Been ages since I played.
Started out a lousy diku mud. Year after year, bits and pieces were added. I don't know when I joined, but boy did I get hooked. I can't remember how much time I logged, but I know it was more then 10 days playtime. That's 240+ hours logged in and playing the game.
I got into it, I lived a private life in a secluded city away from all the PK types, doing my thing and advancing at my own pace.
One day I discovered a black runed spellbook, and upon studying it, scribed the 'prismatic spray' spell into my book. One of a mage's most powerful spells. Three weeks prior, I went solo and found cone of cold, which is a very nice direct damage spell. I was finally starting to gain power, and prismatic spray just put me into 'leet'.
Boy, I should've smelt that trap. 2 hours later, jerry springer is running around the lands killing things, and soon after that, every online player is summoned to solace square where cyan bloodbane is beating the hell out of everyone and everything. A little while later, the mud goes down.
A long time later, the mud comes back up.. Oh wait, all my hard work no longer exists. That's right, they PLAYERWIPE regularly. The only REAL purpose for this is so they can redistribute the kickass gear of STFU from powerclan1, back into the database, to be distributed again once everyone gets their power back.
But here I was, all that time, all that effort, into something I thought I could work on and build with and enjoy... *SHFOOM!!!!!!* right down the drain. I came back, but didn't get so INTO it, knowing what would happen. Played a cleric, acquired heal solo, was enjoying it.. WIPE!!!!!
It's all gone again..
....I quit shortly thereafter.
Worth a try, _MAYBE_ Don't get into it though.
