Your First Day

[Elladan]

I was a first year student in Linkoping fall of 94 and this goof in my class showed me the way down to the Lysator house on campus. Coming into the house I ran into this huge feller, later I was to learn his Nanny name to be Gruhl, and a couple of his friends who were also playing Nanny. They spoke very warmly of Nanny and I realized I had to give it a shot. So I logged on, joined mages guild and got, ahem, lost.

I ended up in Gleep's lair   , not very frightful, how bad can a Gleep be? Got instructions how to get out of there, back then, noone really wanted to go have tea with the Gleepster. Messed up the directions, ended up in a rift with a lion . Oh joy! I musta pissed and moaned quite a bit about it, because before very long Gurk was there, had me join his party and raced back to grassie. I was overjoyed. Nothing like a first impression.

Funniest thing is I never found that lion again. Come to think of it I never even looked for it.

[Snafu]

Interesting thought on that is that you had already come full circle and didn't know it. The reasoning: If memory serves me correctly, Gleep was one of Gruhl's beasts. How's that for small world?

/Snafu

[Elladan]

That would probably hold true, I know Gruhl did have some space up by Pet with his sword of madness. And Gleep and that sword went away just about the same time. *sniff*

[garetjax]

I remember joining Nanny in January 2001.  My first act in Nanny was to read the newbie booklet after which I wanted to get a little action in so I moved around a bit to explore.  

Long story short, after I level up some in Blanka's, I stumble upon a character named Arraq with a nice eog blade (the flaming blue one).  After trying to start a conversation with him, he sliced me into bits and I found myself a ghost before I realized that I was in my first fight.

I had just lost about 30 minutes of work, a little fustrated, I was about to quit and perhaps start again the next say when I got a tell from someone named Alert.  After meeting him at green, he returned all the items I'd lost (tiger pelt, spartan helmet, torch,etc...) and 500 gold to boot.  I was shocked and amazed at this knight's kindness.

It was then that I was hooked (as well as knowing exactly which guild I wanted to join) and I haven't looked back since

[Carrion]

Ah, the nostalgia...

I browsed my old diary just the other day, to see if I mentioned MUDing in the, somewhat, old days... I did!

First note I found was september 4th, 1992. I guess I started in august that year. I actually think Carrion was my very first char, even though at the time I had two more...

In the same corridor of student rooms I lived in for almost all my university time, there were several who was playing Nanny before me, and they talked about it a lot and wanted me to join in the fun. I understood I would get addicted, so I waited until I had finished the courses, and started my final project to get my MSc degree.

In Nanny my friends were known as Beowulf, Exidor, Fce (who changed to Asarius after wizzing) and Baldrick (not sure about the spelling, he too changed his name after wizzing, to Blackadder). They also had plenty of second chars, and it was a lot about player killing.

My first shaky steps on the Nanny soil took me to Anvil's Beginners' World, and the Kobold caves if I remember correctly. I soon found myself killed by a rabbit in Anvil's, and I thought I had heard that you had to wait a bit before getting revived, so I logged on several days to check if I had turned alive again! Finally I found out I had to PRAY to get back. I know that at least one player some time after this told me (s)he had noticed that I was 'always a ghost', probably thinking I was a bit too brave

In the beginning I mentally pictured Nanny around Ingis' Lane, and saw the Lane before me in a left-right manner, with the church at the left. This was very hard to get away from, but finally I had the more 'correct' picture of Ingis' Lane in a top-bottom manner, with the church at the top (top-north, bottom-south, west-left and east-right).

I won't write everything in this note, but a couple of more things...

* When I had 50000 coins, I knew I would never again have cash trouble
* First quest I helped with was 'Slay Lag', as I helped a player in the final
  (?) killing (I would LOVE to remember who I helped)
* I'll check more closely, but wizzed in '93 and pretty quick I had my
  area opened (Beowulf had his area just north of it, with the shop with
  the shaving-mirror)
* Player Killing... I never dared to go PK with Carrion, but numerous other
  chars. Oh, the memories... Think this will have to wait, but it was
  sooo easy to kill players in those days... Loki had no mirror, just type
  'zzap loki' quickly ten times and Loki was dead and pissed off...

I must stop now, but I'm sure more will come...

   /Carrion

[Ashlea]

I found Nanny in May 1999 through serendippity. I googled "Galadriel" and just surfed on in. My first char was Storm, and after I had wandered about a bit getting lost and being attacked by a rooster for an hour or so, a brave and chivalrous knight asked me if I needed any help. I did, so Viken helped me get some free armour from Arnie's weapon store. (Even though no-one gave Arnie any free armour when he was young) Then Viken showed me around, and helped me find good things to kill, gave me dirs when i was lost and was very kind and helpful. We partied together almost every day after that. In fact, he was so kind and helpful, that in March 2000 he flew over to Australia to meet me. That was so much fun, he went back and packed his things, and moved in with me. NannyMud truly changed our lives!

[Valdor]

I got introduced to Nanny by a classmade at the end of 1995. I was familiar with some text adventures from the old days, so I knew how it worked a bit, except that I found it really impressive to be playing the same game as 80 other people from around the world. So I logged on, chose the name Valdor...and I got lost. So I logged in again...and I got lost. I also remember that I found it scary to stand at green when so many people were passing by.

My classmate then told me where Anvil's newbie world was and I memorized the dirs. From then on, I knew church, green, the shop, and anvil's newbie world. I solved several puzzles there, fought fierce rabbits, and gained levels. I never got any coins and never asked anyone for them. (This didn't happen all on that first day though, on that first day I just got lost).

