My History with Flyff, Active Worlds

I would play this old Korean MMO Flyff which was really popular around 2008 or so. I had an IRL friend I played with a few times, but my best experiences were with players I met online. I had a friend who had a username based on this band CHiODOS. She always had an eating emoticon because she thought it was cute. I was way below her level (she was probably ~65, myself ~40), but she let me hang out with her and we'd chat while leveling in higher level areas, and I'd buff her and heal her and get exp in the process through the party share. She basically introduced me to Death Note because she was watching it on Toonami that night, and I watched it too, which is how I got into anime at all. At that time, I had never really liked the 90s and prior design of anime and Death Note had incredibly fresh design by comparison. I loved talking with her. I wish I could go back and get her Skype or something, I'll regret it forever.

Another time I met a guy in the massively crowded, but beautiful, city of Darkon (it had beautiful music too). While I was attempting to trade something to him, he offered to give me a really good price on it, way more than I had paid for it. I was shocked. I chatted with him a bit, then later, he gave me a million penya, which was a huge amount to me at the time. I couldn't believe it and was so thankful, but I didn't get why he would do it. He said "Hey, dude it's just a game, it's not that big a deal." He was really nice.

Darkon from Flyff is one of my Pixel Portals. I downloaded it again a few years back and seeing the way it was now was...surreal. Going through there now, the city under eternal night that would be entirely underground if not for a massive opening in the rocky ceiling above it, revealing the night sky. The city that would crash my PC back then with how many people were jam-packed within it, now barren with its haunting music, is one of the few things that makes me nostalgic. There was only one person in the entire city. We talked for a bit then I logged out.

Pixel Portals - Gal Da Val Island

In this online MMO game Active Worlds. It was basically this polygonal world built by players. The main world was this big hub that a lot of people would just sit and chat on, and was one of the worlds that you couldn't edit (because it was the default). I played probably back in 2008 or 2010. One of the very few ways you could interact with the world was by picking flowers, so as a result, I would pick flowers and deliver "flower pizza" to people. It was literally flower-flavored pizza in my mindgame though it was just flowers in-game. There were hundreds of worlds, all different from each other. You could spend hours exploring just one of them. The hub was this area surrounded by mountains with a large globe in the center and maybe some small buildings littered about. You could go through the ground with the the fly/noclip button and find weird/creepy/psychedelic things left in by the creator. I think there was a creepy face with weird effects in an invisible room underground. I loved my time in that game. That hub world of Active Worlds is one of my Pixel Portals.

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