I collected this from a bunch of different places..
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 Harry Potter areas.
Contents [hide]
1 History
2 Furry in Ayenee
3 Great Ayenee Clans
4 External links
[edit] HistoryBack 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 "Kelindil's Site" which was run by a core group of players. Thereafter, roleplaying in this manner was referred to as "text-based". In time, Kelindil'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. From thereafter Ayenee split into two separate predominant paths, one being Ayenee.org and its often considered rival, Ayenee.com. Many other realms spawned, and in later years the tensions between Ayenee.com and Ayenee.org began to fade. However, other realms did exists in other areas of Yahoo chatting. For instance, in Teen was Tenaria, in A&E (now E&A) they had Ayenee, in Games was Eden, and so on and on. 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. This change, while harmful to the Yahoo chat roleplaying community and the "unruled" Ayenee, helped the organized Ayenee sites because it allowed players to take refuge once more in another place- especially one they were familiar with.
By the year 2006, almost all Yahoo chatroom roleplaying had faded except for in Japanese Anime, Role Playing Games, and some lingering in Tenaria.
[edit] Furry in AyeneeOf the various realms, Ayenee boasted the highest furry content at its peak, with Eden being a close second. It was not uncommon to see areas such as the Furry Forest or Furry Tavern be packed to the brim. A popular theme for characters were wolfpacks, often feral. Other non-human species to be found included dragons and centaurs and even unicorns. These would group together in packs and clans, such as Mealeandia, a clan for dragons. Organized kingdoms were often found with a complete hierarchy of furries.
[edit] Great Ayenee ClansSome of these included: Darkbane (still active), Pendragon, Hyborian Nation Clans (still active), Darkheart, Blackthorne (still active), Darkthorne (still active), Dracul, theunholy, Deathstenchi just to name a few.
[edit] External linkshttp://www.ayenee.com - Ayenee.com (no longer online)
www.newayenee.org - Ayenee.org's current forum community (dead)
games.dir.groups.yahoo.com/dir/Games/Role_Playing_Games/Individual_Games/Ayenee - Some of the various online groups you can find
www.theworldofayenee.com/ (no longer online)
www.jacmus-prime.com/Ayenee - Jacmus Prime's article on Ayenee - Jacmus prime is one of the roleplay realms that also spawned in Yahoo Chat. (half of their links no longer active)
stararmy.com/wiki/doku.php?id=ayenee - Star Army's article on Ayenee - Star Army was also started in Ayenee.
www.innerindustries.com/forum/index.php (not really Ayenee but some of the characters from the old A&E chat rooms are there)
www.valucre.com (has an ayenee section)
Yahoo! Role-Playing Explained
Role-Playing in Yahoo! came about in many different ways with many different players and goals. 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 (even if they weren't called that at the time). 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 "Kelindils Site" which was run by a core group of players and placed Yahoo roleplaying on a path that it could not turn off it. Thereafter, roleplaying in this manner was referred to as "text-based". In time, Kelindil's site lost momentum and its management was taken over by another member of its "staff". (see "Ayenee.Org" below).
During the Kelindil era, the need for a name for the realm emerged. One regular player under the forum name "Aglaranna_" suggested the phonetic transcription of the abbreviation A & E (for Arts & Entertainment), so the word "Ayenee" was born. Two or three years thereafter, Ayenee as a community was split into two separate predominant paths, one being "Ayenee.Org," handled by those to whom the original handlers of the Kelindil site had entrusted. The other was "Ayenee.Com," a splinter site that was larger but less governed.
However, other realms did exist in other areas of Yahoo chatting. For instance, in Teen was Tenaria, in Arts & Entertainment (now Entertainment & Arts) they had Ayenee, in Games was Eden, and so on and on. In nearly every default section of Yahoo Chat there was at least a singular group or realm that was considered the main body of Role players for that section. Adult categories had it's own roleplaying realm, located in the Adult/Role Playing category. Mostly catering to the over 18 crowd, the majority of these plots involved Gor, BDSM and Fringe groups such as Furries. As such, most roleplayers shunned this category.
