#Advice to your 12 year old self…

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fair epoch
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You travel back in time to 1994, you see yourself, getting ready to roll up your first character. What do you say to yourself?

ripe lynx
boreal siren
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It is dark. You are likely to be eaten by a grue.

dusk fox
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Ranger actually use magic, moron, otherwise you're just an inefficient warrior without cool tricks

leaden sonnet
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Don't reroll your character 5x after getting to level 30-40 because you want to switch weapon types. Fixskills will be a thing eventually

tight mauve
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Stop. Turn back. This is your last chance. Don't do it.

tardy rose
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that name you think is super cool, is not!

rose jasper
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I’d stuff my lockers to the brim with all sorts of weird stuff, ICE age gear, etc. and plan to profit 30 years later!!

short wadi
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Multiple opponent combat doesn't actually do anything for like 5 more years

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shut geyser
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I still have my original Zork games in the boxes, loved those things

sullen tangle
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You travel back in time to 1994, you see yourself, getting ready to roll up your first character. What do you say to yourself? I see I am 5 years too late...

sharp sedge
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don't spend all your premium points on 10x armor or any 10x padded/weighted item.

shrewd quail
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I would wonder where the other three years went, and why I was 12 in 1994... I want my time back Leff, you can't have it!

lethal flax
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I would ask myself how HE learned to time travel since he didn't start until 1995. Then I'd tell him to wait until AOL goes unlimited as it will save him hundreds of dollars. On second thought, I'd tell him to have at it because after this, I'm heading back a bit further and buying a bunch of Apple shares for a buck each.

shrewd quail
lethal flax
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And bitcoin

shrewd quail
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knowing my stupid behavior I would lose the drives it was stored on.

lethal flax
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When they were like a penny each, a friend of mine told me I should get a bunch because it was going to be big. I scoffed. :::sigh::: I scoffed. 😦

dusky grail
shut wharf
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12 Year Old Self, do everything you can to save and preserve your logs. There will come a day when your friends are long gone and at least with logs, you can revisit those old times again in some small way.

These logs would become more valuable to you than any fish spine sword ever could be.

shrewd quail
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oof this hits hard👆

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leaden sonnet
shrewd quail
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Air gapped and off-site

shut geyser
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Should have moved them to an ssd, just lazy

shrewd quail
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one of those things you don't think about until it's gone

shut geyser
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Basically, do still have my poster sized copies of Zepath's maps i printed of a plotter a billion years ago

shrewd quail
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nice!

shut geyser
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Lots of notes on em

shrewd quail
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I still have a binder full of a bunch I printed off. In the days of ;map it seems silly, but those things kept me from getting lost quite a bit.

shut geyser
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Skull and crossbones where my first death was, storm hound just past the sign before Arachne's Temple

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Bad place to get lost, especially at level 10 when we had dropped

shrewd quail
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pretty sure mine was from a vysan because their pound was OP

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or maybe now that I think about it, the goblins and lesser orcs were pretty rough on the mine road without decent gear.

short wadi
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Mine was while hunting rats in the catacombs, a brown spinner randomly showed up and might be the only time I've seen one of those in game

shrewd quail
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I vaguely recall them being an invasion critter weren't they?

short wadi
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Man, I'm wracking my brain trying to remember the empath that saved me. I remember she was married to Lurch...

shrewd quail
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Lurch I remember, but I didn't pay alot of attention to empaths back then.

lethal flax
# shrewd quail pretty sure mine was from a vysan because their pound was OP

When I first started I didn't know much about spells from various classes and didn't make a ton of silver, so I spent a lot of time dying in lesser orcs. Cru and Agni were the two who rescued me most of the time. It wasn't until years later when I knew much more that I really appreciated the seriousness Cru took in chasing down whatever had grabbed my normal broadsword and shield. lol.

shrewd quail
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I'm still bitter about losing my brand new set of vultite ohe and shield combo in ghoul masters >_>

lethal flax
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Until Simu ruined it, the original Ghoul master groups were my all time favorite hunting grounds. So much roleplaying and comradery there at pretty much all hours.

shrewd quail
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drag chest ne, yell CHASING! MINE!

lethal flax
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I'm still bitter that they enlarged that hunting area.

shrewd quail
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I am so thankful they enlarged most of the GY hunting areas. Miners was criminally small to begin with

lethal flax
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Yeah. My paladin is hunting miners now. They're only 11+ levels over my head. Easy peasy!

shrewd quail
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^_^ nurf pallies

lethal flax
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lol The steel katana doesn't hurt. Undead are sorta my wheelhouse.

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short wadi
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Hmm, that doesn't sound familiar... maybe Lurch was married more than once.

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dawn swan
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Would have been 1996 and 16 for me, and I think the only GS-facing advice I would give my younger self would be: Buy the custom private property the instant it goes up for sale on the future Simustore, you won't get another chance at one.

Beyond that, I don't think I'd want to say anything that would change anything. For better or worse, it's all been the experience of being a part of Elanthia's story.

shut geyser
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I like what I paid for my workshop vastly more than those insane simucoin prices

dawn swan
ripe lynx
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Don’t ever try gemstone… no mater what everyone says…. Never play gemstone….. crack is wack!

iron otter
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If only I was 12 years old in 1994. By that date I'd already been on GEnie a couple years and playing mostly Gemstone & MPBT3025. I'd already been stationed and returned from Europe after almost a decade. Been married a few years, had a couple kids. No fair the 1996 restart button is too late for me!

More seriously I'd have done a lot of things different if it was all those years ago and I was just starting GS. I'd have gone to more SIMUCONs for one in those early days. I've have not re-rolled so @#@# much or at all. I'd have kept more logs and not decided I wasn't returning and tossed all the ones I did have in 2015 ish, if I recall the year correctly.

Less drama, I'd' have avoided Imperial entanglements more than I did. To make a Star Wars joke. I'd have basically tilted at less windmills, know your battles and know when to just walk away. I'd have bought @Erek and his wife and other staff (some who had been friends from the MPBT302 who joined staff) dinner for putting up with all of us and I'd have recommended those same friends to pace themselves so they wouldn't burn out and leave GS.

Basically, I'd have approached GS much more laid back and would have tried to just soak in the experience more. Oh and I'd tell @Ardwen don't bid on the airship! ((cackle))

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iron otter
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signal scaffold
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I'd haff sent a postcard to sumpbody dat read:
Dont eber mix yer Cerbantes anna George Lucas metaphors! 😉

shrewd quail
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or do, we're not your mother.

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