Your first game?

L. B. Heuschkel

@L-B-Heuschkel Heeey this was my first MU, around the same time too.

Haha, who were you? I was Kae/Tancred/Marcel et all!

Ominous

Crossroads MUSH. I don’t think anyone else in this group ever played there.

Gashlycrumb

LambdaMOO, which isn’t an RPG but a social thing. Followed by Ghostwheel MOO, which was more like a MUD than a MUSH.

Then PernMUSH, the original one. Then a WoD game, Dublin by Night. I never actually played the original Masquerade, but sometimes chatted as a guest there.

DrQuinn

God this thread just reminds me how ancient most of us are.

My first time RPing was a total accident. I used to watch the Disney Afternoon and at the end of a Gargoyles episode they were like “Come join us to chat at #gargoyles on IRC!” and i was like what is that?

We had a brand new tiny computer at home and I figured out how to get in (with Homer!) and joined and…there was no one there. Eventually someone came in and said “Hey no one is ever in here. Come into this place instead.”

‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong and I ended up in Gryphontavern for years and @Herja and I have a shared Infamous History with a Certain Someone who is like a legend of powergaming in the early online RP world.

Then I drifted away and one day a friend from there sent me an email and said hey, I’m playing on something called a MUX, you should come play!

And I made a truly horrifying stereotyped Irish character (as we all have done at least once) on Project Infinity.

I am still friends with people I met there like, 30 years later. WE ARE OLD.

I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it just…it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I don’t feel like I missed out!

MisterBoring

@Gashlycrumb said in Your first game?:

I never actually played the original Masquerade

All I remember from the original Masquerade was that there were lots of people who’s go-to IC introduction was “Are you supposed to be here?”.

somasatori

@DrQuinn said in Your first game?:

‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong

I was on one of those AOL chats first too! I didn’t think that counted, but yes. I don’t know if it was ever formalized or structured, and I don’t believe I was at Red Dragon Inn but it was something like that. I was also maybe 12 years old.

I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it just…it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I don’t feel like I missed out!

WoD calls to its own

Tori

@KDraygo said in Your first game?:

If I recall correctly, I got into MUSHing in the mid to late 90s and my first game was SW1. This kicked off because I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy (Thrawn trilogy) and I started reading more post movies Star Wars novels.

Oh man. I really enjoyed those books.

Faraday

@KDraygo said in Your first game?:

If I recall correctly, I got into MUSHing in the mid to late 90s and my first game was SW1. This kicked off because I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy (Thrawn trilogy) and I started reading more post movies Star Wars novels.

Same! My buddy in college recruited me to SW1. That was where I learned to MUSHcode, making some stupid datapad object or something.

I also loved Robotech. I was re-watching it recently with my kids and realizing how much my interest in post-apocalyptic settings started so early with Robotech and Battlestar.

bear_necessities

@Ominous I PLAYED ON CROSSROADS MUSH!!! I actually went to the LARP they did <.<

Muscle Car

@bear_necessities Masq first and Cajun Nights reboot for a bit. If you remember Eyrkah the Mortal or Arienette the Tremere (whom I also played a couple other places), hit me up.

Nilli

Mine was also Ansible MOO, where I met @junipersky ! Most of us on that game were SO YOUNG and there was a lot of pretty serious drama. I’m still in touch with a number of players though, most of which turned into pretty cool adults. Leopard Army 4 Life.

crawfish

@L-B-Heuschkel gods I could not tell you. I was a literal child just fumbling about hacking and slashing. But I remember random names like ‘Casperkale’ and ‘Pala’ and neither one of them were me.

bear_necessities

@Muscle-Car oh man i am definitely thinking of a different game called Crossroads, sorry to disappoint. The one I played was a L&L game not a WoD one

Juniper

My first text game was hellMOO.

penguin looking traumatized

I will be taking no further questions.