When I Was a Newbie...

[DustMight]

When i was a newbie I thought gurth armor was awesome, and made it my mini-quest to assemble an entire suit of the stuff.

Gurth armor IS awesome!
And that's a cool idea for a dwarf's first focus! 

[musashi]

I was a human ranger who rode an erdlu everywhere though ...

[Potaje]

When I was a newb I played an assassin/ acrobat and was invited to preform at a small party help by a certain white robe templar that now has a statue of themselves in game. It involved cloth aerobatics, had a vnpc crew set it up while the crowds of party goers milled about. Had a great time emoting the performance, got my markings and some coins for it, then wandered out the gates to find some food and ended up dinner for halflings when I got turned around, all with in a rl day of play. Short but sweet life.

[HavokBlue]

>white robe templar
>halflings

It took me a minute to realize you meant lirathans.

[Synthesis]

I just remembered the days when I was like, "Damn, 1500 'sid for a tent? How could anyone possibly afford that?"

[musashi]

I just remembered the days when I was like, "Damn, 1500 'sid for a tent? How could anyone possibly afford that?"

I LOL'd 

[Kismetic]

I just remembered the days when I was like, "Damn, 1500 'sid for a tent? How could anyone possibly afford that?"

lol, I remember thinking that.  Sometimes, I still do (think tents are expensive, anyway).

When I was a newbie ...  I thought it was cool that I could kill gortok/scrab like nobody's business.  Also, the very first time I played this game, well over a decade ago, I didn't know people had sdescs (having had prior MUDing experience, and expecting "names"), and thought no one was playing the game.  I didn't come back after a day of zero interaction, heh.

[Cind]

I just realized that the incredibly detailed and awesome to read way in which one of my newbs died was probably staff-written, because I've never seen such a detailed mob fight since. The hobbit cut open my stomach horizantally and my guts and intestines fell out in a jumble of colors. Or mayber that was how badly I sucked.

I thought a two and a half small basket was an average bag for foraging clay with.

[Beethoven]

I'm still a newbie, but my first character had a badass life. Guess it's been more than a year now.

- Was a pickpocket who hardly ever used his skills in his PC life, and never in a deliberately criminal context
- Was a socially awkward coward who never got over his crippling fear of social interaction
- Hired by one who declared herself to be his 'cousin'
- Fell in love with a prostitute, beginning an obsession that lasted his whole life
- Fed himself with forage food for an inordinately long time
- Became a double agent working for the militia, although not a very competent one on either end
- Tried to flee Allanak and adopt a new identity but was discovered due to his inability to lie low and was brutally gith'd on the ride home

I also made lots and lots of ridiculous noob mistakes.

[Xagon]

Ha.. double agents. I have you all beat on that.
There was a point when I was clanned with most of the groups active in Tuluk at the time. I think the only one I wasn't with was Kurac.

Also, my newbie moment.. "I've heard about this city down south called All-neck."

[Cind]

I thought the 'rinth was just another part of Allanak. I strode in with all my shiny newbie money....

[Iiyola]

I just left my breed idling in the Rinth. 5 minutes later: Oh shi--

[Kol]

I am a newbie 

[Bogre]

I just left my breed idling in the Rinth. 5 minutes later: Oh shi--

I've done that, hah. Walking through the 'rinth, decide its a good time to go get a snack.

5 minutes later, look back:

A figure in a dark, hooded cloak is lying here, mortally wounded.

"Huh."

Sometimes it pays to be an AFK badass.

[Kismetic]

I am a newbie 

[Jingo]

Lady Templar Shome (sp) spared me because she was feeling uncharacterically merciful.

When I was a newbie, I figured that if my character couldn't kill a scrab at day 0, he wasn't worth keeping.

[Kol]

Lady Templar Shome (sp) spared me because she was feeling uncharacterically merciful.

When I was a newbie, I figured that if my character couldn't kill a scrab at day 0, he wasn't worth keeping.

You have no idea how many times my account notes repeat Soandso has died to a halfling warrior, amen.

I miss those little bastards.

[Cind]

I once thought that citizenship didn't mean anything. Oh boy oh boy.

[Dar]

As a newbie to Arm, but good roleplaying experience, I walked out of Allanak with only an obsidian longsword as my weapon and decided to hunt. So I walk around and stumble into a scrab, suddenly ... the scrab falls asleep. I'm like ... okey dokey. Kills the scrab. I continue hunting and find 'another' scrab ... which falls asleep as well. Finally the damn unseen sorceror who was following me around emoted something for me to get the idea, so I hoofed right back to the city real fast.

[Kol]

My first Special App:

the wild-haired, grey-eyed half-elf.

Guild:Ranger

Subguild:Hunter

Race: Half-elf

Special Skills/Abilities: A NPC pet, I was thinking about a Runt Gortok, that constantly follows him about.

Why a special app: the pet.

Kai came to me while I was reading a few short stories about hunters, and it occoured to me that most hunters in stories have some form of compainion, a bird, feline, or canine creature.

I realize that life on Zalanthas is a hard thing to keep, even on your own. But if People can have mounts, which I assume do need watering and feeding, even if these needs are not carried out by a PC, why not a PC with a pet.

Half-elfs are traditionally shunned by both Human and Elven alike, and still spat upon by most other races, with the excaption of Half-giants. So a full elven mother, feeling ashamed of the obvious evidence of her mistake, may just decide to discard her young child somewhere she thinks the beasts may get him. And the pack driven Gortok's would, like most canine packs, drive out a runt.

I thought that two outcasts such as this have oft ended up as partners, albiet shunned by most, but adored by each other, and I'd like to try it in Zalanthas.

Sometimes I don't 'alf sputter some shit...Still want that pet though....

[BleakOne]

I ate a sandwich for the first time, one day before they were removed from the game forever.