Subject: Newsletter Dec 2, 2000 Date: Saturday, December 02, 2000 11:10 PM Armageddon: Make it so that you can send and recieve email through BR. I don't think this would be too hard to do, just modify the note code. Then have the player specify server and accout. Maybe have them type in the pw manually each time. or have a choice of Firestar: how about a new argument (or whatever it is called) for the command "who". Something like... "who mort" Kiri -- try who 1 50 BackLash: i don't know how bothersome this would be, but a book in the quest room with a list of names and what quest the've won, maybe only like 1st place winners BackLash: One other thing, a board in the quest room to attach notes on with rules about a quest as long as that quest is going, so you don't have to keep re-posting notes when they scroll off the list Divebomb: reorganize BR so that some of the CONSTANTLY visited areas are further/harder to get to, move the less visited ones closer to calathar/away from mazes Sykle: Is it possible to have the HIT / DAM effect of tainting a weapon displayed (like what you see when you identify an enchanted weapon)? Sykle: another suggestion for tainted weapons...can we see how much time is left on them? BirdBeak: SLIST should show which skills are OOG (perhaps with an asterisk [*]) Naddarow: 'who avatar' Kiri -- who 151 151 does this Cord: allow "slist" command to take full race names... ie. "slist druid" doesn't work, "slist dru" does... have it so both work Cord: a 'swimming' idea a 'swimming' flag... like flying... so you can't trip a jellyfish, etc. Kiri -- this will be for remort Winner: er... since many heroes are complaining about transfering practice sessions to enhance... but i think making more skills and spells for heroes sounds better Kiri -- submit ideas for them then ;) Dio: saving the ignore list when you log off. whenever i ignore someone and then leave and come back later i have to ignore them again Huh: should make charmed or hired pets able to rescue player Saffron: We could use a group all command Bluestar: for heroes: How about when a hero/avatar dies, instead of being sent to recall, how about being sent to hr? Nal: maybe for avains when they walk around one feather may fall out? -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- BIOS: 1 Name? Anthony 2 BR Name? Jasper 3 Sex? Male 4 Home Town? Gold Coast 5 Born? September 13 1980 6 Living arrangement? Me, My aunt, My uncle and the Kitty Cat 7 Favorite TV show? Friends 8 What's on you mouse pad? Tweety Bird 9 Favorite board game? Monopoly 10 Favorite smell? Nice perfume 11 Best feeling in the world ? True Love 12 Worst feeling in the world ? Heartache 13 What do you do to express your creativity? Draw 14 Roller coaster- Awesome 15 Pen or Pencil? Pencil 16 Favorite foods? Escarco 17 Do you get along with your parents? yes :) 18 Chocolate or Vanilla? Both 19 Favorite ice cream? Macadamia Nut 20 Croutions or Bacon Bits? Both 21 Storms cool or scary? Very Very Kewl (specially when with a Female *Good time for cuddles*) 22 Do like to drive? Yes 23 What was your first car? Hdt Brock Director Calais 24 If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be? Melissa Joan Hart (VERY VERY SEXY) 25 Who is your favorite poet? Dr Seus! (who else) 26 Do you eat the stems of Broccoli? yes 27 Guys- If a girl asked you for the shirt off your back would you give it? Yes :) 28 If you could have any job you wanted what would it be? im not quite sure 29 Have you ever been in love? Unsure 30 Whats on the walls of your bedroom? Paint and Pictures of Tigers & Tazzy Devil 31 Is the glass half-full or half-empty? Half full 32 Are you a lefty, righty, or ambidextrous? Ambidextrous 33 Do you type with your fingers on the right keys? yes but i usually dont 34 If you could be one gardening tool what would it be? I would be a Weed Wacker 35 What's under your bed? You dont want to know 36 What is your dream car? Metalic Purple Dodge Viper :) *YUMM* 37 Favorite sport to watch? Ice Hockey 38 How many rings before you answer the phone? Until i get to it 39 Future son's name? Kurtis 40 Future daughter's name? Maddison 41 If you dyed you hair a different color what would it be? Bleached 42 Shampoo or Conditioner? 2 in 1 baby 43 Have you ever gone skinny dipping? yes 44 One pillow or two? 2 45 Ever been convicted of a crime? is speeding a crime? 