It was the fall of 2000, I had just started my freshman year in college. I didn't take on a very big class load, so I had a LOT of free time. I had always been involved in some kind of RPG, be it some earlier MUDS on Telnet, or pen-and-paper types, so I was looking into something like that online.
I first stumbled into some type of client that allowed people to set up a pen-and-paper type game using online tools. That wasn't doing it for me, so I did a google search for 'online RPG' and found Avalon in the mix. Everything about it interested me, so I tried it out.
Solan was not actually my first true character. I first had a Parrian Ranger that I played for about four months. He was nothing more than a comm slave huggy that knew nothing about fighting. My most popular murderers were Sorcerers, whom I seemed to love pissing off by triggering Dance Dawn the instant night fell. Seeing as how they never had any problems dispatching me, even the smaller ones, I decided I had had enough. Goodbye huggy Ranger, hello Sorcerer Solan. Death and destruction suit my playstyle far better than playing a huggy Ranger, but I was essentially a newbie all over, because I knew nothing of combat and fighting. I've never looked back, never played the Ranger or anything else again, and I never will.
