Comment posted on Wed Mar 23 21:05:16 2011 by Sheylynn:
     

I only wish to say, thank you to Jayson, and that the words and apology mean more than he could ever know.

Much huggles Shey

Comment posted on Wed Jul 3 19:20:10 2013 by Once a Loyal Player:
     

I'd like to point out a few things. One, players can't just come on here and write reviews for this site. You, the reader, are seeing very one sided and bias opinions.

I looked for almost 30 minutes for a place to write a review and gave up so now I'm commenting on someone else's section.

Now to point two. The problems with the game. I played this mud for years. Yes, it was amazing and it had it's moments, but it also has very large unavoidable rp-killing problems. You can walk in and start this mud and you will probably enjoy it for a bit, but you will see the problems first hand slowly start to come up.

1) Lack of Imms that do their jobs/don't abuse their power. 2) A huge amount of blunt favoritism between imms and players. 3) World is too huge to the point the imms can't keep up with the lore they wrote for it. 4) No sort of organization within the imms.

Now you will notice all the problems, or most of them are with the imms/staff members. Frankly, you'll find most muds have those 'boobs' as we will call them who people avoid and are crazy, spouting stupidity and lacking a general ability to rp a character. My problem is with how the mud is run. I could go into many details about the above statements, but they speak for themselves.

After almost 8 years of putting up with this, I walked away. I lost so many years of creative writing and imagination. Yes, this is a well coded mud, with creative thought put into it, but when it's run by adults who lack the ability to really run one, then you have a problem.

Don't think, oh this is one of those people who didn't get their way, because I actually avoided the imms icly and oocly. It was all the things I saw and experienced while doing this that I noticed how messed up it was.

Will I care if someone comes on here to try and disprove my points. No, I'm just giving a general warning to anyone thinking of trying this sight. I'm done fighting for what is right and am ready to move on to a mud that is actually run well.

Comment posted on Fri Sep 20 02:37:35 2013 by Newbie:
     

Well Kind of. Like the last commenter pointed out, you can no longer write a review for this mud; if they were accepted, they are being refused now. I base my willingness to try out new games on reviews...they don't always sway me (sometimes the bile some players spout actually cause me to play it to see if they were justified on not). But when reviews are refused that's a cause to bypass it; that tells me that the ones refusing to be refused have something to hide. It's too bad; it looked like a decent game but I just can't bring myself to try it when they don't allow all players to be heard.

Comment posted on Wed May 20 08:02:25 2015 by A Veteran Player:
     

Player reviews are being refused to the MUD and the staff itself getting bad reviews from some of their players. While the latest review before reviews were being rejected was an apology to the staff for his behavior, it was mostly done so he could probably get unbanned from the mud.

The mud is still the same, if not worse, than it was before. Immortal corruption is still rampant on the mud and I have quitted over these issues more times than I can count. While some immortals are nice and are fun to be around, others are just outright absurd and completely disrespectful to the players in a very obvious way. Sometimes I even wonder if a few select of immortals even want to be here, which is highly true for a certain admin who blantly states that they 'dont care' what players think and usually acts like an utter jerk to anyone he speaks with. There has always been a sense, if even subtle, of favoritism amongst immortals and a few select players whom will not be mentioned, but this is something that is usually common in most muds and is usually acceptable as it causes others to work harder, and get a better sense of achievement for their efforts rather than being given heavy rewards for little effort. While the immortal staff does try its best to run these things called 'Global Roleplays', a roleplay which anyone can join and earn rewards, more often than not they try to keep it within their control and the system they use for roleplay combat is half-assed and somewhat incomplete and flawed, but it is better than having no system in place at all. Not to sound harsh, while being an immortal is a thankless position and some do express their thanks individually for their work, its something that has to be expected and comes with the position. If you are an immortal just looking to get praised for your work, then you took up your responsibilities for the wrong reason. Remorts are currently in the works, but as of this moment most of the classes are unbalanced. Monks, Mages, Thieves, and Warriors are overpowered, while druids, rangers, and clerics are left in the dust with no efforts to correct this in about, if not over, a year.

Now, with the bad aspects of the mud aside, there are still several good aspects to look forward to. The mud possesses a lot of features and systems which could keep you very busy and immerse you in all sorts of roleplay, whether it be playing as a scriber with the scribing skill or a blacksmith with the mining and smithing skills. There is also an empire system put in place, though being somewhat dead at the moment, it still leaves players with the opportunity to rule a kingdom as they (mostly) see fit. Remorts are currently being worked on which is something to look forward to, but they've been 'worked on' for at least seven years with little bits of progress being shown to players to keep hopes up.

Overall, the mud itself is a great place to play and on its own shows that a lot of work has been put into it, but be mindful of the immortals and their behavior, as they are the ones who bring the mud down a few notches overall.

Comment posted on Sun Aug 9 23:31:52 2015 by Unknown Player (I dont want reprecussions from the staff):
     

A few of the admins are complete jerks to their players and they have no respect for their players in general. I would not recommend this mud to anyone.

I am highly disappointed that I got into this mud, only to see the ugly sides of it, and which makes me want to leave it because of those who made it a horrible experience for me. Such a waste of time. The only reason i haven't is because I've dedicated so much to it, and regretably so.

Comment posted on Fri Jan 21 15:21:43 2011 by Sheylynn:
     

Rather than pick apart every little detail in the review above, or note where they contradict themselves on several points, I'll just sum it all up instead, as I'm sure to run out of character limits if I were to do so.

The assumptions that were made, because frankly, Lilly had no way of knowing what I did or why, he was never privy to any of my personal life, and I am a private person who does not go around announcing all the things that happen. My fathers death, my brothers illness, and the many other things that happened within months of each other, were no one's business. As much as I love the mud, it is in the end, a game, and real life takes precedence. So I suppose to him, that was a silly reason to vanish for a few months or to have to step down for a bit. The reason I stepped down was because I could not deal with the stress hitting me from all sides at once, both real life, and the game.

Lilly's/Lorwen's and my issues began when he was brought on staff, because he has an iron-fist mentality, and was of the opinion that only his thoughts and opinion's mattered when it came to putting things into place in game. He refused to go to those, who had experience in the area that he wanted to change up completely, and ask if it had been done in the past, what had worked, what hadn't, and lord help anyone who did not agree with him. This is pretty much, just one last attempt to get another slam at me, done! lol

Now, to address some of the things stated about the areas, I'm also head builder, so... there you go, yet another slam. Many of the areas that are in place, were there before I ever took up the position, and have been icly there, for some time. Now I suppose that villages just, vanish and pop up in a completely different place all the time, but, how do you go about that, icly, where it makes sense. It seems it's just something else for Lilly to be nit-picky about.

