User:Ark
Hi, despite the name my wiki account has, I'm Ark. If you played on SRTMUSH from 2010-onwards, you might know me as Ibis Douglas's player. I dipped into the revival of FFMUSH and a game called Final Kingdom briefly as Barbariccia on both games. Here I am, dedicated to making a serious stab at the lovable rival from Wild ARMs Advanced 3rd, Maya Schrodinger.
About Me
I'm pretty boring and normal, I'm sorry. I like rugby and cricket, geospatial science and visualization, hiking and swimming... just normal and boring stuff. I'm actually pretty new to this MUSH circuit even still--SRT was my first MUSH ever, *and* the first time I'd ever played a Feature Character in an RPG of any kind. Once I got a taste for the fast-and-flashy style of MUSHing, that blend of imaginative spark and the excitement of robust conflict resolution systems coded into the background from which emergent cool stuff would emerge was addicting. Everyone's capability to roll with dorky comedy or stone-faced drama at the drop of a hat is wonderful, I've never known a better bunch of players.
My Characters
I think Maya is actually really, really interesting. I didn't finish WA3 when I first picked it up, and had to chew through an LP to see the rest of the game to see if her character would ever go anywhere. Like a lot of the plot hooks in the game, she never really gets explained very thoroughly, but what's there in the last quarter of the game or so is surprisingly good! There's no way the developers really intended for it to be the basis of a lot of deep questions, but hell, if we weren't extrapolating wildly about characters based on a few scenes in the game, what's the point?
After a brief discussion with the wonderful Virginia Maxwell player, I felt like I had some genuinely good directions to take a character that could be a pretty staid one-note gag. I just need to make sure I stay disciplined, plan ahead, and take good play seriously!