February 2000: February 2, 2000: Hi folks. I used to, in the olden days, reserve my comments on ideas and not say anything. Now, I comment (as you know). But I've noticed that since I started commenting, people stopped sending me their responses to their fellow players. Therefore, I will only comment in the response section from now on, after people have already given their responses to the ideas. So please send me ideas (whether by idea command or email), bios, responses & more! :) Daragorn: on the affect command, what about possibly showing the time left that spells will be in effect. That would give ppl an idea of how long they have been poisoned, their bless spell will last, ect. Daragorn: here's one, since i have been here for 30 minutes or more unable to move, speak or call for help..when someone is at negative hp, and is slowly dying, or is poisoned and hungry and cant do anything, at least let them have a channel to call help fro, Wolfbane: the vile specter that takes your notes away will tell you when you have new ones Draelyn: I think this may be a bit of an oversight rather than an idea- if food gets knocked out of your hand when you eat during a fight, shouldnt a water source also get knocked out of your hands if you try to drink? Fuegen: Avians should be able to track down corpses Crackle: you should make it so when you are afk you cant gain xp so that people cant level while afk Bloodweaver: Howabout adding a player BR art section to the website. Could ask the players for their renditions of places and peoples of the Realms. Kiri's note: Actually, we have this. Check out the magazine on my website. Andasa: I think that we should have some more RPing going on here. I wouldnt like it required, since that blows, but maybe we could have like an RP "mode" that you could go into. You could then RP with others in the RP "mode"... There could maybe be an RP flag by your name in the wholist... That would be cool... Thanks :) Soulstorm: make an option so that if you don't want to be astraled or summoned you can turn it on or off. PLEASE!!!!!! BIO BY GYPSYB: 1. NAME? Joan 1a. BR NAME: Gypsyb 2. SEX? Female 3. LIVING ARRANGEMENT? I live in a small house in the city. Been trying to get moved into the country for almost a year! Still haven't made it:) 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUIJA BOARDS? I think they are games and if it moves it is done by one's own mind. 5. YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? No favorite, but like any kind of Sci-Fi 6. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? A picture of some strange universe. 7. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Don't like board games since I got a computer. 8. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? Seventeen 9. FAVORITE SMELLS? Shalimar 10. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? To lose someone you love. 11. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD? To know you are loved. 12. WHAT DO YOU DO TO EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY? Painting, I like to think of myself as a half assed artist! 13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? I can't think when I first wake up. (sometimes not all day) 14. DO YOU GET MOTION SICKNESS? No. 15. ROLLER COASTERS-SCARY OR EXCITING? Scary, makes me feel like I am going to fly without a plane. 16. PEN OR PENCIL? Whichever. 17. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? Usually less than 4 18. FUTURE SON'S NAME? Not expecting sons in the future. 19. FUTURE DAUGHTER'S NAME? Lenee' 20. FAVORITE FOODS? Fried chicken, biscuits, mashed potatoes, and white gravy. 21. DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS? I did when they were alive. 22. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Chocolate. 23. FAVORITE ICE-CREAM? Don't really like ice-cream. 24. CROUTONS OR BACON BITS? Neither 25. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE? Not really, it is just something one has to do. 26. DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS? No :) 27. STORMS COOL OR SCARY? Depends on the storm - tornadoes very scary, thunder storms cool. 28. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? An old, old plymouth. 29. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? Alive: 30. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? Don't like alcohol, I just drink in BR . 31. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? Gemini 32. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? Don't have one, never been into poetry. .. 33. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? Yes 34. GUYS-IF A GIRL ASKED FOR THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK, WOULD YOU GIVE IT? 34. GIRLS-WOULD YOU EVER ASK A GUY FOR HIS SHIRT? Naw! 35. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A buyer of chemicals and packaging for pharmaceuticals, just what I do and I love it. 36. IF YOU DYED YOUR HAIR A DIFFERENT COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? Just a shade lighter than it is, and Blonde. 37. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? Yes 38. WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR BEDROOM? Nothing. 40. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? Half full, of course. 41. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE? Apple 42. ARE YOU A LEFTY, RIGHTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS? Right 43. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? No, not always:) 44. IF YOU COULD BE ONE GARDENING TOOL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? Garden tractor, get it done fast. 45. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Probably some lint. 46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? $1,000,000,000 47. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR? A car is a car, gets you from point a to point b. 48. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? Football. 49. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON(S) WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: Kiri does a great job with BR 50. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: I am only sending it to Kiri! Responses: "Kiri - Freelotto lets you enter three times a day All of the above are free and don't sell your address or make you pay anything. However, I believe you have to be a US resident and over 18 to participate." Elric: Freelotto is available to Canadians as well - my wife has received money from them. In addition, another source of free $$ is AllAdvantage. will allow you to d/l a mildly annoying viewbar that will thereafter earn you roughly 50 cents for every hour you surf, to a max of 25 I believe. From Amystery: re: re: Durwins suggestion of giving Dwarves the abiltity/spell to "Sharpen". "In regards to Durwins suggestion that dwarves have the ability to "Sharpen". What about the armorer? Or even Beich? If you have a dull weapon,etc. that needs repair simply take it too Beich.lOf course at times it would be difficult to get to a repair shop because of certain circumstances.... I can see a limited form of sharpen to be used by the dwarves. However if we give Dwarves this ability then what about the other races who have or share certain Dwarven abilities? I can see the arguments coming from this (Shared abilities). SO my answer is simply to go to Beich to have your eqpt.repaired. After all that is what he is there for! "Mordlock"" Amystery: I personally am against sharpen just because I've never met a dwarf with the dexterity to sharpen a weapon without slicing off a few fingers. But, I also see sharpen as a ability