A Bit About Me

For those of you who will actually read this, here is a bit of background about who I am and what I am. My name is Amanda, and I am a MUD addict. What is a MUD? It's a Multi-User Dungeon, though I prefer the term Domain to Dungeon. There is a Wiki entry on it an everything. I'm married. I have no kids. I'm not ready to have kids. In fact, I don't think it would be a good idea since I'm clearly not fit to have a healthy marriage.

My main MUD is DartMud. It is by far the best MUD in the world. There is no MUD that will ever or can ever match up to it. I might piddle around in other MUDs for weeks at a time, but DartMud has my heart and soul. Other MUDs feel more like a dirty affair than anything else. They excite me for a while, but at the end of the day, I want the tride and true DartMud.

I have two characters on Dartmud. It's kind of a shame they will never meet. They would make one heck of a mining team. One is a plucky elf named Jask. The other is a silent, plodding centaur named Altal who wants nothing more than to be a noble warrior... and I mean noble much more on the side of the adjective than the noun.

But they're not so important as how I got to where I am today: A MUD addict.

I think it started when I started to read. I became lost in the worlds that the writers created. I wanted to be there. I wanted to be part of the story. It fascinated me. The characters intrigued me. What really began to put me over the edge was The Dragon Riders of Pern series. I really wanted to be in that world. I wanted to ride dragons and defend the world. It was all very romantic and the fantasy of it blew my mind. I yearned for dreams of dragons and soaring through the air. I rarely got those dreams.

I was playing NeoPets one day and saw a DRoP roleplaying thread. I decided to click on it and from that moment on I was hooked to roleplaying. I found a message board and I started to play there. I played there for a year or so before there was some drama that made me walk away good. Then I drifted from dieing board to dieing board.

Then, one day out of the blue, my best friend called me and begged me to get on this thing called the MUD. I was like "Whatever, Jessica. I'm not getting on your stupid little game."

But, none of you know Jessica.. so none of you know how persuasive she can be. She totally got me to download Zmud and sign on. I had no idea what I was doing at all. The Immortals (Imms for short) brought me into a "room" and had to step by step explain to me how to walk, talk, and pick something up. I was completely hopeless and in over my head. However, I slowly got it then I was playing it like it was Spyro or something. It was supposd to be a roleplaying game and, I'm sorry to my friends who are reading this, it wasn't very rp oriented. You had to get flagged for RP which meant writing a background for your character, but there was no actual rp.

However, I enjoyed the game enough. I wasn't addicted to it or anything. I could walk away from it at the snap of a friend's fingers. I would ignore it for a couple of days and go back and not feel any sort of reward for doing so. It was mainly a way to keep track of my best friend without the use of a cellphone. One of the players on the game and I started talking though, and he mentioned this game.

He didn't tell me the name. He just told me that it existed. He was having a blast on it and was complaining to me about how his shirt was destroyed from when he fell off of a horse. I was like "WTF?" That wasn't even possible. At first the way he described the MUD was off putting to me. I did not like how things fell off when you signed off. I was spoiled by the utter simplicity that was Dark Lair.

To make a not so long story a little shorter I gave into him and tried DartMud out. I admit, Jask wasn't my first. I had one character before. Her name was Skyla. She died in less than 24 hours from being eaten by a lion. She does not count. Jask was created in November of 2005. She was supposed to be a warrior, but a troll named Feybol talked her into being a mage. She's been a Crafter ever since.

DartMud roped me into its world. There is no place like it anywhere. I have found muds that have almost literal copies with such miniscule differences they may as well be the same thing. I can't even bring myself to log into LustyMud.. a DartMud spin off. I'm sure that in the first decade or so of DartMud's coding things were rough. I admit there are still bugs. However, that does not take away from the sheer awesomeness that made me an Addict.

My friends and I call it DartDrug. Why? Because it rewards us more than any drug in all the world could do. It triggers everything we need. I mean, why be a socially clumsy person who feels terrible in your own skin when you can be a beautiful, lithe elf that everyone wants to be around?

Anyway, I'm about to fall asleep. I had a scavenger hunt with Altal tonight that frustrated the hell out of me.