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TwistSun 15-Dec-13 10:25 PM
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#75, "December 15: Nostalgia"
Edited on Sun 15-Dec-13 11:25 PM

          

Edit: Not all of my nostalgia is/was necessarily accurate. A few things corrected by some folks.

Seems like a fitting topic for the night of 100 players (we've hit 105 so far): the old days. These are random tidbits that will likely be mostly useless for powergaming purposes.

1. Twist was first pk'd at level 5 by a BattleRager wannabe named DeathBringer. I learned later that char was played by Cador. Also pk'd in that encounter was my groupmate, a level 6 warrior named Commodore. We were both lured outside Midgaard by some guy who was saying he needed our help really badly.

2. Being pk'd used to cause exp loss. For that reason very few people pk'd each other until Derit changed the code to remove exp loss for pks.

3. Twist joined Master at level 10, which used to be the earliest you could join cabals.

4. Cabal powers could not be taken, initially. There was no raiding system.

5. The initial cabal raiding system involved killing the outer guardian (about as tough as inner guardians now, maybe a bit tougher), getting the key, unlocking an altar inside the cabal, and getting the item out of the altar.

6. Furthermore, keeping a cabal without powers meant simply dropping their item at your own altar. Anyone from any (or no) cabal could pick this item up and restore powers to that cabal. This meant a lot of fleeing past outer guardians (used to be possible) and sprinting in to try to pick up your own cabal item. This also lead to a lot of "lowbie cabal members" being stuck on "pick up enemy cabal item when they come for it" duty.

7. Mortal Nepenthe fought (and raided against) my Rager, Relon, quite a bit. He was too damn fast at the above retrieval method, made me pretty mad.

8. Twist had 16 INT until level 30, when someone clued him in that with 17 or above he could practice things to 75 in only two practices. He never did train it above 17. Leader of Master indeed.

9. Twist was uninducted from Master at level 49 for acting foolishly with Saher and Nighthawk. We challenged Loki (an IMM) to fight us.

10. Twist was also uninducted from Master at level 23 (when many of us were uninducted). Rahvin ran a 2-hour-long personal quest for me that ended up in me killing Heimdall (level 60 badass mob) with a single fireball (He'd set his hp very low). I died 2 or 3 times during the quest, but Rahvin advanced me and reinducted me at the conclusion.

11. Old areas that I miss: Moria (purple potions of 2-3 tick sanctuary), Dwarven Daycare (pink ice rings), Elemental Canyon (dust for detect invis, superlight water jugs), Wyvern Tower (almost no good eq but it was the first area I ever really explored).

12. When I wrote the Forest of NoWhere, I was so sure that it would be PK-central, (13 steps from Midgaard, the only hometown available, with nice ranking for good an evil at almost every level) that I put in a room that had no doors into it called the PK-Viewing Booth. It still exists, but with far less purpose than it used to have.

13. Some names I remember from the First Age: Bigfoot, Lancelot, SlipperyJim, Eldritch, Crow, GhostRider, Tenfan, Blaze, Ishmael, Ctvrtlik, Dru, and of course Sho, Truck, and Bladerunner.

14. I miss Lancelot. I also miss Nazmorghul.

15. Sho was the first mortal to become an Imm. He did this simply by reaching level 51. Tenfan was second, I was third. Sho did not actually become an IMM (by being advanced to level 53). Tenfan and I did.

16. Original classes: warrior, thief, mage, cleric, ninja, antipaladin, ranger, paladin.

17. Original races: human, giant, dwarf, elf, half-elf, dark-elf, gnome, arial.

18. The end of the First Age involved the only (intentional) pfile purge. This was because the mage class was split into necromancers, transmuters, and invokers and the giant race was split into fire, cloud, and storm giants. The cleric class was split into shaman, druids, and healers between the 2nd and 3rd ages, I've been told.

19. Original cabals: Master, Battle, Justice, Entropy, Shadow.

20. The end of the First Age DID not feature a character named Launfal sounding the Horn of Fate. That was the end of the Second Age. The beginning of the Second Age is, however, when the name rule went into effect. Though I was an Imm at the time, I hadn't know about the name rule, so my first attempt at a mortal, Anarchy, was denied as soon as I got done rolling.

