Memory Lane

[Griefmaker]

When Gunethar Trollbait was walking with Hera Braidstone and Sasha Silverscales up in the Spires and they got on his case because he used to eat halflings...or at least say he liked to.

So they took turns KDing his hairy butt, beating him down, healing him, then tagging the other person to do so.


A humbling experience for a dwarf.

[Aelryn Bloodmoon]

Being a citizen of Wharftown.

[sarithia]

Singing the Dnd version of my milkshake brings all the boys to the yard before Bendir got its make over ( I think it was just Bendir fort or something then, when you could go the top of it) on Jihael with two others whos names I have unfortunately forgotten.

[Borin Drakkmurl]

I am pretty sure at some point, and for a good while, the server was actually, physically, in jjjerm's bathroom?

[hmm]

When Andunor was Monster-only. Humans were afraid & fearful of the Underdark.

[Kuma]

When Andunor was Monster-only. Humans were afraid & fearful of the Underdark.

andunor has never been monster-only

[Best Rich Face]

When Andunor was Monster-only. Humans were afraid & fearful of the Underdark.

Your best known character is literally a non monster race (horc) living in the Underdark.

[Dalek Caan]

Sharan wars, yay!

When Ayin Mesmer, Eric Silverarms and others (sorry, I can't recall all of them, I think Jacob Swift was there?) went for a retaliation assault on the iron citadel. To this day that is probably the most fruitful instance of PVP I can remember...

When Lillia Aylows and Nelyata defended Wharftown, with Lillia casting a hellball on Nelyata while Nel ran into a group of enemies. That was nuts.

Iocastos getting flesh to stone-d in the UD.

Skeflock casually teaching Anarion about power consolidation and stuff.

I also remember the events to "Verankht does not want milk". That was grade A hilarious.

When you had to spam Direct Connect to enter a full server.

And consequentially, the server being at 99/96 players.

[Jagel]

The trial against Revinco and Ulrich Manes. My character Erny was a spectator from the benches. Watching Aristotlus and Rune navigate the hostile room, Aristotlus becoming more and more worn down from the ordeal, the foiled assassination attempt by a Zhentarim agent in the courthouse etc. Simply an epic scene that caused server side ripples for weeks (months) to come until Ulrich was finally taken down and Revinco fled.

[TimeAdept]

The trial against Revinco and Ulrich Manes. My character Erny was a spectator from the benches. Watching Aristotlus and Rune navigate the hostile room, Aristotlus becoming more and more worn down from the ordeal, the foiled assassination attempt by a Zhentarim agent in the courthouse etc. Simply an epic scene that caused server side ripples for weeks (months) to come until Ulrich was finally taken down and Revinco fled.

RIP Ulrich Manes

[The Rambling Midget]

Vanya Dae'ia trying to throw off Team Good's defense, during the fall of Benwick, as a double agent for Team Evil.

I don't know if I actually accomplished anything, but I sure had a lot of fun doing it.

I remember when all of Arelith was a single server.

Oh, man, yeah. What a joy it was to sit there spamming connect and hoping that I could squeeze in during the tiny fraction of a second when the player count dropped to 59.

[Dr. B]

I remember rods of porting. Does anyone else remember rods of porting?

[Dalek Caan]

I remember rods of porting. Does anyone else remember rods of porting?

Yup... Crazy times... They were removed a few weeks after I joined though.

[Jagel]

I remember rods of porting. Does anyone else remember rods of porting?

Hah , yes. “Port to leader”

[Kuma]

I am pretty sure at some point, and for a good while, the server was actually, physically, in jjjerm's bathroom?

... god i forgot about this lmao

that abyss fight with the tower/benwick/etc vs the abyss was colossal. enserric's hellball did not go according to plan

vippin and uat re-enacting jafar/iago while we used ohm to ground some evil lightning machine, and the surfacers coming to rescue him at the darkfalls
rescuing feste (again) from skeflock
watching the shallow woods portal (at the time a 2-way) at night to protect against UD raids- and one showing up all "you're on your own, prepare to die". this drow casts true seeing and sees 10+ epic surfacer stealthers surrounding them.
summoning belduil into tower captivity
winning a cordor council election by accident without intending to run again
the nomad being effectively a city-state all its own under dear leader janelle valgon (and the associated manharem)
sandrhir's dope infernal rituals
this one's more recent, but the second dominion holding a festival in wharftown that had pagan human sacrifices to ensure the harvest came, and two guys fighting literally to permadeath because they besmirched the table of food dedicated to the gods. oh, and burning an effigy of administrator provine as a middle finger to cordor
effelin's effigy of trynn'delynn burning on her doorstep
a cordor guard commander blackguard being called a "a badly roleplayed paladin" in gschat
ayin having a personal throne at the nomad that was dragged out whenever he visited

[Rico_scorpion]

Just a general thought:

I find it funny to see the layers of memories this "community/server" has. It's generational almost.

