Welcome to 2002! Come visit BR for the new year at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ News from the Realms: DevilsAngel: The candle quest The quest has ended. All but 6 of the candles were found! The last 6 candles were upon the following mobs.....evil buzzard, giant condor, The Guard of the Silver gate, Savanah lion, Diablo, and Lord Holder. Thank you to all who played and a special Thank you to Uthar for being my sponser. The winners for the hero portion are Cobalt in first with 7 candles and Dreamkeeper in second with 6 candles. The winning Mort in the race is Ashton with 5 candles. Thank you again for playing!! Prizes are done!! See me to get them! IDEAS - feel free to hit reply and answer what you think about these ideas: Corlien: farheal for druids, lvl 40+ skill. Little newbie needs help but no one around to heal? Druid in a tight spot and can't astral at the moment, they can c 'farheal' newbie and the newbie will get a 100 hp boost just like a real heal. The spell'd probably Zaknefein: maybe when you poke or nudge someone it should say who you nudge or poke instead of "You poke him/her/it in the ribs" Ashton: druids should have a disarm SPELL. It should like melt the weapon or make it fly from the mobs hand? maybe make it too hot to handle? Ashton: Even though I'm not an avian I'd like to submit this. Peek shouldn't be something done when looked at someone. It should be a skill that you have to type out. Sometimes people have so much stuff in their inventory it spams up the screen Ashton: when you're drunk you shouldn't be told that you went some other way..like "Man, are you wasted! Did you mean to go some other way?" It would be more interesting if people were walking different places while drunk. Smart: fakereport should be random like pose. DwarfMan: pay healers to cast a certain spell. Instead of waiting for one spell and watching them continously cast refresh/heal on you when it isnt needed DwarfMan: Make spells from potions/staffs/scrolls stop lagging you! It didn't take anything out of you to cast it, so why suffer from lag? Ashton: When a spell is cast and it's only one word it shouldn't say "Ashton utters the WORDS" Doesn't make sense if you only say one word like summon. RESPONSES BY ANUBIS: >Horus: oh, since I got a response to my enahance >thing... I should clear that >up... I was suggesting it tell you "you have enhanced >str 2 times amd con 1 time this level" Anubis: Why do we really need this? Can't you just see what you need from your stats? > Dimmesdale: Increase the damp buffer to allow a bigger damp Anubis: I concurr, we need more damage messages that increase as damage goes up, probably exponentially. we should increase the current damage maximum (30,000) to something higher... I'm thinking something like 3,000,000,000. That way instant kills can be something cool, like smashing every cell in your body >: ) >Divebomb: make some way for builders to make mobs >follow and possibly even group(and autoassist mobs in >their group). Anubis: grouped mobs sounds interesting, it would probably be a lot harder to fight as a mort, fairly easy as a hero. I can see this increasing the amount of people that will group. > See: you should be able to land when affected by levitation Anubis: probably >Padan: if it isn't to much code it would be >interesting for sanctuary to actually wear off, start >off stopping like 60% fdamage then down to like 35 >before it goes out Anubis: I'm not sure about this. This would only be ok if you can re-cast it even if you have it onand renew it to 60% each time. >Xorex: Okay, I've got a good one. How about a skill >for making snowballs when it is snowing? They could be >projectiles or maybe even a drink. Also, how about a >skill that lets you make snowmen that would be little >charmies? C'mon it'd be fun! I seem to remember Kiri >saying that localized weather was being added...if it >was perhaps those snow toys would only work while it >was snowing in the area.... Anubis: This would give the avas something to do. For a few minutes. Not really worth the coding time imo. However, I think that the weather should do something and have an effect. > Bonebreaker: Make back to keyword for backpack? Anubis: This is up to the area builders that make the areas. They probably just forgot to add in that as a keyword. I think it wouldn't be too hard to increase the number of keywords on certain items so that you can tell how to refer to them by just descriptions, etc. This might help out newbies. >Anyone: peck should do more damage when you start to >see stars then all turns black but should make you >sleep during the fight so you suffer double damage on >the next round ... and peck should do more damage as >you level, like with roundhouse... your beak would get >harder and sharper and you would get more accurate with >those eagle eyes... Anubis: I'm not sure about making you sleep, but