Things better old or new?

[psichill]

My Story:

Well I was on classic before it was called that and I walked to the main part. But I got killed at least 48 times k?? And so this guy came to save me his name was like Jade?? Well anyways he killed them all off because he had his guild name StatiC come and help me :] And he tought me how to PK but it didn't really matter because I had a 28k modem with like NO GFX card! After he saved me he gave me a horse and I went about as fast as him :] But I was pretty clueless about graal because I was a total newbie! It took me a week to figure out how to login. And that's about the jist of my day :[

[Brady2]

Originally posted by Neonight
Here's my day as a newb:



I was walking in Classic (not then called Classic :-p) on a ledge. I went into this house where you said yes to get a NPC to change your sword to a lightsaber, but since NPC control wasn't too good, if you left it'd change it back to what it was.

That's all the memory I have of being a newbie.

That was my house =D

[Tyhm]

Curious. It seems half of the people hate how everything's changed now and insist I'm a bastard for making things such that nothing's as they remember - making them newbies. The other half hate the exact same thing - but because they don't feel the same way they did as newbies.

[IceHawk]

When I first started playing, some idiot called Da Gza (Neo Graal Mafia) kept following me around, PKing me, until TrueHeaT (GP then) jailed him, then that Gza idiot called TrueHeaT corrupt.

[Hulk Hogan]

haha

The first person on Graal to help me was.........hrmmm I dont remember.....I mostly just walked around finding things for myself....and when i got bored i would block the entrance to fuitad's

[Kasuagi]

it's good that we accept this one fact:

"we were all newbies at one time"

[grim_squeaker_x]

Back in the far mists of time, incomprehensible to the human mind (Or to put it normally around two years ago), I spotted a game called Graal, I read the news, I didn't actually download it quite simply because I thought there was only an online mode and I had a bad ISP which meant I had to pay for every online minute. And thus I left for half a year.
*Dramatic Pause*
After that time I had CABLE and no more bad ISP, thus I decided, "Well now that Graal game looked like fun, let us commence the download", and thus I did, and I started playing. And I didn't kill anyone, quite possibly the only non-GP person in ages to do so.
And I quested, I chattered an insane amount on toalls, send annoying jokes and polls over mass messages, and quite simply became the biggest non-trainer using pest Graal ever knew.
I still am that final thing ;P

[Xythar]

Ah, memories. I feel Thym's changes have undoubtedly been for the better, but still... Being a noob was incredible fun.

My first account was... Helix, I think? Yeah. I got on Graal, entered the newbie house and became promptly stuck in a small room because, of course, I opened the box you weren't supposed to open. Back then, you couldn't talk for 30 seconds before saying unstick me, and half the time it didn't work, so it was a good 10 minutes before I got out. After I got through the puzzles and into Graal, I wandered around, having no idea what to do. I eventually entered a long passageway into the Graal Hotel (don't know if it's still there) and was promptly killed on the spot. After regenerating, I went back into the passageway to seek revenge, and found myself dead several seconds later.

I repeated this several times, until I entered the CC, which was also known as the buggiest area on Graal. I wandered through the town, and found another aimless noob, who asked me if I would be his friend. I agreed, and we got horses and rode them around, not knowing that they were supposed to eat bushes. We were both killed, and I met up with him later at the forest temple. After dying several times, I logged off and never saw him again.

I eventually bugged through the forest temple, and went onto the fire. After several toalls pleading for help (I didn't know how to mass message) a friendly oldbie gave me a hand, and I finished in. Somehow, I wandered back into main Graal, and walked down to the Zone. Some Elf guild asked me to join, which I assumed was a very high honor. Lag was great, though, and I never got to the meeting spot. There's a few other humorous anecdotes, but I don't feel like typing them out right now. A couple great ones, though.

After that, I quit for several months. I came back sometime last Spring with a new account to find a new town, a new map (which I finally learned how to use) and a bunch of other crap. Mildly surprised, I began questing again, and ended up joining Final Fantasy, ZEAL, and Unique. Zeal was the best, though it seems to gave lost it these days. Attacking and spying on ZEAL when I was in Final Fantasy, only to sell FF out (along with several of their secrets) was great, great fun. Then I upgraded, and the rest is history.