The crazy Antics..

Androk · #1 10-11-2003, 07:45 PM

Remember Your Past Thread (Post YOUR Graal Past).

First time I logged on was somewhere in 1.38 rev2. I came to be on Classic. At first I had no clue what to do, but eventually me and my friend figured out how to do 2 quests... Mind you we both were logging on from Russia, which means my speed was crazy 36.6K while his was 52K. I couldn't see anyone anywhere, everyone was always paused, and it took 1 minute for levels to load.

But eventually my friend left Graal (Took him a week or so) and I was all alone. As time passed I found Graal Update (It's First Version) and started to slowly complete all the quests. Once I got to 10 Hearts, and wasn't able to do anything else (Broken Quests/Quests thatr equired alot of time) I made my first clan: WAC (War Activity Clan), I belive you can still find their website at http://www.wac.boom.ru (Was long ago, I am not respobsible for all the exclamation points and grammar). Anyway I had this awsome idea, I would give members of the clan new accounts, that already have a bunch of hearts, swords etc then we would sit and attract attention to our awsome 10 Heart Lvl 2 sword Clan

. It never worked

But I did get to recruit some people (Most had accounts with 3 Hearts).

Next I was roaming the land again, WAC was destroyed and I had nothing to do... Until I saw Venture Vampires running around PKing. Then I started thinking, and came to an idea of God Forces (http://www.godforces.boom.ru), Clan reached alot of people, some put their tag on constantly, otehrs didn't, but I had all the members under my buddie list, and I constantly sent Mass Messages to them XD.

Eventually that would break down so then another clan was made: Forces of Light (http://www.liquid2k.com/fol or http://www.f0rces0flight.narod.ru). This was my greatest achievment by far. We got around 60 members (10 were on at a time) and we were kicking every other unofficial clan's ass. We rocked the world while we lasted (I had 14 hearts at this point, and I cracked my way to lvl 3 sword, because the quest was bugged). 2 weeks later there were fewer and fewer people on. I kept finding new places for us to call our home, one of them was Moon Tower (I think). We constantly had to fight off Evil doers (Read Vampires/Werewolves/Zombies/PKers). Numerous times I sent chalanges to every evil guild immaginable, and we fought, heh, nobody ever won, but each side claimed to.

Then Graal 2001 came around, and I dissepeard to Sanstrata, where I spent most of my time doing randome stuff.

Somewhere in there I also got a 3 day access to Graal 2001 through some guy. He then scammed me for 100 gralats

Shessh I had to bake 100 breads to make that.

Eventually I got an upgrade, and I went to Graal 2001, spent a few month getting money and then trading on the market, then I somehow got a hold of 10k, got a house, remodeled it, made rent 900 oer week. Playerhosue #6 is still the best one around

It has Pearl Diving, Race, Bar, CS (Doesn't Work), Farming (Doesn't work), Sparring Arena, Awsome rooms and a special room for the owner that is awsome.

A few weeks before quitting Graal I created Inferno, an ulternative kingdom, we were a bunch of crazied creatures from down under (Not Australia).

At this point in time I lost my train of though and I'll finish this later.

Neoreno · #2 10-11-2003, 08:55 PM

Logged on a while back, can't remember the version, must have been early 2001. Wandered aimlessly for about a month or so. Eventually, I found my way into the VV ranks, and after about a year gained the Darkmane title.

Then there's a big blank, where nothing much happens, and leads me to this point.

The end.

HoudiniMan · #3 10-12-2003, 02:27 AM

Logged into classic 3 or 4 times over the course of a week... got fed up with lag and went to n-pulse (when it was 2nd server to the top, behind classic)

The rest isn't really that interesting.. odd jobs and such, many many hours on RC doing not a whole lot as a GP...

