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Oh wow! Didn’t expect to see this piece of my childhood on the front page!

I used to spend hours on telnet playing this game with my friend. What a fun blast to the past!

Pretty amazing that this is still around. I used to be active on Elendor MUSH, but as far as I know it's been dead for years - I poke my head in once every year or two and there are always 0 players online.

Same. Spent a lot of time in Bree. Haven't been on in over a decade.

Is the server available anywhere or is that too lost to the sands of time?

Sucks when MUD servers eventually shutdown and all of it is lost forever. I’ve found a few on github though and have been archiving as many as I can find.

Archiving is good; all of these games contain thousands of hours of creative writing, and it would be a huge loss if they were all lost to time.

I hope you and others are archiving them, so that at the very least they would remain available in a readonly fashion.

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