How did you start playing Armageddon?

[Sephiroto]

Back in ninth grade....I overhead two guys that I didn't know very well (at the time) at my school talking about it.  I was slightly interested and I asked them about it.  From that stemmed my 3-4 years of experience, countless friends, and lots of fun.  I'm thankful in sorts that I took that class and sat where I did, for without it I'd likely never have found out about this great game.

God bless America and Armageddon MUD
Amen.

[Dracul]

heard about it through another mud...how did I come to muds...err. I should know this. :x

[My 2 sids]

I had played yahoo RPGs with Creeper when he told me about this mud (and what a mud was) and it took me a few weeks to decide to make up a character.   Anyone who knows how computer/game challenged I am can understand how helpful Creeper was when I made up my first character and those first few days of RPG.  :lol:

[sarahjc]

I will re-post this for you Sephiroto, I think your story is pretty cool as well.

I was 24 when I started. My boyfriend turned me on to Arm and I have been plagued by its addictive quality for one year now.

One night at home 11pm..

S- What are you doing?
J- I'll come to bed in a minute...
S- I can't sleep with all that typing. You do this almost
every night, its late..
J- Hold on, I can't quit right now..
S- Why?
J- I'm being tracked by a scrab and I have to find the city...
S-Are you playing Dungeons and Dragons?
J- No!
S-You nerd..
J- Look, I have to concentrate, I'll come to bed in a minute..(10 minutes later, with a sigh.) Finally.. Thank god!
S-What happened?
J- I made it back...
S-What's a Scrab?..

One year later 12:30am.. In game Just before Dawn..

S-Alright, I'll go and fill up our water skins while you get our Kanks. Meet me at the gates..
J- Right, sounds good.
S-(Think) I think we could take on a Raptor today, the skins go for a good price, maybe I can get the skull out of one....

[Midland]

I was brought to the mud by a woman I was playing with on HL. I absolutely LOATHED ARM that first experience. The clan I was brought into was a very very isolated clan and no one played during est times but all played late at night. Coming from a social type mud, it drove me batty and though I am, now, ashamed to admit it, I let my pc die by going linkdead on the others while out in the desert.  I had planned to never play again.

A few weeks later another friend from HL asked me to give it a try and to join BW with him. That clan is what drew me into ARM. The richly documented history, the personalities of elves, all of it, I fell in love with ARM. Even though my first BW pc died in 2hrs following Halaster's pc into things. *chuckles*  Halaster has been indirectly or directly involved with about 6 of my pcs' deaths in a row after that one. I swear he jinxed me!! *pokes Craig*  All he had to do was walk by my pc with his d-elf and within a RL day my pc died. I have been hooked ever since. To this day, d-elf is my favorite type of pc to play. I adore them.

[Dakkon Black]

I think one the reasons I love this game are the mistakes. The first time I saw this I knew I was here to stay.

The Cross-looking Templar says "Bow when you see a templar fool!"

emote bow ~cross

The gaunt elf bows to the cross-eyed half-giant

You Think "crud"  :oops:

***

Of course theres always the Imms here who are fantastical at everything. Including colorful emotes.

Eyes squinting breifly, The NPC man lets out a low rumble from his pants and flashes you a yellow toothed smile   :shock:

And finally,  I started because my friend was constantly running away from something whenever I went to his house.

L: Ohhh god... not a silt flyer

D: What did you just say?

*** awkward silence and fast typing ***

L: If my Whiran dies I'll be pissed off

D: Whiran?? What the....  you on crack man?

L: No, took a knot of spice tho

D: Hunh?

[spawnloser]

I've been a mudder for many years...a friend who was also a mudder told me about Armageddon several times over the last couple years and about how awesome it was, but finally about 6 months ago, I hopped on.  I thought it was going to be a long involved process, from what he said, but I was mudding within a day.  I was pleasantly surprised to find out that it wasn't nearly as harsh as I was expecting.

[Edit] Not to say that it isn't harsh, but from how he said it, I expected so much worse.

