Marius the Black:
I'd just come from a previous shard that I can't even remember the name of now. I'd found WoD - what I thought to be a "roleplay" server. Having a look around, I was immediately disgusted with how nicey-nice it was. So I decided to pick a niche and that niche was 'evil villain'. And after much angst over a name, Marius was born. It was less than a week into me being here, and I'd posted around on the Forums I think, and had a bit of an explore, but still was a total noob. At the time, the biggest fuss was over some girl named 'Ciara', who I had only seen and been intimidated by. I was walking down by south Britain, having asked my g/f to join. Some of you know her as Arafennaswen. I had her use my email, cause she didn't have one. Anyway, Siobhan came up to me, to clarify the matter, being all nice. Of course, all she said was "can I ask you a question?" and I thought 'oh here we go, some noob' so I went all Marius on her and was basically an evil rude bastard. To which she replied - with a smile on her face I’m sure - 'you know, I'm a DM, you don't have to rp with me'. And ever since I've been trying to make that up to her.
That's my favourite story, and my best memory of WoD.
Siobhan: I got you back much later when Cameryn was rude to Marius
Marius the Black: HAHAHAH
Marius the Black: I enjoyed that.
Daeric:
Well I've got tons of stories.. happy and sad like everyone.. but I think I'll go back all the way to my first WoD memory. So a good friend of mine introduced me to UO (OSI) initially, which I quit after about 6 months. eventually my friend Maerin tells me he found this great new Free shard with No Pkers, thieves and kewl admin.. so I dust off the old UO CD and fire it up (much to Ciara's dislike I might add). I send in an application.. which was voted.. 7 for 3 against I believe (Joram Lionheart: man I knew I should've voted against
) anyway.. so I log in and meet up with Maerin, he shows me the very basics, gives me some leather and runs off. being an old OSI veteran I'm thinkin.. ok I'll mine to build stats. so I mine for a while.. and embarrassingly enough.. a slime shows up. not sure if it came from the mining or wondered in from the woods anymore.. but man was that sucker mean.. so my hitpoints quickly falling..I um.. well I ran from the slime.. it paced me pretty good though in the woods.. I was out of practice.. but my healthbar kept jumping back up. I'd get hit, be at half.. then at full again... over and over, but I was running.. so I didn't really think about it. well.. eventually I took a sharp turn.. and my attacker cornered me. down I went.. defeated by this mean slime. strangely enough a woman appears in a black and green sparklie outfit, and I'm ressed.. and immediately killed again. then magically the slime disappears.. and I'm ressed again and healed. I had met and played with Dundee and Shade on Lake Superior… not much but I knew shade (she was the one who helped me start playing there too) Anyway, my rescuer was Shade.. she'd been running through the woods behind me.. refreshing my hitpoints, trying to get the slime off me.. when I took my sharp turn she lost sight of me and so I died. we sat and chatted for a bit, and she welcomed me to WoD. And that was my first fight on WoD
and my first intro to what real admin do.
Siobhan:
A really quick one that everyone has probably already heard…It involves C the n00b and Rod's brother Samel. I was all decked out in my newbie armor.. holding my trusty spear, and couldn't figure out the command to disarm. Rod hadn't taught me how to do many macros yet, so I typed them when I could remember what they were
So I asked Samel how to disarm and he said .undress… and like a n00b.. I believed him. besides.. he could be trusted right? I'll never forgive him for that...
Daeric: C had a couple of issues with .undress *grin*
Siobhan: nor will I forgive Rod for the typo in the .undress jewelry script
Daeric: Like I know how to spell it
Siobhan: Hehe did you ASK?
Siobhan: Oh wait.. it was a surprise
Daeric: C always hated taking off Jewelry..so I added in the jewelry flag.. and gave it to drocket, who looked it over briefly and implimented it. well my sweet little baby spelled Jewelry correctly
and stripped down buck naked...
