August 8, 2001 News of the Realms: Kiri: Corrections/Changes * The blacksmith in the shire now sees invis and will buy and sell your invis items. * No more rain underwater in the Dark Sea, thanks Wasabe for reporting it. * Thanks to Divebomb for reporting it, and Slart for fixing it, the evil follow bug is now fixed (the circular loop one.) * Thanks to Brodgar, the chain shackles in High Tower of sorcery are now take-able (and have a period at the end, goshdarnit!) * Thanks to Cobalt, you can now buy things at Rolph's in Twilight. * Thanks to Wasabe, you can now kill the Quartermaster in Hobgoblin Warcamp. * Thanks to Thordain, the sleep and fireball helpfiles have been updated to show Illithids get them. * Thanks to Everybody, you can now buy the magic coffee in Alandra. Brodgar: Brodgar's Immortal Story Quest Here ye, here ye! The world grows restless, curious of the story behind the dwarf. How did he immortal? Who is he? From wence did he come? I am running a quest for my imm bio, for my imm page. The winner will get their story of Brodgar's humble (or not so humble) beginnings post on the Barren Realms Website, and of course a most excellent prize. Everyone else who gives it a good effort will receive prizes from me as well, so get those stories in! Deadline is August 30th, which is fast approaching! If you need to see my character description or talk to me about the quest feel free to ask. =) Kiri: New Area/Change to Clock Tower In order to make the MUD a little more challenging (and to encourage you all to explore) Divebomb has graciously written an extension to the Clock Tower. The Clock Tower is now no-magic-in and no-magic-out, which means you can't tp/astral/etc in or summon people there. There is also a hedge maze in front of it, now. This should make the area a lot more challenging and exciting, but for those of you who would prefer something easier, there is the areas command and aod sells maps to almost everywhere on the MUD. Enjoy! Tread: Results to the search for my mind quest. Results are in. Participants in order: Eru with 24 Olhado with 13 Redeemer with 5 Behl with 2 points Alienx with 1 point. These are points based on the pieces they turned in. Participants, talk to Rabies. =) That's it for now. The second quest of the circuit will begin soon! -Tread Ideas: Isis: umm... could someone fix it so you can get stuff out of your pack, even if you don't have the str to have it in your pack and inv at the same time? Vapour: Shouldn't Avians get "identify"? Since they are derived from the Ranger class it would seem logical. Thrasher: make a lightning rod flag for items so if someone is in a storm with the item they get hit by lightning almost every time. Dreamkeeper: a locker room for people to save all there tokens instead of in our inv Divebomb: Teleport, summon, and astral should only work for the zone you are in within the zone you are in. This would *gasp* require people to adventure to an area before being able to get to get to these specific places. It would make the races more balanced imo, since teleport and summon are sickeningly powerful spells. You can't tell me that a druid and an elf are weak in comparison to a dwarf simply because they hit weaker, a dwarf will not always hit while a practiced elf/druid will almost always successfully cast a spell. I would not be against removing the possibilty of a misteleport if this change was made. Not that anyone will really accept this idea because it would actually make the game a little more challenging. BIO BY LANISA: a. What's your BR name? Lanisa... and some other b. What race/level are you? Kender, level 151 c. How did you pick your BR name? My BR name has something to do with my real name. The first two letters of my real names. d. What's your favorite area? *think* I haven't got any favorite area. e. Where do you live (State or province/Country) near Hamburg / Germany f. What do you do for a living? searching for a job h. What do you want to be when you grow up? program coder or webpage designer i. Are you single? unfortunately, yes j. What are your hobbies? reading, building / repairing computers and swimming. k. What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? saying goodbye to relatives and friends which died. l. Who do you most admire? Andre Kostolany, coz of his knowledge about stock exchanges. m. What celebrity would you love to hook up with? Roxette, coz i like their songs and albums. n. What's the last book you read (including for school). Did you like it? The last book i read was about W2k but if you wanna know what my favorite books were here are two of them "The Catcher in the Rye" written by J.D. Salinger and "Dead poet society". Both of them were very exciting. o. What's the last movie you watched? The mummy part 2 pretty nice sfx. p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? I 'd like to fly to the Canarian islands / Spain. Responses by AMYSTERY: Teumen: for the illithids you should have a skill (not spell) called mind devour which does a good amount of damage and heals your character alittle bit AMystery: I don't think there are any plans to change illithids again, but this would seem like a good addition, however adding a healing spell to ills does make them stronger, which could be unbalancing if you think they are equal now. Sykle: Suggestion: show the date/time of the mesasage in chath, heroh, etc. Amystery: I'd like this one. I'd like it on tells also if that didn't use up too much memory. I'm not sure if messages are time stamped when they are sent though so this could involve some decent recoding. Nanifun: Please increase the prompt string to something > 50 perhaps 128 or so? I would like a very in depth and colorful prompt, but it seems as if I am limited to 50 chars. Adieu. Amystery: Doesn't seem like a bad