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Post by tehlung on Feb 2, 2005 4:17:39 GMT
In an attempt to revive the corpse of Ancient Anguish Mud Proboards, claimed by Notanalt, i thought i'd get a new thread started. your favorite aa memories!
My first pk attempt: goatboy was bountied, and here i was as a young 19th level rogue. i knew jack squat about the mud then, and got to level 19 killing in dalair. i saw him sneaking around a lot, so i figured wtf i'll go for him. he started throwing javelins at me! at this time i had no aliases, so i haul to shanni, buy pots, and then type out 'throw javelin at goatboy', 'drink potion' the next time i saw him. i don't think either of us fell below 100.
my first pk win: i was bountied, and up till this point i'd always just run like a scyther without a tank to stand behind. i decided to take a stand on the next person to try to kill me, so i loaded up with my trusty jdr, some potions, and went with oils since javs had been downgraded. So this no-name cub named karlott decides to try his luck, and we fight at sequin. he runs away, and ends up dying from oil burns. so i didn't even get to loot his corpse!
first party with nanji: here i was, just an average necro, and i had this legend named nanji asking to bash for me. at the time, 220ish was my top mark with a basher. i managed to lose 3 or 4 revenants in the first hour, yet we pulled 300k/hr. i was flippin out. for awhile, he was the only basher i'd be able to get 300 with.
fighter board elf war: there was this lil pesky scyther named calvin insisting that an orc is better than an elf! absurd! despite both of us having played for ages, we really never talked/played together much except when he smited poor simple dead upon catching my fingers in his pockets. so we had this big long debate on the fighter board on an elf fighter vs orc and ended up partying to see the truth.(errinnan's party was still bigger, cal!)
first party with errinnan: here i was. breaking personal best runs marks once a month, and i was cash killing for the next month's run. out of the blue some knigget sends me a tell asking to bash. while i'm trying to figure out how the f**k to spell his name to tell him no, he sends another tell along the lines of 'elf fighter with elvie and 95 2hs'. *blink* um ok sure you're in! at the time i didn't know he was drue, the very guy who's mark i was trying to pass!
los bastardos: never have i had as much fun stealing as i did with my los bastardos brethren. machine, tanus, pillar, karlott, blackened maybe? all had rogues, and we'd all join a party. we'd use the pline to communicate mark info. we'd see a mark tanking hermit, and as soon as hermit died, the mark would have 4 cards and be missing everything that wasn't packed up. the most feared organization on the mud. so feared, that law had to step in and threaten us with banishment for being too good.
and last, but not least, partying with the one and only joshmosh machine. here we were, two losers with not much in the way of real lives, playing aa 10+ hours a day. we'd smash and crash our way to exp/skills/etc. we got to the point where he, as a basher, would leave after a kill, go sell, and meet me back at a different area, with no communication sent. the f**ker was/is sick. even today, if we were to log in, both rusty, we'd pull 400+ in serin's words, without even trying.
