From ATS: Satisfy my idle curiosity?

[Morrolan]

LC,

Earliest Arm memories:

I started playing in, I think, 1992 or 1993 when my university got this new thing called the "Internet." Some of my friends were playing at the time.

The things that sold me on Arm were permadeath and sdescs. When i came back in 1994, they were now role-play enforced.

I took time off from 1994 to about 2002, and came back to a much more amazing world.

Morrolan

[Maso]

I came waaaay late to Arm. I wish I'd found it earlier instead of sitting round in crazy fantasy roleplay Yahoo chat rooms and crappy Diku muds. Then I'd get to be oldskool in the coolest mud community in town. >.>

[Morrolan]

oldskool

>get all hard.core

[Maso]

It makes me even sadder now I've read the Arm history docs properly. ALL THAT COOL SHIT!

[Intrepid]

I started playing around 1996/1997.  I was really jonesing for something like Mirtos, which had closed during my prior year-long internet absence.  I hopped on Isca, found Moneyman and he told me there were other muds popping up with the same rp idea.  Arm was the first one on the list in the Mud/MUSH forum, so I tried it.  Conveniently, it also greatly resembled my favorite tabletop game of all time.

I guess, to give you an idea of the timeframe I came in at, the Ironsword rebellion had happened recently and House Fale was new, with Karaluvian as the only true Fale.  Tuluk had not been destroyed yet, The Dirk was still a grimy tavern at the edge of the Rinth, there was only one race of elf, etc.  House Tor was not a viable pc option yet.  Azroen, Sanvean and one other were running the show.

Wow.  What a stroll down amnesia lane that was...

[ShaLeah]

My first character, ShaLeah (because I had no idea wtf I was getting into) had a start date of: Sun Sep 16 21:51:32 2001
I made her an amnesiac because I was too lazy to read the docs and decided to wing it, which led to the Quick Start submission. I made her to look like me with the same age as me. I sucked. I somehow managed to survive with a lot of help from Imms that took pity on me, I think.

I started when Tor was led by the ugliest motherfucker in the known who commanded a room when he entered it, when Ysania was a breathing person and not a Way, when Tuluk had tons of mutants and still under Nakki occupation. One of my characters owned a honey kank, I saw halflings shnack on corpses, totally thought Samoa's orange eyed pc was creepy (cause my name is Tammy) and once was logged in over 30 hours straight. Don't ask me what I was snorting.

I took a break from 2005 till 2011 and I feel more like a newbie now than I did back then.

Now I have the strangest want to start singing Barbra Streisand's Memories.

[adrift]

I remember Halaster's Recommended Playing Times. 

[Intrepid]

I remember those.  I also fondly recall Halaster's title before that one HRPT meltdown that lead to him becoming the "Shroud of Death and Puissant Lord of Slaughter", as Sanvean called him in the followup posting.

[Twilight]

One of my earlier characters was a Tuluki elf whiran in Kohmar that met Alkyone.  He knew brand new dwarf character up north that was looking for other members of this family called Ironsword.  I really wish I could remember what his name was.  I think that was around 93 or 94.

A later character was possibly the last Tokhar of the Byn in that iteration, after Thanos went up north and...mmmm, Jasco? got jailed.

[tortall]

My first character, ShaLeah (because I had no idea wtf I was getting into) had a start date of: Sun Sep 16 21:51:32 2001
I made her an amnesiac because I was too lazy to read the docs and decided to wing it, which led to the Quick Start submission. I made her to look like me with the same age as me. I sucked. I somehow managed to survive with a lot of help from Imms that took pity on me, I think.

I started when Tor was led by the ugliest motherfucker in the known who commanded a room when he entered it, when Ysania was a breathing person and not a Way, when Tuluk had tons of mutants and still under Nakki occupation. One of my characters owned a honey kank, I saw halflings shnack on corpses, totally thought Samoa's orange eyed pc was creepy (cause my name is Tammy) and once was logged in over 30 hours straight. Don't ask me what I was snorting.

I took a break from 2005 till 2011 and I feel more like a newbie now than I did back then.

Now I have the strangest want to start singing Barbra Streisand's Memories.

Shally and I started playing about the same time and my first PC played with her first PC. Ahhhhh, good times! I'm still friends with a lot of those people that were Bynners with us.

That was roughly summer of 2001. Took a break from roughly 2004 until 2008 when a bunch of players came to DragonCon(INCLUDING MANSA!!!) and they got me hooked again. Plus that summer I'd hurt my back and couldn't really do anything except sit at the computer or lay in bed. I've been reduced to almost no play time recently though due to getting an actual job with real hours and such.

It's been over two years now, but playing my Arabeti was the BEST time I'd ever had on Arm. There are still a few PCs around from her time, so I won't mention names. :-)

[ShaLeah]

Shally and I started playing about the same time and my first PC played with her first PC. Ahhhhh, good times! I'm still friends with a lot of those people that were Bynners with us.

