PernMUSH geeking

[annathepiper]

Last night I didn't get much done writing-wise, since I was still stricken by a big ol' wave of nostalgia and decided to log onto PernMUSH and say hi to folks there, as I'd done on CrystalMUSH the other night. This let me have a positively fabulous conversation with Kassima, who I fondly remember from my RP days there, and who is the biggest reason I'm still hanging onto all of my old PernMUSH logs--since she was, after all, also the typist of the NPC with whom Mehlani finally got to fly off into the sunset. ;)

I also was quite curious and wanted to see if F'hlan still has any descendants in play on the game--the answer to which is yes! F'hlan's granddaughter Lanisa is still in play and so is her son, F'hlan's great-grandson Erisan! I mean, wow. This kind of thing was not nearly so amazing over on Two Moons, where long-lived elves could easily be alive and kicking and RPing at the same place as their own great-grandkids, but when you're in a setting involving more or less vanilla humans, it's a lot more kickass.

This further drove me into resurrecting the old page I had for F'hlan and Mehlani's family tree. I think I'll keep this up for amusement value, since F'hlan does still have descendants on the game! And I had to giggle that all three of F'hlan and Melora's children, upon being retired from play, wound up as riders at Benden. F'hloran on a brown, Anra on a blue, and Mehlani on a green! And I've heard tell that another of F'hlan's children, Lanryi (Lanisa's mother), also made greenrider. That's a full half of the F'hlanspawn horde on dragons! I don't know the fates of Rylan, Fahlina, or Brihlana, but I know he had an NPC son named Harlan as well, and now I'm tempted to up and decide that he eventually grew up and became H'lan and Impressed a bronze, just to give my F'hlan a full complement of fighting dragonriding children.

Anyway, I had a great time yakking with Kassima, and was thrilled to discover that she and I have continued to have a lot of the same tastes, especially in reading. She's also even writing, and we compared notes on doing Nanowrimo back in 2003. She loves rachelcaine and jimbutcher and, and, AND told me, once I gushed at her about how insanely proud I am of mizkit, that she also loved Urban Shaman and Thunderbird Falls! :D

And oh, agrimony? Since you were Anra's last typist, it may amuse you to know that Kassi was also making jokes about throwing E'rian, the NPC brother of Mehlani's NPC weyrmate K'star, at Anra. Because, or so Kassi asserted, F'hlan could never have too many Harrison Ford clones chasing his daughters.

Aside from that delightful yakking, I also had a very pleasant chat with the typist of Hamari, whose character is an elderly Harper Master and who was absolutely amazed that I had a very early appearance of Hamari in a log from clear back in 1998. This, folks, is why I hang onto my old RP logs--just because it makes me smile when players go "holy crap! You have logs with my characters in them?!" And L'han paged me as well, and we had an amusing chat about how he was originally going to be Ph'lan, except that would have been very confusing with F'hlan running around the game. And Noemie tried to recruit me for Igen. Which would have been funny, considering that the aforementioned F'hlan-descendants are actually at Igen. But I explained that I couldn't actually come back to the game.

Hee. That was very pleasant, though, and I'm delighted I did that. Even if I can't take up MUSHing again, it's nice to be able to wander back to old stomping grounds (or in this case, aheh, old Hatching Grounds), and say hi to people. I'm very pleased NC is still alive and kicking.

Comments

[kent.livejournal.com]

So a few years ago, SouCon jumped forward in time (because another Interval was upon them), and at the time I heard that NC was a little slow in figuring out what to do. Did they just keep going with the same timeline? Are they now unlinked?

Cl'rek, L'mis, and the rest are probably dead by now, either way.

[annathepiper]

I don't know for sure, but the overall feel I got from yakking with Kassima is that they're still playing in the Interval. And yeah, I figure F'hlan's probably dead by now, too. While I would not presume to actually consider it NC Canon, in the Alternate Timeline Where I Get to Amuse Myself, his kids and grandkids are probably running Benden Weyr by now. ;)

I found at least one log I hadn't posted yet with Mehlani and L'mis and blue Golrath, too. More nostalgia there. Yay!

[kent.livejournal.com]

If you ever post them, please let me know. I'm not sure which old logs I have. I definitely am missing the logs that I made whilst I was in college (the bulk of the Cl'rek years). And now that I look at it, I only seem to have kept a handful of L'mis logs. I have a lot of post-PernMUSH RP logs (SouCon and others).

[annathepiper]

Oh, I'll definitely post them. I've just recently resurrected my logs archive, in fact, because I've been in the mood and have been able to fix some of the out of date PHP code on it.

