Tell your first character's story...

[hyzhenhok]

Edit: Come back from hiatus and the first thing I do is post in an old thread where I had posted the same story on the previous page. I'm pretty dumb.

[Barsook]

Welcome back bro!

[Erythil]

My first character was Asil, the amber-eyed man.

He started as a loyal Tuluki citizen and served as a partisan to some noteworthy Jihaens, and also briefly in Uaptal.  I can safely say that if he wasn't 'recruited' by the very excellent and apparently legendary Wisp, I wouldn't have kept playing the game.  Kudos to whoever played her.

In retrospect, he did all kinds of things that should have got him killed -- chopping trees and gathering and crafting in the middle of the wilderness, nearly getting eaten by halflings, getting peppered full of arrows by bandits, all without any kind of combat skill.

Eventually he grew disillusioned with Tuluk, coming to believe that the modern government of the city had betrayed its founding principles, joined Kurac, and ended up making it as far as Agent, in which capacity he remained for a good while.  He wound up knowing lots of people, raising the money to get Kurac back into Allanak, exploring forbidden topics and learning about things I'm probably not allowed to discuss, learning to read and write, before ultimately being murdered by the government he originally served.

I guess it was a pretty good run for a first character.

[Barsook]

How long ago was this?  Because i think I remember him when we was in Kurac.

[Zoan]

Asil is a name everyone knows, because he's at one point or another been involved in one of your insane schemes and lived through it somehow.

[tiptoe]

Asil is a name everyone knows, because he's at one point or another been involved in one of your insane schemes and lived through it somehow.

While you, on the other hand, managed to die.

[Kismetic]

Asil was a wonderful PC.  Kurac is the best clan in the game.

[MeTekillot]

I think i was in the Soh when a thing with Asil hapoebed

[Zoan]

Asil is a name everyone knows, because he's at one point or another been involved in one of your insane schemes and lived through it somehow.

While you, on the other hand, managed to die.

Be fair, I only died that one time.

[Gixustradt]

My first character was Sunblood.

The Glimmer and the Glory.

The Beacon of Luck.

He had a dozen different names, a dozen different faces, and no character before or since has matched how absolutely amazing it was to play him. I didn't play Armageddon. I played Sunblood, the game. Roughly three quarters of every emote was a think, a hemote, semote, or something that I put in in the hopes that other players would notice and bounce off it. He sang songs when nobody was around. He loved his Inix like a brother.

He had a ballad written about him by another player. Once, someone he didn't know came up to him, looked him over and said "I've heard of you, Sunblood. Don't ever die."

It was the only character I was ever tempted to ask for a revival on (it was an edge enough case at the time I think I might have gotten mercy), but my respect for Arm was too great to sully it by asking.

I could talk about everything that went on in his lifetime for literal hours, it remains so vivid and so entertaining. Everyone I had the pleasure of playing with made that character the most fun I have ever had roleplaying, ever.

So thank you all, for contributing to the Glimmer and the Glory.

[RogueGunslinger]

My first character was Sunblood.

The Glimmer and the Glory.

The Beacon of Luck.

He had a dozen different names, a dozen different faces, and no character before or since has matched how absolutely amazing it was to play him. I didn't play Armageddon. I played Sunblood, the game. Roughly three quarters of every emote was a think, a hemote, semote, or something that I put in in the hopes that other players would notice and bounce off it. He sang songs when nobody was around. He loved his Inix like a brother.

He had a ballad written about him by another player. Once, someone he didn't know came up to him, looked him over and said "I've heard of you, Sunblood. Don't ever die."

It was the only character I was ever tempted to ask for a revival on (it was an edge enough case at the time I think I might have gotten mercy), but my respect for Arm was too great to sully it by asking.

I could talk about everything that went on in his lifetime for literal hours, it remains so vivid and so entertaining. Everyone I had the pleasure of playing with made that character the most fun I have ever had roleplaying, ever.

So thank you all, for contributing to the Glimmer and the Glory.

No, thank you for creating such a lively, realistic character. It the exuberance of players who enjoy roleplaying every facet of their character, who enjoy searching for new ways to flesh them out, that bring the world to life.

It's not always easy to do, but when it happens it's glorious and creates fun for everyone around. So thank you! And keep trying to reach that level of roleplay again, because it keeps this game fresh and alive, even 20 years later.

[Jengal]

My first character was called Jengal and all I wanted to do was attack templars. He didn't last too long.

[Nyr]

My first character was called Jengal and all I wanted to do was attack templars. He didn't last too long.

He died well.

[WanderingOoze]

Keep these stories coming, Its good for us newbs to be reminded that many of you older players were as clueless,hapless, and otherwise
unprepared as we are now when you first started. Very encouraging! And also some of the stories are hilarious.

