Well, the sloth introduction sounded like a good idea in my head, but I'm going to commit to it anyway. Maybe I'm not the only person whose ever seen that movie. Also wanted to use the cheesy icon.
My first Ultima game was Ultima VI when I was around 8 years old. My dad had just bought a shiny new computer, with Windows 3.0, and even one of those magical new CD-ROM thingamajigs. He also bought a copy of Wing Commander and Ultima VI, and little did he know that I would be bogarting the PC well into my teens. It was his own fault really. roughly 6 or 7 years later UO came out. I was about 17 at the time, and I talked my dad into signing up for the beta. We didn't get the CDs in the mail until the very last minute, so my beta experience was pretty much logging in and being killed by demons over and over, but it was enough to get me hooked. I started out on Great Lakes, and moved to Catskills where I stayed until UO:R pretty killed PvP how I knew it. I pretty much lived for PvP from 1997 to 2002, and I did a little bit of the 'rares' collecting after the facet that shall not be named completely killed PvP. Rares collecting wasn't enough to keep my going, though, so I canceled all my subs. I activated my accounts again for a little bit when Age of Shadows came out, and did a little bit of the artifact collecting. That only lasted a few months before I deactivated again, though. Between the time my UO career ended and now I enlisted in the Marines, did a few tours in Iraq, and graduated from college. I guess it's time to get back to my unproductive irl UO roots!
Free shards are where I can be found these days, though mostly AOS or earlier. Not a fan of all the ninjas, leprechauns, yellow submarines, and whatever else they've added to the game since AOS. I haven't compiled any scripts of my own yet, but I look forward to using the resources here to help me get some good things in going.