Man, no work... those were the days

Nick1988 · #4 10-12-2003, 04:24 AM

Okay, lets see...Not a very entertaining story but here goes:

Played classic for a little while, got kind of bored of it and logged on to a few other servers, my friends played on Aramech/Dino Valley, and so I checked it out. It had crappy levels and some buggy npc's, but I still loved the hell out of it. Met a lot of people there, anyway it pretty much started to die off and then Sebman took over. He was pretty much trying to change it into his own server, he took down all the levels and put like 10 of his own server's levels....A little while after that it was taken down for obvious reasons.
After that I only logged on a couple servers after that, usually Maloria just to check out progress (disappointed me every time), then my friend got an account (Blake), and he allowed me to use it (this was back when there was no rule that said we couldn't share) and I started to play 2k1. I also registered that account on the forums...Unfortunately, I started playing it much later and didn't get the 'total' experience if you will. It was fun, but I know I would have enjoyed it if I was there a lot earlier on. Anyway, Blake became staff for a while so we decided it would be best if I didn't come on the account anymore. After a while he quit and I was allowed to use it again, but I didn't really care much anymore. So I took a long vacation from Graal, I always intended to come back someday. I still posted on the forums, but the account ran out. I didn't really follow the forums much again until around March or later and I was gaining interest. I bought the account, 'Nick1988', like in May-June and registered on the forums and here I am.

DarkShadows_Legend · #5 10-12-2003, 04:37 AM

Played Classic for a couple years. Then started playing N-Pulse. Had lots of fun. Management changed and so I terorrized(sp?) the new managers for a little while, left and came back a few times.

Been server hopping ever since.
The End.

deman1171 · #6 10-12-2003, 05:21 AM

My first server was Graal Classic, it had an awesome description, and it was official so i went on, i met this one dude and he was so nice to me even though i was new, i can't find him anymore though, heh we actually rp'd ^.^;;;;;
Then i went to Era, i liked the tileset, but everyone hated it and i kept getting PKing, so for a while i hated it and never went there, but then i got to playing, joined a buisness and this one girl was so nice and gave me stuff and got me in a gang, so i play Era a bit now, and yes, of course, i had to play UN

but i didn't play much, i thought of it as boring, heh but it's NPC's were cool so i played a little bit, then i went to Graal Kingdoms, i'm like "WOW WHY IS IT WHEN I WALK IT'S ALL BUMPY!?"
But i could not get off the island, so i quit GK, and then i tried out Graal2001, i was a bomy and thought that was cool, No one was barely ever on except Gryffon, Googi, and Lord CG, and Lord CG helped me with money making and jobs, then Googi helped me do every single quest but one, and i really loved it, i was known as "Kassi Ryoin" and was a bit of a crybaby, and i sucked at RPing so no kingdom for me x_X
But then i got bored, no one ever came on, so i went to Delteria, i was a Fairy and thought that was cool so played a little bit, then got bored, server hopped, and found Gaia, it had awesome tiles, so i stayed there a long time, i became Queen of the only kingdom, then became GAT, GP, then ET.
But then one of the staff got pisses i guess, and deleted everyones NPC's, rights, and tags and i could never get in touch with the manager, so i remained fired and left Gaia, then i started to play Auroria, and then i played Frolic alot, i got bored with all of these, so i went back to Graal Kingdoms, got off the island, and stayed there for months playing it, then i told my friend Jada, (Iria Di on GK now.) About it, she was amazed, came on, upgraded, and had a good time, and now she is one of the most popular people on GK, so yaay x_X;;
Then i got tired of it, played graal2001 for like a long time, then all the sudden it shut down, i was pissed x_X so i had no where to go, so i stopped playing graal for a while, played a MUD coming out, came pretty popular there, then i started playing MMORPG's, and finally i decided to come back to see a few more additions to Graal, and i came back.

Dach · #7 10-12-2003, 07:16 AM

First I tried to logon, couldn't, tried again, couldn't, went offline and played for a little, then somehow found the editor and a mixture of confusion and exitement came over me. I played with the editor untill I had made a house. By then I figured out that AOL is evil and changed my parental controls so I could play online (classic mostly). I went on to submit my house to various playerworlds who all complemented me for some reason or another. I became toall friends with Nova, Tom, The Light Ninja, and Lomgren. As time went by, they left to do other things, I scripted more and more instead of playing online, and now I just post on the forums and script now and then. There are more details but this ought to do just fine

alarid0 · #8 10-12-2003, 10:47 AM

I really have no idea when I started, no idea what version. I can track it back most accuratly by remember the big events over the years though.......ugh I've now spent a half hour trying to remember it all... it gets really fuzzy...it had to have been around 6th grade tho 1998

