Well, yes, perhaps. It wouldn't have been true though. Despite your .. sizable virtual life, you have a real, real life as well. Active enough to force you to juggle the two all the time. Occasionally you think you know how Bruce Wayne must feel like.

But I have lost the thread here.

Although MUDs were the single thing you found most interesting on the Internet when you first heard about it, once you got access to the net you didn't really start playing for a long, long time. Once you did, you played for a short while with some intensity, and then stopped. The fact that only the powermongers and the the most patient (meaning the people who had the time to spend 10 hours / day in the mud) eventually became the 'best' players didn't really strike your fancy.

So a year passed in BATMud, the first (and only) MUD you ever really tried to play. Then a friend of yours wanted to try a mud, and you agreed that it might be fun to play. If nothing else, you would have a willing party readily available. This went on a short time, but you didn't really get anywhere in the mud. You played a Vampire, a race that was hardly suitable for a beginning player for personal reasons (well, actually not personal, and there was really only one reason). Though you didn't stop playing all together, you didn't really advance either.

Though you didn't gain xp, you did gain some friends. And one of these friends wanted you to help with a new mud, one which would be more like a roleplaying game and less like a monster bashing session. You, always interested in attempting to code a mud, readily agreed. So you entered the Lands of Chaos for the first time. Though it isn't ready for playing yet, you have high hopes for it.

Yet another friend, this one from LoC, asked you to wiz in another mud, the Image World. So there you are as well, though you really haven't had time to do anything. But you intend to.