July 1 2003 News from the realms: -------------------- Sozz: Happy Birthday Canada! Yep, it's another quest! In honor of Canada Day, on July the 1st, there will be a quest held - starting as soon as you read this note! You may not live in Canada, and you may not be particularly fond of Canada, but you can still participate! I need you to find me five things (and ONLY five things) which you think represent Canada. Or even reminds you of Canada. Or you think can be found in Canada. Or pretty much anything you can think of to link to Canada. Now, these items don't have to be complimentary to Canada. If you think Canada sucks, then express your opinion. This quest is open to both mortals and hero's - though one person cannot win both categories. Any spell or skill you'd like to use is allowed, there are no restrictions. I will be providing bags, you'll be providing the items, and a bodypart to put in your bag to identify it as yours. The deadline will be Sunday, July 6. I will NOT be lenient on this. If I don't have your stuff by Sunday, you will NOT be counted. You may just hand in your bag to me, but I suggest sending me an email with your list of *five* items, and an explanation for each, to tell me why you think it fits in with Canada. My email is hcva@telus.net And MUCH thanks to our resident Deadman for sponsoring :) Sozz PS: Upon reading through, I realize I may have been a little unclear. July 1st is Canada day, but this quest begins as soon as you read this note. --------------------------- Disaster: had a quest today Mon Jun 30 11:05:11 2003 To: all i held a smurf-squishing quest today, with faustus sponsoring players had to get drunk, and kill as many smurfs in arena as they could, some of them having tokens on them the player with the most tokens at the end won spar 11, drako 5, daredevil 2, enkil 1, anri 1, pakter 0, faye 0 spar, you can see faustus for your prize :) ----------------------------- Ghaleon: Darn the Elf! Mon Jun 30 16:17:45 2003 To: Joysinger all I held a quest, and it was pretty fun. I really liked it. Participants are: Howard, Oversoul, Cataclysm, Smeagain, Twiggy, Gauss, Colibris (the first three are in order) I hope you guys have fun and quest up! *smirk* >>Annie -------------------- Disaster: results from the role-playing quest well, i'm pleased to announce that results are finally in, and i have your prizes ready it was VERY difficult to judge, and so subjective, it's really not even funny, so all of you are getting a prize! *this is where you go "who-hoo!" if you played and "danggit!" if you didn't* i did my best to come up with prizes based on your participation, level, race, etc, and i really hope you all enjoy them (in no particular order, since it was so hard ot judge) envy, faye, oversoul(well, gauche since he had the bad manners to hero ;P), kazuma and pogzor, you may see me for your prize if you notice that your name is NOT posted, but you participated, one of two things happened: 1) i forgot you because i was so tired after the quest. if you believe this happened, i'm sorry, by all means, come talk to me asap 2) YOU CHEATED!!!! if you fall into this second category (and one of you does-just be glad i'm not announcing your name here, and that i asked Leiland not to bamf-slay you like you deserved) then you get NOTHING the cheater in question used an alt to locate items the questers were searching for. not just once, after which he received a warning, but TWICE, with two different characters, thinking he was being sneaky the price of his sneakiness: spending about 3.5 hours doing the quest, and getting NOTHING for it. let this be a lesson: DON'T CHEAT!! for those of you who didn't cheat, i hope you all enjoyed the quest as much as i did, and i look forward to being able to do similar quests in the future once again, thanks to both Leiland (the original sponsor) and Comatose, who helped out mid-quest Dis ----------------------- Disaster: pseudo-quest Tue Jul 1 17:39:35 2003 To: all ok, so maybe it's not a quest, but i don't know what else to call it if you were reading the forums a while back, you'll have noticed that Joysinger and I have a little bet going concearning my ability to get suicide from 51-151 in under an hour the conditions are thus: i can do anything not disallowed by existing rules this includes, but is not limited to, wearing a tgames sword and/or a starsword, using an alt for spellups, etc now, THIS is where it gets interesting: you