MUD Games: Try a Guest, Then Decide Whether to Create a Character

Gameplay dates: October 31, 2026 for the guest visit; October 30 for the separate character-creation session. All dates use Beijing time. These are different sessions, not a single uninterrupted run. Open the exact inputs, screen returns and stopping points.

What can you do before setting a password?

Open the official Dark Pawns browser client. At By what name do you wish to be known?, type guest and press Enter. In our October 31 run this created the temporary on-screen identity Guest_1 · Human · Warrior and placed it At the Temple Altar. No password or email was requested on this guest route. It did not reopen our registered character.

We submitted these seven commands in this order: look, inventory, equipment, score, south, north, quit. Each block below is the captured rendered return, including terminal line wrapping. The source is the live game, not a command example copied from a guide.

look

At the Temple Altar
   You stand before the temple altar. Carved from a so
lid block of black
marble, it is an exquisite example of dwarven craftsma
nship. Black pillars
of the same marble hold up the ceiling of this open-ai
red pavilion, and to
the south a narrow aisle runs its way between hard oak
en pews. There is a
small hand painted sign posted as well.
 [ Exits: east south west ]
 
100H 20M 100V > 

inventory

Guest accounts are restricted from using this command.
100H 20M 100V > 

equipment

Guest accounts are restricted from using this command.
100H 20M 100V > 

score

Guest_1                           Age: 17 years (It's 
your birthday today.)
Hit points: 100(100)  Mana points: 20(20)  Movement po
ints: 100(100)
You are neutral, how boring.
You are naked, have you no shame?
Experience:    1 points
Coins carried: 0 gold coins    Coins in bank: 0 gold c
oins
Kills: 0  Pks: 0  Deaths: 0
You need 1499 exp to reach your next level.
You have been playing for 0 days and 0 hours.
You are a citizen of Kir Drax'in.
This ranks you as Guest_1 the Warrior (level 1).
You are a Human Warrior.
Your pack is light.
You are standing.
 
100H 20M 100V > 

south

Temple of the Cross
   The city's citizens file in to this large open pavi
lion once a week for
mandatory worship, but now it is quiet except for some
 battered adventurers
and their healers.  The main temple and the altar are 
to your north.  To
the south lies the city's main road, and sounds of the
 crowds there float
into this quiet place.
[ Exits: north east south west ]
A large bulletin board is mounted on a wall here.
A tangerine sits here, rent free....what a bum.[2]
It's a Potatooooooooo!
          ...it glows white
 
100H 20M 98V > 

north

At the Temple Altar
   You stand before the temple altar. Carved from a so
lid block of black
marble, it is an exquisite example of dwarven craftsma
nship. Black pillars
of the same marble hold up the ceiling of this open-ai
red pavilion, and to
the south a narrow aisle runs its way between hard oak
en pews. There is a
small hand painted sign posted as well.
 [ Exits: east south west ]
 
100H 20M 96V > 

quit

Goodbye, friend.. Come back soon!
 
--- Connection lost ---
 

The two gear-related commands returned the same restriction; that did not stop movement. south reached Temple of the Cross, where the room listed a bulletin board and loose objects. north returned to the altar. Only then did quit produce the farewell and disconnected state. We stopped there, without combat, picking up objects or reconnecting. This does not test persistent guest storage.

What changed when we created a character?

The October 30 session used the new nickname Journalmud. Counting logical stages, the route had twelve: enter name; confirm name; set password; repeat password; select ANSI colour; select sex; select race; select class; select home town; keep or reroll ability scores; acknowledge the welcome screen; choose 1 to enter. This counts stages, not retries or page loads. The owner completed the password phase, which included an Illegal password. response, and selected colour. The operator completed the remaining recorded choices. No email field appeared in this route.

We selected Human, Warrior and Kir Drax’in, accepted the first ability roll, and reached Temple Infirmary. inventory listed a short sword, a frayed tunic and a backpack. But equipment returned You are using: Nothing. Carrying those items was not proof of wearing or wielding them. The full earlier returns remain in the evidence record.

That character walked north to Western Vestibule and south back to Temple Infirmary. The prompt moved from 23H 100M 83V to 23H 100M 81V and then 23H 100M 79V during that route. At the infirmary, quit refused to log out and instructed us to return to the temple. We stopped at that warning; we did not use REALLYQUIT or RECALL. The guest’s successful altar exit on the following day does not certify recovery of this character’s equipment.

Which MUD access route fits your first session?

Official pages checked October 31, 2026 (Beijing time). Only Dark Pawns has gameplay records here. Other rows are access statements read on official pages, not matched play tests. “Not verified” means a qualifying statement or live value was not obtained; it does not mean unsupported.

Download the six-game comparison as CSV. The file contains the same values, official homepage links and check date. The per-cell source record below identifies where a publisher page or live counter supplies a particular value.

For a phone, start with the phone column, not a desktop-browser assumption. For price, distinguish free entry from optional purchases. For population, read the captured count as one page observation, not unique people or a promise about your time zone. Aardwolf’s displayed figure includes the site’s own counting conventions; its list contains link-dead entries. Icesus displayed an unavailable status rather than a number. Neither is replaced with an estimate.

What should you test before committing an evening?

Use the guest route to inspect the interface and test a small movement loop. If it blocks the commands you need, that is the boundary of the trial, not evidence that the full game lacks the feature. Our character and guest sessions reached different starting rooms and allowed different commands. Keep their records separate when deciding which result applies to your own session.

Discworld was considered but omitted after its official HTTPS entry returned a certificate-name error in Chrome. We did not bypass the warning, and did not treat that access failure as proof that the game is unavailable everywhere. Six other rows had usable official evidence.

This check does not cover combat balance, payment transactions, Android gameplay, screen-reader usability, safe registered-character logout, long-term progress or reconnect recovery. The six-row table is not a ranking by population or quality.

Type guest, then look; decide whether that limited trial answers your question before creating a character.