That was roughly summer of 2001. Took a break from roughly 2004 until 2008 when a bunch of players came to DragonCon(INCLUDING MANSA!!!) and they got me hooked again. Plus that summer I'd hurt my back and couldn't really do anything except sit at the computer or lay in bed. I've been reduced to almost no play time recently though due to getting an actual job with real hours and such.

It's been over two years now, but playing my Arabeti was the BEST time I'd ever had on Arm. There are still a few PCs around from her time, so I won't mention names. :-)

Torty's first character died and she came back as her sister or cousin or some other newbie-ish twinky shit of that nature. Thalina, oh how loverly you were. And Telak I remember, and Stevith and Zak. I forget most others.

I wish more people would post on this thread.

[a small rock]

I started playing Armageddon sometime in the Fall of 1994 after a large man polishing a steel cow convinced me to play in college. My first PC application took over a week to get accepted (it may have even been rejected). My first three or four PCs were stone elementalists; the first one popping Mirrukim after my friend spammed "Ha ha, you can't understand me!" about a hundred times in the Temple of Ruk in my first hour of play. He died, randomly getting player-killed by some other PC who decided to attack him in the temple. Shortly after, the game suffered a major hack and didn't come back for (as I recall) months.

When it did, my second PC died within hours after leaving Allanak, in an attempt to make it to Red Storm Village. Another week-long wait for a third PC, and I finally had a success. That PC joined the Feydakin, under Thanos, and moved to Mal Krian. Along the road, I decided that PC would be a little batty, and I wished up to the Gods to have them give me a small rock I roleplayed picking up off the ground. In those days, the gods were generally cruel and unpredictable, and wishing wasn't something done lightly. Being given 'a small rock' that I virtually gathered at the time was the highlight of the game by then, and I was hooked. That PC carried that rock around everywhere he went. It gained a personality, and he'd talk to it often. He became friends with a few Fales who did some crazy stuff (like marry commoners). He was ungemmed, and died under mysterious circumstances walking back into the gates of Allanak with Thanos after he (re)started the T'zai Byn.

Edited to add: the second PC who died on the way to RSV. I have a sneaking suspicion that it may have actually been a Vivaduan, who died of thirst. I might be misremembering that, though.

[Cind]

I remember trying to app a hobbit in high school. First ever app. Didn't really work out, that. I got a human male approved and entered the Gaj and asked a room full of npcs if anyone had work for me. Waited a while, left, found myself in a zero-visibility storm, someone comes up to me and says I should have waited, frowns, no idea how to say sorry, so I disconnect.

In 2009 I created a new account and began playing, solely in Tuluk for some reason, think I was just trying to get used to the game, right up until the flood of Tuluk, and then quit playing.

2011, new account, to present. Its been very fun.

To be honest the only reason I know about this game is because I really liked Thy Dungeonman from Homestar Runner and found out that multiple text games existed. Arm sounded freaking awesome, plus it had consent rules, which I refuse to play anything without. Its definitely my kind of game. Arm got me to read Dune, actually, although I imagine for most its the other way around.

[Armaddict]

My first PC was in 1998 or 1997, I don't remember clearly.  He was an assassin.  I backstabbed the first npc I saw after buying a weapon.  I landed myself in jail, thought 'this mud sucks', and disconnected.  I later reconnected to see that a templar had released me.  He ran into me later to say don't let it happen again.  I later jumped in on an assist when Lord Templar Boopsiefiel was attacked.  He told me 'Welcome to the militia, citizen'.  I rejoiced, then died to a scrab.

First pc I learned anything with was Hylut, the hideously deformed man.  Played with Dar, Silver, and Ronin...at least those are the big names I remember.  Moontug was starting 'rinthers at the same time, and apparently I kept on killing him.  We later started making pc's together pretty much by accident.

The game has come a long way.  It's the only game that actually gets me...flustered.  Gets me so involved that I actually get a rise out of myself trying to understand things.  I'm invested in it.  Man this game is awesome, even after however many years it's been.  Thirteen?  Damn.

[shadeoux]

I remember being griefed by the consider code in redstorm.

eyes you morbidly

[Majikal]

I started playing when I was 14 and had just met what is now my wife. I'm 26 so I'm guessing that was around 1999 or 2000.

I remember my first pc writing his name on the dust of the Firestorm Flame bar.. cause I didn't know any better.
My memories from starting were playing alongside Baladan Tenneshi and riding with Sujaal.
Arm got me to read the Dune series after about a year of playing.
I remember spending my first two years of the game not seeing or hearing about a single magicky thing in tuluk.
I remember the first time I saw magick was when a sorceror was buff enough to fight 5-6 combat pc's inside a city.
I remember being terrified of mages from that day forward.
I remember when Kija was a newb and got bested by a Bamuk.
I remember when Eunoli was a new pc.

[marko]

I started playing ages ago.  It seems like a lifetime.  I don't remember the year but it was a -long- time ago.

When I made my first armageddon character you would see skill values when typing skills.

There were blackmoon raider NPCs on the roads.

