I, too, miss the Nannytimes.  Or have, the times I was active enough to notice the lack.

I'd, at least, be willing to help with it, if there was actually interest in attempting to bring it back.  (Nanny seems quite slow, so I don't even know if there would be a point to it.)

For random note, the reason I haven't actually been in Nanny since my last reappearance is that I've been here, and cleaning old logs in the time I would be there.

*half-smiles*

And I will, I'm just cleaning them up for you first.

As I think I've said to you previously, I log EVERYTHING.

*sighs gustily*

Quotes are something I collect...  so to keep this from being pages and pages and pages long, I'll just take the favorite from the first few pages of the file.

"You need only reflect that one of the best ways to get yourself a reputation as a dangerous citizen these days is to go about repeating the very phases which our founding fathers used in the struggle for independence."
   -Charles A. Beard

The Old Testament says it was considered a miracle for an ass to speak, and now nothing short of a miracle will keep one quiet
      -Life magazine, 1896

Hold it!  Everybody freeze!  One of the sandwiches just moved!
   -Hawkeye

Each snowflake in an avalanche pleads not guilty.
   -Stanislaw Lem

Nothing in life is to be feared.  It is only to be understood.
   -Marie Curie

"Exactly.  There are all sorts of dream interpretations.  Freud's being the most notorious, but I have always believed that they serve a simple eliminatory function, and not much more - that dreams are the psyche's way of taking a good dump every now and then.  And that people who don't dream - or don't dream in a way that they can remember when they wake up - are mentally constipated in some way.  After all, the only practical compensation for having a nightmare is waking up and realizing that it was just a dream."
   -Glen Bateman, Stephen King's The Stand

Peace is better than war, because in peace the sons bury their fathers, but in war the fathers bury their sons.
   -Croesus to Cambyrses

"One good reason for looking again at the Second World War is to remind ourselves how badly the world's leaders performed and how bravely they were supported by their suffering populations.  Half a century has passed, and the time has come to sweep away the myths and reveal the no less inspiring gleam of that complex and frightening time in which evil was in the ascendant, goodness diffident, and the British - impetuous, foolish, and brave beyond measure - the world's only hope.
   -Len Deighton

You can't depend upon your judgment when your imagination is out of focus.
   -Mark Twain

"Lay then the axe to the root, and teach governments humanity.  It is their sanguinary punishments which corrupt mankind."
   -Thomas Paine

"I do not say this lightly.  I've asked myself many times whether my work in the Resistance was worth losing my health, my marriage, and ten years of my life, which is what it took before I could get hold of my nerves, get my energy back, and give myself completely to my work.  Was it worth those endless nights, for years after the war, waking up from terrible nightmares, fighting, screaming, and soaking wet?  ...Was everything I did for the Resistance really worth everything I went through in the KZ's and would I do it again?
My answer is still the same.  Yes.  Because without freedom life is nothing.  Never, never, do I want to live - or have those I love live - in hate, fear, and suppression.  And yes, yes, I would do it again.  And again and again."   
   -Svend Aage Holm Soreson

"Words are...the most powerful drug used by mankind."
   -Rudyard Kipling

There's a sampling.

I usually have a character concept in mind before I ever get to the staring at the prompt phase - look/name/plan/attitude all figured out already.  Thankfully, rarely is a name I want taken.

A couple were not completely pulled out of my from head, but were "borrowed" from other places.

Anyone who has read Star Trek books or exa'ed Valkris can probably gather that she's one of those.

Have to go with the Halloween vote (or Samhain or whatever your verbage picks it to be) - I love the season - and it's fun to watch and sometimes experience a new take on old traditions.

Eclectic scholastic record/experience.

Music, Computer Graphic/Design, Accounting (forced by work - yeach), Linguistics, Ethics (primarily medical), some other things in and around the edges.
Love to learn, and to so quickly and relatively easily, hate the system.
*shrugs*

Probably have enough credits/things I could test out of to get a degree - but not gotten around to sorting that out yet.

So..  did this actually happen?  Or did it happen and unhappen...  or?

Came across an old script in the theater club that started the stream of lovely (and not so lovely) BK memories, and then the posts here.

Lot of fun, those were.

*chuckles at Eresh's post*

Yeah, there are some memories there.

I sort of ended up having two first days.

I ran into an issue in 96/97(somewhere in there, I think)(Snaf might remember better than I)(The Kittens still existed, and Khorne was a guild) with having to be at work doing REALLY boring things until all hours of the morning.  So, since I've always had a gift for doing multiple things at once I started poking around for something other than db entry/processing and envelopes and and and to do.  I found some mudlist or another and thought it sounded like the old BBS games only much cooler.
Started down the list.
So many of them I just ditched right off, due to pure undelimited PK.  Difficult and irritating to be wandering around for the first time trying to figure out what is what and where when people keep driveby beheading you.  Days and days into the hunt (the list being alphabet order) I fall into Nanny.

I don't remember if there was a newbie book or if I just ignored it or...  but I immediately started running around and dying - not even picking anything up yet, because I wanted to look around, and had left enough of a trail of death on some of the other muds I'd tried that actually trying to carry anything in initial exploration seemed foolish.

So I stumbled about, looking, and enjoying the fact that it wasn't players that were getting me killed, it was me.

I decided that the first guild I found I would take and keep.  Kei chose west as her first direction in questing for a guild.  And then south.  The landscape was interesting, and I think I initially avoided the altar, because such things make me nervous.  I think I found a statue, and died to something nearby it, but being fascinated by some of the things in the fields, I kept going back to that general vicinity.
Eventually Kei Khorned.  And stayed that way.  I think some of the denizens of the Kline were amused by the consistant death and return of the persistent little Khornelet.

Lot of names from that time, though I was sort of insular in who I interacted with (off the guildline) - Shin, Snafu, Orpheus, Moonchild, Joxer, Phade...  some others.  I remember "hearing" and "seeing" quite a few others.  I dragged my friend Sparrow in, who promptly created a kitten named Finn.....  later on, when I had an idea of things other than Khorne (Finn and Shin and Snaf having poked me out into the wider range of possibilities in Nanny utilizing the concept of "more than one character"), I dragged Jeci in as well.
So, after Kei, Lena and Valkris saw their first iterations as well.

I stopped playing for at least a year somewhere in the 99/00 area. (Shortly after noticing a young page named Bluejedi.)

When I came back in 2001, none of my characters existed anymore, and I was hesitant to return completely, just because I wasn't sure if anyone would remember me - and the chardissappearance was saddening.

Apparently I had been more memorable than I would have thought - as there were several who did remember - and who had all become very much more impressive in my absence (some of the names I had partied with had wizzed!).  I reacquainted myself by wandering around with the ever-Khorne and ever-nonplussed-by-death Kei - until Flair convinced me to bring V back.  She was recreated, and I spent a LONG day (I think it was 15+ hours) killing and questing and waiting for an RT.  The most beautiful occurance that entire day was that after I was interviewed, and reread the khelp (because I'd forgotten a bit or two in the intervening years, and the RT was quite thorough), and was knighted again - Gwalchmai still had my falcon.

(Hazy and wordy and imprecise in time)

Deputies...  Definitely.  One of the places I had tons of fun living and dying and ....  yeah.  Even as a Khorne.

Poets... 

And second Snafu mightily on Sisters of Mercy.  Been sorting through some old logs for bits for him, and rererereremembered how much fun those emotes were.

I miss Joxer, too.
One of the names I always check/checked for how long they'd been gone/when last in.

*is back-ish again*

/Valkris