[FiveDisgruntledMonkeysWit]

On one boring March weekend of last year, I ran a search on the internet looking for 'free RPGs'. I came upon a small website, that listed numerous games, which it called 'MUDs'. I had no idea what a MUD was at the time, but figured I'd try one out. I played a game that was based off of the Dragonlance series, which I had recently finished reading. I got my character approved, (They actually had fairly high standards regarding RP, and a similar application process... All the other MUDs I've looked at since that game and Armageddon were no where close to even trying to enforce RP... At least this one tried). Anyways, I got my character approved, and entered a world with a whopping 4 PCs online. There were more Imms on then PCs, and within an hour of playing, Imms were already pestering me, asking if I wanted a title like "Bob the Magnificient" or "Bob the Unholy". I quickly left... It was no fun walking through a ghost town, inhabited only by over-zealous Imms. But I decided that there was some merit to these MUD things...
Anyways, I went back to the site that referred me to the Dragonlance game. I clicked through some more, but didn't sign up to join any. Eventually I came across one called 'Armageddon'. I decided to give it a shot, despite it's cheesy title. And, well... The rest is history.

[JollyGreenGiant]

Got irritated with another mud and quit playing.  Another ex-player of that mud suggested this one.  So here I be.

[Bestatte]

After three years IMMing and playing on a pay-for-play, I got burnt out and fired as an IMM for blowing up at their head coder, and accused by their Admin of intentionally abusing a bug I didn't know existed all in the same week.

I started looking for something else, and was told by a player of the other game that another two players were in Arm. I spoke at length with one of them, checked out the website, and showed up with my first character. The first person I talked with about the game, I never met in Arm with HER character, and she stopped playing within days of my starting, due to lack of time to invest.  The other one still plays.

[Carnage]

I was briefly talking to a friend's boyfriend (Who I thought was a complete and utter idiot, but I was polite and didn't say anything) who MUDed. He brought up Arm and told me to give it a try. So I headed to the site and gave the docs a quick skim, figuring the best way to learn is to get in there head first. I made an app and fired up my first PC.

I started out in Allanak as per the friend's boyfriend's recommendation. I hung out in the Gaj for about ten minutes. I couldn't tell the difference between PCs and NPCs for a while, so I figured I'd go and explore the city. I go around and all of a sudden I'm subdued by something called a "mul". 'What the fuck's a mul and why's he copping a feel?' I asked myself. For a while I thought mul was a mispelling of 'mule' and was pretty pissed off that I was grabbed by one. He says something (with a player-added accent) about wandering onto house ground. I manage to get a look at this mule so I can try to figure out what the hell's going on. Since there's so much action, I give a quick skim over the desc. I see 'bulging' in the desc and something about hairless. I quickly looked at the site and suddenly got the idea of being held by a sort of blob-like thing.

As all of this is happening, he's bringing me to someone and they're trying to figure out what to do with me. Frankly, I had no idea where I was or what I did. As I look back now I remember being somewhere near the Barrel. This mul brought me to some guy and they were trying to figure out what to do with me, then decided to kill me. The mul takes me somewhere nearby (A couple rooms distance) and emotes raising his sword and so on. This whole time I'm trying to flee or get away and emoting. Then, like a sledgehammer hitting me in the back of my head, it came. It was as if a voice asked: 'What would Jesus do?'. Then it hit me: KICK THAT SON OF A BITCH IN HIS BALLS!

So I emote trying to kick the guy in the testicles. I hit home and he released me and I ran away. I can't remember who it was I said it to but it was something along the lines of, 'DUDE! This MUD freakin' rules!'. And I was hooked.

If anyone was that mul or if it was an imm from two or threeish years ago, I'd just like to say thanks. I don't know if muls can feel pain when kicked in the nuts or anything, but the fact that you actually let me get out of that situation rather than instakill me and steal my newbie money means a lot to me. You were the one who got me hooked on the rollercoaster of excitement that is Arm.

[drunkendwarf]

I'd been playing a hack-and-slash mud for several years, and was starting to get bored with it. A friend on that mud suggested Armageddon, and being a table top gamer, I was interested as soon as I heard about the enforced RP and permanent death. Decided to jump in with both feet. Kept things simple at first, made myself a human warrior. Started in 'Nak as well, as back in 94 or so I think it was suggested as the hot spot. I wandered aimlessly through the city a while, trying to get a feel for things. Well, I don't believe I ever made it to reading about templars anywhere in the docs, and coming from a hack and slash mud didn't really think too much about wandering around town with swords blazing. I was quickly approached by a templar and ordered sheath my blades...not really knowing what the hell was going on, I don't think I complied quick enough for the templar, who ordered one of his massive half-giant soldiers to subdue me, so he could scold me proper. Well, all sorts of profanity started flowing from my character's mouth, including calling the templar a bastard, I believe. *beep* I soon found myself at the character creation process again, thinking that the brief 4 or 5 hours of my first char's life was more fun than I'd ever had playing my old hack-and-slash mud in the past several years. I've been hooked ever since.

