWoD ones until they rebooted them with the release of Vampire: the Requiem, then played/staffed on the nWoD ones until they shuttered entirely in 2008? 2009? Somewhere around there. So basically almost their entire lifespan.
To be frank, they had their problems. Sometimes particularly horrific problems, usually caused by the ratio of players to staff and thus the reduced ability to catch unpleasant shit unless it was really, truly egregious. The worst bits of WTF that I could recount from those years are definitely, uhhh… let’s go with ‘special’, including the guy who was single-handedly responsible for the 18+ age rule for exactly the reason you’re thinking.
That said, they also had their high points and their charm that I look back on fondly, and they heavily influenced my views on staffing, some of which I still hold to this day. I’m not going to pretend every staffer there was awesome or lived up to, like, basic decency, let alone professional standards… but the vibe is very different when you’re working on what ultimately amounts to a marketing tool for a company than a private game. And I think in a lot of ways, the level of accountability that was supposed to come with it was better, at least when they had rolled over to the nWoD games and I could see behind the curtain. I wasn’t staff for the oWoD bits, which is where I remember the worst of the really questionable stuff happening and can’t speak to the behind the scenes there save what I was told by friends who were.
Also bear in mind it’s been a decade and a half since those games closed, so I may be looking at them through rose-colored glasses. Especially because I got to travel internationally because of them, still have a few friends I made on them 20-some odd years ago, and know three different couples that met on them that are still married–including me and my husband.
