I feel old.

[EvilRoeSlade]

I've been playing this game for 7 years, give or take a year.  My first character was the son of a templar according to his n00b background, was miraculously approved, and got killed by a soldier PC about 4 hours into the game.

Now I'm a grizzled veteran.  I remember people used to post about how their half-giant rukkians wandered the land with a steel hammer in each hand, how mantis vivaduans spam-casted in taverns, halfling merchants bowed to templars as they piloted their wagons down the road, there was no Tuluk (the highlight of the period), and the soldiers were all decked out in bronze equipment.

That was a different game from the one we had now, and suddenly we're moving into a new era.  The one that I've grown used to for the past seven years will be forever gone.

It makes me feel a bit sad, as excited as I am to see Armageddon Reborn.

Who else is old?

[Ghost]

Compared to you, I am a n00b.

But I remember the good old times when nobody knew anything about magick, when there were a lot of active noble houses and there were plentiful active PC servants in each house, the city (at least Allanak) was alive.

I remember the "5 gith" who would insta kill anything with a spear throw.

I remember those 4 gith NPC groups, randomly walking around allanak and attacking anything.  Those were the days when you seriously would not want to be outside the city.

[Vettrock]

I've been playing for about 7 years as well(around 2000), with a 3 year break in the middle.  (So I guess that is 4 years).  I also played a little bit back in 1994-1995.  But back then the game was closed on weekends except for immortals and their buddies. And during the weekdays there was a 40 player limit so if you didn't log on by like 5pm, the game was full, so I never really got too into it.

[Armaddict]

Been playing since 1998 or 1999.  Yeah.  Pretty old, heh.

[Kronibas]

I've been playing since the winter of 98 or 99.. I can't quite recall which one.

Since then, especially if the past few years, there have been huugggee changes within the game.  So many
new aspects of the world have arisen that I can't help but to feel like a noob at times.  That's an awesome
thing, ain't it?

[mansa]

I remember when Kurac was banned from Allanak.

I remember when Allanak ruled the known world.

I remember when Kadius employed 30% of the playerbase.

I remember immortals saying, 'The Kadian Storeroom causes the game to lag 10 seconds every time the computer tries to save the zone.  Please delete all the piles of 100 feathers and 100 bones.  Keep it around 12 each, eh?'

I remember when Blackwing was still around.

[Bebop]

I have been here going on three years soon.

From the way EVR describes it, it sounds like we are moving back to the older game in a way.  I'm starting to feel slightly old but not as much so as some of you veterans.  One day I'll be able to say I remember when we used to play without any metal!  And I can already say I remember Saturday downtime, the Atrium and the Copper Wars.  I had a templar briefly during that time and I remember a whole unit of archers attacking me down to 1 hp in one hit.  Ah good times.  I remember the south was a really great place to play when I first started, I had so many unique experiences and it was very newbie friendly.  My first interaction was with this crazy elf.  A templar dragged him off and my first character kept a broken pot shard on her for the entire length of her life (three real life months).  I remember the Atrium offering to train me as an aide and I kept insisiting that wasn't the life for me, because OOCly I didn't think a warrior would be good at it.  I remember when a certain character, whom has grown very powerful now used to pray with me and another character outside the city gates and used to come to my apartment for food but I can't say who.

[jstorrie]

I remember Bela.

[Bogre]

About four years.

I got you beat, ERS, my first character's background was an elven 'rinthi bastard noble. Not even half-elven, haha. Think they approved it and just changed the background.

[Xygax]

I was playing in 1993, and I can prove it.

-- X

[LoD]

I've been playing since the game started, over 15 years ago.

I remember when:

• There was no Red Storm, Cenyr, Tuluk, Luir's, Blackwing, or any other civilization besides Steinal and Allanak.
• There were names instead of short descriptions.
• You could still use 'who' and 'tell' like hack and slash games.
• The Doomsbringer, Arch Magi, Shadow, and Tan Muark were all real clans.
• Walking through Steinal.
• The Necromancer, Shadowdancer, and Illusionist classes.
• Being able to see your skills and skill percentages.
• Merchants only had 6 skills (haggle, value, scan, listen, cavilish, and pilot)
• There was no crafting skills.
• Mantis and halflings chilling out in Tuluk.
• Playing the owner of the wagon that now lies at the bottom of the gulch between Luir's and 'nak
• When you could join the Merchant Houses by finding an NPC and paying him 500 coins to join.
• When they didn't have limits on how many times you could offer/barter for a better price.
• When NPC's used to respawn carrying steel, iron, or bronze weapons.
• When PC descriptions could be: the black-hooded dwarf, the red-robed elf, the man with strange eyes.

