Comment by celadin
2 days ago
Good memories! Played this back in the early 00's on a 12" iBook often far too late into the college nights. This was before their custom client, so everyone used something different. I remember using TinyFugue, it worked well on Mac OS X at least. MUDs are just text, and tinyfugue must have had something which made allowed for easy capture and scripting because I did a TON of that. Sure, had to learn "regular expressions", but that was fun too!
There was some random phoenix which used to spawn somewhere. You couldn't teleport to it, but you could teleport near it, and I somehow scripted up a seek and destroy phoenix button. Can't recall why, it dropped something useful but not that useful, so mostly it was just the fun of watching the rooms zoom by (textually) and the joy of seeing a code creation work, insignificant as it was.
Thanks, Lasher, for keeping it alive all these years. I still remember Aardwolf fondly. And I still love regex.
The FireStorm Phoenix!
> Can't recall why, it dropped something useful but not that useful
The flaming sun gem got a new use pretty recently, sometime in 2020 +/- 2 years.