Posts made by Paris

@Auspice It was around launch and about two years after! I eventually stopped playing all of my pern alts except A'deth. I was gone for long enough that my character got recycled (though not my staffbit, whose name I no longer recall), and folks had forgotten. :< But hello again if we did meet, the game was kinda weird at the time but everyone I vaguely recall I RPed with was nice. XD

@Auspice I played R'lyeh on Pernworld (the first, redheaded one, yeeeears ago), and also someone on SouCon but I forget who. I should probably add him but I barely remember.

Edit: Norcon/PernMUSH was a gateway game for a lot of folks back in the early 90s (along with Too), is why, and they switched to WoD after they got the hang of things.

Editedit: I've played on at least a half-dozen pern games but I don't remember my names anymore, or much details. It was all in the early to mid 90s. Especially after chemo, my memory is terrible.

@Meg I somehow was allowed to keep a male human name with 'th'! I got no guff for it from staff (I even eventually became staff under that alt), and was not asked to change it before or after Impression.

A few folks thought they'd allowed PC dragons at first! Someone eventually suggested that his mom was dragon-mad and named her kid like one instead of being reasonable and just getting a fire lizard, and I liked the idea enough that that became the IC explanation.

I played him for about 17 years RL and I think he was the only rider (I am not sure about character) on PernMUSH whose name ended in 'th'.

@Ghost I don't remember, but theoretically a google search on it should turn up the book and page.

@Ghost My work for the day is done. :3

@Ghost Presence 5 darkling or tunnelgrub or something, prurient perfume or whatever merit that was.

@Ghost It's like a shimmer or a glow of light, usually gold-tinged, that surrounds the character. In Dayne's case (he was huge and golden to begin with), the impact imo was like Armstrong from Full Metal Alchemist every time he showed off his muscles.

@Faceless Any entitlement that makes you glisten is totally worth it, that's the one my character went with, too.

My character still has that framed, autographed print of Dayne. So muscular!

@Cupcake No. o.o

I have been MUSHing since 1993ish, and have played on too many places to remember anymore, but these are the characters I remember (and liked) best.

Past:
PernMUSH: A'deth (Ardeth)
PernWorld: R'lyeh (the first one, greenrider)
The Dreaming: Tseraith
RobotechMUSH: Lancer
Crescent City: Violenne
Paris By Night: Rafaele (might have been Raphael, he was the only Sluagh with any variation of that name)
Fallcoast: Amadei
Fear & Loathing: Paris, Amadei
Marvel 1963: Suriel

Present:
HorrorMUX: The Artist

@Ghost Re: the thread in question: there will always be people (here included) who will be happy to make things look worse than they really are; who will turn a minor situation into proof that you are the worst person ever, or hijack things to grind their axe.

Never give them fodder. Good intentions will still be twisted around.

In your case, it's tough, because just messaging someone once ('Hey, I'm sorry, etc,') will bring on accusations of harassment and doom and woe; or going back to a game to say anything will net you the same, so you think, 'hey, we're all on soapbox...' But, no.

It's why, after I got ghosted by folks I thought were decent friends, I didn't follow to find out why (I saw what happened to others), or ask here; I just accept that sometimes, there is no closure or explanation on anyone's parts, and trying to re-open a closed door anywhere only results in unpleasantness.

People know who and where you are, they'll find you if they want you. That's what I tell myself, and devote my energy to people who want it. If you worry about your own past behavior, just be a better person now and acknowledge things if brought up to you.

@magee101 In any case, now you know why we decided to disallow Geist despite personally liking the splat.

@magee101 It's less about indestructibility and more about the sheer gross firepower Geist brings. I like Geist but they make multi-sphere plots hard to balance for other spheres because of the power creep Geist brings to the game.

@surreality We should be around for a while, so just boop us if you do get the RP bug again.