i stopped working (wait...working? when did i do that) on my playerworld Cocoon beginning of 2002...started it 2001. sanstrata got hacked for the last time on that year 2002. i remember around fall 2001 i was getting to dislike the direction sanstrata was going with all the new levels and such so i didnt go on rc as much. and with sanstrata, rc was about all i did do. i was never assigned anything. it started spring 01 with the little test levels and damn that was fun. stayed on rc pretty consistently all through the summer. then theres havok and elven kingdom that fit in somewhere around there....havok was another playerworld i started with pheonix knight fall of 2000. we worked a little bit did some planning a few levels and such and then sometime shortly into 2001 he told me we merged with sanstrata. so lets see here what happened before havok...yeah it must have been just graal classic and elven kingdom stuff. that or i wasnt playing graal that year and worked on making games and stuff with click n create. fall of 2000, before havok, i do remember working on levels for elven kingdom's guild house, though. i stayed up late alot on that, maybe too late. I met Valder there, we stayed friends for a long time after that though we don't talk much anymore =/ Pheonix Knight was probably a member too we got to be close friends, I could find out if i got my old computer back...i did a big guild-wide census =) what a pain in the ass XD i got their email addresses, names, age, graal name, and any instant messaging possibilities. never really worked out too great ahha (oh yeah pootsy too from around the time of elven kingdom cant forget her

and tallen the guild leader) before that things get even more unclear than the rest of the story. I remember making my first levels ever as editing the starting house from the level pack. I'm not sure if that was the year before elven kingdom or as far as two years before, most likely 1 year before (7th grade) but it was definetly the beginning of the school year (((getting off the story for a second, wow its amazing how distant some of these events seem and how others seem like it wasnt too long ago =o like around that time i remember playing monkey island 4...i had a big collection of midis from the game at the time that i played while working on this...furcadia and DoM -ill explain later- seem like they came so much earlier tho))) winter break of that year, 1999, i was working on a mountain quest that i wanted to send in to graal (classic) for an ice hammer as the prize. it was kind of cool there were snowmen around the level that when you touched em they turned into snowmen baddies

i was so proud...lol (oh that reminds me...does anyone remember the scripting site for graal that had 50 some original scripts? shadow dragons or somethin i dont remember...i think i looked at their scripts for help on some of mine. i really wish i could remember the actual name of it.) it doesnt seem to work out with the dates though cause i dont remember being in elven kingdom when i was working on the snow mountain... but i did join before...oh wait..sorry its hard to remember. anyway before that i didnt do much creating. there was one thing, (before or was it after? prolly after) that i wanted to make - a pet shop for graal (classic). It was my...oh this should help with time line. It was my second year of gencon and I bought a Ryo-ohki doll. I really liked it so I made it into a cabbit animated eating sleeping and hopping. i wanted it so you had to feed the thing and that it could follow you and fight too. other than the games i made with cnc it was the first thing i animated and it was pretty good. if i can ever find the computer i used to make it ill post it - and the games i made

2nd year of gen con was 99...so i guess i made the graphics before i did the levels? sure why not. it must have also been 1999 that i was in the guild DoM (Dominion of Magi) the first of two guilds i was ever in on graal. around then it was pretty much just talking to ppl, doing quests, dont remember many of the friends from way back then =/ just my panda 'bamboo'....bamboo if your reading this? your the ****in man XD i was also friends with one of the starbreezes and i remember her wedding....it was chaos. first it was going to be in the angel clan hall, nobody came...then the wedding hall in the cloud place everyone came and ruined it...then in some church on the top left part of the map...same thing applied. actually i think that was more around the time that i was in elven kingdom so this is out of place. it was the starbreezes that made me take on the last name "Bluemoon" actually. I had the name Alarid for all but a few months of when I was playing, but I wanted to start a big family like whoever started the Starbreezes did =) so i thought up a few, dont remember what they were, and mass msged a poll which i should use. Alarid came from writing a book in the middle of 6th grade (1998), actually i just found pieces of it lying around. all the text was ripped out and it only had the title page, a map, and one drawing that i did but it was called "Dragon Wars" wow great name huh :P I used a random name generator and got something along the lines of Alaad, Alard, or Aladi which I then changed to "Alarid" Ive used it for every game since that requires you to come up with a name. Daggerfall, d&d, strategy games that create a player profile, Graal, of course, Diablo, Morrowind, ect. So I came up with the name in 6th grade and have never changed it since. but I know there was a time where I didnt have that name on graal, so it MUST have been before it. actually I think I remember my brothers finding the page for Zelda Online sometime even before that... before fall '98....it was a white page with the graphic for the title Zelda Online at the top, I remember that, but not much more. hell i dont even remember if we could play online. oh also for the graphic i remember another thing - - - anyone know those two long buildings north of the burger refuge? here ill post an attactment. Well those seem memorable from back then...or maybe my memory is just failing me again

