When I Was a Newbie...

[Synthesis]

Ihsahn was a he.

We were talking about Ysania. Try to keep up.

[shadeoux]

didn't Ysania have like 15 kids or something

[mansa]

i remember when Ysania was a noob

[tortall]

i remember when Ysania was a noob

I remember my first character being asked to dance for a party she was doing... I was a Bynner. He real dancer never showed. That was some good times. All my other Bynners teased me about it.

[AmandaGreathouse]

My first character was a 17 year old silver-haired, horned merchant up in Tuluk.

Man what a blast. I have yet to have as much fun with any character as I had with Sira.

Said character also:

Used to get herself off while thinking of Zalranris Tenneshi,
Had a fetish for half-elves,
Got attacked by a halfling, who pitied her so much he bandaged her up and drug her back to the gates,
Got pregnant by a legionnaire,
Worked on teaching a noble a different language,
Got cornered by a magicker outside the city,
Later was given two war beetles by the same magicker (who she never saw),
Lost a child by a legionnaire,
And didn't branch a single skill.

I managed to live almost 30 days played (about 3x my limit for every other pc I've had), not to mention some of the bizarre and awesome shit she got into.

(Seriously thank you guys, every single person who played in Tuluk in February and March of last year. That was the most amusing, dysfunctional, awesome bunch of PC's I've ever had the pleasure of interacting with.)

[tanbiere]

I haven't played in about 9 years until recently. My very first character about 10 or so years ago was a hunter/ranger half elf in Nak. She lasted a while (3-4 rl months) and I had a lot of fun. For some reason, she stumbled onto some guy who was an assassin of some sort in the rinth, a guy with a green snake on his hand. She actively watched for him and snooped on him because she thought she was really onto some big criminal and would get a huge reward from a Templar for exposing this vile criminal. She had a lot of close calls because back then, gith used to be all around north of Nak and there were some mantis west and south of Nak, and she pretty much ran wild hunting and tracking things all of the time. One day she was resting in the Gaj dormitory because she had had a really bad run-in with a couple gith, and in sneaks this assassin who had more than once told her to mind her own business. Before she could even stand up, he put her lights out.

When I got a new character, I decided to try to get on with one of the Houses back then, Oash I think, and I ran into that same assassin. He had blood all over himself and stopped to look at me, you know I ignored him and just kept walking.

[Ender]

Haha, yeah...I remember there was an endless string of newbs always trying to off Ihsahn.  Ysania also generated quite a bit of hatred amongst the playerbase, if I recall correctly.

Seemed like at least once a RL week someone was trying to kill her for quite awhile there.

My PC was guilty of this, but I granted I did manage to destroy her noble house and got her turned into a slave.

But it was all IC.  I was playing an Allanaki loyalist and she was a Tuluki sympathist.

[Jorlain]

I created an assassin. As my first character. And I miraculously had a very, very long career with said character. I kind of miss that character now.

Good times.

[HTX]

I was absolutely obsessed with the draw/sheathe commands, I'd never seen such a thing before (prior to Armageddon I was a Hack n Slasher so the game was like a whole shock to me). In fact it was one of the things which got me hooked on the game, believe it or not.

I know, I know, I'm easily amused. 

[Comrade Canadia]

My first character ever, I was sixteen, made an assassin, and promptly failed to backstab a guard in Tuluk. Ahhh... good times.

[Ampere]

When I was sixteen, I rolled a half-giant sorc with multiple personalities.  I would go out and defile, wake up surrounded by ash --- then run back into town and rat myself out.  Nobody suspected a thing.

[evil_erdlu]

First character; merchant...

I wandered Tuluk room by room for the first couple hours, got to the dormitory to quit and keep on reading the documentation. Saw a fruit. "I may try the 'taste' command...".. The fruit was poisonous. RIP.

- I decided to make an interesting character and made a human assassin in 'rinth. I was a chubby, harmless-looking, cheerful guy on the outside.
- Got recruited nearly instantly.
- I saw a monster of magick in 'rinth and according to the docs I should have been scared a lot. So I headed southside and started killing harmless folks there for drinking money.
- Persuaded the Kuraci dwarf client that I was my guild's 'elven pickpocket hunter' to hide in the pavilion from a soldier pursuing me.
- Got an ally slaughtered by a noble house. I knew it was a trap, but unaware that that door could be locked - I know it sounds stupid but a lot of MUDs out there don't have doors with locks and keys for everyone, they're great priviledges - got trapped. I survived, possibly because the opponent understood I was a newbie.
- Played hide-and-seek longingly with a red robed templar and at last I got caught, possibly because the staff was checking the 'body count' in my bios and made a note for the templars, possibly the animated NPC ran to the templar. I didn't realize he was red-robed, but seems either I was respectful enough or he understood I was a newbie and he did let me go.
- RL subdued me and didn't let me go. I retired.

In later characters, I _always_ managed to make a stupid OOC mistake and die in interesting ways. I couldn't ever live longer than about 200 hours I guess.

[Delstro]

I had an orange-eyed character that was just hired onto Salarr.

The agent told me to not leave the gates alone and if I did, when I see halflings, to run.

