We started venturing into the wilderness together, dying to ettins and hinds. Abe tried to hide it, but he was clearly a little kid.
Sild was older and had all the strategy guides memorized.
We laughed when we realized we had the same birthday, one year apart. Dex was from Malaysia and was in college just a state away from me. Over those first few weeks, we made a few friends on Great Lakes: Dex and Abe and Sild. I milled around, gawking at people’s chatter floating over their heads, and watched people summoning ham and eating it and summoning it again. To make money, I sold dye jobs to people around Britain bank who hadn’t figured out they could just go buy dyes and a dye tub for less than I was charging. I made a character with tailoring and musicianship but none of the actual usable bard skills, so my first character was functionally worthless. I was a teen and mostly a sci-fi strategy player back then, and I had no idea what I was doing in Britannia, but then nobody else did either. I was still playing when the sun came up. We had only one PC, so our usual plan with games was that one of us played while the other studied, swapping every hour. (The box did look dumb.) He bought it anyway, and we took it back to his dad’s house. He picked up this new thing called Ultima Online that had just launched. Twenty-five years ago my boyfriend, Paul, and I walked into a shop to find a new game to play together.
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