There is a MUD (Multi-User-Dungeon) based on Discworld, a fantasy world by author Terry Pratchet. The Wombles have mysteriously populated this MUD. It's really thanks to the Discworld MUD that I started to meet other people who knew what Wombles are and became inspired to create these pages.
• The new newbie quest requires you to find and return a brooch to a Womble. When completed you get the title "Wombles Friend".
• The communication room of the newbie area is "filled with frogs which are bouncing around, wombling on and chattering away like crazy."
• There is a "Womble corridor" in the thieves Guild in Ankh-Morpoork.
• If you order a flower, from the shop on Clarty, to be delivered, a Womble performs the delivery.
  "A small Womble hurries up to you and gives you a red rose from Telson. It looks apologetic and then scurries away."
• When logging onto Discworld you see:
  Wombles are:
  Brandobas Deutha Titania Sojan
• help finger:
  .plan You are a Womble;Have fun
• help get:
  Box contains:
  A small Womble.
  get Womble from box
  You get a small Womble from the large box.
• help soul:
  Womble on.
• The soul command 'Womble'
• help Womble
  Womble <string> [around] <indirect:any-living>
  Womble <indirect:any-living> <string>
  Womble [around] <indirect:any-living>
  Womble <string>
  For the arguments: [happily, peacefully, brightly, sadly, greenly, backwards,
  orinocoly, wellingtonly, bungoly, tomskly, with your frog,
  commonly, twice, once, with a hey nonny nonny, doing a
  dance to the great frog in the sky]
• Womble brooch for A$150 in the Jewelry shop on Market
  A wonderfully intricate brooch made in the image of a beautiful Womble. The Womble looks most life-like. You watch it carefully to make sure it doesn't move.
  It appears to have something written on it.
• Ceres had this title one day:
  Ceres the Lord of Klatch, Heart under demolition and reconstruction (Womble, Cute) Lord
• At least one of the back issues of the Ankh-Morpork Daily has an article about the Wombles in AM.
• Patricians offices - Waiting room on a coffee table, covered in last years issues of magazines. Things like 'Wombles day' and 'Orinoco'.
• For a while my Discworld .plan & .project were as follows:
  Project:
  'To find as many Womble lovers as possible,'
  Plan:
  'and to find out why/how Elisabeth Beresford's Wombles came to be in Terry Pratchett's Discworld.'
  Now I know. Or at least, I talked to the creator who originally introduced them. David (a.k.a. Pinkfish) is a big fan of Wombles. He recently took a look at this list and told me that he's responsible for about half of these sightings. Let those Wombles clean an inch and....
• Crispian flames you with a high explosive Womble.
• Note in room on Market Street in Ank-Morpork. WARNING! Due to an error with a Womble, a bunch of flowers and matter displacer this room has been known to shift orientation every couple of minutes. You have been warned. [I believe this room has been deleted from the game world since Market was removed and replaced by Cockabill Street.]
• weeping Womble in the church
  [I havn't seen this first hand but read about this at "The Womble project".]
• There's a candy shop in Khot-lip-khin that is selling chocolate Wombles. So far I have gotten Tobermory, Great Uncle Bulgaria, Madame Cholet, Tomsk, Orinoco, & Wellington. I'm still waiting for Bungo. "A man eating a chocolate Womble walks out of the confectionery shop. You think it was Orinoco (the Womble that is)."
• Temple of Small Gods - "The vegetable chef exclaims: Ssshhhh....there are Wombles every where, listening to everything we say!"
• While waiting in the queue to log in one day I saw "Watch out for the Wombles; they can be really picky about their brooches."
• Had a dried frog pill and saw some strange things like:
  "Some red winged bananas appear in a puff of smoke and ask you deep and meaningful questions about Wombles."
  "Some blue electric whelks appear in a puff of smoke and ask you deep and meaningful questions about Wombles."
• Djel palace - The fountain burbles, bubbles, and Wombles.
• Balloons - Now is playtesting, so you saw it here first!
  >twist pink balloon
  You twist the balloon vigourously! reeky-rck squeak plop plop!
  You twist the inflated pink womble.

• Are you interested in Discworld or Pratchett? If so take a look at my Pratchett page. It's a little thin but has links to some good sources and the Discworld.imaginary MUD.