The races, character notes, RP requests etc, fall to the Head RP IMM. My not being on, does not hold up these things, nor does it mean they're done by RP staff as a whole. To say that I have that much power and control in the mud, is, well, silly. The head RP has final say, this means they decide when the requests are looked at and when they're not, and could go through them themselves and approve or disapprove as needed. Our head RP imm does a wonderful job, as do all of our staff, and if there was any high school drama that was created, it was via Lilly, for it was Lilly that constantly poked and prodded at the rules, demanding they be re-worded, that they were not specific enough.. It's a mud. We carry out the spirit of the law, a little common sense goes a long way.

If it had been up to Lilly, half of the mud would have been banned simply because a person was having an off day. He was rude and sarcastic to our player base on a whole, and thought he was better than anyone else there, and that pretty much all of our players were idiots. I love our players, I'm more than defensive of them, and when I stepped in to protect them, he became offended. He refused to listen to anyone other than our owner, head coder or head rp imm, why? Because he could either talk them into whatever he wanted, or in the case of the head rp imm, was too afraid not to listen.

Lilly is.. well.. Lilly. I liked him, loved his RP and his character concepts, he's a brilliant coder. But he has a lot to learn about human nature, and his ego could use being a little less bloated. He makes too many assumptions, does not do what is needed to learn facts, and in his hatred for me, is attempting to destroy the work done by many to make TG the wonderful place that it is. Is it perfect, absolutely not, are our players perfect, absolutely not. But if you wish to have a place, where you can escape, and have fun. Then we're the place for you. We do have in-depth storyline's, we do not rules with an iron fist and allow a large leeway for character concept and creation. Our rules are pretty clear. Just be nice to the players, be nice to the staff, and don't think that you're better than everyone, and you'll get along just fine. :)

Comment posted on Mon Mar 14 03:03:36 2011 by C:
     

, Gathering.... does have it shares of problems. The ones Lilly mentions are not them. With that said the main problem currently in the game is multi-logging. It inflates the mud numbers a lot and also causes Rp to be very slow at times due to people rping two different chars at once.

There a few other minor problems, but they are not worth mentioning, as all muds and mushes have their share of issues.

But everything Lilly said is largely untrue and if it was up to him there would only be robot rp and you would be told the type of char you could play and how you should play it.

Now to the positive, The big lines of rp are fairly well done and always worth joining them. The areas are well done and fit in with the mud and high fantasy setting. Most of players know how to rp and most rp is driven by the players and sometimes the nobles.

That is and The Gathering is worth checking out if you like Rp and Freedom to choose how to RP your char regardless of race.

Comment posted on Tue May 25 11:30:55 2010 by Kedanna:
     

Well first let me say hi. I am founder and co-owner of the mud in question. I'll like to start off with the 'nit-pick at the smallest things and grow it into some sort of bigger problem' that he spoke of. He was in a public area, caressing a girls butt. Now we do allow sexual roleplay on our mud, but not in public. Tykune and the immortal disagreed on if the butt caressing counted as sexual roleplay or not. Rather than moving the roleplay to a private area, he fought with the immortal over it. Very few muds allow players to fight with an imm while enforcing the rules.

Also at the start of the roleplay, the character he was playing with started out under-aged, and tried to change that during the roleplay to keep him from getting in trouble. Which to me shows that the person he was playing with agreed that it was too sexual of a roleplay. She changed her rpsheet, and her short desc to reflect her age change, but she still had the description of an under-aged char. So... call the nit-picking if you like, I call it enforcing the rules.

More strict rules... yes that is true. Compared to when the mud first opened six years ago we had more strict rules in place. Back when anything was allowed, anywhere. I wanted a better mud than that, so I asked the immortal staff AND the players to come up with stricter rules for the mud, if you didn't offer your options at that time its like voting if you don't vote don't complain.

This bad review and his disrespectful thing about not taking the immortals seriously, would get him banned on most other muds, but as if this post he has not been banned from The Gathering... yup we're strict and suck the fun out of it. :P

Comment posted on Tue May 25 13:43:14 2010 by Old Player:
     

It's sad to see this still going on. I quit the mud a few years ago because of Staff and I hate to say it, but things weren't getting better then even though Staff promised left and how things were going to get better and fixed. Unfortunately, it seems things have not gotten fix as promised.

However, the Mud is 'theirs' and they will do whatever it is they wish to do. I've popped on a couple times here and there, but it's been so long I simply cannot remember the commands to play the game. I will agree that yes, at first the game looks wonderful but I will to say Tykune is right... Simply too much complaining over the little things and small problems do turn into larger ones because of it.

Needless to say, I will not be returning to 'The Gathering' now.

Comment posted on Wed May 26 22:38:05 2010 by Tykune:
     

It seems I have been frozen for a week due to my 'attitude', even though that's the same thing I was punished for about 2-3 days ago, except this time its more extensive. so I am going to go out on a limb and say I am probably being punished due to the bad review I wrote on their main recruiting site and simply use that as an excuse. If that is the case, it seems the immortal staff has some growing up to do.

Comment posted on Wed Apr 29 02:50:18 2009 by Kedanna:
     

I thank you for your kind word about the mud and our builders. I know they try hard to make everyone as happy as they can while still holding true to the mud's ideas.

The island you spoke of is working great! All the people that 'just log in for sex' have been given a place they can thrive, while keeping them away from the players that don't wish to do such forms of roleplay. We try to keep the mud with a little of something for everyone.

The thing you said about the two immortals however, I'd like to address. I'm taking a small guess on who you are, so if I'm right I know you've been an imm before on other muds and although we rarely see eye to eye I know that you're a very smart woman. With that being said, things happen on the mud that non-immortals don't know about. Both of the two you speak of help the mud usually by helping me. They both have built for the mud in the past, but sadly no longer have time to do so with a speed like the others. One of the two is a member of the law staff, there's three there not two. The other is my personal assistant on the staff. At the current time of this post, the two you are speaking of are planning to step down as imms because they know they no longer have the time they need to put into the mud and will be helping with the new empire project. So they're willing to give up their status on the mud in away that will hopefully be helpful to the players. To me that is a good staff, not many others would be willing to give up their spot like that.