Some realms never made the progress expected and other realms would take their place with over a thousand members at their peak. Sometimes, there were several realms that occupied the same areas but with different rules. For example in Science there was both Ecniecs and Mordor. In Games there was Hell and Eden. Ultimately however with Yahoo's decision, in the early 2000s ( June 18, 2005 to be exact), to stop user-created rooms, Yahoo roleplaying faded from view and took its place on webforums. This change, while harmful to the Yahoo chat roleplaying community and the "unruled" Ayenee, helped the organized Ayenee sites because it allowed players to take refuge once more in another place- especially one they were familiar with.
Role-players were never limited to any one single realm however, and a player could have a few characters in each of the realms, or they could even have characters travel from one realm to another (similar to Knights traveling from one kingdom/realm to another). However, whatever realm they were in, the rules/guidelines were the ones which took precedence, and in Ayenee the Order of the High Knights of Ayenee enforced these. Before this, the Justicars of the Ayenee boards determined rule infractions. In Eden, the Eden Guardians.
IMany realms were devised or created by players or their associates for Yahoo! Role-Playing purposes. However, it was certainly the case that many chatters who role-played did not adhere to realm guidelines or rules. Many, indeed, knew not of their existence, or simply chose to ignore what they felt were glorified cliques. The very freeform nature of Yahoo! Role-Playing—the fact that anyone can log-in and play by their own merits—has remained both the foremost charm of Yahoo! Role-Playing, and the bane of many a players’ attempt to structuralize.
Not all communities have implied worldly or realm structure. One such community was E&A Profiles (now FantasyRole.org), which took the approach of appealing to all gamers of the Yahoo! Entertainment and Arts section irrespective of their characters’ realm or origin. But, again, this as with all institutions is viewed with distaste by players who do not want to embed their Out of Character persona in a community, and would rather persevere the raw pursuit of anonymity and escape.
Players bred an impressive array of characters, over vastly differing genres, often spawning unlikely interaction scenarios. Film, comic, movie and game trends tended to influence players to create characters based on each respective medium. For example, it would not have been uncommon to witness a Lord of the Rings or D&D inspired wizard/mage character class interacting with a Star Wars Jedi Master or Sith Lord. Then came OIC.
By the year 2006, almost all Yahoo chatroom roleplaying had faded except for in Japanese Anime, Role Playing Games, and some lingering in Teen(Tenaria). With the constant revisions of its already unstable Messenger "chat applet", and their lackadaisical approach to handling bots, spammers, and online harassment, the environment Yahoo provides has been endlessly criticized by both those who still use it and those who used to.
External links
•Ayenee.com
•NewAyenee.org
•Ecniecs.
•Eden-Era.com
•FantasyRole.org
•Jacmus-prime.com
•Tenaria
•Paragon
•Roleplayer Guild
I figured this would probably be a good idea since I know everyone (lawls), but you guys don't know each other! So here's the Who, What, When, Where, Why, and How, along with WTF for an Introduction Thread. Lolright?
My name is Jeff.
Myriad of Nicknames: JeffJeff, J33f, Jeffolas, Jeffina, Jeffiroth, Epoch, and so much more.
Some Background:
I've been writing and role playing since around 1996-97, back when they had this hysterical shit called Yahoo! Applet Chat Beta. Ohhman. Also Cheetachat! <3 Lol. I was around during the birth of the original Ayenee on A&E Chat in Yahoo and also during the epic Clan and Realm wars between Eden and Ayenee. I've seen almost every idea or power I think, ever -- lol -- to the point where we'll go and see movies and I'll go, "DUDE -- what the fuck. We did that like five years ago in {X} role play! Such bullshit!" Most epically known for doing this when the first Resident Evil movie came out and a good friend of mine had a character that Alice mirrored almost to perfection. It was a role play called Feudal FX, in early 2000 maybe '99 ish. Ahh, good times.
