Hi Scot and welcome.
any questions, feel free to ask, though there is also the site and forum faq in general games discussion which tries to answer most common questions.
On the downloading, we don't actually host game files on this site, we just point people in the direction of games, so download away, that's what we're hear for.
I agree with Grryf about Entombed and hero's call, though if you like pokemon style games you should also give Manamon a look, there are also lots of interesting muds kick around, (I'm on a cosmic rage binge at the moment but I've had lots of fun with games like Alteraeon in the past too).
Indeed, Alteraeon is probably as close to an audio mmorpg as we hav ewith it's very extensive sounds, though if you don't mind playing ames in text there are lots of other good things kicking around.
I'd also highly recommend The Wastes, by the same developer as Warsim. Sadly a data crash meant that no further work is being done, but it's still an amazingly awesome and rather random game.
LAstly, if your into gamebooks, don't forget to check out the fighting fantasy project site, indeed we have a gamebooks category in the db which lists several entries (though as usual there are more to add), .
Have fun.
With our dreaming and singing, Ceaseless and sorrowless we! The glory about us clinging Of the glorious futures we see,
Our souls with high music ringing; O men! It must ever be
That we dwell in our dreaming and singing, A little apart from ye. (Arthur O'Shaughnessy 1873.)