I started out as a huge fantasy fan with next to no reading ability, so I clung to games like Runescape from as early as 7 years old, I'd take what I could do there and then go LARP with my first and second grader friends at school on the oval. It is pretty embarrassing thinking about it, I remember one recess I had spent the entire time 'shooting' imaginary cows from afar then collecting their hide so I can get my crafting up, I was a pretty weird kid I guess.

Anyway, as I played Runescape and got into the community a lil' more (though I never visited the forums) I started learning to read, write and spell from there and tried my hand at in-game RP. The chat often moved too fast for me to keep up so it took me awhile to really start RPing. By the time I was a competent RPer (by Runescape standards) I was a member of a Roleplay group who followed the Fremennik lore closely (Got others to call me my Fremennik name and all; Larkur). But in-game RP in Runescape became rarer and rarer so I left, most of the RP worlds were full of people who didn't know what RP is. Eventually I did a little bit of RP on WoW and other games, but anyone else who would RP with me often treated me like my low level also meant that I had low intellect, like I was 10 or something.

Then came Habbo, eventually I joined Habbo in its... uhm... golden(?) years. The playerbase was large, the locations few and the players creative. So for fun I'd often go to the RP adoption places and hospitals and start killing people with 'RP', usually just continuous lines that were like;

-I grasp the hilt of my sword tightly-
-I draw my sword here raising it to your neck-
-I apply moderate pressure in your direction-
-The blade rips the flesh-
-the blade rips the bone- . . . yadda yadda yadda, pretty bland right?

By this time I could touch type and I could do it really fast, so I'd often get 'shut up' or 'u r dum' in response. Eventually I started doing more serious RPs, but most of the players were egotistical and refused to lose, there was little structure and what structure there was, was hard to enforce.

A lil' while after that I get told about Gaia's RP forums, so I did a little google search and I noticed RPG was in the list of results, Roleplayer Guild seemed a lot more refined than what I'd find at Gaia so I clicked there instead, did my first few RPs there, fell in love with the format. ~ I actually get put off now by RP sites that don't have an interest check section.