So, yeah, I feel old sometimes too.

-LoD

[Saitorr]

LoD wins.

As for me, it's been 10 years.  I remember going to the Chicago APM, staying in a room with Gigantic J, Ender and mansa ("Look, it's the Byn sergeants!")..  Meeting LoD, Clegane, Sanvean, Halaster, Jhalavar, Karianna, to drop a few names.

Also, my first characters consisted of someone who could read and write (heh...  n00b), and a dwarf whose focus was to marry a human woman.

I've said it before, but playing for a little under half your life is...  weird.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

I don't feel so old ... but I've only been playing for 8 years.

[Maybe42or54]

I definately remember Bela. I remember Pearl the founder of the Atrium. Kishime Fale (I still have good dreams of him, I've also recently stumbled upon the fact I emulate him a lot.) I remember Delanora Tor and her gang of misfits. The first things since I really got into Arm, Sunjaal?

[Bushranger]

I've been playing since about 94 and I remember some of the good old days as well.

I remember the ISCA BBS as a primary means of communication for Arm players and staff.
I remember Ginka being taken down for a few days maintenance and then having several weeks of downtime. GAHH That was frustrating.
I remember being apprenticed to the flower-tattooed Mul and getting chided after touching the corpse on the road near Allanak.
I remember drinking in Flints!
I remember having to come up with an account name for this new fangled account system of character tracking on the mud.
I remember playing a lost lord of steinal!
I remember meeting a magicker in the wastes and going "Oh! Fuck!" both IC and OOC 
I remember playing a Blackwing and hearing the tale of **CENSORED BY REQUEST**, that was a good one.

So many memories, Armageddon is a cherished game.

[YellowCactus]

Hi ERS,
    Your not old at all man.  I remember when we met playing Armageddon 5 years ago.  Your eternal dude!
-Yc

[Rindan]

I am not actually sure how long I have been playing.  I am pretty sure it is around 10 years.  My best memories were when I had my first "real" character that really lived a good long time.  This was back into at least 2000-2001 I think.  Tuluk 1.0 was still kicking.  I recall hearing about Tuluk getting destroyed, and was around when Allanak snapped up the rubble.  I recall the time when Allanak ruled pretty much the entire known world.  Sujaal was my sergeant.

Maybe this is just hindsight memory speaking, but I recall that as being an absolutely great time.  There were some excellent RPers at the time.  The playerbase was concentrated in Allanak, and as a result we had sick player densities.  The noble houses were murdering each other for a lack of external enemy to whomp on.  Clans were packed with awesome internal clan struggles (at least in the Byn and Kurac).  Unlike in other times, player densities were high enough were clans were dealing with internal strife.  The Byn in particular was packed with people and so there were always great interpersonal conflicts to be had. 

In fact, I felt like that time was the greatest time for conflict because the people you were going to conflict with were on top of you.  An Allanaki / Tuluk conflict is a conflict that happens once every RPT.  A noble house vs noble house, Byn vs Byn, or Kurac vs Kurac conflict is one that is roaring each time you log in.  Over the course of the year or so that that character was alive, I saw magik performed exactly twice.  Once was by a Templar using it on me, and the other time was by a Krathi raider.  The Krathi raider attack was the first time I ever saw magik used in the game.  Seeing a gemmed was a rare event.  Talking to one was even rarer.  If I had seen any sign of magik in the desert, I would have promptly ran back to town, told a Templar, and expected a Templar lynch squad to go out and deal with it.  If I could snap my fingers and send the game back in time to any point, it would have been then, right after Tuluk got sacked.  Those were awesome times and were the height of what I think of when I think Zalanthas.  Very low fantasy, constant mundane conflict, great leaders, and a changing world.

[ale six]

And here I was feeling old. My first character was an aide to YC's noble and then later ERS' concubine. And to my knowledge, I've never even played in a clan with LoD, just heard about all his characters.