guys get to bet on the results i'll be the bookie (due to apparently noone else wanting to do it. if you want the job instead, talk ot alicia and myself) mort bets and hero bets are seperate, there are 3 categories of bets 1. Yes he'll make it/ No he won't. pays 1:1 mort max: $1mil hero max $50mil bet type 2: guess the minute that he will reach 151. minute 1 is 0-59 seconds. minute 2 is 1:00-1:59 etc. minute 60 is 59:00-:59:59 (this extends past the hour marker, if you think it'll take me 1 hour 20 minutes, etc type 2 bets cost $100k for morts, $5mil for heroes. it's winner take all, if noone guesses right, noone gets anything (that is, it's NOT the closest, you need to be exact) ties will be divided evenly, of course, if more than one person guesses the correct minute. OOPS, it's not "winner takes all" -if noone gets it exact, then the closest person will get half the pot type 3 bet: what level will i be at the 30 minute mark? max mortal bet $300k max hero bet $10mil. gussing right earns you 10x your bet, being the closest earns you 5x your bet the start time has yet to be decided-we'll keep you posted alicia will be the final decision maker when it comes to determining who wins. you may only bet as one mortal and as one hero, not as every single one of your alts obviously, since i'm the bookie, all bets are final as of when i start NO CREDIT!!! cash up front for all bets i'll be starting (if all goes as planned with no delays) at 13:00 system time, on saturday make sure ot get your bets in by then. if you can't see me, send me a note with your bet (you'd better live up to the bet though, if you bet this way and lose, or i'll be very upset with you, as will alicia) alicia has agreed to change the type 3 odds: it now pays out at 15:1 if you're right on, and 7.5:1 if you're the closest -------------------- NyteShade: Vampire Quest Wed Jul 2 21:11:22 2003 To: all the winners of the vampire are: on the mort side it goes Drako 5, note + on the mort side it goes Drako 5 and wizzywig 2. on the hero side there was Ghaleon tied with Disaster with 5, Exo 3, Oversoul 2 and Cord 2 o and Phreak with 3 *toe* subject prizes will be given out to the winners of the quest when I talk to Faustus ---------- Ghaleon: Rabbit Results Thu Jul 3 00:17:22 2003 To: all Well, the quest went pretty good. We saw some negative sides and positive ones. The results are: HappyCamper (70), Eshe (46), Melissa (6), Smeagain (4), Faye (3), Cataclysm (2) I hope you all had fun and the prizes should be done this week. If not, it might be postponed after I come back from my vacation. >>Annie P.S. The keyword is "Sphinx" btw. Now all these itchy heroes can finally locate them. ----------------- NyteShade: Riddle Quest Thu Jul 3 07:36:59 2003 To: hero Ok the standing for the riddle quest are in it they are: Fia with 3, Ghaleon with 8, Grahf with 9, Dio with 10, Snoopy with 11, Beanis with 15 kharn with 14, Nest with 15, Stars with 15note + Nest with 15, Stars with 15, Cord with 16 Disaster for 21 and Sozz for 21 Prize will be given out when I contact Faustus --------------- These characters need to log in or will lose their characters: Adakar, Exodyss, Harrypotter, Inkydu, Jesostele, Maya, Mccready ------------------------------------------------------ IDEAS: Disaster: RC rooms shouldn't show up for mortal hangman, in same way hero rooms don't Kharn: when you click on someones pic in the gallerie, it should link to those persons website (if he/she has one) Suicide: using teleport/etc should not automaticly turn on the questwatch channel Cataclysm: messages sent via telepathy should show up in tellh Ankou: note/description - (number) to delete the (number) line of a description or note/description insert (number) (string) to insert a line after the (number) line of a description or note Cord: a "alts" field for profile, where people can specify their alts if they wish. this field would then automatically be set for all the specified alts. then modify whois tho also show that player's alts. Cord: probably would need to be a sort of alt + , alt - command combo so some checking can be performed. assure that the added alt is a character, and maybe that that char as the same password as the current character... Cord: ha == has. then maybe modify whois to show that player and/or any of their atls that are currently online... i dunno. could be quite handy Ghaleon: Have a low level weapon accessible for newbies [ 184] Kharn: allow damp to