Siobhan: in the middle of a HUGE quest split
Daeric: because in order for it to work you needed to spell it "Jewlery"
Siobhan: and there I was.. with 25 people around me asking what the hell I was doing..and Drocket and Daeric laughing their asses off …I was not amused
Daeric: *trys to stop gigglin*
Henna:
well let's see... when i got my acceptance letter, i remember being soo excited…logged in that day and spent the next several days with Anwa, the person who brought me to the shard, learning how to play and get around. it was all very foreign to me
but I spent time only with him, and didn't meet anyone else for a long time. and then one day, I logged on and Anwa was not here, and so I found myself alone. I must have looked very lost and alone, sitting at the bank… and in walked Amileth… and she immediately started talking to me and invited me to come see her new house in Vesper, and, though very shy, i accepted. While I was there, Ciara came in... it was the first time I met her. I had no idea who she was at the time, but i sat there...amazed to be welcomed so wholly by such strangers…and though C had to leave, I spent the day watching Ami deco her new house… just chatting
and that has always been one of my favorite memories. It was the beginning, for me.. of understanding how awesome the people here were… and I am going to miss it.
Trakas Soulfire:
i think my most memorable moment on wod was my first couple days. i first logged in and was out killin chickens. i came back to town after buying my first leather armor… was all proud didn’t know very much…i was coming back to the sw bridge in brit and guess what i found?
Siobhan: branubians?
Trakas Soulfire: oh yeah nubes…i was walking then all the sudden poof you see a screen fill up with red and grey…run run die…for some reason 30 health and leather cant get you through very much. from the museum i think i made it maybe to the edge of the bridge. i didn’t know about owning my gear at the time so i was devastated… i thought i lost all the stuff i had worked so hard for. i went to the healer and found out i was in the middle of a town invasion. i had a whole bunch of people i can only member a few names cause there were so many… i know tristan gryphon was the and bron and a pile of others…and from that night i learned what all wod was all about. they gave me new gear and helped with with my skills and taught me the safe way to hunt with others… not run ahead and draw them back…that was a bad idea.
and from that night on i knew that i could love no other place as much as here and everyday it just strengthened. even when i had all my uber gear, i loved to log on just to chat and help others the way i was helped at first…and that is my most memorable wod event. not to say that there haven’t been others… that just instilled in me the way things should always be.
Wings:
When I first started here eons ago, I had been invited by a friend to come play with him. he disappeared shortly after I arrived so I was kinda on my own. I walked into the bank and was going to log out when someone hollered at me…that was Antimony…she was the first person to talk to me when I got here besides my friend. she fixed me up with some armor and sat and talked with me for hours…that was something I never expected to happen. of course I never played on osi or any other shard, but I figured no one would talk to me because I was new and a total stranger to uo. any how, Anti had to log out I think, and I was just sitting there in the bank when along came Mich…and E of course because back then they were inseparable…they invited me out for a hunt. now I was totally lost. I didn't have a clue how to fight, but they were so totally patient with me. That day I learned just how kind the people of wod really were. learned how not to die too, hehe. I think the event that had the biggest impact on me tho, would be when I got up one day and sat down to read the boards. there on the last forum I read was a post from Rod…Lady Ciara was very ill and in the hospital. I was devastated. she was my bestest friend and a few people knew that. there were a few people that knew how important C was to me…one of them was Cathavene. as soon as I logged on she messaged me to ask if I was ok and how I took the news. I couldn't even type threw the tears hardly but she knew I was pretty upset. she spent the next 3 weeks with me helping me to do stuff for C so she wouldn't be over whelmed when she got back. it was the nicest thing anyone had ever done for me, she knew I needed something to and it made me feel better to do something for C while she was gone
Michella:
there was on time that had me falling off my computer chair, but sad to say it wasn't so funny for a young fella named Xan
Siobhan: Granola?
