this lame ass game called smallworlds it was a virtual world w/ its own forums, and one of the forum sections was called "offworld discussion", for topics not directly related to the game some of my friends from SW made forum roleplays on offworld forum, and I ended up getting into RP from those of course, we were all like 11 at that time and we sucked, but it was tons of fun! and i still talk to them to this day (though we don't rp as much anymore, and we've all mostly quit smallworlds lol)