Your first game?
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God this thread just reminds me how ancient most of us are.
My first time RPing was a total accident. I used to watch the Disney Afternoon and at the end of a Gargoyles episode they were like “Come join us to chat at #gargoyles on IRC!” and i was like what is that?
We had a brand new tiny computer at home and I figured out how to get in (with Homer!) and joined and…there was no one there. Eventually someone came in and said “Hey no one is ever in here. Come into this place instead.”
‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong and I ended up in Gryphontavern for years and @Herja and I have a shared Infamous History with a Certain Someone who is like a legend of powergaming in the early online RP world.
Then I drifted away and one day a friend from there sent me an email and said hey, I’m playing on something called a MUX, you should come play!
And I made a truly horrifying stereotyped Irish character (as we all have done at least once) on Project Infinity.
I am still friends with people I met there like, 30 years later. WE ARE OLD.
I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it just…it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I don’t feel like I missed out!
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@Gashlycrumb said in Your first game?:
I never actually played the original Masquerade
All I remember from the original Masquerade was that there were lots of people who’s go-to IC introduction was “Are you supposed to be here?”.
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@DrQuinn said in Your first game?:
‘this place’ was a RP room. I want to say like Red Dragon Inn but I think that’s wrong
I was on one of those AOL chats first too! I didn’t think that counted, but yes. I don’t know if it was ever formalized or structured, and I don’t believe I was at Red Dragon Inn but it was something like that. I was also maybe 12 years old.
I missed all of WoD though. Just had no idea it existed and then it just…it just sounded bad, guys. You all tell so many horror stories constantly, so I don’t feel like I missed out!
WoD calls to its own
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@KDraygo said in Your first game?:
If I recall correctly, I got into MUSHing in the mid to late 90s and my first game was SW1. This kicked off because I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy (Thrawn trilogy) and I started reading more post movies Star Wars novels.
Oh man. I really enjoyed those books.
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@KDraygo said in Your first game?:
If I recall correctly, I got into MUSHing in the mid to late 90s and my first game was SW1. This kicked off because I had finished reading the Heir to the Empire Trilogy (Thrawn trilogy) and I started reading more post movies Star Wars novels.
Same! My buddy in college recruited me to SW1. That was where I learned to MUSHcode, making some stupid datapad object or something.
I also loved Robotech. I was re-watching it recently with my kids and realizing how much my interest in post-apocalyptic settings started so early with Robotech and Battlestar.
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@Ominous I PLAYED ON CROSSROADS MUSH!!! I actually went to the LARP they did <.<
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@bear_necessities My memory is v bad, but my first games were some mix of Ashes to Ashes, Masquerade and Cajun Nights reboot for a bit. If you remember Eyrkah the Mortal or Arienette the Tremere (whom I also played a couple other places), hit me up.
Got what you wanted, lost what you had.
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Mine was also Ansible MOO, where I met @junipersky ! Most of us on that game were SO YOUNG and there was a lot of pretty serious drama. I’m still in touch with a number of players though, most of which turned into pretty cool adults. Leopard Army 4 Life.
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@L-B-Heuschkel gods I could not tell you. I was a literal child just fumbling about hacking and slashing.
But I remember random names like ‘Casperkale’ and ‘Pala’ and neither one of them were me. -
@Muscle-Car oh man i am definitely thinking of a different game called Crossroads, sorry to disappoint. The one I played was a L&L game not a WoD one
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My first text game was hellMOO.
I will be taking no further questions.
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My first MUSH was the old Tales of Ta’veren Wheel of Time place. I’d dipped into some MUDs before that but they weren’t really RP places. My mind was blown by the pose command.
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@Snackness said in Your first game?:
An RL friend got me into Harper’s Tale (Pern MOO) when we were in high school. I have long since lost touch with that friend, but I’m still MUing!
It was my sister who got me into it when we were in jr. high or high school. I didn’t tend to play very many games at a time, so HT was my mainstay for a long time although I dabbled in others.
Years later when @Tat and I met on our X-Men game and staffed together we discovered that we had actually played together on HT which was fun.
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Oh and first WOD was one NOLA game, Bourbon and Blood. I tried it because Katrina just hit and I was fifteen. It was humiliating to be fifteen on a WOD game.
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@labsunlimited said in Your first game?:
It was humiliating to be fifteen on a WOD game.
It was. This is why I was 19 for like four years. You know, thinking back, it’s interesting no one ever questioned that the age never changed.
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@bear_necessities I never got to the Vegas meet up. It looked fun, but I was a poor student at the time.
Ceterum censeo Carthaginem esse delendam
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I do miss game meet ups in person! I’ve met some of my best and oldest rl friends that way, and we needed the in person meet ups because we annoyed each other on the games themselves until we met in person!
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@Ominous It was both one of the weirdest and coolest ‘game’ moments I’ve ever had. I never LARPed before, so to see everyone in their garb and acting like their characters the whole time was so strange, but I got to meet some pretty awesome people. I’ve lost touch with the core group now mostly, but we stayed friends a long while!
Who did you play? I can’t remember my character’s name, I think it was Tourmaline. I had another alt too but fucked if I know what their name was.
ETA: Actually I looked through my email and apparently I was Madelynn.
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@bear_necessities Crispin, the very young Lord of Copper Run who inherited because his dad got executed.
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@bear_necessities Me toooo, for playing there.
It was not my first game, tho.