I remember when the Atrium was open. (I don't miss it much anymore.)
I remember when you had to go through a PC Nenyuki to rent an apartment.
I remember when there were no PC Lirathans in Tuluk, and the only open noble houses were Winrothol and Tenneshi.
I remember the days before command emotes.
I remember when seeing a magick item or magick in general was a HUUUUUUUUUGE deal. I think I went two and a half years before I even saw one.

I'm curious, for you super-old people who played back in ye olde days that LoD and Rindan and people talk about... what phase of Armageddon did you like best?

[Rindan]

I'm curious, for you super-old people who played back in ye olde days that LoD and Rindan and people talk about... what phase of Armageddon did you like best?

The day Tuluk burned was the best day in Armageddon history.  It ushered in a golden age of world wide Allanaki rule.  Under Allanaki rule, Tuluk became the coolest it ever was or has been.  Sure, there was no "Tuluk" but there was a merry old northern rebellion that had very lively (and violent) interactions with the most benevolent ruling Allanaki overlords.  That is to say nothing of Allanak itself.  With Tuluk a smoldering ruin, Allanak merrily turned in on itself and began to work furiously at tearing itself apart.  Magik was awesomely rare.  It was an overall merry time.  Armageddon at this point was mature, and so the RP was as top notch as it is today (at least from my recollection).  That entire time period made me a big fan of one city split into factions rule.

[My 2 sids]

Holy cow, I guess I was playing waaaay back in 2000!     Heh, even after a three year break I still came back!!

I remember Pearl, I remember her vnpc babies growing up to PC teenagers.  I remember the game being down on Saturday mornings and Nenyuk had PCs to rent the houses.

I remember reading nearly every single document before creating a character and still not knowing a dang thing lol.  I remember the day my PC mouthed off to a templar (and lived to tell about it).   I remember the first time someone (think it was a half-giant) recognized my PC was a twin of another PC  (that was a lot of work on descriptions... no one reads descriptions).  Oh!  And I remember my first PC was describing his background and the other PC's player going, "OOC:  That couldn't really happen"  (my first PC had some fun IC stories!!)

[Flying Erdlu]

1994 and I've got some old ISCA logs to prove it

I remember:

• Saturday Invite Only Quest Days
• Having it be actually dangerous to travel between Luirs and Tuluk
• VERY strict application reviews - you would be rejected for a simple typo of teh instead of the, for example.
• Character apps taking approximately a week for review and then getting rejected so easily only to wait another week
• Belgoi copper bells
• Teleporting onto the Gypsy wagon and getting killed by my neighbor's gypsy PC for it. Thanks Praetorian - yes, I'm still grumpy about that!
• The fear you felt when you saw, "The Shade of Nessalin sends,....."
• The first APM in Iowa City. We got to see the original server Thrash, play rugby (players got stomped on by the staff, iirc) and the Allanaki Flame Cheese was invented
• The ironsword siege of Allanak during a time when they took down the character application system to overaul it into the base of what we currently use today - If you died during this time, you were SOL until the app system was finished or you could sweet talk an Imm into manually hooking you up.
• And finally....pouched belts used to be DA BOMB! They were ultra rare and just awesome to have another wearable container besides a backpack.

What  time period do I like best? Now. Our staff is fabulous, fair and dedicated. Some things are looser now than they used to be, but other things are tighter, creating a wonderful balance. Are there some things I like better about the old days? Sure...mostly I think a lot of the harshness is gone. It's a softer, nicer mud these days. But all in all, we've come a LONG way and  am happy to have been involved in so many different ways.

[Throttle]

I've got some old ISCA logs to prove it

I'd love to see.

[jhunter]

'95 for me. I remember my first pc entering the game and I took a seat in Flint's, everyone kept staring, looking away quickly, blushing, etc. I couldn't figure out why until another character approached my table and asked to sit with me...then I got something like this: "Uhh....why're you naked?" I believe this person ( I can't remember their name atm.) Took me to get some clothes and then hooked me up with Khann. Died to soldiers during a "sparring incident".
My second pc was a 'rinthi mul that was recruited by a man named Arendor (I think) into The Guild. Played the pc until I had to take a break for a few years and the account was deleted before I returned.

[Vettrock]

I remember Bela.

I also remember Bela.  I remember a sun-burned dwarf named shade who helped out my first and second characters.  I remember searching for days for a Byn Sergeant so I could join the Byn.  And then after I joined, There was never anyone else around to spar with etc, as I was playing European Hours.

