When you were a noob

[Cavus]

What is the worst and stupid thing you ever did when you were a noob?

Mine is I was always seeing terrible biting sand bla bla. Someone had told me something about soaps. So I thought I am getting echo because I am dirty. Well, I learned much later that reason is not that I am a dirty Byner, it is because I am walking in a ssand storm :oops:

[Dalmeth]

Put my water in my pack and then pack it to my kank.  That character died not long after that.

[Larrath]

I had a half-elf assassin in Allanak.
I was completely clueless at the time, and I saw a vestric in the road so I attacked it, unarmed and unarmored.  The vestric beat the crap out of me.

I go to the Gaj and sit at the bar, bleeding terribly and telling people horror stories about the mean, terrible vestric.  I was telling it to a templar, too.  I think I nearly got pounded-the-crap-out-of, but someone threw a distraction and I ran away.

[MorganChaos]

Hmm...probably when I shot my mouth off in the Sanc. Nowadays I'd know to shut my damn mouth.

Pickpocketing random NPCs in the Tooth without thinking about what was going to happen when I was caught.

OOCing to tell someone not to do something, because it was going to mess up a plot.

Walking into the desert without water, and not thinking to stay on the road, nor evern, in fact, noticing that there was a road.

[Anonymous]

Sat at a table with some PC.  She said "Um, excuse me, this is my table."

So I emoted having my character look over the table and then say "I don't see your name on it!"

I cringe whenever I think of that for multiple reasons.

[Wish]

EDITED.

[Gaare]

Sitting at Trader's, and betting ten sids I can kiss templar sitting at table.

[Armaddict]

Was playing a slaver, went into the 'rinth in my house colors, sat down in a bar with mul guards, and asked if anyone knew of where I could find some escaped muls I could capture.

[marko]

Very first thing I did - walked up so a random npc and attacked it.  I came from a H&S pkill mud.  I figured I needed the experience to go up in levels.

Got killed by the criminal code (something I'd never seen before).

Respawned.

Got killed by the same soldier.

Some time later I made a new character.

[LauraMars]

I never made any fatal blunders when I first started playing.  My first character lived a respectable eight days playtime.  However, I do remember not understanding the concept of "languages" or "skills."

One of my fondest memories of newbie stupidity was trying to explain how I could speak fluent cavilish after stating repeatedly that I had no idea how.

"I.. forgot?"

[Rhyden]

I entered 2 viable commands with my first character

down
kill soldier

(3 guesses where I was!)

Then he was reincarnated and I played him, oh, an hour, two hours tops. My second character lasted about 5 months though.

[corona]

Hah! I was the perfect n00b, n00b.  

[Yokunama]

What is the worst and stupid thing you ever did when you were a noob?

Got taken advantage of by someone, killed them, and got scared, because they OOCed "W8! Stop! Ill logging into my templr account and p0wn u!" I didn't play for a few weeks after that.

[Medena]

I stole (or attempted to) repeatedly from a shopkeeper in the 'rinth.  After about the fourth successive try, the shopkeeper fled from the shop and.... disappeared!  And stayed disappeared for a couple of RL days, meaning no one could use the shop. It was agonizing. I was sure I had broken the shop and was going to be banned from the mud.

[amoeba]

Within my first two weeks I led a tembo to the gates of Tuluk. Got a verbal lashing by a NPC gate guard.  :oops:  I think I was lucky not to have it more.

[mansa]

I fell down the well.

[Synthesis]

Ah, one really funny story I just remembered.

My 3rd PC on this account, I think...a three-eyed dwarf (this was years and years ago, so it's not IC info).

I was sitting in the Gaj, minding my own business and playing around with my barrier skill, and there was some Borsail concubine PC sitting at another table, casting dirty looks my way.  I think she might've sent me a couple of nasty messages over the Way, as well.

At some point, I put up a successful barrier, but I didn't realize it.  A few moments later, my Byn Sergeant ways me, and I try to contact him, but I get the message "You can't seem to get in touch with your psionic abilities." because my barrier was up.

I was -absoloutely- convinced that this concubine PC was a mindbender and had zorched my psionic abilities.  I stood up, screamed "mindbender!" and proceeded to attack her.  I think Berlian came to her rescue and promptly gave me a sound ass-beating.  Ended up in the dungeons trying to explain to a Templar why I had attacked and permanently disfigured a Borsail Noble's favorite concubine, heh.  Obviously, the end result was a mantis head.

Whoops.  I always wondered what happened to that concubine after the incident, though.

[Realedazed]

I tried salvaging stuff after a HRPT.  I think they were trying to get things off of the streets so us vultures couldn't get anything, but I managed to get a sword that belonged to a Templar or something. Of course I tried to sell it, then was promptly escorted to jail.

[desert_spider_eater]

"Oooh, a halfling ...  heh.  Easy ... "

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

Code Select Expand

tell noble Yeah, I'm a pickpocket.

[Resurrect]

I wasn't a hardcore n00b at this point but I was still sorta green. I spit on Ihshan's boots. Yes. Ihshan the red robe in the Zalanthan History.

I didn't just spit on his boots, I spit blood on his boots because someone had kicked my ass earlier and I was RPing having the snot knocked out of me.

You can guess what went down.

[Moofassa]

I came from a H&S.. but sorta new that I needed to roleplay.

I stopped playing for three weeks after my first three days, because no one would answer me, and I got frustrated (NPC's).

That PC eventually laster over 10 days. Not bad for a first.

[Pale Horse]

My first character...a half-elf assassin...started in Red Storm...walked into the ally just after my 2 hour mark had ended..

[John]

Someone told me to kick my kank to get it to move. Seems simple enough. Oh wait. I can't kick it while mounted? That's easy fixed......

[Xygax]

Pretty sure I've told this before.

My halfling was wandering through Allanak and Jhalavar (yes, as an imm.  If I recall rightly, he was testing the new spell) cast a sleep spell on me that left me incapacitated for several hours RL (ticks were a lot slower then because of how pitiful thrash -- or was it iboga then? -- was.)  He apologized but there was no way to dispel the spell I guess.  Or he was just having a laugh at my expense.

Being new was cool.  I used to fantasize about finding out what those guys in the crater-bar (in old Tuluk) were guarding so zealously.

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