Accomplishments:
I married my best friend, Sarah. <3 June 19th, 2010. You now know her as Arid-Bright.
I created Exodyus way-way-way back when, in roughly 1998-99.
I created the Raven's Brand, a tribe of some of the most feared and bad-ass warriors Ayenee had ever seen. Unbeaten. Undefeated. Legendary. <3 This was in '98.
With help from that same 'friend' in Feudal FX -- Exodyus and the Raven's Brand had more history than I ever could have given them. ;]
I've created ideas such as Skies of Requiem, The "Vicer Plot" on Ayenee.com, Obsequious Zenith, Vel'haru race, and so much more.
Downfalls:
Exodyus has been launched and relaunched probably a half-dozen times. Something always happens that causes a mass implosion, but not this time. >:] Not this time.
Hello from across the pond, my name is John
Myriad of Nicknames: EJ, English John , Twisted_Malice_Darkbane, B'esctra, Mortian Rakshasa Dracul, etc.
Some Background:
Like Jeff I am a veritable dinosaur of the online Roleplay community, starting my career, (such as it is), back in late 1997 at the age of 12. Dabbling with Yahoo! Chat, back when it was a gleaming jewel in an otherwise rather dull chatting experience, I eventually found my way into a series of rooms known as the Arts and Entertainment section, what would in the years that followed come to be known as A&E/Ayenee. In those nascent days of writing, I stood upon the shoulders of giants, like Kellendil and XEA Encrypt/Mer and quickly realized that my passion for prose could be just as engaging as any movie or hobby. At one time I think I knew 99% of the realm, crossed blades with the likes of Jeff, JJ and a plethora of others; and even innovated T1 Melee during an era of Power Characters and 'Gods'.
I've seen Clans come and go, realms crumble to dust and the rise of Anime, both inspiring, and foul; enduring thirteen years in the scene and, for the most part, loving every minute of it. I have also been fortunate enough to write with some of the brightest talents of our time, like Brendan, whose Katsujirou Saga moved me to my core, and Alex, who has injected excitement into everything i've ever seen him touch.
Travelling from one distant corner of the web to the next, I have also frequented numerous communities at one point or another, such as Jacmus Prime, Eden, Terrenus, and even RoleplayGateway. Although I haven't actually haunted these particular halls before, I was also associated with the original Vel'haru and Exoydus (before it was a forum) as a 'Ravens Brand' with my character Malice, and fondly look back on the time we all spent together.
Accomplishments:
I spent a lot of time fighting in my formative years, even earned an infamous reputation at Melee by slaying countless Power Characters (PC's) with naught but a sword; but as I grew older I stopped caring about how many 'wins' i'd accrued, or how many clans I defeated in the clan wars and focused on giving something back to the RP communities instead, and so those are what i'll really discuss here.
Over the course of two years of writing in Jacmus Prime, I helped transform a rag-tag group of characters into an army and, eventually, even a kingdom; which endured until the realm's dying day and provided more story lines and adventure than I could shake a stick at. Through my contacts, however, I began editing a novel for my good friend Terra (Annihilation_Theory) last year, more as a favour to her and for something to do than anything but, unsurprisingly, her flare for fiction was noticed by a publisher recently and now i'm officially a published Editor, having worked on three of her books, thus far, and am very proud of how she has developed as a writer, as much as what we have achieved in so short a time.
The title of her series is the Antithesis, which can be found very easily on Google, and is sold in places like Amazon.com/co.uk and Barnes and Noble, so feel free to check it out if you feel so inclined.
I suppose the only other achievement i'll mention here though, is how i've somehow always managed to juggle the Time-Zone difference that separates me from the majority of you reading this; since i've lived in England all my life and have fond memories of staying up until 5am as a teenager, in order to be involved in live clan meetings in Yahoo/Cheeta chat, lol.