Comment posted on Wed Apr 29 02:33:30 2009 by Kedanna:
     

I thank you for the kind words about the, mud. Your support and the support of all the players is why myself and the other imms, do what we do. Its always sad when a few bad apples come to TMC and post bad reviews rather than coming to the staff with their problems and letting us try to fix them. Yourself, and even those that write bad reviews, tend to stick around the mud. I feel that the points that you spoke of here goes to show that the mud has good standing power and we're able to keep our players. Thank you for your work as a builder, keep it up together we'll make the mud a better place.

Comment posted on Wed Apr 29 02:23:32 2009 by Kedanna:
     

Baronnere, as the owner of the mud I'm saddened that you did not enjoy the three years you played on the mud. Changed our ways, well we're always changing; its part of why we've lasted for five years now. Its why we're currently ranked 45th on TMC. We're not one of the muds that stays still and lets the world pass us by. With 281 areas and not a single stock one there. So our ways of change aren't going to change.

The staff is great! Seir runs great lines and is always there to help the players with story ideas. Sure he believes in tough love and wouldn't just let people get away with anything.

Kestia, she can turn out a new area just based off a small idea I give in like a day. That girl is a building machine, I tell you.

Sheylynn I've seen her play four different characters at a time, run multi-able story lines all while building and keeping strict time frame items.

Trellan, talk about a master coder, I've seen him code stuff other people would never dream up, being able to check who without logging in? To do lists, I could go on and on posting all the cool stuff he's coding from the mud, and all the backdoors he put locks on to keep other people from getting onto the mud, like the webserver bug that was crashing the mud.

Grakor, this man can whip up a mean helpfile. I can't tell you how often I find him looking though the log for missing helpfiles and then making them. I tell him 'Graky, *he likes to be called Graky* I don't like this helpfile, it a stock dot one and it stinks, make it more better!' He does it. He truly knows the mud and knows full well how to improve it for the players.

Aerius makes the customs for people. Sure sometimes he falls a little behind, but there's a lot of players wanting stuff and he had to deal with it on his own until Grakor became an imm. A lot of the requests are from people that never built before, so they make mistakes and that slows him down, so he needs to talk to them about it. He makes mobprogs for all the other builders and is always out to help other imms.

Phyrra doesn't do as much as she used to, but she still builds and still pushes roleplay for the betterment of the mud. She works with the law staff to help keep god moders in check.

Seraphine helps me with everything, spelling, building, player relations, you name it she helps me with it. You couldn't ask for a better personal assistant.

Cherady, she's a slow builder, but she loves what she does. She loves the mud and she cares deeply for those on it. She's my rock, my heart, and its with her help that I run the mud.

To say the mud is a soap opera is a little unfair. Good roleplay leads to drama, if drama is what it takes to be a soap opera then most of the muds out there would hopefully be called the same thing. If you're talking about ooc drama, feel free to turn off the board or better yet, not date someone that plays on the mud and that attracts drama like a magnet. I don't have to say her name because everyone that knows you or her knows who I'm talking about, and why I say it.

You're not going to walk down the street and see hookers. Sexual things like that and the other things in your note are strictly forbidden in the city and all other areas, but Tu-Lips island. That island has enough warning on it and around it, that if you're there, you're there to see the things in your post.

Bad manners and a dash of personal agendas...its called roleplaying and we are a roleplaying enforced mud. If you're looking for all rainbows and sunshine you can watch one of my 'My Little Pony' DVDs.

So again, I'm sorry you were not able to enjoy your time on the mud and I do wish you could have said something before leaving and posting a bad review about us. You said you agreed with Jayson and his post, well Jayson posted a reply saying he was wrong, do you agree with that as well? I would hope so, and if you or anyone else on the mud have problems with the way things are, we're always changing our ways and the mud is growing and ever-changing, so please don't be scared to talk to the staff. We do what we can to be more fun than knitting.

Comment posted on Wed Apr 29 07:05:01 2009 by Lilly:
     

It is not that easy to run a MUD. Let's all face it, many, many people prefer to get their entertainment from the MMO's, Xboxes, Playstations, and other graphical things out there than the text-based games we all love.

Yet the Gathering has a very solid active pbase, there is almost always a handful of players and an imm or two on at any hour of the day and during the 'good' hours for the MUD you generally see between 10 and 20 players online .. scrolling up in MUSH Client I see that there were 26 on around 11 PM EST last night, which is a bit large for TG but not unheard of.

So obviously the immortal staff is doing something right. When I joined in November of 2008 I knew 0 (zero, nil, naust) players on it. While, granted, the Mud was a bit hard to get in to this is in large part due to the differences between DoT code and the codebase I've been used to playing and really not at all due to the staff, which I have found to be nothing short of remarkable. A MUD that does not keep, as Mr. Baron put it, a ''newbie-friendly and welcoming' gaming environment' does not grow and most certainly does not captivate me and get me thinking that I've found a very long-term home.

The best advice I could give to new players is what I told my a friend of mine after I convinced them to play: read helpfiles, and ask questions. The MUD does have its faults but the imm staff has been working on correcting some of those faults, which are not that uncommon: a few helpfiles need updating and newbies need a bit more in-game help to get started other than the very helpful players and imm staff. I have very, very rarely seen an asked question go unanswered.

As a relatively new player to the MUD and to DoT codebase, I think I can give a more accurate picture on how newbie-friendly the Gathering is, certainly more so than a player of 2-3 years who I never once saw answering my questions about the game, for reasons quite possibly linked with his long inactivity that spanned the month or two I could be considered a newbie.

'True, they are the law within the game, and true, they can smack folks around for breaking the rules. However, when the admin believe themselves not only within a storyline, but in person to be a god... then naturally, they become selfish, whining, and self-righteous.' There are 10 active immortals on TG's 'wizlist'. As with most MUDs, those 10 characters are the best of the Gathering's players, those who have given up a large chunk of their own play time to give back to the game that they all love and make it fun for other players. While some of them do play selfish, whining, and self-righteous characters it is important to keep IC and OOC separate in this regard. I have talked at length with most of the wizlist and I will give my personal stamp of approval - whatever that is worth - that they are wonderful people who care first and foremost about the game that they have been put in charge of.

These immortals do not get paid to do what they do. They are real people, with real jobs and who really have given up their own free time to build and run questlines for the rest of the players of the mud. They are the Dungeon Masters of the game, and I for one approach the imm-player relationship with that in mind. A player who constantly harasses his DM for special abilities or is constantly complaining during a game session or who quits halfway through because their girlfriend doesn't say it's okay for him to play this silly game frustrates any DM. In my time here I have only heard the imms -request- one thing from the players, something that I think, and think most will agree with me on, is quite reasonable: a simple thank you. I try to thank the imms at every chance I get because I, having been an immortal on a few other muds in the past, know that that really is all that it takes to keep the staff happy: knowing that they are appreciated.