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Post by Aurac on Feb 2, 2005 5:41:28 GMT
I remember logging in for the first time and wondering why people were stone statues in the inn, and how I could do it too. I remember finding a packet of parky and telling all in the room that I'd give it to them if they would help figure out the game. Spoo (obviously detecting me as a newb) decided to help for the parky, and he set me up with Darktrooper to show me the ropes. For the next few months, DT dragged me around the entire MUD while he killed things and let me bash for him. It took me a week to get to level three this way. I guess him being 12 levels higher than me didn't help much. Not to mention that I didn't learn places for the first month since I didn't go anywhere on my own. I remember my first time seeing Silentdeath arrives. Silentdeath leaves north. I thought I'd contracted a disease from the Orc Surgeon and was going to die. I remember joining ravens with my first rogue, Cruise. Starlett and Caradhras were like the mom and pop of the guild, and I was taken into their family of thieves very quickly. I met Eveon and Siawn at this time. I remember we all fighting Ewani (while I was L6) and dying, only to have my first ever mudwife suicide due to my death. Talk about over-roleplaying. I remember getting reaching L14 with my first mage, Aurac. I died partying with DT down to L10 by random spurts of lag. I retired him, but then this one guy pissed me off and got Cruise killed. So I brought Aurac on and attacked him. I think his name was Louie or somesuch. I remember his friend named Rubbish tried sticking up for the little trouble maker. I remember Aurac getting bountied for PA and dying in two hits by Karlott, whom was astonished that I wasn't angry at him. =) Hell, I deserved it. I remember getting bountied with Blain (human rogue) at L16, outrunning hunters for over two hours on the high seas, and then finally getting smacked in the Chaos Tower by Stab and Maninthebox. I remember Aram running tons of bounties while in Raven (not sure which alt I had in Raven then). I remember thinking he was a god and that I should stay out of his way and be quiet on the line when he was around. I remember chasing down a bounty just so I could watch the bounty die out of curiosity. I remember lagging as I was leaving the room, only to wake up to find that I'd let the bounty get away from Lunger, who had come into the room and started tossing rots during the lag. I remember Simple, too. I also remember not knowing the three were the same for a long, long time, until I got to know Lunger and pestered it out of him. =) I remember hunting the bountied Spock with Sari and Killa. I remember letting Spock kill my bountied Aurac years later in repayment for hunting him before. I remember wizzing the first time, second time, oh yeah, and third time. I enjoyed years of watching the AA Hall of Fame from the shadows. I enjoyed being big brother to countless newbies in Chaos over the years. AA is a large part of my growing up. Boy, I need a life! --Aurac The former: KDragyn, Aurac, Blain, Cruise, Ryob, KarN, Koto, Kuati, Azalin, Azoun, Ninevah, Azrel, Akiro, Spryder
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Post by Lanstro on Feb 2, 2005 11:37:35 GMT
i've sat here for 2 minutes thinking about my aa memories... and i must say time has jaded them and i can't really call any of them fond
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Post by Pillar on Feb 2, 2005 17:12:54 GMT
- i remember my first char: mussolini. he was a bear and one day i logged in, thinking it'd be cool to kill some people. so i found newbies, had them lie down to show them a trick, then killed em. laf. i think i was like level 8 or something. i managed to kill 3 or 4 til fiend found me. oh well * Dibbs tells you: Mussolini has been involved in the following demotions: Mussolini banished for pk spree (Fiend) - i remember tanking a one of my first parties with pillar. there was a pesky elf rogue that kept asking to bash.. symurgh. i didn't know who she was then. so, i finally relented and let her join. well, the party had been going for about an hour and she had all the party cash from selling (why and elf was doing eq tells you how good i was back then!). so i said something that pissed her off (surprise! surprise!) and she jetted with the party cash. i think it was like 100k or something. needless to say, i was a little pissed - about a week later, i get a fighter asking to bash, shinrikyo. i still didn't know the connection at the time. reed was bashing as well. we went down to issla village to snag dplate and were at the guards north of king/queen. shin was wielding a trunk, as this is still back when they were worthwhile. i had about 100 hps, no worries. two seconds later, i was dead. wtf?!? scroll up, shinrikyo killed me. * On Nethory 6, 549 you [19] were killed by Shinrikyo the successful idol figure of the Scythe (good). - suiciding all my alts on a whim.. multiple times - i had riske (dwarf fighter) up to 1565 skills. i had zero deaths and 26 mill exp. i was bashing for aisling up at kestran's. i hit a path or something at tanica. when you try to move past her, she gets a free hit. well, i think i pathed to hob or something, 31s. insta-death. i sui'd. - bashing for capet in a 4 man trunk party. - bashing for defarge - bashing for zordax * note: i am not saying that capet is in the same league with these guys in anyway shape or form. - mocking sinister every change i got - i remember when i was bountied as siaynoq, my orc rogue. josh logs his mage, yohan. i think we ran around the mud for like 2 hours, trash-talking each other. (laf, i think he marked me the first minute!) he finally caught up to me in drak to claim the scalp. suckage - i still remember my first party tanking for ktulu, calvin, and nanji. good times, good times.
