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Barinthus
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A Magical Moment...
Jan 2004
time: 21:34
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Originally posted by Osweld
I used to play a MUD called Aaaaarrgh (or something to that effect) quite alot a few years ago. |
Castle Aaaaargh, is that the one?
I love mudding but the problem is it consumes up literally every second of my free time. During college years, that wasn't a problem especially over the breaks. I used to work in a computer lab so that was an ideal job for a mudder.
My first one was TimeWarp, a LpMud back in uhhh '95. I was a human warrior based on the Renshai clan in that book series - no armour at all except for leather jerkin and only uses swords, dual wielding.
After that, I moved on to 3K (Three Kindgoms, still at 3K.org 5000 if I remember correctly). One of my favorite muds ever. I believe this was based on Castle Aaaaargh but it's now a completely different mud. Only thing that it still retain from the old days of Castle Aaaargh is whenever someone dies, everybody will see on their screen " scream 'Aaaaarrrrggggghhh!' as he dies to ".
However I wondered if there was better muds out there so I floated among muds for a while. I found one named Village Rivalry (or something like that). The community there was very welcoming and friendly, excellent guild themes, really, the mud itself was awesome and unique. Unfortunately not many people found it so at the best there are perhaps only at around 15 players at a time. The low numbers of players basically just disencouraged me from staying there. From what I understand, there were two major crashes which all players' files were lost so that didn't exactly help either. It's a shame really.
I eventually returned to 3K. When I moved to California, a friend persuaded me to try out his mud - Dark and Shattered Lands (DSL). This would be my first serious attempt to mud a DikuMUD (all muds listed above are LPMuds). I fell in love with that mud - it's very rich detailed and your roleplaying actually do count for something in there. Not as buggy as other DikuMUDs I've tried so that's a big bonus too.
Unfortunately the structure of my life right now just doesn't permit for mudding so I had to quit.
BTW if you check out my profile you will see some references to my character I had in DSL, one of three anyway. Other two were this chaotic evil dark dwarf clerc (I planned to reclass him as a shaman) and a chaotic good sea elf bard (planned reclass - either a charlatan or a skald). The human mage mentioned in my profile was a lawful netural.
www.dsl-mud.org if you're interested...
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04-03-2004 16:27
I think about half my dorm flunked out of school playing MUD 24/7 back in '92. Huge player-to-player battles with massively powerful characters. Those were the good ole days 
ACK!
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