The Adventuress

My First RPG Post! Yay!

by Amber on August 4th, 2006

In my days of misspent youth and heartache, the very first MMORPG my gawky teenage self played was a little game called Ultima Online. Now, I was a gigantic fan of the Ultima series back when I was a young lass, so it seemed only natural to play Ultima Online. I loved the third person feel, the fact that you could have a profession and gain skills, build house, ride horses, chat with your buddies and all that good stuff. It was great.

Plus it helped me communicate with my dad more often after my parents split up. See, my dad doesn’t like talking on the phone very much and me being his daughter… well, I inherited that same trait. So, instead of talking on the phone, I would log into Ultima Online and go around slaughtering masses of monsters with my dad.

Now, my dad’s character was a bit… eccentric. His name was Strata and he was incredibly strong. He also ran around naked and asked everyone if they were his “Mommy”. Now, it was fun to watch these n00b Ultima Players go “Ummm, WTF is this guy on?”. Like I said, the best part is he ran around naked. Who does that?

Fight, fight, fight, fight… gee I hope I look alright. Like totally, for sure. I even had a manicure.

So, the n00bs, thinking they have an easy kill, would start hacking on my dad only to be killed in 2 or 3 hits. And then my dad would steal all of their stuff.

It was awesome!

Now, when I first started, there were millions of players on their servers just running around, lagging every body’s 56k modems, which is what was standard in UO’s hayday. Since servers weren’t what they are today, the UO people had to constantly to maintenance, which they did at about 2 o’clock every day.

Homies all just… chattin’ foo’

What this meant is that they would send out a message telling everyone to get to a safe spot, they would save the servers as they were and then shut them down. Well, once they saved the server, they would give you 5 minutes before they shut down the servers. This meant absolute chaos! People would start killing other players and stealing all their crap. It was absolutely awesome! And then after they shut down the servers and rebooted them, you were back at your save spot, nice and alive and with all of your stuff.

Ahhhh, those were they days.

Player’s will spend weeks making monstrosity houses such as this.

Alright… I’ve rambled enough. In my next entry, I’ll talk a bit about Ultima Online’s free shards and how awesome those are.

It’s sweet to ramble.

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