idea, I've never wanted a prompt nearly that long, 3 items in it, hp, gold, xp is all I need but some people, magicians especially may want more >Armageddon: heal restore for morts at clericus for a non-variable price of 100000+ -- Heal restore is one of the perks of hitting level 51, relish that fact. Amystery: Besides, most morts couldn't afford that much, they grumble about 150k for enhancing. If it was lower it would be too easy, higher and its impractical. I think it should remain a hero only ability, besides, you only have to get 51 levels before you can use it. >Kino: maybe you cold separate the donation rooms in level you could start like just from level 1 to 10 or something like that it could be realy useful -- I totally don't understand what you mean, but i'll guess. I'm thinking you mean donations for 1-10 are in one place, 11-20 are in another place, so that the equip donated is separated. I think it's too much work for something that doesn't matter that much. I don't really think people really use donations that much anyway. Amystery: I think it would be helpful, I know I've wandered into donations looking for new things my level and ended up having ot get and try dozens of items only to find they are all 30 levels too high, Maybe just for 1-10 and 10-20 but I like this idea. Doesn't seem overly important but very pleasurable to have. >Armageddon: a chat channel for other language speakers (ie, german, spanish, french, etc.) -- as far as i've seen 100% of the mud speaks English to some degree. Why should we segregate conversation because only some of the people can understand what's going on? Amystery: Also, the people who are responsible for monitoring the conversations predominantly speak english, so this would make their jobs harder. If you really want to talk to someone in another language, use tells, say or group. >Tallarn: make the xp penalty much higher for recalling out of combat -- *shrug* it is higher than flee at least Amystery: make it higher and more likely to suceed, since its more of a magical ability. (Transporting yourself through space is magic, right?) That way when you are in a fight and you can't manage to flee, or you keep running into other aggros, you can recall with some surity of success but knowing you will suffer a LARGE xp penalty. >Tallarn: make scan a skill, not an auto ability -- I think this is a good idea, but I also believe the complaints would outweigh the worthwhile of this minor attempt at making adventuring interesting. Amystery: Besides, most races would learn this at a very young age, like kick, so it would really only matter for newbies, who need it more since they don't know where the aggros are yet. >Tallarn: not EVERY kick is going to be a flying kick, for example, especially from a dwarf... -- Big deal. Amystery: I wouldn't mind seeing differing messages based on the damage and race of the user, but it seems overly complicated to code. >Joysinger: it'd be nice if locate object could actually be used with more then just one keyword. locating sword, or light or something similar tends to spam you out - it'd make searching so much more easy :) -- yes, yes it would. Amystery: ditto >Armageddon: color in damp messages -- it'd be nifty Amystery: yeah, I'd love to ^RNEUTER Divebomb, make it much more terrifying. >Nal: when you walk into a wall have like a trap on some that will hurt you? -- chests and bags/packs can have traps if area designers put them on them, but i dont think a wall can have a trap on it Amystery: This would have to be a change in the way area files are done, although if you had a door in place of the wall and it damaged you, either from being a trap or from you stupidly running into it, that might be interesting. Although I've tried running into all the walls in a room to find hidden doors and secrets, this would make that much more dangerous. >Fate: in status for enhancements this level put what we enhanced? i forget sometimes what im enhancing -- why does it matter? Look at what your stats are and just pick something if you've still got enhances left. Amystery: yeah, you should enhance the same thing regardless of what you enhanced last, you will always do the ability that needs it most. >Fate: no spell lag for healing spells out fo combat? -- I find that to be a pain also. Amystery: I normally just sleep while I make a sandwich so it doesn't bother me, but I can see how it would be a problem for more active players. >Dio: a skill that makes a mob or character(in arena) stop flying -- Theoretically, I would think Vertigo would do that (illithid skill), but my tests have shown that it does not. Amystery: Sounds like fun to me, flying takes lots of concentration so most illithid spells would seem to cause landing, but obviously they don't, well, it isn't reality now is it? >Verdict: a defensive spell that prevents you from being poisoned -- it wouldn't be so bad Amystery: The thing with poison is, its so hard to detect. That's why kings utilitzed royal tasters to check for poison. >Dio: when you log off have the ignore list stay -- i think it should, and unless you have real problems and have a million people on your ignore list, i dont envision this bit of info sucking up hard drive space Amystery: This would add a few lines to everyone's pfiles that uses ignore, so it could be a memory hog. Theoretically each person could have over 1000 entries in their ignore list RESPONSE BY BALTAR: > Replies by Packor: > - I like create sound, if the code will be fixed someday so that = > you=20 > could get a chance to imitate perfectly, I would go wild about it. If = > you=20 > haven't seen this yet, there is a spell called word of recall for = > druids. =20 I would just like to plug the helpfile for "word of recall," which is one of the funniest things on all of Barren realms (IMHO). Baltar Kiri's WWW of URLs: Stor Entertainment Page submitted by Oakley. Make your own person! http://www.stor.co.uk/troopers2.php I hate to plug things I'm not making money from, but this is too perfect for Mudders. http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/things/38c9.html Scary fiction submitted by Sgetsuo. http://www.darkitexture.co.uk/clinic/1st.htm Find out about your ancestry! http://searches.rootsweb.com/ There's some pretty interesting stuff in this. Some I think we have already seen but some that are new. From DOVE: 1. The first couple to be shown in bed together on prime time TV were Fred and Wilma Flintstone. 