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• I gave all my money to the water seller hoping he'd eventually fill up my skin.
• I didn't realize that all the time intervals were exactly 10 minutes apart.
• I thought the Byn was a clubhouse that gave you free food and water.
• I had a mental image of the Caravan Road running north to south, not east to west, for whatever reason.
• I thought water was so rare that I could trade it in exchange for anything, so I attempted all the time.
• I had a character who's mother somehow learned to read.
• I, on this same character, asked the Byn recruiter "Where to sign" when asking to join.
• I played city rangers who spammed listen.
• I thought that every templar was a PC and wondered why they never moved or acted.
• I bowed to anyone and everyone who would help me with anything, which freaked them out and made them run away (obviously).
• I sat in the Vivaduan temple all the time and watched the NPCs cast spells, thinking it was cool and totally a social norm.
• I emoted sweating so well that I was accused of being a Vivaduan, and after being proved not, was give 500 sid from a bet.
• I went to the well in the 'rinth on a southsider and claimed I went there all the time as a child to the people who summarily robbed and killed me.

What did you do?

On my very first PC, I died almost to a siltflyer after leaving the gates of Red Storm.  When some Kuraci found me at the village's north gates, naked (I had respawned) and resting up, I asked them to help me get my corpse back. Heh heh.  They helpfully steered me away from that and sent me packing, naked, on a kank to Luir's.

I tried to sell a militia weapon to the Salarri in Nak and got "loinclothed," i.e. the jailers took /everything/ my dude had and turned him loose with just a loincloth.  Fortunately, Sergeant Kroz of the Byn inducted my mostly naked ass and that kicked off my first long lived character on Arm.

When I was a newbie, I didn't give a shit about my stats, even as a warrior, which is really cool.

When I was a newbie, my characters always "grinned broadly."  That was my thing:  emote grins broadly.

I took someone's kank, hitched up outside The Sanc' back when Flint was still there and lead it away where I fought it, killed it, then skinned it.

I came from a H&S MUD with "socials". My first action wts to "poke noble". Yes. I poked Kojiro. Luckily he was really nice and took me aside and explained a few things to me. I then bombarded Ghardon with questions as I wondered around Nak completely lost.

I attacked the first mul I saw.

I played in Tuluk

I got robbed by PCs in 'Rinth, and managed to escape when the wind blew out their torch.

;D

I made an elf who was the child of some island tribals in the Silt Sea. He was from a d-elf tribe who ran from his family. I didn't know there were any differences between c-elves and d-elves. It just wrote "elf" there. Imms let me in without a comment, so I thought it was an awesome character :P

First command I tested was "e". Second command: "sleep". I thought it was cool that I could hear people laughing at me while I was asleep. It actually took a full strip and an attack while asleep for me to realize that this game does not allow sleeping.

Stated elf was also a thug in Red Storm because I thought the Red Storm docs sounded cool.

That elf died while trying to mug an NPC with a single short sword. I thought he was awesome because he had "good" stats and could attack people "viciously".

I crafted a lot of things without using tools and went broke.

I thought that wood was worthless and tried to craft them into trowels (which was the only thing I could figure out how to make).

I died from the RS crimcode, respawned south of the gates, and ended up walking into the sea during a sandstorm. Applied for a rez for that 2-hour character.

2nd elven warrior would beat up soldiers in Tuluk. Surprisingly, he was quite good at beating up the non-HG ones, even at 0 days. They didn't even try to kill him, just kept dragging his ass into jail. I died because I was practicing barrier in jail, and didn't know how to turn it off while taking on a HG soldier.

I thought that every assassin who invited me to their apartment wanted to have sex.

80% of this was from characters on a fake account that got banned, because I was used to multiplaying on other MUDs :P

• I played an elf.
• I had my history edited by Belenos, since he pitied the fact I thought a "Guild" was a literal guild or clan-like thing. I was a guild assassin.
• I didn't know how to use the "Inv" command.
• I had never played a MUD before.
• I got free water.
• I had a Legionnaire fall in love with my elf.
• The same legionnaire intended to become a Hlum noble and get equality for elves.
• The same legionnaire publicly declared his love for my elf. Even as a limited-read newb, I thought that was a bad idea.
• I joined the Byn and went south.
• I never saw another Byn PC beside my recruiter.
• I decided to "spar" with an NPC.
• I had 7 days on that first PC.
• On my next PC, I made sure to have nosave arrest on... Before accidently stealing from a noble NPC, with a guard.
• On the PC after that, who started in 'Nak, I died to a Jozhal.

i fought a tembo with a dagger and no armor. First thing!

Quote from: Taven on April 13, 2009, 09:45:00 PM

• I had never played a MUD before.

I respect you greatly for that. Hell, coming from years of playing other MUDs, Arm was difficult for me to pick up.

Quote from: Maso on April 13, 2009, 09:21:10 PM
I played in Tuluk

And I thought Kurac was the best clan EVER.

Back when you started on meleth's circle, I trotted into the Trader's inn, proceeded to sit down on the floor, while trying to sit with a templar, call him sir and ask him where I could get a glowing beetle like his. This seemed to be back when every templar had the glowing irrig beetle around their head that I never see anymore.  I was summarily subdued, forced to lick some templar's boot and, much like real life, physically ejected from the establishment.

I applied for a character, and described his clothes in his main description.  I was rejected.

Sanvean saw that I was a new player, and helped me out.  A half-dozen emails back and forth, and I had a character approved.


I had a mental image in my head of Allanak flipped in a mirror, and I had my east and west mixed up.

I saw an item on the ground, and tried to pick it up by typing, "pick up dagger".  After 10 minutes later, it replied, "Pick what?"

I was a burglar, and I tried to pick open a door that was locked in the old red storm.  After 10 minutes later, it replied, "Pick with what lockpicks?"  I had a dagger, and I wanted to use that to pick the lock.  It didn't work.

I was walking around the bazaar, and someone shouted out something about being a whore, along with another dude saying he'll eat fire for 10 coins.  The whore started talking to me, and tried to hire me to shout out things about Kadius.  I said okay.  The next day, I started talking with her again, and she didn't respond.

Someone told me to go on an adventure, and follow him.  I did, and we went to the 'rinth, and into the well, and I fell down and got hurt.  He said, "let's sleep to get better."  So, he slept first, and then I slept next.  I died in my sleep, mysteriously.

Quote from: mansa on April 13, 2009, 10:36:12 PM
I had a mental image in my head of Allanak flipped in a mirror, and I had my east and west mixed up.

I had this problem too, only my norths and souths were flipped.

I had the east west problem to for the longest time I'd imagine in my head that everything was the opposite of where it acutally was. Worked great in nak, no so well in the wilds.

When I was a newbie

-Not knowing about quit safe rooms, logged my first character out some where on templars way and logged back in the next morning only having to create another character
-Then I for some reason chose to play a female PC thinking that others would take it easier on her, I couldn't understand why nobody would talk to my first male.
-When I read the docs I took literally that psionics were bad, and promptly had my character freak out the first time someone contacted her, run out the gates and ended up being killed by a scrab.

-Created a human who was "raised by giants" and for some reason spoke like Yoda.
-He proceeded to join the Byn and was taught the ropes by the afformentioned Kroz, and a hunchback sergeant with a speach impediment.
-The Byn got me going in the right track and it's been somewhat smooth sailing ever since. 

Quote from: Durant on April 14, 2009, 12:01:41 AM
I had the east west problem to for the longest time I'd imagine in my head that everything was the opposite of where it acutally was. Worked great in nak, no so well in the wilds.

When I was a newbie

-Not knowing about quit safe rooms, logged my first character out some where on templars way and logged back in the next morning only having to create another character
-Then I for some reason chose to play a female PC thinking that others would take it easier on her, I couldn't understand why nobody would talk to my first male.
-When I read the docs I took literally that psionics were bad, and promptly had my character freak out the first time someone contacted her, run out the gates and ended up being killed by a scrab.

-Created a human who was "raised by giants" and for some reason spoke like Yoda.
-He proceeded to join the Byn and was taught the ropes by the afformentioned Kroz, and a hunchback sergeant with a speach impediment.
-The Byn got me going in the right track and it's been somewhat smooth sailing ever since. 

Sergeant Saitoh, I believe, was the hunch-backed one...or was his player's handle Saitorr...or both? Damn, that was a long time ago, hehe.

I ate every piece of fruit I found in the wilderness.

I attacked the beggar outside of Trader's and was promptly yelled at by a dwarf.  I explained to him I needed to make money and I had read the helpfiles that murdering people was one way to do so.  Apparently there was a line between OOC and IC I didn't quite understand...

I tried to pickpocket from someone in the Trader's Inn with my first elf.  They felt my hands and glared at me, then I promptly tried to steal from them again while they emoted all sorts of watching me things.

I fucked with Kurac and got owned.

I put spice in a bag, then put the bag in my pack, thinking I was so smart for hiding it.  It turns out that the guards at Allanak's gate actually search you better than I thought.

I tried to open and enter every door/building/area I could.

I broke into every apartment in Allanak within a real life two week period.  Then I decided to go to another city and harass those people as well.

I ate a <color removed> tablet while out in the middle of nowhere for some reason.  I was unable to do anything after that and was laying in the sun cooking for a good day or so before I died of thirst.

Oh, and with my first long lived warrior I remembered seeing some cool gloves in the 'rinth I wanted soooo badly.  So I rode down there and stopped in the middle of an alley so I could watch a few scenes from DragonBall Z.  After the show ended I realized that I had no weapon wielded and I had been attacked by about six npc's.  I went through the log and apparently I knocked out one of them before the others stabbed me to death.  Lamest.  Death.  Ever.  I lost the keys to my clan's compound with that character, too.  That sucked.

-My first character was a pickpocket and I had no idea about skills. I ended up finding my way into the Barrel and happening upon Sharlo Kadius, the first PC I met. We talked and I was reading over the Help files the whole time to try not to look like too much of a noob. I remember telling him I was a cook(not knowing all guilds start with cooking) and he let me into Kadius.
-I thought that jobs were rare and thought that now that I had a Kadius armband I could walk into the bars and bully around people.
-We eventually went on a trip to Tuluk. I spent all my money on spice after I read up on it, and pretended to be addicted.
-Eventually I RPed being sick and tired of Tuluk and homesick of Allanak. So I grabbed a barrel of water and ran off, on foot. One of the Senior Hunters followed me and took it back.
-My first ranger got lost in a sandstorm while out foraging salt and died of thirst
-My only bad note on my account notes is from when I was only playing for a few days and posted some IC information, which I quickly edited after people bitched about it.