With any grouping of people of a multitude of cultures - even of just one culture, really - there will be drama. There are those who play the MUD for reasons other than to just RP and have a good time (or, perhaps, they feel that they and only they are entitled to having a good time). The immortal staff is not amongst that number, though, and those who are overly dramatic generally don't ruin the atmosphere for the wonderful majority. It is, as always, very important to keep IC and OOC drama different, as well. ICly my char has stirred up a bit of trouble and isn't looked on too favorably by a few other groups, but I do try to keep a friendly disposition OOCly (as I said above I don't know anyone on the MUD personally so I would be hardly justified in making public strikes against their personalities) although I will admit I have had slip ups in the past. There are those on the MUD who seek to elevate their own pride and ego at the expense of others, but 1) those players are generally drowned out by the many, many wonderful players and staff of the mud and 2) it is indeed important to remember that a MUD is a game. Not only that, it is a game full of strangers. Any who play will likely get irritated at someone else at some point. I have been irritated with my copy of Halo 3 (Yes, I shamelessly admit that I do play!) before, both at the players over XBox Live and the game itself, but rather than ranting about how horrible and unfair and mean everything is I just turn the console off and go do something else to cool down. Generally, those who cause the most MUD drama are those who do not deal with their irritation in a constructive way.

The apparent debate over whether or not to call TG a 'sex-based MUD' has apparently become quite the issue recently amongst players who have quit or been banned from the game. My opinion is that those who attempt to defame the game have a more difficult time than they will admit in noting its flaws so they latch on to the bandwagon of a topic that has been discussed time after time.

Yes, SRP does happen in the Gathering. Yes, there are people who play simply for that one aspect of the MUD. Yes, there are some suggestive Adult-Oriented themes in the game. No, those themes are not present in each, or even many, steps throughout the game. No, players do not run around trying to get random others to participate in SRP. No, the MUD is not all about sex, nor even half about sex. A vast majority of the playerbase play TG first and foremost for more serious RP, with most who participate in SRP viewing it as something to do between quests if a storyline leads to such actions. For a longer rebuttal to the 'The Gathering is all about sex' argument I would encourage you to read my response to Mr. Jayson's review of the MUD, found here: http://www.mudconnect.com/mud-bin/prev/review.cgi?rid=28126

'The staff have all the fun in the world with creating extra characters for themselves to join in the 'rp'.' An odd spot for Mr. Baron to post this, considering the rest of the paragraph, but I will say this in response: of course the imms have alts. They are players too, they love to Roleplay and be involved in the storylines that the other immortals run. Also, if Mr. Baron is making a jibe that all the imms are involved with SRP with other immortals .. well, much as I love giving valid reasons and arguments towards even the most illogical statements I will simply say that Baronnere is wrong in that assumption. There are some of the staff who participate in SRP, but such is done behind closed doors and does not represent a majority of the immortal staff.

As is so often the case, Mr. Baron's logical argument seems to putter out near the end of his review. While I cannot remember the actual type of logical fallacy he invokes in his second to last paragraph by asking you, the reader, to believe that all are bad because of one .. Well, if I said that a man at Wall- Mart was rude to me, so all wall-mart's are bad it follows the same line of reasoning. I don't know all of that situation so I can't give too much comment about it but I will say this much: those who seek to cultivate face-to-face relationships through the internet run the risk of meeting the creeps who patrol cyberspace. Obviously I am in no way condoning such actions by the malicious party involved here I will say that I know that some of Mr. Baron's friends do try to meet people they have mudded with. There is nothing wrong with that (I met my most wonderful girlfriend via a MUD) but one must be cautious of what they get from the internet.

Finally (it must be, as I'm running out of characters!) I will simply say that Mr. Baron's attempt to keep what he considers the worthwhile players and staff on the MUD doesn't work. By ripping into something that we put so much effort into (though I doubt I'm amongst the number Mr. Baron thinks shows good sense) you degrade us all.

Also, I will point out that Mr. Baron makes many references to Jayson's comment. Jayson has, in very good class that I applaud him for, retracted his argument.

As with many of the best lies, Mr. Baron's argument has within it a few grains of truth, blown and twisted far out of proportion and place. I have found the Gathering to be nothing short of wonderful and do encourage any reading this to join me there. :)

Comment posted on Wed Apr 29 18:41:16 2009 by Sheylynn:
     

You know, I've read, and re-read the reviews made by Jayson and Baronnere, and once the initial flare of protective anger died down, I began to pity them, to feel sorry for them.

Now I could attempt to defend the staff, but I've done that before and lets face it, a staff member attempting to rebuke claims about staff members only holds so much water, so I won't even try.

The drama that he refers to I won't get too far into, for it caused a great deal of headache when he and his girlfriend split for a brief period of time and both were attempting to get the other banned because that was all complete nonsense anyway. Though I suppose we were the big meanies by telling them to keep their personal lives off the mud and get along or don't log in because it was ruining the fun for a lot of people.

Are we perfect? Of course not. Every mud has its flaws, people are imperfect and everyone has bad days. This is why we allow several chances before we finally have to say enough's enough and slam the hammer down. When it was brought to vote that his girlfriend get banned, I abstained from voting because I did not feel I could do so and be impartial about it.

I suppose that Baronnere might say that was my god complex kicking in there as well, when in all actuality I thought of her as a friend and didn't really want to see her banned. However I did have to agree that she had just pushed things too far, and had been given more than her share of warnings in regards to how she treated and talked to other players. Amusingly enough, this was one of his complaints when he was attempting to get her banned.

Sour grapes, bad seeds, childish tantrum, however you wish to view it, this all boils down to people not getting their way, themselves or a buddy or girlfriend being banned and are now seeking to attack the mud, its staff and its players.

Could the mud be improved? Of course, all muds can. But the reality is, that muds, like the real world, are varied in culture and style and people, and like the real world, you'll get what you give. If you are cruel to others, if you treat them with hostility, you'll get like in return. If you treat someone with respect, you'll be given respect in return, and before the tired and overused retort 'I don't give respect to someone until it's earned' is uttered, that too, can go both ways.

I am amused that these reviews were not done until -after- the banning, and Jayson has since come back and asked that his ban be lifted so he could return to play, promising that we'll have no further trouble out of him.

