Subject: newsletter Feb 12 Kiri needs more ideas from you all. Please use the 'idea' command on BR or email me ideas. :) ___________________________________________________ Arion: Maybe a 'mirror image' spell for elves. Mobs have a chance of attacking the image during a round. Once attacked the image dissipates, but the caster avoided injury for the round Quiver: how about having some type of yell command for pets? (once in the same area, you can yell & they'll come to you.) Kytar: a spell called dispel invis, dispels the invisibility on mobs, players, AND objects. Blackwulf: Put balance of bank in status box. Blacklight: Make some sort of message that tells you when a human is doing medicine. As in when they're using medicine on you Nar: it would be cool if there was an 'impersonate' spell that makes you look exactly like a mob of your selection. You could like only impersonate a mob of your own level or below, you can't attack anyone, and you get all the attributes of that mob... s Xyganthos: maybe if someone posts a note there can be a message to all players to whom it is adressed so they know there's a note for them Robin: maybe a who invis command so that if you previously werent seeing invis, but are now, you can see who you missed last time you checked who...probably not expressing this right Quiver: how about having Jenny sell souveniers? /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-----------------response--------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Some more reactions from Xyganthos: > Fig: a mana shield spell, that takes away mana from a mage instead > of hit points when hit.. make it like 2 mana points for every damage > taken. Xyg: I really don't know what to think of this idea; something tells me that it's not a very good one but since i never brought a mage further than level 6 I'm not so sure. I wonder what my druid-, elf-, and illithidfriends think about it.. > Berry: doors that can't be passed through with pass door xyg: And what if your corse is behind it? > Corn: Sit in furniture would be nice... Yeah! I would like to carry a couch in my backpack and sit on it with someone I wanna talk with. Maybe there could be some couches in the chitchatroom and it would also be great to make a grandcafe above the zoo :) > Shriek: how about an avian or dwarf skill called - drag - which > would enable them to drag a group members corpse out of a room have to be a group member> so we dont have people draggings corpses all > over the mud and back making it hard to find Xyg: Maybe drag should only make you recall together with the corpse and then drop it there so you cannot carry the corpse to a hidden place and grab all the stuff when the corpse decomposes, which would be a very natural thing to do for players with an evil allignment > Blacklight: Make it so replies show up too when you do a tellh For players with bad memory > Corn: Make bless and magical do more stuff... Maybe make blessed > weapons cause the person to be blessed... would be great! then the bless spell would be the level of the weapon so as long as you wield it you cannot be affected by bless spells given to you by higher mortals. As long as the bless spell works the weapon would be nodrop. Blessing gauntlets would be no crazy idea either. > Berry: a way you can see your afk message (what it's set to) Xyg: strange that it doesn't work to beep yourself when afk.... More will follow but now i gotta leave this computer for a pascal course is starting..... ----------------------------------------------------------------------- /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------articles----------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Barren Realms Word Jumble by Ohaern I have listed below a group of BR areas in random order and jumbled. Remember many areas have more than one word to their name. Answers are listed elsewhere in this newsletter 1.) BIRANAAGHSTNI 2.) LEMOACT 3.) HEEHTSIR 4.) WFONOOTSECAL 5.) ANERDLIIFS 6.) PTEHBOAOLELT 7.) LCCNHETOSEDSALITU 8.) SYDRAGIGL=7F 9.) LOREPTOSMCTHXESP 10.) MYSUPOL (see end for answers) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------bios-------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Hi Everyone, All of you know me as Dorkus, Campyhamper (not Happycamper), and Karma. I love Barren Realms and spend most of my free time on it along with a talker called the Twilight Zone. My real name is Jeannine and I live in southeastern Minnesota. Right now I am freezing because of all the -15 below weather. I'm not used to that because I was born in California, raised in Belgium and Illinois, and was forced to move to what seemed to me as the tundra!!! But I love it here!!! All my friends on the Realms consist of many people so I can't really name them all. Hyperion, Jett, Cherye, Kzonon, and Simple are among some of my best friends. Sometimes I can be really mean, but just ignore that side of me