2. Coca-Cola was originally green. 3. Every day more money is printed for Monopoly than the US Treasury. 4. Men can read smaller print than women can; women can hear better. 5. The state with the highest percentage of people who walk to work: Alaska 6. The percentage of Africa that is wilderness: 28% now get this... 7. The percentage of North America that is wilderness: 38% 8. The cost of raising a medium-size dog to the age of eleven: $6,400 9. The average number of people airborne over the US any given hour: 61,000 10. Intelligent people have more zinc and copper in their hair. 11. The world's youngest parents were 8 and 9 and lived in China in 1910. 12. The youngest pope was 11 years old. 13. The first novel ever written on a typewriter: Tom Sawyer. 14. Those San Francisco Cable cars are the only mobile National Monuments. 15. Each king in a deck of playing cards represents a great king from history: Spades - King David, Hearts - Charlemagne, Clubs-Alexander the Great, Diamonds - Julius Caesar 16. 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12,345,678,987,654,321 17. If a statue in the park of a person on a horse has both front legs in the air, the person died in battle. If the horse has one front leg in the air, the person died as a result of wounds received in battle. If the horse has all four legs on the ground, the person died of natural causes. 18. Only two people signed the Declaration of Independence on July 4th, John Hancock and Charles Thomson. Most of the rest signed on August 2, but the last signature wasn't added until 5 years later. 19. "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. 20. Hershey's Kisses are called that because the machine that makes them looks like it's kissing the conveyor belt. 21. No NFL team which plays its home games in a domed stadium has ever won a Super bowl. 22. The only two days of the year in which there are no professional sports games (MLB, NBA, NHL, or NFL) are the day before and the day after the Major League Baseball All-Star Game. 23. How about this.... The nursery rhyme "Ring around the Rosy" is a rhyme about the plague. Infected people with the plague would get red circular sores ("Ring around the rosy..."), these sores would smell very bad, so common folks would put flowers on their bodies somewhere (inconspicuously)so that they would cover the smell of the sores ("...a pocket full of posies..."). People who died from the plague would be burned so as to reduce the possible spread of the disease ("...ashes, ashes, we all fall down!"). Q. What occurs more often in December than any other month? A. Conception. Q. What separates "60 Minutes," on CBS from every other TV show? A. No theme song. Q. Half of all Americans live within 50 miles of what? A. Their birthplace. Q. Most boat owners name their boats. What is the most popular boat name requested? A. Obsession Q. If you were to spell out numbers, how far would you have to go until you would find the letter "A"? A. One thousand Q. What do bulletproof vests, fire escapes, windshield wipers, and laser printers all have in common? A. All invented by women. Q. What is the only food that doesn't spoil? A. Honey Q. There are more collect calls on this day than any other day of the year? A. Father's Day Q. What trivia fact about Mel Blanc (voice of Bugs Bunny) is the most ironic? A. He was allergic to carrots. Q. What is an activity performed by 40% of all people at a party? A. Snoop in your medicine cabinet. 1. In Shakespeare's time, mattresses were secured on bed frames by ropes when you pulled on the ropes the mattress tightened, making the bed firmer to sleep on. Hence the phrase "goodnight, sleep tight". 2. It was the accepted practice in Babylon 4,000 years ago that for a month after the wedding, the bride's father would supply his son-in-law with all the mead he could drink. Mead is a honey beer and because their calendar was lunar based, this period was called the honey month or what we know today as the honeymoon. 3. In English pubs, ale is ordered by pints and quarts. So in old England, when customers got unruly, the bartender would yell at them mind their own pints and quarts and settle down. It's where we get the phrase "mind your P's and Q's". 4. Many years ago in England, pub frequenters had a whistle baked into the rim or handle of their ceramic cups. When they needed a refill, they used the whistle to get some service. "Wet your whistle" is the phrase inspired by this practice. 5. In ancient England a person could not have sex unless you had consent of the King (unless you were in the Royal Family). When anyone wanted to have a baby, they got consent of the King, the King gave them a placard that they hung on their door while they were having sex. The placard had F.*.*.