How did you find about about Avalon?

Just wondering how everyone else came to Avalon...

Some number of years ago I think I googled something like "Text Based RPG Game" and came across Legends. After a couple years I migrated to First Age, which I've enjoyed quite a bit more.

I was much the same way. When i was about 12-14 years old i found a great game. When I started searching for it again is when i found FA. I realized at once that this wasn't that land i was originally looking for and finding out that it costed money i damn near left on the spot. However, i realized that this land had a great deal of promise and decided that the cost was worth it.

well, that was my story and some.

My brother and I always played the latest 3D FPS and MMORPGS we could, but I started to find that these, while visually stimulating, were rather lacking in content. I started to backpedal, and went from 3D to 2D, DOS games that made up for their lack of visuals with content. I found a singleplayer text-based RPG and greatly enjoyed it, so I, just like Mysterin, googled "text-based RPG" and came across Legends. I was redirected to FirstAge from there. Curiosity lead me to try out other MUDs as well (since I didn't know what they were 'supposed' to be like), but I have yet to find a game as good as FA

I was having a moment of nostalgia, looking for the old text based adventure games I played when I was young (yes, I was a geek, and yes I still am one . Now I also feel like a very old geek... *Le sigh*). So anyways, Google gave me Legends (go figure), but soon found the 'pay to play' bit on the website, was not impressed, so I kept looking. Not long after, I found FA with no 'pay to play' bit, so thought I'd give it a go. Fell in love, got annoyed when I found out I had to pay for this one too, but by that time, I was hooked - dammit!

Mine is a weird combination of what's already posted, I was bored back when I only had one class, and decided to try playing some games. I started by google-ing zombie games and found this pretty cool game, after that I looked up text based games and found avalon. I was hooked. Oh by the way, I don't even bother logging back into the zombie game since I'm sure the zombies have broken down the barricades and eaten my brain.

this may be redundent. but yeah....google directed me to FA but not to legends because, cheap bastard i am, i typed in Free texted based rpgs, because originally i was playing runescape , gay i know, and i wanted soemthing to sooth my D&D side i wanted to roleplay...atleast alittle

Same as others, googled "txt rpg" and found it. Got hooked withing a few hours, mainly due to, I think, the kool people like Amalia who put up with me at the start

I was sitting in Africa bored out of my mind and started googling online games, I found FA and was hooked haha.

In 2007 (I think) I did not have a whole lot to do with myself and had been reminiscing about the text-based adventure games from Microsoft I had played as a kid -- ZORK and the subsequent games in that genre. I wondered if there were still games like that, maybe bigger and better ones, so I went searching around online. Ended up at the Avalon: Legends and played there for a while. Parts of it I found incredibly fun, and other parts were just as incredibly tedious. While playing there, I heard about First Age, and some people said that it was much simpler: not as much busywork to do, and not as heavily populated. I tried First Age and found I could focus more on the fun parts, so I retired my Legends character altogether and, with a couple of sabbaticals, I've been a First-Ager ever since.