[poogie]

In October 1994 I had a project to send an email to my professor to show that we could do it. I was in the computer lab with my roommate when this guy (Terin) turned to us and said "Do you mud?" Thinking that he meant some weird sexual thing my roommate and I looked at each other and cautiously said "No."
He explained Nannymud to us. Lisa wasn't interested in playing but I stayed and after a bit of contemplation I chose the name Poogus. The lead singer of Stone Temple Pilots, Scott Weiland, had a childhood imaginary friend named Poogus.
That first day I had a 'traumatic' experience (I was actually very prudish back then, I know it's hard to believe now. :p) when some guy offered to help me and took me up in some tree and attempted to mudsex me, giving me an STD (sexually transmitted disease) in the process.
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. I would log on during the day when I was supposed to be in class and play for about 8-9 hours, then take a nap for 3-4,  play for 8-9 hours and take a nap for 3-4 hours. (I strongly advise against this type of schedule, it's really bad if you want to pass your classes.) As bad as that was for my grades it was an amazing experience and opened a whole new world of nerdom to me.
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*
/P

[Snafu]

Ah yes, the STD's...you can blame Guildmaster for that. It was all him when he was a highwizard. All of the emote rooms (public ones that is) had a chance to give you STD's...  

/Snafu

[Belegur]

I don't remember much from 9.5 years ago, but I remember the old damnie Morgan taking me under his wing when I first started.  I think within a week of me playing, I got Chuck to start and then he got a bunch of people from his dorm playing (Toupee, etc).  It was a grand old time with the Madison druids before the guild got severely hacked up.

[jaeger]

Started in summer of '98, more or less by chance... wanted something to do while the calculations ran for the work I was doing that summer.  I don't remember the specific first day, but I know I ran into (was run over by?) a rather spammy axe pretty quick.  I adventured a bit, just trying to figure out what was what.  Arraquwain helped me out a lot at first - wish I could remember the other char I tagged along behind at the same time.  I wanted something more high-minded and virtuous than just running about grabbing gold, so I sought to become a knight; Mistress (I think) accepted me.  Knights seemed hard back then... didn't know a lot of evil kills and I got tired of dying in attacks.  Dropped out, joined kittens instead... there's a fun guild.  Played kittens with that character until they closed, then he wound up a monk without an angel.  I got so I could hear a dark coming three rooms away - vamps were always too sneaky though.  Joined knights again with another character who started out as a hunter, then finally wizzed...

Really brings back the memories.  A colossal "thanks" to everyone who's helped make Nanny such fun - as a newbie and as a wizard, for the gold and the experience and the quest hints and the spam and the chat and everything else.

[Qwer]

I remember that a few years ago there were two pk monks, Tazor and I think another one with 'T' but not sure ... I am not sure wether I was not around enough or them, or what happened, I just know I never managed to kill either of them. (tried a couple of times).
If I'm not wrong I remember attacking Tazor at the Chemist when was healing someone ... but not sure of these, pretty far memories.

My first pk char was my vamp and I really enjoy (now) thinking of how things were back then. I managed to gather a good few deaths. Fastest was when I was killing an ugly rat at Nib's and Phade came and killed me in a hit and a falcon. That was pretty quick. Or when another knight (don't remember his name) was waiting for me outside of Blanka (and I was really low in guild too, not only in levels). He waved a wand at me, I just ran back ... then after a while told Gurk about it and I believe he asked the knight to leave me be ... this was not a very nice thing of me, I should've had more pride to be able to avoid any contact with knights, but anyway, it was a long time ago.

[Vehement]

Hmm. I started in October 97 or so.

I was introduced by my oldest RL friend, Strafe (or Fyghter as he later became known). I remember being in a party with him, Fuzzie and someone else whose name escapes me. I guess that's where I gained my love of spamming. I think we hunted in the Grey Havens, but I'm not sure. Anyway, I was dragged to the knights guild by Strafe, and told to join. Asterix did the honours, but didn't check that I actually knew how to find the place unaided. Cue my first attack some hours later, and me having to ask how to get to Camelot.

I was a terrible newbie. Of course, I've moved on since then. Honest.

[Wolfenhex]

Halloween 1999.

My girlfriend (Martinique) invited me to try NannyMUD.  I had absolutely no idea what a MUD was and played as Guest for a little while.  After reading the help to find out how to play, I got lost in some forest (forget where, but it had a knife laying on the ground and a bear ... that killed me).  Then I walked around as a ghost because I had no idea what else to do.  Eventually I met someone in the Adv. Guild (no idea who) that told me I really should make a real character.  So I made "Wolfenhex".  Shortly after that we decided to join Lepers (not sure if that was on the first day, but it was either that or the next day).

Every time I earned a new game/guild level I died almost right away.  I also died just short of 2000000 NP (which knocked me down to level 18 with about 60-70% of my NP gone -- pissed me off so much I quit NannyMUD until Meth and others got me to play again and helped me regain my status).  I was never a Paragon (I was originally told I couldn't be a wizard if I became one, so never became one because I wanted to be a wizard).  I was an Eglarest addict and would spend entire days (as in MUDing for 24-48 hours straight) there just killing elves.

[Littlebit]

I don't remember my first day, but I do remember my first char.

Daphnae was a knightess who almost made it to Paragon.  (I had to stop playing her as a knight because after my first child was born I couldn't risk leaving in the middle of an attack if Noelle suddenly needed me for something.)  I remember that Yavathol tested me for three hours, from 12 am to 3 am.  At the time, I thought surely that was an unusual amount of time to take to test someone, but Yavathol told me a couple of years later that he normally tests for two to three hours.  Wow.