Die alten Freuden
1. Karjala the Downside-Up Sorceress, Bringer of Destruction
Despite being my first ever character in this game she has survived quite a lot, becoming a debatably powerful mortal! Her day-1 kill list includes: a raven, a firefly, an urn and a parrot that wouldn't shut up.
- 19/9/2024: Karjala came into mud's world knowing jack shit, died in a collapsing tunnel, almost died fighting a parrot but killed it in the rematch, got a very powerful wand courtesy of heiach the sorceress (I think), didn't want to be "death, bringer of destruction" and was nicknamed that ever since. Logged out in a shed and found it to be closed the next session so no more wand :(
- 20/9/2024: Karjala spent hours trying to find something to bash the shed door and recover her wand, didn't find anything. Then I typed in a random command and was told I was meant to go to something called the touchstone, didn't find it after 30 mins so I got on a boat and drowned after moving west once. Logged out then and there accepting defeat for the day.
- 20/9/2024: Same day, logged in later. Mucked about trying to get points. Killed some stuff, fell down an unlit incinerator and died. Got back up, drank some beer I found in an abandoned inn, killed some stuff and almost died to a thief, swamped some bottles for a whole 2 points, logged out, like a boss.
- 21/9/2024: Karjala has become a warrior! I've been up all morning swamping random stuff to get there! I lost the warrior rank an hour later due to having to flee from the vampire :( | I got the rank back after another hour!
- 23/9/2024: Tried to get the ball rolling today by swamping some stuff while doing nothing in school, overall lost like 23 points, not good, had to flee the electric eel twice.
- 26/9/2024: New bash happened! Scored a shit ton of points! Followed winnie around basically the entire thing, gently opening doors for her and sometimes even killing things! I killed a goblin or 2, helped with the wyvern and a dwarf guard that left me in shambles and almost got rid of Karjala for good. It was very fun ngl, time flew by! Can't wait for the summary on the forums so I can now what everyone else was up to.
- 9/10/2024: BASH TIEM!1!! Went solo today because... because... I went solo and first encountered an ape which fled and I forgot to follow it. Then I found and destroyed a raven for landing on my head. After like 20 minutes of nothing I found a stegosaurus and was about to kill it when CrazyFool said "don't kill it we need it to end the bash" so I fled and lost 275 points and my sabre, I was then swiftly informed I had been thoroughly gaslight and was handed the kill by Heiach (by making the giant dinosaur sleep while I attacked it) as well as my points and the sabre. After this, in the inn, a magpie stole a shilling from me, I tried to kill it but didn't know where it flew off to so CrazyFool on his redemption arc gave me the oracle, capable of telling its holder where anything and anyone is. I followed it for ages and finally caught up and killed it up thoroughly. Then after some waiting, the bash ended. I was only 500 points from Championne so the wizzes decided to give me a consolation price that allowed me to go to the touchstone and touch it... KARJALA IS NOW MAGICC!!
- 25/10/2024:Another bash happened finally after 2 weeks of hanging out in the tearoom instead of killing stuff (I think they were just not sure what to do with halloween so they kept planning instead of bashing, I don't blame em they're swell ppl). This bash was very eventful seeing 2 players DIE (maybe more died I didn't make it to the end). I finally got a taste of the magic system and yeah it's pretty useful, would be even more useful if I knew where stuff is, the game can tell me ape10 is in 'Dense Forest' all it wants, if I don't know how to get to the dense forest or which dense forest it is I'm cooked (and that damned ape is let to live). I didn't rank up because I'm in a pretty high position rn and not having the 3k points u get at the end was definetly not good. Whatever bashes are only really fun for the interactions you go on with the people lol we could stay in the tearoom and have fun regardless imo. For me rn (not knowing how to play the game) mud is like the best chatroom ever. Anways, about the bash itself; 2 people died (1 person... Zedar, died twice), I almost died to a horde of goblins that kept growing in the cellar until someone came to help me (I think it was Zedar but I can't remember, names were so long due to the prefixes that my brain stopped working). And yeah about those prefixes, I still don't know how CF got away with it, mf was calling people "latex temptress" and "scary-sexpot" (I still don't know what the latter means btw). He must be stopped! My prefix was "haunting-newbie" I'm guessing because I'm creepy and look around in 20 year old forum posts and end up finding about stuff these people brain-blocked out for almost 2 decades (You don't want to know what a naked bash is, circa '08). About the mob killing I almost instantly had to test my magic skills by being attacke by a "nanny goat", killed it with me bare 'ands and totally didn't cripple myself thrice. I then wandered around for like 20 mins, killed a canary in the mine (I still feel bad about it, it's last words were "tweet tweet" and right below that appear "the canary1 has passed on". I then tried to get to the dwarf realm but due to incompetence and a lack of focus once I got there Winnie had already killed every single thing. Shortly after I had to go as my mom's yelling for me to go and eat dinner intensified past the point of safety. Overall it was a very fun bash even if I did jack shit. The people thereare just so fun (even if I don't get some jokes due to the fact I'm young as shit and from an entirely different culture and country).
