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[Mood]

I'm  not quite sure how I found Armageddon.  I used to play an IRE mud and had made an account here long ago... wondered around... was like WTF where am I supposed to find shit to do?  Did it again, got hired and ended up falling in love.

Brandon

This, except add in a few more tries with "wtf do I do".

edit: Also, I didn't come from IRE.

[Vessol]

Rufus dragged me here 3 days after he joined. Now been here 2+ years. Before we were playing Shattered Lands and found the RP there boring, and before that my first taste of a RPI was Threshold.

[Tisiphone]

my first taste of a RPI was Threshold.

I'm truly, truly sorry. There's a  support group, you know.

[NoteworthyFellow]

My first RPI was Harshlands, back in, oh, 2001 or so.  Then I came here and never looked back.  Well, I stopped playing for like six years somewhere along the line, but I never looked back to Harshlands!

[Cutthroat]

This is my first RPI. I started mudding with a friend in Medievia  when I was 13, took a break then went to IRE (namely, Imperian) with that same friend when I was 14. We both stopped playing MUDs for a while until we found Arm last year. I got him to play a few months ago, but don't know if he still does.

[jcljules]

My first RPI was Harshlands, back in, oh, 2001 or so.  Then I came here and never looked back.  Well, I stopped playing for like six years somewhere along the line, but I never looked back to Harshlands!

Ugh, harshlands... I quit after a month of scrubbing pots and pans for a living.

[musashi]

My first RPI was Harshlands, back in, oh, 2001 or so.  Then I came here and never looked back.  Well, I stopped playing for like six years somewhere along the line, but I never looked back to Harshlands!

Ugh, harshlands... I quit after a month of scrubbing pots and pans for a living.

My first RPI was Harshlands as well. In its defense it used to be pretty badass back in the day. (ie 8 years ago)

A couple of friends and I made up some characters, raised a fighting order, went north, stormed a castle, and claimed it as our own. It was pretty damn awesome back in the day.

Then the dark times came ... the crafting times ... 

After near a decade of asking: Hey um, do we get magic yet?
And hearing: Well, no we haven't coded it ... but we do have this craft to let your character pick rocks up off the ground ... then another supporting craft to let you paint a face on that rock and make a rock pet!

I said: ... ... fuck this.

Gave Armageddon a try since I'd heard about it years and years ago but thought I would never dig the Dark Sun thing. I figured at least they had a magic system up and running.

So I app'ed, had that similiar WTF do I do moment so many other folks get, and then got swept into a story and never looked back.

BTW, that little phrase: Be a ranger, every day is an adventure ...

They weren't kidding 

[psionic fungus]

It was sometime around 1994... I can't remember who it was, but some player of a GODWARS clone, where I was the staff in charge of roleplaying, challenged me to make a character on Armageddon... So I did.  After waiting for a week or two to get approved, I went directly in to Trader's Inn and sat at a noble's table.  After being told to find a seat elsewhere, I was rather arrogant and said I would sit where I damn well pleased... It was soon time to make my second character.

[Maso]

Hehe. Some fun stories. Arm is my first RPI mud. I started out about 11 years ago on (very sad) Yahoo chat freestyle roleplay rooms, I was then nudged in the direction of a H&S mud called Illusions of the Mind and was amazed that there could be code to back up my roleplay! Wow! After tottering around that playing nobles and getting beaten up by twinks a friend from there pushed me towards another H&S mud called Clandestine. I never really found myself satisfied with the level of RP on either and started staffing on IOM to try push it the direction of RP and building on Clandestine to keep myself occupied. It was another staffer on IOM who pushed and pushed for me to try Arm...so I did, and I've never looked back.

[Shoka Windrunner]

I think...my first character was a mul gladiator.  I started with a friend of mine who had learned of it from ISCA.  We made our mul gladiators.  Joined some group...and sparred.

I died in that sparring.

That I believe was my first character.

