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!