December 3, 2003 NEWS FROM THE REALMS: Open Quests: Joysinger: Papa Smurf is dead! Tue Dec 2 15:26:26 2003 To: all if you know how to prove it (a dead body is no proof as everyone knows papa smurf is powerfully magical, same thing for all body parts of him), you can win a prize. happy hunting. send me a note or a tell if you see me online, the first of you to get it right will get something nice! once it's solved i'll inform you so you can stop searching ;) Redeemer: BR Thanksgiving quest extended! Tue Dec 2 14:41:04 2003 To: all Since I've been away for most of the weekend, I've decided to move the deadline to this Friday. Please submit your five items (in a container) that remind you of the importance of BR and your written reasons (in a note to me or email to LAUK@upstate.edu) by then. Bluestar: Poetry and Prose Quest Wed Dec 3 06:28:22 2003 To: all Hello all you questers! Just a quick note to remind you that the quest is still in progress and that we are still recieving submissions until December 21st. Also, just to remind you all a quick overlay of the rules: All entries must be in English so the judges can fully understand and appreciate them You may submit a poem or a story of any legnth, or one of each. Your entries have to be fantasy/sci-fi themed. They do not specifically have to be about BR, though it is preferred. Full rules can be found on the BR forums at: http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=6823#6823 Please email all submissions with your character's name and Quest in the subject line to: bbluestar@earthlink.net Now get those keys a clickin' and send in your entries :) Bluei Tgames updates: Divebomb: TGames 3 Results Votes are as in as they'll get in... Drail had 3 votes and Tiamet had 2. 2 people had to be voted off so you two are off the island :'( Disaster: tgames yep, reorganization it is, happy-happy-joy-joy :) say goddbye to the tenzor and torr-penn tribes, say hello to the Hanternoz (midnight) tribe. also, the level cap is now raised to 40. also, all players must reach level 30 by next week or be eliminated. oh, and if someone would be so kind as to tell me what the quest was like on sunday, so i can try to avoid repeating it if possible, it would be greatly appreciated. -dis Dakata: I think it took really* from my home directory, which includes that directory and that file. These people need to contact me: Blackrazor, Bozz, Brightstar, Caoshin, Daii, Deathbringer, Esp, Falwyn, Ganesh, Gradius, Gradlik, Janne, Jin, Joeyjoe, Kaballa, Kedo, Kenneth, Koji, Medagar, Rapter, Rynuk, Shorty, Siranguish, Sirfrog, Togarmah, Whiteknife, Zhimatsu --------------------------------------------- IDEAS: Lehua: a shopkeeper in the mortal realm that sells food, no weapons, no armor, no jewelery, no.. oh i don't know ;-) Criterion: an area attack skill for fighters that let's them engage and attack multiple opponents. requires high dex and wis and int. Vader: let clericus sell spells like combat mind and sanc Kitsune: could the Guardian use tell instead of say to talk to demons? It is a id odd when he suddenly quips something about replacement of various appendages. Just a thought! - Kit Criterion: how about a command called tnl, that reports your tnl as an emote Exo: word of recall should have SOME use, make it so if you type a city keyword, such as perelandra, your 'word of recall' recalls you to that city, only make it so ALL of your mv is taken away, since it is a really fast way to travel, and make the citie Disaster: heal restorehp and heal restoremana and heal restoremoves, for when you don't want to restore everything Exe: i dont think memory mobs should attack linkdead people, if your connection blows out right after you flee, that mob could easily kill you. if it does, and you cant reconnect, your screwed Rhyme: for illithid skill, this won't affect the mud's balance, but a spell that allows an illithid to deliver an item anywhere in the mud to a player, from any place else. --------------------- Responses: By Anakin: Indy: Enflame armor? elves and druids and heros only...on magical stuff only Kitsune: Elves and Druids often have trouble finding flaming eq. So, I suggest an "enflame object" type spell. but, to keep it's power inline, make it like taint so that it destroys the eq after a while. Just a thought! -Kit Anakin: Solution: Look harder. By Divebomb: It shouldn't be easy to find flaming equipment... So i'll second Anakin. (There... I said it... I agree with Anakin... I need to go wash myself now) By Everybody: I'm uncertain about whether or not flaming eq should be easy to find (there is at least one piece for every slot, if you look for it, as dive and anakin said), but I wouldn't mind seeing Kitsune's idea implemented - require items, perhaps, as well, to enflame one piece for a time. All in all, the time you spent getting the armor, items, plus the cost of casting the spell makes up for the (slight) damage boost from the flaming tag. ------------------------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: Where the paychecks and jobs are: http://moneycentral.msn.com/content/invest/extra/P66747.asp Gemma Hayes, a very interesting Irish singer: http://www.gemmahayes-makingwaves.net/ Where's Scavenger? http://picts.dwave.net/index.cgi?101E0F000000 FFX-2 (and other) cheats http://cheats.aagames.co.uk/cheats_detail.php?id=2429 -------------------------- Top 47 Oxymorons: Top 47 OXYMORONS: 47. Act naturally 46. Found missing 45. Resident alien 44. Advanced BASIC 43. Genuine imitation 42. Airline Food 41. Good grief 40. Same difference 39. Almost exactly 38. Government organization 37. Sanitary landfill 36. Alone together 35. Legally drunk 34. Silent scream 33. American history 32. Living dead 31. Small crowd 30. Business ethics 29. Soft rock 28. Butt Head 27. Military Intelligence 26. Software documentation 25. New York culture 24. New classic 23. Sweet sorrow 22. Childproof 21. "Now, then ..." 