Your First Day

[Maggs]

In response to Carrion's question:

I'm not actually sure. It was between summer 1991 and summer 1992 I think, but I'm not that sure. My first recollection was being called an arsehole by someone called 'Voork', because I wasn't interested in joining the Scots.

Voork was later to incur the wrough of Qqqq, which wasn't good - (shame).

I raised a second knight char by joining a party with an RT called Sarayah (I think), and raised to level 10 by standing by arthur in the clouds and letting her kill while I advanced.

Banshee was a plain old Wiz, as was Brom. I don't think there were high wizzes as such.

Padrone was still around and the Druids had just about opened. Michaels amulet quest was still there, and Mysee's of course - and I remember the alien in the castle of Vador for some reason.

Other than that, I can't be that certain - its all a blur.

I played until about 1996/7 I think, then came back in late 1999 with my current chars. Wazzack and co having long since gone,

M

[Carrion]

In response to Carrion's question:

I'm not actually sure. It was between summer 1991 and summer 1992 I think, but I'm not that sure.

Cool, then you've must have been active when I started! Do you remember any of my friends: Beowulf, Fce or Exidor?

and I remember the alien in the castle of Vador for some reason.

Ah, been thinking about Vader's castle a lot, even thought about volunteering to become care-taker of that area, if the files are still there...

[Maggs]

Ah, excellent !!

[Maggs]

The names seem familiar. The players I remember from the first day that I started were Tankgirl, Reeferchild, Jynx, Rosebud and Soulman.

Players like Gerritt, Shoalin, Scarabee and Bonnetane came later. Some of those were very good players. Bonnetane was the best knight ever, in my opinion, and Gerritt the best questor. You actually had to do the work in those days.

That being said, some things were easier. In particular, XP and equipment was easier to get. For that reason, I have every respect for Polar and what he has achieved today.

M

[Drig]

My first day / night on was in spring of '94 I was in the basements of the old computer rooms in UCD doing spice annalysis of my amplifier for a project - while the huge monstosity of a computer with probably the same power as a 486 was crunching my design numbers I went on line.

I had been looking for MUDs for some time had played several and wound up realising not to bother the users with questions on how to play -


Finally I found Nanny - I really don't remeber if the newbie booklet was present at this time if it was I completely ignored it - I knew not to bother anyone or so I thought from other MUDs that I had attempted to play so I was slowly exploring hoping to find gold or a weapon figuring there can't be anything too dangerous close to the starting green.

I can't remember if I mixed up directions or if I was going to scavenge the Lars town trash pile (probably the second) for a weapon and was promptly killed by the trash monster -

It was a few weeks before I tried that deadly nanny MUD again but somehow it was better than all others I tried

I played to 96 with various different chars - kept forgetting username / passwords but never learnt and wrote them down.

My last char in 96 was "Inforapenny" I finanlly chose a char that wasn't a random assortment of letters.

Logged back a month ago thinking nanny would be gone and was really happy to see it still around and have got Drig to a reasonable level 11 - I think my highest prior char was a level 12 knight so soon Drig can be my most experienced char (and I actually wrote his name and password down this time) though he was an odd assortment of randomly punched keys again.

[Fenix]

almost forgot those times...was so little as SOOOO stupid!  

the only thing i remember is Loque who was "hammer jumping" then  
and "Hero of the day" by solving the dragonhunt quest...everyone was a damn God for me those times...took me 3 years to realise they are just as punny as me  

[Carrion]

almost forgot those times...was so little as SOOOO stupid!  

the only thing i remember is Loque who was "hammer jumping" then  
and "Hero of the day" by solving the dragonhunt quest...everyone was a damn God for me those times...took me 3 years to realise they are just as punny as me  

Mate, Loque is STILL like a God compared to you

[Fenix]

Mate, Loque is STILL like a God compared to you

no way...i'm a big boy now...no more fairy tales  
But Loque's cool ... still cool  

[Qwer]

almost forgot those times...was so little as SOOOO stupid!  

the only thing i remember is Loque who was "hammer jumping" then  
and "Hero of the day" by solving the dragonhunt quest...everyone was a damn God for me those times...took me 3 years to realise they are just as punny as me  

Mate, Loque is STILL like a God compared to you

pwn3d!!!1

[Hewe]

I cant remember when I started...I think it was at the end of 2000  I had been on internet for one year then, but mostly on a channel of irc. There one day a swedish friend told me he would show me something: nanny.

He had played a bit some years before, but never got really adicted...but I did and got stuck for a long time. It took me several days just to learn my way from the Village Green to the shop  

[Snafu]

My usual post: I remember Hewe as a newbie too!

/Snafu

[Hewe]

*blushes*

Emmie (do you remember Snafu who was Emmie?) and Alwor must remember me too

[Gray]

After that I met some really nice mudders and ended up hanging out with them continuously...Andromeda, Nightmare, Yon, Solardria, Bucky, Meep, Jolena, Jaso Storin, Avis, Gobo and quite a few more.

Before the days when multiplaying was banned I once logged all 7 of my characters at once and took them around in a party. That was so awesome, Bucky even joined me (us?) for a bit. *sigh*

My apologies, but I don't recall the name Poogie, what where your other character names?

Gray

[Kei]

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)