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Post by sinister on Feb 3, 2005 18:45:12 GMT
Fond Memories:
My first Kill:
This is back with my first character ever, a half-elven fighter. I around level 17ish and was partying with Belirane, who was a schoolmate of mine in high school (we were both college freshmen at the time), and he managed to accumulate a ton of exp playing for a many hours straight and while we were fighting at the Chaos Tower, somehow we were hunting each and well, I killed the guy. He was very upset and while on screen I was sympathetic and apologetic, i was laughing, guffawing and telling my future roommate, Simon/Sullivan, who was sitting next to me in the lab, that i killed Belirane.
Trivia:
What blah blah blah blah?
Simon is sitting next to me in the lab and tell's trivia the correct answer. I say, what's the answer, he replys Steve Miller Band. I tell trivia Steve Band, not knowing Steve Miller Band is not a name, but its really more like Steve Miller's band. Trivia is delayed for 10-15 minutes as I make my case.
In addition to "Steve Band"
Hal 9000 Archery questions Milk and Cow trivia
Sigil/Sinister:
Ok, so I've known Sigil for 6-7 years in real life and we partied a ton over the accumulated 4 years of college. However, we were never in the same room sitting next to each other in real life all this time. I figured that now that I'm a grown up college senior, let's visit the bastard at his high falutin' blue blooded institution of higher learning and like the mud addict i was, let's go right to the computer room. Well we had the best hour of partying that I've ever had up to that point. 140k to me, 160k to him. At this point, I only know of Uggh and Wad's party being better. Of course, during this time, it was hard even for the best players to do 90k an hr each.
SSM + Necro
I am Sinister, probably the best tank in the mud. Uggh rivals me, but he only parties with Wad, I can party with anyone. Other good AA tanks, I laugh at your 70-80k an hour 2 man parties. Look at me as I run 115-125k per hour parties with 1 basher. I am god.
Hmm, let's try necro, eh not bad, nothing special, test a few weapons out. Command wield maul. WTF 125k in 1/2 hour??!?! 240k in 1 hr?!?!?
And so begins the efficiency quest.
Lunger: When his efficiency character died. Sorry bro. (see Belirane)
Calvin:
I was partying with his cleric, Bismarck and during the course of the party he died. Well let's see, I could 1) wait around like a schmoe and twiddle my thumbs, while pretending to feel sorry for him as he regained his mudding composure or I could 2) tell him that I had a fake emergency and quit, leaving him to his sorry self. Of course I chose option (2).
Pillar:
Stick to making babies, being a good father and a good husband, you'll never make it as a proper AA mudder or trash talker.
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Post by Pillar on Feb 3, 2005 19:31:10 GMT
*cuddle* yeah, i must not be good enough on aa or something. you keep thinking that you're good.. i'll keep thinking yer gay.
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Post by CalviN on Feb 3, 2005 21:26:08 GMT
Actually, I believe it was "fake family emergency". *grin* And believe it or not, I was pissed as hell for dying at the time, and that comment made me laugh for a good 5 minutes straight.