*. (Fornication Under Consent of the King) on it. Now you know where that came from. 6. In Scotland, a new game was invented. It was entitled Gentlemen Only Ladies Forbidden.... and thus the word GOLF entered into the English language. Scavenger. HA! Got you to look. ;) August 15, 2001 Welcome to the Barren Realms Newsletter. News from the Realms: Faustus: You've probably noticed that we've got another area added onto the realms. You can find it attached to the western woods, and those of you who have read all of the room descriptions in that area might already know exactly where the new connection is. The area is for levels 12 to 17, but be prepared for a fight if you go there. As usual, I would greatly appreciate a tell or a note about any typos or other mistakes you can find there. As you're searching for any mistakes I've made, keep in mind that I like to use lots of extra descriptions and hidden stuff. Hope you all enjoy... Kiri: Due to a renumbering of Ciquala's Lair in order to make the vnums consistent, the ciquala's staff and any potions from that lair will have disappeared from your inventories - however your sword will stay put. Sorry for the inconvenience. Divebomb: I am keeping a running total of when a mortal levels (that means levels 2 to 50 reached) I will not tell you what I am at yet, but when someone gains the 1000th level, you will receive a prize. I plan to repeat this for every 1000 levels. Think of it as BR Publisher's Clearing House. :) NEW IDEAS: Leiland: how about it tells you what color someone arena'd to? that way it'd be easier to find someone in the arena... of course, it's not a big deal... Solomnius: A food of druids. A replacement for the 'jello shots'. Mana Suppliment without Slur Kiri -- this won't happen. We want there to be a cost to having faster mana regain. Wasabe: How about when placing gold into a container... the gold is combined. FireLily: Perhaps you should clarify the Help file for teleport to make it clear that corpse retrievals are not allowed for mis-teleports and mis-astrals. I didn't know about it and had a lot of trouble getting my corpse Kiri -- From help teleport: WARNING! Use this spell at your own risk. There is an inherent chance when using this spell that it may misfire, taking the caster to an unforeseen and perhaps even dangerous location. from help cr -- CR's can not be done for teleport/astral errors FireLily: what if the foods had special effects? Like protein type foods could temporarily raise wid/int (brain food), carbohydrates could increase sta/str, and sugary foods could increase movement/mana. Since you can't eat too much you can't OD on it and get Cord: I still very much like the idea of listing '' in eq slots that are empty... Faustus: any chance we could set up a birthday database on the BR website so that we can find out who is having a birthday and wish them well when we see them? Shiloh: a command to see your pets stats without making it report Darkcrad: i think clerius could have a new service that we pay for and that is dispel magic, cos sometimes we can't dispel all the magic away, so we could pay the healers and they will dispel all the magic for us :) Bio for Stryker I'm going to add some info about me IRL I'm a guy My name is Brian, I am 20 years > > A What's your BR name? > > Stryker > > b. What race/ level are you? > > Druid... level 67? > > C. How did you pick your Br name? > > It's just a name I picked out back in the day when I played laser tag > > d. Whats your favorite area? > > I think I like Arabian Nights the best > > > e. Where do you live (state or province/ country)? > > Well for the summer I'm in Cary, NC but when school > starts I'll be moving to Orlando, FL > f. What do you do for a living? > > I am at full time student, but I'm working as a robotic engineer for the summer > > g. If you're a college/grad student, whats your > major? > > Well, until a week ago I was a Computer Engineering > major at Florida State, but now I'm a physics education major at the University of Central Florida > > h. What do you want to be when you grow up? > > I guess I'll be a physics teacher > > i. Are you single > > yes > > j. What are your hobbies? > > playing guitar, singing, meeting new people, helping people out, and making others happy > > k. What's the hardest thing you've ever has to do? > > live with my grandma (this summer) > > l. Who do you most admire? > > Well I used to work for Chick-fil-A and I really admired my boss there. He was always happy, and smiling, and he was the type of person that you could really tell that he loved every day of his life. I really admired that about him and he's just been a big encouragement in my life. > > m. What celebrit would you like to hook up with? > > Sorry, I have no desire to hook up with any celebrity > n. What's the last book you read (including for > school)? > > I'm going to cvheat and tell you the book I'm reading now, "The Four Loves" by C.S. Lewis > > o. What's the last movie you watched?did you like > it? > > Dr. Dolittle 2... yes I liked it, I tohught it was pretty funny > > p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a > week, where would you go? > Hmmm... I'm not sure... I think I would go to the most desolate, backwater, impoverished, dirtiest place in the world, because that's where I could be the most useful... I mean, after all, I could go somewhere nice, but what would I accomplish?? I would much rather spend my time making a lasting impact on someone else's life then spend time looking at things I'll probably forget in a month or two. Responses by Divebomb: >Wasabe: How about allowing people with infravision to see >[exits]? that would really help;.. Divebomb: I agree if by [exits] you mean when you type "exits" and it tells you what's around you. >Wasabe: We should be able to enchant shields... to provide a reason >for dwarves not to just use weapons but shields... to bash! Divebomb: Or get an area designer to just design a good shield. I'm sure they would, but nobody would ever use them. >Solkanar: could we have a 'donated' flag on items, until they are >used or for a set amount of time, so people can't just sell them Divebomb: Could, or