Barren Realms MUD

Hi, all! I know Kiri no longer answers questions here, so, to the powers that be:

I have read a bunch of the forum and it seems the consensus is that old characters have been wiped. However, I did see Scav was able to retrieve a password back in the 2000s for a character from the 90s that should have been purged per policy, but luckily wasn't somehow.

I attempted to create a new character under my old character's name: Cardigan. Instead of creating a new character, it is immediately asking me for my password (which, of course, I cannot remember). It makes me wonder and hope that it recognizes my character's name for good reason! Is there any possibility that I have the same good fortune as that other soul who managed to retrieve their character and my account is still somehow in the system and retrievable? Could the Immortals POSSIBLY have blessed me so fully?? I no longer have access to my old email address, nor do I even remember what it used to be. 29 (or so) years is a long time ago. I'll bet my Ogreic's (spelling?) backpack has fallen apart by now and my belongings just strewed to hell and gone, or swiped by a newbie.

Oh! And it's possible Cardigan was last played around 2005-ish.

Thank you so much for your time!

If I said that your password kinda reminded me of "Hercules", would that jog your memory at all?

One thing I am a bit confused about...HappyCamper's profile lists Cardigan as an alt and in the ChitChat room of the forum recently the HappyCamper account posted a message. So are both characters yours? (I am a little confused by the separate forum accounts). Can you log into HappyCamper now (or any of the other characters listed in HappyCamper's profile)? That would be strong evidence you controlled Cardigan since none of the accounts has been logged into since 2009 currently, so it's not that the HappyCamper owner recently claimed Cardigan in the profile.

EDIT: Actually, just logging into the HappyCamper forum account is pretty strong evidence you should have access to the HappyCamper and Cardigan characters, to me.

Oh, man. Life got in the way. I am so sorry. I checked back in but didn't see an answer, but then life hit like a freight train and I completely spaced this.

I'm Happycamper's older brother, Zach, who started Cardigan (who started life as a halfling thief in a D&D game with my friends because I was in love with The Hobbit) and got Happycamper into BR. He says I'm the one who named his character, too, because he couldn't think of anything. Anyhow, I got busy trying to be cool in high school and Happycamper took over my character thinking I'd maybe one day come back.

As for my password, something similar Hercules is tickling something at the back of my brain and I'm going to think on it and ask Happycamper, as well.

BRB for real this time.

I sent Cardigan a text with the thing that popped into my head, but we'll see. I'm super curious about logging into any of my characters as well. Can't remember a single password. I used to carry a piece of paper in my wallet of all the passwords for the different characters, along with the directions to a few places around BR. That paper sadly disappeared about 10 years ago.

Holy. Crap.

The password Happycamper remembered was correct. Thank you, Scavenger!

Thank you so very much for all your help! This is so exciting.

And thank you xorex, too! You all are awesome!