because in real life I am really nice and/or try to be. If I ever get impatient with any of you, it's just cuz I want to stop resting and kick some mob buttocks. -Dorkus, Campyhamper, and Karma Deuces: Oh geez, another boring bio. You better just fast forward your email to get past it. Well, the only reason you're reading now is A) You can't get onto BR. B) You've printed out the newsletter and are reading away from your computer. C) You actually want to know more about deuces. Well, you might wanna lie down, put on some soft music and get ready to snooze. My real name is Joel Phillippi, age 20, birthday June 12, (that's a Gemini born in the year of the dragon for your astrology freaks.) I could go on and tell you about my high school years in Marysville High School, but rather than waste space in this really cool newsletter, I'll just give ya the highlights: 1. I can't believe that the school board actually banned Ken Follett books for awhile. 2. Never get your hopes up high for a quiz bowl team who's advertisements have the word "agressive" on them. 3. The British Isles is THE coolest place to take a senior trip to. Let's see, right now I'm attending Emporia State Univeristy and majoring in business altough I haven't picked a field yet. I'm still waiting for them to offer a class called, "Make a ton of money fast, so you can spend the rest of you're life mudding and gaming." I'm a member of the Gamer's Guild (unofficial motto: Powered by Evil ;) And i like playing Magic: The Gatherin g, Talisman, Advanced Dungeons & Dragons, and just got hooked on Illuminati. I got a 92 beretta for xmas so i have wheels now and willowisp no longer must w alk thru sub-artic weather (it seems like it to me). Wow, you actually managed to read all the way through this. I guess you should get some sort of reward . Hmm how about, "Always be nice to the immortals of Barren Realms, it is a great way to increase your life expectancy. Later and happy hunting :) /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >> The Warning Signs Of Insanity >> --------------------------------------- >> >> 1. Your friends tell you that you have been acting strange lately, and >> then you hit them several times with a sledgehammer. >> 2. Everyone you meet appears to have tentacles growing out of places that >> you wouldn't expect tentacles to be growing from. >> 3. You start out each morning with a 30-minute jog around the bathroom. >> 4. You write to your mother in Germany every week, even though she sends >> you mail from Iowa asking why you never write. >> 5. Every time you see a street sign, you have a tremendous urge to relieve >> yourself on it. >> 6. You wear your boxers on your head because you heard it will ward of >> evil dandruff spirits. >> 7. You're always having to apologize to your next door neighbor for >> setting fire to his lawn decorations. >> 8. Every commercial you hear on the radio reminds you of death. >> 9. People stay away from you whenever they hear you howl. >> 10. Your breath smells more and more like squirrel dung each passing day. >> 11. You laugh out loud during funerals. >> 12. When your doctor tells you to say ah, you yell out "RAPE! RAPE!" >> 13. Nobody listens to you anymore, because they can't understand you >> through that scuba mask. >> 14. You begin to stop and consider all of the blades of grass you've >> stepped on as a child, and worry that their ancestors are going to one >> day seek revenge. >> 15. You have meaningful conversations with your toaster. ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Answers to the BR Jumble: Arabian Nights, Camelot, The Shire, Town of Solace, Fire Island, The Pool Table, Castle In The Clouds, Yggdrasil, The Sports Complex, Olympus ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Subject: newsletter feb 18, 1997 As always, I'm looking for ideas. I hope you all had a pleasant 14th with someone you love. If you'd like to write articles for the newsletter be sure to send them to be before tuesdays during the day and i'll try to include them in the letter. Have a pleasant week and read on :) /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >--------------------ideas------------------ > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Mouser: Make it so you can change your "is here" message. So instead of "is here" it could be "is dancing the macarena here" or whatever. Idris: you should be able to have local time in the prompt. Erekose: How about a 'repspell' command, which allows you to echo your 'affects' list to everyone on the screen. Lordcow: You could make a command for use only in battle: use "enemy" to refer to the person you're fighting against, for ex. cast 'acid blast' enemy. This may reduce the time used to cast spells in battle. CuRiO: How about one of the disadvantages of being drunk is that you occasionally fall asleep? CuRiO: fill a partially full barrel of beer to lighten the alcohol (make