NPCs all over had metal items.

Magickers were everywhere. 

People would meet up, say hello to one another, and then go spar outside the city gates.

My very first character was a whiran I think.  I entered the game at a friend's place and since I came from a MUDing background one of my very first actions was to attack an NPC in Allanak.  The soldiers promptly attacked and killed my character.  I was really confused.  I was more confused when the same soldier killed my character -again- when I went to loot my body.

I remember helping the PCs who founded the Guild.

I remember when the gypsies traveled from location to location without a permanent residency. 

I remember the Ironswords and Thrain.  He helped one of my first characters when I fell off the shield wall.  I remember when the Siege of Allanak began and wondering why I wasn't allowed to go to Allanak.  heheh

I remember some of the old player guilds.  House Kohmar was interesting.  The crew that hung out at the Fighting Pit was more interesting.  What amazes me is how these groups left memories that got reborn and became part of the culture of the game. 

Armageddon truly is a game where the players have made its history. 

[rocketman]

I had an account awhile ago that I no longer remember the password too, after reading this post I just spent 20 minutes trying to remember it. So I cheated and looked for a post from my user name and ....October 30, 2006, 08:46:06 AM, I was registered.. Lived through the Gith invasion of Allanak, with a northerner ranger. Worked for Tortall with a Dwarf, warrior/hunter named Boleck, I remember Halflings not Kryl in the forest. Myself and two others (wished I rememberd there names) use to be raiders, praying on the many miners outside Allanaks west gate. Thats before the spiders took over.

[jstorrie]

Fighting mantis, monsters, and a crazy wizrobe at the invasion of Tuluk with Bela and Callisto's Byn crew. Then, later, doing it again at Luir's.

Or maybe the other way around, I forget.

One of them died. We were sad. My PC threw up on the mul PC on the argosy-ride home.

[The7DeadlyVenomz]

When I started playing, there was a mul to arm-wrestle in the Sanctuary.

Freil's Rest was the North, for all intents and purposes.

The vineyard up North was open and bustling, and Allanak controlled it all.

Luir's had no Baily or Arena.

There were many more scrab, much closer to Allanak, and they didn't hit as hard.

I don't really remember spiders.

Silt Horrors used to wander up around the Allanak gates.

[Kryos]

My first attempt at arm was 99?  2000?  Can't square it exactly.  I rolled up a guy and stepped into Allanak.  Got swept up by someone named Pearl and put in the Tor Academy in order to serve the Borsail.  I also got shown into the Bard's Barrel and paraded in front of and oggled by a bunch of masked people(must be ugly if they're masked right).

My job made it so I missed all the cool mantis RPT's and my only sparring partner and I would knock each other out in fist fights.  I also remember running all around, because I didn't remember to set 'walk' after fleeing.  Sweat stained all my gear.   Boredom caused a disengage from the game, since I couldn't get any rp or rumbles going on.

I came back much later only to find I couldn't remember my password, and made a new account.  I did better, and after saving a mul from death, then some nobles, decided to stick with it.

[TheBadSeed]

My first arm character was in 96 or so. Decided to go against the grain and play a dirtbag hanging out in Trader's. Was demanded to leave by a Tor lord, refused, and got into a scuffle, in which my character whooped the Tor and two of his bodyguards before the militia joined in and whooped my character.

It made the IC boards, and I was instantly hooked.

Then, went on to be a dirtbag bartender, who married into Kadius, brought down a Reynolte lady, and invented Firestorm's Flame as a PC.. Miss the days!

[Fredd]

my first attempt was about 3 years ago. my ex wife found the game, made an account with my usual name and made a pc, and handed off to me. It was a merchant crafter, in the Byn. Yeah, that didn't work...

i got bored, a year later I think, i made a new account, and joined the Byn under Lt. Raul. Who, across probably 4 pc's, taught me how to play the game. And kept me coming back.

[Barsook]

Same here, like Fredd, but more like my friend (Jamuk) got me in (more like talked me into making a PC).  I quit for awhile and came back during the period that Jamuk was still playing.  He quit and I'm still here.

[FantasyWriter]

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Created: Sat Mar 24 13:49:38 2007.
# of Characters (Total/Alive/Applying/Allowed): 80/0/0/1

Watched Kronibas play over his shoulder when we were rooming together for a few hours, and decided I wanted to play.
My first few characters (that lasted more than a couple hours) were warriors who all joined up with Sorn Tallid(?) and his merc company.
I didn't get on the GDB much and didn't really think of armageddon as anything but a cool game to pass the time by until my first APM.

Did so many embarrassingly twinky things back then. (i.e. leading meks to the gate and then skinning them)

The first PC that I really remember and when I "got" RP) was Gorn Mekbane, an albino dwarf ranger under in Kadius under then Senior Agent Sharlo. (2008) Those were some damn good times.
My favorites were definably Elorin Kadius (that crew and the other PCs around Tuluk at the time were consistently some of the best characters I've ever played with) and Tolan of Vivadu (oh how I still regret his death) .