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.

-- X

[SpyGuy]

My first real character that got me addicted to the game:

-Thought a desert elf waying me to communicate was a mindbender because I didn't know about the Way yet.
-Fell down the well and survived.
-Sold templarate weapons to a shop, got arrested.
-Led one or two mobs to the gates to escape them I'm sure.
-Found out about the stun skill the hard way, getting knocked out by strong mob X then well...mantis head.

And countless other newbie adventures.  Was amazing he lived as long as he did, was definitely worth it though.

[mansa]

...

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.

-- X

That, and every other place in the known world where I wasn't allowed to enter because people are guarding it...   Like the ol' Kadian Outpost by Mal Krian.

[Khorm]

The first character that I can remember playing used to befriend people and get them to follow him into the 'rinth. I would lead them to some greedy npcs so I could loot their bodies afterwards.

I think I successfully managed to pull it off once or twice before the whole plan backfired and I died too.

[ThirdEye]

Stealing spice repeatedly from a NPC in a 'rinthi tavern. I had twinked up my steal skill prior to this I imagine.

[Cuusardo]

I know I've mentioned this before, but with my first PC I decided it would be a good idea for her to take a nap in the Grey Forest because she was very low on stamina.

With that same PC, I came across a vestric and decided to kill it.  My husband, who was nearby helping me with stuff, told me that I should emote and do things to show what my PC was doing.  So I had her yelling "Die!  Die!  Die!" while she hacked away at the poor creature.

She also learned the hard way to carry around water with her.  Lucky for me, after she finally managed to drag herself to a tavern (after running out of stamina a few times) there were a couple of nice PCs who helped her out.  Suffice it to say, I learned a hell of a lot with that character.

[ThirdEye]

Ah yeah, I perma ran around because walking was 'too slow'.

[bloodfromstone]

Ditto.

[John]

Ah yeah, I perma ran around because walking was 'too slow'.

I still do this from time to time

[Hymwen]

When I was a newbie, I followed a 'rinther into an alley.

When I was a newbie, I slept in the street (and somehow didn't get robbed).

When I was a newbie, I tried to steal from shops.

When I was a newbie, the water was fresher and the imms gave you candy.

[LoD]

One of my favorite stories is from when my friends and I were playing back in day (somewhere in the early 90's).

Half-Giants could pretty much subdue -> kill things with a decent strength, and my friend rolled the highest possible.  So he would walk around the 'rinth, grabbing elves and killing them to revel in his newfound strength.  That was Drew (who later played Deaden the 'krathi elf -- one of the Kohmar founders).

I had another friend, Reid (who later played Onyxwolf -- also a Kohmar founder), that was playing an elven character.  Well, the two of them were walking around the 'rinth and playing in the same room.  This is how the conversation went down:

Drew: Hey, Krag can one-hit subdue.  It's awesome.
Reid: Oh yeah?
Drew: Yeah, oh, there's an elf -- check this out.
Reid: Ok.
(Drew subdues elf -- first elf in room happens to be Reid)
Drew: Okay, check this out.
Reid: Wait...what are you doing?
Drew: I'm gonna one-hit this elf, watch.
Reid: Wait...don't I think...
Drew: Bam!
Reid: No no no!  That was ME!
Drew: What?
Reid: That was me!  You just killed me!
Drew: What?  How, I just killed this....uh....whoops.

-LoD

[Malifaxis]

Grinning toothily, the tall figure in a dark, hooded cloak says, at your table, in 'rinthi-accented sirihish,
"Sure, I can find you the Byn."

give 300 coins tall

[mansa]

Grinning toothily, the tall figure in a dark, hooded cloak says, at your table, in 'rinthi-accented sirihish,
"Sure, I can find you the Byn."

give 300 coins tall

I pull that scam all the time.

[LoD]

Grinning toothily, the tall figure in a dark, hooded cloak says, at your table, in 'rinthi-accented sirihish,
"Sure, I can find you the Byn."

give 300 coins tall

I pull that scam all the time.

What scam?  These are probably newbies you're milking.  That's like being proud that you snatched a sucker from a 4 year old.  Awesomesauce!  :wink:

-LoD

[Bebop]

When I was a noob:

I thought I was hot shit in my gith gear.