it more like a jello shot). CuRiO: Deflective rooms... only certain races can go there... CuRiO: Flaming rooms... anyone who enters loses a buch of HPs Mouser: when you cast spellson yourself that are already affecting you, make the spell duration go back to full Elrond: This has come up before ( i think ). I think it would be really, really good if we used a weapon long enough, we would be more adjusted to it, and do more damage with it. On the other hand, if you use a different weapon, you don't do as much damage, because your still used to the old weapon. Random spell hits: For different spells, maybe the spell could be more powerful than it could be if you cast it a second ago, causing extreme damage or killing the mob instantly. Of course, this should be completely random, and doesn't usually happen. Kinda like with backstab. Ex: Your fireball burns through the guard's stomach, killing him instantly! Here's another one: Floods or fires in BR. A fire could break out in a room, and spread. The flames could leap to players and mobs, and people would have to dump their water containers on the fire to put it out. Or there could be a flood which would have the drowning affect on non-flying(?) players. May want to restrict these to higher lev. areas. I think it would be cool to see Calathar on fire...Maybe after lightning hits a player they begins to burn and the blaze burns the room to the ground };) M_nethe This might be something for Illithids, seeing as how they have that "mind ov er matter" thing going on. A spell (call it Gills) that would allow the caster only to to BELIEVE they have gills, hence having the ability to travel under and even just below the surface of water. For Illithids at least, there would be no more use for a boat, or snorkles, scuba tanks, etc... /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------response--------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >How about an area channel..so you can talk to all the people in your area like >chat but without spamming chat as much. It's understandable to miss it because it is SO underused, the "yell" channel is an area specific channel available on BR. Many NEVER see it used so don't know it exists. Kytar > Berry: curse affect you like pless when you evil and bless affect > you like curse when you're evil :) Xyg: But that would be not fair. Evil players would be helped by evil mobs casting curse while good players are not, and there are no mobs casting bless when attacked. Would be strange anyway, to be helped by a mob.. What could be better is that players can only be blessed by players with the same allignment > Eat Brain-WARNING!! for those with weak stomach don't read on. > This skill is for Illithids. Kinda like a second attack (like 1000 palms > for humans) This skill makes use of the Illithids tentacles which go up > the nose passage of the mob and does damage to the brain. > SLURPPP..hehe..gross huh..but it is very illithid. Xyg: The effect of this spell could be that the dexterity and the wisdom of the mob (do mobs have those stats?) drops so that it cannot cast spells or parry/dodge anymore because it's brains are damaged. furthermore it must cause damage to it's health since losing your brains in the way described above must really hurt I guess > Also on the subject of Illthids..Avians lose many armor slots to new body > parts..Personally i think Illithids should lose the one for head..because > their heads are enormous and bulbous and because of their > tentacles..something to think about. > Well thats it.. > Yours with a drooling *Chackleberry*, > Polgara the Snow Owl Xyg: I've had a discussion about that recently with ZulX and some others. We were talking about illithids drilling holes in helmets with their tentacles but I think that it would be fair to give those tentacles kind of the same role as the avians' tail and wings. Also we wondered if ills have feet and hands to wear boots and gloves. I really have no idea but maybe if they donot have them boots and gloves cause difficulties to wear too. So far, Xyganthos, who is too busy to play BR and a little bored of killing but is still very interested in the mud :) /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-----------------articles-------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) ------------------------------------------------------------------------- On The Web Road by Ohaern This series is devoted to bringing you information on some of the 'special' sites I have found, usually while looking for something else on my web cruises. :) Each article will feature a couple different sites. This week the topic is Barney. I think we all hate that piece of purple slime. :) We start with a Barney site that has stories of a different kind about Barney including Day of the Barney I,II and III. Addy: http://www.wavefront.com/~bull/dotb.htm My other site of choice is wickedly funny... and self