Nostalgia dump? Nostalgia dump!
I couldn’t tell you the first game I played on, because I don’t remember it. It was a Wheel of Time MUD that a friend invited me to (disclaimer: I never had, and still have not, read any of the novels. I did watch the first season of the show.)
I have a vague memory of playing on Yuriba, which was just Legally Distinct All Lady Shang without the problematic lore.
There was another game I got to tinker with basic build code, the name of which has been lost to time or maybe not I would just have to spin up a cursed 20 year old laptop that still has all the logins saved on it.
Efforts were made to play on BTMux but I didn’t have the know how to get Java to work for it. I eventually figured this out, but there was 0 Roleplay, it was all people just wanting to play Mechwarrior before there was good online Mechwarrior capabilities.
I know I made a character for Shadowrun: Seattle but never logged in again. I could not tell you if this was in high school or later. I tried to get through chargen on Shadowrun Denver during my senior year of high school in '04-'05, but didn’t finish at the time (I would later return.) I only know this specific detail because something something marching band practice, something something chargen on a laptop at a friends house, which only happened my Senior year.
The first MUSH I played on with actual serious RP, where I learned that @emit was a thing and you didn’t only have to use say or pose… was Star Wars: Age of Alliances. I no not recall if 20 years ago, it was the problem that it is today (see: that one thread that keeps going). I made a character in the Spring of 2005, went off to drum corps from Memorial day to the second Saturday in August, came home having forgotten everything about the character I made, and promptly made a new one that I would sometimes use raw telnet at the School of Music’s library to log in with.
I should perhaps, at this point, mention that I am a summer baby; I did not turn 18 until summer of '05, which was after many a lewd on some of these games. Scandal!
Shadowrun: Denver was next, Haunted Memories was… an attempt. I got out of chargen but never really managed to do anything. SerenityMU happened at some point a couple times; I don’t recall much that happened during the first go, but I was shipmates with Nano’s alt when Nano went out and got +noms from the whole game.
I did keep trying to get into WoD, new and old, but never managed until I stumbled across a specific WORA thread about this insane nWoD game that opened just after Geist dropped. They did not want to add Prometheans or Changelings, it was just Vampire, Werewolf, Mage, and Geist. I have said why this was insane before, but I will tell the tale again.
9/11 was not an inside job. 9/11 was not Mages doing a ritual to kill a bunch of people and ride their deaths to Atlantis. 9/11 wasn’t even terrorists. No, 9/11 was just ‘A Mage did a thing one time, oops all Paradox, towers fell!’ This was eventually changed to another building just randomly exploding in like, 2008. I joined this game in the Fall of 2009/Spring of 2010, had a vampire in Elysium be attacked by the Sherriff (like, dude tried to do a Diablerie) in front of the Prince, who did nothing. Someone else stepped in. Also, no Vampire could be from Manhattan. It was very mysterious. Everyone died in 2008, and nobody even knows which Covenant was in charge, at any point in the history of New York, before 2008. Even if you lived there, no you didn’t.
Extremely dumb, and one of the few good things to come out of that game were a few cool people I got to play with (many of whom I have lost touch with, but shout out if you wanna!) Especially Darwin, who ended up dragging me to TR and I became a menace who was later told I could show up in my Werewolf Battle Minivan for that one EotW showdown, ‘don’t worry we will let people show up late’ cool, I get off work at 11pm EST and had been following poses on my phone all night and 'lo, at 10:30, ‘Actually we’re closing this to newcomers.’ But I specifically asked and told you all when I would be free and you said it was cool. ‘Sucks to suck.’
… not that I’m bitter
… and the tale goes on, but I that’s probably enough nostalgia for the one post, maybe more later.
