Did you start playing gemstone as an obnoxious kid?

[inkonjeans]

I did, I started back when I was 12. I remember I would see people jump and it gave the message "soandso starts jumping around like a 12 year old".
I would think "hey, what's wrong with that?"

My first days of gemstone revolved around me running around kissing,kicking, and punching everyone I saw (mostly dependant on the gender), sometimes for 20 minutes at a time. That was before I learned I could jump from the tree house and splatter on the floor. That's when I became hooked.

Man, I've been playing this game for 12 years... unbelievable.

So who else started playing as a dumb kid?

[Miss Ismurii]

Meee.

[Khariz]

Yup. I was 15, 13 years ago now.

I was stupid as hell. I loved to kill people, thump them, annoy them.

Me and my buddies had this thing we like to do calling "MikeP". There was a guy in the game named MikeP that we liked to harass. In the prodigy front end we knew exactly how many spaces we had to space over to make something wordwrap in the game

So we would do this:


'Hey man how you doing." A giant rat just arrived a giatn rat just went west Sordan says, "Having a good day?".


And it would look like this to the other person:

Sordan says, "Hey man how you doing."

A giant rat just arrived.

A giant rat went west.

Sordan says, "having a good day?".




It was hilarious how many people would simultaneously run west from TSC or whatever. Ahh, the silly days. I also thought gemstone Cybering was cool back then too...in the baker's nook...on the east side of town, whatever.

[Hips]

Meee.

You still are.

[Miss Ismurii]

You still are.

Prove it.

[Hips]

Prove it.

You do it yourself, I don't need to prove a thing. :)

[Miss Ismurii]

You do it yourself, I don't need to prove a thing. :)

I don't even play anymore so you really can't even say because you wouldn't know.

[Sean]

Sure I did thats why lately after reflection I stopped caring about current idiots like Miss Ismurii or Zuie since I figure eventually they'll grow up.

[Hips]

I don't even play anymore so you really can't even say because you wouldn't know.

Who said it has anything to do with you playing? You're obnoxious, that's all that matters.

[Miss Ismurii]

Who said it has anything to do with you playing? You're obnoxious, that's all that matters.

Clearly he was talking about how you used to play gemstone, not how we are on the boards.

[Back]

Its quite possible that GS brings out the obnoxiousness in everyone. Or is it the anonymity of the internets?

I’m certain PB can give a definitive answer.

[Miss Ismurii]

Its quite possible that GS brings out the obnoxiousness in everyone. Or is it the anonymity of the internets?

I’m certain PB can give a definitive answer.

Gemstone doesn't bring the 'obnoxious' out of everyone.

[Hips]

Clearly he was talking about how you used to play gemstone, not how we are on the boards.

Maybe that's what he was talking about, but not what I'm talking about (anymore, anyway).


As for the original question, I was sixteen when I started playing, so I don't think I qualify for the "kid" part. But I'm sure there are plenty of people who know my character who can vouch for the fact that I was at least somewhat obnoxious. Any of the old cul-de-sac crew, really.

[Back]

Gemstone doesn't bring the 'obnoxious' out of everyone.

True.

[Hulkein]

I fit this thread title perfectly. Started in 6th grade so I was 12 years old as well. Me and my friend from school who also played used to kill people outside the gate and take their stuff when they rotted. That was fun and I would still do that if it was possible.

Getting in fights in hobgoblin area was my usual thing to do after hunting. That's when the boulder first started to get popular and I still claim to this day that me and my friend started the duels up there.

[Sylvan Dreams]

It's been about 14-15 years that I've been playing GS. Ick. It's horrible to type that. Still have my first character, too.

