When I was a Newbie...

Lorielan

Vastar said:

I created the atavians, but was still so flabbergasted from losing to goddamned @Lorielan in the War of Humanity that I can't even remember how.

For the best, We have more than enough flying rats for one planet.

Jonathin

I love this thread now.

Kyttin

Lorielan said:

Vastar said:

I created the atavians, but was still so flabbergasted from losing to goddamned @Lorielan in the War of Humanity that I can't even remember how.

For the best, We have more than enough flying rats for one planet.

Oi now, while I don't follow @Vastar -Vabs mmmmm- I can still admire him and my beautiful wings! I am no where NEAR a rat....possibly a drowned racoon but still.. Wait, now I need a tail. Ugh.

Lorielan

My case in point.

Kyttin

Lorielan said:

My case in point.

Krypton

- There was never anything to bash, because @Asarawould already kill everything.

- Covenant

(Sentinels): Farret says, "Back from news... miss anything exciting?"
(Sentinels): Covenant says, "Not particularly."
(Sentinels): Covenant says, "Just talking about size."
(Sentinels): Farret says, "I was always told that size doesn't matter."
(Sentinels): Covenant says, "Of gwho."

- Clementius

(Eleusis): Avritine says, "Thank god."
(Eleusis): Clementius says, "You're welcome."

Kresslack

Vastar said:

I created the atavians, but was still so flabbergasted from losing to goddamned @Lorielan in the War of Humanity that I can't even remember how.

I bet it involved alcohol and a chicken.

Berenene

Kresslack said:

Vastar said:

I created the atavians, but was still so flabbergasted from losing to goddamned @Lorielan in the War of Humanity that I can't even remember how.

I bet it involved alcohol and a chicken.

I bet the egging on by the other gods looked something like this:
 

Tharvis

Vastar said:

I created the atavians, but was still so flabbergasted from losing to goddamned @Lorielan in the War of Humanity that I can't even remember how.

Probably the same reason so few pegasi are around, you ripped their wings off to sew them on random humans

Riley

I remember weathering being the best skill ever, because it stopped you from freezing to death in cold weather.

Credits for gametime, and the aft laws enforced because of it.

Pills instead of herbs.

Arteach auctions.

Dresden becoming Achaea's first "Artie Whore".

Organizanu on enforcing names, my first character had to name change because the name did not fit Shallam, sounded too evil.

Orzaansyn

You are all so old. 

Vesios

When I was a newbie I went on the forums and clicked on this thread called "When I was a Newbie..." and read about the stuff not-newbies did when they were newbies.

Trevize

Another random fun one. Buying credits meant turning on lesson gain, which netted you 6 lessons per hour (using up one credit in the process).

And people complain about learning time now.

Kids these days, so impatient.

(the credits page was originally credits to the creators, Matt and company, with a tiny link at the bottom that led to the real credits page with instructions on where to mail it to)

Berenene

When I was a newbie, I didn't have a credit card, so I had to buy credits via money order...which meant a 4 day wait for the airmail to arrive, and then another 5 for the order to clear.  It was edge of the seat anticipation.  Also, the different credit packages were listed as different meal items on a menu, so cool.

Ghia

@Emry
Ratting. 
Ratting. 
More Ratting. 
Before maps - Getting lost In Hashan almost everyday. 

Masaryk

Riley said:

I remember weathering being the best skill ever, because it stopped you from freezing to death in cold weather.

Credits for gametime, and the aft laws enforced because of it.

Pills instead of herbs.

Arteach auctions.

Dresden becoming Achaea's first "Artie Whore".

Organizanu on enforcing names, my first character had to name change because the name did not fit Shallam, sounded too evil.

I remember sitting in high school one day in math class calculating how much money Dresden must have spent to get all those arties. I always thought that no one could ever get that many again. Boy was I wrong.

Zuko

When I was a newbie.... Daje was the biggest, baddest thief around town. 

When I was a newbie.... Similar to @Xith.. I would WALK TO NOT before going ANYWHERE (but usually only went to Hashan), and then from there I memorized the way.. I remember crossing the Shunai Bridge as well as what I thought at the time, the Australia forest. 

When I was a newbie.... Level 24 was hard.. the great rock? Damn near impossible. I would start over at this point with a new character.. Same class, same city (Shaman, Hashan).. Shaman was the strongest hunter at the time, could one hit hellcats which was rarer back then.

When I was a newbie.... I was only 12 (#rebel), and was brought into the game because my older sister and her boyfriend at the time  in highschool used it as a secret communication method when his phone privileges were lost ( @Sarapis‌bet you never saw that use for Achaea coming ).  Anyways, I would walk around Shallam YELLing for them to come back for me because I was lost.. But I used their IRL names.. Yeah I was that sort of newbie. 

When I was a newbie.... Going from Fish Street and then suddenly on Zanzibar blew my mind for some reason. 

When I was a newbie.... I was basically exactly like this kid who came to Targossas a few months ago

Yeah.. I highly recommend clicking that link. (Skip down to the tells, and then further down where I go visit Aje)

Ruth

I found my newbie book that described how much of a nerd I was!

Vesios

I wish my handwriting was that nice.