explanatory Addy: http://www.wco.com/~keebler/cookbook.html As always.. I have a BR page at: http://www.net-link.net/~karen/barren ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Contemplations and Quandries Hello all, Jett here. Well, I have the urge to give you all my opinion on a topic that is a difficult one on Barren. Corpse Retrievals....this topic is spelled out in "help cr" but I would like to give everyone a Hero perspective on the whole darn thing. First lets get the basics out of the way... As said in Help cr 1. CR's are not given for random teleport 2. CR's are not given to mortals above level 40 3. CR's are not given because you dont know where you are 4. And remember Always try first(Invis, sneak, Hide, or an alias are good) Well now that that is out of the way. Cr's are given if you are killed my a massively huge aggro see invis mob. Remeber though that a CR is a privelege not a rule. As a hero I have had to do a few of these. Let me tell you it is not as easy as it seems. Sometimes there are other mortals on the game that could easily help you get your corpse without needing "divine intervention". Try and get their help. Many of the upper level mortals will help if you ask. All of us have been in a situation where we needed help. Trust me. CR's cause me no end of perplexion. If I could I would help you all but I cant...you know all those rule things. Most of the time I am just as confused about giving help as you are about getting it. CR's are always a tricky subject and I know that many heroes agree with me. My main word of advice is "If you are exploring a new area try to be invis and scan, scan, scan...." If you die we will know so dont start asking as soon as you die, try first, ask for help from other mortals. If you honestly try on your own and there is no other way to get your corpse you may recieve help. Your chances are better if you make the effort. Im not saying you will always get one. I have sat by and watched as people try and get there corpses and trust me I want to help...but if you were always given your corpse where would the challange of the game be. Ok when you do recieve a CR remember that the corpse will not be given to you...you have to get it.. The hero or immortal that does the CR for you will usually move it one space from where you died, to a safe position. So be sure to remember where you died because you still have to walk back there to get your corpse. Next time you die and feel that you need a CR, stop and think for a moment. Try and find any other way to get your corpse uther than a CR. I know it can be frustrating but remeber, many of us spend just as much time worrying about whether or not we can help as you do wondering about if you will get help. I for one worry everytime I see an mortal get killed by an aggro see invis mob. So don't think you are alone in the worrying. Well those are just my thoughts on the subject, see ya next time all. :) /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------bios--------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Here is a bio for Arion: I am a 26 year old Air Force brat that ended up in California. I am a science teacher to seventh graders and I could tell you some stories about other people's children! I received my B.S. in physics from Cal Poly University. I am a BIG Packer fan (in case you hadn't noticed). I am married and have a wonderful family. In my spare time, I like to MUD, read comic books and fantasy novels, and spend time with my family. Well, here goes my attempt at a bio :) Let me know if you get it.. FIG: My name's Mike, and I'm an everything addict. I always like trying new things... I'm 27 years old, and live in Fort Myers, Florida. I currently work as a Specialist to Sony of America in their Technical Responce Center. I support Sony's new Vaio line of computers. I believe it's a great company, and suggest that if anyone gets an oppertunity to work for them, DO IT!. My hobbies include computing (duh), reading a good book every once-in-a-while, and am a HEAVY Magic the Gathering collector. If your a serious trader, note me or email me at silicon@olsusa.com and we'll see what we can come up with. I love playing network games on the computer.. I'm not really a Doom or Quake fan, (got old), but am an AVID strategy fan, and love real time strategy games such as Command & Conquor and Red Alert. I started mudding about a year ago on a MUD called Evil in the Extreme, and was just about to hero when the mud went down... I gave it up for a while, and caught the craze again. I do light programming, and specialize in MOBS with Special Functions (Spec_fucntions) *wink*. I bought a car last year, (1996 Saturn SL2) and decided to create a mob out of my car. Well, to make a long story short, it cheated had a one in 5 chance of just slaying you outright then and there. The imms werent really pleased that they could be killed, and wouldnt let me keep it. Did I mention I ramble on??? Last but not least, I'm a nice guy, always willing to help, so just *ASK*. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >--------------------silly------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) > ACTUAL BUMPER STICKERS: > > "Change is inevitable, except from a vending machine." > > "I love cats...they taste just like chicken" > > "Out of my mind. Back in five minutes." > > "Cover me. I'm changing lanes." > "As long as there are tests, there will be prayer in public schools" > "Happiness is a belt-fed weapon" > "Laugh alone and the world thinks you're an idiot." > "Sometimes I wake up grumpy; Other times I let her sleep" > "I want to die in my sleep like my grandfather....... Not > screaming and yelling like the passengers in his car...." > "Tow-ers will be violated" > "Montana --- At least our cows are sane!" > "The gene pool could use a little chlorine." > "I didn't fight my way to the top of the food chain to be a > vegetarian." > "Your kid may be an honor student but you're still an IDIOT!" Subject: newsletter 2/26 Curio: (To make the game more challenging) If you are using an attack skill/spell without an argument (such as ) and you kill the mob, and do the attack again, it should attack a random mob in the room (if any) ZombyWoof: I noticed while standing around recall, Jenny seems to reach full speed there, she should really stop at recall for a moment. I don't think the newbies will try to chase her down ;) *kiri- this will soon be done. Lordcow: Force every area maker to put a sign at the beginning of each level to tell what level the place is. CuRiO: druids should have invis as a spell Cutlass: a way to show hp/mana/mv in your prompt in a percent Sylvester: There's a spell for detecting invis, as well as detecting hidden... How about one for sneaking? Or for that effect to be added to detect hidden? Nar: maybe there should be a kind of curse from a high level mob that _really_ randomizes spells... like accidently get earthquake from heal... Reality: I think we should have an aura or something to say (DRUNK) next to the players name and title. You know like (INVIS) and such :) Mandwe: make it illegal to sleep in some parts of the city, sortt of llike loitering CuRiO: a spell: repair armor (maybe a skill) to fix armor w/o going to beich... Cutlass: disable 'emote' for drunks ... would balance drunkeness better /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >------------------response-------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Sylvester: With report, instead of showing Total Experience points, which > tells nothing, how about making it show Experience To next level? Xyg: I don't really see the use of showing the total amount of xp in report either, so it might as well be changed. Actually Xp-amounts are not very usefull information except for yourself i think. > > Zorak: A spell that raises dex temporarily, like haste. Would be nice for > elves, and maybe Kenders and Humans out of guild-might even want to keep > the aging affect, like there is in the D&D spell :) Xyg: It might come in the place of an armour spell like shield. then that spell would do a little more than only raising your ac. And since there is giant strength to make you able to carry more weight it's not strange to have "haste" to make you able to carry more items, although this is not the only use of higher dex :) > Prozak: if the leader of your group recalls, whole group should recall Xyg: Better: spell like "mass word of recall" > > Quiver: Some type of 2ndlist to list from the second merchant (AOD & > Armorer). Xyg: Good idea though there's always someone on that can kill Aod if he's naughty > I think we need more group commands. So here are a couple. > > whogroup > A list of people that are grouped together.. with their levels and > races and with the leader at top. > > grouptitles > How about if we do that..we have a bunch of randomly selected > groupnames..ie.."The Vorpal Bunnies". Maybe even a command so you can > change the title if you wish. Xyg: Great! If you want to join a group you can immediately see which groups are already fighting and who the leaders are, so you can ask if you can join. Also the names of the groups could say in which area they are> Xyganthos the lagging Dutchman /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Articles----------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Jett's Quest Central!!!! Well all I have an idea that you might find interesting. Quests and an added dimension of play to Barren Realms. They allow mortals to go one on one with each other in all sorts of interesting ways. I for one love quests, both running and competing. Well here is my idea. The hardest part of a quest is getting the ideas together and setting it up. So lets see if we can't make the idea portion easier. Although it is not appropriate to ask for a quest I think it would be neat