[Xann]

Started playing in 6th grade too with a bunch of friends from middle school. Back in those days I shared an AOL account an character with a family friend, and remember hanging out in the Kobold Hovel. After GSIII went to pay, I only have vague memories, one involving a tiff with the same friend I always shared an account with. He deleted our character that had a few sets of fgb, a fel hafter, and a bright yellow silk satchel (not even sure how good those were, but for some reason we loved it). Not much now, but to 8th graders back then seemed like a lot. I quit for most of high school and through college, and only came back because I find so much more free time with grad school.

The only clear cut things that brought me back to GS last year were the good times I had on the Friths Roof and later at the Tide Pool in the neighborhood close to the Landing Gates. Ahh, nostalgia, haha.

~Xannorath's player

[Gan]

No

[CrystalTears]

NoDitto

[RichardCranium]

Yeah, I was 12 or 13. I would spend hours rapid fire stealing at the gemshop, the front desk from the healers and clerics and the AI. Hovel, shanty and dinghy were a lot of fun too. Fucking with (who I perceived to be) snooty ass people was fun too.

[Back]

No


Ditto

Oh, so you were just born that way?

ZING

[CrystalTears]

And then we have the people who still haven't grown up...

I wasn't a kid when I started playing.

[Fallen]

I definitely was obnoxious when I first started playing. 12-13, would get annoyed at the RPers for yelling at me when I was openly asking for mechanics help.

It was all OMG THYRIL SWARMS!

Good times.

[Renian]

I've been playing GS since I was 8.

I'm 19 now.

Fortunately, somehow, Gemstone has managed to help me significantly in English classes, and Lich has helped me with computer science.

[Renian]

It was all OMG THYRIL SWARMS!

Good times.

Oh, god. Do you remember when behind the slab produced a BAJILLION rapid squirrels as well?

They need to bring that shit back. That was the awesomesauce.

[Fallen]

I used to hunt in the cats for the most part, but then I went up to Icemule and they had this area where Thyrils would swarm like the Thraks on Teras. It was great.

Yeah, swarm rates blow, but OTF has spoiled me. I LOVE MAers, I hope Jinsem's crew starts hunting there regularly. It turns it into a mini invasion.

[Back]

My favorite Gemstone memory was discovering how to get through the boot to River’s Rest.

[Jenisi]

First charachter I made when I was 12. I'm 24 now... And my first charachter was made to have the same name as my favorite My Little Pony: Skyskimmer. LOL.

[TheEschaton]

My first character was in 1995, which would have put me at....14.

I am now 27.

Damn it.

I wasn't particularly obnoxious, but my friend who introduced me to the game was. He loved to rub those.....brass squares? Red squares? Whichever one led you to take a swing at everyone in the room...in the middle of TSC.

-TheE-

[Renian]

I used to hunt in the cats for the most part, but then I went up to Icemule and they had this area where Thyrils would swarm like the Thraks on Teras. It was great.


For some reason, I thought those were the thyrils you were talking about. Those were so win too. They were the rapid squirrels (with phatter lewtz) of Icemule.



Yeah, swarm rates blow, but OTF has spoiled me. I LOVE MAers, I hope Jinsem's crew starts hunting there regularly. It turns it into a mini invasion.

You're going to love me when I get Thalish and Adokas to cap.

Though I'm probably not going to have them all hunt together. More like spread out and destroy everything.

[Fallen]

When it is Debia and I, or Merjinia comes along too, Sabreon's crew, then 2-3 other hunters the Market road, and the area west of them can have up to 5-6 creatures per room, with clusters of Constructs every 10 rooms or so. I'm sure you've experienced it.

Good stuff.

[Renian]

I'm sure you've experienced it.

Actually, less so. I specifically designed my OTF hunting script to avoid the fuck out of that area.

[Fallen]

Hah! Yeah.

[Mighty Nikkisaurus]

I started playing when I was 12.

I was living in Hawaii at the time and got insanely bored after getting stung with a jellyfish and being forbidden to go in the ocean for two weeks. My brother found the MSN Gaming Zone and tried Gemstone and told me it was awesome, so I tried it out.