Sharlo Kadius was my first PC boss, too.  I remember being in Kadius with Second Hunter Ojun and trying to "mount kank" while hunting in a large group.  Several people got extremely pissy with me for jumping onto their mounts before Ojun kindly ooc'd that just 'mount' would do.

Ojun also once offered me some money to duck into a certain well-known den outside Tuluk to flush out the creature inside.  I was certain he was trying to trap and kill me.

I remember trying to use tells/talks like in the MUSHes of my youth.

I remember sitting on tavern floors before I realized there were tables in the room.

I remember seeing my first pair of tribals roll up to the bar in Allanak, speaking in Bendune and then tribal accents, with their fancy gear.  I thought they were the sexiest things.

I think I lucked out for the most part, like those of us who were introduced to the game by a RL friend, having someone stand over my shoulder and say, 'Don't do that.  It makes you look like a noob.'

- Had never played a mud before.
- Got told I played my first character (who lived for over 20 days played time, and over about two or three months I believe) like I was a veteran.
- Unintentionally, used the same sdesc of the bartender in Red Storm for my first said character.
- Died in an exursion with some Templars and my Byn unit up into BFE northlands, by typing in bs half-giant (she was an assassin) and thinking she'd actually be able to take it out without having ever used backstab.
-Created my second character, Nora, a human warrior - who walked from 'Nak to Luir's, wanting nothing but to join Kurac.  Got told they were full, walked north to Tuluk and promptly became an assistant for a badass assassin, whom she later found out was a magicker, freaked out and then ran to Kurac, spilling information to then Advisor Danu in hopes to get into Kurac.  Plan worked.. and there she was for a long... long time. Only with this character.. her/my newbieness was more prominent due to the amount of absolute badasses I played around.

Prop and Kudo's to: Sergeant Aliera, Sergeant Graven, Sergeant Pendeh, Shatuka, Tixius and many many more that would take way too long to list. - Playing with and around you has helped me shape my emotes and understanding of the world that I didn't get to experience with my first character.

When I was a newbie, I was constantly balls-deep in NPC animations and RPTs despite not really having any concept of what 'RPT's or 'NPC's were.

I went on an RPT in the Salt Flats and there were some amazing echoes when a mekillot ran up sorta-near our group.

I remember thinking, "Wow, they coded everything! The ground even shakes when these big ol' reptiles run up!  :o"

Later on, that same PC met another mekillot and I discovered there were no warning echoes, after all.

Oh, one of my early characters found a cool weapon in the Salarr store. He ran around with it for the rest of his life. Other people were horrified to see him with that weapon and only noob equipment and tried to talk him into not using it. Turns out that it was a Tuluki militia sword. He died fending off a halfling with that sword.

Later on, that warrior elf of mine disarmed a Tuluk soldier, got his sword, ran away with it and hid it. I let them arrest me, then after going out of jail, I tried to pawn that sword off. The lady yelled at me for trying to sell a militia weapon and I panicked and tried to hide the sword in the same place. Out of sheer stupidity, I tried to sell that sword again a second time to someone else in Tuluk. Character died shortly after.

...taught Allundean to a certain Kuraci agent for 25 'sid a lesson. I was so poor. :(

Quote from: Attana on April 14, 2009, 03:25:25 AMNora

What? I'd never think Nora was someone's second character, she was very well played. At least from my newbish point of view. ICly, I hated the bitch, though :). Wonder how she met her end. Hope it was painful :).

• ... I thought Assassin was teh best gild evar
• ... I thought everyone wearing signet rings was nobility (bowing to Merchant House family members ensued)
• ... I got Kadius and Kurac mixed up a few times.
• ... I was around to see the kanks slowly die.
• ... my most favorite characters were defined by what I learned while playing them, sometimes more than the things they got involved in.
• ... I was afraid of Tuluk and going there and disappearing.

Quote from: Fathi on April 14, 2009, 03:30:49 AM
When I was a newbie, I was constantly balls-deep in NPC animations and RPTs despite not really having any concept of what 'RPT's or 'NPC's were.

I went on an RPT in the Salt Flats and there were some amazing echoes when a mekillot ran up sorta-near our group.

I remember thinking, "Wow, they coded everything! The ground even shakes when these big ol' reptiles run up!  :o"

Later on, that same PC met another mekillot and I discovered there were no warning echoes, after all.

Change salt flats with grasslands and mekillot with bahamet and this is my newb story. lol.

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Quote from: Durant on April 14, 2009, 12:01:41 AM
-He proceeded to join the Byn and was taught the ropes by the afformentioned Kroz, and a hunchback sergeant with a speach impediment.
-The Byn got me going in the right track and it's been somewhat smooth sailing ever since. 

Sergeant Saitoh, I believe, was the hunch-backed one...or was his player's handle Saitorr...or both? Damn, that was a long time ago, hehe.

That was either Sergeant Iltrin or Iltran I think.

I remember talking with the Plainsman, and being told to go gathering all these strange, seemingly pointless items.  Before I knew what component crafting was.
I remember being hired as a Kadian hunter by Darius Kadius? The chubby, bent legged man or somthing like that, and later on asking another Kadian hunter for a 'real weapons' sparring match, putting my loss of the sparring matches down to the training weapons.

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Quote from: Attana on April 14, 2009, 03:25:25 AMNora

What? I'd never think Nora was someone's second character, she was very well played. At least from my newbish point of view. ICly, I hated the bitch, though :). Wonder how she met her end. Hope it was painful :).

Yes, she was indeed my second character.  Thank you... and yes, I'm sure you're not the only person to think that. :P  - There's quite a lot of badassness that ensued with that character, that maybe I'll go post in the bragging thread, since it's old enough to do so.

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Quote from: Synthesis on April 14, 2009, 12:20:59 AM

Quote from: Durant on April 14, 2009, 12:01:41 AM
-He proceeded to join the Byn and was taught the ropes by the afformentioned Kroz, and a hunchback sergeant with a speach impediment.
-The Byn got me going in the right track and it's been somewhat smooth sailing ever since. 

Sergeant Saitoh, I believe, was the hunch-backed one...or was his player's handle Saitorr...or both? Damn, that was a long time ago, hehe.

That was either Sergeant Iltrin or Iltran I think.

Something makes me want to say Milosh... who was that?

Maybe you're right though I do remember an "I" at the start of the name.

• I tried to ride to Cenyr, alone, with no provisions, having no idea of its location, under the impression that I would find PCs there to trade with. I almost got there, too.
• I played a nomad who lived in an apartment with another 'nomad.'
• I still had the magical, realistic feeling that a trip from Tuluk to Luirs was a big deal.
• I referred to the Sun King as a sorcerer.
• I received more Kudos in my first week of play than I have in the 11 months since.
• I emailed the staff about making my own coded clan within a week of making my first character, and was politely rejected by staff, but told that 'anything was possible,' with enough work. I didn't realize what a big deal making a clan was, heh.
• I posted a string of idiotic questions on the GDB.

Quote from: Ourla on April 14, 2009, 02:56:56 AM
Sharlo Kadius was my first PC boss, too.

Interesting, mine too.

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Quote from: Ourla on April 14, 2009, 02:56:56 AM
Sharlo Kadius was my first PC boss, too.

Interesting, mine too.

Although I wasn't directly hired by him, I believe he was the boss-man at the time, so myself too.

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Quote from: Archbaron on April 14, 2009, 05:56:19 PM

Quote from: Ourla on April 14, 2009, 02:56:56 AM
Sharlo Kadius was my first PC boss, too.

Interesting, mine too.

Although I wasn't directly hired by him, I believe he was the boss-man at the time, so myself too.

You guys couldn't have had a more awesome first boss  :D

Heh... I have a soft spot for noobs.

QuoteSomething makes me want to say Milosh... who was that?

It's entirely possible that there has been more than one Milosh, but one of them was my PC Cidsarl Kadius' employee way back in 2002 or so.  You may be thinking of Milan if it's been in the past couple of years.

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Quote from: Taven on April 13, 2009, 09:45:00 PM

• I had never played a MUD before.

I respect you greatly for that. Hell, coming from years of playing other MUDs, Arm was difficult for me to pick up.

Thanks! I have a soft spot in my heart for newies because of that, although I usually don't do much more then point out how helpfiles work and prod them towards the Byn. Despite Arm ICly being very harsh, I think it has a great tolerance and willingness to help newbies. With my first "Successful" PC, #4, I started in Allanak and was non-newbish enough to join up with the AoD... Where they beat the other newbness out of me! ;) I'm only half-kidding. It's amazing when you get that first group of people to really introduce you into the game, and show you how awesome it is. PC #4 is still my longest lived, at around 45 Days of playtime.

• Made my first character as a rinthi elven bastard noble assassin. With clothes in the main desc. Got accepted with only the clothes editted. Died to a rinthi, respawned and walked around naked eating cactus rings a soldier got me, cause i was supposed to be his spy. then got thrown in a hole by a giant
• people were much more brutal and death came quicker
• the world seemed much bigger, mysterious and immersive than it does now
• made a tenneshi guard who killed npc's with another PC outside the compound and decided to be undertuluki criminals (back in the OLD undertuluk)
• thought two borsail Wyverns were actual wyverns in human form. Like dragons. also thought the 'something something imp' was an actual imp sitting at the Barrel
• had a character survive the rinth explosion HRPT with a bag that had 'many' piles of coins at like 5435 each, a mace worth 4600 sid, elite equipment, and other stuff. As a 2 IRL day warrior. Was a member of the Guild, but attacked a rinth npc that chased me there in the bar and got pwnt by my own clan npcs
• played only in white text on black background

Milosh sounds like the name of the elven sergeant several years back. The first I had saw, and a very long lived one. But it could've been another M-sounding, or dual-syllabic name.

Quote from: Bogre on April 14, 2009, 09:43:03 PM

• played only in white text on black background

What do you use now?