46 What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? Am i awake or what? 47 Favorite music group? Savage Garden 48 Favorite movie? Footloose and Dirty Dancing 49 Say one nice thing about the person who sent this to you? Kiri. You make the mud an enjoyable place to spend time :) 50 Person you sent this to who is least likely to respond? Kiri. I am sure she has done it a million times already :) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Saffron's T-Games Quest Note: Community. It is the aim and the heart of the Realms in which we as players, whether mortal or immortal, invest an immeasurable amount of time. But it is also a game where experience comes more easily to those who stay solo, particularly for hero's. For me, it seems that the central goal of T-games was to forge new bonds of community within the Realms, and the true winners, whether they won every mini-quest or none, heroed first or last, would be the groups that formed new friendships. Not perhaps the easiest of tasks, but certainly more rewarding then questprizes, renames, or status. I feel that Yellow Team has succeeded in growing together, thus strengthening the community that is Barren Realms, and it is for this reason that we deserve to win the miniquest. That I feel we are succeeding in becoming a true team, only makes me more saddened by the premature ending of T-games. When the Yellow Team started out, we were for the most part strangers. Each with very different skills, playing styles, experience, and as became important throughout the quest, timezones. It was a serious question whether it would be possible for us to do justice to the essence of the team (from the root deuk meaning to pull, bind, and educate) games by pulling together and educating each other. Even in some of the earlier levels, I saw real promise in Yellow Team. Nev made some real sacrifices to be on for the Fight Quest, getting up at 4am his time, not once, but twice. Teagan was always available to help fellow group members with anything they needed, equip, experience, or money. Even some of the more troublesome members began to listen to the group, and more importantly learn. We aren't strangers now, but are we a team? Despite some occasional rumblings, I would say yes. But are we as unified as I think we could be? No. I was truly looking forward to the other miniquests, not only because of the personal enjoyment I receive from playing quests, but because I saw them as a chance to spend time with my fellow teammates, and a chance for us to pull together even more. I know more than a few Yellows, who would welcome extending the quest to 151, even if in spirit only. I may yet get dragged to avatar. So Yellow Team is pulling together. But, have we learned anything? I think so. Heal, combat mind, fortress, sanctuary, mass invis, are all cast at the appropriate times without anyone needing to ask. Circle, Dive, Backstab, and Rescue are all used at the right times and situations now. Everyone has learned new areas, items, gold piles, and exp spots. I finally learned the three new areas written by Faustus, and perhaps a little bit of patience too. All it takes is time. I just wish we had more. Saffron -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Packor's replies: WolfBane: perch for avians, instead of the whole healing spell, the avian perches on a nearby tree and recovers hp at 2X ror 3X normal rate, but its also like speeing and no moving -Perch, a nice idea, however, how are mobs supposed to hit you while you are on a tree? If they can, I believe it should increase damage by 5 or 6 times to make the race still balanced, and I don't think you'd like that. Let's stick to alcohol Taz: I think items donated should be flagged so they can't be sold, and I also think that the donation rooms should hold a larger amount of donations for a longer period of time -If they are flagged, how will they ever be sold? If you have worn it for like 3 months, it should be yours right? Maybe it can be done if you put a timer on when it leaves donations, but it's really a load of trouble for a minor problem. And I believe that things do stay in donations a while longer than normal ground. But all things must melt eventually *shrugs* AMystery: to make the races more unique equipment and playability wise, change the prime attribute max to be 30 or so, so that people will focus more on maxxing it, will also change the playability of the races -I think that's a great idea, but I would like it even more if each race has a different limit for each attribute, like they have strengths and weaknesses in certain areas. That's just my opinion, of course Hiddukel: an improved invis - Users stay invis after attacking or being attacked, also improves AC as it would be difficult to hit someone you can't see no matter how good a veteran combatant you may be -A longlasting invis might be too powerful, maybe if we added