[Zoan]

My first character was called Jengal and all I wanted to do was attack templars. He didn't last too long.

He died well.

Background: My name is Jengal and ever since I was a kid I wanted to punch a templar in her stupid face. Well you know what? Today's the day.

[Cowboy]

Bye bye Jengal

[HavokBlue]

My first character was Asil, the amber-eyed man.

He started as a loyal Tuluki citizen and served as a partisan to some noteworthy Jihaens, and also briefly in Uaptal.  I can safely say that if he wasn't 'recruited' by the very excellent and apparently legendary Wisp, I wouldn't have kept playing the game.  Kudos to whoever played her.

In retrospect, he did all kinds of things that should have got him killed -- chopping trees and gathering and crafting in the middle of the wilderness, nearly getting eaten by halflings, getting peppered full of arrows by bandits, all without any kind of combat skill.

Eventually he grew disillusioned with Tuluk, coming to believe that the modern government of the city had betrayed its founding principles, joined Kurac, and ended up making it as far as Agent, in which capacity he remained for a good while.  He wound up knowing lots of people, raising the money to get Kurac back into Allanak, exploring forbidden topics and learning about things I'm probably not allowed to discuss, learning to read and write, before ultimately being murdered by the government he originally served.

I guess it was a pretty good run for a first character.

My second character ever was working for Kurac when Asil was still in Tuluk.

One of my fondest memories of that character was Asil coming to the gates of the Kuraci compound while he still worked for someone else, and asking my breed for the Sergeant. I thought it would be funny to pretend I didn't speak Sirihish, at which point I think Asil started jumping between my mind and my Sergeant's, growing increasingly frustrated until he knocked himself out with the Way and I resumed speaking Sirihish to Asil's companion.

[Erythil]

My first character was Asil, the amber-eyed man.

He started as a loyal Tuluki citizen and served as a partisan to some noteworthy Jihaens, and also briefly in Uaptal.  I can safely say that if he wasn't 'recruited' by the very excellent and apparently legendary Wisp, I wouldn't have kept playing the game.  Kudos to whoever played her.

In retrospect, he did all kinds of things that should have got him killed -- chopping trees and gathering and crafting in the middle of the wilderness, nearly getting eaten by halflings, getting peppered full of arrows by bandits, all without any kind of combat skill.

Eventually he grew disillusioned with Tuluk, coming to believe that the modern government of the city had betrayed its founding principles, joined Kurac, and ended up making it as far as Agent, in which capacity he remained for a good while.  He wound up knowing lots of people, raising the money to get Kurac back into Allanak, exploring forbidden topics and learning about things I'm probably not allowed to discuss, learning to read and write, before ultimately being murdered by the government he originally served.

I guess it was a pretty good run for a first character.

My second character ever was working for Kurac when Asil was still in Tuluk.

One of my fondest memories of that character was Asil coming to the gates of the Kuraci compound while he still worked for someone else, and asking my breed for the Sergeant. I thought it would be funny to pretend I didn't speak Sirihish, at which point I think Asil started jumping between my mind and my Sergeant's, growing increasingly frustrated until he knocked himself out with the Way and I resumed speaking Sirihish to Asil's companion.

While I don't remember this specific incident, as I am constantly knocking myself out on EVERY character I play, your story has the utmost ring of truth.

Thank you for the kind words, guys!

[Kol]

I remember wisp. Gave my Milita member a scare more than once appearing out of nowhere.

I also remember Asil. He was one of the better Kuraci's I've ever interacted with

[Mooney]

Oh man. I don't have much of a presence in Arms/the forums, but I've been waiting a long time to vent and share in the squee over one's beloved chars.

My first character was Lumel. Just the name alone reveals how clueless I was about the Arms environment. Aint nobody with Lumel's background got any business being named Lumel.

She was definitely a flawed play - I had no real concept of RP then and held her too rigidly to the script in my head, but god I loved playing her.

She was by far my most intense, real character because everything she did not know, I did not know. I didn't need to be good at RP - her reactions were my own. When she quaked in front of a gicker's RP'd spell, it was because *I* believed us codedly affected. When she had to be broken into the Byn's standards, it was my genuine ignorance on the way of things. She greeted and mourned each new character as an entire life because I was still naive about how quickly Arms can claim and recycle.

Lumel lasted so long too. She spent years in one clan, then another, riding alongside legendary names. She made friends of some, disappointed others and still angered more. She earned nicknames like Pipsqueak and Rantarri, which I had to appreciate in her place and I did, completely. She had more near-death grazes than any other character I've had, including facing her first kryl alone, dragging her poisoned, wounded ass on foot to Tuluk, all while genuinely preparing herself to die because I knew shit about cures.