Quote from: Ramblingman on April 14, 2009, 09:44:24 PM

Quote from: Bogre on April 14, 2009, 09:43:03 PM

• played only in white text on black background

What do you use now?

zmud green on black

My biggest newbie mistake was this... playing a human nothing commoner in Allanak, I found spice ditched somewhere.  Being the conscientious, law-abiding citizen my character was, picked it up and went looking for a Templar... walked past the gates.  This was before 'nosave arrest' came into existence.

*Was recruited by a sandas, as a burglar. Not knowing shit, twinked my way into a building in the 'rinth and stole everything (wasn't quite grasping the concept of the game yet). Thought I was a badass , went and found my recruiter, holding a huge bag. He was complaining about someone robbing their hideout...and well...right about that same time I was telling him about how I'd just pulled a HUGE job. I'll let you figure out how that ended.

Went through a string of short lived chars, then had a decently long lived ATV named temper, and been gravy since.

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Quote from: Ourla on April 14, 2009, 02:56:56 AM
Sharlo Kadius was my first PC boss, too.

Interesting, mine too.

Although I wasn't directly hired by him, I believe he was the boss-man at the time, so myself too.

You guys couldn't have had a more awesome first boss  :D

Heh... I have a soft spot for noobs.

That reminds me of another thing, I remember falling off a cliff during an argosy visit to Cenyr, and Sharlo waiting for me to make my climb check before moving onto Allanak :)

Quote from: BuNutzCola on April 14, 2009, 09:52:31 PM
*Was recruited by a sandas, as a burglar. Not knowing shit, twinked my way into a building in the 'rinth and stole everything (wasn't quite grasping the concept of the game yet). Thought I was a badass , went and found my recruiter, holding a huge bag. He was complaining about someone robbing their hideout...and well...right about that same time I was telling him about how I'd just pulled a HUGE job. I'll let you figure out how that ended.

Went through a string of short lived chars, then had a decently long lived ATV named temper, and been gravy since.

HAHAHA! Epic fail.

Yeah, but the badass recruiter was Roach, and awesome mentor for getting into the game.. That guy man, he knows how to run a PC.

- My first character was a Bynner that had a crush on a gemmer. It wasn't long before she was brutally assassinated in front of him, though.
- My first character became a Byn Sarge while I was still a super-noob. I proved that by not being able to figure out the water seller in the temple of the dragon, while leading my war party to the gates for a trip.  :-[
- Kanks were still around.  :-\
- I was balls-deep in myriad plots without realizing/capitalizing on it. I mean, I -really- sucked at playing this game.
- Actually, I'm still a noob.  ::)

• I didn't fall for the number one cause of death in the 'Rinth
• I -did- get ganked by walking into the side opposite of my races' faction.
• I pissed off several people. At once. Probably OOCly as well.
• I invited a friend to play X guild just so I could ask what skills they start out with
• "Secrecy? Who needs to be secret? It's not like anyone's in the Sanctuary right now, anyways."
• My time was allotted as such: 25% playing the game, 25% reading the documentation, 40% configuring Zmud, 10% recording information on other players.
• I tried talking to the friendly neighborhood Roving Gith Death Squad(tm)

*shrug*

I had never played any kind of online multi player game, especially not a mud.
Met this crazy fecker in a professional writing class that I ended up rooming with the next semester,and he talked me into trying Arm.
<3 Kronibas


Was hired by the blonde, purple-eyed man (or something like that in Nak) with my first three or four PCs.
Sorn Tallid, maybe? Anyway that crew was awesome.

Got robbed and decided to suicide of the shield wall... lived through the fall, found a gith... killed him, finally fell in a hole with a dujat worm.


I stayed indie for all my PCs after Sorn died.  My next boss (and my first time in a coded clan) was also Sharlo. :D



Also, I agree with Ourla.. havin' someone to look over your shoulder when you get started is an awesome aid.

- My first character was a blue eyed half elf.
- My first MUD too, so I could'nt work out how to move across the room.  Eventually found my way down.  Strangely, I still had that problem with my second.  I could'nt work how how to move from my table to the Templar's, when "asked".  So my PC stood up and sat down at the Faithful's table.
- After an hour of playing, my PC curled up in a corner of the food shop and I disconnected.  OOC feeling totally exhilarated and exhausted.
- She found a good hangout in a hut, which she preferred to the public dorms.  So she used to go to sleep there and I disconnected.  I logged in one day and found my 1st PC was Dead.

...I met Suk-Krath incarnate in the Red Sun Commons of Tuluk with my sun cleric.

He was pissed.

...gith death squads still roamed the roads.
...there were no oxen.
...Tuluk was still occupied by Allanak (I think I started just after it became so)
...There was no attached description to the infamous keg of cleaning liquid, telling what it was.
...Blackmoon was still around.
...Seeing a gemmed was a significant event for me.

Quote from: Pale Horse on April 16, 2009, 12:43:40 AM
...There was no attached description to the infamous keg of cleaning liquid, telling what it was.

*shudder*

Don't remind me.

• House Kadius ruled the world (Ysania, Berlian, Eldor, Boad, Cringe, et al.)
• Gemmers hung out in the Sanctuary
• I grunted so much with one of my Bynners that Lord Templar Ihsahn Kasix of the Blue cut me down on the spot.
• I used to cut and paste my combat exploits into IRC..."Duude, I just brutally slashed a duskhorn on the aaaaaaassss!"  :o

Quote from: Synthesis on April 16, 2009, 01:39:20 AM

• House Kadius ruled the world (Ysania, Berlian, Eldor, Boad, Cringe, et al.)
• Gemmers hung out in the Sanctuary

• I grunted so much with one of my Bynners that Lord Templar Ihsahn Kasix of the Blue cut me down on the spot.

• I used to cut and paste my combat exploits into IRC..."Duude, I just brutally slashed a duskhorn on the aaaaaaassss!"  :o

Wow...

Quote from: Synthesis on April 16, 2009, 01:39:20 AM

• I grunted so much with one of my Bynners that Lord Templar Ihsahn Kasix of the Blue cut me down on the spot.

Take it to the bragging thread.

Quote from: Pale Horse on April 16, 2009, 12:43:40 AM
...There was no attached description to the infamous keg of cleaning liquid, telling what it was.

And yes, it is the one, the unitary keg of cleaning fluid.  It takes physical form where it wills, but all odoriferous, blue-painted kegs are one and the same.

When the last aide has drunk the last drop, its reign of terror will be ended.

Ihsan...what memories.

When I was a newbie

• I wrote the mud an email after my very first character died, asking 'does this mean I'm dead, dead?' It was just two hours after starting, too.
• I tried to sell a militia sword left lying on the ground. In most hack and slash games, those get you good coin. This one got me jailed, where I watched a templar kill an ungemmed 'gicker elf. That was on the second character.
• I wound up a Borsail aide, and learned a great deal about the unfairness and harshness of the game by trying to please a certain Borsail lord.
• I turned my back on some really good plots because I was so new I didn't know any better. Later characters were roped in, and I'm so thankful for that.

... what do you people mean when you were newbies? :P

When I was a newbie my character was based loosely on Kelly, from Kelly's Heroes.
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Crap. My current character is also based on someone from Kelly's Heroes.. I think most of mine have been, to one degree or another. So much for progression over the years!

Quote from: Rahnevyn on April 16, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
... what do you people mean when you were newbies? :P

When I was a newbie, Rah used to have this thread on the GBD, where'd he answer questions. Seems like so long ago, now..

:P

My 'rinth-rat PC:
- ...insulted Private Paryl's good buddy in the Bard's Barrel.
- ...sang adapted Gilbert & Sullivan tunes in the Bard's Barrel.
- ...was driven out of the Bard's Barrel on a permanent sort of basis.
- ...was, nominally, the eyes-and-ears for both a militia sergeant and a Guild operative.
- ...was given a lockpick and instructions on commissions.
- ...mugged someone in a manner that generated a GDB thread.  (It was probably both less horrible than the victim thought and more horrible than I thought at the time.) :(
- ...committed suicide-by-elf in the 'rinth. :(

I'm still a newbie! But while we're at it...
My first character lasted well over 10 days played, until he FINALLY got confident in himself as a hunter. He died shortly thereafter.

My second character lasted a few moments before, of course, pissing off the wrong people.

When I was a newbie, there was no stun levels, nor were there any subclass skills.

You could walk to Mal Krian but not purchase anything because you had to be a civilian of Mal Krian to purchase anything, except for mounts.
And they were the only ones that sold Ratlons.

- When I was a newbie, you still had to enter the Sanctuary.
- The Salarri shop was one room, with two rooms behind that locked door dedicated to loot! :-X
- Mundanes ruled the world.
- I actually got decent scores.
- I actually played in Tuluk. ;D

...when I was a newbie, tdesc hadn't been implemented yet. Nor the dung code. *sagenod*
;D

• It was Kurac everyone griped about, not so much magickers. (This is something I still find somewhat profound)
• I went through characters even more than I do now.
• I made a crap tonne of 'sid, just by making a lumberjack.
• I couldn't figure out how to survive on my own, but I refused to join a clan.
• I asked Lady Templar Shome(sp?) if she was hitting on me.
• Died to more poisonous snakes than I could remember.
• Had way too much fun with elves before the wisdom and defence nerfs.

I miss the days when desert elves began with the abilities of a 10 day warrior. And when regular, long lived elves always would turn into badasses.

Looking my dead character list, I only remember maybe one out of every ten. I have almost a hundread now.

When I was a MEGA-newbie...I made my first character a city elf. And was approved with just a change to my background which said I was the bastard child of a NOBLE.

I walked around for a good hour in Tuluk...and just couldn't understand why I was being sneered at. Then I stopped playing, forgot about it for about 2 years...came back and my character was like 50.

When I was a newbie Rah was still learning his ABC's.

Quote from: dustbunny on April 16, 2009, 09:23:45 PM
When I was a MEGA-newbie...I made my first character a city elf. And was approved with just a change to my background which said I was the bastard child of a NOBLE.

Haha, I'm a little surprised that got changed. I've had some rather incredulous backgrounds for my first characters that got through. And I've seen a few strange backgrounds from other new players XD

When I was a newbie, I posted my first GDB post in a "when I was a newbie" thread.