Downfalls:
I think my biggest downfall is easily that, whilst in life I don't really adhere to the stereotype, when writing I am an utter perfectionist and therefore take a considerable amount of time composing and re-editing my posts. I often worry this hampers my creativity in part, since I tend to over-think my prose and analyse words on dictionary.com to ensure they evoke the desired emotion in those that read it.
At the end of the day though, I love to write, and if someone can derive even a portion of the enjoyment that I feel when creating a post, as their eyes wash over it, then i'll gladly suffer this curse, lol.
Ayenee was a chat-based freeform roleplaying community based in the user-created chatrooms in Yahoo! Chat's Arts and Entertainments section, which opened in 1997. The name Ayenee is a portmanteau of A&E (Arts and Entertainment). Guidelines for the Ayenee community were originally posted on “Kelindil's Site” in 1999. Ayenee's setting was a series of user created rooms; it was a free-form setting with elements of all genres present, from fantasy to science fiction. Sister realms of Ayenee included Nerima (In Yahoo chat's Anime and Manga category), Tenaria (In the Teen category), and Ecniecs (Science category).
About Ayenee
Ayenee chat RP was known for its diverse, often high-powered characters, and rooms like:
■Forests
■Taverns (many)
■The Slave Auction
In chat, many characters were often inspired by popular anime series and fantasy novels. These characters mixed and mingled, creating colorful and unusual sights such as vampires characters fighting Sailor Moon characters.
Downfall of Yahoo Chat
The user-created rooms of Yahoo chat were unmoderated and became increasingly filled with spam bots and adult content, including rooms with names suggestive of illegal activity. This led to sensational news reports, a lawsuit, an FBI investigation, and advertisers dropping support for Yahoo chat. In response, Yahoo disabled the ability for users to create chatrooms in June 2005. Without the ability to create rooms, the Ayenee roleplaying community was thrown into disarray and a great exodus ensued in which its members moved to other roleplaying venues, primarily Ayenee.org and Ayenee.com. Yahoo eventually closed its chat site entirely. The consensus is that the event fueled a positive change in the community by forcing player groups to organize.
Star Army and Ayenee
In 2000, Wes introduced Ketsurui Yui, Eve, and PNUgen Corporation to Ayenee. These would later develop into the SARPiverse. As PNUgen and Star Army developed, the growing community involved with Wes moved from forums on Network54 and ezBoard and eventually to StarArmy.com in 2003.
Wes supported Anna, leader of the Ayenee.org community, by sponsoring it through advertisements for the Star Army website.
Getting back and forth between the two universes was accomplished in-character by use of a Transuniversal Teleportation Drive.
Crossovers
Major roleplay events involving both Star Army and Ayenee included:
■The Assassins War - PNUgen Corporation and Ketsurui Yui were involved with Feisar Arms
■Ketsurui Yui was also briefly a member of the Ayenee Police Department.
■Chaos Hive War - the young Star Army of Yamatai defended Ayenee Capital City with tanks and infantry
■Second Draconian War - The Star Army of Yamatai was allied with the Nerimian Defense Initiative and Draconian League against the Jaaq'tah Alliance
■The war spilled into the SARPiverse and resulted in part of Planet Ralfaris being glassed.
■Conflict with the Qel'noran after they evacuated to Ayenee after their rebellion was crushed by Yamatai in YE 26.
External Links
■http://newayenee.org - Current descendant of Ayenee.org
■http://en.wikifur.com/wiki/Ayenee - WikiFur article on Ayenee
■http://www.jacmus-prime.com/Ayenee - Jacmus Prime article on Ayenee
I'd like to think I helped a bit with his site in the early stages in planning and discussing rules, such as the creation of the Necronomicon page where we listed the deceased in order to stop players constantly auto-res'ing their characters with no explanations. 
Taer sadly passed away today from a car accident.