everyone could just be responsible and fair... wow, for a moment, I actually thought that might happen >Wasabe: Teleport and astral should take away some amount of >movement... like 1/2 movement... so that it isn't used for EVERY THING!!! Divebomb: Why? It costs mana instead of movement. >Wasabe: MEGA HEAL : 500 mana for 1,000 hp... simple Divebomb: There used to be "complete healing" for illithids. But that has gone bye bye, now you'll just have to settle for taking your time on healing. There is no such thing as a miracle cure, sorry ;) >Wasabe: How about the ability to c 'spells' onto items... like we >buy an empty stave. and cast a spell on it. Cost should be VERY high though... Divebomb: Cost in mana? Give me a break, you could cast your spell and play solitaire while you waited for it to recover. Talk about powerful. "Gee I think I'll make 50 level 50 enchant weapon scrolls so I can give distribute them forever. >Rhyme: a way to modify the prac command so we can see in guild and >out of guild skills, skills we've practiced, things we haven't... and sort >by skill level and percent.. etc Divebomb: The practice command does have its downsides, but if you really want to know what's in guild and what's not, go to your guild and type "prac". It only shows you the skills that are in-guild. You could compare that with an slist or the "prac" command from somewhere else. You could be really ambitious and go to each guild and type prac to see what you can practice in only that guild. >Wasabe: What if the shopkeeper sold a : CR bag... contained therein >would be 1) purple fly potion, 1) invis elixir 1) torch !!! Divebomb: Items in bags repop - like the seashell ring, the trail rations, the money in the midget's purse. If you could buy a "CR Bag" you'd have endless purple potions, invis elixirs, and torches (although nobody cares about that one). So instead you could just type recall;w;w;b yellow;b purple;quaff yellow;quaff purple;e;s;s;s;w;b torch; wear torch >Rhyme: bring back the mob factory... you can bless all the mobs and >make them inactive... and just watch them walk into a telporter to get >zapped to their appropriate location Divebomb: "bring back" and "bless all the mobs" what does that mean? If you're talking about the area design trick of using a mob chute to make mobs randomly wander into various locations of an area that's done and used at a designer's discretion. >April: Would it be possible to have some brief-combat mode, or to >gag some of the fight-messages? I have a poor link, wich makes it hard for >me to group ... specially with all my human kicks :) Divebomb: explore the #gag feature of zmud (i bet rapscallion and gmud have something too). If you're using telnet you should be tortured anyway. >Very: why not get rid of kick for druids, at level 25 it is hardly >worth the bother... Divebomb: Then just don't practice it. >Armageddon: when mental barrier causes the mob to kill itself, you >should get exp for it Divebomb: Probably, but at the same time it keeps you from abusing the use of mental barrier. I.e. c 'mental barrier';k mob;flee;c 'mental barrier'; k mob; flee and repeat as necessary. >WasabE: Heal faster whilst sleeping in a tent. Divebomb: Why? Should you heal faster because you're indoors too? What about in "safe" rooms? (You'll probably say yes). Maybe you should, but it's still too much coding for something like those I think. If you want to get technical, the mob should be able to open the tent and come in and beat you up. After all if I was an aggro and saw a tent there, I wouldn't walk by it... >Turale: make trip in-guild for humans! Divebomb: Of course, nobody deserves trip more than the martial artist! >Rice: spell... : know hitpoints... ;) Divebomb: There is an illithid spell that gives you an estimate of the hp left on a mob - insight >Wasabe: how about when you fail a spell..you say the wrong >words... like 'ouranholi' versus ouranihol Divebomb: Pointless really. >WolfBane: auction channel should not be a affected by >drunkness. Getting those numbers mixed up is no good Divebomb: As if that wouldn't be abused... I can see people having conversations to their group mates that are elsewhere in the realms at the moment and using the auction channel for communication. You have the chath bug, just use that for the auction. 99% of the time the auctioneer will have both channels on. >Anubis: messages for teleport and astral like goto :) Divebomb: Ummmm.... no. You can play with aliases and emotes and make your own. Heros get more perks than mortals and imms get more perks than heros. The joys of a hierarchy. >Asimi: When you grin at someone, their alignment should drop. Just >like the social says Divebomb: "great" I'll set up my alias to grin at you 500 times so you become evil and get zapped by your equipment, then I'll pick up that nice little weapon you were using and use it for myself. >Wasabe: Ability to give all.anything : give all.fly player Divebomb: just drop all.anything and have other play get all.anything >Wasabe: Ability to : get all.item all.container Divebomb: I guess, but if you weren't so messy you'd have all your "all.items" in the same container in the first place ;) >Issafor: we need never never land...that would be great Divebomb: Ask Kiri if you can design the area, if she accepts, do it. And check out the builder's guide on the br website. >Wasabe: how about a double breasted tent... for two people? or more? Divebomb: There are some tents that fit 2 people i think. It's all dependent on the holdable weight that the tent has. Besides, would you really want to share a tent with a dwarf? ;) >Wasabe: I want to kick people out of the vehicle I purchase... it >should be the owners right... Divebomb: If you're really ticked off at them for being on, drive to alandra, go into the