I believe my first character was a woodsman in Tuluk, and got asked to provide a bunch of logs to the Templarate by dragging them into the city and contacting some dude who worked for them. I was paid QUITE heavily (so I thought) and ended up with almost 2 small in my inventory. Rather than putting it in a belt or a pack, I kept it there. Satisfied that I was doing well, I went to the common sleeping area and actually SLEPT. I woke up with all my coins gone, and freaked out. I don't remember what I did after that.



I'm still a newbie.

There were Blackmoon Raider NPCs along the North Road.

1. I sat in Flint's with my halfling and had steel weapons as well.
2. I filled a fountain about 3 rooms away from the water seller shop at the time in Tuluk with water with my vivaduin repeatedly, figuring free water for folks seems like something a vivaduin would do.
3. Potions were buyable from npc merchants.
4. I died from poison and had no idea what a cure was, nor how to get one, or if they were even in game.
5. I abused haggle in my desire to save up for a wagon and was visited by Nessalin.

Despite being an experienced mudder and having done a bit of RP:

1. I could not tell PC's and NPC's apart in Arm
2. I was afraid to meet any PC's and actually RP because I was afraid of not measuring up to Arm's standard, so I spent my first week or so mainly skulking around in the 'rinth
3. I stole from shop keepers in the 'rinth repeatedly (or tried to) and one time the shopkeeper fled and never returned, thereby making it so no one could buy anything in that shop. I kept going back for RL days afterward but no shopkeeper and I was convinced I'd broken it. :(
4. I got busted southside and taken to jail three times and every time Lord Templar Masaki would turn up to question me. He gave me a healthy fear of templars and, in fact, was ultimately responsible for my PC's death when he took all her water and coins.

1) I remember remember I was such a noob, one time that I saw a halfling PC and tried talking to him about stuff and couldn't grasp why I couldn't talk to him.
2) - Same thing with a mantis -
3) Pre Dwarf Mines incident, was in Nak, and if i remember correctly, watched some badassed templar get WTFpwnd by some guy with all metal swords and thought he wasn't so tough.
4) Asked a Defiler once why he hated the world (back when Sleep, nuke was prominent)

Quote from: Rahnevyn on April 16, 2009, 11:33:00 AM
... what do you people mean when you were newbies? :P

I haven't defeated my area-newbness yet.

Just don't let me out outdoors. Ever. Then all will be well.

The comment above amuses me, for I am a newb, but I know the out of doors better then the in.

My first character got insta-gibbed by a /look /kill no emote high(est) karma role within about 3 hours of making him. :( .  I was still in the process of typing out a say while trying to figure out these crazy ~ ! # ^ stuff.  Musta had really shiny boots or something?  This soured me a great deal, but I persisted.

Next guy survived disease, poison, tembo, pvp(once again, no role play involved and out of the blue :( ) and general lack of knowledge about the game in general while trying to play a hunter type and learn the lay of the land.  Lasted about 10 days played.

I can say I never did join the Byn with a character, maybe that's why I'm still a newb?

Quote from: Kryos on April 18, 2009, 03:05:48 AM

I can say I never did join the Byn with a character, maybe that's why I'm still a newb?

Just means you haven't rode off the shield wall

Quote from: shadeoux on April 18, 2009, 04:33:43 AM

Quote from: Kryos on April 18, 2009, 03:05:48 AM

I can say I never did join the Byn with a character, maybe that's why I'm still a newb?

Just means you haven't rode off the shield wall

Just means you haven't had to shovel poo to sustain a living IG.

When I was a newbie (that'd be yesterday):

• I sat in the Trader's Inn and ordered a number of drinks while I listened to folks talking.
• I bought probably more meat than I really needed to.
• I learned how to use haggle.
• I figured out that I'd probably better get a job, because the money runs out quick.
• I discovered that folks don't respond to attempts at conversation unless they know you.
• Experimented with 'think' and 'emote'.

Today, I plan to:

• Sit in the Trader's Inn and drink while I listen to folks talking.
• See if I can figure out how to get a job crafting.
• Try to get someone to talk with me.

Wish me luck!

Good luck!

Sounds like you're heading down the right road as far as getting a job and getting folks to talk to you.  Sometimes, I've found the best way to start making contacts is through business.  Offer your services, or buy or barter for someone else's.  If you can maintain regular commerce, everything else falls right into place.

Quote from: Ourla on April 23, 2009, 03:46:48 PM
Good luck!

Sounds like you're heading down the right road as far as getting a job and getting folks to talk to you.  Sometimes, I've found the best way to start making contacts is through business.  Offer your services, or buy or barter for someone else's.  If you can maintain regular commerce, everything else falls right into place.

Thank you. So far, I've managed to fall down a pit, climb back up again, and get lost in town. :D

Quote from: Fynn on April 23, 2009, 01:20:44 PM

• I discovered that folks don't respond to attempts at conversation unless they know you.

dude, those were probably NPCs. Players should at least emote ignoring you and not just completely ignore you.

type LOOK TABLES in the bar. anyone actually shown sitting at a table is definitely a PC.

Quote from: Agent_137 on April 23, 2009, 04:27:05 PMdude, those were probably NPCs. Players should at least emote ignoring you and not just completely ignore you.

Would definitely have been nice, but they were talking amongst themselves. No worries, though - there's plenty of fishes in the sea.

Quote from: Fynn on April 23, 2009, 05:23:12 PM

Quote from: Agent_137 on April 23, 2009, 04:27:05 PMdude, those were probably NPCs. Players should at least emote ignoring you and not just completely ignore you.

Would definitely have been nice, but they were talking amongst themselves. No worries, though - there's plenty of fishes in the sea.

We need more newbies like you. Welcome to Arm.

The kind of people you get in the Traders most tend to be of a certain 'type'. Often they are of the type that won't go round talking with commoners randomly. Plus, sometimes...if people are deep within conversation with one another it can pretty hard to then try and RP with an outsider. Think of it like RL, would you just go up to a table of strangers, who were deep in conversation, and start talking to them?

Try looking for the loners, or people sat at a bar. People sit at bars to socialise, and tables for private chats....usually.

Yeah, the first thing I thought when you said people were ignoring you is that you're in the Trader's.  There are other taverns in the city, and you'll find more people willing to just talk.  The Gaj is the lowest common denominator (and I do mean low) in that equation, so you might try there.

Quote from: Maso on April 23, 2009, 06:15:04 PM
The kind of people you get in the Traders most tend to be of a certain 'type'. Often they are of the type that won't go round talking with commoners randomly. Plus, sometimes...if people are deep within conversation with one another it can pretty hard to then try and RP with an outsider. Think of it like RL, would you just go up to a table of strangers, who were deep in conversation, and start talking to them?

Try looking for the loners, or people sat at a bar. People sit at bars to socialise, and tables for private chats....usually.

Good social advice, definitely. But as a an OOC courtesy, i hope those players ignoring him were giving  -feedback- in the form of emotes that they are ignoring/not noticing him. You can build a scene around being ignored as long as there is feedback.

Quote from: Archbaron on April 23, 2009, 05:44:39 PMWe need more newbies like you. Welcome to Arm.

*grin*

Thanks, Archbaron.

Quote from: Maso on April 23, 2009, 06:15:04 PMTry looking for the loners, or people sat at a bar. People sit at bars to socialise, and tables for private chats....usually.

Ah. Thanks for the tip - I'll keep that in mind henceforth.

Quote from: Dalmeth on April 23, 2009, 06:36:25 PMThe Gaj is the lowest common denominator (and I do mean low) in that equation, so you might try there.

*nod*

Will do. Thanks!

Quote from: Synthesis on April 16, 2009, 01:39:20 AM

• House Kadius ruled the world (Ysania, Berlian, Eldor, Boad, Cringe, et al.)
• Gemmers hung out in the Sanctuary
• I grunted so much with one of my Bynners that Lord Templar Ihsahn Kasix of the Blue cut me down on the spot.
• I used to cut and paste my combat exploits into IRC..."Duude, I just brutally slashed a duskhorn on the aaaaaaassss!"  :o

One of these listed characters is my RL friend who got me into the game.

When i was a Noob, Isahn was Red, and my second character followed him into the sewers with the Byn.  I got lost.  And I saw horrible things.
My first character made it past 5 days.  None have come close since.  granted i HAVE had a 6 year hiatus, so i am SOMEWHAT excused but still... I still kinda suck.

QuoteI still kinda suck.

Quote from: Synthesis on April 14, 2009, 12:20:59 AM
Sergeant Saitoh, I believe, was the hunch-backed one...or was his player's handle Saitorr...or both? Damn, that was a long time ago, hehe.

• The hunch-backed guy was Iltrin, played by Saitorr.  One of my first characters tried to shit on him in the Gaj, but Iltrin pointed out that I didn't emote pulling down my pants.  So, my character shat himself instead.
• The athletic, pony-tailed man gave me 100 coins because I was a hopless n00b.
• I got locked in Arjan's (spelling?) compound off Miner's or Stonecarver's.  I remember he had a forked beard.
• I loved my serrated bone longsword and shortsword.
• I repaired gith armor and wore it.
• I ran into the 'rinth fighting NPC's then fled with about 2 hp.  I slept/woke/slept/woke/slept....etc. in the Whiran temple for about 5 minutes.  Then ran around the Bazarr with about 10hp selling forked daggers and then (I think) eventually got thrown in jail for attempting to sell militia weapons.

When I was a newbie, I thought Templars would be crueler-ordering executions of people who accidentally bump into them. This at least is the impression my friend who got me into playing told me.

When I was a noob I thought you could only forage once in each room.

I tried to kill random NPCs with a 0-hour character, using the free respawn to figure out how tough they were. I got whipped to death by one :P

I was so determined to make anti-stereotype characters that I'd make a character of the wrong guild and join a clan which doesn't use the skills at all. Since I was still a newbie, everyone was really nice and mean to me at the same time for not having skills.

Had a lot of very emotionally intense RP. Got hunted down in both cities before (and killed by soldiers in both). Stored one, and almost stored another because I'd OOC cry from the tough RP, but decided to see how it'd work out and did some awesome things with no skill.

Shared OOC information and got banned. At least it's not as bad as getting banned from another MUSH for ignoring consent rules ;)

When I was a newbie I looked at the thing on the road, that my then mentor, a Mul named Flower, had told me 'Don't even look at it' and promptly got my butt kicked into single digit HPs until Flower killed it.