be longer than 18 (was it 18?) characters Ghaleon: Mental barrier reflects bamf! *hops* Cord: probably been mentioned before, but it'd be nice if mental barrier was able to reflect twice if both mobs/players are affected by it, thus nullifying it for both. Cord: have the color of the 'answer' channel be set-able? Cord: have "quest " go to the quest channel instead of the question channel? [ Cord: also, when hero, seeing the color of the hero channel in colors would be nice Disaster: "look item character" to look at the long description of an item being worn by a character Rabies: Add a new "blocker" mob specco that could keep you from exiting a room in the specified direction(s). Ex: "N: The black knight blocks your passage!" Melissa: a social that makes the disaprooving 'tsk, tsk' noise Rabies: Yet another speco for mobs: speco_regenerate. Heals a percentage of its hps per tick (say, 15%?) rather than a fixed 50. Melissa: an 'eeeee' or 'eeeeeek' social Melissa: a social that goes [character] 'hangs on your every word' Melissa: social [character] 'mourns [character]' Kiri -- Melissa, feel free to write these. The help file is help writesocial and helpsocialex ------------------ Kiri's WWW of URLs: A stuffed Cthulhu! http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=47&show_article=83 Funny, from Scav http://sinfest.net/d/20020926.html Strange new viking kitties flash http://www.rathergood.com/gaybar/ Temple of the Lemur http://totl.net/ ----------------------- Responses by Polgara Huugsss Kiri :) lookee more answers. Aren't I just the helpful one. muahhaha. *evil laugh* > IDEAS: > > Ack: Give Kenders a sap ability. It has the ability > to knock the mob/pc unconciousususus(ie puts them to > sleep). oh yeah, lets make kenders even more powerful lol > Ack: Also the heavier the object the better the > success rate Little Kender, "but honestly Polgara, why can't I use this Ottoman (very very heavy object if you haven't seen one) to sap the Golem." Polgara, "Because it weighs more than you do." Little Kender, "but..." Polgara, "No." Little Kender, "but..." Polgara, "NO." Little Kender, "I challenge you to the Arena!" Polgara, "So you can try and knock me unconscious with an ottoman?" *blinks* I think this about covers my answer to this idea :) > Ack: A fallback command, is like flee but isntead of > going to another room you stay where you are. only > works if YOU are the attacking person Errr...so it does what? Keeps you in the room where you were fighting it. So...I don't understand. It would keep fighting you?? Is typing a single letter (n,s,e,w) to hard nowadays :) Flee! Flee! > Ack: when you enter the arena and you are invis then > it should say Someone enters the arena If an Invisible Personage falls in the Forest, do you see them fall? NO. That's what SEE invis potions are for :) sorry. > Ack: make the guardian killable and give the demons > a different guild master across from the druids. I > want his axe!! Guardian steps up to the computer. "Excuse me, Polgara, let me answer this one." "Yes, Sir!" Says Polgara, the demon chicken. "Perhaps, if the gods allow it someday you can earn my axe in a quest, young padawan..err...Ack. But for now, we don't need huge spam battles that last for overly lengthy amounts of time at recall," Guardian types as he lovingly caresses his axe. "They shan't get thee mine precious. No, they shant." (errrr..yeah. did I mention that it's 3 am here?) > Suicide: the minimum level requirement for each RC > should be included in help fetish Good idea. In fact, great idea. But that would also narrow down where the RCs are, and we all know the whereabouts are SUPPOSED to be a closely guarded secret and not spread around. Wouldn't narrowing down the level of the RCs make the entire quest (and it is a quest) to easy. While I like the idea, I like the tradition better :) > Cord: you really should be prompted if you are sure > when you type "remort" at level 151 OH yeah. Can you say "Polgara never MEANT to be a demon?" I knew you could. Please, please please please do this. haha. I wonder how many times this has been posted now? > Oversoul: Ballistic attack says you chuckle as a > stone hits (MOB). It usually only taps. I think as > you grow in level, the stone should be bigger and it > should do more damage It's a newbie spell. I think the only way the stone should do more damage as you level is if it WASN'T a newbie spell. I can't see some lvl 50 throwing a