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Mystery (aka Prince Mystery) began his experiences in the massively multiplayer realm by spending an inordinate amount of time on Compuserve, becoming well-known as a newbie and a loser in both Island of Kesmai and British Isles. His last character on Island of Kesmai was engulfed in a fireball, and the corpse picked clean by a guy that was supposed to be showing him the lower levels of a city dungeon.

Not that Mystery learned anything from that experience.

After Compuserve refused to charge anything more to his overburdened credit cards, Mystery found new life in MUDs, and the limited multiplayer experiences offered by BBS "Door" games (specifically "Tradewars"). Becoming quickly addicted to MUDs, Mystery became a coder (or Wizard) for a number of them, and was well known for requesting the high-resolution machines in the college computer lab -- just for the capability to have multiple worlds open at one time.

One such MUD was Ivory Tower (no current known IP), where the founding Wizards went on to create a local ISP named ITIS (Ivory Tower Information Services), which got bought out by about 50 businesses, and now is currently known as Chorus Net.

After moving away, Mystery became caught up in the burgeoning Quake scene, and hooked up with people like Blue, and (SORRY, NAME DROPPING LIMIT REACHED). For a while, as a side project, he created and ran the Quake Automated News Server, and helped the folks over at Telefragged with a couple of scripting projects.

And then...well, he dropped off the face of the earth. Finding corporate life and family life just waaaaayyy too engaging, Mystery devoted his free time to actually playing games rather than talking about them. Silly, silly man.

 

 

Meatball is one of those addicts bouncing from addiction to addiction on a regular basis. Other than the precursory Basic D&D and pen and paper stuff when he was a kid, most of his time was spent beating up Infocom games like Zork, Necromancer, and Planetfall on his trusty Commodore 64. Meatball was then shown the wonderful world of online gaming during college and began playing various Muds in earnest. The two that he spent most of his early years with were Ancient Anguish (www.anguish.org) as Taurad the clueless Knight of Drin, and the now defunct BattleTech 3056 (The Battletech Mu* of the day) as Chris Styger, General of the Free Rasalhague Military.

Always the avid gamer, Muds and Muxes came and went through Meatball’s telnet command line. The great roleplay and people on most of them are still one of the biggest bonuses of the Mu* community. He still plays them on occasion as Draeden on Shadowrun Seattle (www.dnaco.net/~shadow/) or Liartes on FiranMux (http://www.legendary.org/~firan/).

Then it happened…Asheron’s Crack…actually Call. This came out and blew away his concept of MMORPG’s. He had tried Ultima Online and Meridian 59, but this was way above and beyond. Unfortunately it didn’t live up to his thoughts of what an online RPG (note the RP in RPG kids, that stands for roleplay) should be. After ignoring life for close to a year he finally got fed up with “Kewl D00ds” looking for “L33T L00T” and decided enough is enough. (The idjit running through town wearing a Mosswart head in a red dress and screaming was the last straw.)

So here Meatball sits, anxiously awaiting the next addiction and fueling it by reading and writing about all sorts of games. Most bets right now are on Anarchy Online…