I thought, Huh, I'm a hunter. I should hunt.
I left he gates and ran into a little kid. The kid ate me.

[AreteX]

I played Arm several years ago as my first ever PC, and I have just come back in the past few months and started again.  My first PC experience albeit a short one, was enough to make me come back when I had more time, and a computer to play

I created a desert-elf(im pretty sure it was).  I started in a city that was not Allanak, I cannot remember which city I started in...  All I know is I created a pickpocket.  I was running around learning the game and commands ect, and trying to take stuff from average citizens walking around the city.

I got a "HELP THIEF" type of scream from an NPC, and I ran away.  I was wandering the streets and a figure in a hooded cloak came up to me.  They were sneaky/hidden until they appeared.  It was the first player I had seen, and that player was intimidating.  I had no idea of the mechanics of Arm in combat, or any specifics about the game at all, so I had no idea what he could do to me.

He presented himself, drew a dagger, tapped it against my back.  He spoke and told me that any money I earn from stealing, i had to give him 50percent, or he'd tap my back a bit harder next time.

I asked something, cant remember exactly, but he basically said he would kill me, slowly, if I didn't pay everytime he asked me too, and he has eyes on the street, and will be watching me to make sure he doesn't get short-changed.

My heart was pounding and I was scared, excited, all at the same time.  It was really awesome.

That character never got to pay that guy, because I was a desert-elf, so I took to the desert.  I wandered for a while, got thirsty, ran out of water, got lost, fell into a hole, tried to climb out... and I couldn't climb, so I yelled... nobody came... and I died in a hole because I had no food or water.

The most epic adventure I ever had in a MUD :p

[jcljules]

It's been a year, so...

My first PC was this guy named Jallal who was a nomad from a tribe I made up called the Al'Sahiri. I basically chopped up a bunch of wood near Tuluk, made spears, rented an apartment with another 'nomad' named Caval of the Jul Tavan who kinda showed me how to play the game. Made a bunch of money bringing lumber to Lasher and Mina Al'Seik, who always gave me a hard time for being a sedentary, apartment-dwelling nomad. I was planning to move down to Allanak with Caval so I could sell my wooden spears to Allanaki NPCs. Thought it was a genius idea. I was eaten by raptors while I was riding through the red desert, alone, looking for Cenyr. I also asked all sorts of really really specific questions on the GDB and pretty much gave away who I was playing to anyone who was paying attention. I didn't realize how small the PB was at that time.

So yeah I was a sedentary, spamcrafting nomad.

[AmandaGreathouse]

My first PC was so in love with Lasher Al'Seik.

Then again... she fell in 'love' a lot.

1. Zalranris Tenneshi.
2. Lasher Al'Seik.
3. Hawk.
4. Rakius.
5. the chosen consort (but that was more a hero-worship thing).
6. the sorcerer (I assume) who trapped her in a box of dirt and then would come and visit her.

Ah, yes, a tuluki who first 'falls in love' with a noble, then a kinda noble, then a sorcerer, you know, flanking the legionnaire and the breed.

I miss each and every issue she had.

[jcljules]

Lasher and Mina Al'Seik were like my idols -- I had a trade meeting with them in the Seik tents and they totally ripped on my PC for about an RL hour for having the nerve to live in Tuluk. It was my first really interesting scene in the game.

[Northlander]

When I was a newbie, I and another off-peak newbie (Bless you, Zore) cleaned the Byn latrine with water. We were eventually found out somewhere after we had been made Troopers.

There's some off-peak woes for you.

[Marauder Moe]

When I was a newbie...
*My first character didn't interact with ANYONE... save for a group of NPC Gith (and that interaction was rather one-sided).
*My second character got his ass thrown in jail for ignorance of a certain city's emblem, mis-addressed the templar that interrogated him, and missed a chance to be conscripted into the military when asked if he knew how to fight. (I answered "no" because I literally didn't know how combat worked in the game.)
*My character bowed to a Salarri.
*I came up with an incredibly awesome idea that was to let people walk around as a ghost after their character died so they could watch their friends mourn them and/or their foes celebrate.  I couldn't understand why the rest of the jerks on the GDB couldn't see that it was clearly brilliant and should become top priority for the coding staff.
*I remember the old GDB... that is, I remember the GDB from two GDB's ago.
*The game was offline every Saturday. (Which was a good thing, because otherwise I would never have gotten my schoolwork done.)
*Characters aged approximately 16 IG years every RL year.  (I protested heavily when that was changed, but have now come to realize that the current rate is fine, or perhaps even too fast.  I suppose it truly depends on whether or not you have a character that you enjoy watching mature and grow old, or if you have a character that would be most fun frozen in time like an NPC.)
*Borsail was open, Fale was closed, and the Atrium had not been created yet.
*Female Allanaki templars were an extreme rarity. (There was a period of like 3-4 years which saw only one of them.)
*Gemmers were very creepy, and every templar had one as a pet.

[HTX]

When I was newbish, I started a brawl. I then involved about 8-12 other PCs in that brawl (if I remember correctly).

It was the largest brawl I've ever seen to this day.

