Someone mentioned Skyrim at work, and I was like “I’m too old for that”, and them remember this MUD I used to play at about a decade ago, and was curious if was operational.
Turns out — it still works ! (and they have a twitter account too …)
$ telnet avatar.outland.org 3000
Trying 50.116.58.24...
Connected to outland.org.
Escape character is '^]'.
Welcome to AVATAR, a family-friendly Medieval fantasy kingdom. /^\
Located on our own site in Snikt's subterranean cave. / \
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Diku Mud created by ]-I-I-I-I-[ | ]I-I-I-I[
Hans Henrik Strefeldt, \ ` '_/ / \ | _ |
Tom Madsen, Katjya Nyboe, [*] __| ^ / ^ \ ^ | /^\ |
Michael Seifert, and |__ ,| / \ / `\ / \ | |*| |
Sebastion Hammer. Merc 2.2___| ___ ,|__ / /=_=_=_=\ \ | === |
originally created by I_I__I_I__I_I (====(_________)___|_|_____|___
Kahn, Hatchet, and Furey. \-\--|-|--/-/ | I [ ]__I I_I__|____I_I_|
|[*] , '| | [] |`__ . [ \-\--|-|--/-/
Extensive changes by the |_________|___|_____I___|___I___|----------|
AVATAR Team. |-|_|-|_|-|_|-|_|-|_|-|_|-|_|-|_|, ______ "|
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Telnet: avatar.outland.org 3000 Twitter: @AvatarMUD
Web: http://www.outland.org Facebook: AvatarMUD
What name shall you be known by, adventurer?