a new , weaker race though. AC increase is really a problem, as you are aware that we have detect invis and vision. It could be tough making people with those spells on ignore the modifier. Anubis's lengthy spellcasters idea -I agree that you could fight rather than using spells, but sometimes your dwarf is fighting a mob 10 levels hgiher than himself, and he just wishes he can get a hit in, because higher levels tend to block lower levels more. Elf walks in, casts fireball, bingo. There are also people who are not very skilled in equiping or are quite new and require the spells to keep alive. The mana cost is really a big problem though. but let's not also forget that dwarves take longer to level because of the tnl modifier because of third attack and enhanced damage. Avians take a lot of damage in combat even with low tnl. I also like the idea of ranged spells, maybe even a 9 room area spell, however, you can't see the mobs in another room, you could do something like poison next room I guess, worth looking into. I am not sure about the sequence, might make the game lag a bit. You could usually get 3 spells in between one round though, I have done it. Even though skills like kick are just 1 round, another advangate. AS for last idea, some of us like to conserve mana, and in a lot of games you see, most mage classes own weapons. I get your point about it though, but we don't want to be wimpy people. I certainly don't want to flee. Since the mages, as you say can do well without spells. It's more realistic that they fight and use spells at the same time, don't you think? But maybe we can get them a default spell if they don't use thei secondary hand, that would be even better. (oh yeah, I am Packor, if you want to scold me for making such big replies, heheh) -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- People who need to log in their characters or they will be pwiped: Argothius, Arion, Autolycus, Babel, Canaan, Carole, Clark, Cutie, Darkhawk, Daviant, Deathknight, Eridani, Evora, Fade, Fireflash, Gerbret, Kneo, Legolas, Lizzie, Madson, Mahamne, Metalhed, Monshoon, Nep, Nebbekeneza, Nosferatu, Obsidieoux, Otis, Padan, Peken, Pupa, Pute, Qantaqa, Questyn, Raijin, Reykjavik, Riel, Ringmasta, Salome, Silvermane, Spango, Sparkler, Starsmore, Thorgood, Tremere, Tyndareus, Vain, Vaio, Weasly, Xxxhortexxx, Ygolon, Zenryu -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: Kiri-e Art. Neat! http://www.jics.com/clients/ENDO/ENDO.htm Kuji-Kiri. It has my name in it. Ooooo. http://home.talkcity.com/SpiritCir/black__ninja/mprpage.htm I just love this guy's main page. N-E-R-D http://www.foetsch.com/sexy/ Narbotic Songs made for you! http://www.narbotic.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Divebomb's Joke: Please see below for the latest from the Home Office... NOTICE OF REVOCATION OF INDEPENDENCE To the citizens of the United States of America*, In the light of your failure to elect a President of the USA and thus to govern yourselves, we hereby give notice of the revocation of your independence, effective today. Her Sovereign Majesty Queen Elizabeth II will resume monarchial duties over all states, commonwealths and other territories. Except Utah, which she does not fancy. Your new prime minister (The rt. hon. Tony Blair, MP for the 97.85% of you who have until now been unaware that there is a world outside your borders) will appoint a minister for America without the need for further elections. Congress and the Senate will be disbanded. A questionnaire will be irculated next year to determine whether any of you noticed. To aid in the transition to a British Crown Dependency, the following rules are introduced with immediate effect: 1a. You should look up "revocation" in the Oxford English Dictionary. 1b. Look up "aluminium". Check the pronunciation guide. You will be amazed at just how wrongly you have been pronouncing it. 1c. Generally, you should raise your vocabulary to acceptable levels. Look up "vocabulary". Using the same twenty seven words interspersed with filler noises such as "like" and "you know" is an unacceptable and inefficient form of communication. Look up "interspersed". 2. There is no such thing as "US English". We will let Microsoft know on your behalf. 3. You should learn to distinguish the English and Australian accents. It really isn't that hard. 4. Hollywood will be required occasionally to cast English actors as the good guys. 5. You should relearn your original national anthem, "God Save The Queen", but only after fully carrying out task 1a, 1b, and 1c. We would not want you to get confused and give up half way through. 