to get suggestions from you all. The more Ideas I have the better chance there is that I or another hero will run the quest. So send me you ideas, either note me or email me at spaulson@rmc.edu. Ill take all your ideas and put them together and make sure that other heroes see it. Does that sound good? I hope so. Let us heroes worry about the prizes though...just send Ideas about quests and Ill see what I can do with them. Here are some basic ideas that may get some ideas started in your head. 1. Get all the competeing mortals drunk and then have them try to get from point A to point B..the fastest wins. Or have them try to collect things along the way. 2. The shoping list: Give a list of items that are to be collected my single players or by a group. Remeber to allow for level differences in the players 3. Trivia type quests...think of a theme and questions 4. The basic scavenger hunt in the arena, this one has a whole bunch of posiblities Well here are a few to get you started...remember note me or email me.... Later everyone, Jett Shriek's Corner Help vs Harm You all wonder where the line is. We wonder where the line is sometimes as well. When you ask a Hero or Imm for help would they truly be helping you by giving 100%? I wonder. For many this is not the first Mudding experience you have had and most likely wont be the last. Think about it, if you learn from others where everything is and never have to even explore, but can go get what you want and carry on with trying to level. Who loses in that situation? You do, by never exploring or finding things on your own you rob your- self of many experiences this Mud has to offer. But I want to Hero you say, as fast as possible. Hmm, whats the point of beating the game if you dont know anything about it? This isnt a video game here, we play for the experiences we have along the way, at least many of us do. I for one dont believe in helping too much. So if you ask me a question and I am vague about the answer, its a sure bet I think you could find out without hero/immortal help. If you make friends along the way among all the races, you can usually work together to come up a solutions to problems, or finding equipment. Thats what mudding here is about not seeing how fast you can level or begging equipment and money from people so you dont have to go through all the trouble of getting it on your own. This is a fun friendly place lets keep it that way shall we? Or would you rather it turn into a place like most of us have walked away from? Just my 2 cents Shriek. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >------------------bios---------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Mondo's BIO..... I was born in San Antonio Texas, on September 18th 1981...I wasn't born an only child i have 2 Brothers....Mark....and Jeremy(not very bad people, however they don't like mud)..I lived there for about 3 years then I was moved off to Clarksville TN(where i am presently...) for about 3-4 years....then we moved to Germany.....where i stayed for about 4 years....and i learned a little german to get by(I was going to school on an American base..)i visited all over the area and one day I found out that I had relatives in Hungary..(2 great aunts....and a Great uncle) I went to visit them a few times(2 or 3 can't remember..) and then learned a little hungarian.....It was nice there, I would like to go back sometime in the rest of my life....Eventually we made our way back to the States and we got sationed at Ft. Benning, in Columbus GA.....not a bad place either.....especially since Atlanta was only an hour away....I went to middle school there....then my dad had an opportunity to go back to Clarksville(where we still had an house..) It was up to me and my brothers to either move to Clarksville, or stay at Columbus....It was weird we all picked to go back to Clarksville....That brings me up to date....well almost...I am going to Clarksville High School and I am in 10th grade taking algebra 2, french 2, Chemistry, a computer class, World History, and English.....We don't have great sports teams(we suck at everything..) I started getting on BBS' while I was in Columbus....and when I moved up to Clarksville I found this BBS' that had a MUD on it and first time I played I WAS HOOKED....Then eventually I got internet access and my friend pointed me to Barren Realms....First time i played it I was hooked......and well thats it folks....you know everything about my life(maybe more than me) Mondo....