Your First Day

[Maruja]

Do you remember your first day on NannyMUD? Do
you remember how you found out about the MUD? Who was the first player you interacted with?

Another online acquainta
nce gave me addresses for two MUDs, and one of them was Nanny. I could kick myself because I don't remember who it was who
 told me. (I'd sure like to thank them.) I don't remember what the other MUD was, either.

My memories of my first
day are not terribly detailed, but a few things stick. The first player to help me out as an utter novice was a player name
d Kila, who was playing from China. He gave me a toga to wear. (I was stylin'.) I spent some time exploring Anvil's newbi
e area and trying to solve what I thought was a puzzle in it. I asked Milamber for help with the puzzle, but he kindly info
rmed me that wizards were not allowed to help with such things. To this day I've never figured out whether it was actually
 a puzzle or not.

That was my first day. What was yours?

[Dain]

Don't remember
I think I joined Khorne and start getti
ng some experience and ask fellow romanian players or knights to give me a few coins.

[Yberiel]

My first day, started about 2.5 years ago. I found out about Nanny thro
ugh a friend. I have heard about Nanny from this friend but could not figure out why he found it so addictive. Nanny was al
l he talked about and I thought "But god, it is just a bunch of text.. nothing more!" Anyway, I tried it out.. and who is a
ddictive now?  
My first day, as a newbie, was with my character Shannara. She was going to be my testing char. M
y friend told me that he would put a beard on my character when he noticed me there. I never told him what name my characte
r had. But he found out, or he put beard on every newbie that logged in that week? I never got much help in the beginning,
I did not want any help. When I felt secure enough, I started up Yberiel. Whith her, I joined the druid and my very first f
riend I got, and I do not count my friend who showed me Nanny, was Cyrion, the former druid. He showed me around and helped
 out alot. The very first one who helped me with a quest was Suiko and the very first one I was in a party with was Alwor.
r
The very first day I do not remember much from, except for the beard thingy, but what my very first friends helped me wi
th, I do remember.
And that Charlie/Snafu called me 'Grasshopper'  

[Yavathol]

Ok, I have not been around since the begg
inning, that's for sure, but it has been a few years now, so I might be running some of this together.  There actually is
a longer version of this story, and if you ask I will probably even share it.  For now though, here goes...

After ha
ving Nanny suggested instead of the Mud I had been on (one devoid of any other players it seemed), I hesitantly logged in a
nd was pretty much overwhelmed by the sheer numbers of players that were on and the amount of Wizards that were interacting
 as well.
I think there were something like 64 mortals and 24 wizards logged in at the time - and to my newbie eyes, the
y all seemed to be in the same room with me.  It was all pretty confusing, actually; so much so that I completely forgot ab
out the newbie guide I had gotten upon starting.

I was actually a bit frustrated for the first couple of levels, bec
ause the people who had told me about Nanny had seemed so friendly, but here I was and I couldn't seem to get the time of
day.  I thought I should persevere in the hopes of seeing those who had summoned me to this busy mecca of text information,
 so I explored some.

I managed to find my way to the Adventurer's guild by sheer luck, I think.  From there I thoug
ht I would branch out slowly in my explorations.  I can still recall my first opponent - and the weapon I used to slay it.
 I actually spent most of the first two levels hunting those dastardly rats with the chopsticks that some higher level play
er must have been so generously leaving behind just for players like me! Oh, and the leather jacket! The ultimate protectio
n!  
Armed with my mighty chopsticks and shielded with the incredible leather jacket I knew that I could survive in Nann
y.

I think that was when I was run over by a passing wizard and then attacked by a beggar just outside the pub.

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Oh, well - someweher before I hit level 5 I did find that newbie book and discovered all the great newbie areas!

[Kherec]

I got lured into this world by a fellow classmate, an odd duc
k that kept pretty much to himself and while I didn't, we still got to know each other due to the fact we both knew a lot
about computers.

Anyways, he played his Chaos Simyarin, Aldraahn, and told me I should give it a try.

I logge
d on and thought about a name ... and the first thing that popped up was 'Dagoth', from a Conan movie (can't recall exac
tly which one). I didn't know if it was spelled Dagoth or Daagoth so I picked the former and off I went into the world of
Nanny.

I of course joined Simyarins, and arrowed away on the rabbits, as so many of you no doubt did if you thought
of reading the help files. As I grew in level and stats I proceeded and tried out the area near the Stonepub, with those li
ttle critters in the cellars of the houses.

Not much more was accomplished for my first day, but I'm still here, al
most a decade later

[lillstrumpa]

I dont remember what year it was, but I remember my first time in Nanny very well. I had seen a class mate playing Nanny and he was playing a druid named Dustwalker. So I logged on and somehow got added to a party with a knight named Permlin. After a few minutes... He dragged me to Arthur where Lan was idling. So I applied... Lan did the short story and asked me if I promised to be a good knight and I replied "sure".  He joined me and I quitted and remained offline for a week or something.,

The game was way too confusng and I got lost and died a lot in attacks. So eventually I quitted knights and joined Kittens instead. Played kittens until I wizzed as Aishiteru.

Then I made lill and rejoined knights.

[Snafu]

I remember a day in mid-november 1993. A friend at my school named Panic had introduced me to this place.

I remember the first shout I saw: Who killed Terror!!
I was thinking..lots of text, lots of action, fun place.

I remember sitting in church for a bit while Panic and I were partying and he would go around and kill and I would get experience for just sitting there. Now that seemed fun, indeed.

I first joined Mages guild.