Sometimes I miss those things, but then I kick myself and realise how awesome the game is today and how long it has held my attention.

But I would still like to see the thing again, but used very rarely!

Edit: Does anyone else remember those things?

I'm not sure which thing you're talking about, but I remember the Mul named Flower! He was watering a plant in the tablelands when I met him. I wasn't a newbie though.

When I was a newbie, I had lots of experience in diku-type games, a little with mush-style roleplay, and I'd played another RPI before. So I was very comfortable with the code, syntax, commands, help files, etc. etc. Emoting was clunky for me because of all the variables but I got used to it pretty quickly. But, I didn't learn where the waterseller was until around 2 weeks after I had my first character, because she was clanned the day after I created her and the clan provided water.

I didn't remember at first, that commoners can't read or write, and I think I made the typical noob mistake of asking "where do I sign?" when I was offered a job. I had no idea honey was green, and to this day I never asked in-game or read out of game HOW honey came from kanks.

I thought erdlus could fly. Whenever I saw a greth, I imagined it as a feather duster with feet. My character could craft, I was in a crafting clan, but I wasn't hired to be a crafter, and so I was afraid to use up all the materials and could never find my boss. So mostly I just putzed around being bored and frustrated and "snuck" a crafting session every once in awhile just to keep from ripping my hair out.

I was a newbie for the first two or three years of playing and it was really my mentorship with Flower that helped set me on the path out of that! This was  in answer to an old, old forum post asking for an apprentice on the GDB to start in Red Storm (Also the beginning of my infatuation with that village that has continued through the redesigns and map changes)

I too didn't realize honey was green though and only learnt that about a year before kanks were phased out!

Edit: The thing I'm talking about looked like one thing, but when you looked in it you found out more than you really wanted to know about it.

Quote from: Bushranger on April 27, 2009, 08:26:29 AM
Edit: The thing I'm talking about looked like one thing, but when you looked in it you found out more than you really wanted to know about it.

i can imagine it is more than 10 years old stuff

can you just tell us what it was?

Bushranger, I remember that thing.  I usually encountered it on the road heading west from Nak, as I remember.  It would be awesome, awesome, awesome to see that come back.

I know its the right time period because the character that encountered it, Kentar, hung a bit with Flower and another mul  named Stix.   I still remember a time up in old Tuluk where Flower emoted picking his teeth with a dagger.  That image has always stayed with me.

WHAT WAS THAT THING?!?!?!?

ARRRRRRRRRRRGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

It was probably red and sandy.

I'm scared of the things that go bump in the dunes.

Hah, um, I think I know what it is, but last time I posted about a creature on zalanthas, I pretty much revealed Kryl to the playerbase :( So I'll say nothing.

What's Kryl?  ???

Quote from: Ourla on April 25, 2009, 01:20:35 PM
When I was a noob I thought you could only forage once in each room.

Quote from: Maso on May 01, 2009, 06:49:40 PM
What's Kryl?  ???

http://www.armageddon.org/general/beasts.html#kryl (http://www.armageddon.org/general/beasts.html#kryl)

WHAT IS THAT THING

what is WROTNG with this kjeyboard

Quote from: Maso on May 01, 2009, 06:49:40 PM
What's Kryl?  ???

(http://www.reclaimingthemind.org/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/03/400px-alien.jpg)

Tried to befriend a halfling. And because it's a roleplaying game, I proceeded to type a rather long emote after entering the room that little bugger was in. Plus, he had a friend in an adjacent room. I still wonder how they split all that meat.

When I was a newb.
- I walked up hill both ways to morning sparring.

-    First character was an assassin. Logged in, said "This game sucks." and went LD. Logged back in 3 months later (and 700 coins lighter. Someone was busy up until the mud crashed.) I was in Red Storm. I was, of course, a most deadly and feared assassin. The first PC I met, upon realizing what an extraordinary asset I was, sold me a flint knife and offered me a 1,000 sid to off Lord, or Lord Templar so and so. He gave me crude directions to Nak. After a long sleep in the desert (to raise my stam back up), I finally made it!.... into the rinth.
     It wasn't long at all before I was ganked by a few NPCs back when they would stop savagely beating the shit out of you when you went to the negative healths and wait for your ass to wake up before continuing. Luckily a PC rescued me and dragged me back to the Folley. He said he saved my life, and thus I owed him. He asked me what my talents were. Not wanting to spill the beans on my deadly mission at hand, I told him I was a great house-keeper and excellent sweeper. He killed me for being a smart-ass.
     Cue relentless string of short-lived assassins.

Quote from: IAmJacksOpinion on May 02, 2009, 12:47:10 PM
     Cue relentless string of short-lived assassins.

Amen.

I wish I could find some newbs I could pay to make probably useless attempts at killing templars. CONSTANTLY. That would be fun.

When I was a newbie:

- I made my first character in Tuluk even though the guy who introduced me to Arm (a co-staffer from another mud) told me to make in Allanak so he could help me out. So we created an elaborate plan to smuggle her to Allanak wearing a mask (to hide the tattoo on her face) and say she was a disgustingly ugly mute. He died to a poisonous plant the next day.

- I had a long run of very boring characters who had zero exciting adventures. Despite this I loved Arm and the world so much that I didn't even notice how boring they were at the time.

Quote from: Maso on May 02, 2009, 01:13:07 PM
I wish I could find some newbs I could pay to make probably useless attempts at killing templars. CONSTANTLY. That would be fun.

Please, don't.

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.

Quote from: Synthesis on May 02, 2009, 03:15:54 PM
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 buddy and I used to go out for coffee after he was done playing Arm for the night/day depending on his sleep schedule.  I'd say, "So how's Arm," and he usually started with, "That stupid fucking bitch Ysania...!"

It was about that time I started playing.  :P

Quote from: Ghost on May 02, 2009, 12:41:01 AM
WHAT IS THAT THING

what is WROTNG with this kjeyboard

Just recieved the responce to my Player Question request Ghost. Morgenes says "We still have the code for those." So I guess the best answer is 'Find out IC'

Quote from: Niamh on May 02, 2009, 03:13:22 PM

Quote from: Maso on May 02, 2009, 01:13:07 PM
I wish I could find some newbs I could pay to make probably useless attempts at killing templars. CONSTANTLY. That would be fun.

Please, don't.

I was actually...joking.   :-\

Quote from: shadeoux on May 02, 2009, 10:58:35 PM

Quote from: Synthesis on May 02, 2009, 03:15:54 PM
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.

The hatred crossed into the OOC realm too. Her player was despised for whatever reason. People used to cite favoritism... among other things.

Quote from: Archbaron on May 06, 2009, 10:18:22 PM
No one can beat that. I am awesome. And why would I be jcljules' alt? I've whined about his post count before, back in the day when he was a newbie and made a new thread every five minutes! :)

Ihsahn was a he.

When I was a newbie, I branched a lot of skills on a character.

I thought Belenos added them to my PC out of pity because I sucked so much in combat.

Quote from: Armaddict on May 07, 2009, 02:30:01 AM
Ihsahn was a he.

We were talking about Ysania. Try to keep up.

didn't Ysania have like 15 kids or something

i remember when Ysania was a noob

Quote from: mansa on May 08, 2009, 08:38:50 PM
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.

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.)

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.

Quote from: shadeoux on May 02, 2009, 10:58:35 PM

Quote from: Synthesis on May 02, 2009, 03:15:54 PM
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.

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.

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.  :-\

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. :(

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.

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.

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.

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.

*  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.

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.

Quote from: mattrious on July 07, 2009, 01:58:31 PM
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.

Quote from: Shalooonsh on July 06, 2009, 07:41:14 PM
*  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.

*** 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.  8)

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

I'm still a newbie  :P

I rode a kank through the labyrinth.... AND LIVED!

Quote from: Shalooonsh on July 06, 2009, 07:41:14 PM
*  Had inix and kank mixed up for about two or three months, because 'inix' sounded more like the name of a bug to me.

You are not the only one. I figured if kanks were insects, they'd have 'beetle' by their name. Like 'war beetle.'

When I was a newbie, I poisoned myself by eating a Very Obviously Unsafe food item. Three times in a row. And then I ran around looking for the bastard that poisoned my food stash.

Quote from: FantasyWriter on July 07, 2009, 09:41:26 PM
I rode a kank through the labyrinth.... AND LIVED!

How did you get-- I mean, the-- you can't--

New focus.

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Quote from: FantasyWriter on July 07, 2009, 09:41:26 PM
I rode a kank through the labyrinth.... AND LIVED!

How did you get-- I mean, the-- you can't--

New focus.

Rode all the way to the bar on the east side IIRC.

If I recall, there is a reason why the entrances to the 'rinth are coded "nomount"

I remember Delerak showing his account notes, and getting a negative comment for his "subdue mount/throw mount north" to bypass the code.

My first character was a little girl whose VNPC mother lived in the 'rinth, and she would go south, to get things like food and water for her, because she was sick.  I never spent much time northside, though, because it seemed too hard to navigate.

One day, while up in the 'rinth, a scary half-elf running the Guild took me to their bar and had his snaggle-toothed guard look after me (Tusk, I think?).  He told me to stay put and he would be back soon.  He logged out, and Tusk and I sat there for something like four RL hours until she just asked if she could go now and he shrugged and told her OK.

I later ran to Kroz to tell him, since he seemed important.  He took pity on her, gave her 400 coins, and told her not to go northside anymore.  She exclaimed to him that the scary guy said he was going to kill a templar!  Kroz seemed nonplussed.

I immediately ran into the bazaar and bought a black silk skirt from the tailor.  It cost about 400 coins.

Later, a Kadian friend I made took me into the desert to teach me how to fight.  He gave me a lesson in combat, and then we saw a beetle nearby.  "Hurry!" he said, "I'm.. too parched!  I need water! Run to the city and get water!".  I ran as fast as I could, but I didn't know where or how to get water.  I went through the bazaar and couldn't find any.  I eventually went to the Gaj, bought some beer, and tried to bring it to him, but it turns out the beetle killed him.

The beetle attacked me, so I did 'get all corpse'.  The beetle killed me and I got an in-game mail from Halaster:

"Do you mind exactly telling me HOW you were looting a corpse IN THE MIDDLE OF COMBAT???"

I felt pretty bad about it but figured he had a point.

