Subject: New Newsletter @>----------------------[Random ideas and comments]------------------- Lysta: armor has no message if cast on player who already has it Kytar: How difficult would it be to code an autoassist switch for pets? so that the individual owner could decide whether or not for the pet to autoassist? Emperor: spell: wizard ear. for the duration of the spell, the caster is able to hear everything that is said with their name in the say command. ie. a caster named bob would hear any say, tell etc in which the string 'bob' was found Emperor: The option to cast a spell that continuously drains mana and stays active until turned off or all mana is drained MasterMage: How about if afk actually kept you from being sucked into the void, instead of it just saying so? Cutlass: a spell called promethius for illithids: puts char in a trance-like state in which he/she fights a targeted mob. no hp is actually lost in the battle but it allows the caster to see hw well they would do in a real battle with it Cutlass: Aod should be stationary in the Quiet Room in the bar I'd like to see a channel that broadcasts when a tick is going to occur, so you can be more efficient in sleeping and such. It would say "Tick in 5 seconds" and then "TICK" when the tick comes. It would also help when sleeping so we can see our stats updated on a tick by tick basis. Hi Kiri; I got an iadea for Barren realms. Actually only for a weapon. I was thinking of a vampiric weapon. So something like a sword with a moderate hit roll (eg.+5 or 10) but a negative dam roll (eg. -5) but it gives you half the hit points that you take from the mob. It would have to be for a pretty high level (+35) because its not very useful for adventurers with a low maximum hit points. I dont know if something like this would work in BR or if there is already something like it in BR. I'm also computer illerate and I can't code anything at all. So tell me if you or anyone else is going to play with this idea. Yours sincerely Kzonon ok, now that we got all of these player histories (about the imms, heros, ect) why dont we put a field into the player's file where they can put this information into? Like the plan and email settings, the could access this are by typeing (just to make fun of "The Net", i chose this to be the syntax) "whois Kiri" and then they see these nice little descriptions that have been provided. Just a thought. Cord. Oh...and i want to bring back up the idea of making it so that if a person has enhanced nutrition they can never get full....so they can eat pills or food that has spells attached to it and such. Kiri, Hi, it's me, Skyblade. I thought of a cool skill for avians that would make life a little easier for coders to have to make special armor for avians to wear. FOLD: An avian with a high dex can fold (his/her/its) wings against their side to allow the use of body armor. However, this would not allow the avian to use skills such as blast and windzone, due to the fact that their wings would be closed. It shouldn't be too high of a level skill, but it would get longer as your level increases. Tell me what you think... -Skyblade, Platinum Dragon Kiri's note: Listen, the whole point of Avians is that they lose armor spots. We're not looking for ways to give them armor. They are a really good race as it is now. @>--------------------[Meet your heroes]------------------------- Online Name: Crymson RL Name: Travis Reynolds City/State: Leesburg, VA Birthday: 9/22/74 Hiya! I was born and raised in the same town and i'm still living there for some odd reason. :P Anyways, I've been mudding for about 3 1/2 years now, ranging from Diku based to LP's and MUSH's. I went away to school for 4 years at Ferrum College, that's where I met Phoenix and he got me hooked on BR back in June or July of '95. I'm now at home attending community college and planning on transfering to George Mason University so I can get my degree in Computer Science. I've also met several of the other people from BR in RL.. lessee, i hope i don't forget any ;P.. Kiri, Oakley, Vain, Dakata, Bucko, Fubby, Roy, Lambchop, Xaos, and Propane. For work, i'm a Systems Engineer for a real estate company. Imaintain their servers, repair some computers, and do some programming for them. I don't know much about the real estate part tho, so I can't help ya with that. ;P I also work for a government contracting agency where I get called in to work on several goverment projects. My hobbies include living on the net, playing the guitar, theatre, dj'ing when I get the time, and a bunch of other stuff. I also maintain the Official Barren Realms Homepage. Well, that's about it for me... idea: instead of having a person that goes linkdead be removed from the "who" list, make a flag to show up beside them like (LD) or (Linkdead), whichever, so if we were talking to them or trying to help them (as hero/imm) we could find out what's going on with them easier. Players file: How to play the game, helps, and the story behind BR. Builders guide: An all new guide on how to build areas for BR. Builders forum: A place to ask email questions about the area you are building. Please email me with your poetry, stories, questions, comments, and bios for the mort/hero/imm bio section of the newsletter. All submissions will be rewarded (if effort is shown). *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Barren Realms Newsletter | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | No such thing as a failure who keeps trying...coasting to the bottom| | Is the only disgrace...