boulder at Kandy for what?? 5 mana? what is it? hehe. No. don't think so. :) > Peel: get xp in the arena for killing players heh. Interesting idea really. You CHOOSE to go into the arena, technically (while there are ways around this) you can't be made to go into it (unless an IMM takes you there. the problem with this, is that it would be an easy way to level. You don't have to get your corpse. You don't lose anything. If you did lose your corpse when you died in the arena, a person can be killed again and again and again just corpse retrieving themselves, because it would be LEGAL for anyone to stand in that room and kill him when you came in to get your corpse. No. I've gotten off on a slight tangent, but you see my point? EXP in the arena would make the playing field unlevel. > Cord: this has probably been idea-ed before, but > just in case... it would be nice if identify > told you what wear slot a piece of equipment was > for... GOOD IDEA! Great idea! All for this! If someone would spend the time to go through all the items and put wear tags on them and the programming for it was done. woohoo. :) > Oversoul: If you're invisible and you can see > yourself in "group" without see invis, you should be > able to see what you typed in chath without see > invis Heh, another good point and something I think should be fixed. Polgara ---------------------------------------- Our Australian friends will probably appreciate this humor: Olympics in Oz Here are some of the classic questions that were asked of the Sydney Olympic Committee via their website, and answers supplied where appropriate... Q: Does it ever get windy in Australia? I have never seen it rain on TV, so how do the plants grow? (UK) A: Upwards, out of the ground, like the person who asked this question, who themselves will need watering if their IQ drops any lower... Q: Will I be able to see kangaroos in the street? (USA) A: Depends on how much beer you've consumed... Q: Which direction should I drive - Perth to Darwin or Darwin to Perth - to avoid driving with the sun in my eyes? (Germany) A: Excellent question, considering that the Olympics are being held in Sydney. Q: I want to walk from Perth to Sydney - can I follow the railroad tracks? (Sweden) A: Sure, it's only three thousand miles, so you'll need to have started about a year ago to get there in time... Q: Is it safe to run around in the bushes in Australia? (Sweden) A: And accomplish what? Q: It is imperative that I find the names and addresses of places to contact for a stuffed porpoise. (Italy) A: I'm not touching this one... Q: My client wants to take a steel pooper-scooper into Australia. Will you let her in? (South Africa) A: Why? We DO have toilet paper here... Q: Do the camels in Australia have one hump or two? (UK) Q: Do you have perfume in Australia? (France) A: No. Everybody stinks. Q: Can I wear high heels in Australia? (UK) A: This HAS to have been asked by a blonde... Q:Can you tell me the regions in Tasmania where the female population is smaller than the male population? (Italy) A: Yes. Gay nightclubs. Q: Do you celebrate Christmas in Australia? (France) A: Yes. At Christmas. Q: Can I drive to the Great Barrier Reef? (Germany) A: Sure, if your vehicle is amphibious. Q: Are there killer bees in Australia? (Germany) A: Not yet, but we'll see what we can do when you get here. Q: Can you give me some information about hippo racing in Australia? (USA) A: What's this guy smoking, and where do I get some? Q: Are there supermarkets in Sydney and is milk available all year round? A: Yes on the supermarkets, but the cows are on strike. Q: Please send a list of all doctors in Australia who can dispense rattlesnake serum. (USA) A: I love this one... there are no rattlesnakes in Australia. Q: Which direction is North in Australia? (USA) A: Face North and you should be about right. Q: Can you send me the Vienna Boys' Choir schedule? (USA) A: People have long had considerable trouble distinguishing between Austria and Australia. (Makes me so proud of being an 'merican... the land of the geographically challenged.) Q: I have a question about a famous animal in Australia, but I forget its name. It's a kind of bear and lives in trees. (USA) Q: Are there places in Australia where you can make love outdoors? (Italy) A: Yes. Outdoors Q: I want to go swimming at Bondi Beach on October 20th. Will I turn blue? (Germany) A: No that would only happen on the 21st. Q: I hear that all