She had an unstable reputation, fought rumors of being a breed all her life, yet still managed to start her own mercenary crew, invented and held together purely by our activity. We led only one major hunt but that was such an epic, admin-meddled adventure that I still reread the log now and then.  The complete icing on the cake was after her death, when I came back and coincidentally, briefly, ran into the crew, still existing on without her and having replaced her even. I'd never experienced a conflicting gut wrench of pride and hurt quite like that.

I can't coherently rave about Arms enough for letting me have an experience such as Lumel. I'm proud as a parent of her undying defiance, born of authentic grit because it was before I understood the mechanics of stats and what that meant about her chances in a fight.

P.S. She ran into Asil too!

[Dakota]

My first character was Asil, the amber-eyed man.

....

I guess it was a pretty good run for a first character.

It was a great first character.

[Quell]

Oh man. I don't have much of a presence in Arms/the forums, but I've been waiting a long time to vent and share in the squee over one's beloved chars.

My first character was Lumel. Just the name alone reveals how clueless I was about the Arms environment. Aint nobody with Lumel's background got any business being named Lumel.

She was definitely a flawed play - I had no real concept of RP then and held her too rigidly to the script in my head, but god I loved playing her.

She was by far my most intense, real character because everything she did not know, I did not know. I didn't need to be good at RP - her reactions were my own. When she quaked in front of a gicker's RP'd spell, it was because *I* believed us codedly affected. When she had to be broken into the Byn's standards, it was my genuine ignorance on the way of things. She greeted and mourned each new character as an entire life because I was still naive about how quickly Arms can claim and recycle.

Lumel lasted so long too. She spent years in one clan, then another, riding alongside legendary names. She made friends of some, disappointed others and still angered more. She earned nicknames like Pipsqueak and Rantarri, which I had to appreciate in her place and I did, completely. She had more near-death grazes than any other character I've had, including facing her first kryl alone, dragging her poisoned, wounded ass on foot to Tuluk, all while genuinely preparing herself to die because I knew shit about cures.

She had an unstable reputation, fought rumors of being a breed all her life, yet still managed to start her own mercenary crew, invented and held together purely by our activity. We led only one major hunt but that was such an epic, admin-meddled adventure that I still reread the log now and then.  The complete icing on the cake was after her death, when I came back and coincidentally, briefly, ran into the crew, still existing on without her and having replaced her even. I'd never experienced a conflicting gut wrench of pride and hurt quite like that.

I can't coherently rave about Arms enough for letting me have an experience such as Lumel. I'm proud as a parent of her undying defiance, born of authentic grit because it was before I understood the mechanics of stats and what that meant about her chances in a fight.

P.S. She ran into Asil too!

When I saw this I had major deja vu and I couldn't figure out why.

Then I remembered that I had been named her replacement with one of my characters and even took her name for a brief period after her half-giant gave it to me.

I'm glad I got to read this! No one ever told me anything about the person I was impersonating/replacing in game.

[PatMcV]

Well I can't really go into detail, *snip*.  Looking forward to more and actually getting into some good RP, and maybe making it a full in-game day sometime soon.

Edit by BCW81: Welcome to Armageddon, and thanks for not posting your whole story, but please try not to post the current status of your character in the future! Finding out your best friend just died on the GDB, or anywhere out of game could ruin the story for someone else!

[Araza]

Well, before I made my current character, I had about maybe one or two that I used before I actually 'got into' the game when I was much younger, though I remember them kinda well.

First one I had was an elven assassin in Allanak. I remember not knowing what the heck I was supposed to do (and even now, I'm pretty clueless, lol, considering I was so on-and-off back then). However, there was one quick-witted elf merchant who was able to help me out immensely and took me on as his guard/errand-boy and showed me the ropes, if I recall correctly. Helped me out slightly OOCly with some specific syntax as well. What I remember most about him though was a trip showing me through the 'Rinth at one point along with one really tense moment where I was threatened by some Oashi half-giant (oh boy, I was so scared and confused I just wanted to quit, lmao). So, Allanaki elf merchant guy, whoever you are, you rock. If I recall, I think I had him killed off by exploring the walls outside the city and happening upon a camp of gith... bad move on my part but I didn't know better

[Barsook]

My first real character was my fourth named Dake.  He was a crazy dwarf with a crazy background.  He started out in Allanak as a stonecarfter but was quickly hired into House Kadius after maybe a real life week of waiting and working on his crafting skill.  Once he was in Kadius, he had a great mentor by the name of Ayla (I think that was one of Boog's PCs), who ended up being into one of the bard's Circles in Tuluk., how taught him how to stonecraft correctly and speak the northern accent when Dake was in the North. He also enjoyed his time with Brek, one of the hunters.  Dake died to something in game that I can't never say what it was, but I had a blast playing him.