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I'm sure you mean wotmud.org, and I always look for someone to mention this one in MUD threads, but rarely see it.

Man I was hooked on that game in high school. Joined the Lion Wardens, multiple high level characters, knew the zones. Nothing has come close since then.

That feeling of leveling in a safe zone when your screen fills with red names of opposing faction characters and you just get deleted and lose all your gear and a level... so good.

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My first character was a Lion Warden too. :)

I always get a kick out of running into another wotmud alumni in the wild.

nope! wocmud, worlds of carnage. `telnet wocmud.org 4000` or https://www.wocmud.org/welcome.php

I think wocmud is one of the smaller muds out there but for whatever reason my brother and I were obsessed!

I learned about Wheel of Time much later in life so I missed out on WoTMUD

Ah! Well, enjoying a MUD is still a great shared experience haha. Nothing like them since. I still gravitate to punishing games with obscure mechanics and steep learning curves, and I imagine I'm still chasing that MUD high.

I think what made them special was that they were populated by others that put in that effort, and so the community felt invested. And you'd see the same names every time you logged on cause there was a single server, and reputation mattered. Ah man, what a time of life haha.

Wotmud is still going strong. Come join the discord!

Wotmud taught me to type fast.

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