which is not restricted to just dwarves. Sure, they may make weapons (in shops with lots of tools) but there are other races which need sharpen more. Avians mainly, since they are a form of rangers, they need to be able to repair equipment and sharpen weapons in the field. Otherwise how would they stay out for months at a time? But I still don't think sharpen is a good idea. I prefer to kill an kender and take their weapons:) "Eldred: you should be able to identify things before buying them" Amystery: That would seem helpful. Maybe the shopkeeper will tell you the stats in an attempt to pursuade you to purchase.Of course a dishonest shopkeep might inflate the stats and swindle you. That would be interesting. "Wolfbane: descriptions for illithid spells, like flexes his finger and throws ....... but for ill spells, ill be glad to write them" Amystery: Sounds good. I agree, wolfbane should write then:) "Annihilator: macros for movement expl. 10n or 10s, more than 10 aliases" AMystery: The macros would be nice but aliases take up too much memory to increase the total number. Although I do often run out, I can work around it. Kiri: Also, keep in mind any client like Zmud will allow you to make unlimited aliases. Kiri's www of urls: Who is your ideal celebrity match, guys? Just so you know, I got Pamela Anderson. HEHEHEH. Luckysurf - you can enter once a day. I actually won a ten dollar gift certificate to cdnow from these people. Webmillion has some fun games, like hangman and pick 3, but the real attraction is ten entries daily into a three million dollar prize. Hotlinks is a great way to keep track of your bookmarks from anywhere. And as an added bonus, it will check the links for you! From Divebomb: When we were young, we thought the world could give us everything. We weren't afraid of being ourselves and we knew who we were. We stood together because we didn't know there was any other way to stand. We never questioned our motives or our friends. We thought our parents were heroes, and we loved spending Friday nights in the family room, watching TV: Family Ties, The Cosby Show, The Wonder Years. And they were wonder years, for we lived on dreams and the hope they never failed to inspire. We ate our three meals a day and went to bed by nine. All fights between friends were forgotten within a week and caused no personal damage. School was actually liked at times; after all, graded didn't matter so much and we got nap times and cookies and reading after lunch and recess. And recess was always things like kickball and capture the flag, where you never had to dress out and it didn't matter how much you might sweat. We used to dress-up for book reports and pull props from a paper bag, like in show and tell. We got graded on things like handwriting and art. We had spelling tests every Friday. Our mothers called out the words each Thursday night, while fixing dinner. It was okay to hug our teachers. The notes we passed in class always had a box to check or a secret code. We smiled a lot every day, and only cried over little things that went away in matter of weeks at the most, because they were petty or easily resolved or else we didn't understand them yet. We played recreational sports, where fun was never dependent on winning. We never counted calories. The ice cream man could bring a whole neighborhood running. We never got embarrassed when out parents came to tuck us in at night, complete with hugs and kisses. We got our homework done in no time, and spent the afternoons running in the sunshine. We played at each others' houses, unless it was to go to the skating rink or the park, where the swings and merry-go-rounds fit us just right. We told our mothers all our worries, and somehow she could solve them. We never thought we looked bad in a photograph. Freckles were cute. There was no such thing as a bad hair bad. We never worried about getting old too fast. Instead, we wished we could grow-up like the "big kids." Then one day we grew-up, and we were the big kids, Suddenly, dreams were left by the roadside and stepped on by those we thought we trusted (and sometimes we stepped on those that trusted us). School became something important, where we had to prove ourselves with letters on a piece of paper. And money entered into our everyday vocabularies, as we wrestled over matters of allowance. We forgot how to have fun by ourselves or how to party innocently. Our hearts were hurt everyday, and the wounds never healed. Our friends changed before our very eyes, and there was nothing we could do. We learned hard lessons about life and love and began to fear a world that we realized was not as wonderful as we used to think. We learned our parents weren't perfect. We said and did things we'd grow to regret. Then we began to wish we could go back to the easier days, where we could be happy without doubting in the sincerity of the feeling. At least we still have each other to lean on. That's one thing that never changes. At least we still like sunshine, and movies, and can still cry at Christmas. And love still rules our hearts, for the most part. Don't look back and regret, live your days to their fullest, and stop to think about what is really important. Stop and think about what you *really* want in life and try to make that happen. What's important to you? Make it happen today! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- February 7, 2000: Newsletter February 7, 2000: IDEAS: Griffen: ok heres my idea i think elves (since they are the mages of the mud) should have more, or just more powerful attack spells then they do...an example might be..detonate..with high damage you would get it at like level 40..or maybe something wizards f Ander: ok as you level you get skills and spells...and practice sessions to practice them with... these practice session add up..since you start to tun out of skills/spells to practice..my idea is that for like lets say 20 practices you can buy one enhance Natedog: if you have an abundancy of practice sessions left, how about a shop that teaches you advanced combat and reduces your tnl...as enhancing adds a specific number tnl, this would act in a similar reductive matter and could only be done so many times p Ginner: posion food, or poison limbs affter killing poisoned mob Ginner: fourth attack and cost three times practises Ginner: animea land with pokemon and dragonball gt and sailor moon and digimon and monster ranchers! they got candy land Dio: there should be some kind of boot or something that can dover talons Mathis: make a sober spell! im tired of being WAY out in the middle of nowhere and getting lost Everybody: make mental barrier dependant on how much damage it takes before it dissolves (rather than number of hit BIO: 1. NAME? Ben Zou 1a. BR NAME: Stilgar 2. SEX? Whenever possible. 3. LIVING ARRANGEMENT? I'm only 15. I turn 16 on March 16th. So I still live at home with mom and dad. 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUIJA BOARDS? If you get a room full of really gullible and stupid people togeather and lock them up in a 15 by 15 foot room for about a year and leave them there while giving them food periodically. Maybe their secretions will eventually spell out the meaning to life. 5. YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? Hmmm.... First I would like to say that Dragon Ball Z kicks ass. Then I would like to say the the Simpsons does too. I like South Park, and Pokemon is starting to grow on me. 6. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? PC World's Elements of Windows 98. 7. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Monopoly. 8. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? PC Gamer. 9. FAVORITE SMELLS? Really good food when I'm hungery. 10. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? Being pissed off at someone because you know you'll have to shoot them or send them a bomb one day. 11. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD? When you kick the crap out of someone at something. Ie: Unreal Tournamet. 12. WHAT DO YOU DO TO EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY? I make web pages and bullshit on papers my teachers make me write. 13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Why the F*ck do I have to get up this early to go to school!!! 14. DO YOU GET MOTION SICKNESS? Only in really stuffy cars. I had it a long time ago. Not really anymore. 15. ROLLER COASTERS-SCARY OR EXCITING? Nope. All it does is give me a headace. Especially this thing called Mr. Freeze at the Six Flags (a theme park) arround here. It's supposed to be really great, and they did this whole advertising campaign for it. However, all I does is bounce your head between the safty restraints for 30 seconds. 16. PEN OR PENCIL? Usually pencil. 17. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? Whenever I get to it. 18. FUTURE SON'S NAME? I donno. But I think of a few really cool names I learned from AP European. Valadimir of Kiev, Miccolo Machiavelli, Boccacio, etc. 19. FUTURE DAUGHTER'S NAME? Ditto. Catherine the Great (But that's just because I thought the thing with the horse was pretty funny. If you don't understand, then look it up.) 20. FAVORITE FOODS? I'm Chinese. I like Chinese food. 21. DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS? Yep 22. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Vanilla 23. FAVORITE ICE-CREAM? Vanilla, cookie dough, rocky road, etc. 24. CROUTONS OR BACON BITS? Bacon bits. 25. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE? I only have my permit. I scare my parents and pedestrians a lot when I get in the driver's seat. 26. DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS? Can't say that I do. 27. STORMS COOL OR SCARY? Niether. 28. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? I don't really have a car. 29. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? Sarah Michelle Gellar (obvious reasons) 30. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? Alcohol? I'm not over 21. However, I do enjoy root bear and sparkling grape juice very much so. 31. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? The two fish. Pecis I think... 32. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? I don't really have one. 33. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? yes 34. GUYS-IF A GIRL ASKED FOR THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK, WOULD YOU GIVE IT? It would depend on whether or not she was willing to take her's off too. 34. GIRLS-WOULD YOU EVER ASK A GUY FOR HIS SHIRT? 35. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I donno. I'd like to be James Bond. 36. IF YOU DYED YOUR HAIR A DIFFERENT COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I wouldn't dye it a different color. 37. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? Sure. 38. WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR BEDROOM? Paintings 40. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? Half full. 41. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE? Strawberry. 42. ARE YOU A LEFTY, RIGHTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS? Right 43. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? Yeah 44. IF YOU COULD BE ONE GARDENING TOOL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? I donno. 45. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? Nothing. 46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? 4 47. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR? A Mitsubishi 3000 GT Vr 4 with 4 wheel stearing. 48. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? I don't like to watch them. I enjoy playing sports much more. 49. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON(S) WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: Kiri is very nice. She says hi every time. 8 ) 50. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: uhhh.... Like I said, I will only comment on ideas after they've already been responded to. So here's Divebomb's responses! "Daragorn: on the affect command, what about possibly showing the time left that spells will be in effect. That would give ppl an idea of how long they have been poisoned, their bless spell will last, ect." D - Patience, eventually you DO get this information. Keep levelling. "Daragorn: here's one, since i have been here for 30 minutes or more unable to move, speak or call for help..when someone is at >negative hp, and is slowly dying, or is poisoned and hungry and cant >do anything, at least let them have a channel to call help fro," D - Yeah that would be nice. "Wolfbane: the vile specter that takes your notes away will tell you when you have new ones" D- You ARE notified when a new note is posted that is addressed to YOU (as opposed to being addressed to all). I see no reason for everyone in the mud to get a message when a new note is posted. If it's that important, the poster will probably chat "new note". "Draelyn: I think this may be a bit of an oversight rather than an idea- if food gets knocked out of your hand when you eat during a fight,shouldnt a water source also get knocked out of your hands if >you try to drink?" D - What's the big idea of bringing logic into the game? I agree. Teach people to use hungry/thirsty triggers wouldn't it ;) "Fuegen: Avians should be able to track down corpses" D- Track is already a phenomenally powerful skill. They don't need to be able to track corpses. Just track what killed you. "Crackle: you should make it so when you are afk you cant gain xp so that people cant level while afk" D - Why? Who cares? "Bloodweaver: Howabout adding a player BR art section to the website. Could ask the players for their renditions of places and peoples of the Realms. Kiri's note: Actually, we have this. Check out the magazine on my website." D - .... "Andasa: I think that we should have some more RPing going on here. I wouldnt like it required, since that blows, but maybe we could have like an RP "mode" that you could go into. You could then RP with others in the RP "mode"... There could maybe be an RP flag by your name in the wholist... That would be cool... Thanks :)" D - and this RP "mode" would consist of what exactly? "Soulstorm: make an option so that if you don't want to be astraled or summoned you can turn it on or off. PLEASE!!!!!!" D - I agree, teleportto, astralto, and summon should be config commands (or along the lines thereof). I believe this has been promised many times, but I haven't seen it yet. It'd be a nice addition. Kiri -- This is coming. Promise. These people should really contact me immediately: AjKnight, Annamaria, Axle, Barfly, Bugman, Charlie, Christiana, Corren, Croniq, Doobie, Durin, Eros, Guadalupe, Hades, Hogan, Juby, Lune, Luidlame, Manji, Mathza, Pepsi, Reykjavik, Salome, Scar, Smurfa, Tanar, Zoul Kiri's WWW of URLs: This week, 5 urls of webpages of current BR players. :) A very neat site by Nebulae: Tom's Website. Warning, heavy javascript. Maethor's Site: Amystery's Personal Site: Solkanar's Webpage: I'm all out of funny forwards. I'm thanking daily forward for this one :) Real Life Dilberts A magazine recently ran a "Dilbert Quotes" contest. They were looking for people to submit quotes from their real life Dilbert-type managers. Here are some of the submittals: 1. As of tomorrow, employees will only be able to access the building using individual security cards. Pictures will be taken next Wednesday and employees will receive their cards in two weeks. 