-Blues Traveller | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Be sure to check out the Official Barren Realms Homepage: | | http://www.tmn.com/Community/travisr/barren.html | | Also, send me mail if you want to join the Builder's Forum. | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Barren Realms: barren.coredcs.com 8000 | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* | Write me at Karen@li.net from now on...Thanks! | *-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-*-* Subject: New Newsletter @>------------------------[NEW IDEAS]------------------------- Cutlass: a spell called promethius for illithids: puts char in a trance-like state in which he/she fights a targeted mob. no hp is actually lost in the battle but it allows the caster to see hw well they would do in a real battle with it Defiant: Springkick- A skill that is used when tripped to spring of the ground and knock you opponent to the groud (Kenders or Huma Skyblade: Identify should be available for all races Corn: Perhaps there should be a way to linkkill yourself at the intro screen... Defiant: How bout an option for a deep sleep? So no one can wake you up whle you are sleepin? Dashiva: I think there should be a message, when replying to Linkdead players, that informs us that they are linkdead. @>----------------------[Comments on old ideas!]--------------------- > Kytar: How difficult would it be to code an autoassist switch > for pets? so that the individual owner could decide whether or not for > the pet to autoassist? why wouldn't you want the pets to autoassist? they're function is to help you kill the mob so you take less damage. what do you want it to do. just stand there and say that you're doing a good job? > Emperor: spell: wizard ear. for the duration of the spell, the > caster is able to hear everything that is said with their name in the > say command. ie. a caster named bob would hear any say, tell etc in > which the string 'bob' was found > > Emperor: The option to cast a spell that continuously drains > mana and stays active until turned off or all mana is drained simply, no. > I'd like to see a channel that broadcasts when a tick is going to > occur, so you can be more efficient in sleeping and such. It would > say "Tick in 5 seconds" and then "TICK" when the tick comes. It > would also help when sleeping so we can see our stats updated on a > tick by tick basis. get a mud client. many of them have an option that does this. zMUD for example does. all you have to do is set how long each tick will be, set it for when a click goes off and then it'll tell you how far away the next click is on a countdown timer. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- >Like the plan and email settings, the >could access this are by typeing (just to make fun of "The Net", i >chose this to be the syntax) "whois Kiri" and then they see these nice >little descriptions that have been provided. Just so you all know, there is a "whois" command that lets you see if a certain person is playing without reading through the entire who-list. So if you wanted to see if I were on at any given time, you'd just type "whois Matai" and it would either say "That person isn't playing" or it would show you "[HEROIT N ] Matai ." It might be a nice idea to see all the player bios, but maybe it could be made easier to code to just expand the fields in the profile command to include birthday, hobbies, where you live, etc. Matai KA>Emperor: spell: wizard ear. for the duration of the spell, the KA>caster is able to hear everything that is said with their name in the KA>say command. ie. a caster named bob would hear any say, tell etc in KA>which the string 'bob' was found Absolutely, positively, NO (my opinion, anyway). Although we are not a social MUD, MANY people do socialize a lot, and if they wish to talk privately, they shouldn't have to worry about being listened to. Also, you have people with names like 'You'. If someone could see every message with 'you' in it, they'd see nearly everything! KA>Hi Kiri; KA> I got an iadea for Barren realms. Actually only for a weapon. I was KA>thinking of a vampiric weapon. So something like a sword with a moderate hit KA>roll (eg.+5 or 10) but a negative dam roll (eg. -5) but it gives you half th KA>points that you take from the mob. It would have to be for a pretty high lev Half is WAY too high, but this would be cool with something more reasonable, like a tenth MAX. Matrix @>---------------------------[Bios!]