by blackmore » Thu Feb 10, 2005 11:06 am
To make a short story long...
Blackmore was my first ever character, on a tinymud, probably in early 89. In the summer of 90, some friends and I built our own muck, and so began Brigadoon. We set some loose rules regarding coding and building to bring people over. MUCKs had a coding language that anyone could use to build cool objects, assuming you gave them the coding bit, and we gave it to anyone who wanted it. A month or two later, during the course of about a week, the top 3 muds all shut down for various reasons, and everyone came to us. Eventually, having a minimum of 50 whiners on at a time at all times got to us, and we didn't really handle things very courteously, if we handled them at all. Eventually, we got sick of all the hassles, and I started hanging out in other places. It was during this time that I played around on an LP that some of my friends were running. That was the first time I tried a combat style mud.
I was net-less for a few years after graduating from college, and when I came back, I found the same group that I had hung out with on the old muds and mucks, and started mudding again. On a boring night one weekend, I was looking for a game to play, and a player named Satan (Plough) was playing on some diku (not sure if it was S2 or ST, but I suspect it was ST), so I logged in to see what it was like. I played some for a few weeks, then I died to some weresharks and couldn't find anyone to help, got frustrated and quit.
A few years later, I was bored again, and Plough was playing on S3 and suggested I try it. I don't really remember when that was, but I remember being annoyed that several days a week, I didn't get to play for very long because I went over to visit my gf - who I've been married to for over 4.5 years. I really wish I had logs of those early sessions, just to get an idea of when it was.