[X-D]

Well, I can't say it was the RP that drew me, cause well, there was none, Well, very little, oh, we tried, all 2-10 of us. I started very soon after Arm opened, (I've posted all of this before) Half-giant stone cleric, I had been playing perilouse realms when somebody came there and was talking about the new darksun mud, liking darksun tabletop I went to give it a try, I would not have stayed to tell you the truth, nobody on, only 3 cities, horrible lag, but the spell system, now that was completly new, and being the type that enjoys a challange, I stayed for quite some time, after about 2 years I left for a while, came back a few more times, but never had the time in my life to stay playing long, then came back again a couple years ago after a 4 year absence, and was happily suprised by the -new- mud I found waiting for me.

[John]

I had been playing Merentha (which was my first mud) for a week when I realised I wasn't roleplaying I was just being a H&Ser. So I stopped and went  looking for a real roleplaying mud and came across Threshold. I read all the docs and nearly made a character before Aristotle's tone put me off. Then I cam across the next Roleplaying Required MUD on TMS which was this one

[Plazgoth]

I was bullied to put in an app for a few months by Brian, I finally did it and have been hooked ever since. We used to play Carrion Fields before he discovered Arm. There were about 8 of us, I am not sure who's left from the group on here, but I know we all got hooked. Hey (Sam, Pat, Lance, Vance, Clif) speak up if you still play Arm....

[Morninglight]

I started out mudding when I got into university about four years ago. My first MUD was NannyMUD, then being a WoT fan, I went to AWW. They do rp there, but getting tired of the hackin' and slashin', I thought I would try a new MUD.

I encountered Aarinfel and got hooked on RP-enforced and levelless MUDding. I then saw Armageddon's advertising and tried it out. I was used to submitting character apps because of Aarinfel.

I now play most regularly on Arm and semi-regularly on two other RPIs. After doing RPI MUDs, there's just no competition.

[TripleX]

A good friend of mine brought me into this mud.  I was so thrilled hearing about his advetures, so I decided to create a character.

His name was 'Gun' (it was years ago) he was a Whiran...  I still remember my first guardian at mon   LOTS of people died that day... LOTS of fun  

[Cenghiz]

I was the evil sprite in a powerplay MUD. Just liked to RP, RP much more than that MUD required. So visited the site, "mudlist", searched the RP MUDs. Tried two of them in which I had to kill mice or goblins at start in academy like powerplay MUDs. Then visited the ARM...
My first char was denied (a metal forger dwarf with beard  :lol: ) then I started reading the documents. Reading all took nearly about a day.
Then of course, died in about three hours.
....
Now I'm addicted...

[Pungee]

A guy I used to MUD with and tried to help co-create a MUD named Nepenthe got me into Arm. I don't think he ever picked it up though.

I was in my computer class one day, bored out of my mind. (Today we learn how to use Yahoo! search engine!) I was putting in random .com, .net, .org names, like monkeys.net, bottle.com etc. etc.. and the night before, I had watched the movie Armageddon, so I threw in Armageddon.com, Armageddon.net, Armageddon.org. I noticed on the org that it said something about a MUD, and noted it for later.

I had already started playing MUDs maybe a year before, started on this three player MUD Nightmare that this guy ran on his home network, it was just stock CircleMUD. After that, I shopped around a bit, went to Prophecy, and a few other ROMs, back around a couple more CircleMUDs, then finally stopped at Aaezure Oddysey for a while.

Then, I went back to the Armageddon site, submitted a character (Without reading many of the docs, so my description included things like reference to Italy, and the background included something about school, and friends (Friends on Zalanthas?!)) and got promptly shut down and told to read the docs. I tried again, got accepted, then got lost on the Sandstone road north of the Sanctuary in the Northlands at the time. The first character I met showed me around a bit (I ran into her characters a few times later in life, or with other characters) and left me stuck in Freil's, without me knowing to 'leave'. So I got bored of walking around, and ran out of money, so I killed two NPCs, the lady with the axe and the wood, and the old lady with the broom. And I definitely pulled a hack-n-slash 'FIGHT FIGHT FIGHT;flee;w;sleep;.....;wake;e;kill woman'

I was a shitty newbie D:

[Gorobei]

