My MUDding History


The winter of my eight grade year, I started MUDding on a local MUD by the name of KallistiMUD. I MUDded there for a while with Aaron Gallant (known as Babin and Apathy on RoninMUD) until the MUD closed down in about April of 1996. I did a net search for MUD and the first thing I found was the RoninMUD homepage. I tried out Ronin and really loved it. I've tried plenty of other MUDs since then, but never a MUD as cool as Ronin. Yes, Ronin is even cooler than my own MUD by the name of MUDweiser. Here's a lame story about the characters that I've had on Ronin:

A young man by the name of Feroz spent much of his youth in Midgaard kicking beastly fidos and beating up drunks with his friends while cityguards weren't looking. While it was entertaining for a while, he decided he wanted real adventure, so he cleaned up his act and enrolled in paladin school. He graduated with honors and began his adventuring career. Some helpful experienced adventurers such as Toyo and Mars got him started and taught his some places to visit. He returned to Midgaard and found some of his old friends. One of his friends, Kyle, was still just hanging around in town, so Feroz taught him some of his physical skills and Kyle became a warrior. Feroz and Kyle grouped sometimes to conquer the realm of the griffons and sometimes travelled alone. Feroz also found that another one of his friend's had decided to become a skilled fighter. His old friend Xaz had become a ninja. The three of them helped each other learn the world of Ronin and increased in skills and knowledge.
Feroz, after reaching the reasonable level of 19, had a streak of dying to the forces of evil, so he decided to hire some help. He found a young man by the name of Eron and taught his his warrior skills and he found a young holy man by the name of Hazadur and taught him his cleric magic. The three eventually became excellent friends and always grouped when they went adventuring, and they still grouped with Kyle and Xaz sometimes. Feroz, Hazadur, and Eron took the summer of from exploring and went to vacation in Europe, but returned again in September.
Feroz recovered from his dying streak with the help of Toyo and others and he reached level 30, soon followed by Eron. Hazadur, however, died 7 times at level 29, and took a bit longer than the others. After all three reached level 30, they were helped by Hhjj and others to learn the arts of veterans and find more powerful equipment. Shortly after the group of three reached level 30, Kyle and his multi all reached level 30, and the two groups headed to Pompeii and got drunk off of the the expensive roman wine. The two groups of level 30 characters, soon followed by Xaz, became a clan under the name of [ChAoS CoRpS] and even achieved a small amount of fame in a world ruled by [WUZZ PATROL],[DAMAGE INC.], [H I A], and ( Diabolik ). The chaos corps people were soon joined with the Jamie and his friends from Waterville, Maine to make the Tilt clan. While in Tilt, Feroz decided to take an extended vacation. Without a powerful hitter, Hazadur and Eron couldn't do much so they got a young man by the name of Zarubi to explore with them, and Zarubi became a ninja. When Zarubi reached level 30, he decided not to use the metaphysician as his friends suggested, but continued to gain experience in hopes of becoming a god. With the help of Flea, the man that used to compete with Feroz in the zoo and other areas as a newbie, Zarubi got some pretty good gear and was allowed to become a god after dying once with 29,000,000 experience.
At that time, Feroz returned but found he was too old for fighting any longer, so he retired and Hazadur and Eron hired a young bard by the name of Rasputin. Rasputin was invaluable as when ever Eron would die, as he would quickly grab Eron's corpse and recall the rest of the fighters to the safety of the Midgaard Temple. However he didn't hit nearly as hard as Feroz or Zarubi had. After thinking about that problem for a while, the group decided Eron would retire also and they got a new tank by the name of Adun. Adun was a thief and hit much harder than Eron did, but had less hit points.
At that time, the immortal world of Ronin suffered a coup by Hellraiser (aptly named) and Ranger and Lem were forced to move the MUD elsewhere. During a long downtime before Ronin found a new site, Tilt split and Hazadur rejoined his old Chaos Corps friends and they formed @vErTiGo@ along with some other local Corvallis people, including Babin, Juke, and Hethra.
Rasputin, still skilled at recalling after Adun died, one day decided to stick around after Adun died and tanked the mob instead. He throughly enjoyed it, and took the job over from Adun. Now the group had the problem of needing a hitter, but they found a young man by the name of Soltari who joined them as a ninja. Soltari fought with them for a while but later decided adventuring was no fun and took up a job as a baker in Midgaard. Again, Hazadur and Rasputin were without a tank.
Zarubi, who had become a god at a young age has decided that being a god was no fun and he wanted to go on adventures again. Feroz, who was an old man, decided he would like to be a god and they convinced Ranger to switch them as long as Zarubi started as a level one character of a different class. Feroz then became a god and Ranger was nice enough to teach him musical skills to he could sing and play instruments to pass his time as a god. Zarubi then became a paladin in honor of Feroz and rejoined Hazadur and Rasputin. Since then, the threesome have enjoyed numerous adventures and gained in knowledge, gear, and natural stats. Even those people that told Rasputin he was crazy to tank as bard have become to be silenced since he broke 500 hit points.
Hazadur has weathered numerous battles and has become an old man, but recently was been using his experience and lots of gold to increase his life span so he doesn't have to retire like Feroz and Eron had. Even Rasputin is getting old, but the time has paid off. I'm proud to consider myself almost equal with many the greats of the world of RoninMUD.
In August of 1998, I left vertigo. In February of 1999, I was rejoined by several of my old Corvallis friends and we started *W*O*M*P*A* but that didn't work out either, so now I'm going it alone. In the meantime, Feroz has been busy coordinating another annex for the zoo with the Mayor. The project involves a larger petting zoo, more exhibits to the west end, access to the offices of the zoo keepers for mortals, and training of the older animals to do some new tricks. The project should be completed in the summer of 1999.

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