You know you play too much Achaea when ...

Nizaris

Light-hearted one-liners meant to provoke laughs. Share with us stories or jokes about being so used to how things work in Achaea that you made a silly mistake in another game, or in real life.

Here's mine, though it will probably only amuse those who use Linux/Unix:

You know you play too much Achaea when ... you use QL instead of LS to get a directory listing on a Unix command line.

Mishgul

I wrote qw in some code at work once in the middle of some random function. It took 2 hours to find it and facepalm

Wysteria

When you prepend your IM messages with an apostrophe after a long session in Achaea.

Iocun

Last time I beheaded someone IRL I first thought "I hope they aren't going to issue me", before I realized that there's permadeath in real life and therefore no need to worry.

Jonathin

Back in high school, a certain Achaean and I would narrate people coming and going from the cafeteria and our table. It annoyed the piss out of everyone there, was mostly funny for us at the time though.

For a facepalm moment, I was writing a paper for an English class and playing Achaea at the same time. Somewhere in the middle of one of my paragraphs was something like "sip mana sip health eat bloodroot look probe gaur" and when I turned it in I got a call from the teacher asking me wtf it was.

Not sure if it's a facepalm moment, but I always won the classroom spelling bees because of Achaea.

Chryenth

When someone mentions taking valerian root to help them fall asleep, and you think 'Wait what? That's a disloyalty cure, and anyway you can't smoke in halls."

Alyssea

When you continually use "say" at the beginning of your Facebook messages.

When you haven't had a dream that wasn't about Achaea for over a year.

When you respond to someone saying something similar to your character's name. (Alyssa, in my case.)

Nizaris

Wysteria said:

When you prepend your IM messages with an apostrophe after a long session in Achaea.

Alyssea said:

When you continually use "say" at the beginning of your Facebook messages.

Glad to know I'm not the only one ...

Eld

I haven't gotten back into this one since playing Achaea, but back in high school when I was spending a lot of time on a different MUD, I would occasionally find myself saying "nod" in conversation instead of actually nodding.

Anaidiana

you try to mind sense people irl. Ugh. 

Aepas

have dreams where they are in a strange limbo between text and picture

Jiraishin

when you regularly walk places and long for the convenience of dash and worm warp.

Alyssea

When you have an email, Facebook, MSN, and Skype all just for Achaea.

Sultani

For any MUD player really but repeatedly typing 'l' and 'i' into the command prompt on your workplace software systems. Been doing that for years.. I also verbalize actions my cats do such as 'Frankie arrives from the west' or 'Smokey leaps to attack you!'

Jhaeli

Chryenth said:

When someone mentions taking valerian root to help them fall asleep, and you think 'Wait what? That's a disloyalty cure, and anyway you can't smoke in halls."

Or, to take it a little further, when you walk down the vitamin section in the pharmacy and get excited at their great selection of herbs. (Especially during the shortages before alchemists.)

Turoi

I prepend IM's with 'clt' now.. and hardly recognize my real name anymore

Chryenth

Jhaeli said:

Chryenth said:

When someone mentions taking valerian root to help them fall asleep, and you think 'Wait what? That's a disloyalty cure, and anyway you can't smoke in halls."

Or, to take it a little further, when you walk down the vitamin section in the pharmacy and get excited at their great selection of herbs. (Especially during the shortages before alchemists.)

I actually did that last time I went into a pharmacy, I think.

I may have to go into Tesco's  vitamin section, just for the laughs this morning.

Achilles

When I try to buy things with gold

Nellaundra

I was laying in bed half asleep about an hour ago cus the power was off and I had jack to do.  So I went "HMM I WONDER IF ANYONE IS AROUND WHO I CAN TALK TO" and my fingers did qw while I was LAYING ON THE BED.

Tahquil

10k of each mineral in rift (nearly).

Kyrra

I dreamed about Tanris watching me plant sileris in the wilderness.

I compulsively check my messages while I'm at work, on my phone.

I end up anxious if I go past two days without talking to certain people. (I'm sorry!)

I fill up my rift to 10k steel, give most of it away so I can do it again.

Tvistor

I was in a cold room last year and my first thought was 'Need to apply caloric'.

Wysteria

I nearly greeted someone with, "Greetings." the other day instead of just a regular "Hello". That was a nearly awkward moment.

Ruth

When you reply to people with 'agree' (I use the emote sometimes but still...) instead of the proper English 'agreed' and not noticing until someone pointed it out.

Trey

When you remember the last eight threads like this throughout the years.

Mathonwy

I dread the day when I start dreaming in text again.

Tvistor

I did that briefly. It was weird enough that I stepped away for a while. Something about missing onto CT. Then trying to explain I missed but missing again. And again. And again.

Oh the horror.

Kyrra

Back before my dormancy, I used to have dreams where I'd be in conversations with Paine. We'd be sitting, facing each other, and everything we would be saying would appear as floating red words (the colour of my tells). Granted, I was talking to him -all- the time then, but it was a messed up dream to be having.

Mathonwy

I had a dream where I had finally managed to get away from this game. I was playing games with graphics now! Games that involved injury, death, mayhem, and PK in which I was involved!

Vayne

when you have a dream about Naga

Sena

In addition to the text dreams, I used to have forum dreams occasionally. Those were always weird.