ArmageddonMUD (![[info]](http://l-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} armageddonmud) wrote,@ 2002-01-10 14:57:00 |
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Take the Chance (Aristina)
I first started playing Arm during the summer of 1996, the last year the APM was in Iowa City, after ridiculing a friend of mine, Jason, who played Galen Oash at the time, for his addiction to the game. I lasted probably four months before my curiosity got the best of me and I let him start me with a human ranger in House Oash.
The most memorable event of that character's life was when Jason was bored and had taken me out in the wagon. He wished up that he wanted something exciting to happen, and suddenly, whether coincidence or deliberate, a mekillot showed up. Galen was so buff that he was killing the thing, with a little npc help, if I remember right, with no problem. In fact, I didn't realize until RL months later exactly how nasty a mek could be. Once she died at the hands of some nasty Blackwing elves, I made a 'vicious' assassin with great plans of becoming something that everyone feared. The result? Heh. My greatest fluffball ever, Vatriala Fale. Okay, so sometimes things don't go as planned. But her kid kicked the shit out of the northlands, so nyeh! Since then, I've played a variety of roles, from a raider to a gypsy to a scrub hopper to a noble and back again, north, south, Storm, Luirs, with a house and independent. My favorite? Probably that goofy fluffball Fale-by-marriage, Vatriala, because back then, everything in the game was new and exciting, even seemingly mundane things like shopping at Thexi's and learning to ride a kank.
I've been to every APM since I started and have fond memories of each one. Iowa City, where I knew no one and was sick with a cold. Baltimore where I was proposed to and the crab feast (I missed most of that due to Jay/Becklee's wheelchair dying and me having to race across town with another player to grab the parts to fix it.) The endless hikes in North Carolina. My wedding in Las Vegas to Jay/Becklee. And Chicago where I got to show off my driving skills *laugh* and going to Medeival Times, where when our knight lost, the whole party started cheering for the Black Knight and some for the Black Moon.
If I had advice to give to a new player, it's simple. Take the chance and do what you want to with the game. If you have a concept, mail it in, if you have the karma, play the class, if you have an idea, do it, the game is only as big as you're willing to go.
Kelly/Aristina
I first started playing Arm during the summer of 1996, the last year the APM was in Iowa City, after ridiculing a friend of mine, Jason, who played Galen Oash at the time, for his addiction to the game. I lasted probably four months before my curiosity got the best of me and I let him start me with a human ranger in House Oash.
The most memorable event of that character's life was when Jason was bored and had taken me out in the wagon. He wished up that he wanted something exciting to happen, and suddenly, whether coincidence or deliberate, a mekillot showed up. Galen was so buff that he was killing the thing, with a little npc help, if I remember right, with no problem. In fact, I didn't realize until RL months later exactly how nasty a mek could be. Once she died at the hands of some nasty Blackwing elves, I made a 'vicious' assassin with great plans of becoming something that everyone feared. The result? Heh. My greatest fluffball ever, Vatriala Fale. Okay, so sometimes things don't go as planned. But her kid kicked the shit out of the northlands, so nyeh! Since then, I've played a variety of roles, from a raider to a gypsy to a scrub hopper to a noble and back again, north, south, Storm, Luirs, with a house and independent. My favorite? Probably that goofy fluffball Fale-by-marriage, Vatriala, because back then, everything in the game was new and exciting, even seemingly mundane things like shopping at Thexi's and learning to ride a kank.
I've been to every APM since I started and have fond memories of each one. Iowa City, where I knew no one and was sick with a cold. Baltimore where I was proposed to and the crab feast (I missed most of that due to Jay/Becklee's wheelchair dying and me having to race across town with another player to grab the parts to fix it.) The endless hikes in North Carolina. My wedding in Las Vegas to Jay/Becklee. And Chicago where I got to show off my driving skills *laugh* and going to Medeival Times, where when our knight lost, the whole party started cheering for the Black Knight and some for the Black Moon.
If I had advice to give to a new player, it's simple. Take the chance and do what you want to with the game. If you have a concept, mail it in, if you have the karma, play the class, if you have an idea, do it, the game is only as big as you're willing to go.
Kelly/Aristina