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Post by CalviN on Feb 3, 2005 23:54:14 GMT
Hello Book! ;D *ponder* Where to start.... - Being a clueless lvl 19 knigglet fighter, and having my mind blown when Tayrel (Tayrell, Sarlalion, Edge, etc) showed me these crazy, high level NPCs like Boney... the Demonic Priest... Meateater *gasp* and they were REAL close to the main village! (I'd hit lvl 19 killing orcs. *blush*) - Hopping around, checking out the other guilds and classes. Monks and Chaos as thiefs (yeah... not rogue... thief. Damn recodes.) Necro in Chaos. Then finding home. The Scythe. - The way we played back in the day... sitting in the computer labs, looking at those horrid monochrome AT-100, orange or green text monitor type dinosaurs... At home in bed at 4am, hammering away at your laptop, but trying to be quiet so your key pounding and swearing didn't wake up the parents. Taunting your buddy cuz your 2400 baud modem is TWICE the speed of his old 1200... Dialing up to your college, and bouncing to another college under their library account, then busting out of their library application so you could telnet to AA, because for some strange reason, it's a faster connection this way. - Unique runs at reboot with Tayrel and Puddles, before this cheesy 35% chance of uniques resetting BS, getting almost every single unique and semi-unique on the game, and having mad auctions that made 2-300k coins. - Partying with Apostle, Merle and Prester, and getting trained how to be a thief by the best of the best. (With a bump and a jostle...) Getting trained (again) by one of the best, Apostle (Gonad, and his other 10 SK alts) on how to player kill in SK. And getting owned by Matar, Devious, Feral, Gonad... (Oh, and the epic battle with Peavey that lasted hours, and walking away with bloody fingers and a scalp of Peavey on my belt) - Finding out how much fun it is to be bountied with an orc rogue with 100 thrown weapon, a full set of eq, and a bunch of potions, oils and javelins. Speaking of rogues and bounties... I'll never forget the first time I ever talked to Lunger (Aram). Of course, I didn't bounty him when I caught him. I just really quickly typed alias a smite Aram, a, drink potion, a, drink potion, a.... what? He's already dead? *cackle* Then he sends me a tell saying that he thought that I was a cleric at first. *grin* Oops. - Intro to Power Parties 101. Gilkumgane. Devious and his alts. fighter / rogue 2man parties that make over 300k exp/hr. Finding out that you can have two guys that know what they're doing make more exp/hr than almost any other 4man party. Finding out how to tank and bash as efficiently as possible. - Partying with Defarge 24/7. Getting to the point before he wizzed where 75% of his parties were just me and him, or me him and Zordax. Millions of exp with just the two of us. - Carrying on the tradition and partying with Zordax 24/7. Millions and millions and millions of exp with just the two of us. Doing the first ever 400k/hr parties. With 1 cleric and 1 fighter. Who needs the other 2 party members? Spending over 3 million coins doing speed runs night after night, building up to our first HoH runs. Doing a run for 365k/hr for Zordax, with me carrying heals for him and purging him as he wrathed the mud to death. Giving ourselves an hour to smoke, get some food, and allow our fingers to stop throbbing... then going right back at it and getting 345k/hr for Calvin with a dark bow, krakadoom, and an buttload of alias pounding. (And having Zordax die to Razar with 15 minutes left in the hour, leaving me to fend for myself without heals) - Parties with the Scythers of old. Bleys. Lunarcee. Emond. Fiend. Warbird. Korg. Ktulu. Delaney. Sinister. Capet. Kicking ass, taking names, owning the mud, and killing every damn NPC on it. Twice. Bashing for Bleys with Calvin, Emond and Lunarsee, and bugging Bleys to check the piggy for Astaroth so I could get the crystal blade so often that Lunarsee flipped out and started asking on the sline "Piggy?" and shouting "piggy?"... and then me replying with the first (and certainly not last) shout of "piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! piggy! " - Tanking mad exp parties. Creating Bismarck without telling anyone who I was. Getting a few lvl 17 bashers and tanking 250k/hr at lvl 12-13. Having Pillar and Rey wondering who the heck this newbie was that could almost hit 400k/hr at lvl 15. Running consistant 400k/hr parties on a daily basis, and having all my bashers saying "No, really dude... you can tell me who you are... I won't tell anyone, honest!" Breaking the 500k/hr mark on a regular basis when 90% of the parties out there were only dreaming about 400. Trunk parties. *drool* Busting the 600k mark with a 627k/hr party with 3 trunk bashers. - Pillar. Crazy, nutsy, spastic, impatient little bastard that he is. Mr. Jumpstart himself. If we're not doing Mach 3, he'll damn well get out a rope and start pulling to make you go faster. Besides being one of my all time favorite bashers ever, and one of my best buds on AA... who else are you gonna find that you can bust balls with as viciously and relentlessly as possible, and then 2 seconds later be tag-teaming some clueless idiot who thinks he's all that. Oh, and not to mention, for those poor, poor tanks that've had me and Pillar in one party.... *shudder* You can probably agree that you've never seen a spammier, funnier pline in your life. - Machine. Gotta love the guy. Insane fast basher, consistant as hell, loves to party, can bash for days on end, knows damn near every trick in the book when it comes to bashing, and is almost a mind reader sometimes. Oh... and this one day, I was idling for some reason at CX... think I was talking to some newbie or something. Anyways, I went afk for a while... got some lunch or something. I come back, and see "The acid burns into your skin" or whatever. I'm like, uh.... wtf? So I scroll up, and see some mageling hit-n-running me while I'm stone statued. *peer* So I quick run to my room, and send a tell to Fiend, who promptly banishes the mageling. Then I find out years later, that the mageling... yep... you guessed it! One of Machine's alts! Little bastidge!