2. What I need is a list of specific unknown problems we will encounter. 3. How long is this Beta guy going to keep testing our stuff? (Programming intern, Microsoft IIS development team) 4. E-mail is not to be used to pass on information or data. It should be used only for company business. 5. This project is so important, we can't let things that are more important interfere with it. 6. Doing it right is no excuse for not meeting the schedule. No one will believe you solved this problem in one day! We've been working on it for months. Now, go act busy for a few weeks and I'll let you know when it's time to tell them. 7. My Boss spent the entire weekend retyping a 25-page proposal that only needed corrections. She claims the disk I gave her was damaged and she couldn't edit it. The disk I gave her was write-protected. (CIO of Dell Computers) 8. Quote from the Boss: "Teamwork is a lot of people doing what I say." 9. My sister passed away and her funeral was scheduled for Monday. When I told my Boss, he said she died so that I would have to miss work on the busiest day of the year. He then asked if we could change her burial to Friday. He said, "That would be better for me." (Shipping executive, FTD Florists) 10. "We know that communication is a problem, but the company is not going to discuss it with the employees." (Switching supervisor, AT&T Lone Lines Division) 11. We recently received a memo from senior management saying: "This is to inform you that a memo will be issued today regarding the subject mentioned above." 12. One day my boss asked me to submit a status report to him concerning a project I was working on. I asked him if tomorrow would be soon enough. He said, "If I wanted it tomorrow, I would have waited until tomorrow to ask for it!" 13. Speaking the Same Language: As director of communications I was asked to prepare a memo reviewing our company's training programs and materials. In the body of the memo, one of the sentences mentioned the "pedagogical approach" used by one of the training manuals. The day after I routed the memo to the executive committee, I was called into the HR director's office, and told that the executive vice president wanted me out of the building by lunch. When I asked why, I was told that she wouldn't stand for "perverts" (pedophilia?) working in her company. Finally he showed me her copy of the memo, with her demand that I be fired -- and the word "pedagogical" circled in red. The HR manager was fairly reasonable, and once he looked the word up in his dictionary, and made a copy of the definition to send back to her, he told me not to worry. He would take care of it. Two days later a memo to the entire staff came out, directing us that no words which could not be found in the local Sunday newspaper could be used in company memos. A month later, I resigned. In accordance with company policy, I created my resignation memo by pasting words together from the Sunday paper. 14. I am not making this up. This gem is the closing paragraph of a nationally-circulated memo from a large communications company: "(Company name) is endeavorily determined to promote constant attention on current procedures of transacting business focusing emphasis on innovative ways to better, if not supersede, the expectations of quality!" --------------------------------------------------------------------- February 14, 2000: Happy Valentine's Day! Hope you are spending it with someone special - or BR! (or is BR your someone special?) IDEAS: Everybody: make mental barrier dependant on how much damage it takes before it dissolves (rather than number of hits) Everybody: how about a command (like prac) showing you information about a subgroup of all your spells... like q would show you the info on all the skills you have starting with q Milambur: how about a stun skill for the fighters? Sandra: A list or something to tell us what each potion / vial / liquid spell does to us. Milambur: how about when someone levels he gets a map to a new area that is around his level.. this way they don't all crowd one area and then newcomers can explore better Sandra: Ill's should have charm - its a mental ability, isn't it? Bios: NAME: John BR NAME & NICKNAME: Marauder HOMETOWN: Dallas, Texas BORN: August 20 CURRENT RESIDENCE: Dallas, Texas CRUOTONS OR BACON BITS: Both FAVORITE SALAD DRESSING: Ranch DO YOU DRINK: Yuck. SHAMPOO OR CONDITIONER: Shampoo HAVE YOU EVER GONE SKINNY DIPPING: ehh no DO YOU MAKE FUN OF PEOPLE: Certain people.....hehe CONVICTED OF A CRIME: I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law. >=) BEST ONLINE FRIENDS: Spudman, Lari, and Gorion :) ONE PILLOW OR TWO: One big one. PETS: Lets see...1 bird, 3 dogs, 4 cats.....that enough? heh FAVORITE TYPE OF MUSIC: Rock, Creed especially DREAM CAR: Porche Boxster TYPE OF CAR YOU DRIVE NOW: A 90 Toyota Corolla WHAT TYPE OF CAR WAS YOUR FIRST CAR: See Above :) TOOTHPASTE: Crest FAVORITE FOOD: Hmmm...id have to say manacotti DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS: At times.....=P FAVORITE TOWN TO CHILL IN: South Fork, Colorado. Real cool there. FAVORITE ICE CREAM: Vanilla FAVORITE SOFT DRINK: Mt. Dew :) FAVORITE TYPE OF GAME TO PLAY: Barren Realms. WHAT IS YOUR BAD TIME OF DAY: Mornings, i can be mean when im tired :) ADIDAS, NIKE, OR REEBOK: Reebok FAVORITE PERFUME OR COLOGNE: Old Spice FAVORITE WEBSITE: FAVORITE SUBJECT IN SCHOOL: History/Science FAVORITE MOVIE OR TYPE OF MOVIE: Saving pvt Ryan, The Matrix LEAST FAVORITE SUBJECT: Math FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK: Wine Cooler...anything that doesnt taste like alcohol. hehe FAVORITE SPORTS TO WATCH: Football, i like to watch Dallas lose. MOST HUMILIATING MOMENT: Hmmmmmm, thats a toughy...would have to be the time i spilled my drink down my shirt at a *REALLY* fancy restaraunt. CRAZIEST OR SILLIEST PERSON YOU KNOW: Spudman, for sure the craziest......*grin* WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN THE OPPOSITE SEX: Somebody funny, nice and not totally stuck up on themselves. Somebody thats not afraid to speak there mind. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: Kiri, BR Rules :) PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO YOU IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: Dunno, somebody figure it out and lemme know :) Here's a sample bio for you to reply to the newsletter with, just fill in the blanks where your stuff would go: 1. NAME? Darrell 1a. BR NAME: Colador, Dynamite and the rest i'm not telling :P 2. SEX? yes please...LOL 3. LIVING ARRANGEMENT? A house 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUIJA BOARDS? Something not to be played with, they should all be burnt 5. YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? None since i spend most of my time on the computer 6. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Don't have one of those, i have a trackball 7. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Nightmare 8. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? I don't have a favorite 9. FAVORITE SMELLS? Too many to name :P 10. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? regret 11. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD? Let you know when i find it 12. WHAT DO YOU DO TO EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY? Me having creativity? hehe 13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? booting up the computer followed by a good coffee 14. DO YOU GET MOTION SICKNESS? nope 15. ROLLER COASTERS-SCARY OR EXCITING? When i find a descent roller coaster i'll let you know 16. PEN OR PENCIL? Since we have no pencils in the house i use a pen 17. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? How ever many it takes for me to get there 18. FUTURE SON'S NAME? Never thought of it 19. FUTURE DAUGHTER'S NAME? As above 20. FAVORITE FOODS? If it tastes good its my favorite 21. DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS? Most of the time 22. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Chocolate 23. FAVORITE ICE-CREAM? Chocolate with hazelnuts 24. CROUTONS OR BACON BITS? Bacon bits 25. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE? You bet 26. DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS? Now what kind of person would i be if i sleept with stuffed animals? 27. STORMS COOL OR SCARY? cool 28. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? Camera, was great untill the rust got too much for it :( 29. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? Dead: My grandmother, i miss her dearly 30. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? Don't really have one, they all taste good *grin* 31. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? Don't have one 32. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? As above 33. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? no 34. GUYS-IF A GIRL ASKED FOR THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK, WOULD YOU GIVE IT? If they were good looking hell yeah 34. GIRLS-WOULD YOU EVER ASK A GUY FOR HIS SHIRT? 35. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD IT BE? A computer tech 36. IF YOU DYED YOUR HAIR A DIFFERENT COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? I wouldn't 37. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? Who hasn't? 38. WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR BEDROOM? paint 40. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? That depends on whats in it :) 41. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE? *shrug* 42. ARE YOU A LEFTY, RIGHTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS? right 43. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? Nope :P 44. IF YOU COULD BE ONE GARDENING TOOL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? Something that hardly gets used so i can lay around all day doing nothing :) 45. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? nothing 46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? Don't have one 47. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR? silly car...i mean celica hehe 48. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? Don't watch sports 49. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON(S) WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: Kiri, Deserves alot more respect then people give her QUEST RESULTS for the HAIKU QUEST: The mortals: Sammantha: A sparkle of light Wanders from my hand to yours And heals all your wounds Brodgar: Cast 'identify' Object 'Barren Realms' type mud Affects fun by 10 The heroes: Andasa: Welcome to BR the friendliest MUD around Please enjoy your stay Eol: Realm-ruler: Kiri Bright rainbow goddess: Lari Two esteemed by me And the honorable mention: Dagmar: my fireball failed me Kandy's dancing on my head owie owie ow Response by ANGRIST: Hi, In the last newsletter, there was the suggestion of allowing players to set a flag to prohibit their being summoned. I like that idea. I would also like to see the ability to set a flag to prohibit players from being able to astral/telport to a given player. I actually had a player astral to one of my characters and summon an agro then ask me to kill it. I was in the molasses swamp and about to attack a pool. If that thing had been able to see inviso, it would have been a mess. I also like the idea of being able to track a corpse. I have a fairly high level mortal avian and like to help with CR's when it's reasonable. But, often it is very hard to actually track the corpse even when the player knows what killed them. As a suggestion, how about a command that will allow a player to find the name of the last mob that killed them? It's very difficult to help some of the newbies that have no idea where they were and due to not paying attention or lag missed the name of the beastie that slew them. The command of get all.XXXX or put all.XXX is very usefull. But, how letting players get a specific number of items simliar to the buy function? Kiri's WWW of URLs: BUILD YOUR OWN COW PAGE: A pretty useful site for recipes & cooking: Neoplanet - a customizable web browser that has skins and an option that warns you that a webpage is trying to pop up another window (I LOVE it): Bluestar's Very Updated webpage: Boeric's Page - contains the "forbidden dance" Subject: Top 10 Things Men Understand About Women > 1. > > 2. > > 3. > > 4. > > 5. > > 6. > > 7. > > 8. > > 9. > > 10. ---------------------------------- February 22, 2000: Ideas: Maethor: There should be a spell for other races other than druids and elves that makes it possible for them to temporarily pick up enflamed weapons.. Smegol: I dont think laughing buddah shouldn't burn packs... Sandra: A help file on # of alignment from neutrial to kind ----> and then back down to know how far you gotta go. Krondor: How about a numbered list in the Shops. First item is 1, 2nd is 2, and so forth. This would simplify buying an item, when theres 30 helmets and you want the 16th one for example. Sandra: Make ogrek's backpack ability to wear on back - as name applies... Bounty: Add color to the flags in front of the name, like the (Flying) (Invis) tage...it'll look spiffy.... Brodgar: What about putting the site ban check at the beginning of new char creation instead of at login? This way people who abuse the mud can have their chars removed and be locked out without disrupting current players using the same ISP. 1. NAME? Nicole 1a. BR NAME: Selene 2. SEX? Female 3. LIVING ARRANGEMENT? I still *gasp* live with my parents and an undeterminable breed of dog that we have named Scruffy. 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUIJA BOARDS? I think that the power a ouija bord contains depends on the beliefs of the person using it. 5. YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? Buffy the Vampire Slayer 6. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? Everyone's favorite most hated Pokemon.....Pikachu. (Parents bought it as a gag gift) 7. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? Clue. 8. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? National Geographic 9. FAVORITE SMELLS? Vanilla, Carnations too. 10. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? guilt 11. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD? When you realize that your life long dream or goal is at hand. 12. WHAT DO YOU DO TO EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY? I draw fantasy art and designs. I want to be an artist. 13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? Going to the potty. 14. DO YOU GET MOTION SICKNESS? no 15. ROLLER COASTERS-SCARY OR EXCITING? I dont like roller coasters, I always end up on the rides that get stuck in the upside down tracks. 16. PEN OR PENCIL? dont care 17. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? depends on what im doing. 18. FUTURE SON'S NAME? undecided as of yet. 19. FUTURE DAUGHTER'S NAME? ditto 20. FAVORITE FOODS? buttered brussel sprouts 21. DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS? sometimes 22. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? Vanilla 23. FAVORITE ICE-CREAM? see #22 24. CROUTONS OR BACON BITS? Bacon bits. 25. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE? Whenever I get the chance, of course my knee is injured right now, so I can't. 26. DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS? NO!!!!!!!!! 27. STORMS COOL OR SCARY? Storms are absoultely cool. Lighting kicks ass. I watched the beginning of a tornado once too. 28. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? don't have my own car yet (financial troubles) 29. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? Dead: Joan of Arc Alive: Robert Jordan 30. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? Water 31. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? Leo *grrrrr* 32. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? William Blake 33. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? yes 34. GIRLS-WOULD YOU EVER ASK A GUY FOR HIS SHIRT? If I had a guy i would 35. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD IT BE? To take over George Lucas' job 36. IF YOU DYED YOUR HAIR A DIFFERENT COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? black 37. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? true love, dunno, currently looking for a soulmate. 38. WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR BEDROOM? Posters, mainly fantasy art and Sar Wars stuff. 40. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? Completely full 41. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE? ewwww I dont like Snapple 42. ARE YOU A LEFTY, RIGHTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS? RIGHTY 43. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? nope. *cower* 44. IF YOU COULD BE ONE GARDENING TOOL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? an axe 45. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? about five million chess sets 46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? 3 47. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR? jeep jeep 48. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? ice skating 49. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON(S) WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: Kiri is very nice to me while I'm on Barren. 50. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: I'm supposed to send this to other ppl? *sheesh* ;) Article by Dunbarth (this may show up all funny looking to those without outlook or netscape mail): How to add COLOR to your prompt! Ever wanted your hit points to stand out more then your movement? In a few short minutes and a bit of patience you can color coordinate your prompt for your viewing pleasure. (Note: zMud users may have some minor difficulty with this because zMud assigns different uses to these characters. They can be easily changed under the 'General' tab.) First of all type 'Help color' there will be a list of the different colors at the bottom of this help file and a brief explaination of how to use them. This will help you understand the next part a bit easier. Now lets break down the prompt itself, for this we'll use the help file. (see help prompt) Syntax: prompt Syntax: prompt all Syntax: prompt <%*> PROMPT with out an argument will turn your prompt on or off. PROMPT ALL will give you the standard "" prompt. PROMPT <%*> where the %* are the various variables you may set yourself. %h : Display your current hit points %H : Display your maximum hit points %m : Display your current mana %M : Display your maximum mana %v : Display your current moves %V : Display your maximum moves %x : Display your current experience %X : Display your experience needed to level %g : Display your gold held %a : Display your alignment in words %A : Display your alignment numerically %r : Display the room name you are in %R : Display the vnum you are in (IMMORTAL ONLY) %z : Display the area name you are in (IMMORTAL ONLY) %i : Display the wizinvis status (IMMORTAL ONLY) Example: PROMPT <%hhp %mm %vmv> will set your prompt to "<10hp 100m 100mv>" But who wants a dull prompt like that? You can add color to your prompt by doing pretty much the same thing as assigning color to your gratz's. The colors are as follows: r - red c - cyan b - blue g - green y - yellow w - white m - magenta *** By capitalizing these letters it will make that color brighter! Lets try an color coded example. EXAMPLE: PROMPT <^r%h/%Hhp ^g%m/%Mm ^c%v/%Vmv^w> This will come out as <22/25hp 92/100m 80/100mv> The ^r indicates red text. the %h is your current hp. the %H is your max hp and so on. Ok, so it seems a bit difficult at first, but once you catch everything will be colorized. Responses by Amystery: “Daragorn: on the affect command, what about possibly showing the time left that spells will be in effect.“ That already happens once your level is sufficiently high. “Daragorn: here's one, since i have been here for 30 minutes or more unable to move, speak or call for help..when someone is at negative hp, and is slowly dying, or is poisoned and hungry and cant do anything, at least let them have a channel to call help fro,” Either that or a way to commit suicide. I’ve been stuck slowly dying before, it is amusing for the first few minute but gets old fast. That’s why you need to fight bigger mobs, then you die much faster! Wolfbane: the vile specter that takes your notes away will tell you when you have new ones I think it does tell you when you have personal notes. Hard to remember…no one ever notes me… Draelyn: I think this may be a bit of an oversight rather than an idea- if food gets knocked out of your hand when you eat during a fight, shouldnt a water source also get knocked out of your hands if you try to drink? I’ve wondered that too, but I’ve also been very grateful it doesn’t happen. But for realism, drink should get smashed also. Maybe not smash the container but just drop it or prevent us from drinking while fighting? Fuegen: Avians should be able to track down corpses Nah, avians like live prey. They are scared of death. Crackle: you should make it so when you are afk you cant gain xp so that people cant level while afk Makes some sense but people use afk to avoid annoying people and when they really aren’t around. Sometimes I’m IAM and just use AFK. I pop in, kill a few mobs and leave without removing the flag. Andasa: I think that we should have some more RPing going on here. I wouldnt like it required, since that blows, but maybe we could have like an RP "mode" that you could go into. You could then RP with others in the RP "mode"... There could maybe be an RP flag by your name in the wholist... That would be cool... Thanks :) It would be interesting but very low priority. I enjoy RP but I do it in the context of my normal character. I guess I don’t need it as formal as an RP mode. Soulstorm: make an option so that if you don't want to be astraled or summoned you can turn it on or off. PLEASE!!!!!! I take it you really want this? I think there is some talk of doing this so maybe look for it in the future. Kiri's WWW of URLs: I can't say any more: For those of you with bands - not quite an URL but it counts: Fred Durst (of Limp Bizkit) is sending out a call for demos. This is ligit, through the K-RoQ site Send Demos to: Fred Durst 8733 Sunset Blvd., Suite 205 W. Hollywood 90068 RadioFreeCash - This one is suggested by one of our heroes: Two webpages of players, first - Warpdrive's: Caspian's Page: From an actual newspaper contest where entrants ages 4 to 15 were asked to imitate "Deep Thoughts by Jack Handey." ********************************* I believe you should live each day as if it is your last, which is