20. Synthetic natural gas 19. Passive aggression 18. Taped live 17. Clearly misunderstood 16. Peace force 15. Extinct Life 14. Temporary tax increase 13. Computer jock 12. Plastic glasses 11. Terribly pleased 10. Computer security 09. Political science 08. Tight slacks 07. Definite maybe 06. Pretty ugly 05. Twelve-ounce pound cake 04. Diet ice cream 03. Working vacation 02. Exact estimate And the Number one top OXY-Moron 01. Microsoft Works December 11, 2003 News from the Realms: Quest Results: DevilsAngel: Small, fun Christmas quest! Mon Dec 8 22:05:18 2003 To: all I hosted a small Christmas quest tonight! The questers were to string popcorn! They hunted popcorn in Smurf Villiage that was lying about or on the mobs and put them in thier strings. The ones with the most Won!! Participants were Ballzee, Redeemer, Rahzel, Klepto, Andasa, and Criterion. The winners were First place....Klepto with 20 popcorns in his string, and second was Rahzel with 16 popcorns in his. Everyone got something for playing! Thank you all again for playing! If anyone has some Christmas quests they want to run just let me know!!! -------------- IDEAS: Rhyme: the degree of intoxication can affect spell casting... Rhyme: a new race that eats mob corpses instead of regular food... Rhyme: for a quest, pack the arena with mobs - have people make new chars to play - all level 1 chars, give the mobs tickets, person with the most tickets wins Criterion: when you type prac, put everything into order by alpha Lehua: a self destruct command to make a charmie just die... or maybe a poison potion you can make them quaf for instant slay Criterion: put one of those dragon headed kiwi springs at recall AMystery: help socialname, it shows the actual social with the variables. would be good for checking out what they do and learning how to write them Criterion: illithid skill that swaps their place with another mob or char Criterion: a meditation spell which converts mana into hp at 1 hp for every 2 mana points. you can grade the conversion based on level, so it starts at a conversion rate of 1hp/5mana. for all martial guids Lehua: If you happen to kill yourself for any reason, immediate alignmennt adjustment to satanic... Since suicide is technically a mortal sin ;-) Exe: weapons should have a weapon damage type when you id them Klepto: detect invis potions don't last long enough Org: there is some thing called gravity Kiri-- NO WAY!!! Are you sure? >Laziness, another sign of hunger. Exe: i dont think memory mobs should attack linkdead people, if your connection blows out right after you flee, that mob could easily kill you. if it does, and you cant reconnect, your screwed >>Whoo! Then I'll just go linkdead when I die and ask mi amigo to get my corpse while I follow them! Whee...no. Rhyme: for illithid skill, this won't affect the mud's balance, but a spell that allows an illithid to deliver an item anywhere in the mud to a player, from any place else. >>Haha! Phunny, I like it. *thumbs up* ------------------------------------ Kiri's WWW of URLs: The ultimate Build your own cow site http://members.tripod.com/~spows/cow.html Are these objects male or female? http://www.beautyinchaos.com/cgi-bin/sex.cgi Really good streaming radio http://www.di.fm/ Some of Oakley's artwork http://www.jarrodlarocco.com/gallery/artwork ------------------------- The Worst Analogies He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it and now goes around the country speaking at high schools about the dangers of looking at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in it. (Joseph Romm, Washington) She caught your eye like one of those pointy hook latches that used to dangle from screen doors and would fly up whenever you banged the door open again. (Rich Murphy, Fairfax Station) The little boat gently drifted across the pond exactly the way a bowling ball wouldn't. (Russell Beland, Springfield) McBride fell 12 stories, hitting the pavement like a Hefty Bag filled with vegetable soup. (Paul Sabourin, Silver Spring) From the attic came an unearthly howl. The whole scene had an eerie, surreal quality, like when you're on vacation in another city and "Jeopardy" comes on at 7 p.m. instead of 7:30. (Roy Ashley, Washington) Her hair glistened in the rain like nose hair after a sneeze. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge) Her eyes were like two brown circles with big black dots in the center. (Russell Beland, Springfield) Her vocabulary was as bad as, like, whatever. (Unknown) He was as tall as a six-foot-three-inch tree. (Jack Bross, Chevy Chase) The hailstones leaped from the pavement, just like maggots when you fry them in hot grease. (Gary F. Hevel, Silver Spring) Her date was pleasant enough, but she knew that if her life was a movie this guy would be buried in the credits as something like "Second Tall Man." (Russell Beland, Springfield) Long separated by cruel fate, the star-crossed lovers raced across the grassy field toward each other like two freight trains, one having left Cleveland at 6:36 p.m. traveling at 55 mph, the other from Topeka at 4:19 p.m. at a speed of 35 mph. (Jennifer Hart, Arlington) The politician was gone but unnoticed, like the period after the Dr. on a Dr Pepper can. (Wayne Goode, Madison, Ala.) They lived in a typical suburban neighborhood with picket fences that resembled Nancy Kerrigan's teeth. (Paul Kocak, Syracuse, N.Y.) John and Mary had never met. They were like two hummingbirds who had also never met. (Russell Beland, Springfield) The thunder was ominous-sounding, much like the sound of a thin sheet of metal being shaken backstage during the storm scene in a play. (Barbara Fetherolf, Alexandria) His thoughts tumbled in his head, making and breaking alliances like underpants in a dryer without Cling Free. (Chuck Smith, Woodbridge)