At first I was like WTF NO GRAPHICS? THIS IS DUMB. But then when I realized you could talk and stuff, I decided it was actually pretty awesome. My brother played a sylvan and I had a dark elf. And IG we'd say we were siblings, haha. This was before I really learned what roleplaying was.

He's since moved onto playing DragonRealms. Obviously I am still addicted to Gemstone.

[RichardCranium]

My first character was in 1995, which would have put me at....14.

I am now 27.

Damn it.

I wasn't particularly obnoxious, but my friend who introduced me to the game was. He loved to rub those.....brass squares? Red squares? Whichever one led you to take a swing at everyone in the room...in the middle of TSC.

-TheE-

Bronze squares, red crystals.

[SHAFT]

I started when I was 12 in 7th grade, I'm 25 now. This before the move to play.net and you had to use the white screen with the black letters on AOL.

I had a blast with the ACT verb. A buddy and me used to transform into tanks and jets and just act stupid. I'd go hunt squirrels in the mine and get diseased, then haul ass back to town to try to live. I died a lot doing that.

I used to steal from people all the time. I made my original silver fortune by robbing people. Setup a sale, get them to give me the item or money first and then run or log off. Just keep making new characters over and over and doing that. I got banned for 2 months by a GM for killing people too. I had like 50 something player kills in a few months time. I guess that was too many.

[Askip]

<< THYRIL SWARMS! >>

TRAPDOOR PARTY!

:D

When I was playing tabletop D&D in the early 70s I dreamed of something like GS. I worked with computers so I knew it would happen someday.

I was already a grandfather when I started GS in '96.

Grampa Askip

[SHAFT]

<< THYRIL SWARMS! >>

TRAPDOOR PARTY!

:D

When I was playing tabletop D&D in the early 70s I dreamed of something like GS. I worked with computers so I knew it would happen someday.

I was already a grandfather when I started GS in '96.

Grampa Askip

So "Senior Member" really applies to you then huh?

By the way, you're at a 1000 posts. Grab the whiskey!

[Askip]

<< When it is Debia and I, or Merjinia comes along too, Sabreon's crew, then 2-3 other hunters the Market road, and the area west of them can have up to 5-6 creatures per room, with clusters of Constructs every 10 rooms or so. >>

My mage loves that area.

Cone, cone, cone, loot, loot, loot, then move before the constucts start playing pinball wizard.

:D

[Mtenda]

I was 14 when I tried Gemstone for the first time. I didn't like it at first and quit. Then about a year later I had to stay home from school for a while because I was recovering from surgery. Maybe it was the pills....maybe all the pot. At any rate I tried it again and got hooked. Played on and off since. That was 95-96.

[Fallen]

<< When it is Debia and I, or Merjinia comes along too, Sabreon's crew, then 2-3 other hunters the Market road, and the area west of them can have up to 5-6 creatures per room, with clusters of Constructs every 10 rooms or so. >>

My mage loves that area.

Cone, cone, cone, loot, loot, loot, then move before the constucts start playing pinball wizard.

:D

Yeah, I see you often enough in that far corner holding shit down.

[Timjirdos]

I have to say, i can't remember being a obnoxious kid on gemstone back when i started playing for real on AOL. (My little GEnie experience doesn't count) But honestly, i didn't play all that much, i was more into battletech.

And that was given the fact i was getting mentored by vif. Say what you want about her, but she showed me the ropes. and the bloody rag in her trousers. :scared:

It's not gemstone that makes you a tough guy, it's the anonimity of the internet. it's just that being in a game, and it's not limited to gemstone, you can add emphasis to the abuse you give out. I'm guilty of pulling this shit. i bet most of you all are as well.(this makes sense, doesn't it?)

:club:

[Khariz]

And that was given the fact i was getting mentored by vif. Say what you want about her, but she showed me the ropes. and the bloody rag in her trousers. :scared:



:club:

haha, it wasn't a bloody rag when she showed ME the inside of her trousers, it was: a thick rod, a blue ball, and a blue ball.

