How old were you when you started playing?

Trey

High school, walked past the weird chick who walked around gothed-up and asked what she was doing, and was baffled when she said 'my occultist is using a whip to kill pixies'. Checked it out for myself and here I am. So wish I had gone a different route though. The old infernals guild was great, but if I knew then what I know now, Trey would likely just be an alt or not exist and there'd still be an outcast running around. *drool*

Rovelda

But I never stayed for long.

Hayte

After high school. Was trying to sleep with a girl who played. Did. Although Hayte lasted much longer than the relationship. Actually I think the old newbie intro lasted longer than the relationship.

Delphinus

Trey said:

High school, walked past the weird chick who walked around gothed-up and asked what she was doing, and was baffled when she said 'my occultist is using a whip to kill pixies'.

And now she's the Demiurge. They grow up so fast. 8->

Tarkanian

I was fresh outta college, and a fellow new hire in the company I got hired in introduced me to Achaea.

Alcinae

I began during middle school, 8th grade.

Prythe

The best thing about being 300 years old in Achaea is that I can RP being older than most everybody instead of just being older than most everybody.

Kyrra

I started on a MUD before this, incidentally, the one where I met Verrucht. The guy that my character was married to started playing Achaea and he dragged me over. I stuck with it and he went on to play World of Warcraft.

And a few months later, Verrucht randomly sends me a tell ICly and asked if I went by another name (my character in the previous MUD) and he got +1 for finding me.

I think I was 16 or 17 when I started playing Achaea. I was trying to puzzle it out with Trey a while ago because I was trying to work out when I started playing exactly. I'm pretty sure that I hadn't finished high school yet... Kyrra was definitely established when I had my lip pierced because my father paid me $300 to take the piercing out and I spent that money on credits >_>

Trey

Hayte said:

After high school. Was trying to sleep with a girl who played. Did. Although Hayte lasted much longer than the relationship. Actually I think the old newbie intro lasted longer than the relationship.

As long as the old newbie intro didn't last longer than -you-, I'd call it a win.

Hayte

Trey said:

Hayte said:

After high school. Was trying to sleep with a girl who played. Did. Although Hayte lasted much longer than the relationship. Actually I think the old newbie intro lasted longer than the relationship.

As long as the old newbie intro didn't last longer than -you-, I'd call it a win.

It -was- pretty hard to multitask that. Pretty sure the goblin in Azdun finished it for me... >.>

Amitation

Ugh. This is depressing.

Caeya

ikr?

Caeya

Whilst my option may not be on the higher scale, when you consider I have been playing IRE since 2001, it's pretty depressing

Athanasius

22 , when I started playing Achaea on my first character whose story has pretty much spun itself out. Started playing in my final year of college. I used to play MUME and found Achaea on TopMudSites or MudConnector or some such MUD list. 

Prythe

Kyrra said:

I started on a MUD before this, incidentally, the one where I met Verrucht. The guy that my character was married to started playing Achaea and he dragged me over. I stuck with it and he went on to play World of Warcraft.

And a few months later, Verrucht randomly sends me a tell ICly and asked if I went by another name (my character in the previous MUD) and he got +1 for finding me.

I think I was 16 or 17 when I started playing Achaea. I was trying to puzzle it out with Trey a while ago because I was trying to work out when I started playing exactly. I'm pretty sure that I hadn't finished high school yet... Kyrra was definitely established when I had my lip pierced because my father paid me $300 to take the piercing out and I spent that money on credits >_>

I am going to assume you know/knew Heartsong as well then? I remember when they both came over. (Although Verrucht was not Verrucht, but that is a different story entirely.)

Also, I am fairly not young, as the people who can add and subtract can figure out (53 tomorrow, even!). But I am not even the oldest Achaean I know. One of my friends has a good decade on me.  There is something to be said about a game which can captivate an audience from ages 12ish to somebody in their 60s.

Anaidiana

I started at 16, the summer between my junior and senior years of high school. A new friend at a summer camp told me about text muds and got me hooked. I started at topMuds and went down alphabetically...got to Achaea and never went any further. 

Texel

13 with my first character. Freoto!
16-16 with my 2nd, 3rd, and Texel was my fourth.

Taken a few breaks but I always end up back here. God I love this place.

Arador

Friends of mine played Shattered Kingdoms and asked me to join. I just bought a new graphics card for my PC so replied lolno. They always played at the Engineering Faculty's Computer Centre so I kept seeing it and one day I caved. Played for a while but it was very small with hardly any people around. I did however realise that I love MUDs. So I found top mudsites and Achaea was #1. Tried it, never looked back.

Masaryk

14 I believe. It was freshman year of high school. Eternus and Cronus got me into it.

Nim

I was already into MUDs around that time (mostly DBZ muds because I was like 12~13), but actually learned about Achaea when a friend described how his monk was beating people in PVP, and about killing orphans for EXP and stuff, so I tried it out. I almost dropped it entirely during my character's orientation (into one of the serpent guilds), when I found out I had to wait six whole months just for one advancement thing, when there were like fifteen whole guild ranks! Suffice to say, no one told me about HELP TIME. >_>

Reihaneh

I started when I was 11 or 12 and played seriously for 4 or 5 years. I'm 25 now and just returned to playing seriously a few months ago.

Randlog

When I stated my very first Randlog, I was about 12 and when I told somebody she instantly said I was one of the younger characters, that was 5 years ago

Silas

Nice eyepatch, Randlog.

Vaxarn

If my memory serves me correctly i was around 13.. i think. honestly i can't remember. All i know is "Situko" was dating my sister and HE introduced HER into it. I came peeking over her shoulder one day, and BAM! i've stayed since then.. however i think i've gone by a few names since starting out..

Sanaki

Started young, in 2000. Amusingly, at the time I only played the game as though it was single-player. I suppose at that age it was easier to forget other people were there too. Given the age though, I ended up repeatedly making characters and letting them get purged. I think I made over 20 characters named Sanaki over the years.

Herenicus

I was in my second year of law school and, being too shy to drink/socialize with other single law students yet eager for company, I fell into the only category of multiplayer CRPG that worked on student dialup - MUDs. Or, specifically, this MUD.

Herenicus is still my only character save for a disappointing, short-lived stint as an MKO goblin years later. Having no prior roleplay expertise, I stuck close to the shoreline. Evil priests seemed (and seem!) vaguely like attorneys and I did possess some natural ability to roleplay a human being.

Halios

Hayte said:

After high school. Was trying to sleep with a girl who played. Did. Although Hayte lasted much longer than the relationship. Actually I think the old newbie intro lasted longer than the relationship.

same story but with my first short-lived character.

back when guilds existed and the if you don't pass your interview you lose 3/4 or 1/2 of all your lessons crap.

I joined because a girl I liked in highschool freshman year (12-14 years old) played, got kicked out of the druids guild for forgetting like... one thing about fire defense history after writing 3 essays, so I rage-quit that character and made an evil serpent named halios because I didn't want to play a nice character anymore.

Averi

Funnily, asides from minesweeper and those jumpstart learning games my parents always bought for me as a kid, this was the first video game I had EVER played and stuck with for more than 3 hours. 

A friend was playing it and talking to me at the same time. When I got bored of the conversation, I decided to make one...much to his surprise. I kind of got hooked to the entire roleplaying part of it. But the game was wayyyyy to difficult to play so I ended up quitting after a year.

It was only with Averi when I finally (sort of) figured out how to not get lost and basic scripting though.