If the mud was all that they claim, if the staff and players were as horrible as they'd like to make them out to be, then why on earth would they wish to come back? I don't think it takes a genius to see through the malarkey, and anyone with any amount of common sense would see these reviews for what they are.

I will however, go indepth on the one thing that got my ire raised to it's fullest, and had my protective claws coming out and that is their blatant slamming and attack of our players. Like Jayson and Baronnere, our players are not perfect either. But our players, to me at least, are gems. I could try to name them all, but I'd be afraid of forgetting someone and hurting their feelings, so I'll just touch on those who have given -countless- hours to other players and the mud itself, those like Mehmet, Iilvarra, Seneca, Reiki, Aedin, Suffir, Ketala, Lilly, Aiire, Yevenji, Shera, Halger, Mithos, Solrane, just, so many really great, really amazing people.

They do everything from build, to helping newbies, to writing up fantastic lines and creating mpogs, and they do this as players, not as staff, getting nothing in return other than our thanks. They, and those that go unmentioned but are no less valued or appreciated, are what makes TG great. It's not the staff, it's not the areas, it's the people there. And to say that they are nothing but a bunch of whores and perverts, that they are what Jayson and Baronnere say they are, is not only a fabrication, but an insult in the extreme that I personally, can not remain silent on. They are intelligent, caring individuals, who the mud would not be the same without.

They are more than players to me, TG is more than a mud, it's a place where we laugh together, cry together and fight together. It's as Ketala said, a community in itself. One that has grown and changed and evolved over the years. One that I personally, am very proud of and one they obviously miss being a part of. Attack the staff, we're used to it, attack the mud, it's expected, but to attack the players? They had nothing at all to do with any of it and should never have been pulled into their drama.

So before you give any credit to the words that have been posted in their reviews, I wish to extend an invite to you, so that you can see, and judge for yourself just what TG truly is.

Comment posted on Thu Apr 2 01:08:24 2009 by Lilly:
     

As a very constant player on The Gathering since I created there ( You first created at Mon Nov 17 11:55:38 2008 Which was 4 months,2 weeks, 1 day, 10:34:20 ago. You have played approximately 1371.82 hours. Which is 42.203% of the time since you created. ) I must respectfully disagree with each of Mr. Jayson's above points.

* While it is true that SRP is allowed in the gathering (the tag in the MUD description 'Generally Adult-Oriented' is there for a reason) Mr. Sen'don has either forgotten when rules were in place or is simply believing what he wants to believe. On Feb. 26th of 2009, the restrictions outlined by Jayson above were put into effect. Since then, all explicit descriptions or references to sex have been removed from all but private areas of the mud and the city and island dedicated for such activities. And since those rules have gone into effect I have seen -no- instances of this rule being broken. Not one. And I generally see a lot of things. Sure, there are some suggestive things scattered who and there but there is nothing explicit that I have found -- and I also do explore a lot as I love seeing the many, many areas our wonderful Build team put out there for us.

* To refute the 'Very few ever log onto this mud too Roleplay anything other than sex and sex based conversation' point I will simply outline what all my character has done in those 4 months plus that I have been playing (although my character has been a bit fortunate in having some roleplay fall into my lap): - Joined the religion of the Goddess of Virtue and Magic because she wanted to help the realm and had an honest desire to become more virtuous. She quit, though, to help track down the murderer (or suspected murderer) of one of her friends. - Went on a quest to help calm primordial spirits of nature, a quest that Jayson was involved in, but failed because he wanted to play on a different alt of his when the Quest was going on. Because of this storyline my char joined the clan known as 'nature's warriors' which she is still in. - Is a main cog in an important storyline where a group of demons are trying to escape their ancient home of one of the four moons of the realm for .. some .. reason. (I don't know why yet!!) - Was part of a storyline where one of our imms came up with a very, very clever history of the game of chess. Players were pitted against other players an imm-run NPCs and the end result was a race change to a very unique and inventive race. - Has a major involvement in the politics of one of the main cities of the realm, where she befriended the two leaders and was offered a position as a mage within the government. - She is going on what is called a 'Spirit Quest' done by the Goddess of Nature where she will (hopefully) be given some direction and answers for some very important internal issues. Oh, and if she fails this quest, she dies.

That is only a summary of the storylines my character has been involved in, and in absolutely none of the was anybody sexual in any way (other than a -bit- of friendly flirting.) so I really just wonder what Jayson was looking at in the one or two hours he was online each day.

* Also, to say out Staff is anything but excellent is childish. The 'roleplay intense enough to challenge a religion.' he talks about was his main character trying to gather a following to create a completely new order in the realm. During this RP he did not talk to the RPC about his plans or what he was doing to make certain that it fit into the theme of the mud. And he wasn't broken down OOCly, the reason this thing of his was stopped was that he involved a daughter of the Goddess of Creation, who did not like the social order messing with her daughter.

As a contrast, I am actually running my own storyline (with the imm's approval) where a cult of vampires has taken an extreme disliking to Nature and is trying in various ways to see those that currently defend Nature destroyed. This cult is actively trying to eliminate not just one but two religions and the imms have been nothing but helpful in allowing me to run this storyline.

* And, as a final note to those reading this review, Jayson was banned 2 days before writing it because he wrote a note where he said he quit and attacked the imm staff in very unfair and untrue ways. The one imm he actually said was good was the one who made the decision to ban him -- though he had quit (again) so I don't understand why he is so bitter. The reasons he gave for quitting, by the way, had nothing to do with what SRP does go on in the gathering.

* All in all, my time here so far has been wonderful. When I created I knew zero people on the mud, I found it via this website. Now I'm engrossed in a creative and wonderful fantasy world where my character can effect history. And, to clear any confusion up, I've never played a mud with a better imm staff. These guys flat out work their tails off for the mud and it really shows. But don't take my word for it. Try us out yourself and see. Hope to see you there. :)

Comment posted on Sat Apr 11 19:00:14 2009 by Anon:
     

A MUD with sex in mind? I don't get that, plenty of people I know that don't bother with sex on the MUD.

Yes, sure, there are stuff like that on the MUD, a lot of it has been removed for particular purposes. Honestly I think the main reason you would actually write a review with misinformed information, well, you know the reason. A waste of time, if anything, Jayson.

Not newbie friendly? In every MUD there is the occasional jerk, we help newbies, not everyone, but most of us do.

'Very few ever log onto this mud to Role play anything other than sex and sex based conversation.' Very few? Every one is free to do what they want, but there are more than 'Very few.' There's plenty of perverts out there.

But you who has left the MUD several times just because of tiny problems 'I quit', then come back... Guess you couldn't stay away from it, odd how you so dislike it though, why did you bother? That's all I have to say.