But I learned of it from ISCA.  Which I haven't been on...in at least a decade.  I'm afraid to.  I'm afraid of getting fifteen random 'X's' asking A/S/L or whatever it is. 

I think I blocked all 'X's' not long after I started, except people on my friends list.

[jcljules]

Heh. I -started- harshlands during the dark crafting days. So no fun at all. I was a peasant farmer.... all I did was grow onions and go tavern sitting.

[Malken]

I played Harshlands' most hated character for something close to 6+ years..

Well, after Aliera, of course.

[musashi]

Heh. I -started- harshlands during the dark crafting days. So no fun at all. I was a peasant farmer.... all I did was grow onions and go tavern sitting.

I played Harshlands' most hated character for something close to 6+ years..

Well, after Aliera, of course.

Well, I don't want to derail the thread into a Harshlands chat, but it does seem like a good few folks who came to Arm, came from  Harshlands, or its spin-offs (Forever's End ... SOI ...)

[NoteworthyFellow]

Heh. I -started- harshlands during the dark crafting days. So no fun at all. I was a peasant farmer.... all I did was grow onions and go tavern sitting.

I played Harshlands' most hated character for something close to 6+ years..

Well, after Aliera, of course.

Well, I don't want to derail the thread into a Harshlands chat, but it does seem like a good few folks who came to Arm, came from  Harshlands, or its spin-offs (Forever's End ... SOI ...)

Yeah, and now it really seems like Harshlands is dying and SOI is growing steadily.  I'm oddly okay with it, as Harshlands just feels like the most generic RPI out there anymore.

[jcljules]

I got tired of the bad english accents. I hate english accents over text.... when I see it in Armageddon, I just want to kill the characters.

[psionic fungus]

Y'got some sorta problem wit flavor, boy?

[jcljules]

Hehehe, not really--but it reminds me of harshlands. When I see english accents, the Zalanthan desert turns into some pub next to a castle in a forest. and then I feel like logging out for the night.

[Marauder Moe]

How do you do an English accent over text?

Sometimes I like to imagine that southern Sirihish (particularly when spoken by nobles) sounds like British-accented English.  A 'rinthy accent would then be Cockney, of course.  If Red Storm had an accent it might be Australian.  Northern would be American/Southern, possibly with the nobles having a refined Kentucky drawl.

[Maso]

How do you do an English accent over text?

Sometimes I like to imagine that southern Sirihish (particularly when spoken by nobles) sounds like British-accented English.  A 'rinthy accent would then be Cockney, of course.  If Red Storm had an accent it might be Australian.  Northern would be American/Southern, possibly with the nobles having a refined Kentucky drawl.

That's reaaally close to how I imagine it. Without the Australian. And all gypsies are Irish/Scottish. Elves (as they don't speak sirihish) I imagine to have an Eastern Euro twang when they speak sirihish.

[jcljules]

I imagine Zalanthas being much more middle eastern than European, in accents and culture. There are turbans!! 

[musashi]

I imagine Zalanthas being much more middle eastern than European, in accents and culture. There are turbans!! 

+1

[jcljules]

I cringe when I see....

A tall, muscular man takes a huge swig of ale, and says in southern accented sirihish, "Wot yew lookin at yew no good skinny?"

And I know its not bad RP or anything, I just personally don't like it.

[Qzzrbl]

I cringe when I see....

A tall, muscular man takes a huge swig of ale, and says in southern accented sirihish, "Wot yew lookin at yew no good skinny?"

And I know its not bad RP or anything, I just personally don't like it.

What about something like, "Th' feck are you lookin' at, y'damn longneck?"

[jcljules]

Thats a little better. Unfortunately I can't think of any alternative to the bad british accents.... so I can't complain too much about them.

[NoteworthyFellow]

Thats a little better. Unfortunately I can't think of any alternative to the bad british accents.... so I can't complain too much about them.

I never, ever see people doing what you provided in your example.  Qzzrbl's example, on the other hand, doesn't bother me at all and I see it all the time.