peck is pretty useless right now. >Anyone: shriek should work with no target... it's not >as if you can't shriek unless you're fighting Anubis: true... >Anyone: when you level up and get a beak, wings, >talons, etc. you should lose a percentage of your hp >(sharp pains shooting through your body an' all...) Anubis: What? Growing doesn't have to be painful. What difference would this make? If you lose percentage of total hp, morts don't have much hp anyways, and there's no point except to be annoying if it is of current hp. >Kharn: disable "tell" channel while ppl are in the void Anubis: I don't really see a need for this, but I guess a message saying that they're away would be helpful. >Kiri: increase time on hero corpses to hours, rl Anubis: I think that hero corpses should be semi- permanant parts of the relms. It is a pain for everyone to get everything back (stars, coins, etc.. if they melt on your corpse) Besides, heroes should be an integral part of the history of the relms. They don't just disappear ;) Maybe heroes should drop monuments when the die that contain their belongings. These can be permanant until the hero gets up everything from it. >Lugin: make the instructor cast spells faster on lvl 1 >characters Anubis: Shortening the timer on healers would be nice >Voodoo: if you trip someone, they can't flee until they stand back up Anubis: Trip needs to do something. Right now it doesn't seem to do much when you trip a mob. >Theros: more races would be fun.....a minotaur >maybe....and a fairy... Anubis: Whenever Slart gets around to it ;) >Straad: what about a thief that steals from everything >mobs and characters alike. Anubis: Why not >Dimmesdale: Make the understanding of spells work >right. I'm a kender, and when a high level kender is in >the same room as me and casts 'Detect hidden', I >understand them, doesn't make sense seeing as how I >don't know how to cast detect hidden, however I know >bless, but when a druid or a elf or even clericus casts >bless, I can't understand them, just doesn't make >sense... My 2 cents.. Anubis: After a while, you get to understand the rubbish people say when they cast spells. Just memorize it and expand your vocab. >Wasabe: We should be able to enchant shields... to >provide a reason for dwarves not to just use weapons >but shields... to bash! Anubis: We need to add a shield block, or something to help out shields, along with better shields. >Very: why not get rid of kick for druids, at level 25 >it is hardly worth the bother... Anubis: There will be changes in the races eventually, I'm sure it's on the "to-do list somewhere" >Turale: make trip in-guild for humans! Anubis: yeah >Asimi: When you grin at someone, their alignment should >drop. Just like the social says Anubis: Socials don't really do anything and shouldn't. >Wasabe: I want to kick people out of the vehicle I >purchase... it should be the owners right... Anubis: It's annoying when people steal your cars isn't it? >AMystery: when two invisible mobs or players or players >& mobs fight, they should remain invisible. only when >one is visible should the other become so. After all, >invisible creatures should be able to see eachother and >fight Anubis: Not nessicarilly > Wasabe: when I emote a ' I would like it to appear >immediately after my name... like so emote 's feet are >green. = Wasabe's feet are green. Anubis: Yeah > Johan: pass door should have an -ac modifier as well - >if you're translucent you must be harder to hit Anubis: No real need Replies by Cord to the December 8, 2001 Newsletter: > Kharn: config +noget disables others to give you items, you auto-refuse > to take them. Cord: Seems a good addition to me. As much fun as it can be to fill up people's inventory with junk... > Johan: you should be able to specify the type of armor you would like > to make with tan (tan corpse shield, etc.) for a higher failure rate, of > course. tanned objects should have no time limit but no value either- I > meant monetary value, of course - AC modifiers etc. are very nice al the > same) Cord: I'm all for making tan more useful, and this is one way you could do it. I'd factor in level of the player and (if possible) the level of the killed mob when setting the various modifiers on the created piece of equipment... > Xorex: How about more skills that use certain weapon types like > backstab? Maybe it would encourage people to experiment with different > weapons Cord: I like this idea > Cord: "put all.coins pack" to put whatever gold you have on hand into your pack > > > Johan: the hangman should get rid of all spells as well as eq > > > Xorex: When you type Weather and you're under water it should tell you > that you're underwater instead of indoors. It would be a little useful > and make sense in game wise Cord: Makes sense to me. > Anubis: perhaps blast can make flying mobs hit the ground (land) Cord: Agreed. As it says now: "Your wings blast of wind knocks a trainee to the ground!" Makes sense that the forced-landing of a flying mob would be in there... Kiri's WWW of URLs: Ebay Conceptual Art Gallery: http://www.justinspace.com/ebay/ebayart.html My Publisher.com http://www.mypublisher.com/wp1/index.asp?pid=9999 Genealogy www.genealogy.com www.rootsweb.com www.ancestry.com Top Eight Morons of 2001 1. AT&T fired President John Walter after nine months, saying he lacked intellectual leadership. He received a $26 million severance package. Perhaps it's not Walter who's lacking intelligence. 