arena, and beat the crap out of them before they know what's going on. ;) >Dio: drunk tolerance have to drink more to get drunk? Divebomb: Pointless other than causing you to have to spend more money. And that extra 11-66 gold coins is really gonna break the bank... >KurtisII: Have the note command show which list messages are on if set to all Divebomb: lazy lazy... If you really care to know that much just switch your note type and list them. Most people read them all anyway. >AMystery: when two invisible mobs or players or players & mobs >fight, they should remain invisible. only when one is visible should >the other become so. After all, invisible creatures should be able >to see eachother and fight Divebomb: Just because I am invisible does not mean I can see you. That's why invis and detect invis are different spells. The concept of invisibility is that you can remain unseen so long as you do not attack (or are forced to attack). You'd be altering the entire concept, not just the way it works. >Solkanar: there should be a command, 'Birthday', which tells you >your BR birthday... wouldn't take up that much space and I've heard >a few people that want to know theirs... Divebomb: If you mean when you gain a year on your age, yeah i think it could be done pretty easily, but it's still pretty useless. Age in general is pointless in BR with the exception of realising how much time you've spent avoiding the real world. >Xorex: I've suggested this before but I'll do it again for fun...the > practice dummy is too frickin' hard...newbies always die from him Divebomb: The practice dummy is meant to teach "flee" and "wimpy". You're not supposed to win at level 1. >Kharn: make "give all. " and "look 2." > work Divebomb: give all.item was mentioned earlier. Look 2.inventoryname should go in. It's really obnoxious to have to put something in a bag just to look at the second one. Like I couldn't figure out what I wanted to look at in my inventory if it was real ;) >Wasabe: how about in affects... give us the amount of times till our > drunkeness will go away... and also how long till we are mildly > drunk(and able to eat Divebomb: In reality do you know when you're drunkenness is going to disappear? Sure there are times when you THINK you're sober, but you're not really - which is carried over into BR too - that's why everyone does a the "say test" test. >Wasabe: I would like to be able to send coins to a user via mail... > like a money-gram. Divebomb: We'll do it, but there will be a 110% tax. >Wasabe: How about saving our C4 win's ties and losses Divebomb: Waste of valuable (and limited) space in your profile. >Wasabe: when I emote a ' I would like it to appear immediately after > my name... like so emote 's feet are green. = Wasabe's feet are > green. Divebomb: I would like it too. >Wasabe: wimpy max should set wimpy to max hp Divebomb: First of all the concept of "wimpy" is for autoflee when you're low on hp. If you're setting wimpy to max you obviously don't intend on fighting. If you're just exploring you can take the 3 seconds to figure out roughly how much your max hp is and set it to that. I bet you have your hp in your prompt, and you're probably full when you're thinking about doing this, so just type it! >Armageddon: vertigo should tell you if it fails and should actually > work at preventing mobs from fleeing Divebomb: Yup and yup. >Vian: Make trophy list. Like when i kill in arena it put to whe >thropy list and i can see who i kill, level, how much time....(sorry >for my inglish) Divebomb: Pointless. If you want trophys collect body parts you cut off. It's just another waste of space. >Armageddon: a weather man, you can pay him money like clericus to >make the weather better or worse Divebomb: That would be amusing. >Armageddon: a usage command that tells you how long you've been on >in the past year/month/week/day etc. Divebomb: Isn't the obsession of being on everyday enough for you? Are you sure you could really handle knowing the exact numbers? >Johan: pass door should have an -ac modifier as well - if you're >translucent you must be harder to hit Divebomb: Not necessarily, you probably just look funny because you can pass through walls. Responses by BALTAR: > Rhyme: Install a hot tub at recall ;-) so recall bums can just sit > around in it and talk story Baltar: You know, there's a nice quiet corner just a couple rooms away from recall... > Babe: A mob shouldn't be able to dodge your attacks when it is blinded Baltar: Don't forget...if they can't dodge you, then you can't dodge them either. Suddenly being defenseless when blind doesn't sound so attractive, eh? Kiri's WWW of URLs: Are you a freak? Find out for sure: http://www.outofservice.com/freak/ You've probably all seen this before, but it's cute enough to show it again http://www.ernieshouseofwhoopass.com/pictures/fightingkitties.jpg If there is one flash movie you download all year, let it be this one. WHEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!! http://www.ismokecrack.com/imagine/wee.swf Mudzine news and info http://www.mudzine.com/ Celebrity (mis?) quotes from www.yil.com Women might be able to fake orgasms, but men can fake entire relationships. -Sharon Stone I discovered that I scream the same way, whether I'm about to be devoured by a great white, or if a piece of seaweed touches my foot. -Axl Rose Instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house. -Rod Stewart Luge strategy? Lie flat and try not to die. -Carmen Boyle, Olympic luge gold medal winner There are only two reasons to sit in the back row of an airplane. Either you have diarrhea, or you're anxious to meet people who do. -Henry Kissinger I saw a woman wearing a sweatshirt with "Guess" on it. I said, "Thyroid problem?" -Arnold Schwarzenegger Honesty is the key to a