No but seriously, look at those g's, hot damn

Neraya

CFS wasn't a thing. When it became a thing, Aeyr called people chuckleheads for pricing them at 65000, and Kookluk tried to make a trigger to buy credits off the market, but wound up buying all of them (yep, 65000), then issued himself trying to get a refund on his booboo.

There was a Cyrenian thief. Boy, was Cree mad when he robbed a fellow citizen. Also, selfishness was pretty high up in survival.

Anarchaea, the original. People remember it as a fun time, but at the time it was a special kind of torture. Some were very uptight and freaked out, wondering what the damage would be when things got back to normal, while others went on a bucket-list spree that drove the uptight ones crazy, and the rest kind of sat there and watched the chaos. Meanwhile, Sarapis was busy announcing the status of the recovery of his mudsex logs.

The tundra was just Kamleikan and Aran'riod, but you could tumble out of bounds on the wilderness.

Each city, and the jesters, had a safe room where people could go sit to be safe from everything, and grace didn't wear off on its own. You knew who the pacifists were because they just never dropped grace, and if you were oh so tired of getting your butt kicked, you could just keep grace for a few days to cool off.

Speaking of dropping grace, most things like that were done via REJECT instead of RENOUNCE, until people started illusioning tarot cards flung by 'Patron' to make you quit your order, or something else.

Speaking of illusions, Thanatos stole credits by illusioning the credit transfer syntax with a ; in commonly used trigger lines, so instead of "reject thanatos" you would trigger "reject ;transfer 3 credits to thanatos" and it was 100% your own fault because triggers were discouraged.

Bood had a ring engraved with every affliction line and would just SHOWOFF RING during combat.

It looks like my reply to this thread is a list of reasons we can't have nice things.

Xith

You could still make someone read an affliction letter or journal. If you're cool with being leafy. 
I prefer timing hocuspocus to go off 4 times consecutively. 

Neraya

More things springing to mind...

Holocaust timers were precise.

Stupidity could make you do anything, like quit your guild, or even hit a command that only Sarapis was supposed to have access to. Not sure if this was in my time or warnings of it got passed down to me, though, because I never stupidly quit my guild or anything, but I had enough respect for the affliction to cure it quickly.

Serpentlords could buy a ring from their guild vendor that was secretly a ring of flying.

Sena

Neraya said:

The tundra was just Kamleikan and Aran'riod, but you could tumble out of bounds on the wilderness.

That reminds me, before ships were implemented (and I think for a very short time after?) you could evade through the oceans in the wilderness if you had waterwalking.

Trey

I remember when guild items cost 5k gold and were non-decay. Still have a pair of original Sartanic scabbards.

I remember credits for 2k on market. *daydream*

I remember getting told off by Daitya for wearing ringmail as an Infernal, I knew fieldplate was better but I thought ringmail looked cooler.

Kresslack

Newbie tasks including walking to places like Manara and Actar and doing 'TOUCH STONE' for experience.

Learning that people could bury (and later dig up) caches with a shovel. I spent like a week just running around digging everywhere, and I eventually found a huge cache of armour and weapons in a Wilderness room which I sold to Firey for about 50k. I remember thinking I must be one of the richest people in the game now.

Exploring Kamleikan for the first time and finding a bunch of hairy women.

Having a run in with Amunet at the Fire and Spice where she kept trying to tell me to leave because I was an 'Outsider' (not and Occultist) but I was too stubborn to comply and loitered just to spite her.

Getting locked in that stupid statue room in Azdun and freaking out, especially when I learned that sigil on the ground there prevented portals and people from summoning me.

Neraya

Sena said:

Neraya said:

The tundra was just Kamleikan and Aran'riod, but you could tumble out of bounds on the wilderness.

That reminds me, before ships were implemented (and I think for a very short time after?) you could evade through the oceans in the wilderness if you had waterwalking.

There's another one - waterwalking boots didn't let you walk on water, just swim without drowning, so those travelling in states where you couldn't SWIM (like astralform) could be thwarted by a puddle.

Jules

Saying "Clem" on any channel or in says for the thrill of being zapped.  

Erhon

Kresslack said:

 

Having a run in with Amunet at the Fire and Spice where she kept trying to tell me to leave because I was an 'Outsider' (not and Occultist) but I was too stubborn to comply and loitered just to spite her. 

I remember fighting with the Occultists when they started trying to pull that crap, I was half tempted to start throwing parties there nightly just to annoy the ever loving piss out of them. 

Kyttin

Erhon said:

Kresslack said:

 

Having a run in with Amunet at the Fire and Spice where she kept trying to tell me to leave because I was an 'Outsider' (not and Occultist) but I was too stubborn to comply and loitered just to spite her. 

I remember fighting with the Occultists when they started trying to pull that crap, I was half tempted to start throwing parties there nightly just to annoy the ever loving piss out of them. 

Oh you missed it deary, we did that while you were sleeping. Tcha!

Siduri

Sena said:

Neraya said:

The tundra was just Kamleikan and Aran'riod, but you could tumble out of bounds on the wilderness.

That reminds me, before ships were implemented (and I think for a very short time after?) you could evade through the oceans in the wilderness if you had waterwalking.

Definitely, I sometimes still forget I can't do that anymore