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"the client talks about flash and or websockets"

Can you just telnet in and avoid the web based interface completely ?

I would assume so ... then you could start your game in a screen session and just re-attach anytime you like.

Can you, indeed, telnet (or ssh) to discworld ?

You can directly telnet in, yeah, but it's not a great way to play. There are plenty of MUD clients (for Discworld in particular you want one compatible with MCCP compression) that are designed for playing in a terminal.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUD_client

I played on Discworld MUD for many years, quite some time ago. It's probably been 15 years since I last logged in. Very tempting to stick my head back in there!

Make sure you login every couple of years or so. I just had a quick look and two of my three accounts have expired and been purged.

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