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Post by CalviN on Feb 3, 2005 23:54:43 GMT
Book v2.01 - Certain Lemonicious players that've been around for a while asking if they can bash... and then you notice that they always instantly assist and drop the heals, without fail, each time you start a fight. Then the second something dies, they get the heals. You also notice that they're putting the kniggets in their sack, the potions in a pack, and getting them back out to drop... every time. Wow. Impressive. Then it takes 5 minutes to get a response from them because they're playing a game on their PS2. And the first thing they say, actually SAY on the pline, is: 'What? Did my triggers not work or something? Maybe the tick timer screwed up. Lemme check them.' - Having 100 in 11 skills, and working on the rest. I decide to play one afternoon at home, but there's no tanks around. So I'm soloing, and go to kill the guard in the Stronghold for a spangy and fine plate. I've got him down to hurt, and hear my parents come home upstairs. I type look, and see that the room's reset, and the doors are both closed. Oops. So I type 'open e'.... nothing happens. 'open s'.... nada. Ok... 58 hps. Get potion from sack, drink potion. Nothing. Eat knigget. Nada. Get potion from sack, dp... 13 hps... gp, dp, s, open s, open e, s, e, s, e......... you die. *scream* .......... 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' 'You cannot do that in your immaterial state!' ...... My parents were a little disturbed at how I paced back and forth across the kitchen, mumbling to myself. They didn't quite understand when I said "I just @#$%ing died on Ancient Anguish.", and just sort of shook their heads when I told them how much time and work I just lost. I'd imagine they were both seeing the dollar signs and my college transcripts in their minds... oh well. - On that topic.... I have 13 100s, and in the 90s on MMS, exotic and unarmed. Bashing for Staypuffed (Zurich's old necro), and we're clearing Zhammar tower. I hit start killing Zarakan, and get up to stir my dinner that's cooking on the stove. I turn around to sit down, and see the beginning of the Death scene. I'm like......... uh... wtf? So I scroll up, and see that Staypuffed's rev turned on me halfway thru the fight. I wimpied down, and Staypuffed followed to try to help me. His rev came down, and I wimpied back up. Staypuffed comes up, the rev comes up, I wimpy down. He follows, the rev follows, and I wimpy down again... right into the Chimera. By this time, I have like 23 hps... so I think the Chimera only had to hit me twice. *peer* The funny part was when I prayed and hit the church, I had 2 different pally friends offer to kill Staypuffed for me... and he was thinking about suiciding cuz he felt so bad. - Getting 1600 skills, and thinking you'll never need to use that damn exotic skill again. Then finding out that two weapon skill comes in, and the best combo for it is... you guessed it. Exotic. I'm gonna need 100 and how many million exp to get 100 2weap? - Mad crazy parties with Lanstro and Chun. How many times did the three of us break 700k/hr? *grin* Lanstro... it isn't good enough to break 700k/hr with a rogue... oh no... he's gotta go out and do it with a mage. And if that wasn't hard enough... how about a shifter. *roll* Then I start tanking with Palpatine, my dwarf pallywank... and I start pulling down 700k/hr 3man parties. And start pushing 800k/hr. So he, of course, pulls Lanstro out of the closet, and not only breaks the 800k/hr mark... but damn near breaks 900!!!