2. Police in Oakland, California spent two hours attempting to subdue a gunman who had barricaded himself inside his home. After firing 10 tear gas canisters, officers discovered that the man was standing beside them in the police line, shouting "Please come out and give yourself up." 3. An Illinois man, pretending to have a gun, kidnapped a motorist and forced him to drive to two different automated teller machines, wherein the kidnapper proceeded to withdraw money from his own bank accounts. 4. A man walked into a Topeka, Kan., Kwik Stop, and asked for all the money in the cash drawer. Apparently, the take was too small, so he tied up the store clerk and worked the counter himself for three hours until police showed up and grabbed him. 5. Police in Los Angeles had good luck with a robbery suspect who just couldn't control himself during a lineup. When detectives asked each man in the lineup to repeat the words, "Give me all your money or I'll shoot," the man shouted, "That's not what I said!" 6. A man spoke frantically into the phone, "My wife is pregnant and her contractions are only two minutes apart!" "Is this her first child?" the doctor asked. "No!" the man shouted, "This is her husband!" 7. In Modesto, Calif., Steven Richard King was arrested for trying to hold up a Bank of America branch without a weapon. King used a thumb and a finger to simulate a gun, but unfortunately, he failed to keep his hand in his pocket. 8. Last summer, down on Lake Isabella, located in the high desert, an hour east of Bakersfield, Calif., some folks, new to boating, we re having a problem. No matter how hard they tried, they couldn't get their brand new 22-foot boat going. It was very sluggish in almost every maneuver, no matter how much power was applied. After about an hour of trying to make it go, they putted to a nearby marina, thinking someone there could tell them what was wrong. A thorough topside check revealed everything in perfect working condition. The engine ran fine, the out drive went up and down, the prop was the correct size and pitch. So, one of the marina guys jumped in the water to check underneath. He came up choking on water, he was laughing so hard. Under the boat, still strapped securely in place, was the trailer. Welcome to the January 15, 2002 Barren Realms MUD Newsletter! Log in at: telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ Prodigy: upcoming quest Hi all! Well, i'm going to be running a quest, and i thought i'd let you all know It's going to be a riddle-based treasure hunt, following clue-to clue until you find the reward. It's going to be either next weekend, or the weekend after, i'm not sure yet. i'd like all those who want to participate to send me a note and tell me what would be the ideal time to play, and i'll try to accomodate as many ppl as i can as it stands right now, it will be a mortal only quest, with all the usual no tp/track/locate/summon rules and such send me your notes, and i'll continue posting updates as the day gets closer. From Kiri: Characters that need to log on or ask me for their passwords: Agrebaz, Anni, Arba, Aric, Atrich, Balo, Coradon, Fluffy, Hellshock, Hyeon, Jarkeld, Kethry, Kirstin, Klijn, Krunk, Lockdown, Meleager, Merlyn, Metzger, Min, Mykel, Nylan, Ranced, Sinn, Terminal, Tor, Traze, Upstart, Wye. Be sure to check out the BR forums at http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/phpBB/ IDEAS: Evileye: body parts should say the level of when they were chopped off when you look at them Gebes: a command that displays an item on ones inventory to another char is necessary.. none to do anything like it now Evileye: there should be a coincidence social. Like if someone does something the same time you do you can do the coincidence title at them. Dunno what it would say FireLily: I have an idea for two channels: One is for complaining... and the other is for polling (Just for fun) There will be a new type of Bio section to come in future editions of the newsletter. I am currently writing it, and it will be somewhat like a bio, somewhat not. Kiri's WWW of URLs - note, I was low on links, so some of these are bad: Something forwarded from Sgetsuo. Very, very odd. http://www.culturelab-uk.com/site/templates/issue1/item_culturelab.asp?ID=96 Submitted by Scavenger. Current weather conditions, very