6. You should stop playing â?oAmerican footballâ?. There is only one kind of football. What you refer to as American "football" is not a very good game. The 2.15% of you who are aware that there is a world outside your borders may have noticed that no one else plays "American" football. You will no longer be allowed to play it, and should instead play proper football. Initially, it would be best if you played with the girls. It is a difficult game. Those of you brave enough will, in time, be allowed to play rugby (which is similar to American "football", but does not involve stopping for a rest every twenty seconds or wearing full kevlar body armour like nancies). We are hoping to get together at least a US rugby sevens side by 2005. 7. You should declare war on Quebec and France, using nuclear weapons if they give you any merde. The 98.85% of you who were not aware that there is a world outside your borders should count yourselves lucky. The Russians have never been the bad guys. "Merde" is French for "shit". 8. July 4th is no longer a public holiday. November 8th will be a new national holiday, but only in England. It will be called "Indecisive Day". 9. All American cars are hereby banned. They are crap and it is for your own good. When we show you German cars, you will understand what we mean. 10. Please tell us who killed JFK. It's been driving us crazy. Thank you for your cooperation. * Please NOTE you NEVER were or will be â?oAmericansâ? you were United States citizens (US citizens), NOT Americans but then you never knew about South America, Central America, let alone Canada or the name of your country. NEWSLETTER DECEMBER 11, 2000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Feel free to send responses, bios, jokes, ideas, and anything else you so desire. Hope you're all having a happy finals season. Ideas Morstanya: I find that I wake up and have people tagging along at times. I think there should be a way to see who is following you or you should be awaken if someone follows you while you sleep. Naddarow: something like "holy symbol" for druids, to extra damage against undead mobs :) Bubbles: does it sound reasonable that you can trip someone while you are flying? Nal: when putting all pack or bag from inventory but you want to keep out an item like 20 anti cyclops elixirs have put all pack but anti Brodgar: An option for Wizinvis that works like a selective invis for people on the list, like the ignore feature These characters should contact me or log in, as they are up for pwipe: Afterdark, Ambrose, Antikow, Bastian, Chun, Dazzle, Exor, Fade, Fireflash, Gerbret, Laura, Malakai, Nixon, Noone, Qantaqa, Raijin, Rainman, Ringmasta, Sanglant, Serinth, Shelly, Silvanus, Spyder, Swiftwood, Tevesh, Ygolon BIO: >1 Name? "D" 2 BR Name? Gluttony 3 Sex? Often 4 Home Town? Well I was born In Austin Texas but I now live in FLORIDA!!!!!!!! YEA!!!! 5 Born? April 1976 6 Living arrangement? Me myself and I 7 Favorite TV show? This new sci fi show that comes on saturdays 8 What's on you mouse pad? EEEK think I should get one? 9 Favorite board game? Who has time for board games, when you have BR!!!!!!!!! 10 Favorite smell? That stuff women get from Bath and Body and they use after a shower...you know the stuff 11 Best feeling in the world ? Can I say it on here?....(self explanitory) 12 Worst >feeling in the world ? when you have to move away from someone you LOVE 13 What do you do to express your >creativity? I write, draw, make jokes, give wedgies to my bro.... 14 Roller coaster- VERY >VERY VERY KEWL 15 Pen or Pencil? FINGER PAINTS!!!!! a hahahahahaha 16 Favorite foods? steak, seafood, burgers, ribs, cold reheated lasagna....BR pot pie 17 Do you get along with your >parents? yes 18 Chocolate or Vanilla? Go to Baskin Robbins and try World class chocolate you will die. 19 Favorite ice cream? Double chocalate choco chip!!!! 20 Croutions or Bacon Bits? Can I have BOTH!!! 21 Storms cool or scary? Soothing 22 Do like to drive? GOD YES, I mean where you want to go. you live 300 miles north, no prob I will pick you up!!!! 23 What was your first car? A tonka BIG WHEEL 24 If you could meet one person, dead or alive, who would it be? James Dean, we would hit the town and have a blast....!!! 25 Who is your favorite poet? Robert Frost 26 Do you eat the stems of Broccoli? EWWWW run away run AWAY 27 Guys- If a girl asked you for the shirt off your back would you give it? Depends if the girl looked better without a shirt on or not, the situation is important too... 28 If you could have any job you wanted what would it be? I would create games and draw 29 Have you ever been in love? Yes 30 Whats on the walls of your bedroom? A dartboard, a very LARGE MIRROR, a sony flatscreen tv some hats... 31 Is the glass half-full or half-empty? I never stop halfway!!!! 