--------------------------------------- Hi Kiri, it is me Corwin, Macore and Ariela... My real name is David... I am 38 yrs old and live in Los Angeles California. I am 6ft tall and have brown hair and eyes. For work I am a Computer Programmer for Great Western Bank doing Novell Network and Windows Tools and Applications. Recently at home for fun I coded my own MUD Client in C++ for use with BR. I have been MUDing for about 3 months... I have tried some other MUDs but BR is the best I have found! :) I started playing computer games in 1979 on an Apple II. My favorite where the text style adventure games like ZORK and DUNGEON. So I have been just thrilled by MUDs as way of reliving those glory days of my youth. I have not lost as much sleep as I did back then until I started playing BR! I actually wrote my own text adventure for the Apple and ported it to IBM. I am looking forward to building my own Area on BR someday soon. :) I also read a lot of Fantasy and Sci Fi books and love all Sci Fi movies and TV shows... Course I haven't had any time to do much of that since I started BR! :) Idea: KENDERS should be able to LOOK into another room like AVIANS do with BIRDSEYE since it is a HUGE disadvantage to have to remove all Humming or Glowing objects in order to use SNEAK... @>----------[This is an anonymous Biography. Hope you enjoy it]------- The story begins...last year: My father died. He suffered through cancer, chemo, and drugs that slowly drained his life away. From a robust man, filled with the joy of life, I saw his body become so frail and weak that it bruised from a touch. He was brilliant -- a patent holder and innovator, and retained his wits until almost the end. His last action before he died was hugging me. Only a very few moments in my life are as deeply imprinted. None before left me feeling so empty, so disconsolate. After returning home from the funeral, which was too far away for my family to attend, I remember the conversation with my son going something like this: "So, James, what are you doing on the computer?" I asked. "I'm playing a mud, dad" he replied. "A mud?" "Yeah, its a game," he said. "Could you tell me about it," I asked. "Well, it's called Barren Realms..." he began. He patiently explained it to me, then showed me how to start a character. I kept him company when he played, and he assisted my feeble beginnings. The company of my son, with a background of the adventures and esprit de corps of the BR community were a great help in the weeks and months that followed in dealing with my personal tragedy. Over a year has passed since then. I realize that the mud provided a kind of group therapy for me. Particularly, poking fun at death was helpful and healing. After all, if you live long enough, that's what happens! :) So, if you feeling down and frustrated, at least remember that some of us, myself included, can never thank you, Oak, and everyone else who made the game possible, enough. ---------------------------------------------------------------- =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= DaRQue (All RL info) Name: Rob Yeichner Age: 24 Height: 6'5" or 2 Meters (whatever ya like) Weight: 230lb or 196kg Eyes/Hair: Brown Born: May 9 (Mothers Day '72 - My Mom's favorite Mothers Day present or so she says) Hobbies: Sports, (Volleyball, Softball, Basketball, Tennis - in that order - *see below), Reading (Sci/Fi - Asimov rules), Basketball Cards, Comic Books, Web authoring/surfing, and MUD/MUSHing! Currently I'm a Senior Airman in the United States Air Force. Forced into being a Security Specialist I've been pretty unhappy from the start. In less than two months my 5 year career in the AF will come to a close, woohoo! At least I've got my GI Bill benefits and learned a trade if my civilian career hopes don't live up to my expectations. I spent 2 years in Montana (Great Falls) and 3 years here in Europe. In Montana I spent my time guarding nukes and here I spent about 4 months as a regular Law Enforcement patrol before entering my current job as Unit Computer Manager. I manage the network for my unit and take care of approx. 100 computers and their 300 users. I have my CNA in 3.1 and pursuing my CNE on the 4.1 track. I have about 2 months before I'm a civilian once again, and back to the world. I was born in north-central Ohio, so I'm a Buckeye at heart. My place of residence is California where I went to play basketball after high school. I've lived in Florida, Georgia and Texas in addition to the places I've already mentioned. This past summer I tore up my knee, and has surgery in late May. Since then I've been banned from my favorite hobbies (the sports) but at least I visit the gym regularly. Part time (about 20-30 hours a week) I'm a bartender at the Sports Bar here on base, I think I've met more people in the one year of bartending than my other 4 years in the military. I love it. :) Subject: Barren Realms Newsletter @>---------------------[Your Ideas]------------------------------ Defiant: Prevent Poison- Skill for kenders to use to prevent them from being poisoned Strikehammer: ok how about this: If you eat the body parts from a mob with the opposite alignment from you, different effects can occur... Proximus: Ok, here's my suggestion. Kenders should have detect hidden at a lowerlevel. Since kenders can hide at level 1, they should be able to detect hidden at a lower level. It sorta makes sense. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Fossil: One thread that appeared in a newsletter awhile back was group skills. Suggestions included gang tackling a mob, knocking open a door by having the whole group putting their shoulder into it, and providing a "group only" weapon such as a catapult. To this list I would like to contribute another idea. This idea is that avians of a certain level or above could lay eggs, that would soon be hatched into mercenaries. Of course, it would take two avians :) An egg would be a timed item. During the gestation period, every race would have a skill that could contribute to the power of the resulting mercenary. Dwarves could train their str, kender their dex, elves their int, etc. The mercenary is owned by whomever is holding it when it hatches, and it takes on its owner's level. With a concerted group effort, a very powerful mercenary could be built/hatched. Thanks for listening to my rambles -- Fossil :) Matai: what kind of area would you like to see on BR? I've given up on relying on my own inspiration, which has lead to nearly 20 unfinished areas which all seemed like good ideas for a few days. Maybe someone else's ideas would be easier to accomplish than mine :) @>--------------------------------------------------- I've decided to be an upstanding and contributing imm (or something along those lines), so here is the facts about myself as I know them. I go by Shylock nearly everywhere on the net, but those people I actually know in Real Life (tm) know me as Ryan Kountz. On the MU* side, I've played mostly battletech games, and BR was my first and only mud. I've tried others but they haven't really kept me interested for long. But enough about that. Kiri wants the lowdown on our real (sometimes surreal) lives. Here we go. I'm 23 years old, born in a small town in Ohio, and I've lived in the Buckeye State my entire life. Until recently, I attended college at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, and made it out in just over 5 years with a degree in Sociology (to the dismay of my entire family) By the grace of God (or a slick resume), I've managed to land a job in Dayton, where I'm a systems analyst for a Department of Defense subcontrator. Basically, I'm paid a good deal of cash to have root on alot of *.gov machines, and make sure they run all spiffy nice. (For over $100k a machine, they should friggin ask me if *I'm* feeling okay.) I also do alot of hacks to get things to work, so I get to do what I like and get paid. Fun Fun Fun. My spare time deviates between alot of things. I guess I'm a pop culture junkie, and can never see enough movies, concerts, plays, etc. Sports are generally pretty cool, although as of late I seem to only have time to watch instead of play. I guess my worst vice as of late is finding the worst movies possible and enjoying them to the fullest. I do read alot also, but finding anything decent lately has been a real chore. (Any suggestions?) I think that's about it. If anyone wants to call me a freak, feel free. :) Any email is cool email. -ryan BIO Umm hi i am hellknight on br my real name is brian i am 14 and i am almost 6 foot, i have nothing real witty to say cept that i live in florida and have met many cool people on br, i was intruduced to br by umm hoodlum and he showed me how to play the game, ever since i have been playing, in my spare time i like to hang out with friends and stuff and go to the park and play some basketball and football. 2 years ago my basketball team finished 3rd in the state championships. well bye for now! Subject: New Newsletter Queue: point out the fact that the (') are needed in the help file Thats a good idea. Maybe we'll do that :) Defiant: Create Trap for kenders I like this as well. Care to explain what it might do? Any ideas? Gorzak: put in a sign (put it in capital letters in the room desc like S-I-G-N so it's noticed) warning ppl about the green dragon in haon dor and the old marsh area Ok. Make up the signs, I'll put em in ;) Catmaster: group teleportation to move a group to an enemy. But don't you think this would make the game too easy? @>---------------------------------------------------------------------- I dont know if this has been suggested or not but here goes. Every one know that when a druid is in a group he is almost always the healer.. in these cases mana can be exhausted very quickly especially in large groups. What I propose is a new spell for druids that would allow them to tap into the mana of the group, taking a small amount of mana from the members of there group. I mean if we can give our mana to others, i.e.-energy transfer, why shouldn't we be able to take iot from others. Because some might think this would give druids too much power.. they transfer rate would not be one to one.. it would probably have to be two to one or something like that also there should be a limit on the amount of mana that can be taken, certainly not the druids max, because if this was the case I could put my self in a group of dwarfes and just drain there mana, constantly healing them (you get the picture). If done right this could be a fun spell and it would add a new twist two grouping. THANKS MEMNOCH - the not so evil devil Hi I am Leghorn and my idea is for a skill called "twist". It should be available for all races. What it is, is it prevents kick from being used on you. Or an ambush skill for kenders that they can use while they are hidden to attack a mob. I think