Your first game?
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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.
He/Him. Opinions and views are solely my own unless specifically stated otherwise.
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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.
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@Livia Dragonlance! I wish there was one of those around today. Dragonlance or Ravenloft.
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I started on a DIKU MUD called Dark Castle – no RP, just mob-killing.
After a little bit, I wandered over to The Weave, and then to A Moment in Tyme. That was the first game that really got me hooked on MU*ing as I know it now. It was an RP MUD that provided XP (eventually) for both killing mobs and for posing, and then even more eventually the mobs were removed and it was only XP for posing (but the stat system was still otherwise all MUD-style).
That was way back in 1994.
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@Aria My very first scene on New Bremen my character was meeting her new packmates (on New Bremen you had to start in a pack so there was basically LFG/PUG packs on the game).
She walked in on one of her packmates cuddling/kissing a Pookie. In their animal form.
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I feel like my very first game was a Robotech one called Protoculture or something like that. There was a Heavy Gear one out there. I think my first WoD game was something like Haight Ashbury where I knew nothing and people had to explain a lot as I was trying to interact in it.
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ChaosMUCK. SANIC THE HEDGHEG!!! As a young starryeyed idiot, the concept of feature characters was new and insane and extremely exciting, even if MU*s were intimidating. I may as well have been RPing (poorly) with THE REAL ACTUAL SONIC. FC Sonic RPer, if you’re out there, thank you for being kind and patient and cool to someone who could barely string sentences together.
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My very first was Uncanny X-Mush playing on text based Lynx browser in the very early 90s. I then bounced round so, so many superhero places.
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I started RPing on forums and pbems. But my first MU was Soucon. I created as pernaholic, my hotmail username at the time, before realizing I was supposed to use a character name and panic figuring that out before anyone was able to say anything to me.
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I recall playing on a Heavy Gear MUSH back in the day - died while I was overseas in 04.
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@Floof Soucon was a good time; I was there for a few years around 05-07. I recall Shakti was a heck of a lot of fun.