detailed, all over the world. http://weather.noaa.gov/index.html A live view of my undergraduate college campus, American University in Washington DC. I like to look at it and laugh at how cold they must be as I sit in Los Angeles. http://webcam.american.edu/view/view.shtml Low carb recipes. I don't think you care, but I'm into them. http://www.camacdonald.com/lc/LowCarbohydrateCooking-Recipes.htm Diabetic recipes. Once again, I don't think you care. http://www.diabeticgourmet.com/ Replies by Baltar to Dec 19th newsletter: > > > > Turale: make trip in-guild for humans! > > > > > > Divebomb: Of course, nobody deserves trip more than the martial > > > artist! > > > > Liquid: I'm all for it > > Cord: Agreed. > > Amystery: Likewise, trip seems to be a pretty basic skill for a human. = > Of course disarm also seems pretty basic but not all races get it. Baltar: I just wanna say "Me too!" since everyone else is... > > Anyone: peck should do more damage when you start to see stars then = > all > > turns black but should make you sleep during the fight so you suffer > > double damage on the next round ... and peck should do more damage as > > you level, like with roundhouse... your beak would get harder and > > sharper and you would get more accurate with those eagle eyes... > > Cord: More damage on fade-to-black is interesting, but for the record, = > it > _does_ make your character go to sleep. Trouble is, you can't sleep = > while > in combat, so it really doesn't do anything, unless you happen to get > lucky and kill the mob with a peck that brings the stars... then you = > will > find that you are left sleeping, because the combat was over after the > damage was assessed from that peck, which takes place before the stars > come. Baltar: Hmm...maybe (if it isn't already the case) the mob's next blow to you should do more damage, since you are unconscious...sure, it'll wake you right up, but in the meantime the mob got a free shot at you. At the very least, you'd think the mob would get a bonus to hit you... Replies by Cord to the Dec. 19, 2001 Newsletter: > Skalord: Modify the flee command so you may escape or recall. Allow > the user to set the flag. Cord: I personally don't think recalling should be allowed from combat _at all_, but that's just me. > Prodigy: would it be possible for two-handed items to have a > "two-handed" flag when identified? that would help alot Cord: I suppose this might be nice, but it takes all of 2 seconds to figure out if a weapon is 2-handed or not... > Violet: why aren't there potions that make you sneak or hide? those > really could ease an avian's life ;) Cord: And make for one less excuse as to why a mort can't get their corpse.... > Prodigy: i think it would be really nice if peek could be toggled off Cord: Agreed. >>> Kharn: disable "tell" channel while ppl are in the void >> >> Cord: seems a reasonable thing to me... " cannot accept tells >> right now; their link may be dead." Or something. > > Amystery: I just wonder if this could be abused, then you know a player > is LD and you can go molest them which results in at least one of you > getting in trouble. Cord: If a tree falls in the forest.... and, as it turns out, if you try to tell a player who the mud has "realized" is linkdead, you get a "They are link dead right now." message. >>> Lugin: make the instructor cast spells faster on lvl 1 characters >> >> Cord: there are times when I've thought that this would be helpful... >> but usually the lag between spell castings can be used for instructing >> the newbie on various parts of the game... > > Amystery: I was pondering having a set of spells that the newbie or the > hero with them could order the instructor to case. Ex: "instruct > newbiename" would cause the instructor to cast a set of spells, sanc, > CM, bless, heal on the newbie. either only work for level 1 or 1-10. Cord: Sounds _too_ easy to me. Would have to be limited to level 1 (and maybe 2), if implemented at all. >>> Straad: what about a thief that steals from everything mobs and >>> characters alike. >> >> Cord: Makes sense. I can't really see any (logical) reason for thieves >> to distinguish between mobs and players... code wise, it's probably a >> whole nother issue... > > Amystery: It would be fun to see two thieves stealing from eachother, > but it would also seem to be an easy way to get lots of money. Find an > area with a single thief and lots of mobs, kill the thief who has all > the mobs' money. If mobs occassionally detected the thief and killed it > that would make it even more interesting. Cord: Right. Ties back into the idea of "aggro" mobs that actually attack other mobs... I think these two ideas together are a pretty good idea. > Amystery: Actually I was thinking about people in the room with the two > fighting chars. If the spectator didn't have detect invis then they > shouldn't see anything. Cord: Ahh. This idea makes more sense now. I agree, but this impacts other things as well... "Someone has arrived from the west." - it seems you're saying that those messages shouldn't be provided either. Return of the Son of the Best of Steven Wright (Ad he did for a local student radio station:) Whenever I'm in Champaign, I listen to the great music on Rock 107, and when I'm out of town, they mail it to me. (Referring to a glass of water) I mixed this myself. Two parts H, one part O. I don't trust anybody! 