current newbie experience
Sigh. Started this article on April 14, ‘09; then RL kicked me in the teeth for a year and a half. None of the admins are able to contribute any meaningful dev time to the project these days but thankfully GPFault is joining the mud as an archwizard tasked with revivification, and in honor of that, I am revivificating this old draft blog post 
Just for completeness sake, I am going to kick off my discussion of ideas for a new newbie experience by documenting the current system.
When a new player logs in to the mud for the first time, they are asked a handful of questions before being dropped onto the peak of Witac Island. Before a player can leave Witac, they must complete every quest on the island. If a player manages to escape the island w/o completing every quest, they will be returned to the peak when they log back in. Completion of Witac gives the player a few tools and fleshes out their physical description.
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