First Cool Experience In Arm

[Is Friday]

Hrm... I was wondering if everybody had something like this. Basically, a "selling point". First, I tried it out and generally liked it, but then something awesome happened. In my case it wasn't even really special, looking back, but it was greatly atmospheric.

I was wandering around allanak with my first character and came across a cloaked individual. My character asked why he was hurt, and he mentioned he was just in a knife fight. He slinked away shortly after.

[Coat of Arms]

My first tavern brawl. It must have been my third character (my first 2 were incredibly short-lived rangers) and I happened to be a warrior who ended up duking it out with some untrained non-warrior, so I beat the crap out of this guy just because of the guild difference. I felt so badass. Even though I did neglect to emote most of it, it was still pretty cool.

[Dakkon Black]

I think my moment was with my first enjoyable char who so unimportant I can say Dalin. She was my attempt at a burglar and was noticed by some maybe bad people. At any rate, she ends up in the wrong end of town with these folk and is considering the fact that she might have to fight this woman to get out alive when a throwing knife comes flying in from the east along with some generic profanity and death threat. This badass woman bats it out of the air casually looking barely annoyed and goes back to figuring out what to do with Dalin. It was the first time I really felt on the edge of maybe loosing something great and I almost crapped my pants through most of the action.

[Is Friday]

I just had a  :idea:!

This thread might/might not be useful to staff members for brainstorming ideas in what is inspirational to newbies. I assume it's hard to gauge that sort of thing, as it's mostly just feedback, so anything related to "being neat for new players" should be discussed here.

Did that make sense?   :?

[Ktavialt]

I played on and off six years, with a consistent set of three-day old characters each dying horribly (including gith PC at some times - thanks uhh, Haldol was it?).  Anyways, my first real character that learned how to really enjoy the game was a Whiran, and one of Dakkon Black's Kuraci PCs just RP'd a certain situation so well that it inspired me to RP better myself.  It was a very simple drunk Kuraci meets a magicker situation, but it was good.

Other than that, I always see characters that are awesomely played, some real sick and twisted characters like a particular elven defiler in the past, mostly other magickers cause thats what I played (been rolling w/ the mundanes lately).  Don't be hatin' magickers (oocly) just because we're on a pro-mundane roll though .

Most every time when the immortals animate NPCs, I am impressed.  They got flava.

[acekj]

I read about Armageddon some time last year, and joined... think it was last year with one very short lived ranger. Gave up quickly on that and rejoined just about 4 days ago, with a mindset to really try to immerse myself in the atmosphere and game. Got recruited by someone after talking with her and a few others, but the kicker has to be today- Srsly in awe after hearing her story and meeting a Tuluki in 'Nak. I was like o_O I'm a recruit, I can't do anything to him. Panic panic panic, but so fun cos I didn't know what to do even though I was in the Militia. Nothing much happened, but today had to be one of the best moments of my 4 day arma career. XD

[Reiloth]

Reminder to not use IC names or events on this thread that are like..a day old.

my selling point was definitely my merchant (4th character, 1st in Tuluk) spitting on a certain Winrothol noble's shoes and getting assassinated for it!

that was awesome.

[Bogre]

Rinth intrigue.

[Wolfsong]

Hrm... I had a PC who'd deserted the Byn, once, and went to make its fortune out in the dunes-- came across a magicker, once, who randomly pulled food outta the sky and gave my PC a cute little obsidian ear cuff, then flew away. Being naturally paranoid, I left the food and took the jewelry and started back to the city on foot.

Somehow ended up with no stamina, dying of thirst, and had no idea what the syntax was for water at the temple. So I ended up outside the Trader's Inn with 2 HP left, exhausted and unable to move, too embarassed at how stupid this whole situation was to actually shout at the passerbys. Then my PC got a last burst of stamina, moved east, bought a cup of water and lived.

...And if that didn't do it, it must've been a contract under Scratch (I believe) where we had to go catch... a jozhal? But the jozhal was a vNPC-- or so I thought, so I just emoted tackling it and grabbing it. I had a kank named Bob, and when he died, a second kank named Bobtu...

[Nile]

One of my very first characters was playing in the 'rinth. I had no clue what was going on, but instantly liked the game when some guy...Toes I think it was...Anyway, when he told me the best whores are the ones with no teeth and how its best to just beat the fuck out of them and knock them out, then took me around the 'rinth and hassled some elf PC. Resulting in a fight, and me stabbing a random hooded figure.