---

For my second character, I made a merchant, because I thought it'd be cool to be able to make armour.  Then everyone would like me!  I fell into a hole in the salt flats.  You can imagine how this worked out.

---

The third, I made an assassin in the 'rinth.  Her name began with an 'X', which was supposed to be scary.  She was very pretty, but had a cut across her face that had scarred!  How tragic.  She was later killed a twitchy, slack-jawed man.  How rude.

---

Some time passed.  I had been unable to understand and follow the docs sometimes, because it was confusing.  I played a character who was completely mentally handicapped; this was right after there was a big storm in Red Storm that partially destroyed it.  I decided she had been some kind of great wizard hanging out there, and then the cataclysm came, and she worked a magic spell to teleport her to safety, but it fried her brain and memory.  She was a merchant, so I bought her lots of nice clothes at Minna's.  Ihsahn immediately had her work for him, despite the fact that I played her like she was retarded.

Shylon Borsail bought her from Ihsahn for a pleasure slave because she was an awful aide.  He gave her nice clothing and eventually took her up to Silverwood, where she was to stay with the other Borsaili visiting up there.  I stopped playing for a bit and when I logged back in, I discovered he and his family were dead and I was the sole survivor.  This put me in an interesting predicament, and this was the first time I started using 'think'.  I eventually stored her after another hiatus, because it was too confusing, but she was probably my first real attempt.

---

My fifth character, still about six or seven years ago or so, perhaps, I made a girl with a quirri tail who got involved in tons of plots and was eventually executed up north by a Lirathan templar on a mission for Tor.  She was my first real character.  I got a nice note about her, so I decided to special app for a void elementalist.

---

I played my void elementalist, and stopped being a newbie about two days in.

Quote from: mansa on July 08, 2009, 04:17:40 PM
If I recall, there is a reason why the entrances to the 'rinth are coded "nomount"

I remember Delerak showing his account notes, and getting a negative comment for his "subdue mount/throw mount north" to bypass the code.

epic lulz.
Oh, Delerak. I hereby dub thee, "Delerak the Kank-Chucker."

My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

Quote from: musashi on July 20, 2009, 12:09:02 PM
My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

This just made my day.

Did that with my first bahamet. I think I was playing a magicker, and ended up getting some help to move the "shell" for a while until I figured out what needed to be done.

Could NOT figure out the syntax.

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Quote from: musashi on July 20, 2009, 12:09:02 PM
My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

This just made my day.

Pshht that's nothing. I put one in my pack and went back to Luirs, only to have it burst open in the middle of the Storms End.

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Quote from: musashi on July 20, 2009, 12:09:02 PM
My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

This just made my day.

Pshht that's nothing. I put one in my pack and went back to Luirs, only to have it burst open in the middle of the Storms End.

My character used to throw them off cliffs with his friends as part of a game.

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Quote from: musashi on July 20, 2009, 12:09:02 PM
My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

This just made my day.

Pshht that's nothing. I put one in my pack and went back to Luirs, only to have it burst open in the middle of the Storms End.

My character used to throw them off cliffs with his friends as part of a game.

My Bynner and her Corporal played a joke on their Sergeant by putting it in his chest in the storeroom. It broke the chest when it popped out and his things went everywhere.

Also, a guard mul creamed it.

Quote from: Is Friday on July 20, 2009, 04:09:39 PM

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Quote from: jcljules on July 20, 2009, 12:42:34 PM

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Quote from: musashi on July 20, 2009, 12:09:02 PM
My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

This just made my day.

Pshht that's nothing. I put one in my pack and went back to Luirs, only to have it burst open in the middle of the Storms End.

My character used to throw them off cliffs with his friends as part of a game.

My Bynner and her Corporal played a joke on their Sergeant by putting it in his chest in the storeroom. It broke the chest when it popped out and his things went everywhere.

Also, a guard mul creamed it.

I've always wanted to plant one in someone's pack in the Gaj.

Gurth ... the best practical jokes in all Zalanthas.

Bahamet are probably quite funny as well, but better placed inside argosaries or spacious aparments.

When I was a newbie, I was inducted into House Kurac as a guardsman. I found the first linkdead player I could distinguish from the NPCs and repeatedly backstabbed said person with training daggers until their untimely demise(bastards can't fight back linkdead right? Wrong. Rested that character five times between each backstab because of the ass whooping he was getting). Dragged the body across an entire training yard, attempted to hide it behind a furnace, all before heading out of the Outpost to sell the newly obtained items within Tuluk. Upon returning to the Outpost, I was made into a nice stiff, training dummy for others to practice throwing knives at until said character died.

When I was a newbie I:
-Played an unintentionally very coy 'rinthi assassin based in 'Nak.  Anytime I'd get questioned by Templars, I'd just be like "what basket?" and so-on because I didn't even know what I was carrying.  But I tried to play it out.
-Got blown into the desert and killed when I walked into the Gaj one time.  I thought it was IC-knowledge to know that the Gaj was magickal after that, and would always avoid it and think people were trying to kill me when they invited me to the Gaj. :/
-Got lost in the 'rinth every time I went in.  And seemed to ALWAYS end up in the same area with the same hostile NPCs, no matter if I wrote down what directions I took or not.
^This happened for at least 4 characters straight.
-Thought subdue sounded cool so tried subduing someone in the middle of a bar.
-Called Templars "Sir".
-Didn't know there were weapons in the game, so I always used my fists and thought my characters just sucked at fighting.
-Didn't know you could .c when app'ing characters.  I had at least one with two of the same long descriptions stacked together... it was ridiculous.  Would OOC: "Yeah, I know." anytime someone >looked at him because I was so pissed.
-Didn't read the docs nor the room descriptions and presumed the sky was blue, the grass green, and trees were everywhere.  Also thought his hooked knife was made out of metal.

My very first pc found himself speaking to a half-giant guard and asking him if he was a PC.  He said "Does it matter?"
I was hooked.

I remember squinting at the screen trying to see through the sandstorm.  That character died quickly.

My very next character, a water mage, walked from Luir's to Allanak (without knowinga about Allanak) through the desert (the tablelands, I think) without following a road until he hit the silt road.  Chased by NPC elves, I have no idea how he made it.  I miss that character most of all.  Maybe I just miss that mindset - everything seemed new and magickal.

Quote from: DustMight on July 22, 2009, 03:26:46 AM
Maybe I just miss that mindset - everything seemed new and magickal.

I miss my first PC for this very reason. Everything was new and interesting and awesome and I didn't really notice "the grind" as he happily toiled in the wilds hunting gurth and tregil.

Got him fairly competent and involved in plots and the like and when he died and I started a new character ... I felt the grind. Felt it good and hard.

I've had the opposite experience.  The more I know about the game world and the more I understand how to make the game's mechanics work in accordance with how I imagine my character, the more I enjoy the game.  Mystery is great, but I prefer to know what I'm doing.  (Though, I know most people don't feel this way!).  My first long-lived character was often an exercise in frustration and feeling stupid as I faced things that my character would know, but I did not know, and tried to do basic tasks that should be simple, but I didn't understand the mechanics yet.

When I was a newbie...
- I was afraid to leave the Gaj.
- I tried to mimic the npc's in the Gaj.
- I didn't know about stats until character #6.
- I bowed to everyone & called them "Lord" & "Lady".
- Thought 'kick <mount>' was a skill used to spur your mounts onwards.
- Thought scrabs were small yellow beetles.

Quote from: Gunnerblaster on July 23, 2009, 01:18:41 AM
- Thought scrabs were small yellow beetles.

-Thought "look mekilot" was a good idea the first time I saw one.  :-\

Quote from: Gunnerblaster on July 23, 2009, 01:18:41 AM
- Thought 'kick <mount>' was a skill used to spur your mounts onwards.

-Couldn't figure out why "punch whoever" wasn't working in the bar. So I used kick.

I kicked a mekillot

Quote from: musashi on July 20, 2009, 12:09:02 PM
My ranger attacked his first gurth ... and I had no idea what to do with it when it went into its shell ... so I brought it back into Tuluk and asked someone.

I think I remember this.

I made a half-elf either burglar or pickpocket very long ago, because I had spent a while playing fantasy muds and half-elves were 'cool'. I spent two days writing up the description/background, researching, reading the old descending-thread GDB, helpfiles, what-have-you. After getting lost, and somehow finding my way to the Gaj, was delighted to run into actual people-- who shunned me for the half-elf I was and ended up befriending an elf who gave me a cloak. Met some people from the Byn who thought I'd do great at it, and gave me directions to the Byn compound. Unfortunately, I must have taken a wrong turn into the rinth because something hideous backstabbed me and killed me in one hit, when I had played just over the 24 hour newb res. It made me sadface.

Back when I was newbish, I remember having a character out spam obsidian mining (*cringe*)... then a staff member animated a beetle and started attacking me. I got knocked down into negative HPs, and the bug started munching on me, but just before the beetle got to my character's brains the gate guards came and saved my character's arse. Then my character stumbled to the Gaj and after that sat around, telling whoever would listen about that time he got munched on by a beetle.

This was back before the request tool I believe, so it was a bit of a pain to send staff kudos... doubt the imm in question even remembers the incident. But to the staff member who tried to munch on my character's brains: thanks, it was a lot of fun.

Back when I was a newbie I:

• Thought wisdom didn't matter too much when it came to skills.
• Trusting an Elf was a "good idea".
• Spoke to 'Nak Templars like they were commoners... that changed fast.
• Thought the worms in the Salt Falts were friendly.

Needless to say, coming from a background of never playing a MUD or any other online game I grew up fast. Few years later and I'm -still- learning new things.

When I was a newbie I once ran screaming to a noble about a psionicist because a foreign presence contacted my mind and I'd read that psionicists were bad.

When I was a newbie, I somehow ended up kissing soldiers I was trying to kill.  ???

Do ya'll remember static ldescs?

like "The blah-blah man stands here confidently." and that's all you got your entire life?

Quote from: DustMight on July 29, 2009, 01:03:05 PM
Do ya'll remember static ldescs?

like "The blah-blah man stands here confidently." and that's all you got your entire life?

I'd forgotten about those.  I always felt pressured to write a good one.

Quote from: Spice Spice Baby on July 28, 2009, 09:33:25 AM
When I was a newbie I once ran screaming to a noble about a psionicist because a foreign presence contacted my mind and I'd read that psionicists were bad.