I remember the ISCA BBS and the thrash server.  I remember there some some immortal whose isca name was the babbling wombat, although I don't remember the name of the immortal.

[Flying Erdlu]

I remember the ISCA BBS and the thrash server.  I remember there some some immortal whose isca name was the babbling wombat, although I don't remember the name of the immortal.

Azroen

[Ghost]

What is ISCA?

[Vettrock]

ISCA is the Iowa Student Computer Association. It used to run a bulleton board system.  Thrash the original server that the mud ran on was also at the U of Iowa from my understanding.

If you telnet to bbs.iscabbs.com, you can connect to isca, its still around I guess, but I don't have an account anymore.

[Lizzie]

I thought you were talking about the Society for Creative Anachronism. I guess I'm a geek.

[X-D]

But thats SCA...Dork.

Since I was a member for 7 years...wonder what that makes me...cringe.

I remember Thrash...bigger cringe.

(disclaimer)

All name calling in good fun.

[manonfire]

But thats SCA...Dork.

Since I was a member for 7 years...wonder what that makes me...cringe.

I remember Thrash...bigger cringe.

(disclaimer)

All name calling in good fun.

Ahaha, I was a member for a couple years. I participated in some large-scale battles, too. Great fun.

[X-D]

MIDDLE KINGDOM RULES!!!!


Um


em slinks away.

[LittleLostThief]

I started playing in 95 or 96.  I came into the game right after roleplaying was becoming more strictly enforced I think, from the days of running through Red Storm to kill everything in sight (I'm glad I missed that, actually).

I think my first character was a kank riding elf, but they probably didn't last an hour.  My first semi long lived character was a kleptomaniac, and that it where my GDB name comes from.  I say semi because they might have lived for two or three days of playing time, but then for me it was pretty amazing to get someone longer lived than a few hours.  Eventually they were killed because... well... they were a kleptomaniac.  They stole all the time, even when they didn't need to or didn't want the stuff they got.

I'm glad the staff was patient and kind with me.  My first year I think I burned through about 50 characters.  Sometimes it was hard to wrap my head around the fact that though I wanted to roleplay someone who was badass, that I actually wasn't at all. 

I find it hard to post on the GDB these days because I used to be pretty active on the old GDB, and I feel like I've heard every argument and discussion already.

Er... and I've played Amtgard for years.  It's fun, faster, and costs considerably less than having to buy plate mail for yourself.  Also I like having a rule system that is more encompassing than "did you feel like you were hit hard enough that if it was a real sword that it would have killed you".  Chances are if I'm hitting you that hard with shinai that you will wish you were dead.  I've still seen tons of nasty bruises, a few broken bones, and unconsciousness rendered from padded weapons, so you can have those duct taped, wood-cored beatsticks all to yourselves.  Although I don't play very actively anymore, I'm still a proud representative of the Wetlands, and once upon a time I was in Rogue Company for anyone that that means anything to.  If nothing else, I think ANY kind of LARPing is great for helping you become more descriptive while playing out fighting in Armageddon.  Now if I could just learn to sew or work stone or brew beer, I think I'd have made.

Edit:  Oh, and it's great to hear from people like Flying Erdlu!  I didn't think you even existed anymore.  I can't even remember all of the handles I used on ISCA, but I'm sure I used LittleLostThief and Spirit Blossom.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

I joined at about the time of the Byn hey-day Rindan was talking about.
I remember Sujaal as a sergeant, too.
Heck, I remember Akasha as a runner... Pendeh too.
I remember killing a silt horror with the Byn while riding a silt skimmer.
I remember when New Tuluk cropped up, though I personally didn't play there much in its early days.
I remember the old GDB. Not the one we had a week ago, mind you... the even older one.
I'm old, but not that old. The Byn hey-day was, of course, awesome, but I've been having an enjoyable time recently, as well. Some of my recent hijinks rival and even surpass that wild shit we'd get into with Sujaal. All a matter of preferences, perhaps.

[Malken]

I remember stuffing my backpack with scooby snacks and living on them for weeks.

[Flying Erdlu]

Oh, and it's great to hear from people like Flying Erdlu!  I didn't think you even existed anymore.  I can't even remember all of the handles I used on ISCA, but I'm sure I used LittleLostThief and Spirit Blossom.