- 16/12/2024:Got on today just to kil some time and god did it go south... I almost killed a fox but it fled too fast and I coudn't find it, then I attacked a coot, thinking it'd be easy if I cripple it and turned invisible, I crippled it first try but it barely made a dent, my invisibility spell failed 4 times, putting me at danger of losing my ability to do magic while the coot got me down to 30 stamina while only looking superficially injured... WHY ARE THE COOTS OP?! IT'S A WATER BIRD WTF!!! I rage quit after swamping 2 things and lost a whopping 609 points in 10 minutes... Also if ur reading this I'm sorry for not showing up to any bashes since like october I'll try to show up for the christmas ones!!
- 19/12/2024:Once again decided to kill some time while in a boring english class by playing mud in anticipation of the bash later today, killed a few things (firefly and parrot) and swamped the poppy and the piano stool, died in the same tunnel I died to when I began playing this game, Karjala has now died to environmental hazards like 6 times in less than 10 sessions... Immediately after seeing the oh so familiar text I felt so dumb I started considering taking a rain check on living ngl... Also there was someone called FireDemon who joined while I was at the inn killing the parrot, he said hello and I said hallo and then I never heard from him again, tried to do 'wh firedemon' but it said "Don't even think about it", he was a wizard so it checks out but the game didn't have to make it sound like he was right behind me with a loaded firearm lol
- 19/12/2024:BASH!!! This bash was awesome on the funny front but it was one hell of a disaster on the gameplay side of things... I lost so many points I was knocked down from sorceress to spellbindress... How I lost those points you ask? Listen to my tale of woe: I joined early so I chatted with the lads and the gals for a few waiting for ppl to join, once everyone joined and we all went north to the wilds beyond the tearoom I immediately thought up a plan. I used my location spell to figure out where the Coot that ruined my day on monday was, I recognised the name of the area but I couldn't get there... On my aimless search for the coot I fund various mobiles and swiftly got rid of them in the name of the bash but then I made a fateful mistake; I hit father christmas in the nose. He immediately dropped every gift he had on his sack and pulled up his sleeve, revealing a string of terrific gym gains, he swiftly and decisively knocked me around, putting me down to 23 stamina and had to flee for my life, I found myself inside the cabin on the other side of the road, bleeding and begging for someone to take pity and murder him before my first ever persona was slain by the historical figure santa claus. I got out of the cabin, having recovered only to half my maximum stamina, only to hear ominously "You better watch, you better watch, YOU BETTER WATCH OUT!" as Santa went in for the coupe-de-grace. The battle was little more than a beating as I took hit after hit, panicking while castin the few spells I know only to see them work on me instead of my jolly opponent, I fled with little more than 16 stamina (VERY CLOSE TO DYING!) up north to the cemetary, Santa still looking fit. After waiting around, I had recovered up to 40 stamina, running to the dense frest to qq as dinner called ferociously. Once I got back I was determined to gain back those 1,034 points I had lost to Santa Claus, but I didn't make it in time, I managed to kill a zombie before nightfall but nothing else. Thus, the bash ended, a complete and utter defeat... My battlecries will roar and echo around the entire Land, I will kill every single red thing on this damned continent just to spite that Coca-cola advert looking ass fat man, mark my words!!!
- 2/1/2025:Yet another bash happened, I started by getting an axe and going to the cellar but instead of wine I found myself BESET ON ALL SIDE BY VERMIN! I slaughtered my way through the rats, regaining sorceress status, then cracked open the door to the coal basement and lost sorceress status by almost dying to a rat and having to flee... After that staggering defeat I regained my pride by smacking a zombie around and killing some other small insects. Shortly after swamping a few things I found myself head to skull with the skeleton and pondered wether or not to fight it, heiach told me I'd die instantly so I decided to hold off for once... When Winnie told me playing croquet with it was an option (this is an important plot device)... After getting drunk and strolling aimlessly around the map, I was informed the mallet was in the hut and so decided to try my luck with the skeleton. After an honestly underwhelming fight I killed it very easily with the croquet mallet but was swiftly informed about dinner being served and so I had to leave, victorious at least. One excruciatingly long dinner later I came back to find we lost. P.S. Turns out I sabotaged the bash (which was lost on time limit) by forcing Snypster to look for an alternative to the coal I had swamped for a crisp 12 points (jack shit) because it was important to kill the dragon (which is VERY hard to kill through straight up fighting)... Whoops! P.P.S. (forgot this): I also found something called a snugglepuss a bit late into my first rodeo, looked it up, dunno how a sentient uhhh clitoral pleasuring device ended up in this 30 year old game... Different times I guess XD either that or someone made a very embarassing typo trying to put in Snagglepuss.