KEYS [unclaimed]
telnet keys.aresmush.com 4201
Players now: 23 (measured, 82m)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days
Where to find this game
WEBSITE https://keys.aresmush.com (declared, 2m)
When people are on (UTC)
Busiest Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Friday 15:00–23:59. 19 hours across the
week have no measurement yet.
Mon — peak 23 at 03:00
Tue — peak 24 at 00:00, 9 hours not measured
Wed — peak 23 at 20:00, 10 hours not measured
Thu — peak 24 at 01:00
Fri — peak 22 at 15:00
Sat — peak 22 at 01:00
Sun — peak 23 at 01:00
counted = we got in and read a number, including a measured zero
uncounted = we got in and no number could be read
not measured = we have no measurement for that hour
How many, over time (2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026, UTC)
Typically 16 on, peaking at 26, over 15 of 90 days. Down about 16% from the
start of the range to the end.
2 Jun–8 Jun: not measured
9 Jun–15 Jun: not measured
16 Jun–22 Jun: not measured
23 Jun–29 Jun: not measured
30 Jun–6 Jul: not measured
7 Jul–13 Jul: not measured
14 Jul–20 Jul: not measured
21 Jul–27 Jul: not measured
28 Jul–3 Aug: not measured
4 Aug–10 Aug: not measured
11 Aug–17 Aug: typically 23, peak 25, 2 days counted, 5 days not measured
18 Aug–24 Aug: typically 16, peak 26, 7 days counted
25 Aug–30 Aug: typically 16, peak 23, 6 days counted
earlier: ?from=2026-03-04&to=2026-06-01&plain=1
a week is summarised over the days in it we counted; a week with none says so
Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 100.0% of the 15 days we have measured. No day we measured was
unreachable. 75 days predate anything we measured.
2 Jun – 15 Aug: 75 days not measured
Capabilities (0 of 1 disagree)
MSSP measured: NO declared: -
Declared by the game
codebase AresMUSH (declared, 2m)
website https://keys.aresmush.com (declared, 2m)
name Keys (declared, 12d)
status Open (declared, 2m)
genre Supernatural (declared, 2m)
description Shadows who feed on stories. Bleeding the magic from one Earth after another, until there is nothing left but vague memories and fairytales.
This is the world we live in. An Earth from which the magic has all but been drained dry. If gods remain, they are silent. Spirits, faerie, ghosts -- all banished to the realm of myth and story. The sea serpents and the dragons turned out to be giant oarfish and fossilised dinosaur bones. Most people believe in what they can see, and touch, and taste, and little else. The worse it gets, the less anything matters. Life itself seems to be suffering from depression.
Except for a chosen few who know better. On their shoulders rests the responsibility to stem the tide: To remember.
Come to Chincoteague. We have ponies. (declared, 2m)
Connect screen
[connect screen: 24 lines, text only]
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keys.aresmush.com:4201 :::
+--- O~~m -------------------------------------------------------+
"connect <name> <password>" connects to an existing character.
"create <name> <password>" creates a new character.
If you created your character on the portal, use the same
character name and password to connect to the game.
+------------------------------------------------------- O~~m ---+
%% Welcome to AresMUSH version 1.5.0! http://www.aresmush.com
%% Type 'help' to learn how to play. Type 'tour' to connect to a guest character to explore.
What changed
2026-08-16 endpoint recorded as keys.aresmush.com 4201 (handshake)