Australian women are beautiful. Is that true and if so, can you send me pictures of the available ones? (Italy) A: Sure. Have you got about 3000GB spare on your harddrive? Q: Will I be able to speek English most places I go? (USA) A: Yes, but you'll have to learn it first. July 22, 2003 Welcome to the Barren Realms Newsletter for July 22, 2003! You may have noticed there was no newsletter for the last two weeks. Your imp was in New York, studying for the bar for California, trying very hard not to be distracted. I will be taking the California bar the last three days of July, so please be nice! -------------------------------------------- News From the Realms: Quests running NOW: Naxias: Item Quest Fri Jul 18 23:19:03 2003 To: all Hello! =) All you have to do is collect 3 items: 1 item as the scariest thing you know of 1 item as the strangest thing you know of 1 item as the happiest thing you know of =) all entries must be in to me or Coma by friday the 25th Thanks to Coma for sponsering! =) you also have to do an explanation on all 3 items thanks ;) Naxias. Lairian: Flaming Death! Sat Jul 19 15:45:48 2003 To: all July 27th... 5 p.m. system time... A quest begins. A division of low (1 to 25) and high (26 to 50) mortals, as well as heros will be competing in the gentleman's game... Of Death Potion Roulette. Thank Leiland for sponsoring. Leiland: I have been informed that there will be no flaming. However, there is a chance (though not huge) of death. Actually, there should be only a small chance of it, but you have been warned. There will be no automatic CRs, though there may be if you qualify for one normally. Death Potion Roulette is still on the 27th, 5pm system time. Any character, any level is allowed, but only one character per person, please. Quest Results: Sozz: You MISSED it! Fri Jul 18 17:15:53 2003 To: all Hey folks! You missed three great rounds of 20 questions this afternoon! Lairian swept the others away the first two rounds, then Daredevil snuck in to win the last item! Other participants were Spar, Wizzywig, Gauss, and Smeagain. Congratulate Lairian and Daredevil next time you see them! Comatose: quest Fri Jul 18 20:04:21 2003 To: all I ran a quick quest today. The object of the quest was to retrieve a mirror, a croquet ball or both. The catch was that one item would result in a slay at any time that I choose. The other item would reward you with a restore ticket. The ball was the item that would get you a restore ticket. The mirror was the slay item. I had less participation then I expected, but I will try again with different items. ----------------------------------------------- Ideas: Ghaleon: Can it show in the profile what avatar# we are at? Disaster: profile should list the true sex of the character, not the sex as modified by change sex Disaster: look 2.item please, please, PLEASE look 2.item *begs* Disaster: a skill toss that would toss a potion at an enemy, to cause teh spells of the potion to act on the enemy Disaster: "bless" flags should actually do something, like giving an extra 5 hp mana mv recovery per tick or something like that Disaster: an option that can be turned off allowing us to not automaticly respond when hit by a spell (so we can watch mortals kill stuff, but not attack when an area spell hits us Araby: If an item is invisible, it shouldn't glow/hum, just a thought Oversoul: when you identify pills, it should say what spell they cast Bedlam: protected mobs shouldn't be thieves Anguish: if an item has an evil alignment and it is enchanted, the originally alignment should be removed and replaced with the spell caster's alignment Suicide: personalized items sold to a shop should go "poof" Exo: i think we should have a base hp thing on our stat screens, like what our hp and mana and movment are without eq or spells on us Exo: i think that neuter heroes should have a HEROIT on the who list, since female heroes have heroine on thiers Oversoul: Change the drink command. newbies get confused when it says "You are not thirsty". Smeagain: If you healed/regained mana which was a percentage of your max instead of a fixed amount per tick the game would be far more playable and socialable as you wouldnt have to spend sooooo much time drunk and asleep when your stats get higher. DwarfMan: Cancel the yell channel. "Y" is next to "T", and it sometimes turns into Yell instead of Tell. My tells often contain profanity; There's no need for yell channel, we already have