And I think that staffer did indeed move, the description sounds just like him. :3

@Clarity I've been getting a lot of abdominal pain the last week, but I'm hoping it's stress from the work problems and not the cancer coming back, as it's right where the scarring is. Had to put off my check this month because of that and am worried. T_T So I hear you on the worrying.

@Clarity said in Why do you play? (Or not.):

Good news on being in remission! Curiously, that is how I got into the whole RP mud thing too. I couldn't do much and I was stuck inside a lot, after having been diagnosed with Hodgkins Lymphoma. So, I started doing this, and then I started teaching myself how to code. It changed my life, and not in a bad way, in a good way, in that it made me think about all the shitty things I was doing with my life and put more focus on things I enjoy. I'm in remission and been there for over 10 years now.

Yeah, it deeply altered my perspective on what I should give my time to!

I had quit MUSHing for a few years, but cancer was what ended bringing me back. I'm so glad you're in remission, and I hope I get as long.

This is going to be rambly!

I just get so happy to be around other nerds, who like the same genre of stuff, who like to write about it, play in it. My parents were violently unsupportive of my reading fantasy and sci fi and supernatural stuff, and my town was almost as bad, so discovering a whole community of folks into the same books and games, and who wanted to write together about stuff... that helped keep me going as a kid on the streets (I mushed from a friend's house on the weekend back then). Twenty years on, it's still awesome. Sure, we don't all get along, there have been some really lousy turns along the way, but I still don't take how incredible it is for granted.

After I got diagnosed with stage 3c cancer, and given a few months to live, and especially when I started chemo, mushing and gaming became my escape. I might be in a wheelchair, I might be tired all the time, I might not be here next week, but fuck it, online I could be a healthy guy with nice hair and some snappy lines, you know? So I just started paging folks I thought were cool. I know that weirded some people out - who just pages you out of the blue? But I didn't have time to wait around and get noticed. I was gonna rp the hell out of the time I had left.

I ended up going into remission, despite not being supposed to. But chemo does a number on you, so even now, RP is still a way to get out of the bed and the wheelchair. The worst is the brain damage from the chemo, which made me forget a lot, including most of nWoD, but I've been relearning and rereading a lot of stuff. I can do MUSH combat and remember my rolls again! Most people have thankfully been very patient with me, and the ones who weren't aren't on my game, yay!

I swore I'd never bring up another MUSH, but this one has gone pretty well so far. I was really gratified and honored when Thenomain and Cobalt gave so generously of their time and code. Almost dying made me decide to build something worthwhile instead of walking away again, or uselessly bitching somewhere, and working out what exactly we wanted, why, and how was much more constructive than other options. I value my time nowadays (since my cancer can recur anytime), so I try to spend it positively.

Building a whole grid in three days was kind of cool, even if it wiped me out for a couple weeks. Seeing people roleplaying in those rooms is just so cool, I'd forgotten how satisfying building was.

My real life is not so great right now with sweetie and I having to fight the city over our legal right to work, so signing on to a pleasant, chill game where stuff goes pretty smoothly and I can just get rp whenever I like is really nice.

I guess this is all to say that I am a relatively simple person and MUSHing makes me happy. Running a game where people have fun makes me happy. Making sure staff stays fast and efficient makes me happy. MUSH drama does not, but it passes. I'll probably MUSH until MUSHes, or I, are gone.

@bored I sent you a message, since we might be on a similar page about WoD games, and I didn't want to derail the discussion here.

@bored The way you had worded something made me think of some things that a few folks have groused about lately; interestingly the same starting point ('maybe things are different'), but directly the opposite complaint.

FWIW, about six months back, I was racking my brains as to why I couldn't break into RP, all of a sudden, and wondering if I'd changed, what was I doing to put people off (which is always good imo if there's a recurring issue), but it mostly came down to sphere (and somewhat the game). I went from sitting around most nights and never getting plot RP to juggling multiple scenes a night, and it was really gratifying.

It's a bummer that TR had to be your last game. It drove off several of my friends from the hobby.