I chortled for hours.

[War Angel]

No, I was an adult then, and I am old now. :D

[Ulkov]

I started around 94-95. My buddies and I used to use fake CC numbers to get 6 month Prodigy accounts, and then screw around in chatrooms. I spent alot of time in an RP chatroom (which was weird) called the Paradice Inn (hohoho). Every so often the room would flood with people bitching about Gemstone being down again. So I went on a search, found Gemstone, told my buddies, and we've all been playing (on and off) ever since. I know at least two guys who still play regularly from the original crew.

Anyway, since we were using fake Prodigy accounts to access the game, our accounts would get pwned after 4-6 months. That made us professional noobs. We weren't really punk-asses (too bad) in the game. In fact, we had alot of hate for the kids that did run around doing OOC shit...or macro hunting rats.

For us it was more of "who can make it the highest level before Prodigy figures out we're not paying them" than "how fucking stupid can we act".

I did kill alot of people back in them days though. In my entire GS career, since 94 or so, I'd say if I've killed 50 players, 40 of those were for stolen rats.
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[Drew]

First time I played gemstone was when I was 11 (93) and in between that I played about 5-10 times not really knowing what I was doing. I didn't really start playing until it went free which was what, 96 so I was about 14 then.

[Khariz]

I started around 94-95. My buddies and I used to use fake CC numbers to get 6 month Prodigy accounts, and then screw around in chatrooms. I spent alot of time in an RP chatroom (which was weird) called the Paradice Inn (hohoho). Every so often the room would flood with people bitching about Gemstone being down again. So I went on a search, found Gemstone, told my buddies, and we've all been playing (on and off) ever since. I know at least two guys who still play regularly from the original crew.

Anyway, since we were using fake Prodigy accounts to access the game, our accounts would get pwned after 4-6 months. That made us professional noobs. We weren't really punk-asses (too bad) in the game. In fact, we had alot of hate for the kids that did run around doing OOC shit...or macro hunting rats.

For us it was more of "who can make it the highest level before Prodigy figures out we're not paying them" than "how fucking stupid can we act".

I did kill alot of people back in them days though. In my entire GS career, since 94 or so, I'd say if I've killed 50 players, 40 of those were for stolen rats.
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Yup. We fucked prodigy some mo kinda hard.

[B4Hand]

Nope, already an old lady with two of my five kids the first time I logged in.

now ancient...

[Ulkov]

Actually, come to think...there was the "MikeP maneuver". That was pretty mischievous and obnoxious kid-like, hehe.

Not sure if anyone remembers, played on Prod, or has heard of this but Khariz will confirm..
There was a way with Prod's FE that you could enter lines of text that would come out in game looking as though it actually hapenned. You would start the command with either say or a smile and then in the next line add things like, A lava golem just arrived. It'd look like this:

>'say Woo."(buncha spaces)>(buncha spaces)A lava golem just arrived.(buncha spaces)>(buncha spaces)Ulkov says, "WHAT IS THAT
>
You say, "Woo."
>
A lava golem just arrived.
>
Ulkov says, "WHAT IS THAT."

Also, using this to get someone to swing at a kobold where there was no kobold, yet there WAS a dude named Ko-whatever...priceless.

[Elvenlady]

Nope, stuck at home pregnant with my second kiddie and looking for something to take my mind off of feeling crap while the first was at nursery.

[MotleyCrew]

For fuck sakes you fucking people make feel old! Thanks a-fucking-lot!

[Stretch]

Sure I did thats why lately after reflection I stopped caring about current idiots like Miss Ismurii or Zuie since I figure eventually they'll grow up.

I still haven't forgotten that imflass round shield you sold me ten years ago, you dick.

+12 / +32 my ass! It took me forever to make that 65k.