42.7 percent of all statistics are made up on the spot. A cop stopped me for speeding. He said, "Why were you going so fast?" I said, "See this thing my foot is on? It's called an accelerator. When you push down on it, it sends more gas to the engine. The whole car just takes right off. And see this thing? This steers it." A friend of mine is into voodoo acupuncture. You don't have to go. You'll just be walking down the street, and ... ooooohhhhhh, that's much better. All of the people in my building are insane. The guy above me designs synthetic hairballs for ceramic cats. The lady across the hall tried to rob a department store ... with a pricing gun. She said, "Give me all of the money in the vault, or I'm marking down everything in the store." All those who believe in psycho kinesis, raise my hand. And when I get real, real bored, I like to drive downtown and get a great parking spot, then sit in my car and count how many people ask me if I'm leaving. Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? Ever notice how irons have a setting for permanent press? I don't get it. Everywhere is walking distance if you have the time. For a while I didn't have a car. I had a helicopter. No place to park it, so I just tied it to a lamp post and left it running. [Slow glance upward.] For my birthday I got a humidifier and a de-humidifier. I put them in the same room and let them fight it out. So then I filled the humidifier with wax and left it on. Now everything in my house is shiny. Four years ago ... no, it was yesterday. How do you tell when you're out of invisible ink? How many people does it take to change a searchlight bulb? I almost had a psychic girlfriend but she left me before we met. I bought a dog the other day. I named him Stay. It's fun to call him. Come here, Stay! Come here, Stay! He went insane. Now he just ignores me and keeps typing. I bought a house, on a one-way dead-end road; I don't know how I got there. I bought a million lottery tickets. I won a dollar. I bought a self-learning record to learn Spanish. I turned it on and went to sleep; the record got stuck. The next day I could only stutter in Spanish. I bought my brother some gift-wrap for Christmas. I took it to the gift-wrap department and told them to wrap it, but in a different print so he would know when to stop unwrapping. I bought some batteries. But they weren't included. So I had to buy them again. I bought some powdered water, but I don't know what to add to it. I bought some used paint. It was in the shape of a house. I broke a mirror in my house. I'm supposed to get seven years of bad luck, but my lawyer thinks he can get me five. I can remember the first time I had to go to sleep. Mom said, "Steven, time to go to sleep" I said, "But I don't know how." She said, "It's real easy. Just go down to the end of tired and hang a left." So I went down to the end of tired, and just out of curiosity I hung a right. My mother was there, and she said, "I thought I told you to go to sleep." I collect rare photographs. I have two. One of Houdini locking his keys in his car. The other is a rare picture of Norman Rockwell beating up a child. I couldn't find the remote control to the remote control. I didn't get a toy train like the other kids. I got a toy subway instead. You couldn't see anything, but every now and then you'd hear this rumbling noise go by. I don't have to walk my dog anymore. I walked him all at once. I don't like the sound of my phone ringing so I put my phone inside my fish tank. I can't hear it, but every time I get a call I see the fish swim into each other. I go down to the pet store -- "Gimme another 10 guppies, I got a lotta calls yesterday." I eat swiss cheese. But I only nibble on it. I make the holes bigger. I got a chain letter by fax. It's very simple. You just fax a dollar bill to everybody on the list. I got a garage-door opener. It can't close. Just open. I got a new shadow. I had to get rid of the other one -- it wasn't doing what I was doing. I got food poisoning today. I don't know when I'll use it. I got into an elevator at work and this man followed in after me. I pushed "1" and he just stood there. I said, "Hi, where you going?" He said, "Phoenix." So, I pushed "Phoenix." A few seconds later, the doors opened, two tumbleweeds blew in. We were in downtown Phoenix. I looked at him and said, "You know, you're the kind of guy I want to hang around