32 Are you a lefty, righty, or ambidextrous? ambitdextrious 33 Do you type with your fingers on the right keys? You mean they are called keys? Well if I had to look at the keyboard I probably would never be able to make out the keys because of the coke on the keyboard and food everywhere 34 If you could be one gardening tool what would it be? I would be a hoe!!!! :P 35 What's under your bed? Lets see here, some old pics, some dirs for BR, oooh where did that number come from....an abdominizer....a few clothes, some coins.... 36 What is your dream car? Diablo, the name alone says it all 37 Favorite sport to watch? Football 38 How many rings before you answer the phone? check the caller ID then decide 39 Future son's name? Buck 40 Future daughter's name? Lori 41 If you dyed you hair a different color what would it be? Platinum blonde 42 Shampoo or Conditioner? Both(herbal essence ANYONE?) 43 Have you ever gone skinny dipping? One of my favorite past times 44 One pillow or two? 5 45 Ever been convicted of a crime? no, just got a slap on the wrist 46 What is the first thing you think of when you wake up in the morning? How many times I can hit the snooze before I am late to work!! 47 Favorite music group? Changes Daily, lets see Matchbox 20, Tori Amos, Techno... 48 Favorite movie? American Pie 49 Say one nice thing about the person who sent this to you? Um...well..oh the pressure, can I do the fight quest instead? 50 Person you sent this to who is least likely to respond? My dog Kytar's Responses: >WolfBane: in the helpfile for locate object, it should >specifically note that you can only use one word in the spell > I can see the use. But it's only necessary in certain cases. Whether it's worth the minute expenditure of energy is up to those above me. >Taz: I think items donated should be flagged so they can't be sold, and I also think that the donation rooms should hold a larger amount of donations for a longer period of time This is a wonderful idea. I've wanted it for years. It's fairly easily done and would make donating much more attractive. >AMystery: to make the races more unique equipment and playability wise, change the prime attribute max to be 30 or so, so that people will focus more on maxxing it, will also change the playability of the races I'm sorry I don't agree. If you want to make the races more balanced.....make them more different. Right now too many races have equal abilities...they don't *need* each other..make them need each other and they'll group. >Hiddukel: an improved invis - Users stay invis after attacking or being attacked, also improves AC as it would be difficult to hit someone you can't see no matter how good a veteran combatant you may be > Sure. Make it a quest spell, 'Improved Invis' I'll even write the spec for the quest. >AMystery: change the thief code so that thieves can try to steal gold from bags. since they don't know which bag they would randomly try each one. of course since they are greedy they will try for bags instead of gold on a player sometimes. > Up to you. I don't think it would improve the game. >Anubis: >Idea: > I was thinking about spellcasters in BR and realized that they were really lacking. There is almost no advantage of being an elf.. etc. etc I could go off on a ten mile rant on this one....But I won't unless you're really interested. >> Firestar: Just a silly idea...but, what about having a spell >> where you can make objects invisible for a short period of time...or just >> working that into the already existing invisibility spell?? >> > I am curious as to why you would want an invisible item? Is there any >reason outside of the obvious humor value? > I would like the ability to cast invis on an item and give it an invis flag. But I'd also like the ability to have a dispel invis spell....to get rid of an invis flag on an item. >> > Stonehenge: Umm, how about getting rid of 0 hours left on a spell >> > and having the spell disappear after 1 hour? > Personally I think this request is pointless. If I offend anyone I apologize. I don't see how this would really be useful. Kytar Responses by Baltar: > Iori: armor should last longer... > > Kiri -- not sure what you mean by this. It probably means that Iori wants the 'armor' spell to last more ticks... > Marmalade: i miss the cheer social > > Kiri - we still have it. Try "cheering" I didn't know this! Yay! Baltar Kiri's WWW of URLs: Cruel Doubt - an interesting MUD article on Imaginary Realities: http://imaginaryrealities.imaginary.com/volume3/issue10/cruel.html Find your Jungian personality type: http://www.allhealth.com/onlinepsych/personality/olpgen/0,6103,7119_127651,00.html Here's a very ugly plant called Kiri: http://www.huis.hiroshima-u.ac.jp/~nomura/K/kirim.html A VERY accurate personality thingie: http://users.rcn.com/zang.interport/personality.html From Mystique - how to vote in Florida - try a few of them http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/jjgordon/elections/PBballot.htm Dan Rather Election Night Quotes We'd Like to See 40. "This thing is tighter than Joan River's face, and damn near as frightening." 