Comment posted on Sun Apr 26 23:36:36 2009 by Jayson Sen'don:
     

It has come to my attention that I have placed false statement of the mud on the review board. That all issues pertaining to those I listed above have been taken care of. The Sexual Content has been strictly looked at and enforced to be placed in designated, 'private' area with the security of a locked door to allow no in appropriate issues from arising. My apologize to any who may of had a bit of trouble concerning my review of The Gathering and consider this a final and retracting statement as to my posts above.

Comment posted on Wed Apr 29 02:37:52 2009 by Kedanna:
     

First off lets point out he has been playing there for two years. So either he was a moron and enjoyed suffering for two years or he enjoyed the mud. With that out of the way lets address the rest of his review:

-(To his 1st paragraph)- We have quiet a few staff members that never do anything remortly sexual. Only a small part of the playerbase does fall into that grouping. It happens on any mud that allows sexual roleplay. Most of the mud however enjoys non-sexual hard-hitting fast pace roleplay.

-(To his 2nd paragraph)- Not newbie friendly? I'm always told we have the best newbie school that they've ever seen. I fired one of my most active immortals before for being rude to the players. We don't take such things on my mud. This player has been banned not once, not twice but three times. So yes, by the third time we may have been rude to him. We're humans, the nicer you are the nicer we'll be, if you're being a jerk well guess how you'll be treated. Like a jerk.

-(To his 3rd paragraph)- In a effort to cut back on the sexual acts on the mud, and to keep those that only login for srp, we created this island to keep them away from the main stream players. That rule is not overlooked, but is heavy enforced.

-(To his 4th paragraph)- I'll once more point out, he spent two years on this mud, was banned more than once and came back. He is mad because he requested roleplay items that are far from the mud time zone. He wanted bombs and machine-gun like items on a Medieval fantasy based mud. Rather than telling him no flat out, the roleplay staff was working hard to find a middle ground on it, to meet him half way... he just wasn't willing to wait.

Comment posted on Wed Sep 3 04:36:38 2008 by Sheylynn:
     

An interesting review, and of course everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I'd like to add my own, and perhaps enlighten in further detail what has been described in the previous without it, and is also lacking all of the information for one to make an informed, educated, and intelligent opinion where The Gathering is concerned.

Regarding the statements about this being a sex mud...

The Gathering Mud attempts to offer a freedom of choice. We do not snoop roleplay, we attempt to allow others creative freedom within a logical boundary that keeps with the world created for others to play in. We do not feel we have a right to 'lord' over a players, 'personal' and 'private' roleplay with another consenting adult. We do not allow private roleplay in public areas, so what others are doing in private, isn't seen, and shouldn't bother anyone. We do not allow harassment, and no means no.

Also, our amazing coder is working on an entirely new code, and given that this person was not privy to the conversation that was exchanged between the owner of the mud with myself present, then they can not honestly say what was and was not stated in said conversation, to which it was agreed upon that we view things differently. They wish to infringe of the freedom of creativity and imagination of a persons 'personal and private' roleplay, where we do not. It was not an angry discussion, it was civilized and well humored with an ending of agreeing to disagree, with giving our coder time to change everything over since we are the largest mud using the DoT codebase.

Regarding the second point of the Law Immortals not knowing what they are doing and the "bannable offense" remark...

Again, a lack of information here. The insulting statement made was against the owner of a mud in which it was broadcast over OOC that she was like a 13 year old boy. This came after repeated warnings too numerous to count, and several notes regarding the treatment of staff and fellow players. We care about peoples feelings, we want a place where others can go to enjoy themselves and forget about the stress of everyday life. A place that is fun, a place of laughter, a place of entertainment. Throwing insults at another person might amuse the person doing it, but it decreases the amount of fun, laughter, and entertainment for the majority of those who log in to play. Also, as was announced over open channel, but again omitted from the review, was that even after the hundreds of warnings and asking nicely for others to stop, that they are still given more chances before they are banned. First offense is to be nochanneled for two hours, which the person was, the next is to be jailed, then if they are still unable to grasp the concept that it's far better to be considerate and nice than it is to be cruel and inconsiderate of another’s feelings, then yes, they will be banned. Because frankly a person like that only tends to spread discord and pull people down and people don't want to be around that. Some get enough of it in their everyday life, they do not want it where they go to escape and unwind.

Also, the staff attempts to avoid calling someone out in public, most reprimands are done in private with just the offending party, so no one can honestly say that the LAW Immortal's do not know what they are doing, because they are not a witness or privy to what happens when. They can only make assumptions based on ignorance or gossip, which frankly don't count for much in my book.

Regarding the standard Law Immortal response...

No means no, stop means stop. When a player logs into the mud, it is their responsibility to read the rules and follow them. Staying and playing, means they accept those rules. The rules are in place to make it a better experience for everyone, and changing them to cater to those who don't want to follow them because it's too difficult, is illogical at best. I personally think that both Aerius and Kestia do a fantastic job on the LAW council.

Concerning the third point in the author's review...

Character approval is not required on all characters. Unlike other muds, as I stated above, The Gathering offers freedom of expression and a use of ones creativity and imagination. We do not 'force' others to conform to our ideas on how -their- character should be played so we go above and beyond to allow abilities that are not limited to a players spell or skill list. Those who wish an ability beyond their normal list do need to be granted approval, this is to make sure that the power is not so uber that the character is god like and goes around killing off other players with their uber need to be the biggest baddest thing in the realm. It simply a matter of logic. The only time a character is in need of sending in a character approval, is when they request to play a race that is not selectable at creation. Again, this is the staff going above and beyond to allow creativity and freedom of expression. We have players who are dragons, imps, selkies, ursa's, banshees, the list goes on and on.

Regarding the playerbase remarks...

Yes we have a loyal playerbase, we have players who have been here since the mud first opened years ago. We also do not have alt limits, but seeing how the person who posted this is not an Immortal and can not see others IP address then again they are relying on assumption and or gossip. I am and I do, and I can assure you that we have a steady flow of people mingled among our loyal players. As for newbie help, granted, we can not be in all places at once, but we do encourage our players to help the newbies also. I'm a bit perplexed that the person who posted this didn't offer their help to the person, since, of course, they knew they were a newbie and is far better informed than we are.

And the rest...