Oh, I'm still around even after four baby induced hiatus. Crackaggedon. Crackageddon. I don't post much here though. I'm a lurker.

[Krath]

I have been around since...I do not remember, fuck over ten years.

I remember:
The Doomsbringer
Thanos!
The Dark-elven Rogue
The Gold-beady eyed man
Thrain
When House Winrothol's Barrack was being built and walking anywhere in tuluk took MVS
BlackMoon
ALA!!!!!!!!
Mortal Slayer
When the Mud had a Max amount of PCs allowed in game
When Privates could incriminate

[wildhalfling]

I remember having the word ranger in my sdesc.
I remember the npc raiders along the north road...they were always fun.
I remember some human npc that patrolled the north road.
I remember Mal Krian and white cloaks with red stains
Seeing a mantis come into the tavern in Old Tuluk and try to kill me.
A ebony skinned man who seemed to never die.

[noclue]

A ebony skinned man who seemed to never die.

I think I remember that guy! Was he a big fellow. A merchant with a wagon? I worked for him once with my longest running character (not long by most standards) Knute the Axe. My first character lasted about 20 minutes. He got lost in a sandstorm outside Allanak, collapsed in exhaustion and lay there while the dehydration and hunger tickers ran out. Not sure which got him first the dehydration or the hunger. Then I had to wait 24 hours for my new character approval. Then of course came the weekend and servers went down for all us mere mortals....grrr. But I made sure I got back in as soon as the servers were up again.

And I remember those attacks on the North Road too!

I haven't played regularly in a few years, but starting to get the urge. Where can I find posts about the plans for Armageddon Reborn?

[Dalmeth]

I haven't played regularly in a few years, but starting to get the urge. Where can I find posts about the plans for Armageddon Reborn?

http://www.zalanthas.org/blogs/brideofson/

Enjoy.

[Hot_Dancer]

The old Kadius crew with mansa..

Playing in the Blackwing and the Blackmoon

When desert elves had 300+ stamina and fights/archery duels between desert elves roaming across battlefields from the Tablelands to Allanak, or other obscene distances.

The team up of Masha + Sujaal

Getting in trouble for using the Desert Rose table as our personal tribe storage.

Liberating Tuluk..

[Dan]

Being there when Sujaal gave Masha a scorpion in a cage. Hah.
When every warrior in the game carried two big warhammers.
When pouched belts -were- -the- -shit-.
When anakore claw gloves cost over 1000 sid.
Sujaal as a sergeant, and camp fires between Mal Krian and Allanak.
The first time I saw magick. A HG elkrozian on the north road by Tuluk.
When they added the turtle-code for various turtle-like beasts.
ALMOST killing Masha with Tial, and now I am really glad he was just too damn good with that bow.
Fighting Kryl onslaughts and taking a fallen Templar's gold sceptre, with my desert elf. Only to have dozens of kryl suddenly (and suspiciously) target me.
Having to enter Freil's Rest.
Gladiator PCs.
Meeting ten rebels at once when Allanak controlled the north, and being really scared of their "serrated warswords."
When there were 1-handed claymores.
Lots more I guess.

[Forest Junkie]

I started just after Desertman I believe. 2000 I believe.

I remember being able to juice up to somewhere near 400 mvs with d.elves if I had the right clothing.
I remember the first time I saw magick also. A certain HG-elkrosian helped me overcome poison.
I remember the Great War, or whatever it was called.
I remember being with the rebellion.
I remember watching an elven warrior outright kill a half-giant in the Sanctuary. This was Allanaki-controlled Tuluk, mind you, before there was any crim-code I suppose.
I remember wielding a powerful bronze sword.
I remember the first time I came into contact with terradin on my first ever desert elf ranger. Ouch.
I remember Masha from a few pc's actually. He nearly killed me on a number of occassions. And yes, his kung-fu was quite good with the bow.
I remember working for Ysania.
I remember, or seem to remember, Ysania actually riding into a square atop a flying creature before landing it. I could be totally dreaming this, but I can't help but think this happened.
I remember spiders, webs, and loot. 'nuff said.
I remember snatching a steel dagger.
Kinda old...though only been here seriously for around 6 years.