a good idea for an item would be some sort of sheet. Kenders would use it to cover glowing objects when they wish to hide or sneak. Leghorn My idea is for a command called "whogru" or something like that. What it does is it tells you which people that are on you can group with. A level 17 char would get a who 12 22 list and so on. Alexei Kiri's note: its just as simple to type who 12 22 as it is to type whogro, or whogru, don't ya think? @>------------------------------------------------------------------------ Maybe I should also introduce myself to the team. I am known as Ahkran to all of you. My real name is Thys van der Merwe and a live in the coastal city of Port Elizabeth, South Africa. What a nice country we have!! I am turning 30 on the 2nd of October, but intend on being younger forever. I am male, have red hair and is about 6foot3. I am a systems analyst for a computer company in Pretoria and we develop systems for other companies. I enjoy reading sci-fi (especially fantasy), going to movies, saling and playing squash. I also hope to have an area on BR pretty soon for levels 5 to 20. Bye. Thys -- BR Name: Defiant Real Name: Justin (No last names) Profession: Bored Student Interests: Barren Realms, Computing, Finding new ways to break my computer Hobbies: Barren Realms, Computing, Doing absolutely nothing, finding new things on the net. Great Accomplishments: Heroing finally :) without Lag Central like many have trouble with. Phys. Description: 5' 10" Somewhat of Brown Hair, bout 125-130. Ive been called anorexic by Hellknight but I don't think I am. Plans: To be te bestst Hero in Barren Realms, eventually leave the 12 year depression known as school and to coumpte for a living. Good things bout BR: Fair Imms, nice people, best Mud I've played! Bad things bout BR: Needs a few more high level areas and more piercing weapons. If not for Oakley's Thieves forest, there would be none. Ideas for BR: How bout little more power to those loveable Kenders? Subject: Newsletter from BR Sorsa: a poem channel (like the music channel :) Coradon: what about adding werecretures to the realms let me know have ideas for them Corn: A spell called Gills.. allows you to breathe underwater I wonder if you could partially solve the boat problem like this: maybe a VERY heavy boat could be made that will contain a large heavygroup, that would nessecitate the group holding one player's items (a dwarf most likely) so that the player could carry the boat around...it would make the boat completely unreasonable as a container, make the game more difficult (but please don't take out the boats that are already there, hehe) and yet keep you from having to ditch the idea of having boats in new areas...boats are cool. ;) Or did I misunderstand, and are tents the only real problems...I'm still totally clueless, so I appologize if I just came up with a great idea to solve a non-exsistant problem. hehe ;) Ginkgo My idea is a skill for the warrior/fighting classes(dwarf, human, avian, kender) called dismember. The skill would be automatic, and would work like this: Whenever you landed a strong blow there would be a chance that you chop off some part of the mobs body, disabling them in some way. Ex: you chop off their arm and they can't hit you as hard, or disarm you, etc. Ex2: you chop off their leg and they can't run from you anymore. Well, let me know what you think. -Aerol I think that for track you should be able to enter two names to make it easier, instead of all that 1. 2. 3. stuff. Alexei I have an idea. How about a homepage forum, kinda like the builders = forum, except it deals with homepages? Those of us who already have one = can discuss ideas and those who don't can maybe pick up on something = interesting. Just a thought. -Wildfire > Catmaster: group teleportation to move a group to an enemy. > But don't you think this would make the game too easy? this would definitely make things too easy What I propose is a new spell for druids that would allow > them to tap into the mana of the group, taking a small amount of mana > from the members of there group. I mean if we can give our mana I don't like it, it DOES give too much mana to the druid and not 1 to 1? what were you thinking of a ratio? even 1 to 4 would be too much. i don't see this working and still not imbalancing druids > Hi I am Leghorn and my idea is for a skill called "twist". It should be > available for all races. What it is, is it prevents kick from being used on > you. Or an ambush skill for kenders that they can use while they are hidden twist? how many MOBS use kick anyway? ambush: hide; backstab and as for glowing stuff, remove it and put it in a container. works the same way > My idea is for a command called "whogru" or something like that. What it > does is it tells you which people that are on you can group with. A level > 17 char would get a who 12 22 list and so on. > for a level 17 char, who 12 22 would do the same thing Oakley @>---------------------------------------------------------- BR Name: Rekah BR Race: Druid RL Name: William Siegrist RL Age : 17 Hello, my name is William, well, I go by Bill mostly, but William will do. :) Anyway, I live in Chula Vista here in California. Chula Vista is next to