I had an awesome time.

[bardess]

My first char met a couple of bards (in Tuluk) outside of the main bar.  I got sucked up in the bardy stuff and have been in love ever since.  I think I can mention Holten Irofel?  He's a few years old now.

P.S. -- the username came first.

[Twisted Minstrel]

My selling point came with my twenty-third character.... I don't remember all the details, but I do remember it having something to do with beating another character's ass into the ground (he was armed, my character wasn't) and then throwing his unconscious body down the well in 'Rinth.  

[mansa]

http://www.zalanthas.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?p=296398#296398

[brytta.leofa]

Watching a 'nakki militia officer lie horribly about my second character...a seedy 'rinthi trying (ineptly) to make good southside.  To Lord Templar Malenthis Jal, I do believe.

It ain't wrong if you do it to a 'rinth-rat--there's thousands more where that one come from.

[Ocotillo]

Getting killed in the desert by a tarantula when my would-be warrior wandered out of 'nak.

[Maybe42or54]

I was subdued in a various prison by a huge half giant. I was given the death sentence and the templar drew his sword, and I parried it. He attacked again, missed, I fled and broke the half giants grip, and then the templar hit me for 67 hp twice. I died.

[Dan]

Spending all of my newbie coins on a bow and like two quivers of arrows before going to hunt 'in the woods'.

Finding out I was too weak to shoot the bow.

What is a Gortok?

How do you run away again?

Mantis.

[Simple]

First character, finding out that things in the 'rinth are not what they seem.
Got pretty scary.

[Rairen]

I played for four IRL days, one summer, to kill time.  Didn't touch the mud for two years afterwards.  Came back, killed off that character, rolled a new one, who sat around the Sanctuary being terrified all the time while I took the opportunity to hone listen and learn my way around.

The 'hook' came a few days later when one of the Faithful asked her to take a walk with them.  They explained - ever so mildly - why it was that she should stop being afraid of one of the Sun King's loyal and stalwart servants.  Soon.  :wink:

[Ourla]

What hooked me as a nOOb was my first jaw-clenching, sweat-popping, adrenalin-pumping brush with death.  I was playing a Tuluki Kadian huntress who thought she was a badass.  She rode her House kank across the grasslands, right into a bahamet.  It knocked her off her kank and she fled like a madwoman straight into the thornbushes.  After fleeing, I forgot to walk again.  So the 'met's behind me, with imm-created echoes of howling in anger and crashing branches, and I left my po' kank and ran and all the way back to Tuluk.

Thanks again, imm (you know who you are) for not giving me a negative account note, and realizing I was just a baffled young nOOb.

[Hot_Dancer]

Drinking black kore excessively with my young Blackwing with an elder pc, and later puking his guts out outside (I think) some old wagon. (This was about 6-7 years ago)

Kurano really helped hook me in Arm..

[Gimfalisette]

My bard girl knocked herself out with the Way while trying to ask a Lirathan templar something (I was being nosy). The templar came to find her, then took her to tea on the roof of the Ghatti. The fairly long conversation ended with the statement, "We'll be watching you." Total chills, and I was hooked.

[Jherlen]

Riding down from Tuluk to Red Storm with a few hunters and our merchant boss, getting jumped by raptors and nearly dying.

Then going into the Labyrinth, in full Salarr gear, with another hunter the next day so she could buy poisons. Getting jumped and watching her die as my PC made it out with about 30 HP left.

The first near-brush with death and the first experience of losing a PC I knew really got me hooked.

[bardbard#4]

Riding into the wilderness with Merana (sp?) and Kholdarian to find this crazy bone helmet thing.

Awesome.

[Sokotra]

My selling point came with my twenty-third character.... I don't remember all the details, but I do remember it having something to do with beating another character's ass into the ground (he was armed, my character wasn't) and then throwing his unconscious body down the well in 'Rinth.  

Lol.. I've done that before... I think I had someone helping me one time, also.  And another time I think someone did it to me, but I survived.. and they came down after me and I ended up killing them... funny stuff.

One of the first things that really got me about the game, though, was playing PC Mantis back in the day... hunting inix and warring with Gith and Elves that were nearby.  I played one mantis after another for a long time... and then started playing other races in the 'rinth some, near a certain tavern a lot.  The ol' Mantis Head will forever hold a deeper meaning for me...