shout! Millions: Vehicles shouldn't melt--could be towed or something but you rarely see a car "melt" Bedlam: a "BR timeline" on the site, saying important dates and changes, like herolevels, rehero, remort, etc Ghaleon: "mana shield" spell where a part of the damage falls under mana Puppetmon: Putting the numerical damange on the screen in parenthesis maybe EX DISCOMBOBULATE (143) Kharn: dwarves should not be hit by lightning if any non-dwarf character is in the room (coz those are taller) ;) Squidster: you should be able to use vision while resting. it's just sight! Glorn: When trying to wear an item, it check and default to remove the item that isn't it, e.g. it should not try to replace itself. AMystery: we need an exit survey. when someone deletes they should be asked a few questions, at least one asking for a reason. it would be a good way to learn what people dislike Squiddy: when you look at a demon with a head, it should say "Another head even uglier than his/her/its first one" insead of "...YOUR first one" Squiddy: Newbies should get a little thing that imms do to send a message to the whole realms that suggests to go to the BR web page and read the new player guide Kharn: boomerangs -- projectile weapons which come back after thrown but not hit Puppetmon: Make it so you can make recall to different cities, such as Malathar, Malcandria, Pelendra Ghaleon: Infravision should also work on the "exit" command and say the room next to it, instead of "Too dark to tell." Cacophony: an offhand (item) command, since really someone would be able to chose which item to hold in which hand without the need to trick themselves by wearing a rock hammer first Beakster: explain what exactly a quest is in the help quest By Rabies: Been a while since I went on a submitting spree, but I heard on the message board that this was a good time to submit ideas. A "speco_evil" for mobs: Combat: Casts curse, blind, web, and illusion in combat If health < 25%, will cast "bamf" on players Attempts to summon helper monsters in combat (looks for an extra description in the room, something like "smon [mnum]" Outside of combat: Will cast spells to heal itself to at least 50% health before taking active actions. Has memory. Will use "where" to scan for players it hates in its area and teleport to them to attack. Remembers its "home" square and teleports back after fights. Will teleport unworthy opponents (> 5 level difference) to a specified room number after making a snarky comment. ("Begone, pathetic wretch. I have no time to waste on the likes of you!") This, like the summoning, would also be easiest to accomplish with an extra room description. At least until Slart allows specos to take arguments, anyway... Submitted another pair of speco ideas via the "idea" command, since they were short. Plenty more if you want them - some practical, some not. -N/Rabies ------------------------------------ Kiri's WWW of URLs: Super Cthulhu!! http://www.figures.com/databases/action.cgi?setup_file=fignews2.setup&category=actionfigures&topic=47&show_article=83 Some really cool photographs by famous photographers http://www.pdnonline.com/legends/archive/legends_menu.html From Scavenger - great webgames http://www.gmlb.com/games.html ------- I am all out of Responses! Please feel free to hit reply and give me some :) For now, here's some mined from the forum: By Anakin: Quote: Suicide: using teleport/etc should not automaticly turn on the questwatch channel *shrugs* According to the 'help questwatch' it says that it is just the same way as on how the other channels are written. Never really bothered me... Quote: Cataclysm: messages sent via telepathy should show up in tellh It would be great! But I think it would change the whole thing--changing the spell to a channel-type thing. Quote: Ankou: note/description - (number) to delete the (number) line of a description or note/description insert (number) (string) to insert a line after the (number) line of a description or note Agreed. Quote: Cord: a "alts" field for profile, where people can specify their alts if they wish. this field would then automatically be set for all the specified alts. then modify whois tho also show that player's alts. Cord: probably would need to be a sort of alt + , alt - command combo so some checking can be performed. assure that the added alt is a character, and maybe that that char as the same password as the current character... Cord: ha == has. then