relationship. If you can fake that, you're in. -Courteney Cox, as Monica on Friends And God said, "Let there be Satan, so people don't blame everything on me. And let there be lawyers, so people don't blame everything on Satan." -George Burns What are the three words guaranteed to humiliate men everywhere? "Hold my purse." -Sandra Bullock My mother never saw the irony in calling me a son of a bitch. -Jack Nicholson My girlfriend always laughs during sex no matter what she's reading. -Steve Jobs, founder, Apple Computers According to a new survey, women say they feel more comfortable undressing in front of men than they do undressing in front of other women. They say that women are too judgmental, where, of course, men are just grateful. -Robert DeNiro There's very little advice in men's magazines, because men think, "I know what I'm doing. Just show me somebody naked." -Jerry Seinfield August 23, 2001 News from the Realms: From Kiri: I've cleaned up all of the reported area typos and they should be corrected in the next boot. I wanted to thank Kinson, Liquid, Cybergoyle, Kharn, Alarys, Amystery, Wasabe, Hiddukel, Isis, and Firelily for reporting the mistakes. Xorex wins the "most reported actual typo award" for this period, and should see me for his prize. :) Keep reporting them! Thanks! Joysinger: Rescue the Princess! - questrules Sat Aug 18 10:49:13 2001 1. You may have a group of max. 3 characters, all must be able to group (no multiplaying, mort only, loners accepted) 2. Every team must chose a groupleader before starting the quest. 3. Only 1 attempt per char is possible, if Lillinsith dies the quest is over (teammembers who died may continue questing) 4. Track/summon/astral/tp may only be used with other teammembers during the quest (no tracking mobs, or the princess) 5. You may not order Lillinsith to recall (this includes potions, she may use anything you hand her except equipment, though) 6. Do not accept help from anyone not in your group while questing 7. Questsign instructions must be followed 8. Please don't use any of the path options your mud client offers (speedwalk, backtracking, etc.), it's not fair to those who don't have these options 9. Once you have a group and a date set up you get no second chance (only with a VERY good excuse!) to quest 10. Do not use/group charmies. on a sidenote: Every successful team will win a prize, roleplaying will matter. Try to be as fast as possible. HINT: collect anything you need for this quest in advance, it'll save you lots of time! Good luck! joy Kiri: I'm a loser, but I love these kinds of quizzes. Which God are you (for a woman to evaluate her guy, but a guy can take it directly) http://quiz.ivillage.com/relationships/tests/god.htm Which Goddess are you: http://quiz.ivillage.com/relationships/tests/goddessfinal.htm I'm Persephone, at the end it tells you which Gods you're compatible with (if you click it on the bottom) It's kinda cool, check it out I found this one to be really accurate: http://users.rcn.com/zang.interport/personality.html Lugin: Quest results ....finally.. Mon Aug 20 21:13:02 2001 Here comes the results from the quest I held over a month ago... the last part took some time.... sorry. 5 people qualified for the second round, and thereby wins 100000 gold. They are: Fanatic, Darklight, Galen, Sleepless and Oldguy 3 of them qualified for the final and wins a RENAME. Darklight, Galen and Sleepless. Grats The final was: create a creature by collecting body parts, 2 legs, 2 arms, 1 head and 1 heart, tell me what you did and why. Sadly, only Sleepless handed in a creation, Galen hasn't been on since 9 of July and Darklight seems to ignore me... up to him.. Sleepless creation will hopefully be in the newsletter if you wanna see it. This was my first quest so I learned alot, a big thanks to everyone who participated :) And thanks Faustus for helping me with prizes IDEAS FROM THE REALMS: Outlaw: allow us to show percentages for the values in our prompt... like 100%hp 80%m 10%tnl etc... Wouldn't be hard to code in Cord: have the bank automatically give you your new balance after deposits/withdraws Wasabe: How about showing a players title in their profile? Since you can only see their title whilst they're online. Faustus: We should add an antimagic spell that blocks the spells of magic using mobs. Builders should also be able to use it to create magic-resistant mobs. See: color in the descriptions Outlaw: lame but I say moocow should precede mooch so when you type "moo" it does moocow instead of mooch Kiri -- It's alphabetical. Wasabe: Addendum to "ICQ UIN" in profile... "AIM" lest we be biased. Kiri -- but we ARE biased, AIM sucks ;) Besides, you can just type AIM name in there (See See's profile, for instance) Cord: a way to tell track to track the *closest* mob by the supplied name RUIN: there should be no cap on enhancements for heros! Bio for Cynic A What's your BR name? Cynic b. What race/ level are you? Kender 151 AVATAR4 C. Howdid you pick your Br name? Cynic kinda explains itself dont it? d. Whats your favorite area? Diablo is my favorite at the moment :) e. Where do you live (state or province/ country)? Gold Coast Queensland Australia f. What do you do for a living? i work at a theme park :) ride operations g. If you're a college/grad student, whats your major? Not a student at the moment. h. What do you want to be when you grow up? when i grow up i want to be young at heart i. Are you single Unfortunately Single j. What are your hobbies? i love Ice hockey and mudding. but pretty much anything to do with computers and programming interests me :) k. What's the hardest thing you've ever has to do? honestly i dont know. l. Who do you most admire? anyone who has a life threatening disease who finds the courage to go on with their everyday life and not just