Michella: aye
Siobhan: hehe Andy gave him that nickname
Michella: he was innocently sitting in the bank minding his own business when someone asked Michella ( I think) to open a chest for them. oh maybe it was Angelica…Angelica, being the helpful sort she is, never even thought before she double clicked on her trusty lockpicks, and *fwap* next thing she saw was the flattened body of Xan laying next to her. I couldn't believe my eyes when the next words out of this young man's lips were WTF!!! So much for helping out in the bank
Daeric:
I created Roderick shortly after the Druids were introduced to the shard and played him almost exclusively for the longest time. Eventually I decided to try out necromancy..so I go off, and create a new char.. named him Rederick..Rod's evil Twin brother….and log in..I start trying to round things up for my new char..and Ehran starts going off on me..I'm not sure if it was in message or if he was actually there at first..but he basically is telling me that I need to change my name because there is a Roderick here.. and it wouldn't be right for me to take treat his name like that. so when I finally get him to stop yelling at me long enough..I say.. E! I'm Roderick
This is my new Necro..QWQWQA What ? hehe… “Oh.. sorry Rod
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Michella: That is so like Ehran
Daeric: Was pretty cute
Siobhan:
it was back during the introduction of druidry and blights covered the shard. Ciara got poisoned by a reaper or blighted animal and umm.. some n00B scripter had messed something up and C died about 500 times.
(Drocket: *whistles innocently*) I think Felix and Rod were in tears and I was so clueless. hehe
Daeric: we were trying so hard, chaining heal scrolls as fast as we could… we couldn't keep up
Edison: I seem to remember hearing a story of a certain new player killed and telling her significant other to come help, she was dead by a tree
Daeric: hahaha
Edison: come help
Siobhan: *hides*
Daeric: 3am, I get woke up by my Pager
Daeric: I died..
Daeric: so I jump up and log in.. I'm by a tree
Daeric: umm... could you be a little more specific ?
Daeric: well there are several tree's and some grass
Siobhan: well…there was nothing else there
Daeric: true… she was over in a clearing near the dessert
Siobhan: I was so new.. I didn't have UOAM or anything…I did a few minutes later, though
Ehran:
i remember one time ciara scared the crap out of me, indirectly tho. she was going to take a new player up to the shabooli camp and show him around. i glommed on to watch the fun. we got about half way into the camp and everything was going just fine…then ciara took that one fatal step and every booli in creation popped out at her bunch of witch doctors all mana dumped on her and damned if she didn't drop under it…then they all come after me. well i figured holy crap they got ciara…i am soooo cooked…but i stood there hoping the new player would get out of range before i went under. it worked out well in the end though cause they were out of mana so it was just a matter of chopping them down and sorting out the stuff
Daeric: And thus began Ehran’s selfless tactic of charging in to die so we could all be safe
Ehran: best i could claim was i didn't run away… the boolis did all the charging required
Ehran:
michella and i for a time liked to meet new players and show them around…sorta welcome wagon thing…one time we were showing a little group of new players how treasure maps work…i happened to have one for hyloth island…figured it’s a low level map and there is nothing on the island, safe as houses for new players…so we go down there and start hiking up toward the north part of the island chatting as we go… suddenly a flight of 6 or 7 dragons shows up and homes in ….i happened to be a little bit in front and the leading pair of dragons locked on me…both royals of course…so i figure ok i will draw them off…mich and the others should be able to handle the rest….ok good plan so far…i run off away from the party…straight into the coast….crap….cannot run back without possibly dropping them on the main group….so i am running madly about mostly staying away from them and getting some whacks of my own in, which works better than i figured…. when one of the new players wanders on screen…i figure at first, oh goody help…then, hmm hope he doesn't get killed trying to help. no fears…. he sits down on a log and *claps* repeatedly……killed the dragons eventually but i just about got killed laughing over that…..funnier now than then
Posted: Tue Sep 07, 2004 5:00 am