I played with characters such as: Musten, Kira, Shaolin, Honey, Bonnetane, Flyer, Tron and many more

I once watched over a player named Hans' items while he went and got a great wand to PK with. He had to become a frog to do it. Rribbbit!

My character name was Wanderer.

I first wizzed in January 1994.

The rest of that charcter is a story for another day

/Snafu

[zyraxes]

I don't remember much of it. It was a different char, Illegal i believe....got deleted and picked up by another. The player that got me into it was Cost. I was skipping school and I heard about this lab that had internet. So, curious, I entered it. And there was Cost, a former high-school colleague, typing like crazy. He showed me how to play, where to kill, he even gave me my first coins.

[ladychris]

Well, thats my story
In spring 2000 I was planning a hiking trip in Sweden for next summer holiday, so was gathering info. Found some guy's site who had a link to Lysator and followed it. It looked interesting, expecially the "games" part I had experienced a few mins in a mud some years before, but never really played so that Nannymud intrigued me a lot
... and i clicked that link
Dante would say "Galeotto fu il libro e chi lo scrisse..."
Dont ask me to translate it, but in brief that was how my addiction started
Anyway, first thing I did was reading newbie booklet, second looking for a suitable kill - somehow I had the feeling killing monsters was main activity in a mud. Booklet directed me to Dref's area and since a bee seemed me not a worthy kill i tried the rabbit... who killed me
Well, I knew all I had to do was go to church and pray, so no harm done (expecially since I had no clue of the xp system).
After that I had to log off, when I came back I found corpse of worker in Ingis lane and it was kinda of a shock. The idea someone might have killed him didn't hit me, I was persuaded he had died for some natural reason, possibly age and that more time in mud had passed since my last log in than iRL (which was not far from truth).
Anyway, I kept exploring, searched most newbie areas and got myself trapped in XXX, I had no ball for swimming and rope had reset (but i thought someone had stolen it). So for first time i shouted for help
I wish I knew who was the hero resquing me, but I dont remember. For sure he was a low level since I was in a newbie area, but that doesn't mean he was a newbie
Also one of the first things intriguing me when try to stand in green while everybody spammed me to death by running in every possible direction, was some hunting falcon. I wish I knew if it was Mistress's or Valdor's or Yavathol's... for sure it was in that moment I decided I would be a knight I worked all summer on advancing my char and in september I felt I was rdy. Mistress joined me, but that is another story...

[ladychris]

Hmmm, i realize i left a typo  
That XXX in previous note must be read as Anvil's newbie area.
 

[Arbre]

My first day was in December of 1996. I had watched my son (Phlipside)play and thought it looked like fun. I created my character Lys and was directed to the rabbit tunnels by him and had a fine time bashing little rabbits until I ran into a big mean one that killed me    

I had observed Phlipside in the Knight's guild and decided that was the guild for me but after watching him in an attack or two, I decided to wait until a higher level to join.  I continued killing the little bunnies, and was appalled that my alignment had dropped to nasty.  

I then noticed a shout from a Knight named Kyle. He was shouting for any newbies to join him at green. I did and he took me to the kobald caves to fix my alignment and then took me over to Blanka's area.  He also gave me a weapon and armour.  I was so impressed by his generosity.

Nanny was a bustling place back then, often it was too full to log in. I don't know what the max was, but it seemed to be around 90. With my old dial-up, I often went linkdead and found myself unable to log back on due to the number of players.  As frustrating as it was at times, the idea  of playing a computer game with so many other people was just too appealing to give up.

[Leowon]

I played with characters such as: Musten, Kira, Shaolin, Honey, Bonnetane, Flyer, Tron and many more

/Snafu

Didn't you forget someone?

Leo, who started out as a druid but eventually realized life was much more fun with lightning bolts than with trees.

[Snafu]

Ah yes, Leofisk! I remember young Leowon as a newbie In fact, didn't Dolph sponsor young Leowon

*snuggle and fisks for all*

/Snafu

[Iceblink]

I believe that my first day was 10 years ago this month.

I logged on with two other people... Quit and Agentus.  We all used to hang out in an IRC channel called #tinydynamine... after a Cocteau Twins song.

Quit found the place first.  His name on IRC was LudwigVan.  We were all newbies on the same day though.

I was instantly taken in.

BTW... for those of you who remember him... Quit made new characters...  Roland... Dante... hehe.  He became quite famous.

We went around killing things and getting scared and meeting people... and I was a monk... my first character, Iceblink.  Quit left the guild and became a knight so he could hang out with Jane.  Hmm... that's another "whatever happened to..."  

I was hurt pretty badly by some monster... a little thing probably... we were wandering around trying to prevent me from dying.  We ran into someone named Anna.  Quit said, "Can you help my friend?  He's hurt."  Anna said, "Oh no.  I am much too powerful."  I remember thinking, "Whoooooa.  Powerful."  I think that was the first time I met a wizard.

Anyway, somehow I healed, and we went back.  Then we tried to solve puzzles... I think we were trying to get across a river or something.  I don't really remember where this was, as the mud looks so different to me now.  I think it was some area that was west of green.... 5w I think... then some south and some more w.  Is there a red rubber ball somewhere?  That  seems to be popping up in my memory.

And maybe a game warden?  Does that sound right?

Anyway, that was my first day... oh... and there was a huge duel that happened that day... I think it was that day... definitely in my first few... Predator and Bonnetane, I believe.  Predator was scary.  Eeep!

[ladychris]

Yes, Iceblink, that looks like Anvil's newbie area: there is a lake you cross with help of a rubber ball and a game warden Same area i got trapped in as a newbie    Only i believe it is 3w some s (4 maybe?) and more w