Is it particularly bad to be targetted as a newbie? I think it will be pretty hard to disguise.

I think I have my boyfriend interested in trying to play, though he is not sure he can handle fast scrolling text that comes with combat.

The dying too many times leading to perma death concerns me. I am bound to die a lot early on, at the least, and I was pretty reckless in the last mud I played. I enjoyed fighting a lot more than running, regardless of the odds. How many times do you have to die before you die permanently?

It also sucks that 500 hours kills you permanently. That's a lot of time to put in to a character to lose them. I clocked way over that in my old mud, and I would have hated to start all over again.

How do you guys handle that, exactly?

Also, I really wish the game would come back up, I could spend all this time posting learning how to play hands on. :(