The drama is due to the insults that get slung, hence the crack down by the staff and the zero tolerance for it. Though oddly this is an anonymous posting, so I guess we'll never really be sure if this person has left our mud, or stayed. Should they stay, I would hope that they seek out both sides before passing judgment, and base their opinions on facts rather than assumption in the future. But, as I said, each is entitled to their own opinion, I grant them theirs. My retort is more to give all of the information, based on facts and truth.

Many thanks, Sheylynn - Goddess of Nature, RP Staff and Head Builder

Comment posted on Wed Sep 3 10:36:01 2008 by Kedanna:
     

Don't call your bluff? Says the person that refuses to even use a name? How very brave of you. You come to TMC, and spout so many awful things on a mud, that by the date on your own review you’ve spent two years on but you refuse to say who you are? Come on, if you’re going to say all those things, let us all know who you are so there can be songs about your bravely for dealing with those awful events for so long.

1st) The mud is –not- a sex mud. Yes Doas has come to our mud once, about it in the past, and we talked to him about it. TG is currently getting ready to chance code bases, but its not an over night change. I can think of a few objects on the game that are adult, but other than inn rooms I can’t think of any rooms for it and you’ll be hard pressed to find a mud without inns on it.

2nd) The law staff does a good job of handling problems, but they have the most hated job on the mud. Its not easy having to tell people to stop, or to give out punishments when people break the rules of the mud, I’ve even heard of people not wanting to play with their alts when people find out they’re a law immortal. The disrespect to both players and immortals was starting to get bad, so yes, they are getting a bit stricter about the rules; TG is not perfect no mud is. You get people from different parts of the world, and with different beliefs, the put them together they’ll be problems, we try our best to keep those down.

3rd) Character approval is not required if you want to use the skills and spells and such for your class and race. If you want to be a warrior with magic or healing powers, if its out side of your race/class combo so yes you need it approved. That’s or way of cutting down on god-moding. You just need to be able to explain why your warrior troll is also a powerful mage. Or why your elf would have wings. Yes, I have bypassed the roleplay staff a few times, mostly on small things, or things for short term roleplay.

4th) As far as the players go, no we don’t get as many newbies as I would like, but we only advertise for the mud maybe twice a year so its not like we’re the easiest mud to find. I think it says something when a mud is able to keep its players coming back, which must mean the mud is doing something right or everyone would leave and post bad reviews like you did. There’s another player review on here, by Amy, me and her butt heads a lot and most of the time don’t get along, but she still had mostly good things to say so the mud isn’t a big case of favoritism.

The drama on the mud is mostly from people we most likely should ban, but we know they have a lot of friends on the mud and we try to give everyone multi chances before we ban them. We’re mature enough to know people have bad days, and that sometimes someone just needs a little extra attention to turn them from a trouble maker into a well behaved member of the mud. I do however thank you for saying interactive, because a lot of the other muds I’ve been to haven’t seemed all that interactive to me.

~Bluff called.

Comment posted on Wed Sep 3 10:41:32 2008 by Kedanna:
     

Really? Thank you for pointing that out Bryn, I'll see to getting some more newbie helps, and maybe add a hint or two about the map shop. :)

Thank you for your kind words about my mud.

Comment posted on Thu Aug 7 13:55:46 2008 by Ariana:
     

I'm sorry to see that you were so horridly offended. You came onto our MUD and were expecting it to be something it was not. However we did try again and again to show you that the mud IS rp enforced, just not everyone rps the same way as you do.

All was fine and dandy right up until you told the entire staff, myself included, that we don't know how to do our job. At which point you began wondering why we were becoming rather aggressive with the continued string of insults towards our work?

Not to mention the chunk of the playerbase that took offense to your words towards how they rp. I understand that yes, it can be infuriating when someone slings a few heated words around and in all actuality, it shouldn't have happened... however in retrospect, your words were more than reason for not just myself, but a good deal of the entire playerbase to become offended.

Best of luck to you in the future with finding a MUD that fits your criteria.

Comment posted on Tue Aug 19 16:09:53 2008 by Kedanna:
     

As the owner of the mud, I would love to see those logs. The mud is very much roleplaying enforced, and we have a say mote thing, where if you're using say, and you put [ ] around your actions, it counts as both a tell and an emote. A lot of people seem to like that better than having to use a say on one line, then an action, then a say again, when you can do it all in the same line.

'Also, when I asked someone to clarify, in an emote, instead of just posting '...' I was laughed and ridiculed out of the room.'

What do you mean by posting '...' I'll like to clear this up, so please send over the logs and let me take a look and maybe change your mind about my little mud.

Comment posted on Tue Aug 19 16:24:48 2008 by Kedanna:
     

Hold on just one second. Regarding the 'On top of these small stories, I noticed there was one particular...' remarks:

Is hardly true, I've banned some of my best friends from the mud before, and if I'm right on who I think you're talking about, she's been in trouble a few times and is on a last chance stay right now.

As for the roleplay fighting, if you feel that you've been 'god-moded' on, we welcome complaints and 90% of the time if you ask an immortal to sit in and judge the fight, they'll do so and be as fair as they can be. We're humans, not machines or mobs, we're not perfect but if we don't know what's wrong we can't fix it.

In the future, whether you return to TG or find a different mud, please talk with the staff before posting a bad review.

Thank you and the best of luck to you in the future.

Comment posted on Fri Nov 2 01:15:08 2007 by Trellan:
     

Bad reviews that go unexplained, or at the very least unanswered tend to show agreement by anyone that reads them, so I thought I would respond to some of the things said in this review. I'll start with the last paragraph and work my way up.

We do have rules for our OOC channel, as does any mud, and if you break those rules on TG, or any other mud, there are always consequences. We do well with warning people usually several times to change the subject or take it to another channel or private tells, but in the end if you fail to listen, then yes, you will be nochanned and/or jailed, possibly banned if your conversation was directly disrespectful of staff and you have a history of that. Next, he says that he worked for the betterment of TG, though I can't for the life of me name a single thing he did staffwise. He did much more for TG as a player, but then, since he considers the staff sub-par, I suppose he was including himself and his wife who was also on our staff. However, to contradict himself in saying to stay away from the immortals, two of the six people he named in his list of excellence from the previous paragraph were immortals, including myself.

Will you be constantly watched during whatever you do with the commands he listed? Possibly, as much as you are on any other mud. Moreso if you are in public and known for harrassment of others. I believe in this aspect of his review Caius is misled in the reality of things. We have rules for the immortals about when it is or isn't appropriate to spy on players, as all muds do, but the reason I say he may be biased is because his wife broke most of these rules and checked player logs and snooped people quite often without regard for privacy and he saw her doing so and possibly did so himself, so assumed all the other immortals did so as well. I keep track constantly of where everyone is in the mud, possibly obsessively so and I can say without doubt that I've very rarely if ever seen immortals sitting in rooms spying on mortals while hidden unless there were some valid reason for the immortal to watch them.