sit around feeling sorry for themselves. m. What celebrit would you like to hook up with? Jennifer Love Hewitt all the way . She is hot!!! n. What's the last book you read (including for school)? Christopher Pike : the last vampire series. it was great. o. What's the last movie you watched?did you like it? I watched Coyote Ugly on DVD and i loved it. (specially the women) lol p. If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? I would love to go to Disney land and universal studios RESPONSES BY BALTAR TO THE MAY 1 NEWSLETTER: > Wasabe: What if the shopkeeper sold a : CR bag... contained therein > would be 1) purple fly potion, 1) invis elixir 1) torch !!! Baltar: All of these items are already for sale, and all but one in town. > April: Would it be possible to have some brief-combat mode, or to > gag some of the fight-messages? I have a poor link, wich makes it hard = > for> me to group ... specially with all my human kicks :) Baltar: Perhaps a new CONFIG option? > WasabE: Heal faster whilst sleeping in a tent. Baltar: This seems like an interesting idea, and a way to encourage their use... > Rice: spell... : know hitpoints... ;) Baltar: What, you don't like CONsider? Then CHARM/GLARE and check GROUP. > Anubis: messages for teleport and astral like goto :) Baltar: For Heroes, you mean? > Issafor: we need never never land...that would be great Baltar: To paraphrase our illustrious Empress Kiri: So build it! > Wasabe: I want to kick people out of the vehicle I purchase... it > should be the owners right... Baltar: This makes logical sense, but it might be hard to code...how do you determine the "owner" of a vehicle? Perhaps a simple solution would be to have vehicles lock and unlock, and supply keys at the time of purchase? > AMystery: when two invisible mobs or players or players & mobs fight, = > they should remain invisible. only when one is visible should the other = > become so. After all, invisible creatures should be able to see = > eachother and fight Baltar: I think the point is that invisibility disappears once you take any action (such as attacking) that is aggressive. (I'd speculate that this started because of the old AD&D rule that invisibility would cease on an attack.) > Wasabe: how about in affects... give us the amount of times till our = > drunkeness will go away... and also how long till we are mildly = > drunk(and able to eat Baltar: Unless it's a deliberate design decision to make being drunk even less attractive (which it might well be), I'd agree with this one. > Wasabe: when I emote a ' I would like it to appear immediately after my = > name... like so emote 's feet are green. =3D Wasabe's feet are green. Baltar: If this wouldn't be too hard to code, I'd love to see it. > Wasabe: wimpy max should set wimpy to max hp Baltar: You could just do it yourself... > Armageddon: a weather man, you can pay him money like clericus to make = > the weather better or worse Baltar: Ooooh, I *like* this idea! > Armageddon: a usage command that tells you how long you've been on in = > the past year/month/week/day etc. Baltar: What, are you trying to depress everyone? :) RESPONSES BY PACKOR TO MAY 20 NEWSLETTER: BackLash: I don't know the work that this would involve, but what about mobs at random intervals of time. I mean like several weeks in between. will raid calathar, and will be aggro. give hero's and immies something to do, and be exciting for the morts both Packor: I don't think newbies would like aggro mobs running around in the town. It might be a good idea to have random events, but imm powers are limited too, heh. It would take some work, I believe. Dio: give aod his own store for a map salesman Packor: Look at AOD's short description. If he doesn't want to be found, why are we giving him his own shop? :> Sandra: Ability to use up extra practices. I have 73 so far at level 50. Packor: Collecting is good! :> Besides, it's not really a major problem except you want to get something for leveling.. let's think of it this way though. You could pretend there are a thousand oog skills and you just don't want all that tnl. KIRI'S WWW OF URLS: From Oakley, hours and hours of fun: http://128.241.244.96/portal/uploads/27000/27549_winrg.swf Dress m up Dubya! http://www.oddcast.com/vhost/bush/host.php?id=8350 Easily the coolest utility on the web, Catchup -- will scan your computer and let you download all updates to software and drivers. http://cnet.com/catchup/cu/index/index.html?tag=st.cn.sr1.ssr.cu& For those of you interested in employment in the game industry http://www.gamejobs.com/ Ahh, The perks of being older than dirt (but younger than Scavenger): 1) Kidnappers are not very interested in you. 2) In a hostage situation you are likely to be released first. 3) No one expects you to run into a burning building. 4) People call at 9 p.m. and ask, "Did I wake you?" 5) People no longer view you as a hypochondriac. 6) There's nothing left to learn the hard way. 7) Things you buy now won't wear out. 8) You can eat dinner at 4 p.m. 9) You can live without sex (but not without glasses). 10) You enjoy hearing about other people's operations. 11) You get into a heated argument about pension plans. 12) You have a party and the neighbors don't even realize it. 13) You no longer think of speed limits as a challenge. 14) You quit trying to hold your stomach in, no matter who walks into the room. 15) You sing along with the elevator music. 16) Your eyes won't get much worse. 17) Your investment in health insurance is finally beginning to pay off. 18) Your joints are more accurate meteorologists than the National Weather Service. 19) Your secrets are safe with your friends because they can't remember them either. 20) Your supply of brain cells is finally down to a manageable size. 21) You can't remember who sent you this.