Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log
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I tried to do this. I remember a time Tat’s firestarter mutant threatened to light my character on fire and he perked back, “Then we’d both be really hot!”
The logs are all still out there but I ran cringing from my own ic email circa 2005 and had to stop looking. I can’t. I can’t do it. You win, thread.
Edit: it’s also possible I’m stealing Tat’s gag here. I don’t remember. It was 2005. I remember cackling and shouting?
let it be a challenge to you
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Sadly, I lost all logs from my first 8 years of MU*ing in a computer death, but here’s one from A Moment in Tyme in 2002:
Mason’s first breath comes back out in a rather distinct word, that word being, “Ow.” He then shakes his head, wiping off his face with the back of his hand and then wheezing out, “I don’t know what hurts worse… my eyes or my stomach.”
I don’t know if it’s bad so much as it’s just awkward.
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I found an old, old, so old, IRC log:
*** Action: G sighs and drinks his Ale
*** Action: G mutters to himself
*** Action: K glances at G
<G> So…I’m the War Chief now…
*** Action: P glares at K
*** Action: G sighs and drinks his Ale
*** Action: C looks at G “That frog thing can be cured”
It’s all like that. Nothing longer than a line, lots of smilies. True smilies. Smilies before emoji smilies. The forum doesn’t even understand them and has to translate.
I had completely forgotten that I started this hobby by waving a hand and dropping yaks on people’s heads.
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@sao I’m legit offended that you remember this log poorly, as it is one of my FAVORITE ping pongs of all time. I even did log COMMENTARY for it (yes, there was a time we did COMMENTARY on logs on games I was on).
Also, that joke was fantastic, shut up.
Sabitha finally raises her head to grin at him. “Can you imagine,” she says, attempting solemnity, “You and me. Facing off. And you with an epee?”
“Well, I wouldn’t duel an unarmed partner,” Percy sniffs. “That would be unsportsmanlike.”
“I take judo,” Sabby informs him solemnly.
“I wouldn’t know how to fight an unarmed partner with a sword,” Percy explains.
“I could set you on fire. I’m good at that.”
“I could, um.” Percy tilts his head. “I could make you really horny.”
“And /then/,” Sabby says with horrified delight. “We’d both be really hot.”
Percy looks at her. He says, “Oh my God,” and starts laughing.
Sabitha is gone again, lost to incontrollable giggles.
Percy buries his face in his hands, forward lean supported by the press of elbows against the table. His shoulders shake.
Sabitha’s foot jabs out at Percy’s under the table, a snapping kick as she tries to gain control.
Percy hisses out a long breath, shaking his head as he drops his hands. “That was /awful/.”
Sabitha takes a minute longer, and when she stops, she has to wipe at her eyes, drying moisture. “I /know/,” she says.
“Holy fuck,” says Percy.
“You love me,” Sabby tells him, beaming.
“I must,” Percy says, slowly shaking his head.
“You /adore/ me,” Sabby says, and grins at him.
“I’m out of my goddamned mind.”
March 2006
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@Tat you found it, you’re a hero
The joke was great
But also terrible.
All of my old rp is terrible. I can’t read anything from before the vague indeterminate category of “now” without suffering like I’m watching The Office.
Edit: but actually I agree now that you have actually posted it, it’s not bad. What was not good was Percival’s obnoxious email voice. I legit wanted to go back in time and take the keyboard from myself.
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@DrQuinn
OMG I don’t have any logs of my MUD days but this is 100% the content of most of my early Aalynor’s Nexus scenes (‘scenes’). There was almost no RP except going to the bar and getting code drunk on the coded ale. -
This would literally be anything from AOL’s Conference Rooms “The Arena” I don’t even know what it was about to be honest. Someone randomly IMed me, I must have typed ((laughs)) and they said “Oh, do you RP?” I said “What’s RP?” and that was it. My intro to the world of online role play and then it developed into playing on AOL RP rooms that were all Tavern based or Vampire based. All of which the RP was horrible. No logs. You’ll just have to believe me.
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@Birdie Were you still RPing on AOL when people started making their own “games” and playing in IMs? I ran a town-based soap opera game for like 5 people lol we’d have horrible websites and DEADJOURNALS, because deadjournals were so much better than livejournals.
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@bear_necessities something like that. I think it was like Milan After Dark or Italia after Dark. I don’t remember but I was so sucked into WoD even though those games were “free form” like, imagine there being a 3rd gen Vampire running around. Now imagine the kind of RP that comes from that lol.
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Damn you. This made me find the oldest random log I have, about a year before I started logging regularly…
Tyche sits on the half-wall, and sighs.
(Pacifica, July 27(!), 1999)There are many other poses that competed, but this won because no one else was there at the time.
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@Ren Ooof I just had a memory at the fact that I used to pose to empty rooms on the off chance a staffer was lurking invisible.
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This thread has made me realize just how bad my sense of time is. I’m currently looking through my long-term file storage, and like ‘oh, yes, that character was before this character’ and…no. No, we’re talking it was ten years more recent. I am actually kind of broken up, I have nothing from before 2000. I was hoping I could share poses from when I was a literal child.
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I posed to empty rooms several times on HT back in 1999, because I thought you were supposed to, because clearly, you are the protagonist of your story and if you’re in the room you should interact with it.
But I also wrote journals in Neverwinter Nights and while those save files are long gone I look back fondly on the rper impulse to “storify” an rpg.
I’ve been bullying my stepmother into playing Mass Effect and watching her make choices based on how she is developing her character in her head is so cute.
let it be a challenge to you
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@sao someone might’ve been firelizard spying, you never know
as previously stated, good day.
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@farfalla I’m sorry for spamming whoever that was 23 years ago
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@farfalla said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
@sao someone might’ve been firelizard spying, you never know
You mean FLIT spying.
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@Tez said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
@farfalla said in Challenge: Post Your Worst Pose From Your Oldest Log:
@sao someone might’ve been firelizard spying, you never know
You mean FLIT spying.
Ew. Stop.
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Jfc, this thread makes me so sad I never thought to save my stuff online instead of on old hard drives that have long been lost to a bajillion moves.
Just know that if you are ever feeling too embarrassed about your past rp, you can always have a good chuckle over the fact that in the course of my illustrious RPing career, I played (in no particular order):
- a Lion King panther with a huge, bulging demon-possessed eye that not only blatantly broke the thin rules of that game, he was desced so badly I found it like ten years later on a website dedicated to hilariously bad descs
- a catboy Gundam pilot on that beautiful fever dream once known as Yahoo Chat
- a blatant Silver Surfer ripoff called the Golden Surfer (ugggghhhhhh) who regularly hung out with the Power Rangers
- Jecht from Final Fantasy X, who became involved in an incredibly melodramatic relationship with Beatrix from FFIX where they spent days in bed talking about all the people they murdered
- a literal slimy ball of tentacles and SHAME
- basically Eugene Hutz as a Twilight vampire
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@Wizz Respect.