Go here to my logs search page and you should be able to search for anything I've already got posted with L'mis in it. I may also have some Cl'rek appearances. :)

[kent.livejournal.com]

Nothing with Cl'rek, but a handful with L'mis. It took me back, and I was so bored at work today that I read through some other logs from elseMU* (involving S'tin (http://www.silvertree.org/~steve/ustin/index.html) on Forgotten Weyrs, to be exact; one of my favorites: a hypochondriac son of healers who rides a green).

[annathepiper]

Doing a quick search of my not-yet-posted logs, I have Cl'rek in two logs--one from a Fall from way back in 1994, and one of Tiamanth's second hatching. I'll sing out when I get those posted.

And... hypochondriac son of Healers? Bwaha! Cool. :D

[liadra.livejournal.com]

Gods I hope they get out of Interval. It's driving me batshit.

[kent.livejournal.com]

I really liked the limited interplay between NC and SC when they were both in the same timeline. I had an extended family of alts from both continents who were contemporaries. I wasn't MUSHing anymore by the time the interval came, so I never really decided whatever happened to Kenla, Nirek, L'mis, et al.

[annathepiper]

That was pretty neat, yeah. It didn't impact me much in terms of my NC RP--or my SC RP for that matter, since I did have two alts on SC very early on. But it did cause me to be F'hlan instead of F'lan on NC!

[annathepiper]

There are reasons Pern fan groups don't RP in Intervals, yeah. I mean, who wants to RP a dragonrider if you don't actually have Thread to fight? ;)

And from what I've been hearing, the recent books aren't exactly giving some inspiring alternatives for Thread-less dragonrider activities, so.

[liadra.livejournal.com]

*snerk*

I play Kassi's daughter and grandson!

[annathepiper]

Oh cool! Which of her kids? I've got logs that have very young Kaylira showing up in them.

[liadra.livejournal.com]

Kaylira (daughter), and K'ylon - grandson.

But I also have played Jaeleka there for ten or so years. She's Kalren and Jazmin's kid. Still alive and kicking, just less played. Benden born, bred and brat!

[annathepiper]

Jaeleka! Oh wow, I remember her. I've got her in several F'hlan and Mehlani logs. :)

[liadra.livejournal.com]

Wow. small world.

[annathepiper]

In fact, I just recently re-read one of my logs in which Jaeleka pitches quite the annoyed fit over Mehlani, in the grip of having four, count 'em, four proddy firelizards, gets annoyingly girly at the Boys who all like her. ;)

Same invite to you that I just gave kent: go here to my logs search page and you should be able to pull up any of my logs with Jaeleka or Kaylira in them. :)

[agrimony.livejournal.com]

Hee. :)

[annathepiper]

We figured that after his (unsuccessful) attempts to fling gifts and flowers and proddy-green-dragon-induced smooches on Mehlani, it'd be amusing to see how he handled F'hlan's non-shy daughter on a blue. ;)

[seattlesparks.livejournal.com]

I've never done Pern games, but I can tell you that it certainly is interesting to see generations grow up, become PCs, and have their own children. On one game, I've seen the children of my first two characters from years ago now grow up and become PCs and be played, and are now old enough to look at having children of their own. It is interesting to feel like you've started a little legacy and had a lasting impact on a virtual world that way. :)

[annathepiper]

Yeah, the sense of 'whoa, I have contributed to the continuity and history of this virtual world' is pretty neat to me. :) I got to see this in action on Two Moons--Rillwhisper's granddaughter Nightwisp was actively played for a while. And I certainly saw bunches of instances where great-grandchildren and great-great-grandchildren of PCs established in the early 90's got into play in the late 90's.

It's kind of akin to why I whipped up the Timeline for Two Moons in the first place. That sort of group effort to build a game's continuity has always interested me!

[dr-pretentious.livejournal.com]

I keep hearing his name as Flan. Oh, the lame puns, the lame puns! As a child, was he teased by bullying classmates? (Cowardy cowardy custard!) I have to stop now. Right now.

[annathepiper]

*laugh!* Actually, that joke got made many, many times at me on PernMUSH.

But not nearly as often as being told my dragon's name sounded like a sneeze, because I typoed it during the Hatching and it came out as Tzonrth. ;)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

*beam* Tell her I'm glad she liked the books. *beam*

[annathepiper]

I did!

And in related news, a girl on the OKP I've been corresponding with (she's one of my beta readers now) sez that you're going to be the only author who'll make her consider buying a romance novel. She's really eager to check out Urban Shaman and Thunderbird Falls, but hasn't had enough extra pocket change for the books, so I told her about your Bombshells as well since they're cheaper! ;)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

Tell her if she doesn't like 'em I'll send her a copy of URBAN SHAMAN as a gift. :)

[mizkit.livejournal.com]

...but she has to actually not like them, rather than just be saying that to get a copy of US. :)

[annathepiper]

Done. :)