DE: Memory Lane

[yakalskovich]

 Tell us about you earliest Milliways memories, pups, threads, plots, phrases or events that impressed you in your formative first few weeks.

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[bjornwilde]

I look onto my early Milliways with both fondness and wincing. My comprehension of grammar rules was so bad back then. It was like all my school learning has disappeared. You all are amazing for putting up with me, tbh.

Emperor Norton was my first and he was fun. A bit tricky to get at times, but fun.

My most fond pup though was Ben Grimm. I still miss him at times, but the might Marvel crossover bus ran me over too many times and I just didn't want to play with them any more, especially after the Fear Itself rollercoaster.

[cottoncandypink]

I never read the full Fear Itself arc; only what was directly relevant to Thor and Journey into Mystery, and even that made my head spin. But yeah, their crossover events are far too frequent and far too big to keep up with, and they make it so hard to just stay in your little corner of favourite titles. Eventually, you're gonna be wondering what important plot thing you've apparently missed, and then figure out that you've got to also go pick up three issue of X-men, a few Iron Man comics, and whatever that new thing is that's only going to last three more issues anyway. I got super burnt out on the comics a few times because of this, and I'm still trying to recover from Original Sin.

[bjornwilde]

"Fear Itself" was the last big crossover I followed with any intent. As a business model, crossovers are a gold mine, but as a reader, I got burnout. Maybe if these events had real consequences? OK, AvX and the Terrigen cloud have had real consequences for the mutants. I do like what I am seeing in the new Marvel titles but I just don't have $50 a month to shell out to support the titles.

As to "Fear Itself", I feel like they did a huge disservice to Ben. Turning him into what he has *always* feared he was, was a very interesting move and I ate it up. Unfortunately there wasn't a whole lot to eat. There really should have been more fallout, at the very least into his psyche, after the end of that story. Instead we get a page of Ben feeling guilty and everyone forgiving him. Yes, all of that was in character, but that wouldn't have been the end of it for Ben. I also am miffed they didn't show Ben fighting the influence of the hammer at all. Given the people Ben has fought against in the past, there should have been some struggle!

[cottoncandypink]

Yeah, I don't think I've ever talked to anybody who actually manages to read and enjoy everything in the crossover events. I remember getting the idea to keep up with Fear Itself, and then realising how big it was, I almost choked. So I stayed over here in my little Norse corner, and aggressively ignored everything else.

And the lack of consequences is something I feel as well. Individual books seem to do pretty well with consequences, but I still don't actually know what the point of Original Sin was, in the long run. There were so many ways that should have rippled out and changed everything, but as soon as the event was over, everything was business as usual. If you're going to do a huge event like that, it should matter after the fact.

I think that's kind of why House of M never sat right with me. The big reset button was such a cop-out, and made everything irrelevant.

[bjornwilde]

Well House of M did have serious consequences if you were a mutant...well one of the less popular mutants. I guess mutants are the ones who have to deal with things actually lasting. ; p

[cottoncandypink]

And even then, only specific mutants, it seems like.

[bjornwilde]

i.e. the ones who were making them lots of $.

[cottoncandypink]

I had never done any kind of multi-player game like this before. I was mostly an AIM player before that, but my RP partner got busy with uni, so I started looking around for other places. I think someone put me on to Milliways, but I can't remember exactly. I just remember being intimidated as hell by everything, and stressing out over getting the app process right. I'm pretty sure it took me a good six months to actually settle into this place and figure what I was actually doing, and just kind of spent a lot of time flailing and worrying that I was going to piss someone off somehow.

[ceitfianna]

So many details of Will that I never expected to be asked weren't as certain. I was constantly fiddling with his accent and tagging everyone to learn and see what happens. That was the best advice I ever got was to just tag all over the place and due to that I feel comfortable interacting with so many people. I try and pay that forward for new muns by tagging them. Tagging into a multi-pup EP that was a return from a major plot with Ace, Raven, Lan, Moiraine and Nynaeve. It was confusing and exciting.

When I started playing I was in New Zealand so I ended up playing more with Ashie and Debi and Weaves and Gen as our times somehow worked.

The Midsummer plot and the time I ran a huge Milliways' party while on vacation from a public library computer in New Plymouth. I don't know how in the world that all worked out. All the fights Will got into and the sparring matches, I learned so much about how to write action but also write to create opportunities for the other person. Researching what foods would Will know about to know when he should be surprised and when not.

All the canons that I kept learning about which sent me to the library to find them and some I rediscovered. All the variations on Robin Hood due to the BBC Robin Hood cast. I could go on and on, that first year was amazing and busy and Milliways became a part of my life as it still is.