I do remember Smidgeon, I'm sorry to hear she was assaulted. I hate to say it, but I probably knew the assaulter, and I probably couldn't give you less than 20 names that matched that particular MO...
This was a very rough place in the back alleys, and that's partly why I loved it, but there were several casualties.
The names have been changed to protect the guilty, but there were a few modus operandi that were shady:
Bring a woman out and then just sorta stop and demand she pass over all her gear...
Bring a woman out and just sorta park somewhere and proceed to...well, you know. Not the most original, but definitely the steadfast staple of carnal strategy.
Then again there's one of my favorite tells from someone "OH my GOD, she's ONLY 14!" (Okay, okay, so it was SnowWolfe, I have permission to use a direct quote)
I only got mild revenge, I used to take parties out to right before beating something good up or finishing a quest and demand that someone in the party make me laugh before we continued. Pissed quite a few people off, made a couple of very good friends.
There were suicide threats if cyber didn't commence quickly.
These were tough women and tough men and took pride in it in a wicked little way I can't even try to capture anywhere else. Turned out that half the people there were the opposite gender, under 14 or otherwise...but they were very good at what they did. The like minded met and did what like minded do.
I really, really miss it. Unfortunately every other game doesn't have anywhere the level of expected roleplay, pride in humor, intent to be creative or produce the best stories. I credit this era as the "If you had a computer, it was because you were smart." time in my life. I end up turning channels off everywhere else and "roleplay" is almost always defined as basically not using your own name...
Whenever I got in hot water, I always took the refuge of the cowardly. I rebooted. It was rare, but it happened. Then I'd come back under another name and I'd get laughed at by the guy who made me reboot, cause he could always find my alts. I dreaded the *POKE* of embarrassed recognition. Of course, I'm married to that exact guy right now.
Cyren