I was first introduced to mudding in the computer lab of my college. There was a guy sitting next to me who was playing a MUD. I asked him, "What the hell are you doing?" He said he was playing beasties.
I watched for a while, he was killing some worms. I sarcastically said, "Wow, it must be dangerous to kill worms," I laughed but then he explained to me different stuff that goes on. I went over to the guys dorm room and watched him play for a while. It was interesting shit. I asked if I could try it out and he let me, but I couldn't figure it out. I had him make me out a cheat sheet and i played for a while. My first character was a Troll Warrior, a big mistake for me the newbie. I never got him past 20 for I knew no one in the Underdark.
I decided to try out life topside where I rolled a Centaur Warrior named Dubar. I was pretty stupid and did some dumb stuff like corpse looking. It was even more stupid because I would just loot coins or something. Well, I eventually got outcasted so I deleted that character and rerolled a new Dubar. This time around I knew what I was doing more, so I had a better grip on how things worked.
One day, while b.s'ing at the inn, the alarm bells went off. Two loaded evils had walked into the north gates of tharn. They were fully loaded with gear, in fact, it was probably one of the best sets in the game without an arti. The gear made my level 20 character pretty bad ass and I started leveling fast. Then one day at the southern gates of Tharn, 2 high level guys trapped and killed me right in front of the guards. I was sooooooo pissed off. I still had some gear left but I had lost the best stuff.
I got a few more levels and, at level 25, Laval, the leader of Ad Gloriam was at the inn. I asked him about his guild. He pretty much made me join then and there or never, and I, being the newbie I was, went for it. I met a lot of really cool people, and this is when i got hooked on the game. When i joined, I had a ton of cash in my accounts. All the money went to the guild and i was quickly promoted up one level.
Life went on for a while and one day I found a corpse with aboleth leggings in it. I, being a Centaur, had no use for them, so I gave them to the guild leader, Laval. Laval was so happy that he promoted me yet again. I was feeling pretty good now so i started doing more stuff on my own, learning zones and leading exp. Eventually I ended up learning where to get gear on the southern continent (BS, Church and Baileys).
Around this time I rolled up my Druid, Dubaria. Dubaria was a Centaur druid that i usually kept pretty well stocked with gear left over from my warrior. I often used Dubaria with my friends to level them up in the blasphemy room in the Church. It was a lot of fun. I eventually traded Dubaria off for a 51 rakshasa shaman, but that's another story.
I also started solo raiding with Shirer. It was a lot of fun, because we knew the UD maps somewhat, enough to hit newbies anyways. It was a lot of fun and we never lost on a raid.
I started hanging out with a friendly Dwarf Cleric named Aleina, who later rolled the sorcerer Falari cause she wanted to deal out damage. She's really cool and writes for Basternae 2 now as well.
Ad Gloriam ended up breaking up because a lot of us "upshots" didn't like the way the leaders, mainly Laval, did their own thing and never helped us out. Typhon ended up taking control of most of us (I was planning on forming the new guild but I backed off) and formed the new guild, Zepharius. Zepharius was a lot of fun because we all did shit together. I ended up being one of the leaders for a while. Well, Typhon ended up having to do all kinds of stuff for his community theatre or something so we disbanded as well.
Earas was one of the guys I did exp with in Ad Gloriam. Well he rolled a necro named Zerlin who was really cool. He was one of the leaders in both guilds, and he ended up forming Exodus. In Exodus I finally got level 50, but i promptly deleted after a really bad week.
When CTF started I played a lot of Psionicist (Lolo) and had a really good time. I had a great set of gear but I was surrounded by twinks so I went evil. Lama and I were together in the guild Lords of Illusion which was really fun to raid tharn with. I ended up with over 80 frags which was fun for a guy who never got over 10 positive frags before.
Now that Basternae is reopened, I play a Goblin Cleric named Goba. Its a lot of fun running around all the zones pre-map. I've learned a lot about being a cleric full time.
You may see Dubar again as a Centaur Warrior.
(2/14/00)-Well I've been playing Duris a lot lately and have leveled up a dwarf cleric named Lourde. At first I was playing a Necro because i didn't want to deal with people, but now i like it a lot.
I joined a guild, Ivory Order, and learned the locations of a lot of Duris zones, from there it was easy leveling for the most part. The guild was pretty much dead so we ended up organizing a merger with aftermath, my current guild.
Aftermath rules and we have 2 guild halls and a teleporter to Ever Meet so we are all advancing levels fast. In Aftermath I group a lot with Tembo (sorc) and Alachest(monk), two of the coolest mudders around. I also hang out with joral and lod, both monks and great for exp groups.
I did tiamat one day and it was really fun. I got like 7 notches on that trip. But anyways, as of 2-14-00 I am level 49 and 2 notches from 50 so I guess i've proved i can do it on both muds. Anyways, see you around.
update well, dubar was a god for almost a year on Basternae II: Phoenix Rising. I have been implementing a lot of zones and such, working on the project. I recently quit the immortal character and went back to playing. I'm currently in a great guild called Demonic Souls and have a level 50 goblin warrior. Its a pretty fun bunch, but I haven't fragged yet. Soon my friend! Soon!