When I was a newbie, a psionicist played around with the mind of my character and I thought I was missing out on some contacting syntax. Heck, I hadn't even discovered the thinks and feels yet :P

I didn't know that furniture was sometimes contained in the room description.

I didn't know about the 'hit' command yet, and typed to 'kill' in an innocent bar fight.

Quote from: AJM on August 17, 2009, 10:16:30 PM
I didn't know about the 'hit' command yet, and typed to 'kill' in an innocent bar fight.

I had a knee-jerk reaction to type "hit citizen" when said citizen emoted punching at my character. The worst part was that I was playing a militia character at the time.

Would rob the orchards in Tuluk religiously..I thought it was ok because I seen other players in there constantly.

Fell for the old sleep to get move back advice from someone in the orchard..

Decided to fight a jhozal at 0 days on the edge of the shield wall..fleeeeeeeeeeeeee.

Would tank tembos with my burly dwarf merchant. Defense code must of really been whack back then.

QuoteWould rob the orchards in Tuluk religiously..I thought it was ok

You mean it's not OK?
Years of IC experience has let me down here.  What a noob!

My first character started in Red Storm because I thought it sounded cool.. Wasted all of his money on a Maar shortbow not yet realizing that in an RPI you needed to buy arrows to use it.... Fought a scrab with my bare hands because I thought I could win... Barely escaped and then was promptly escorted to 'Nak by a Pc by the name of... I think Fletcher.. I just remember he recommended I join the Byn and that he had Really cool mutton chops..... Also my first byn Sergeant, was Sergeant Raken who at the time and even now I think was a badass.. remember being sad when I heard about him getting eaten by tarantulas who at the time I thought where the size of normal tarantulas... had yet to read Help Animal life.

Quote from: AJM on August 17, 2009, 10:16:30 PM
I didn't know about the 'hit' command yet, and typed to 'kill' in an innocent bar fight.

I've seen veterans do this so don't feel bad,

When I was a newbie, I died to an unarmed hobo in the 'rinth.

With three characters in a row.

Not all dirty, weaponless, disheveled people are hobos in the rinth. In fact none of them are, they're all secret assassins.

Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 26, 2009, 08:59:43 PM
Not all dirty, weaponless, disheveled people are hobos in the rinth. In fact none of them are, they're all secret assassins.

You can't codedly roll anything other than assassin guild if you start in the rinth.

Quote from: Is Friday on August 27, 2009, 12:22:04 AM

Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 26, 2009, 08:59:43 PM
Not all dirty, weaponless, disheveled people are hobos in the rinth. In fact none of them are, they're all secret assassins.

You can't codedly roll anything other than assassin guild if you start in the rinth.

Haha, so it would seem. But my longest lived rinther was a pickpocket I think. The shortest was a 'badass' warrior. The less I try to fight, the longer I live.

Quote from: spicemustflow on August 27, 2009, 12:33:41 AM
Haha, so it would seem. But my longest lived rinther was a pickpocket I think. The shortest was a 'badass' warrior. The less I try to fight, the longer I live.

Hmmmm....Could be a reason for this  ;)

Quote from: spicemustflow on August 27, 2009, 12:33:41 AM

Quote from: Is Friday on August 27, 2009, 12:22:04 AM

Quote from: RogueGunslinger on August 26, 2009, 08:59:43 PM
Not all dirty, weaponless, disheveled people are hobos in the rinth. In fact none of them are, they're all secret assassins.

You can't codedly roll anything other than assassin guild if you start in the rinth.

Haha, so it would seem. But my longest lived rinther was a pickpocket I think. The shortest was a 'badass' warrior. The less I try to fight, the longer I live.

Everyone knows that a 'rinthi warrior needs to spend some time up north grinding on skeets and gortoks. Otherwise he'll get owned by the hobos.

Quote from: Spice Spice Baby on July 28, 2009, 09:33:25 AM
When I was a newbie I once ran screaming to a noble about a psionicist because a foreign presence contacted my mind and I'd read that psionicists were bad.

Something similar...  As it turns out, however, it was a psionicist in my particular case, but I didn't figure it out until I was already playing my next character.

Also, when I was a newbie, I thought that "being the best <insert profession here> in the Known World" was an original dwarven focus.

Quote from: hyzhenhok on August 27, 2009, 05:47:51 AM
Everyone knows that a 'rinthi warrior needs to spend some time up north grinding on skeets and gortoks. Otherwise he'll get owned by the hobos.

Real 'rinthi warriors hone their skills on soldier NPCs.

Quote from: AJM on August 17, 2009, 10:16:30 PM
I didn't know about the 'hit' command yet, and typed to 'kill' in an innocent bar fight.

Did that on my first PC. :(

Quote from: Kassindra on August 27, 2009, 11:52:44 AM

Quote from: AJM on August 17, 2009, 10:16:30 PM
I didn't know about the 'hit' command yet, and typed to 'kill' in an innocent bar fight.

Did that on my first PC. :(

I did this on my second PC and died. I got a good account note for 'diving right back in with a new character without complaining,' though.

Quote from: jcljules on August 27, 2009, 12:11:09 PM
I did this on my second PC and died. I got a good account note for 'diving right back in with a new character without complaining,' though.

They give a good account notes for that? I should have the sorcerer karma by now!

Quote from: spicemustflow on August 27, 2009, 01:40:27 PM

Quote from: jcljules on August 27, 2009, 12:11:09 PM
I did this on my second PC and died. I got a good account note for 'diving right back in with a new character without complaining,' though.

They give a good account notes for that? I should have the sorcerer karma by now!

Pfft, not karma, just a note.


es shield (slipping his glove through)
>Slipping his glove through, you hold your cracked round black shield.

inv
>You are carrying:
a short, bleached bone training spear
a bloodied brown sandcloth wrap

ep spear (in a firm grip)
>In a firm grip, you brandish your short, bleached bone training spear.

stand (feeling about his neck one final time)
>Feeling about his neck one final time, you stand up from a simple wooden bench.

wear wrap
>You already wear something on your head.

>The other guy hunches forwards behind his pair of upraised training blades, settling into a hunched fighting stance, something akin to how a boxer might stand.

wear wrap about neck (as he comes to stand opposite ~other)
>about neck  is an unknown body location.

wear wrap neck (as he comes to stand opposite ~other)
>neck  is an unknown body location.

wear wrap neck (as he comes to stand opposite ~other)
>neck  is an unknown body location.

>The other guy hooks one fist forward, and then the other, the blade of one dagger pointed up, the other down.

wear wrap about neck
>about neck is an unknown body location.

ass wrap
>A bloodied brown sandcloth wrap can be worn around the neck.
A bloodied brown sandcloth wrap can be worn on the head.
A bloodied brown sandcloth wrap can be worn about one's waist.
A bloodied brown sandcloth wrap can be worn on the wrist.
A bloodied brown sandcloth wrap looks like it will fit you.

wear wrap about throat (as he comes to stand opposite ~other)
>You can't wear that about your throat.

>The other guy bounces a bit on the balls of his feet and then drops back down with bent knees.

put wrap bench
>You put your bloodied brown sandcloth wrap onto a simple wooden bench.



I made a character in Allanak named Marok-Tor.  While speaking to a Templar I gave him my name and he asked where my signet ring was.  I told him I didn't know anything about a signet ring, so he promptly shouted "Imposter!" and proceeded to chase me around the city, slinging death in spell form.

I was an idiot, though I'm still a newb, I dropped all my coins trying to remove the shirt before I chose where to spawn. Still couldn't remove the shirt and couldn't pick up the coins.

Quote from: Ajax the Greater on September 01, 2009, 03:18:17 AM
I made a character in Allanak named Marok-Tor.  While speaking to a Templar I gave him my name and he asked where my signet ring was.  I told him I didn't know anything about a signet ring, so he promptly shouted "Imposter!" and proceeded to chase me around the city, slinging death in spell form.

That templar is a bit of a retard.

Quote from: spicemustflow on September 04, 2009, 04:30:57 PM

Quote from: Ajax the Greater on September 01, 2009, 03:18:17 AM
I made a character in Allanak named Marok-Tor.  While speaking to a Templar I gave him my name and he asked where my signet ring was.  I told him I didn't know anything about a signet ring, so he promptly shouted "Imposter!" and proceeded to chase me around the city, slinging death in spell form.

That templar is a bit of a retard.

Yeah, dude; if he can't catch a lone newbie...

Heh, didn't say it because of that. Anyway, newbies are notorious for being escape artists. Spam flee for the win. But nothing beats departing from the land of Zalanthas when you're cornered in a one exit, but quit safe room. Poof.

Quote from: Hubris on July 23, 2009, 04:38:10 PM

Quote from: Gunnerblaster on July 23, 2009, 01:18:41 AM
- Thought scrabs were small yellow beetles.

-Thought "look mekilot" was a good idea the first time I saw one.  :-\

Quote from: Gunnerblaster on July 23, 2009, 01:18:41 AM
- Thought 'kick <mount>' was a skill used to spur your mounts onwards.

-Couldn't figure out why "punch whoever" wasn't working in the bar. So I used kick.

I take the time to look at every big, bad thing that I come across, because I love reading descs of things that are new to me. Sometimes I even survive!!

When I was a newbie, there was this place called Steinal...

I bought some curved bones swords and thought who needs armor?

Quote from: stark on August 12, 2011, 02:45:36 AM
I bought some curved bones swords and thought who needs armor?

...? I don't get it.

Many of my characters, especially Allanakis, preferred only light armour at most. One went as far as to outright refuse wearing ANY armour what-so-ever, considering it impractical and cowardly.

When I was a newbie, I managed to drop a belt full of all my coins into a slave cage that I couldn't enter.

I forget what events transpired, but it ended with me subduing someone, throwing them in the cage, telling them to grab it for me, and then releasing them.

At least I was a somewhat responsible newbie.

I left arm up on a computer that many people wanted to use as I got off, which ended up with someone inputting a bunch of commands into my character, such as the lovely "hug <everybody>" "kill giant" and things of that nature.

That went on to be my longest lived character.

One of my first characters thought it'd be a good idea to walk from Luir's to Allanak. Or something.

Well. Into the desert. And someone was like, "Hey, do you need a mount?" "HELL NO I DON'T."

Yeah... Yeah.

