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 Harry Potter areas.

[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 "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.com and its often considered rival, Ayenee.org. 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 Ayenee

Of 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.