with." We got into his car and drove out to his shack in the desert. Then the phone rang. He said, "You get it." I picked it up and said, "Hello?" The other side said, "Is this Steven Wright?" I said, "Yes..." The guy said, "Hi, I'm Mr. Jones, the student loan director from your bank. It seems you have missed your last 17 payments, and the university you attended said that they received none of the $17,000 we loaned you. We would just like to know what happened to the money." I said, "Mr. Jones, I'll give it to you straight. I gave all of the money to my friend Slick, and with it he built a nuclear weapon ... and I would appreciate it if you never called me again." I got my driver's license photo taken out of focus on purpose. Now when I get pulled over, the cop looks at it [moving it nearer and farther, trying to see it clearly], and says, "Here, you can go." I got up one morning and couldn't find my socks, so I called Information. She said, "Hello, Information." I said, "I can't find my socks." She said, "They're behind the couch." And they were! I had a dream that all the victims of The Pill came back ... boy, were they mad! I had amnesia once or twice. I had fried octopus last night. You have to be really quiet when you eat it. Otherwise, it emits a cloud of black smoke and falls on the floor. I had my coat hangers spayed. I had some eyeglasses. I was walking down the street when suddenly the prescription ran out. I had to stop driving my car for a while. The tires got dizzy. I hate it when my foot falls asleep during the day because that means it's going to be up all night. I have a friend name Dennis. Both his parents are midgets, but not Dennis. He's a midget dwarf. He's the guy who poses for trophies. I have a hobby. I have the world's largest collection of sea shells. I keep it scattered on beaches all over the world. Maybe you've seen some of it. I have a map of the United States. It's original size. It says one mile equals one mile. I have a microwave fireplace in my house. The other night I laid down in front of the fire for the evening in two minutes. I have an answering machine in my car. It says, "I'm home now. But leave a message and I'll call when I'm out." I hooked up my accelerator pedal in my car to my brake lights. I hit the gas, people behind me stop, and I'm gone. I installed a skylight in my apartment. The people who live above me are furious! I intend to live forever -- so far, so good. I invented the cordless extension cord. I just bought a microwave fireplace. You can spend an evening in front of it in only eight minutes. I like to fill my tub up with water, then turn the shower on and act like I'm in a submarine that's been hit. I like to go to art museums and name the untitled paintings "Boy With Pail" ... "Kitten On Fire." I like to paint passing lines on curved roads. I like to reminisce with people I don't know. I like to skate on the other side of the ice. I like to torture my plants by watering them with ice cubes. I lost a button hole today I love to go shopping. I love to freak out salespeople. They ask me if they can help me, and I say, "Have you got anything I'd like?" Then they ask me what size I need, and I say, "Extra medium." I made a chocolate cake with white chocolate. Then I took it to a potluck. I stood in line for some cake. They said, "Do you want white cake or chocolate cake?" I said, "yes." I met this wonderful girl at Macy's. She was buying clothes and I was putting Slinkies on the escalator. I moved into an all-electric house. I forgot and left the porch light on all day. When I got home the front door wouldn't open. I plan to be spontaneous tomorrow. I planted some bird seed. A bird came up. Now I don't know what to feed it. Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter! Haven't been to BR in a while? Come back! We miss you! telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ And visit our boards at: http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/phpBB/ News from the Realms: Prodigy: quest you're all no doubt wondering about my quest...well, we're doing it next saturday, so clear your calanders :) it's set for 18:00 system time, until however long it takes you all to figure out my clues more detailed notes will be coming soon, but for now, enjoy! and i hope to see you all there Kiri: typos As you all know, every month I try to correct all the typos reported and the person who reports the most gets a major stat raise. I missed a month there because of exams. Once again, Oldguy is our winner! The results were: Redeemer, Tea, Leiland and Bruce with one typo. Lugin and myself with two typos. Slart with 11. Remnant with 31, and Oldguy with a whopping 232. Keep reporting those, and thanks everyone who tried :) IDEAS: Krill: If the invisible imp's in the donations room are friendly and here to help, why do they slap you when you smile at them? Ashton: failing