When I was a noob, I thought the wastes would make a nice short cut from the road, you just have to go south right? S S S S

I had no idea about the grocer FOREVER - my first characer lived 3 RL months, I probably didn't find out about flour for half of that time.  Unless other people fed me it was tavern food for me.

Same for kanks.  I was determined that I did not need a kank - Once again, no idea how I survived, pure luck.

[Coolconder(not signed in)]

Armageddon was my first mud experience so I was lost for a long time.  My first character got into the byn, and I had no idea where anything was, So i went out into the compound and decided to try and kill a soldier.... Didn't end very well.

Then for a while I didn't know you could put kanks into the stables so I would buy one, do what I needed to do, then walk into a tavern and quit out... With that same character I travelled from tuluk to allanak, got mad at someone and threatened him with "powerful allies",  templars didn't like that idea very much. :?

[Aldiel]

I didn't get on the GDB like my employer asked of me oocly.  That was a big mistake.  Because I didn't do that, I only experience like half of what being in a clan is all about.

[Spud]

When I was a noob, I picked a lock in front of 2 Salarri npcs, looted 2 rooms of Salarri stuff AND sold it back to the npcs.

[Nao]

getting nasty with some noble. attakcign a guard cause he was blocking the only exit and I couldn't figure out the leave command, thougth maybe flee would get me out.

[Coat of Arms]

When I was a newbie I rolled up my first character, a ranger. I read that agility affected archery, and my first roll was:

Str: very good
Agi: good
Wis: very good
End: exceptional

...thinking that these stats were common, I wanted a better agility, and rerolled.  :oops:

[ThirdEye]

I thought I was hot shit in my gith gear.

I still do

[Anonymous]

When I was a newbie I rolled up my first character, a ranger. I read that agility affected archery, and my first roll was:

Str: very good
Agi: good
Wis: very good
End: exceptional

...thinking that these stats were common, I wanted a better agility, and rerolled.  :oops:

Heh.  Well I bet the character wouldn't still be alive with that roll since first characters have a short lifespan, not sure if that helps though.

I'm glad I don't remember and didn't have any idea about my newbie character's stats.  I bet they all had absolutely incredible everything.

[Gorilla J]

Well, when I was a newbie, I didn't actually make any horrible mistakes.  I still have time though.

[John]

Well, when I was a newbie, I didn't actually make any horrible mistakes.  I still have time though.

:lol:

[gfair]

* First character. It's training time and I'm in a "Training Yard" and see NPCs there, so I figure like any other mud that the NPCs are there for me to fight with.

* A templar wanted to take my character from a house to be his personal servant. By that I thought he meant slave. I RPed my character going wild and refusing and saying he would never be a slave. He died a few moments later. (Oh. This was noobish because I thought Templars were evil slaver overlords, didn't realize that civilians were supposed to respect and fear and obey them at all cost).

* Spotted a hidden templar in a bar once (the same in error #2) and began freaking out, telling everyone that there was a templar in the bar. Everyone began looking, but couldn't see him, so they concluded I was crazy. My mistake was going all out to convince people he was there. Sure enough, he came out of hiding and had his half-giant choke me.


* Was really bored and was going through help files one day. Came across a specific code to enter to do something that was outlawed. Curious to see if I could actually do it, I tried the code. First three times got errors because I couldn't understand the syntax. Fourth try - got it right. And that's when the code also mentioned that what I had got right was very very wrong. I had to email the only Templar on at the time and beg and plead for mercy. It was granted. (He laughed at me, too)

[John]

* First character. It's training time and I'm in a "Training Yard" and see NPCs there, so I figure like any other mud that the NPCs are there for me to fight with.

I did that one time. I saw an NPC "practicing her artforms" and roleplayed out having getting her agreement to spar with me (seemed a fairly reasonable thing to do), next thing I know my sarge is asking me what happened.

* Was really bored and was going through help files one day. Came across a specific code to enter to do something that was outlawed. Curious to see if I could actually do it, I tried the code. First three times got errors because I couldn't understand the syntax. Fourth try - got it right. And that's when the code also mentioned that what I had got right was very very wrong. I had to email the only Templar on at the time and beg and plead for mercy. It was granted.

Is the command still around? The only thing I can think of is trapping, and I doubt your average newbie would have access to the materials...