its either a level that i spent some time in or it was on said web graphic...well whatever. that is, as close as I can describe it, my history on graal. i feel as if i left some stuff out at the end that i wanted to say....oh well...

edit: i remembered a few things i forgot
first VERY memorable moment on graal was starting off on the cliff on the unstick me level...that sucked. my computer was so slow and i lagged so much that i would jump off, try to get away....get pked...spawn on that cliff...and repeat process about 20 times before i logged off (you gotta consider how long that would take the way i was moving...20 times is a while)
also sometime on 2k1 maybe 2 or 3 weeks before the horses came out me and my friend started working on an instruments thing that i proposed to stefan via pm earlier

we made sounds for a guitar (loop wasnt good enough) steel drum (which is still on 2k1 now) flute (cant remember if the current ones are mine) ocarina (the loop isnt as good but yeah those are mine) and piano (was never done) I was never the one that did the scripts, those were done after I proposed me making the thing but before I ended up sending the sfx...I wanted to get the script done first (and i was and am still by no means a scripter...still, I had something that was real damn close to what the generic instrument script is now

I was missing one vital element of it though so it wasn't good enough. never showed that but I sent in the sound effects I had made after the first few instruments were up.

QUESTIONS FOR THOSE OF YOU TOO LAZY TO READ like myself
----does anyone remember Shadow Dragons npcs? or if it wasnt that, what was the name of it?
----has anyone every been on, or at least remember the guild "DoM"??
----same question, but "Elven Kingdom"
----not quite relating to any of what I said but who here remembers the isp "Wow!" that died off not TOO long after it started?
----and lasty...bamboo if your out there CoMe BaCK!!

if any of you quote me....and quote my entire post...ima have tah kill joo -_-

alarid0 · #9 10-12-2003, 11:03 AM

forgot to add that screenshot i said i would

Kramer · #10 10-12-2003, 11:10 AM

I remember a different tileset... then it all becomes a blur...

Judge_S · #11 10-12-2003, 11:18 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by alarid0
QUESTIONS FOR THOSE OF YOU TOO LAZY TO READ----does anyone remember Shadow Dragons npcs? or if it wasnt that, what was the name of it?

Yes. I still have them somewhere I think.

DarkShadows_Legend · #12 10-12-2003, 09:11 PM

Quote:

----does anyone remember Shadow Dragons npcs? or if it wasnt that, what was the name of it?

Yes. I have lots of their stuff on my computer somewhere I think. I
remember N-Pulse having a lot of their NPC's online too once.

alarid0 · #13 10-12-2003, 09:15 PM

no i think it was delteria...wasnt it?

xPuppetMasterx · #14 10-12-2003, 09:51 PM

Alright well here we go:

Classic for a bit, then Costa de Agua <3!!!!. Although that server was constantly hacked it was still fun.

After that, my beloved Aramech came up (Later rename Dino Valley) and I played there for a long time. I had various jobs, and finally reach Admin. Soon after that Sebman took over and did absolutely nothing letting it die (I still can't believe that someone like him was put to manage Aramech). After that wen't down, I stoped playing graal for a while... (Along with Nick1988 who I introduced graal to). I then caught wind from a friend that Maloria had come up, so I played there for a while. Eventually it wen't privte and slowly got extremely boring... I now work on Zion, and Nolavario.

protagonist · #15 10-12-2003, 10:31 PM

I remember Costa de Agua. I never played it, but I remember seeing it. Along with Caledonia and stuff.

I played back well before the color green ever touched Graal's skin.
I remember the mass suicides with the suicide dagger on main, that was funny. I think the first thing I joined was Kaiser Vampires, this was before or around the time VV became official. Then it was Dogs of War, then I joined BTK. The rest I don't remember, until UN and XOne came up.