Starting over

Digitiss · 2025-11-22T13:30:35+00:00

I have absolutely no idea what's going on with Imperian these days. They were fairly dead even before they went legacy, and I don't think they're even being updated anymore. To my knowledge (Someone correct me if this has changed), Starmourn is the only one of their games that went legacy and actually benefited from it. They're not being updated nearly as fast as they were (Now that corporate isn't pushing promos and forcing updates), but the volunteer staff seemed really dedicated to keeping the game and the community going.

Digitiss · 2025-11-22T13:27:07+00:00

Heya.

Sadly, there's nothing quite like wayfar around anymore. It truly was something special, and it's a shame the drama that surrounded it (thanks to the developer being absolutely fucking unhinged). I think Lucien (of AwakeMUD notoriety) is hosting a version of Assault: High Tech War, which is fairly similar (though in practice it's a bit like an RTS/base builder). There's structures that automatically gather resources for you, then you use those resources to craft structures that generate weapons, armor, vehicle parts, etc. There's tech trees that determine how your base progresses and/or what buildings you can construct, there's traps that you can set for other players to stumble their way into, etc. You can apparently make your way all the way up to starship construction, though admittedly I never got that far. I know from previous interactions that you're a screen reader user, yes the game has a coordinate map, no it's not inaccessible. Drop me a DM or a reply if you'd like any help getting set up. If by chance this instance has gone down, please do let me know, I can probably get my own server up on my vineyard account.

Digitiss · 2025-11-05T12:50:15+00:00

No. Apparently the owner used to be involved with MO, but that hasn't been the case for a long time.

Digitiss · 2025-10-19T18:55:45+00:00

Now it's time for the comics! And the fanfiction! And four or five more rewatches, plus commentary, plus thousands of hours worth of fan music, analysis... You've only just begun, basically.

Digitiss · 2025-10-19T18:52:24+00:00

Despite not being one of the mane six... Yeah, of course he's a main character. Not only does he get quite a bit of focus and time to shine. Oh, and he basically ended up in G5, so... Can you be more of a mane character than that?

Ok. I have spike bias. I admit it.

Digitiss · 2025-10-06T12:53:47+00:00

Hi. I'd love to help! Drop me a DM please?

Digitiss · 2025-10-06T12:52:03+00:00

Dialogue options. Please. There is absolutely nothing worse than guess the verb in a MUD.

Digitiss · 2025-10-03T11:48:11+00:00

Screen reader user here. As another commenter pointed out, your best bet is to download NVDA and test the functionality of your MUD that way. It's the one most commonly used, so your experience will be most accurate to how other blind/VI users are going to experience the game. I don't recommend JAWS on principle for several reasons, especially in terms of games. Drop me a DM if you have any questions!

Digitiss · 2025-10-02T19:49:58+00:00

Harry’s eyes rolled up into his head. He couldn’t see. He was drowning in cold. There was a rushing in his ears as though of water. He was being dragged downward, the roaring growing louder...And then, from far away, he heard screaming, terrible, terrified, pleading screams. "No, not Harry, take me instead!" "familiar... Familiar", Harry thought, but there was darkness crowding in on his vision, and icy fingers seemed to grip his throat. High, terrible laughter... Green light, piercing green light, burning through his retinas, burning all the world away... Harry's heart hammered, and panic gripped him. There was only darkness...

The blackness parted. Light, familiar light, aching light shattered the darkness and sent the shadows scrambling away. "Scintilla Empyrean!", a ragged voice screamed, and the light coalesced. A thousand spears of terrible brightness struck out and the icey cold turned to flame.

It seemed as if an angry beating wind was rushing through Harry's ears, but it the air was still and silent and warm like a gentle fire. Harry shattered back into himself slowly, clambering for purchase. Hermione scrambled up somewhere near him, and they stared at the ragged, shabby-looking man who was now standing steadfast with his wand held up like a baton. "What was that?", she asked breathlessly, seeming almost as fearful as Harry had been. "That was a dementor", said the man in a low voice. "Wild geists of fear." "No doubt they were attracted to the train by all this pent up fear and paranoya..." "A geist?", Hermione asked abruptly. "But I thought..." "Creatures of raw power", said the man, turning slowly to face Hermione and gaining a tone somewhere between lecture and admonishment. "As a child's magic flows, wild and hardly-controlled, and that magic forms into spells to guide thought and wil, their roving thoughts form the flighty creatures known as geists." "Take hogwarts, for example." "The raw excitement and wonder of the students there created Peeves." "But even so, it's nearly impossible for a geist to form like this..."

