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Hello! I've recently been out of a MUD to play, and now I am searching for a new home. I've been searching for a few months now and I"m having trouble finding a MUD that I can stick with. Maybe I'm just not patient enough. But if you could help me out that would be great!!

Some things that throw me off of a MUD right away:

** Too much color!: I want color in my MUD, but not with EVERY thing colored, and especially not BRIGHT colors, unless you can configure and change things then that's fine.

**Not being able to find your way around: Of course, first starting a MUD you will be disoriented, and this is normal a little bit. But what I really hate is when you're plopped in the middle of some place, with no maps, and you need to get somewhere to go any farther.. but you can't find the stupid place!! Yeah.. quite annoying.

**Excessive OOC talk: I want to be part of the roleplay almost immediately. I don't want to be submersed with real worldly things, I'd like to get to know the MUD and its environment in character. Some is okay if it is to help me understand the MUD better.


Some things that I enjoy in a MUD, and what I am looking for:

**Friendly environment

**Roleplay at least accepted, preferred encouraged or even mandatory

**Player Killing should be restricted, or backed up with roleplay

**A MUD that focuses more on Roleplay than 'Roll-Play': For this I will add a little something. I would like to be away from D&D type MUDs and similar ones to that, as I know NOTHING about that, and get really confused with excessive stats.

**A history or back story would be nice

**There should be some races, preferably original, and I do like classes

**Level-based as well

A minor side note: I like to be a part of a class right away, with pre-defined skills if possible. It isn't important but it is something that I enjoy more than picking and choosing skills/spells.

I think that's most of it. If you can suggest a MUD that fits some of these I would appreciate it. Thanks!