Ayenee

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Ayenee was a roleplaying area found exclusively in Yahoo! and on various message boards. It came about in many different ways with many different players and goals. The area was multi-themed, meaning it contained everything from furry areas to space areas to high fantasy areas.

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[edit] History

Back in 1997, there were clusters of gamers who gathered around Yahoo! Clubs which offered a free message board, chatroom, and member list that promoted play by email games as well as play by chat games. Over time, Yahoo expanded and in late 1997 had chatrooms for all users to mingle within and in the different sections the players frequented they made their own rules. The first of these many groups was named simply "Kellindil's Site" which was run by a core group of players. Thereafter, roleplaying in this manner was referred to as "text-based". In time, Kellindil's site failed and its management was taken over by another member of its "staff". Eventually as more players began to come to this realm they needed a name, and such was born Ayenee, a portmanteau of Arts and Entertainment, the category of Yahoo chat that the majority of roleplaying was done in.

Play continued in the user-created chat rooms of Yahoo for several years. However, in 2005, Yahoo terminated the usage of user-created rooms, which ultimately lead to in-chat roleplaying fading from view. This meant a strong swing to webforums to pick up the slack. From thereafter Ayenee split into two separate predominant paths. What was considered the "official" message board site, not only because it was first but because when visiting Kellindil's site you would get redirected to it, was Ayenee.org.

As was often the custom with large groups of RPers, many didn't care for the Ayenee.org site, and so Ayenee.com was created. Such was the birth of the other major site. Many other realms spawned, though often little came of them. In later years the tensions between Ayenee.com and Ayenee.org began to fade. This was proven to be especially true when the Ayenee.org site was hacked and taken over. RPers from that site could not access anything they had previously posted, and the host and administrators of Ayenee.com graciously allowed the players from their once rival to join a separate section of Ayenee.com created exclusively for the .org players.

Eventually, the .org players created NewAyenee.org to try to return to some sense of normal play for them. Not long after, the rights to the original Ayenee.org site were purchased, and now Ayenee.org will redirect you to NewAyenee.org. Ayenee.com has since been dropped, leaving Ayenee.org, with it's few remaining members, though dedicated as they are, as the only haven for those who, in their younger years, played in massive groups of filled chat rooms, typing out massive adventures and making unlikely friends along the way.

[edit] Furries in Ayenee

At it's peak, Ayenee boasted the highest player count out of any chat-based RP system, and higher than all other areas of Yahoo chat RP combined. This was equally true for the Furry players of Yahoo. The furries of Ayenee, though small in comparison to many of the other player groups, was nearly 1/3 larger than that of the players in the "Games" section of chat, (known by the RPers as Eden) and more than triple that of those who did their RP in "Teen" (Tenaria).

[edit] Great Ayenee Clans

There were a number of players who grouped together with their created characters to form what was mostly commonly referred to as a clan, though many other names did pop up. Some of these included: Darkbane, Pendragon, CryClad, Darkheart, Blackthorne, Darkthorne, Dracul, DarkRaven, Guyvers, Deathstenchi, Omniclad, and many many more.

Many of these clans are still active on various chat and message forums, though almost all are on a much smaller scale then they ever were while Ayenee existed in chat.

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