San Diego (my house is 8 miles from the US/Mex border). I attend Hilltop High School; I'll be a Senior next year, which starts in September. I take a lot of honours and Advanced Placement classes as well as play bassoon and contrabassoon for the San Diego Youth Symphony. I started on BR a month or two ago, maybe less, as a diversion from programming. I hope to finish an area for BR by next January, but it looks doubtful with my classes next year. :) Well my heighth is somewhere around 5"11.75", or 6 feet, whichever you'd like. I have brown hair, blue eyes, no glasses or anything like that. My primary hobby is computers, especially programming. My favorite programming language is C, although I'm not very good just yet. I also like football, but I don't have a chance to play anymore. Hopefully I'll attend UCSD in the fall of 1997 and get a computer science/programming degree. Oh, one other thing I like to do is compose classical music. I've completed several works, and one is being reviewed currently to be published. By the time I graduate from college, I'll hopefully have several works published. If anyone cares, my favorite composer is Mahler, followed by close 2nd's, which are Bruckner, Rachmoninov, Satie, and Shastakovich. Oh, and Brahms and Lizst are some of my favorites as well. So thats me... If you ever need a good heal, or a healer for a group, check for me and I'll be glad to help if asked. Thanks -Rekah ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hey guys and gals! You all know me as Matai, the heroit, but my friends in RL call me Tim (my enemies call me worse things ). I'm 14, not a neuter in real life, and live in perhaps one of the last "good" neighborhoods in Brooklyn, New York. I like sleeping, anything with computers and reading Terry Pratchett's DiscWorld series of books. I go to school at Hunter High in Manhattan (starting 9th grade in a few weeks *groan*), where about two years ago I had my first experience with mudding. For a little while, Hunter had a server that worked (I think by today's standards it's now called a "calculator") and a few of the seniors who spent all their free time kissing up to the computer lab supervisor finally got their wish, and put a mud on there, named (oddly enough) HunterMUD. It was totally unmodified stock circle code, but to most of us hunterites who had never seen a mud before, it was a masterpiece. Pokey first showed me how to MUD, and I owe a great debt to him for that. But...as the school year ended, and the server somehow broke (or was taken out of commission because too many people were enjoying it) and HunterMUD was never to be seen again. Pokey, Gorzak (my good friend whom I had shown HunterMUD to since he could play from his house, and I couldn't) and I were sorta "MUD refugees". Until by some stroke of luck, Gorzak landed here, told me about it, I told Pokey, and we all "made home" here for a while. After spending nearly a year here, I sort of gave up on heroing (yes, this was before lag central, but that doesn't mean that nobody heroed :P) and floated around to a bunch of other MUDs, including AnonyMUD, in a moment of desperation. Finally, I came back here, heroed, and now enjoy trying to help keep this MUD great in any way I can. The moral of this long and boring bio is that, pretty much, this is the best it gets, by MUD standards. Don't take this place for granted, and consider yourselves pretty lucky to be part of what has made this MUD so great, the people here. Have a nice day! :) - Matai Subject: BR newsletter DEAR PLAYERS OF BR: Since I've started the newsletter, the amount of responses and random ideas and submissions has decreased. Please cheer me up and send anything you think would be cool for the newsletter. :) I like mail, and I think others like to see what you have to say. :) Kiri I think it would be cool to have a way to reset items under other items, similar to the way you could reset items in other items. This could add new depth to areas, and make it so that in some areas, mortals really have to explore to get special things. For instance, you could reset some money under a mattress, or maybe a potion under a pile of rubble. Players could "look under " similar to the way they can look in something, and maybe there could be a command like "get under " to get the item. Maybe when you get the first object in your inventory, all other objects under it would be revealed. The second example wouldn't work with stuff under no-take objects, though. Anyway...the syntax for writing the reset could be pretty much the same as a "P" reset, except we could call it a "U" reset, for "under". Matai Hi I think that as well as seeing into someones or somethings inventory with peek you should also be able to see how much gold they have on them. Just a suggestion....Alexei I was thinking... Illithids, and possibly Elf's and Druids could learn a spell called "hallucinate." What it would do is make the target not see straight (randome room names, object names, mob name, etc, insted of the actuall names and such). It might also cause the target to attack someone in the room (a mob or a player) at random because they might hallucinate that that mob/player attacked them. Obviously no player killing