[Conlin]

Started playing back in early '96 after I got out of the Army. Was 25 at the time.

Right after AOL went unlimited I blew my back out. Spent the next six monthes crashed in a recliner, keyboard on my lap, GS on the screen, stoned on codine, muscle relaxers, and beer. Been hooked on this game ever since.

First memory was getting lost outside the gate, heading south, and getting squished by a hill troll.

[RichardCranium]

<< THYRIL SWARMS! >>

TRAPDOOR PARTY!

I was always partial to the attic parties at the AI.

[Back]

<< THYRIL SWARMS! >>

TRAPDOOR PARTY!

:D

When I was playing tabletop D&D in the early 70s I dreamed of something like GS. I worked with computers so I knew it would happen someday.

I was already a grandfather when I started GS in '96.

Grampa Askip

EVERYBODY JUMP!

Good times.

I think I started in '96 as well, though I was a wee lad at 25.

Like you, I knew it was coming. Only after reading Neuromancer. And having reams of paper playing Zork at my uncle’s college.

I’m still waiting for the implants.

[Snapp]

Any of the old cul-de-sac crew, really.
Heh. Yea, you could say that. :saint:

[Makkah]

I must admit I started playing as quite the douchebag. Gang pants, bamboo shit, I did ACTs with me rapping and shit. What a shithead.

[Hips]

Heh. Yea, you could say that. :saint:

:P

I knew you would respond!

[TheEschaton]

And what the fuck are we doing now? ;) Most of us don't play any more yet still frequent an unofficial forum theoretically dedicated to the game we all don't play any more.

-TheE-

[Morrff]

I was a little shit, started playing about a month after the release onto AOL and used my paper route money to pay for the AOL minutes.

[SHAFT]

Started playing back in early '96 after I got out of the Army. Was 25 at the time.

Right after AOL went unlimited I blew my back out. Spent the next six monthes crashed in a recliner, keyboard on my lap, GS on the screen, stoned on codine, muscle relaxers, and beer. Been hooked on this game ever since.

First memory was getting lost outside the gate, heading south, and getting squished by a hill troll.

You still hooked on the pills? ;)

I remember going too far into the hill troll area too. Run, hill trolls!

[Ulkov]

I was always partial to the attic parties at the AI.


How come nobody hangs at the AI anymore? When I started playing the AI was as popular a hangout as The Well. Not as cool as The Well (sorry, I'm an OG Welldweller, <3 The Well) but nevertheless, the AI was always jumping. Some PRO needs to say ta hell with getting your own little building and just own the AI.

[Stanley Burrell]

I started playing when I was 12 and I couldn't even type.

I acted like every other 12 year old playing a medieval-themed MUD RPG.

[BriarFox]

I was about 12 or 13 when I started, too, which was in '96, if I remember. I think it was just after GS had started a subscription fee, but it's been awhile. My friends and I would steal each other's characters and have them act out wacking off behind the bushes in TSC, or have them act like horny squirrels.

One of my friends also stripped down and then went on a killing rampage with just some newbie gear. He kept getting arrested and having his equipment taken away, so he'd agree to pay the fine, run out of the jail, and another friend would hand him some more newb gear, and he'd go back to killing. That same pair also pulled a couple of silver scams, with things like, "This 'double leather' is 6x! Sellin' cheap cuz I need the coins!"

[TheLastShamurai]

i started at 16.

still play the same, but with a higher tendency towards murder.

higher levels = itchy trigger finger.

[DCSL]

I started playing when I was.. fourteen, I think. I had no idea what I was doing. There was no such thing as being in character for me. I printed out a bunch of Zepath maps and that was the extent of my doc research for the game, heh. I remember dying constantly and talking with some guy about whether or not I was Filipino. Out loud, in public. I can't remember exactly why he thought I was.

