When I Was a Newbie...

[jcljules]

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.

[Northlander]

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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.



[Ajax the Greater]

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.

[traen]

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.

[spicemustflow]

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.

[brytta.leofa]

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...

[spicemustflow]

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.

[morrigan]

- Thought scrabs were small yellow beetles.

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

- 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!!

[Morrolan]

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

[stark]

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

[HTX]

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.

[Qzzrbl]

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.

[MeTekillot]

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.

[boog]

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.

[jhunter]

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.

[Clavis]

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.

[Malifaxis]

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

Ahhhh, the good ol days.

[Incognito]

• 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.

[Feco]

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

[Bacon]

Tried mounting a bahamet.

[Cind]

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.

[LauraMars]

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.

[HavokBlue]

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.

[Jingo]

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

[Cind]

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.