why I don't have any clean laundry because, come on, who wants to wash clothes on the last day of their life? --Age 15 Give me the strength to change the things I can, the grace to accept the things I cannot, and a great big bag of money. --Age 13 It sure would be nice if we got a day off for the president's birthday, like they do for the queen's. Of course, then we would have a lot of people voting for a candidate born on July 3 or December 26, just for the long weekends. --Age 8 Democracy is a beautiful thing, except for that part about letting just any old yokel vote. --Age 10 Home is where the house is. --Age 6 I bet living in a nudist colony takes all the fun out of Halloween. --Age 13 I often wonder how come John Tesh isn't as popular a singer as some people think he should be. Then, I remember it's because he sucks. --Age 15 For centuries, people thought the moon was made of green cheese. Then the astronauts found that the moon is really a big hard rock. That's what happens to cheese when you leave it out. --Age 6 My younger brother asked me what happens after we die. I told him we get buried under a bunch of dirt and worms eat our bodies. I guess I should have told him the truth, that most of us go to hell and burn eternally, but I didn't want to upset him. --Age 10 I gaze at the brilliant full moon. The same one, I think to myself, at which Socrates, Aristotle, and Plato gazed. Suddenly, I imagine they appear beside me. I tell Socrates about the national debate over one's right to die and wonder at the constancy of the human condition. I tell Plato that I live in the country that has come the closest to Utopia, and I show him a copy of the Constitution. I tell Aristotle that we have found many more than four basic elements and I show him a periodic table. I get a box of kitchen matches and strike one. They gasp with wonder. We spend the rest of the night lighting farts. --Age 15 When I go to heaven, I want to see my grandpa again. But he better have lost the nose hair and the old-man smell. --Age 5 I once heard the voice of God. It said "Vrrrrmmmmm." Unless it was just a lawn mower. --Age 11 I don't know about you, but I enjoy watching paint dry. I imagine that the wet paint is a big fresh water lake that is the only source of water for some tiny cities by the lake. As the lake gets drier, the population gets more desperate, and sometimes there are water riots. Once there was a big fire and everyone died. --Age 13 I like to go down to the dog pound and pretend that I've found my dog. Then I tell them to kill it anyway because I already gave away all of his stuff. Dog people sure don't have a sense of humor. --Age 14 As you make your way through this hectic world of ours, set aside a few minutes each day. At the end of the year, you'll have a couple of days saved up. --Age 7 Often, when I am reading a good book, I stop and thank my teacher. That is, I used to, until she got an unlisted number. --Age 15 It would be terrible if the Red Cross Bloodmobile got into an accident. No, wait. That would be good because if anyone needed it, the blood would be right there. --Age 5 Think of the biggest number you can. Now add five. Then imagine if you had that many Twinkies. Wow, that's five more than the biggest number you could come up with! --Age 6 The only stupid question is the one that is never asked, except maybe "Don't you think it is about time you audited my return?" or "Isn't it morally wrong to give me a warning when, in fact, I was speeding?" --Age 15 Once, I wept for I had no shoes. Then I came upon a man who had no feet. So I took his shoes. I mean, it's not like he really needed them, right? --Age 15 If we could just get everyone to close their eyes and visualize world peace for an hour, imagine how serene and quiet it would be until the looting started. --Age 15 ------------------------------------------------------- February 28, 2000: Ideas: QuickSylv: a store for locate object, like there's a store for identify Medivh: an extra msg on title or so, that show if ppl are longer than X minutes idle Draelyn: It'd be nice if charmed/glared mobs also reported their level along with their stats when we forced them to report. Jode: You know in the spells list, well for out of guild spells you could put a * by each one so people don't have to type help to see which is out of guild AMystery: customizable insta kill messages Drahzar: Clericus should be able to create lights Bounty: Give a spell to druids to allow them to create ale. I mean if there drunk so much, why not? Naddarow: spell idea: mute- Caster causes mob to be "mute" and mob can't cast any spells BIO: 1. NAME? Mike 1a. BR NAME: Mathis 2. SEX? Male 3. LIVING ARRANGEMENT? with my parents still... :( 4. WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT OUIJA BOARDS? them are cool if the other ppl dont move the thingy 5. YOUR FAVORITE TV SHOW? abc shows, drew cary, dharma and greg and the sort, and many others 6. WHAT'S ON YOUR MOUSE PAD? a really huge face and 'MacT OS' 7. FAVORITE BOARD GAME? 8. FAVORITE MAGAZINE? MAD Magizine 9. FAVORITE SMELLS? this kind of perfume my friend wears, dunno what its called tho 10. WORST FEELING IN THE WORLD? severe depression, and lemme tell ya, ive had a lotta that :( 11. BEST FEELING IN THE WORLD? being loved 12. WHAT DO YOU DO TO EXPRESS YOUR CREATIVITY? write, *try* to draw, talk to friends about my ideas 13. WHAT IS THE FIRST THING YOU THINK OF WHEN YOU WAKE UP IN THE MORNING? omg, i hate ball practice sooo much, i hope my day goes good. 14. DO YOU GET MOTION SICKNESS? nahh 15. ROLLER COASTERS-SCARY OR EXCITING? exciting 16. PEN OR PENCIL? whatever i grab first 17. HOW MANY RINGS BEFORE YOU ANSWER THE PHONE? depends, usually 2 18. FUTURE SON'S NAME? ummm, im a lil' young fer that 19. FUTURE DAUGHTER'S NAME? that too 20. FAVORITE FOODS? home-made-mother-prepared-anything. and chinese 21. DO YOU GET ALONG WITH YOUR PARENTS? my mom? yea, my dad? HA! 22. CHOCOLATE OR VANILLA? cookie dough!! 23. FAVORITE ICE-CREAM? cookie dough!! 24. CROUTONS OR BACON BITS? yup 25. DO YOU LIKE TO DRIVE? once i get my permit, im sure i will 26. DO YOU SLEEP WITH STUFFED ANIMALS? nuh uh, but i wish had some :D 27. STORMS COOL OR SCARY? depends, usually cool 28. WHAT TYPE WAS YOUR FIRST CAR? probably that old jeep beater in the drive way 29. IF YOU COULD MEET ONE PERSON, DEAD OR ALIVE, WHO WOULD IT BE? my grandpa's. they both died when i was like, 2 30. FAVORITE ALCOHOLIC DRINK? lil' yung fer that too. but i like most mixed kind 31. WHAT IS YOUR ZODIAC SIGN? saggitaruis 32. WHO IS YOUR FAVORITE POET? i dont really have one, but they're not really a poet, their song writers... 33. DO YOU EAT THE STEMS OF BROCCOLI? broccoli? yech 34. GUYS-IF A GIRL ASKED FOR THE SHIRT OFF YOUR BACK, WOULD YOU GIVE IT? depends on who 34. GIRLS-WOULD YOU EVER ASK A GUY FOR HIS SHIRT? id hope that they would for me :D 35. IF YOU COULD HAVE ANY JOB YOU WANTED, WHAT WOULD IT BE? something with music as part time, and writing. 36. IF YOU DYED YOUR HAIR A DIFFERENT COLOR, WHAT WOULD IT BE? a lighter brown, i have sorta dark brown hair. 37. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN IN LOVE? still am 38. WHAT IS ON YOUR WALLS IN YOUR BEDROOM? spakled paint 40. IS THE GLASS HALF EMPTY OR HALF FULL? depends on my mood... 41. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE SNAPPLE? dont really drink snapple 42. ARE YOU A LEFTY, RIGHTY OR AMBIDEXTROUS? righty tighty 43. DO YOU TYPE WITH YOUR FINGERS ON THE RIGHT KEYS? yuppers 44. IF YOU COULD BE ONE GARDENING TOOL, WHAT WOULD YOU BE? rake, so i could pop unsuspection ppl in the face that aren't paying attention >:) 45. WHAT'S UNDER YOUR BED? you name it... 46. WHAT IS YOUR FAVORITE NUMBER? 