spells shouldn't cost so much mana....summon....sanc... Evileye: there should be a command that shows others how much experience you need to level Covenant: A new spell: makes a battle private. mobs cannot assist. , the bad. nogroup allowed then? AMystery: you should be able to start a fight with peck. it doesn't make realistic sense than you can't Replies from BALTAR: > Ashton: Even though I'm not an avian I'd like to submit this. Peek = > shouldn't be something done when looked at someone. It should be a skill = > that you have to type out. Sometimes people have so much stuff in their = > inventory it spams up the screen Baltar: This has been suggested numerous times before, and I've never heard anyone say anything against it. Pretty please? > DwarfMan: pay healers to cast a certain spell. Instead of waiting for = > one spell and watching them continously cast refresh/heal on you when it = > isnt needed Some spells are already available for gold (type HEAL at Clericus). It would be nice if they all were, but I guess the Powers-That-Be don't want shield, giant strength, combat mind, etc. available for cash after level 10. Replies from Bonebreaker: Corlien: farheal for druids, lvl 40+ skill. Little newbie needs help but no one around to heal? Druid in a tight spot and can't astral at the moment, they can c 'farheal' newbie and the newbie will get a 100 hp boost just like a real heal. The spell'd probably Bonebreaker: And soon you don't have to play yourself... I can se this get abused.. Zaknefein: maybe when you poke or nudge someone it should say who you nudge or poke instead of "You poke him/her/it in the ribs" Bonebreaker: Why not? Then you know u didnt poke someone else ;) Ashton: Even though I'm not an avian I'd like to submit this. Peek shouldn't be something done when looked at someone. It should be a skill that you have to type out. Sometimes people have so much stuff in their inventory it spams up the screen Bonebreaker: *agree* Smart: fakereport should be random like pose. Bonebreaker: That would be much better... DwarfMan: Make spells from potions/staffs/scrolls stop lagging you! It didn't take anything out of you to cast it, so why suffer from lag? Bonebreaker: Doesnt it take a while for rl medicin too? Kiri's WWW of URLs: From Scavenger - Cat and Girl: http://www.catandgirl.com/ From Sozz, don't blame me: http://www.mcsweetie.com/tests/ Sorry this newsletter was a little low on content. Next week there will be more :) Don't blame me for these next jokes, blame the British. It's British One liners: I saw this bloke chatting up a cheetah, I thought, "he's trying to pull a fast one." So I said to this train driver, "I want to go to Paris." He said, "Eurostar?" I said, "I've been on the telly but I'm no Dean Martin." So I said to the gym instructor, "Can you teach me to do the splits?" He said, "How flexible are you?" I said, "I can't make Tuesdays." So I was having dinner with Gary Kasparov and there was a checked tablecloth. It took him two hours to pass me the salt. He said, "You remind me of a pepper-pot." I said, "I'll take that as a condiment." Do you know I've got a friend who's fallen in love with two school bags? He's bisatchel. But I'll tell you what I love doing more than anything: trying to pack myself in a small suitcase. I can hardly contain myself. Now you know those trick candles that you blow out and a couple of seconds later they come alight again? Well, the other day there was a fire at the factory that makes them. So I met this gangster who pulls up the back of people's pants, it was Weggie Kray. So I said, "Do you want a game of Darts?" He said, "OK then." I said, "Nearest to bull starts." He said, "Baa." I said, "Moo." He said, "You're closest." You see I'm against hunting. In fact, I'm a hunt saboteur. I go out the night before and shoot the fox. The other day I sent my girlfriend a huge pile of snow. I rang her up, I said, "Do you get my drift?" So I went down the local supermarket, I said, "I want to make a complaint -- this vinegar's got lumps in it." He said, "Those are pickled onions." So I went to the Chinese restaurant and this duck came up to me with a red rose and says, "Your eyes sparkle like diamonds." I said, "Waiter, I asked for a-ROMATIC duck." But I'm in great mood tonight because the other day I entered a competition and I won a years supply of Marmite ... one jar. So this bloke says to me, "Can I come in your house and talk about your carpets?" I thought, "That's all I need, a Je-hoover's witness." You see my next-door neighbour worships exhaust pipes. He's a Catholic converter. So I rang up British Telecom, I said, "I want to report a nuisance caller." He said, "Not you again." So I was in Tesco's and I saw this man and woman wrapped in a barcode. I said, "Are you two an item?" So a lorry-load of tortoises crashed into a train-load of terrapins. I thought, "That's a turtle disaster".