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Post by Lanstro on Feb 5, 2005 8:34:38 GMT
drop me a message when you start pushing that 900 mark *wink*
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Post by Wolvie on Feb 9, 2005 7:19:51 GMT
I have been meaning to point this out for the past week or so, but I never remember to when I see him. But, I notice that when you died recently with your paladin, you didn't raise your level. Could you have forgotten [again] to visit your class hall after visiting Death and Lars?
Just feeling like I have to look out for you and all...
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Post by Aurac on Feb 9, 2005 12:10:35 GMT
Missions getting in his way, maybe?
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tinfang
Stableboy
You done with Elvie?
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Post by tinfang on Feb 9, 2005 16:35:29 GMT
Great thread!
My first fondest memories was being totally freaked out that this game was free, running 24/7 and populated with real people as characters. To this day it remains as if something “too good to be true” –and so much better than playing Zork.
My First character was loosely based on my actual name and was a half-elf. After poking around a while I got someone to take me to the ranger camp and I joined up and started roaming around the woods. I remember being so psyched to forage a mushroom or a fruit, or whittle something, all the baby steps of rangering that are experienced as a noob. It was getting funner by the minute, if it weren't for dying at least twice every log on session. Finally I figured out how to stay away from wolverines, giant eagles and ogres, to fight little creatures and set my wimpy. I actually got to advance a level or two between visits to Lars. I joined the monks, which was all stoic and pious for a while, …then joined the Eldar.
What I remember most was the personalities and people I met. One in particular was Puccini. I remember going into the bar in Tantallon and she was sitting there, read her description, something about the oldest elf you ever saw and twinkling eyes, for whatever reason I role-played the poor little orphan boy waif and asked her if she was my mother. She must have gotten a kick out of it cause she hugged me and played along. I wish I could have cut-and-pasted that session, it was a hoot. That kind of spontaneous thing is truly magical, it endeared me to the game and made me see how injecting my imagination into the context of the setting, took the game to a new level. Role-playing wasn't about speaking perfect old-English, it was about being a character, you can be yourself or a person unlike yourself, or a facet of yourself, it is/was a unique creative experience. The thing is that most people are doing it without even trying, except for you human calculators/total power-gamers –you’re all just insane freaks anyway.
One of the coolest first time gaming sessions ever experienced was getting to team up with my nephew and go on some truly memorable first time experiences. While he was at school skipping class I was down in my office skipping meals while we journeyed to the SE Isle and slew the mighty cave bear. Oh man, it was so incredible, we'd get together and talk about that for weeks. Rob (Ironbeard) eventually left school but got hooked up at home so we had many more most-excellent mud-adventures.
Bastard! He’s over on Worlds of Warcraft now! Slipped into the dark side by the lure of eye candy.
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Post by CalviN on Feb 9, 2005 17:03:57 GMT
Hehehe... yeah... Missions. I started Palpatine as a necro... then decided to go pallywank. So I switched to fighter, just to see how well a fighter->pally switch worked for skills. When I hit around 95 ls and 90ish PA and about 80 club... I left fighters, raised to lvl 19 as an adventurer, and joined pallywanks. To avoid missions. Figuring I'd do them sometime. Except... every time I log in that alt, I end up getting good eq, and bashers, and run mad exp parties... Then I died to chaos warrior in lag. Hello, 400 missions. How ya doin? AND... a little CoonAss told me a neat trick. You get pallywank mission credit for every giant/ogre/troll scalp you throw at Elinom. So I said, how neat would it be to JUST do scalps, and say Fuck You to Samantha and her shit ass soup kitchen. Soooo.... started with 400... down to around 80-something. Go go Gadget scalping knife!!!
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Post by tehlung on Feb 9, 2005 17:28:21 GMT
everyone, even big bad powerplaying piggies, needs a friendly, neighborhood, captain fix-it coonass friend. of course, since this is aa, i have to respond to: captain fix captain it captain fix it neighborhood coonass coonass friend friendly friend friendly it neighborhood friend coonass captain friend etc etc
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