Back when I wrote Runescape fanfiction on the official forums my first attempt at writing a complete story was something lampooning the trend of the "Noob Story". For the unaware, a Noob Story was a work of slash comedy pretty much where the author would go through the life of a fresh player-character in the world of Runescape, hitting up everything a new player is expected to do, lampooning high-level players, and otherwise being a misery. There were a few that were pretty good, but all-in-all the genre was considered trash.

So I decided to poke fun at it.

I forget the name of the character for my story, I swear he might have been named after an old video-game console with a name that sounded like it could be applied to a person as much as a marketing brand for an electronic entertainment device. But in any case, the MC in focus was the high-level player in a sense, being the adventurer who had made himself a name and was comfortable. And then there was the new guy to the adventuring world.

In the story, he pretty much refuses to assist the rookie who runs off an has a wizard curse him. At which point he begins to loose his abilities and effectively his experiences and memory as well as his gear and recognition of his existence is slowly eroded away by the work of this spell. So he goes from being a self-made, self-righteous asshole to being as lost as the rookie he lashed. Eventually he ends up back on Tutorial Island which was re-purposed as a sort of boot camp for would-be adventurers.

There were also jokes about the developer Jagex and how the entire perceivable world was actually determined by them as sort of god-beings. They knew their world to be a video game but the inhabitants didn't. But I failed to explore it beyond that because the story never moved past Tutorial Island when I got there.

My other hits in this early-time included Lazarus, a would-be despotic dictator. Another character that was my attempt at writing a quasi-Jim Morisson. Also a warrior-king of the RS world's desert loosely based on the romantic portrayals of Saladin by the name of Abu-Bakr. Last I checked the former character's story was still alive, despite being maybe five or more years old by now.