  

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Reply RE: December 15: Nostalgia, Vilhazarog, 17-Dec-13 05:23 PM, #7
Reply I love it (a few for you), Terwin05, 17-Dec-13 05:23 PM, #6
Reply No good gear in wyvern tower?, Aereglen, 17-Dec-13 08:05 AM, #3
Reply Well, none I could remember..., Twist, 17-Dec-13 09:15 AM, #4
     Reply Wyvern Tower items, crsweeney, 17-Dec-13 05:23 PM, #5
Reply RE: December 15: Nostalgia, Arvam, 16-Dec-13 09:41 PM, #2
Reply RE: December 15: Nostalgia, HandOfTheDark, 18-Dec-13 12:55 AM, #8
Reply RE: December 15: Nostalgia, Dave, 16-Dec-13 04:44 PM, #1

VilhazarogTue 17-Dec-13 02:15 PM
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#88, "RE: December 15: Nostalgia"
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Your last nostalgia thread is what sucked me back into this damn game, Twist!

http://forums.carrionfields.com/dc/dcboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=7&topic_id=619&mesg_id=619&page=

  

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Terwin05Tue 17-Dec-13 10:59 AM
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#87, "I love it (a few for you)"
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My first death was at the hands of a friend who led me outside of town and murdered me ruthlessly at level 3 (PK ranges started at 10k xp which, depending on race/class could be anywhere from 3-5 or so). His name was PkKing. Awesome.

Ishmael inducted my a-p into entropy, then I decided at level 14 I wanted to be a thief instead so I deleted and rerolled (with the same name of course). He inducted my new incarnation at level 1 as soon as I rolled up.

A couple of things I miss (not all first age):
- c 'charm person' x;o x rem all;o x drop all;c word x
- the original pain-Killer
- dual backstab
- Ra####on (and more specifically, his tattoo)

  

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AereglenTue 17-Dec-13 12:26 AM
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#84, "No good gear in wyvern tower?"
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That's just blasphemy.

  

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TwistTue 17-Dec-13 09:15 AM
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#85, "Well, none I could remember..."
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Remind me?

  

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crsweeneyTue 17-Dec-13 10:36 AM
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#86, "Wyvern Tower items"
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>Remind me?


Rod of might, Elven dagger, dark red potions (cure blindess/critical)

  

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ArvamMon 16-Dec-13 08:43 PM
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#81, "RE: December 15: Nostalgia"
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My turn for 1st age notes:

1. My first character was a ninja that never made it past level 18. Around those days I thought any character over level 20 was 'high level'

2. My first caballed character was Dast, a giant warrior. This was in the days you'd wield a weapon, wear shield, hold a light, and a held item.

3. He got inducted into Knight by Jaragh. I saw him with squires and asked what those were, he explained it was a good/neutral cabal centered on honor. I told him I was good and had Cador's tattoo. Bam, I was in.

4. I got Cador's tattoo by sending him a tell asking for it.

5. I think if pkratios were tracked his ratio would have been 2 and 200.

6. Names I recall: Jaragh, Shokai, Laokai, RipSaw, RipClaw, Gaul, Cyan, Admiral, Machine, MrWhite, JBHolmes, Bitch. ..I was also killed by Jullias, Pico, and Ishmael.

7. I remember being pumped one day where I solo'd the dark man for Soulslayer.

8. I used to think the guardian swords from Arkham were one of the best weapons in the game.

9. I used to think kick was one of the best warrior skills since it could hit for caps damage.

10. When the 1st age ended and the pwipe hit I didn't play again for a good 2-3 years....right when Knight folded.

  

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HandOfTheDarkWed 18-Dec-13 12:27 AM
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#91, "RE: December 15: Nostalgia"
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>My turn for 1st age notes:
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>6. Names I recall: Jaragh, Shokai, Laokai, RipSaw, RipClaw,
>Gaul, Cyan, Admiral, Machine, MrWhite, JBHolmes, Bitch.>
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What about MrBlonde? He was the one that famously killed Bitch at her Wedding. She was so scared he was coming for her that they held it in Olympus where you had to be able to fly to get there.

Unfortunately for her, they forgot that there was a secret entrance through the top of the Tower of High Sorcery - you just had to be able to get past Ares who was aggressive and at least level 50.

Other fun fact - the descriptor for Ares in a room was "Ares is here, kicking your ass.".

  

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DaveMon 16-Dec-13 04:09 PM
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#78, "RE: December 15: Nostalgia"
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Thanks for this. I started playing six years ago and the imagery of forest of nowhere is one of the things that made me love the mud. The first time through there, I really felt like I was in that forest.

Great job.

I remember getting bashed down by Hunsobo. Lots of people felt so deadly to me, but most people I could escape. I think I also learned that the Emporer could see me camouflaged from that. You were very kind as a player and I think you knew I didn't know what I was doing and really set the example as a player.

Some more of my nostalgia, my first hero was a wood elf bard in nexus named Jaxhiim or something like that.. that was a lot of fun. His role was a womanizer I think and he fell in love with the Herald leader who was a full elf, don't remember her name, but she was a shift with Hummingbird. She would tolerate Jaxhiim. There was also this epic (in my mind) rivalry with this cloud giant and another wood elf villager.. I think it was Inger and Ruhkashi or something. A lot of solid characters all around. Had so much fun with that character.



  

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