I played MUDs a bit a long time ago.  This is actually the first mud that I've played for more than a few weeks.
Anyway, I got bored one day, and decided to try out mudding again.  I went to the good ol' TMS, clicked through the top ten (pay-per-play? crap.  No half-elves?  crap.  No roleplay? crap.)  Eventually, I randomly clicked on Armageddon.  I enjoyed the fact that there was so much documentation.  I read it for an hour or two (Mutations are commonplace?  Righteous!) and then submitted one of the most bizarre applications I have ever seen accepted.  Unfortunately for everyone who came into contact with me, there wasn't alot that was actually against the rules, and so one or two edits later, I made it into the game.  I'm just glad that I included the fact that my character had no jaw, or the player base would have been exposed to the worst newb-speak since Grunt.
In my first play session, I went to the bazaar and bought something called a 'kank'.  I then tried to make it attack a templar.  No dice.
After quickly walking through a shop and losing my new friend, a friendly immortal showed up and helped guide me around as a prostitute, a templar, and a few urchins.  After being arrested for backstabbing a beggar, I was released, then wandered around town typing 'quit' randomly.  I eventually found the temple of Suk Krath, which became my home for the remainder of my character's life.
The next day, I logged on again and found my way to the 'rinth where I was briefly chased around by a magicker.  I then met a small band of friendly dwarves, and the rest is another story.

[hammie2]

Sheez, since back in 1990 I think it was.  A friend of mine was playing a defiler so I got in on the bandwagon.  The best rp I ever had was when a bad whiran teleported me to mantis city and I had to rp with a pc mantis player with the language barrier.

Took a break for a while and whack.  Guess what?   Karma and applications.  Oh well, at least I was on the original run in the times when you could have infinite cash.   Lol

-Ty

[Guest]

I remember it pretty well.....
I was with my brother in our computer room, a few years back...

Me- Why are you playing that, we have cool games like Warcraft why dont you play that.
Bro- Shush, I'm consintrating.
(I sit down next to him and watch him play, reading and start to thinking how fun it looked)
M-Where did you get that?
B- Go to Armageddon, its on a website.
(turn to my comp and start typing in the address)
M-It won't work, this isn't the right site.
B-Because you are at Armageddon.com, its a .org
(I get into the site.)
B-You might want to read some of that stuff before you play
M-I think I'll be fine
(I wait a day, to get my character)
(I start playing, my brothers with me, Im asking him what the commands are, and such.)
(My Mom comes down the stairs)
Mom-Go get to bed, it's 1:00
Me- Whoa, I stayed up that late, K, I'm comming.
(A few more hours pass)
b-Didn't mom tell you to go to bed?
M- Oh ya, let me just quit.


Only, back then, My char got lost out in the desert, I have a sword, and I have some pants, No shirt, no water, no Food.... Yeah, that's the good times, tryin to find food in the  middle of the desert.
I think I was a burgler acrobat, and I climed the allanak wall, where I feel on the outside, and didn't know what I was doing, so I walked into the desert, then had to dump some things because it was too heavy. I'm suprised I didn't get kill by a Scrab or some wimpy creature, I was dwindleing out on life.

[Gawynn]

Wow, lemme see if I can remember that far back.. when I was sixteen or seventeen I used to play on some wheel of time hack and slash muds... first the Great Hunt, then Sanctuary, and when it died, the Great Hunt again briefly, but was finally getting tired of hack and slash. I found a MOO I think it was that was completely RP called AngrealMoo or something of the like, and it was, of course, based on the Wheel of Time, and was indeed completely RP. As in, there was almost no coded assistance; even in fighting. It was all just RPed out. I enjoyed the MOO for a while, but I wanted something with a little coded help to assist as well. I think I just began searching the internet or something (it's been about eight-ten years I guess, my memory is failing me), and I remember finding information about Armageddon and reading about how if you died, it was permanent. I thought that was a great idea, and more realistic, so I applied for a character. It seems like my first few tries were rejected, but I can't remember.. I think it was a later character that was rejected for having 'icy blue eyes' with the response: "There is no ice on Zalanthas". Anyway, despite leaving every once in a while for a year or two, I've always come back for more!

Gawynn

[Kankman]

I first heard of Armageddon because I'm a cheap bastard and I live in Ottawa. That should make sense to a few people at least. We have a free internet provider run by one of the universities here, called Freenet. For the longest time there were only three muds you could connect to using Freenet, one of them was Armageddon. I was roughly 12 when I first saw it and could never connect properly. I just kept getting a create a character first message but never an option to create one. I played MooseHeadSLED and The Great Hunt.. Tried Armageddon again and tried to make a mantis (pre-karma) with a human's description. I got rejected and quit because I didn't know what any of the damn stuff looked like and for all I knew humans had horns.

Years later, I was just turning 18 I tried Armageddon again and it worked. Horray.