(warr@midwest.net) CORD: Well, my name is Nathan Helder. I'm 17 years old. I'm a little over six feet tall, with dark hair and dark eyes. I play on the school football, wrestling, track, band, and chior "teams." My favorite color is clear, favorite band is NIN, favorite classes revlove around science and history, and my favorite food is french silk pie >:). There. That sums up the basics. I live out in the "boonies," about 13 miles east of Rochester, MN (I assume you all know where Rochester is, thanks to the Mayo Clinic), in a little town known as Kasson (pop: 3210). My family owns about 15 acres of land along a small river valley. We have a couple of horses, but other than that, no farm animals. Our house is located along a side road with about 15 others, so I have a few neighbors and everything, but still live outside of the main city. I live with both of my parents and my sister. I have my own room, which happens to be the biggest bedroom in the house (its in the basement; no one else likes the cold). At home I have a little 25 mhz mac and a 28.8 bps modem, and that serves as my terminal (I don't have any dial-up access right now, so it doesn't get used much). At school I'm sitting in a better situation: have a 200 mhz mac with a strait ethernet connection (no hubs) to a T-1 line. Needless to say, I spend more time online at school than at home. Speaking of my school: it's called the Kasson-Mantorville High School (us small towns have to pool our money together or we can't afford anything). Of our surrounding neighbors, our school tends to beat out the rest. We were the first HS in Minnesota with an internet connection. It didn't take long for the whole school to get hooked, so now every teacher has a 66 mhz mac with windows capablilites built in (dos card), and there are about 4 seperate labs each with another 30 or 40 computers. Not much compaired to most collages, but for a high school I'd think it's pretty good. School comes easy for me, and I maintain a 3.8 or something average. I have also developed quite the interest in computers, namely mac (ya, ya, I can hear all of you lauging already), and the school saw fit to put me and a couple freinds in charge of the whole school system's computer operation. We helped choose what computers the school should buy, and when they came in, we set them all up and installed all the crap on them and everything else. We even wired the whole school with ethernet so all those teachers could get their email. All the while on the school payrole >:) I started playing BR about 3 or 4 years ago. Had never played a mud before, and it took me a little while to the hang of it all. After those first couple of tiral run characters, I started Cord. The name came to me while I was out camping with my family and we were talking about different musical chords. Thought it sounded like a simple little name so I took it. I moved along quickley until I hit lev 25. Then I met Finality. He kinda introduced me to the ways of mass enhancing, and I sort of took a liking to them. I stayed at lev 25 for quite a long time, but decied to get along with it after almost everyone I had liked grouping with had heroed. So I moved along, enhancing every coulple of levels, until I hit 50. I had planned to spend an awful long time at 50, but then learned that by doing so I would be unbalancing the game. So I heroed. It's been a lot of fun so far, and I hope it will remain so for some time to come. It's the only mud I've ever really played (the others just came up short), and I hope I will be able to help everyone else have as much fun as I have had. Well, that about sums it up for me...now for the rest of you: good luck, level hard, and I hope to see your bios on the newsletter soon :) Cord /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------silly--------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) > >>>"If we don't succeed, we run the risk of failure." > >>> -- J. Danforth Quayle > >>> > >>>"Republicans understand the importance of bondage between a mother and > child." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle > >>> > >>>"Welcome to President Bush, Mrs. Bush, and my fellow astronauts." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle > >>> > >>>"Mars is essentially in the same orbit... Mars is somewhat the same > distance from the Sun, which is very important. We have seen pictures > where > there are canals, we believe, and water. If there is water, that means > there > is oxygen. If oxygen, that means we can breathe." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 8/11/89 > >>> > >>>"What a waste it is to lose one's mind. Or not to have a mind is > being > very wasteful. How true that is." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle > >>> > >>>"The Holocaust was an obscene period in our nation's history. I mean > in > this century's history. But we all lived in this century. I didn't live > in > this century." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 9/15/88 > >>> > >>>"I believe we are on an irreversible trend toward more freedom and > democracy - but that could change." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 5/22/89 > >>> > >>>"One word sums up probably the responsibility of any vice president, > and > that one word is 'to be prepared'." > >>> -- Vice President Dan Quayle, 12/6/89