I also did so many things which would make even the most inexperienced newbie cringe... not the least of which was killing someone who was link-dead (knowing they were), closing the door (knowing that NPC soldiers at the time couldn't, without staff animation, open unlocked doors to arrest you) and stealing the link-dead guy's coins... then boasting about it OOCly to another player. I got the basic concept of RPing, but prior to Armageddon I was a Hack 'n' Slasher and hadn't even heard of the concept of RP (or at least, outside of the bed room), so it took me a long time to wrap my head around what RP was about fully.

[Shalooonsh]

*  I remember Saturday downtime, and thinking it was actually a clever ploy to get us to read, and reread, and rereread the help files on the site.
*  Gave all my coin to 'a tall and thin' figure in the Gaj, because he said he knew a guy in the Byn and could get me set up for an interview.  I had just over 300 left, so I gave him the extra as a tip.  You can guess how that ended.
*  Found an awesome place to practice combat in Allanak.  The slaughterhouse. Killed many a chalton there, and loved my 'job.'  After I got Byn'd, my buddy started playing a merchant.  I told him about it.  He got gang-jumped... because they had changed the code for little old me and my twinky ass self.
*  I went on a 4 hour Byn cruise from Nak, to the DEO, then up to Tuluk.  En route, I lost my mount, broke the Sargeant's tent, and watched my friend almost get murdered by a carru.
*  I spent the next hour trying to explain to my Byn Sarge how awesome (I may have used that word) a trained carru warmount would be, and why we should breed them.
*  Bowed to several Faithful, never quite picking up that I shouldn't do that.
*  After leaving Tuluk, on an escort mission for a young woman named Pearl, my Sarge took plenty of time explaining that I should only nod at templars.
*  Nodded at several templars once back in Allanak.  Sadiv was not amused.  Thought perhaps my Sarge meant nobles.  Nodded at Vedelarin.
*  Had inix and kank mixed up for about two or three months, because 'inix' sounded more like the name of a bug to me.

[mattrious]

When I was a newbie I was really way too young to be playing Armageddon MUD for one. Here some things I saw, did, and experienced while adventuring through the world of Zalanthas. Some of these things I am not proud of at all, and looking back at it I would of kicked my younger self's ass. My memory is mostly clogged with malted hops and bong resin, but here is what I vaguely remember. I started playing Armageddon during my Sophmore and Junior years of high school and I'm now twenty-nine, soon to be thirty.

• The Blackwing Tribe was one of the only d-elf clans that was available to PCs.
• I took my Blackwing PC out of their 'assigned area' and down to 'Nak. At the time this was VERY frowned upon. I died shortly thereafter.
• I idolized a Blackwing d-elf assassin named Mordaga. The tales of her adventures and the things she accomplished still give me shivers to this day.
• I played during the time when the 'Guild' was ran by a PC named 'Goldy' who had a second in command named 'Silver'. I thought it was the coolest thing in the world to see players with names like this. I eventually got a PC into this elite group and my thing was to 'flip' a coiin. Not exactly sure why I did this, but I credit it to the thousands of old gangster movies I use to watch that always had a bad guy who flipped a coin.
• I stole a silver sword from a Templar named Octavian(sp) and promptly took it to my guild boss's who then in turn promptly killed me in an alley. For the life of me I could not figure out why they killed me. I still laugh at that one.
• I use to do very twinkish things like leading mantis NPCs to the Mul outpost so they would get slaughtered by the Mul NPC guards there. Then, I would loot their corpses for their spiked bracers.
• I took my mantis PC to the western gates of 'Nak.

I think we'll save some for later.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

When I was a newbie I was really way too young to be playing Armageddon MUD for one. Here some things I saw, did, and experienced while adventuring through the world of Zalanthas. Some of these things I am not proud of at all, and looking back at it I would of kicked my younger self's ass. My memory is mostly clogged with malted hops and bong resin, but here is what I vaguely remember. I started playing Armageddon during my Sophmore and Junior years of high school and I'm now twenty-nine, soon to be thirty.

Pfffft. Sophmore and Junior years of high school isn't too young. In fact, that's probably when I was at my best. I started playing in 8th grade. That was maybe too young. -Maybe- too young.

[Jingo]

*  Gave all my coin to 'a tall and thin' figure in the Gaj, because he said he knew a guy in the Byn and could get me set up for an interview.  I had just over 300 left, so I gave him the extra as a tip.  You can guess how that ended.

Well, you see... It's actually more of a basket.

[Majikal]

*** My first pc could read/write, go figure! Me not reading the docs had nothing to do with it of course. 

*** Lord Baladan Tenneshi took my first real attempt at a character under his wing, an assassin, without him I don't think I'd still be here. Thank you player.

*** I discovered UnderTuluk and it was sooooo dead and empty at the time, I was still in the phase of the game where every small step forward had me feeling like I climbed a mountain. I was completely convinced I was the first person to ever find that place and guarded the knowledge as my most valuable secret EVAR (it wasn't so easily accessible back  then).

*** I attained a metal halfsword from a slain templar. 

Will update again, got some old logs to flip through.