Anniversary
Jan. 15th, 2008 06:09 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
eve_primeA tale of MUDs and friendship
We got our first Internet connection in January 1996, and B. immediately checked out GizmoMUD, an online text-based fantasy game some of his friends were playing. I missed playing D&D (which I'd played in college and a bit in Berkeley) and this sounded like fun, so on January 15th, I created my first MUD character, a cleric named Eve. It was indeed fun, and right away I started making friends with other players. Mostly I hung out with Kick, who was about my level, and I also talked a lot with Aphrael, an immortal, who was in RL a mom like me. Eventually, though, my closest friends became Paracelsus and Twinkie, who were smart and whimsical, with style.
About a year later, one of the upper-level immortals was being too obnoxious, and the three of us left, heading off to play on Necromium MUD instead. We had a great time for a few months, but then we gradually stopped playing. I hadn't really met anyone else on Necromium, and yet I was used to socializing online in the evening (R. goes to bed hours before I do), so eventually I headed back to Gizmo.
I realized my second anniversary of mudding was coming up, so I e-mailed Paracelsus and Twinkie, inviting them to come back to Gizmo to celebrate that with me. I logged on, I hung out, but neither of them showed up. A friendly upper-level immortal noticed me hanging out by myself, so he logged on his ninja, Chaos, and invited Eve to help him take out Vlad.
Now, Count Vlad von Stazjovic is a powerful vampire who lives at the top of a tower in the Castle of Despair, in Romnia. He's got about 14,000 hit points and invulnerability, and it's quite a task for characters like Chaos and Eve to defeat him single-handed. We resolved upon it and I think it took well over an hour and many trips, but eventually we vanquished him. Afterwards, Chaos's owner and I sat around chatting for a bit, and the next night, I logged on again and found him hanging out with![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
earthrider, already a friend of mine and a RL classmate of his. We chatted again, and then the next night, and the night after that. He introduced me to his friends keyboard_monkey and paul9223b, and we played our MUD characters some more, and continued our conversation. Pretty soon we realized that we'd been talking every day, and that we liked that fact.
And that is howfractal9091 and I come to have a ten-year anniversary of friendship, which is this very evening.
We got our first Internet connection in January 1996, and B. immediately checked out GizmoMUD, an online text-based fantasy game some of his friends were playing. I missed playing D&D (which I'd played in college and a bit in Berkeley) and this sounded like fun, so on January 15th, I created my first MUD character, a cleric named Eve. It was indeed fun, and right away I started making friends with other players. Mostly I hung out with Kick, who was about my level, and I also talked a lot with Aphrael, an immortal, who was in RL a mom like me. Eventually, though, my closest friends became Paracelsus and Twinkie, who were smart and whimsical, with style.
About a year later, one of the upper-level immortals was being too obnoxious, and the three of us left, heading off to play on Necromium MUD instead. We had a great time for a few months, but then we gradually stopped playing. I hadn't really met anyone else on Necromium, and yet I was used to socializing online in the evening (R. goes to bed hours before I do), so eventually I headed back to Gizmo.
I realized my second anniversary of mudding was coming up, so I e-mailed Paracelsus and Twinkie, inviting them to come back to Gizmo to celebrate that with me. I logged on, I hung out, but neither of them showed up. A friendly upper-level immortal noticed me hanging out by myself, so he logged on his ninja, Chaos, and invited Eve to help him take out Vlad.
Now, Count Vlad von Stazjovic is a powerful vampire who lives at the top of a tower in the Castle of Despair, in Romnia. He's got about 14,000 hit points and invulnerability, and it's quite a task for characters like Chaos and Eve to defeat him single-handed. We resolved upon it and I think it took well over an hour and many trips, but eventually we vanquished him. Afterwards, Chaos's owner and I sat around chatting for a bit, and the next night, I logged on again and found him hanging out with
earthrider, already a friend of mine and a RL classmate of his. We chatted again, and then the next night, and the night after that. He introduced me to his friends keyboard_monkey and paul9223b, and we played our MUD characters some more, and continued our conversation. Pretty soon we realized that we'd been talking every day, and that we liked that fact. And that is how
fractal9091 and I come to have a ten-year anniversary of friendship, which is this very evening.