14 47. WHAT IS YOUR DREAM CAR? porche 911 or a yugo J/K!! 48. FAVORITE SPORT TO WATCH? hocky, but only if the teams fight 49. SAY ONE NICE THING ABOUT THE PERSON(S) WHO SENT THIS TO YOU: yer mud is cool kiri 50. PERSON YOU SENT THIS TO WHO IS LEAST LIKELY TO RESPOND: everyone, cuz i wont send it to anyone :P RESPONSES: Hey Kiri I thought I would send you my responses to the ideas. IDEAS BY SOULSTORM: Griffen: ok heres my idea i think elves (since they are the mages of the mud) should have more, or just more powerful attack spells then they do...an example might be..detonate..with high damage you would get it at like level 40..or maybe something wizards f Soulstorm-- it's a nice thought, but as you get better with the spells you do have and get higher levels, the spells get stronger as well. Ander: ok as you level you get skills and spells...and practice sessions to practice them with... these practice session add up..since you start to tun out of skills/spells to practice..my idea is that for like lets say 20 practices you can buy one enhance Soulstorm-- Aren't we generous, you get practices for free (when you level), they add up, deal with the fact that you have an excess of them. Heros usually have like 300 practice sessions left, I wouldn't worry about it. Natedog: if you have an abundancy of practice sessions left, how about a shop that teaches you advanced combat and reduces your tnl...as enhancing adds a specific number tnl, this would act in a similar reductive matter and could only be done so many times p Soulstorm-- see above response. Ginner: posion food, or poison limbs affter killing poisoned mob Soulstorm-- there is poisoned food. Ginner: fourth attack and cost three times practises Soulstorm-- With third attack, dual, enhanced damaged, and battle skills, I think that's enough to beat up a mob. We don't need another attack. Ginner: animea land with pokemon and dragonball gt and sailor moon and digimon and monster ranchers! they got candy land Soulstorm-- Then build it! See Kiri's website on how to make a zone, it's not that hard. Dio: there should be some kind of boot or something that can dover talons Soulstorm-- What you want open toed shoes? I think that no matter how much we whine about more eq for avians, we probably are not going to get it. It would be an extra thing Slart/Kiri would have to code that they don't have time for and I don't see it happening unfortunetly. Mathis: make a sober spell! im tired of being WAY out in the middle of nowhere and getting lost Soulstorm-- Ere the consequences of drinking alcohol. I can only recommend you drink a less alcoholic drink that will wear off quickly, or don't drink at all when you know your going to be exploring/mob hunting. Everybody: make mental barrier dependant on how much damage it takes before it dissolves (rather than number of hit) Soulstorm-- Not a bad idea, damage dependant on your level. Kiri's WWW of URLs: Yes, the day had to come when I would include this site: Battle back spam!! All I can say is.. Oh man.. Charlie's Webpage from Barren: Comatose's Page: Wasabe's Webpage: Occasionally, airline attendants make an effort to make the "in-flight safety lecture" and their other announcements a bit more entertaining. Here are some real examples that have been heard or reported: *1. From a Southwest Airlines employee.... "There may be 50 ways to leave your lover, but there are only 4 ways out of this airplane..." 2. Pilot-"Folks, we have reached our cruising altitude now, so I am going to switch the seat belt sign off. Feel free to move about as you wish, but please stay inside the plane till we land...it's a bit cold outside, and if you walk on the wings it affects the flight pattern." *3. After landing: "Thank you for flying Delta Business Express. We hope you enjoyed giving us the business as much as we enjoyed taking you for a ride." 4. As the plane landed and was coming to a stop at Washington National, a lone voice comes over the loudspeaker:"Whoa, big fella. WHOA" 5. After a particularly rough landing during thunderstorms in Memphis, a flight attendant on a Northwest flight announced: "Please take care when opening the overhead compartments because, after a landing like that, sure as hell everything has shifted." *6. From a Southwest Airlines employee.... "Welcome aboard Southwest Flight XXX to YYY. To operate your seatbelt, insert the metal tab into the buckle, and pull tight. It works just like every other seatbelt and if you don't know how to operate one, you probably shouldn't be out in public unsupervised. In the event of a sudden loss of cabin pressure, oxygen masks will descend from the ceiling. Stop screaming, grab the mask, and pull it over your face. If you have a small child traveling with you, secure your mask before assisting with theirs. If you are traveling with two small children, decide now which one you love more." 7. Weather at our destination is 50 degrees with some broken clouds, but they'll try to have them fixed before we arrive. Thank you, and remember, nobody loves you or your money, more than Southwest Airlines." 8. "Your seat cushions can be used for flotation and in the event of an emergency water landing, please take them with our compliments." 9. "As you exit the plane, please make sure to gather all of your belongings. Anything left behind will be distributed evenly among the flight attendants. Please do not leave children or spouses." 10. "Last one off the plane must clean it." 11. From the pilot during his welcome message: "We are pleased to have some of the best flight attendants in the industry...Unfortunately none of them are on this flight..." 12. Overheard on an American Airlines flight into Amarillo, Texas, on a particularly windy and bumpy day. During the final approach, the Captain was really having to fight it After an extremely hard landing, the Flight Attendant came on the PA and announced, "Ladies and Gentlemen, welcome to Amarillo. Please remain in your seats with your seatbelts fastened while the Captain taxis what's left of our airplane to the gate." 13. Another flight Attendant's comment on a less than perfect landing: We ask you to please remain seated as Captain Kangaroo bounces us to the terminal." 14. An airline pilot wrote that on this particular flight he had hammered his ship into the runway really hard. The airline had a policy which required the first officer to stand at the door while the passengers exited, smile, and give them a "Thanks for flying XYZ airline." He said that in light of his bad landing, he had a hard time looking the passengers in the eye, thinking that someone would have a smart comment. Finally, everyone had gotten off except for this little old lady walking with a cane. She said, "Sonny, mind if I as you a question?" "Why no, Ma'am," said the pilot,"what is it?" The little old lady said, "Did we land or were we shot down?" 15. After a real crusher of a landing in Phoenix, the Flight Attendant came on with, "Ladies and Gentlemen, please remain in your seats until Captain Crash and the Crew have brought the aircraft to a screeching halt up against the gate. And, once the tire smoke has cleared and the warning bells are silenced, we'll open the door and you can pick your way through the wreckage to the terminal." 16. Part of a Flight Attendant's arrival announcement: "We'd like to thank you folks for flying with us today. And, the next time you get the insane urge to go blasting through the skies in a pressurized metal tube, we hope you'll think of us here at US Airways."