[Whiran Luck]

- Hearing a rumor about a Borsaili snorting an entire brick of spice at once.
- Shootin' the shit with Ysania.
- Having a Sabateur in the Rebellion. Coolest rank name ever.
- Half-giant shoulder rides from a Blackmoon half-giant.
- The first days Sujaal joined the Byn and womping his butt.
- The really old GDB, when it wasn't forums, but just a lot of descending threads.
- Selling really crappy jewelry to a red-robed Allanaki templar in Tuluk. And being thrilled to death they bought stuff from me, without quite realizing what Red Robes were.
- Playing in the Tuluki ruins before the Nakkis left Tuluk.
- The peaceful, quiet times before the Kadian Hawker was put in.
- The Sanctuary being an 'enterable' tavern.
- The balcony of the Bard's Barrel being the premier 'make-out' spot, before wide-spread apartments. And nearly always walking in on 'stuff' whenever I'd want to go sit out there.
- Lots of other stuff.

[X-D]

Heh.

I remember when you could get metal items and other types made for you by staff.

Eating the blue-eyed infant

When defiler ash piles were items

When Packs went in.

When mount rental went in.

When you could app your very first PC as a HG stone cleric, see skill percentages...bitch because said HG stone cleric only had 153 mana, wield while casting. And do many bad things with said HG stone cleric. Including ride a kank.

When you could walk from the fountain to a certain potion seller.

When mantis went in as a playable race then talking to one at the city gates.

Flints

Sanveans PCs (well...one)

The never ending desert where even if you walked north 100 times...south 5 would get you to the road.

Cringing when who showed 7 players because now it would take an hour to move 10 rooms.

Player limits

The old immortal ranks

Hhhmm...thats good for now.

[mansa]

When stun got entered into the game and everybody screamed Magicker when the first person fell unconscious due to the way.

When subclasses got entered into the game and Bards got Instrument Making.

When you could buy Ratlons in Mal Krian, but nothing else.

City Rooms that didn't map to a grid.

[Elgiva]

Heh, I don't feel that old.

But I remember mantis inside Tuluki Walls...

... during the mantis invasion, you know.

[My 2 sids]

Heh.

Eating the blue-eyed infant

Hhhmm...thats good for now.

Oh I had forgotten about that one!!!  hahahahahahahahahaha

I remember going through THREE long-term PCs and _still_ Mansa had his same dang PC

[Clegane]

1994 for me. I remember playing on a monochromatic laptop that weighed about 27 pounds.  I felt so special when I finally got to play Arm on a 9600 baud modem.

I remember killing Jindo and then crying because the coins in his inventory were too heavy to pick up.

I remember my first defiler spamming spells for skillups in the Kuraci wagon.

I remember that the first thing Arendor did when the game rebooted every week was order a Guild Whiran to HoW a pair of npc guards from some airborne room that probably shouldn't have been linked to the game world at all. Then Rals and about ten guilders would gangbang them, loot the plate mail and steel broadswords from the corpses, and sell them to the Salarri npc for sid.

I remember when you couldn't take a piss in the corner without accidentally urinating on Sunjar's boots while he was stealthed. Jesus, that dude somehow managed to be EVERYWHERE.

I remember when Azroen would give skill and stat boosts in exchange for signing him up for the Beer of the Month club.

I remember getting blind drunk with Buzz and Geno at the Iowa APM and then trying to suffer through Nessalin's favorite Indian eatery with the most titanic hangover in history.

And the Denny's that served screwdrivers for breakfast at the Baltimore APM. Oh, and cramming four guys into my battered Pontiac for that same APM and driving 23 hours, subsisting on nothing but White Castle sliders for most of the trip. I don't think I nor LoD will ever forget the smell in that back seat.  Or the smell of Pennsylvania for that matter.

But mostly I just remember what it was like to be young and stupid and totally awash in the wonder and mystery that was Armageddon in the mid 90's. The game gradually came to lose its luster for me as the years went by and the mystique slowly faded, but nothing will ever wipe away the years and years of incredible memories I had with this world and the people that populated it with their imaginations. I haven't actually played in over two years now, but I wanted to say thanks to all of you who made my 10+ years in Zalanthas so amazing. The game was an integral part of my life for a very long time and I'm a better and more complex person for having dedicated so much time to it.

[Dusky]

Besides all the shit that I remember (we've all written these posts before) - anyone remember the shady tavern outside of the 'rinth?  It was about the same time Flint's was open up North.  The <something> dagger.  That was a cool joint.  I miss it.  It was like the Gaj but a lot more subtle.  It felt more dangerous being out of the way.

