Hello all. I'm new to the boards here, and I am not a writer, so forgive me if you find this choppy or hard to read.
My addiction to Ultima Online began in 1996 when I was invited to the Private Beta test server. At this point, the only real RPG most people my age had ever played was Dungeons & Dragons, so you can imagine how enthralling it was to play a game like UO.
At first, it started off as just a game; since then, it had evolved into a horribly wasted 8 years of my life.
When they decided it was time to make the game public, they invited me to be a GM (Game Master), so I of course accepted, seeing as how they payed 30k a year. Being a college student at the time, I needed something to get me away from the real life stress. UO seemed like the perfect solution...boy was I wrong.
Several months later, I had moved out of my dorm into a small apartment. The only furniture set up was the dining room table with 2 constantly glowing monitors. There were coke cans littered all over my desk. The only food I had was a bag of stale chips that had been there for weeks.
My life had turned to hell. I lost contact with all my friends, family, and the only world I knew was one called Britania. I was smoking like a chimney and the apartment reaked of spilled drinks.
I was sickly pale, and weighed less than 100 pounds. Please forgive me, I can't finish this...