maybe modify whois to show that player and/or any of their atls that are currently online... i dunno. could be quite handy Make character accounts, in other words. *nod self* Quote: Kharn: allow damp to be longer than 18 (was it 18?) characters I don't see why not. I mean the message for a discbobulate is far longer than our current damp message can handle. ^,^ Quote: Ghaleon: Mental barrier reflects bamf! *hops* *does the chicken dance* Quote: Cord: probably been mentioned before, but it'd be nice if mental barrier was able to reflect twice if both mobs/players are affected by it, thus nullifying it for both. *imagines an eternity-long fight between two demons with MB head...* Quote: Cord: also, when hero, seeing the color of the hero channel in colors would be nice Try "color hero " -- seems to work for me. Quote: Disaster: "look item character" to look at the long description of an item being worn by a character You really hate giving me items just for 10 seconds, don't you? ------ And by Disaster: Disaster: RC rooms shouldn't show up for mortal hangman, in same way hero rooms don't -i idea'd this when i still thought that only mortal rooms showed up at hangman. now that i know that isn't the case, just take out the "in the same way hero rooms don't" part Kharn: when you click on someones pic in the gallerie, it should link to those persons website (if he/she has one) -that would be a good idea. also, now that i think of it, it should be possible to see the photos of players with a picture on the BR pages from within the forums (we already can get email, webpage, information, etc, why not photos too) Ghaleon: Have a low level weapon accessible for newbies -you mean like the dozens of them that there already are? i would say that there should be a newbie dagger on one of hte trainees maybe, in case a newbie loses a corpse, but that VERY rarely happens anyways, and if they're in that desperate need, they can just start a garbage character, rem all, drop all, and be ready to go again with their real character. [ 184] Kharn: allow damp to be longer than 18 (was it 18?) characters -allow bigger damps, maybe (eventually, it just gets rediculously spammy) allow more damps, definately. Ghaleon: Mental barrier reflects bamf! *hops* -mb shouldn't reflect any type of spell, only physical attacks (and mind thrust, which might not be considered a physical attack, but behaves like one) Cord: probably been mentioned before, but it'd be nice if mental barrier was able to reflect twice if both mobs/players are affected by it, thus nullifying it for both. -naw, i think i like it better as it is. if you want it nullified for both, juts don't have either of you use it Cord: have the color of the 'answer' channel be set-able? -good idea. i hate how answer and question always have ot be the same colour Cord: have "quest " go to the quest channel instead of the question channel? -useless for those who know what they're doing, since @ is so much easier to type, but VERY good for newbies Cord: also, when hero, seeing the color of the hero channel in colors would be nice -i'm a fan of seeing many more channels customizible for colour, and i'd say hero not showing up is more of a bug than an idea anyways Disaster: "look item character" to look at the long description of an item being worn by a character Rabies: Add a new "blocker" mob specco that could keep you from exiting a room in the specified direction(s). Ex: "N: The black knight blocks your passage!" -good idea, i'd love to see that. would they just block you, or fight you automaticly? would you still be able to flee that direction, since you're running away and could slip past them? Rabies: Yet another speco for mobs: speco_regenerate. Heals a percentage of its hps per tick (say, 15%?) rather than a fixed 50. -lets make it more versatile, speco_regenerate_# for the writer's choice of %. (by the way, what exactly IS the current system?) -------------------- Cat haiku You never feed me. Perhaps I'll sleep on your face. That will show you. You must scratch me there! Yes, above my tail! Behold, Elevator butt. I need a new toy. Tail of black dog keeps good time. Pounce! good dog! good dog! The rule for today: Touch my tail, I shred your hand. New rule tomorrow. In deep sleep hear sound. Cat throws up hairball somewhere. Will find in morning. Grace personified, I leap into the window. I meant to do that. 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