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AdamJohnso wrote: You're probably thinking about Alcugs... It used the PotS game with a custom server software written by Almlys. Untìl Uru used the same server software and game data from the end of Uru Live's Prologue in Feb 2004.
Oh, yes... Now I remember hearing the Alcugs term too. There were Alcugs shards and Until Uru shards, I think. Now I wonder what I was trying to remember when "H'Uru" popped into my mind.
Some personal history:
There was much controversy in the Until Uru days between people who said "It's just a glorified chat room" and others who saw it as much more than that. The argument still goes on, probably in every on line game one can play. I have ignored the argument, seeing no need to tell reality what it is.
I have a tendency to dictate my own reality. "This is not possible, so don't bother trying." Given enough time I can find ways to not-try just about anything. This was especially active in the era of Until Uru. My job was becoming onerous but if I lost it I'd have a hard time finding another, so I just gutted it out.
In the spring of 2005 I got tired of dealing with dial-up modems so I signed up for DSL to make Internet things less frustrating. I'd been reading various forums so I knew the status of Uru. A few weeks later I suddenly realized I could play it now; I owned a PC for the first time in my life (bought to play off-line Uru) and had the connection.
A couple of weeks after joining others in the Cavern for the first time, I was at one of Donahoo's D'ni Happy Hour parties and became intrigued. She taught me how to connect to Teamspeak and play music. Shortly after that, Andrew C asked me to play some music for an event he was planning.
A friend of mine, in about 1981, had suggested that I go for a new career as a DJ because of my interest in music as expressed in various ways. I'd never thought about it because, well, I don't like DJs. They talk too much and rush through things too fast. I'd pretty much forgotten all of that when Andrew came to me. I agreed, thinking it would be a one-off event.
You take a step into a new world, or climb onto the bus. A door opens, decisions are made, one leading to another. Small steps. One day you're in Independence, Missouri, and another day, after a sequence of steps, you look out from the top of the Sierra Nevada and think about what you've crossed.
Andrew's simple question opened the door to such a new world. I've been through it, every step of the way, and still don't really understand the power of taking the next step. I'm still doing the event that started as UCF Music Night on the Tapestry Shard. Along with that I do many other events: seasonal dances, circus announcer-DJ, fund-raising events, others. People ask for me. It's astonishing.
And now... I write and read poems and stories, as a outgrowth of events at this year's Fantasy Faire in Second Life. I could have stood on the curb in Until Uru when Andrew asked me, said "No, thanks, I'm not doing that kind of thing. Ask Donahoo, she's good at it." The bus would have pulled away and I'd have stayed in my reality. Instead... I got on. And, with the encouragement of many other people, I'm still riding.
Edit: My original term for Donahoo's party (a general word for a mixed alcoholic drink) got converted to "expletive," so I changed the name to "D'ni Happy Hour."_________________ Want to learn more about the D'ni? Look here: http://www.dpwr.net/
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