A guy comes in and go "I'm back after so long! Last time i played was like, 3 years ago!", conjuring up names that feel old to him. Which I would still reference as the "Artos era".
Then I would be like "dude, i'm a true veteran, been on and off for what seems like 10-15 years!", and I'm all "yo, Sarog Pethanos ya'all, knew that guy? He was dope, back then the temple of mask wasn't maskite at all!". Which I would reference as the "Mithreas era".
Eventually someone will walk in and go "lel, was there when there was only one server and drows-halfey-halfdragon and whatnot were all chilling together in Cordor!". Which I would reference as the "JJerm era".
And there's probably another era before that, the bigbang/birth of the server. Like Gigashatten, only ever saw that name associated to an "engine", but he was some kind of code-lord on arelith back in the days or something?

I like that, puts things in perspective, gives huge depth to the in game history and meta-history of the server, and keeps things fresh.

Rambling over. I support this thread!

[Dalek Caan]

And there's probably another era before that, the bigbang/birth of the server. Like Gigashatten, only ever saw that name associated to an "engine", but he was some kind of code-lord on arelith back in the days or something?

Gigaschatten was the first developer and built the early Arelith chassis which was extended by Mithreas and other developers. It could easily have been renamed Mithreas Engine, at some point. Gigaschatten played Akyss Sha'ar back then, mostly, he actually returned for a brief stint a few years back, before the last major forum wipe.

[Yma23]

I remember being taken to Myon the first time, for sanctuary. It felt really magical

My faverite 'old' memory is of Maliel and the Great Painting Caper, which made him rather rich and which amuses me to this very day.


Rosiere De le Croix and Herial Ghalen both wanted a picture from Maliel, and came to him independently about it.
These two characters were bitter rivals/enemeis.
So Maliel made two paintings. One was of glorious Rosiere, standing victorious over the crumpled body of Herial! - this was sold to Rosiere.
The other was of the Glorious Herial! Standing victorious over the crumpled body of Rosiere! - This was sold to Herial.
Neither knew about the existance of the other painting for quite a while, and Maliel laughed all the way to the bank.

[Jagel]

And there's probably another era before that, the bigbang/birth of the server. Like Gigashatten, only ever saw that name associated to an "engine", but he was some kind of code-lord on arelith back in the days or something?

Gigaschatten was the first developer and built the early Arelith chassis which was extended by Mithreas and other developers. It could easily have been renamed Mithreas Engine, at some point. Gigaschatten played Akyss Sha'ar back then, mostly, he actually returned for a brief stint a few years back, before the last major forum wipe.

Well the first iteration of Arelith, the original chassis so to speak, was built before Gigaschatten. Jjerm, Artos and ... Jpavelsomething something. Giga first came around after the Arelith/Amia split.

[Nevrus]

I started in EE and remember the twenty four hours that Sksljard had a functional adventurer-democracy. Those four hour meetings were the true battle.

[ReverentBlade]

Not sure if it counts as a "memory" but I miss the pre-lore change balance meta. It followed classic paradigms well-established across multiple servers. You could build characters using experience learned elsewhere and more or less be alright. Now you have to memorize an encyclopedia of homebrew rules and rummage around in Discord for prebuilt character templates.

[Cuchilla]

I am pretty sure at some point, and for a good while, the server was actually, physically, in jjjerm's bathroom?

Yup. I believe it was for optimal cooling. Especially when DMs pushed it too much in events, or too many mages casting, the server would heat up, and eventually "freeze" (!) and crash

[Shrouded Wanderer]

I started in EE and remember the twenty four hours that Sksljard had a functional adventurer-democracy. Those four hour meetings were the true battle.

Excuse you, it was 24.5 hours


Sincerely, one of the adventurer councilmembers

[DM Eyeball]

I may misremember, but LittleWeasel, I believe, once found a dead lizard in the server box.

[livingNPC]

Phi-sets