Shannon Dugas

"I have recently become a Womble nut thanks to a friend that introduced them to me on the MU* I frequent. The name of it is FurryMUCK. And there are two Wombles there that I know of.

"From the little I know about Wombles. I know that more are needed on FM. But hey, cant have everything you want can you?"

The FurryMUCK Home Page

Martin Hanna

"I was reading your Wombles web page and I notice a bit about MUDs. Well, we have a MUD that has a Wombles quest. Our MUD is TerraFirmA and its [telnet] address is terrafirma.ohl.dk 2222 The quest was written by Cyn but if you ever log on ask someone to show you the Wombles quest."

Some game text is:

     You are standing in the Picnic Area.

      You are in an area of the common where families come to have their Sunday-afternoon picnics. The area is deserted but, judging by the piles of rubbish that the humans have left behind them, it has recently been very busy. The tables and benches are huge, bringing back lost memories of childhood when everything was large and out of reach.

      The saddest sight here is the large empty litter bin which stands like a tower amongst the sea of papers, empty cans and food wrappings. Why can't people just put their litter in the bins and not throw it onto the grass?

     It is raining.

     You see :

          Orinoco standing here.

          Wellington standing here.

     Obvious exits are :

          West : Common Path

          Up : Litter Bin

     You see nothing special.

     >examine orinoco

      He is the fattest (which is very fat indeed as all the Wombles have nice round figures) and the laziest Womble in the burrow. He quite often needs 'a little forty winks' before he can get his strength up to start work.

     You examine Orinoco's inventory.

          Holding :

               A collection of 18 credits.

          Wearing :

               <hat> <scarf>

          Carrying :

               Nothing

Here's a reference to "Bullet"

"The first major advance in these systems was Aberystwyth's Honeyboard, written by a bunch of hackers there using the B language on an old Honeywell running GCOS-3. This system later mutated into AberMUD. Bullet was originally designed to be a MUD (Multi-User Dungeon) based upon well known British children's television programs such as "The Magic Roundabout" and "The Wombles" which would include a bulletin board in one of the rooms. It was decided to get the bulletin board system up and running first, then work on the rest of the system. This was the point at which I left the development, before the first line of code was written."

Telsa Gwynne

"I do, however, have bad news for you. Alas!

"Looking around the rest of your site I found a reference to Wombles on "Bullet", and a "If this exists as a MUD I would love to see it" remark. It's a bit more complicated than that.

"Bullet was a bulletin board with a talker which was intended to evolve into a MUD and didn't. There was another talker, however: the Honeyboard at Aberystwyth university, which did evolve into a MUD. That MUD was called AberMUD.

"AberMUD went through five different incarnations. The later ones were more unified and coherent, but the first version had a lot of silly things in them. I know quite a few of the authors through mutual friends, and although it certainly had many rooms and characters inspired by British cartoons, (Willo the Wisp, the Magic Roundabout, etc), to the best of my knowledge there were no Wombles. (The best of my knowledge translates as, "I asked my husband, who was one of the AberMUD authors, and he doesn't remember Wombles there.")

"Since it was written in B, AberMUD 1 doesn't run anywhere these days, and the records of all the mobiles (wandering monsters) don't seem to be about, but you can browse the room database and check for Womble-habitations at The AberMUD 1 History Site

"There was a different MUD around at the same time (late eighties) called MIST which had a Womble, though. MIST ran at Essex university, restricted from 2am to 7am in the weekdays and longer in the weekends, with a maximum of about thirty players at a time. So it was huge for its time. I didn't play it but I know a lot of people who did. I suspect you'll find that they all have happy memories of destroying the Womble. MIST was very violent, and when you ran out of players to kill, you started on the mobiles.

"I think that Steve, who wrote the Bullet history, is conflating AberMUD and MIST. Easy to do: they both had silly objects and rooms and they both involved a lot of hitting things.

"Still on the MUD theme, I used to play a MUSH which was set in London. One of the locations was Wimbledon Common. I and other players seriously considered putting a giant Womble statue there at one stage (MUSHes allow players to create objects) but we refrained because most players were American and would not have got the joke.

"I should admit that we were going to have a very dead Womble, too :)"

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