For the record - like some of you I remember when you logged in and your inventory would be in your hands and not in your pack.
When halflings could join Salarr (and commonly hung out in the cities).
When joining the magicker's temples in 'nak was a choice.
When you could not go alone from Tuluk to Luir's.  Ever.
I remember the bad-ass Vas (maybe Vis?)  and the bad-ass Sloop the half-giant.  Awesome roleplay.
The former was a major character at the time - the other, I don't know.

[My 2 sids]

Anyone else remember the kind-of-sort-of-almost death of Pearl?

There were maybe twenty or so PCs in the Barrel then suddenly some twink pops in, back-stabs, hides, backstabs again, hides, backstabs, etc.

Suddenly, PCs were openly crying and cursing and writting the the rumor bord and everything.   I seem to recall there was even a formal train of PCs who carried the body clear to the Borsal doors (crying and carrying on all the way).

An IMM stopped us all at the doors and was like "um... we've decided to resurect her, so none of this happened"   

Of corse it was the right thing to do, sometimes going against 'rules' of perma-death IS the fairest choice, but woo did it spon massive talk on the GDB and IRC.

[manonfire]

Anyone else remember the kind-of-sort-of-almost death of Pearl?

There were maybe twenty or so PCs in the Barrel then suddenly some twink pops in, back-stabs, hides, backstabs again, hides, backstabs, etc.

Suddenly, PCs were openly crying and cursing and writting the the rumor bord and everything.   I seem to recall there was even a formal train of PCs who carried the body clear to the Borsal doors (crying and carrying on all the way).

An IMM stopped us all at the doors and was like "um... we've decided to resurect her, so none of this happened"   

Of corse it was the right thing to do, sometimes going against 'rules' of perma-death IS the fairest choice, but woo did it spon massive talk on the GDB and IRC.

I heard that story firsthand from the player that killed Pearl. From the way he told the story, he used the now defunct subdue/draw bug, that was instantly fixed after he used it on Pearl, when tons of PCs had died to it previously.

[My 2 sids]

You may be right, as I recalled there was a lot of discussion on the GDB about favoritism and raising PCs after so much IC stuff had gone on in reaction to her death.

[Kronibas]

One of my characters dumped Pearl when she was an aide.

Oh... did she make him pay.

[Synthesis]

Oh man, I used to pwn n00bz with subdue/backstab.

Dwarf or mul assassin/guard 'rinthers FTW, lol.

Gibs!

[Anchorite]

Tlaloc was running Byn..

[Clegane]

Besides all the shit that I remember (we've all written these posts before) - anyone remember the shady tavern outside of the 'rinth?  It was about the same time Flint's was open up North.  The <something> dagger.  That was a cool joint.  I miss it.  It was like the Gaj but a lot more subtle.  It felt more dangerous being out of the way.

That would be The Rogue's Dirk. And I think more Pkills probably happened in its back room over the years than almost any other single room in the game.

[Dusky]

Clengane, you rock! The Rogue's Dirk.  Ah, that brings back memories!

[mansa]

I want to know why that Bar got 'removed' from the game.

Besides the fact that it was 'blown up'.

Because I used to hang out in the ruins with a buddy - and spar and practice and powergame there.  And then the next week it was gone.

[Kankman]

I'm old.

Reckoning back to the best time, I'd have to say it was when Allanak ruled the world and Tuluk was rubble and Friel's Rest.

Life in Zalanthas was harsher then. Grittier. There were some truly amazing characters that would blow your mind and eat your children.

Of course, maybe it's like that again. I don't play enough anymore to know. *sigh*

I think I might've been that Borsail that snorted a brick of spice.

[Ghost]

So when you snort a brick, do you actually snort it all at once?  Or do you get like a knot stuck in your nose and the rest is still safe?

You see, I would gladly sacrifice a character to run this experiment.  But if your character is someone who can get his hands on a brick, you don't want to sacrifice -that- character anymore.

[Throttle]

I believe you have to shave it up into pinches.

[mansa]

You can snort a brick if it's equivalent to the size of a pinch.

[Mood]

Yeah, once you've shaved it so far that you can shave it no longer, it's snortable. Not sure about other times, though.