Next I'll address the accusations of favoritism. Does it happen? Probably. Does it happen on other muds? Probably. I don't think it's purposeful though, and I don't think it's out of hand at all. Perhaps the reason stronger things are granted to certain people is because the immortals know those people and have gotten to know them through rp and trust them not to abuse such powers. If they aren't sure and don't trust you to know whether you'll abuse them or not, it might be denied. This isn't exactly favoritism, it's limited knowledge and lack of trust causing some to be turned down while others are accepted, though the denials usually are more in the form of asking for more detail, or for stronger negative effects to balance the good and other slight adjustments.

Now about the utterly unfair and incompetent law staff. I've never witnessed any of the so called instigating that he says took place, only one of the people that he listed is still banned, and any banning at all requires the deliberation of more than just the law council. Bans occur, but not just willy nilly and not because a person just isn't liked. Unless there's a valid reason, people aren't booted just for fun. And for the record, Caius and his wife were in on some of the votes for the bans he listed, and they voted yes to banning in at least three of them.

In conclusion, I would like to state that at no time during his play on TG did Caius ever approach me, to bring up any of these accusations, nor did he ever attempt to correct them, though since most of them are based in a skewed and bitter point of view and aren't really as bad as he saw them I can understand how he might have felt too overwhelmed to do so, or perhaps he just didn't care enough.

Comment posted on Wed Dec 12 19:28:34 2007 by Caius:
     

After reading Trellan's response and thinking on it, I do owe the imm staff an apology. The immortals are people and though I've had my share of disagreements and agreements with them I judged them under my bias of my wife. My wife a former immortal did indeed abuse the commands she was given and I hated the fact she was on staff. My complaint is the way she was removed from staff, after years of devotion she should have been treated with more professionalism in my opinion.

Hindsight is just that however and I again appologize for my blunt nature of disrespecting the staff which does work very hard to do what is right. Also for the record my wife has never been on staff with its rival MUDD and I'll make sure she never is on any staff from here on out.

As far as TG goes I'll say this; once you play TG you're hooked, it's easy to play and catch on to quickly. It is what you make of it. It's unfortunate things turned out as they did, which greatly is my fault for being biased to my wife and her enjoyment. I have had good times with TG and I know on several occasions while on staff the other members stood beside me in hard choices. The staff as a whole works hard and works for the betterment of everyone. Where as I doubt myself or my wife will ever play another MUDD, I'll recommend TG to anyone that may still enjoy text games. TG is a wonderful game despite the growing pains they experience at times.

So I appologize again to the staff and even though I've parted ways with them I feel they deserve a good review. Give TG a try and make it into something you enjoy and can continue to enjoy.

Thank you Trellan for your comments.

Comment posted on Mon Dec 24 10:05:26 2007 by Annonymous:
     

As a response to the review, I can agree with most of it.

The immortals(Purposely or not) have favoritism. Like it or not, it's there. The wizinvis command -is- abused, since Immortals pull information out of the air like someone told them.

If you disagree with a 'LAW' immortal, expect a long, drawn out argument about nothing resulting in a warning, jail time, or a ban, temporary or permanent. The immortals DO, in fact, plot against most mortals, making them either quit from frustration or threaten them with a ban.

If you ask for help from the Staff(Admins mostly), you most likely will be ignored if you havent done them an RP 'favor'. At the risk of having this comment removed, I'll spare the details.

Now, onto the good comment. Yes, the long roleplays are great(When you don't look at the large amount of SRPing), and last quite a long time. I admit, the war RP was detailed, and opened up spaces for lower leveled roleplayers, but the fact everyone and their alts could be there made it difficult to decide turns.

The darkling storyline was... Confusing to say the least, many thinking they were the center of it all, or supposed savior. Of course, I had quit from annoyance before it had finished, and didnt find out what had happened.

The maps were well made, except a few bland and unoriginal rooms here and there. The roleplay starts as oon as you finish your training, and hopefully you had read the rules and learned the commands before you get lectured by over half the playerbase and/or otell-happy Staff members.

But what am I saying, the Immortals are always right, eh?

-Annonymous

Comment posted on Mon Apr 6 18:09:30 2009 by Kedanna:
     

Anonymous is always right, I mean they're brave enough to give their real name and face up for that they said! If you can trust someone it has to be Anonymous. *lol*

Caius and his wife Cendria are both greatly missed and we wish them the best in whatever they're doing now.

Comment posted on Thu Jan 18 15:10:03 2007 by Tammy:
     

I fear I have to agree with this person on his review for this mud, in fact to a degree it's mostly worse than he says. TG lacks: storylines, and serious RP...in favor of sexual roleplay and immortals controlling the rp by making players approval all the little details about their character...

At least the areas look great and there are some bright sides among the roughness and crudeness of the mud.

Comment posted on Tue Jul 10 11:18:34 2007 by Annonymous:
     

It's still happening, sadly. But, SRP is now limited to places not in public(Yet they are in the open). Most of the Immortals have either stopped playing or had their Imm status revoked through choice or otherwise.

I've seen one thoughtful player make an overweight woman, yet get ignored by the playerbase and shunned by anyone who likes the 'slutty' women. I always try to stay away from Candle Keep... God knows that's a terribly made area. There are certain mobs with Mprogs that are sexual, and a pair of tentacle monsters who are, apparently, blocked off(Yet you can still portal to one).

It's a struggling MUD, since roleplay fighting can be stressful, you can rarely have a unique character, and women practically throw themselves at you. I have made a few alts of both male and female gender, and have been pursued within a day(An hour, one time) after creation. The Immortals have tried to keep SRP to a minimum, putting an age limit(Both IC and IRL, though it is hard to enforce) and in some rare cases, punishing those who sit around doing just that.

Playing a mrem is strange... To some, you are a cat that walks on 2 legs. To anime fans, you're a human with cat features(Ears, tails, etc.). A changeling is difficult to play as well, since they had originally planned it so you could only 'transform' into the races you could choose from, but give out special permission to some who have a mismatched creature of some sort.

It's hard being new here, as you are almost immediately dragged into roleplay when you go to the recall point, so I'd suggest you go through the newbie school so you can learn how to set up a short/long description.

Comment posted on Mon Aug 13 16:00:42 2007 by Nighkali:
     

I love Caius! And he's right!