Let's see...back in the old days somebody had their kank in front of Flint's and my pc stole it, then took it outside village and killed it so he could try skinning something.

My first dwarf subdued his mount when it ran out of stamina while being chased by terminator-tracking beasties and dragged it back to the city.

Ran out of stamina high up on a wall and tried to rest there....


I'll have to try and remember some of the other stuff I'm sure I did.

When I was a newbie, I kept running into raptors! and I was smart I tried to run from them, of course I didn't realize that the kryl doing a number on me wasn't an echo but something really trying to eat me.

I remember challenging a mul to arm wrestling with my halfling while in Flint's.

Ahhhh, the good ol days.

• I had a PC whose sdesc contained the words: tall, dark, handsome. (all 3!!!!)
• I entered the game, and promptly asked someone with the surname Borsail, to show me around Allanak.

I bet that bastard did, too!  Such a handsome man!

Tried mounting a bahamet.

I played a chick who went to the same bar for three real life months in a row, playing pretty regularly, most of my rp was at the bar, and I didn't learn the "talk" command until about two months in. i think i oozed newbie every couple of minutes by doing that.

i didn't get pked that much, actually. about as much as i do now, which is still pretty rarely. i think it just depends on what characters you choose to make.

i didn't know the ride command until about six months ago. then, the very last of my noobness was washed away. up til that point i had almost always played characters that stayed near civilization, did not travel, were usually self-proclaimed merchants regardless of main guild, about two thirds of them were elves, mounts seemed like a waste of money.

i've lost a few characters to wanting to look at something in a different room, not knowing whether they would kill me before i left or not. people can tell you to avoid that shit, but you probably won't, because you're assuming you can >look and then >e fast enough, and if they do attack you, be able to flee.... sigh.

When I was a newbie...

• Someone offered me a job and told me to come back tomorrow and I didn't know if that meant in game tomorrow or real life tomorrow, and I was sad.
• I accidentally locked myself in the slaver's cage on Hathor's Way and sat in there for three real days before figuring out the wish command.
• I followed someone into the 'rinth and down into a tunnel, was somehow injured.  My companion said "let's go to sleep" and then I never woke up again. Hey that sounds like Mansa's newbie story.  TRADITION.
• My sense of direction was completely screwed up.
• I named my first character "Valentine" and was told not to do so again.
• I practiced emote commands on the Jihaen templar outside of the Sanctuary and was told not to do so again.
• I accidentally bought the most expensive things for sale and lost all of my money repeatedly.
• Traveling on a wagon was THE COOLEST FUCKING THING.
• Tuluk was THE COOLEST.
• Kurac was THE COOLEST.
• Somehow there was this wonderful sensation of everything being really huge and scary.
• I typed on the GDB in rainbow letters because I was a stupid teenager, and everyone told me to stop, but 7deadlyvenomz stuck up for me.

I was playing a Rinthi elf, and my boss wanted me to scope out some southside merchant. I proceeded to walk into the Gaj, begging and pleading with the people there to share any information on the target. I spent all the sid I had on drinks in an attempt to win them over.





Then I realized they were NPCs.

Kurac had more hate at them than desert elves and magickers together.

I bowed repeatedly to a northern templar. they seemed amused, and i believe kept talking to me because they wanted to see more of this newbie bowing to them.

My firsts character's name was my account name, which is where this name came from.

Don't hold that against me, anyone who interacted with that character, if you even remember it.

Quote from: Feco on August 17, 2011, 04:02:14 PM
My firsts character's name was my account name

Quote from: MeTekillot on August 17, 2011, 04:48:16 PM

Quote from: Feco on August 17, 2011, 04:02:14 PM
My firsts character's name was my account name

The prompt is really confusing.  It looks like it's asking you to name your character, not your account.  Especially if you don't know that accounts exist.

I played warriors

I only played in Tuluk for two real life years. just tuluk. i didn't even go to luir's but a few times.

because my last character lasted about a quarter of that time, i was a newbie so i was dying constantly, and i was under the impression that it was more difficult to survive in the south. like many newbies, i was obsessed with learning how to survive, and not bothering to battle the desire to explore the awesome, which is naturally a countermeasure to surviving.

I was obsessed with playing a treasure hunter. Burglar scavenger.

One that discovers the mysteries of steinal or the blue caverns. But also loots noble estates in the meantime.

Locke from FF6. Garret from Thief.

I killed a scrab and ate everything I got from it raw. Died from poison. Went hunting alone. Died. Walked of the shield wall, with a War Beatle hitched. Died. Told the wrong person off...died.  Ran from a Templar too, randomly. I think I figured it out now. We aren't here for a long time. We must be here for a good time.

When I first saw someone "departing the land of Zalanthas" I thought WHAT SORCERY IS THIS! It didn't help that the guy was, in fact some sort of mage and even a mantis on top of all.

I asked for directions on the help chat and got the response find out IC. I change pages to look and see what PCs are around. Genius me, had picked a breed as my race "cause they sounded neat" so the most I was getting out of people was being told to fuck off... Except for one guy who kept propositioning me. I sighed and IRL said "Erections for directions."

Quote from: spicemustflow on August 29, 2011, 05:40:38 AM
When I first saw someone "departing the land of Zalanthas" I thought WHAT SORCERY IS THIS! It didn't help that the guy was, in fact some sort of mage and even a mantis on top of all.

I thought the same thing when I saw someone enter the game in a swirl of dust.

I still feel like a newbie..

I still am a newbie.

When I was a newbie I put a punch of poop in a beer mug then gave it to someone to drink then they drank it and died so I took theirs stuff  :-[

When I was a newbie, I was too afraid to leave the Gaj - For fear that I would become lost, never to find my way back, ever again.

Instead, I spent 2-3 hours logged in, posturing with the NPC's.

Two-handed was recently added in as a skill.
Also, I refused to play anywhere but Allanak.

Quote from: Yam on November 18, 2011, 06:00:06 AM
When I was a newbie I put a punch of poop in a beer mug then gave it to someone to drink then they drank it and died so I took theirs stuff  :-[

My second PC (read: my second attempt to play ARM ever) was given a mug of poop to drink straight off joining the game.

Quote from: Feco on August 17, 2011, 04:02:14 PM
My firsts character's name was my account name, which is where this name came from.

Don't hold that against me, anyone who interacted with that character, if you even remember it.

Ditto, and I also:

Was asked by a soldier why she wasn't at morning devotions and she responded with a big, disrespectful "What's it to ya". He proceeded to take her to the gates and show her the dragon - It took months for me to realize that the Imms had animated him.
She fell in love with a fire mage who saved her by sending her to the Byn.
She was WAY too chipper and wanted to be friends with everyone.
She fell in love with a Red Robe and mistakenly thought that since they were kanking she could think of him as just a regular person.
Was killed by the Blue Robe who was also kanking the Red Robe.
Totally was in awe of Ysania.
Was infatuated with a certain Tor Warlord despite his looks.
Got a friend to get a mohawk which resulted in a desc change which I knew nothing about.


I still consider myself a newbie, especially after I come back from hiatus. I don't think I'll ever grasp everything I can from the game and I seriously don't want to. To me it's about the story much more than the mechanics. There are so many places my pcs haven't been to, so many things I'm scared of. It ROCKS.

I heart you, Armageddon.

When I was a newbie, my first 3 characters died in the desert. My first or second walked out of Luir's with like, no armor. I think someone riding a kank rode by my toon, rode back, eyed her up and down and explained to her that it wasn't wise to walk around in the desert without a mount. She shrugged and then died by falling down the Shield Wall, I think.

Quote from: Wolfsong on November 18, 2011, 12:18:50 PM

Quote from: Yam on November 18, 2011, 06:00:06 AM
When I was a newbie I put a punch of poop in a beer mug then gave it to someone to drink then they drank it and died so I took theirs stuff  :-[

My second PC (read: my second attempt to play ARM ever) was given a mug of poop to drink straight off joining the game.

I lol'd

Quote from: ShaLeah on November 18, 2011, 12:32:49 PM

I still consider myself a newbie, especially after I come back from hiatus. I don't think I'll ever grasp everything I can from the game and I seriously don't want to. To me it's about the story much more than the mechanics. There are so many places my pcs haven't been to, so many things I'm scared of. It ROCKS.

This is true also for myself.  After years of playing hardcore and several more part-time, I still no so freakin' little about the game.  The mystery keeps it alive.

I thought the 'so and so dark-haired imp' at the Barrel was a demon sitting at the bar.

When they talked about the 'Wyverns' sitting at a table, I thought they were shapeshifters.





...Sometimes, I think my misperceptions of the Arm world were half the fun.

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.

Definitely still a newbie.

Think it was my 3rd or 4th character (back when I didn't know we had stats and skills), I was raided just outside of Allanak, at one of the mining deposits, by a pair of raiders. Subdued by one, the other starts attacking me screaming, "Drop your hacker!" while I'm screaming back, "I don't know how!?!"

I figured because my ranger had 90 health, he was pretty weak or something but I didn't realize it, at the time, but I was actually going to town on those pair. While subdued. With a hacker. Having never been in combat before.

I wish I knew that guy's stats.

I didn't know about buying food or cooking so my 1st PC spent nearly every sid living off ale and travel cakes purchased from the Byn or Trader's Inn.

Also didn't realize what was meant by "see you in a few weeks" so my PC ended up accepting employment by both a blue robe templar and Borsail Lord.  ...  when they found out they cut my PC's tongue to fork it (like a lying snake) 

Quote from: musashi on November 18, 2011, 06:42:49 PM
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! 

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

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.

>white robe templar
>halflings

It took me a minute to realize you meant lirathans.

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

Quote from: Synthesis on November 22, 2011, 08:35:46 PM
I just remembered the days when I was like, "Damn, 1500 'sid for a tent? How could anyone possibly afford that?"

I LOL'd  :D

Quote from: Synthesis on November 22, 2011, 08:35:46 PM
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.

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.

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.

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."

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

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

I am a newbie  8)

Quote from: Iiyola on January 13, 2012, 05:14:48 PM
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.

Quote from: Kol on January 13, 2012, 10:06:52 PM
I am a newbie  8)

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.

Quote from: Jingo on January 16, 2012, 04:06:32 PM
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.

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

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.

My first Special App:

Quotethe 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....

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