39. "We're pumped here in the newsroom, like the sleep-deprived junkie who gave me these pills at the walk-in clinic." 38. "If I had a nickel for every one of those 19,000 rejected ballots, I'd be sitting at about 950 bucks right now." 37. "It's tighter than a prairie dog's butt in a dust bowl!" 36. "As the fight for the White House drags on into the 11th round, Gore must feel like a desperate boxer and I'll bet Bush's ear is looking mighty tasty right now." 35. "Voters are pulling on their ballot levers like rats trying to get a pellet in a Skinner box." 34. "Well, hold me down and stomp me like a hamster in a crush video, this has been one long night." 33. "This race is tighter than a face-lift on a 50-year-old auditioning for Dawson's Creek." 32. "If Florida is 'the big tamale,' then Texas must be 'M-m-m-my Chalupa!'" 31. "Tonight we've seen more ups and downs than a Viagra conference." 30. "It's all about chads. Chads, chads, chads. Chad, chad, bo-bad, banana-fana, fo-fad. Chad." 29. "This race is about as hard to call as a deaf hog up a sassafras tree." 28. "You put Florida in; you put Florida out. You put Florida in; then you shake it all about." 27. "It's a steel-cage deathmatch between the bubbas and the bubbes, and I'm not bettin' bupkes on the outcome." 26. "Politics makes strange bedfellows and this election is so close, Bush and Gore may have to move bunk beds into the Lincoln bedroom." 25. "This race is tighter than Pat Buchanan's sphincter during Gay Pride week." 24. "We take it on faith that kissing your sister gets either old or illegal after the second week." 23. "George W. Bush is like a whorehouse pianist - he can see the prize, but he can't touch it." 22. "This election is bouncing around like Dolly Parton jumping rope on speed." 21. "Bush thought of his brother as a giant electoral PEZ dispenser, but when he snapped his head back on November 7, what he pulled out of Governor Jeb's neck was not the sweet cherry-red 'Bush' candy he'd been counting on but the bitter lemon-yellow candy known as 'Undecided,' and he's surely finding it hard to swallow." 20. "Controversy is bubblin' like a gut full o' bad gumbo." 19. "This race is tighter than Ted Kennedy at a single-malt chug-off, and somebody just opened up the Glenlivet." 18. "Those Florida results are gyrating like my tongue in Diane Sawyer's ear last night." 17. "The recount room is locked up tighter than an Iowa trailer park in tornado season." 16. "I may not know the frequency, Kenneth, but I can count to 270, and we ain't there yet." 15. "This one's tighter than Rush Limbaugh's bike shorts." 14. "This one's a crotch-grabber, folks, and I'll bet a handful of nuts it won't be over any time soon." 13. "Tell Grandma to take her teeth out of the glass, this'll be a nail-biter." 12. "This race is stickier than a pine-cone enema on a hot night in the bayou." 11. "The vote count in Florida is stopped up worse than yours truly after a bit too much queso." 10. "This one is working out to be a humdinger, only the fat lady ate all the hums and is now eyeing the dingers." 9. "The margin of victory in New Mexico is tighter than Britney Spears' tube top, and just as likely to peeve Republicans." 8. "... and where the hell are my pants?" 7. "This recount is like a too long movie with too sticky floors in a too crowded Times Square with too few cabs and too many hookers." 6. "The Florida voter may be getting screwed harder than a drunken Paula Zahn at CBS' Christmas party." 5. "Elections are like a box of chocolates, and in Florida, this one seems to be running away from Forrest Gore." 4. "Just remember: If your grandma had wheels, you could use her for luggage." 3. "If Gore loses Florida, you can call Ned Beatty and fire up 'Dueling Banjos' because Al will be squealing like a pig." 2. "The American people wanted just a quickie, but it looks like they're going to be paying for the full night. With kink." 1. "Don't shake the pee pee yet, this contest is still flowing!"