Review Submitted By: Thanos
Author Status: Player
Started on Dark Lair: November 25, 2005
Submission Date: Dec 7, 2005
TMC Listing: Dark Lair
The following review is the opinion of the review's author [Thanos]
and in no way represents the opinions of this website or its staff.
Well, one night I got bored, decided to search for a mud to poke
around in. I am mainly a SWR guy, but I like my godwars and Rot/Rom Pk
muds also. So I opened up Zmud, searched through the lists, stumbled
across the name of Dark Lair. I logged in, was immediately greeting by
the Immortal Morgor over the OOC channel and then the classing system
was quickly explained to me personally by Morgor. Go kill 5 mobs,
save, and then proceed.
Well, I killed my 5 mobs and while fighting I'm being tended/healed
by other players who came to greet me. So I finished up the last kill,
saved, and then Morgor came down to me, wisked me up to a private
room, and asked if I had played before. I explained I had limited
experience but not much, so he offered to walk me through some
guildlines to help me get a better feel of things.
He went over the combat system, he went over the code style, he went
over the classes (both vampire and garou each) and then helped me pick
out my class and the specifics that went along with it. Once I had an
idea(and I was amazed that he genuinely helped, not pointed me to a
specific thing to get rid of me) he classed me using their commands
and asked if I had any questions and I did not at the time. So he
placed me back at the Altar and I began to interact with the mud.
I have been playing daily since and I have to say that it is a very
nice mud. The players are friendly(uptime is usually during the
weekdays, I've seen around 10-18 at a time while I've seen 5-10 on
the weekends). I met another older character of the same class, but
different clan than myself. He actually took me aside and filled me in
on a few more class-specific things, as well as offering advice and
directions to places to train.
I have long since gained a bit of strength, and am now about a mid
level character. That same older player has continued to help me train
and get equipment, and answer my questions, along with all the other
players even now.
Dark Lair is a very friendly, and interesting environment. I suggest
all of you at least check it out.
Thanos
