That "true-noob" moment...

Antidas · February 2017

Back in the good ol' days of real theft (before I ever played a thief), I thought it was a good idea to trigger "sleep" to someone snapping me.

Santar and Profit had a field day with it

Arcturus · February 2017

Proving unfit for survival... lol...

Cailin · February 2017

Categorizing and printing out a list of all the emotes. Gotta learn em all!

PS I'm still a newbie and I did that yesterday #noshame

PPS I also considered printing out ALL the text maps, but when I found the picture map of Achaea and learned how to use landmarks, I realized that would probably be good enough.

Narga · February 2017

Had my noob moment today. @Jurixe created a fun exploration challenge for the slaves. I was looking for a certain mug and this happened:

You amusedly tell Jurixe, "My tongue is being quite tortured by all this tea I am drinking in order to find the right mug."
Jurixe tells you in Mhaldorian, "Some would be delighted to have your problem."
Jurixe tells you in Mhaldorian, "What makes you think it is tea, anyhow?"
You tell Jurixe, "I just found a tea shop in New Thera, but now I'm realising these are served in cups, not mugs."
Jurixe tells you in Mhaldorian, "Are you...purchasing all the cups just to see what they look like?"
You tell Jurixe, "... I might have."
Jurixe amusedly tells you in Mhaldorian, "You can simply ASK the proprietor ABOUT the item you wish to know more about, you realise."
You tell Jurixe, "Oh... I... didn't know that."

And there I was, forcing myself to chug down multiple cups of hot tea as fast as possible, in hopes that I could get a better look at the cup designs.

Melodie · February 2017

Motivation though, we like it!

Bade · February 2017

Think my biggest newb moment was talking to Romeo, impressed with all the custom responses this denizen had, only to find out there's a real person there.

Valaria · February 2017

Bade said:

Think my biggest newb moment was talking to Romeo, impressed with all the custom responses this denizen had, only to find out there's a real person there.

back in the day, in 90s, i thought everybody is a bot in a chat room on AOL(for first time). robots. just because they didn't reply back to me. 'hello? HELLO?'

Shayde · February 2017

Walked as a serpent for almost a whole RL month before someone (who finally stopped laughing) told me what dash/wormhole was and how to use mapper.

Leinad · February 2017

Before mappers, turned off the full room description to remove portions of text to possibly be more efficient in combat or chasing thieves.

Found I got lost easier- seems I memorized the rooms by the text pattern of the descriptions. Have kept it turned on ever since.

Gwynrii · March 2017

For a few RL days after discovering EMOTE, I talked almost exclusively in custom emote back in my old character.

Saliwe · June 2017

Torinn said:

Doing wave and thinking it was wave hello

I still do this sometimes.

I was 13 when I first discovered IRE MUDs. Like Bade, I could not tell the difference between denizens and players at first. After reading a help file on NPCs and emoting, I decided to test out their capabilities. I set off to greet, talk to, poke, dance with, kiss, and generally mess with, every denizen I could find. Getting a little carried away with it, I greeted and hugged a player walking into the same room as me, thinking they were a roaming NPC. Seeing that they didn't automatically respond, I asked, "Are you a player?"

Got in trouble for insanity. I assumed "insanity" meant messing with the denizens like a crazy person.

Being the nervous 13 year old I was, I freaked out. I immediately closed the window, and stayed off of IRE for several days, for good measure. When I came back with a new character, I made it a point to treat the denizens like players, saying thank you, waving goodbye, etc.
I've come a long way since then.

Draqoom · June 2017

First character I ever made I had no idea how to get lessons and whatnot, so I would make other characters and then teach myself with them to get the lesson bonus and learn that way.

This went on for a good while, somehow, and ironically the day I went to end the career of Character 1, I dropped off his stuff in a house and picked it up on Character 2. Both became shrubs nearly instantly and thrown into time. Scared the hell out of me and I asked for them to be deleted.

Draqoom came about a couple years later and I am super paranoid about anything alt related, including letting my ex play Achaea on the same interweb connection because of the 'maybe' there.

Dochitha · June 2017

Those that have fought me knows... how many times I asked "Am I dead", and how many times I keep going after they burst...

My ping at times gives me page-by-page experience.

Jinsun · June 2017

First character I was a child ooc. I remember desperately ratting to buy an engagement ring for this girl from a shop in Shallam. It was like 5k gold and I spent like a week ratting for it. Pretty sure she said no, I can't remember. Trying to pass my Valiant test in Paladins on the nexus client and having no clue or interest in coding and no client, svo, etc to speak of. No one was really helpful either. I didn't learn to pk for literally like 8 more irl years. I'm pretty sure I was in law school before I legit figured out pk. Jinsun was my first even remotely successful character.