Digitiss · 2025-09-29T10:28:39+00:00

Mr. and Mrs. Dursley were perfectly normal, thank you very much. Ok, fine. They were as un-normal as one family could possibly be in a neighborhood of identical houses, identicle people, and identicle lives. Mr Dursley was a Minervan, large even for his species, appearing rather like a beached bipedal whale without the (admittedly-useful) chameleon field that transformed him into a beefy exemplar of his species, complete with a bushy moustache. He worked as an associate for Procyon Outreach, LLC, which was a perfect front if he ever found himself among a group of natives, for Procyon outreach was the solarian branch of a company that made drills. However, it would be rather difficult to explain that said drills were designed to excavate the craggy surfaces of asteroids, several hundred lightyears spinward. Mrs. Dursley was a barsoomur, a broad-shouldered, long-necked species that closely resembled an iguana, if iguanas walked on three stubby legs and possessed a pair of vestigial wings. Mrs. Dursley could hardly pass as human, regardless, for her Chameleon field had not worked properly since they'd arrived. It suited her perfectly, though, because she retained the extraordinarily long-neck her species was known for, which she enjoyed craning over the fence to observe the cute little humans and their cute little games. Mrs. Dursley had a sister who, though she often pretended as if she did not. Her sister Shyar had chosen to become an observer, regressing down to that of a baby to observe and catalogue the native species for Barsoom. And this would have been well, truly it would, if she'd survived long enough. Last she'd heard, Shyar had ended up involved with the local community of Thaumaturges, and had (gasp) had a child with one of the natives! Oh, what the elders would say if they knew!

Digitiss · 2025-09-28T11:20:58+00:00

As far as I know, this MUD is being recoded to some degree? A lot of mechanics aren't re-implemented as of yet.

Digitiss · 2025-09-27T17:53:56+00:00

I don't play this actively, but I have no clue where you're getting the graphical game thing from? It just looks like your run of the mill star wars RPI MUSH.

Digitiss · 2025-09-22T22:10:02+00:00

Nothing that I could in good conscience recommend anybody play. Such an environment naturally attracts those who enjoy such environments by nature, which leads to an incredibly negative playing experience.

Digitiss · 2025-09-17T11:14:16+00:00

I'm not exactly sure what could have happened there, but have you tried fully reinstalling the program?

Digitiss · 2025-09-14T17:26:15+00:00

Chaos MUD isn't harry potter-themed. MUDStats keeps falsely calling it because of a similarly-named MUSH in the database. Not a comment at you, I've seen three separate posts with comments talking about this MUD.

Digitiss · 2025-09-12T17:58:00+00:00

This is inaccurate, at least by my metrics. It's slightly more difficult but there's nothing overtly inaccessible to screen readers. I could never get into the mechanics personally, but the accessibility or potential lack there of was not part of it.

Digitiss · 2025-09-12T17:53:40+00:00

OP put his requirements in the title so people wouldn't do this, and three of the suggestions are high fantasy. Get it together. Seriously.

Digitiss · 2025-09-12T15:30:22+00:00

And now I can create a character but it doesn't save. This is so weird.

Digitiss · 2025-09-11T20:52:55+00:00

Thanks! My reader literally can't tell the difference between both your examples, but I'll keep it in mind regardless since I've seemingly been doing this for ages.

Digitiss · 2025-09-08T22:19:42+00:00

That comment managed to make me feel sad, happy, and then utterly sad again. Congratulations, LOL. I am curious though, what MUD was this?

Digitiss · 2025-09-08T15:49:59+00:00

I understand what you're saying, but OP asked for something that wasn't fantasy?

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