Then I stopped playing because Simu split with AOL and moved to the web and my mother refused to pay for this little distraction from real life. =\ I didn't play again until I was eighteen when I realized... Hey. I've got my own money and my own debit card. I can pay for it myself! I realized my huge dorkness when I discovered I still had the directions to the various Landing Houses memorized for delivering messages.

[Xaerve]

I remember printing out the maps in middle school and having "map books" where we would mark the rooms we were in, for fear of getting lost.

Good times, fun thread.

[Furrowfoot]

I was 19ish, way back a few months before AOL went unlimited - either '95 or '96, don't remember which.

[Jinsem]

Age 19 for me. Helped me a lot with computers and MS Office. Glad to have been through it. Was kinda funny that I MA'd even back on AOL 2.3 for MAC. Couldn't afford the extra time so I just made 2 AOL accts :)

I miss the days of the well dwellers. I was a hardcore well lover, and detested tree jumpers.

Jinsem
Of the late Phull clan.

[Conlin]

I remember printing out the maps in middle school and having "map books" where we would mark the rooms we were in, for fear of getting lost.

Good times, fun thread.

Yea, had a three ring binder full of the maps. Put them in clear plastic document protecters, tabs, and highlighted trails to hunting grounds.

Wife was like "I can't believe you went out and spent money on junk for Gemstone".

[TheEschaton]

You weren't hardcore unless you memorized the maps. From TSC, I could be anywhere in Wehnimer and its surrounding hunting areas in less than a minute, from memory.

[Suppa Hobbit Mage]

I started playing as an obnoxious adult around 25 or 26 yo.

[Ulkov]

You weren't hardcore unless you memorized the maps. From TSC, I could be anywhere in Wehnimer and its surrounding hunting areas in less than a minute, from memory.

Still can. I will probably go to my grave being able to tell you how to get around Wehnimer's.

[Morrff]

Still can. I will probably go to my grave being able to tell you how to get around Wehnimer's.

I believe this is the case for me as well. I just wish I could remember the newer towns like that.

[DCSL]

Ditto on memorizing Landing. I'll be on my deathbed and someone'll ask me how to get to the Prestidigitorium from TSC. I'll be on my deathbed so I probably won't remember that it doesn't exist anymore but I WILL remember how to get there.

[Methais]

I was 18 when I started playing in January '97, on a gimp ranger named TORROKK KREGIN that I trained like a rogue because I thought disarming traps and picking locks was something to be used in the field and not boxes. I quit that character at 25, and I only knew up to 608 and 103.

I remember how badass I thought I was when I got my mithril broadsword, and how I considered myself rich when my bank account reached 10k.

Then one day I walked outside the west gate into a frost giant invasion. Got pwned immediately and used as a sled.

Rolled Meth in January '98 because I wanted to get rich off enchanting, which I ended up being too lazy to deal with. The sad part is I'm still too lazy to deal with enchanting, even though you basically don't do shit now.

[inkonjeans]

I remember when I finally learned how to get silver selling rat pelts, I refused to use the bank. I don't remember exactly why, but my 12 year old mind thought it had fees or something. So I lugged all my silver around. When I lost it due to decay I reported it and demanded to know what happened to my fortune.

Come to think of it, I ended up assisting for some pretty dumb things, like when my first gold ring got nabbed or to ask if there was ever a gemstone 2.

oh my, where they patient with me.

[Morrff]

I remember when I finally learned how to get silver selling rat pelts, I refused to use the bank. I don't remember exactly why, but my 12 year old mind thought it had fees or something. So I lugged all my silver around.

I remember doing something very similar, but I didn't want to put my money in the bank cause I thought it was going to get robbed!

[BriarFox]

I remember doing something very similar, but I didn't want to put my money in the bank cause I thought it was going to get robbed!

By kobolds. You're a wise man.

[Back]

I remember that. I was banking in RR at the time and enjoying Haakon's Choice.

[Ulkov]

I remember how badass I thought I was when I got my mithril broadsword, and how I considered myself rich when my bank account reached 10k.