would be allowed to come of this, ie: Make the code not cause players to attack players, but *maybe* players to attack mobs. The best thing to do when a player is the target (assuming mobs will be able to cast it), it to send messages to the player of things moving and attacking him/her. Not actually starting any fights, but making it look like people are moving, fly, fighting or whatever, which may cause the player to start a fight on his/her own. Overall, it should just make things very confusing for a while. That also brings up a 'cure hallucinate' spell. It has obvious effects. :) -Rekah Axle: a room with info dealing with writing areas.. w/ builders guide and everything. Kiri- The new webpage (profile Oakley for the address) has the builders guide in web format. you CANT get easier than that :) SiD: when a spell is cast that is already affective, make the duration of the spell max Axle: Have two classes of heroes, major heroes and minor heroes. When you turn levvel 51, you become a minor hero, and must be upgraded to major hero after demonstrating usefulness. :). Then imm. Kiri- Hmm, what do you people think of this? Axle: Here's a real idea. Have a "who linkdead" command to see who's linkdead Kiri- what would that do? Fireflash: add a gwho command so people could see who was grouped or not grouped. just an idea. -fireflash Kiri- you mean on the whole mud? because "group" alone shows you who is in your group. Fireflash: hehe prob got bunch of requests but how bout making a drink or a spell available to everyone at healer or store to cure drunkeness. coffee dont really work.. so it would be avialble to all make it a low cost drink or lowcost spell.. just an idea -f Kiri- this takes some of the risk out of being drunk though :) Idea - How about staging some organised tournaments where characters could dual against each other for the watching crowd. I know we already have the arena but this would be like the sort of thing that they had say in King Arthur's time when knights would battle for the pleasure of the king and queen (or in this case the imms) and win small prizes. We could have say people in differnt sections to try and make it more balanced. It would mean that a lot of people would have to take part but it could be announced like a week before that it was going to occur at a certain system time (say the most popular time for people to login) and people have to sign up. I don't know if this would work butit could be kind of fun. We could even have say a heros section where each hero becomes the champion of one of the imms or something. I am not entirely sure how the whole thing would work but I think it would be kind of cool and a bit different from the normal type of quests. Gerald @>----------------------------------------------------------- RL BIO - My name is Nancy and I'm 21, was born in Manchester in England and have just finished my degree at Oxford University. I was doing maths and I am about to go on to do a masters at Southampton. OK boring bit over... My major passion in life is Ice Hockey (yes we do play it over here!) and most of my free time and spare cash goes on that. I am pretty much a non-violent person except when i get on the ice when I become a bit of a raving psychopath (or so I have been told!!) Still I have never lost a fight (grin) and I have rarely been sent off without taking one of the enemy with me! This is the only MUD I have ever tried and although I don't get to play it as much as I would like I am pretty much hooked on it and any time I can spare time to come down to the computer room in college I do. I stumbled upon MUDS when I was reading a book on stuff to do with a modem other than Email and BR was highly recommended so I gave it a few hours and I haven't looked back since. Gerald. @>-------------------------------------------------------------------- In BR, I'm Ginkgo, in real life...well, I'm shy, so just call me Ginkgo, or Sakuka which is my net name. ;) I'm 25, live in Indiana, have 5 siamese cats qualifies me for being certifiably insane, am new to muds but am already trying to build an area, and am trying to figure out how to make a Super-test-server in Linux. I'm currently driving everyone up the wall with my questions and expect to be demoted to L12 for it any day now. ;P I'm a photographer, but work as accountant, paymaster, data entry slave, webmistress, general manager, Girl Friday, and whipping dog, among other things for my parents' business...hoping to inherit it someday instead of doing the rat race with the other photographers. ;P My main hobbies would be messing around on the computer and reading, mostly sci-fi. Hmm, what else am I s'posed to tell...lessee...I'm 5'6", blonde, grey eyes, very thin, glasses, and have a computer glued to my face. ;P I'm addicted to BR cause I've found a place where you can play and visit with your friends at the same time, and a place where your imagination can run wild, I love all the wild stuff I find in BR, and I love the idea of being able to create a little part of it by building and area. People there are friendly, and it's a nice place to spend my free time. I'm hooked. :) Is that enough for the bio? Hope so, I can't think of anything else ta say. ;) Ginkgo