:lol: I remember thinking drake fals were the best weapons EVAR.

[SHAFT]

I was about 12 or 13 when I started, too, which was in '96, if I remember. I think it was just after GS had started a subscription fee, but it's been awhile. My friends and I would steal each other's characters and have them act out wacking off behind the bushes in TSC, or have them act like horny squirrels.

One of my friends also stripped down and then went on a killing rampage with just some newbie gear. He kept getting arrested and having his equipment taken away, so he'd agree to pay the fine, run out of the jail, and another friend would hand him some more newb gear, and he'd go back to killing. That same pair also pulled a couple of silver scams, with things like, "This 'double leather' is 6x! Sellin' cheap cuz I need the coins!"

That sounds exactly what my friends and I did. We took one guys account and had him sexually harass the flower girl. We also had him rub a black amulet in TSC. The destruction from that was incredible. We got him banned and he never came back to play.

[Beguiler]

le sigh...

No. I was an obnoxious adult, does that count?

[100% Wool]

awesome thread...

I remember getting excited over ...ditty bags from RR...and miner's packs from Teras...

[Methais]

That sounds exactly what my friends and I did. We took one guys account and had him sexually harass the flower girl. We also had him rub a black amulet in TSC. The destruction from that was incredible. We got him banned and he never came back to play.

I don't think I've ever heard of black amulets. What did they do and where did they come from?

[SHAFT]

I don't think I've ever heard of black amulets. What did they do and where did they come from?

Actually, I might be mistaken on the black amulet. We were using his character and we found something that had implosion in it. I wanna say it was a black amulet but I could be wrong. I think it was something they did away with like the red crystal.

[Methais]

Actually, I might be mistaken on the black amulet. We were using his character and we found something that had implosion in it. I wanna say it was a black amulet but I could be wrong. I think it was something they did away with like the red crystal.

I'm guessing it was an imbed from the old alchemist shop. Couldn't you get imbeddable amulets from there in different colors when you ordered something?

Penis.

[Drazaan]

I started in 1995 or 1996 as a young teenager. I love it then, so much excitement in the world and I still love it now, even though the experienced has morphed into one of familiarity rather than "I've been lost for the past two hours and I don't want to die and lose all my gear. How do I get back to the Landing!?"

I remember keeping up a correspondence with Amerlise's player and idolized thoese that could handle something as intense as DarkStone and massive troll kings (most intense creatures IN ALL OF GEMSTONE!).

I also remember reading Icephx@aol.com's "The Dark Side of Rogues" and thinking all the ideas in there were so original and it was going to be the only way I'd play my rogue from then on.

One particular incident is coming to me right now about being in an AOL chatroom and VaultSysOp entering and making a few disparaging remarks to everyone in the room. I think he thought he was under the guise of anonymity, but I knew he was Musty.

[Brielus]

Started around five 03? So I could be an obnoxious adult, my best friend played and I always called him a fag/dork and ribbed him about it. Then one day I got the bright idea to kick his ass in his lil dork world so I started a basic account...... now Im trapped.

[Warriorbird]

I’m certain PB can give a definitive answer.

PB = far cooler IG.

[Ashliana]

When I first started.. I was outside the Catacombs, and a wizard minor shocked me. I freaked out, thought I was being PK'd, and when a random empath also there started "taking my blood" (was confused by the messaging), I thought the empath was also trying to kill me and took two swipes at her. No real harm done, but just funny noobisms.

[Mon1018]

Well said.Totally agree with you.
This post is pretty nice!:welcome:

[ViridianAsp]

I started playing at 18 I can't remember, I'd never done RP before, or anything like GS, my best friend got me into it after a year or so of telling me how great it was.

I finally gave in and started playing. I liked it a lot, I'm 26 now. I wouldn't say I was obnoxious my first year but I was clueless like 75% of the time on everything.