Subject: Newsletter June 2, 1997 Zog: Avians don't have enough skills. Most people have realized this. However, I have devised a solution to this problem. There are a lot of skills that one race gets at a low level in guild, and the rest get out of guild at a higher level (example: fire Kiri- avians have not enough skills? I beg to differ.. sorry folks, if anything, avians will be toned DOWN. Forent: have a type of weapon enchat that will make your weapon disarm proof Forent: if you can see for miles in the open country, why cant you see for several rooms in each direction on BR?? Quiver: modify the slist to be able to slist human, slist dwarf, etc etc...(see other races) ******* ************** *** *** ************** **** ***Barren Realms*** **** *** *** *** *** *** ******* *** *********** ** ** *********** *How To Spot A Future Hero* ------------------------ by Reykjavik the BIRD-O-WAR HERO Once upon a time...a newbie popped into BR just to fool around- I know that he was already addicted to another MUD and he decided to assume there was no MUD better than his in existance. I remember all the heros getting angry at him for running around town attacking things far beyond his level. Geez! He was more annoying than any other newbie I've seen since. He apparently was amazed by having so many socials that he ran around slapping people, bonking himself on the head, and snickering. Fortunately he started running out of movement after every pathetic trick he pulled. Now, I suppose one can relate to loyalty to a certain MUD.... but it's just plain dumb to go to another MUD and fool around like that because it shows how annoying juvenile you can be. I hope this story has taught you all a lesson - I'm sure you all have been bothered by a newbie like that. Anyway, I bet you're all wondering how long he lasted on BR..........51 levels. That's right! I'm accusing a current hero of this foolery! Could a severely demented newbie really turn out ok in the end? Well....he changed his ways after day 1. If he hadn't of, he wouldn't be writing this write now.... ***************** /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Response--------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) RESPONSES HERE BY RACHEL. This one could be usefull, the avi has the worst ac of any class, my level 37 avi has a ac of +4 without spells. I like the way the deaths are actually listra, How many times havve you died? alot of people die several times a level, weather they plan on it or not. ive got 70 deaths as dawnfire (Though about 40 of them are from one day me and someone else got bored and desided to kill each other in the arena for a hour or so...) Your method would also mean youd have to have a druid on who would be /WILLING/ to cast the resurection spell. Then their are the corpse retrievals gone bad where a person will die one or two times on their way to it. Would arena deaths count? These two i do aggree with, magic items should be a rare thing gotten from special mobs. And their shoudl be more aggros. Hobgoblins should be, their monsters who thrive on war. probly also a monster should automaticly be aggro to the opposite alignment. All soldiers are hostile if your invading their territory, their not going to wait untill you attack to counter attack. Rachel RESPONSES HERE BY QUIVER. >Zine: ranks in groups.. like mid rank people would take less dmg front >rank would be full dmg, backrank would be 75% chance of being hit I sorta like this, but would circle and rescue become obsolete? >Brand: have someone go around and put abbreviations on items that are >used a lot ..2 or 3 letter abbrevs. i mean Or some type of abbreviation system for objects...get a would get the first item starting with a in the room. >Zine: charm notifier option. have another little thing like affect >command but make it "pets", and would show where all your pets were.. and >if any charmies remained. Yes, something making it easier to find your pets is needed since the rules are that you have to kill them all before you leave... >Cord: I still think it would be better to have freedom of nutrition to >*NOT* let you get full - that way you can still eat special food items >and corpses and stuff >:) Yes...maybe have it set full to 95 instead of 100. >Forent: how about a heal total spell at clericus or other healers, may >cost a mint but totaly heals all hp, mana, and moves I like this...price should be based on amount of hp/mana/mv you need to heal, tho. >Corn: How bout a taxi service? Pay a certain amount to get to a certain >destination... Maybe only limited to low levels... This would be cool...maybe the tour bus could be modified to do this? >Forent: have spells listed alphabetically and practiced spells >available by percentage ie prac 50 lists all your spells over 50% Or maybe just some way to show a particular skill/spell's percentage. (percent backstab) would give Backstab is at 95%. >>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. > >This sounds good in principle, but it could easily get out of hand...I mean, >with titles as well we could have: > "Sgetsuo the dancing rabbit from the far edges of the galaxy here on a >mission to destroy all humanity is jumping around and zapping everyone in sight >like a real weirdo dodgy geezer here" >...and I could see that this may get annoying, especially in a room with >several people....spam city! Easy enough to fix...just limit the characters in the message to 20 or so. -Quiver /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >----------------Bios----------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Derrydale's Bio- Hey Realms! Well, I finally heroed, after a whole 180 hours of mudding (I *KNOW* people are going to yell at me now) And most of that time it was awesome. I was flipping through webcrawler(tm) one day, when I came across something called a 'mud'. What the.. I thought, so I tried one out. I thought it was pretty cool, so the next day, I went searching for 'Muds', and stumbeled across a mud called Barren Realms. Hmm, let me check this one out. My name was Moon at the time, and I chose to be an Elf. The first thing I saw when I logged on was something called a Hero. Strange for me because there were infinate levels on my other one (I was level 3001). They started talking to me, asking me if I have ever played there before. I hadent, so one very nice hero, took me on and showed me the realms. They taught me about consider, wimpy, scan, all the things I would need to survive life on the Realms. I would like to just take this space to thank all the people who helped me out. I wont mention them here, but they know who they are, and hopefully they know that I am VERY grateful. Ok, a few things about me? My real name is Frank, I attend Chaney High School in Youngstown Ohio. Ever since I started mudding, i havent gotten off of the computer much, but I do like to find time to play some sports sometimes, such as Football, Basketball, Mountanbiking, etc. I am VERY into computers (duh) and love to work with all kinds (For example, the one I use to mud usually is the very first personal computer IBM made, still with a 2400 modem) Thats about it for me, if theres anything else you would like to know about me, send me a tell and a few beeps or something. ***** RYERYE's BIO: Hey all you guys and girls, this is ryerye. You may have run into me or one of my other characters somewhere along your travels -- I always seem to be on. So remember 'big brother' is watching ;P In real life, my friends know me as Ryan Taylor, a 18yr old college freshman (soon to be sophomore). I attend Randolph-Macon College here in Virginia and plan to major in Computer Science and minor in Psychology -- a nice combo, eh? I have always been interested in computers and have fooled around with them in one form or another since I was 5 years old and got my first Atari computer. Since then I have owned or used almost every piece of hardware/software that has come out. I first got introduced to Barren by two fellow heros, Jett and Cherye. In the beginning I was lost and confused and took a break for a month or so. My next attempt, I was helped by many of you, and hence my addiction. I cant say it was entirely beneficial, but you all kept me sane when they world attempted to blow up in my face. When not wasting my free time on the computer, you can find me with my nose in a book (a huge fan of Stephen King is Ryan) or hanging out with friends. I found a new love, and am a proud owner of two baby hamsters -- lil' booger, and houdini -- who are just the cutest things in the world. Our school does not allow pets, but thanks to my awesome R.A, they were mysteriously overlooked. They are male/female, so lets hope they decide NOT to reproduce or the world shall be overcome with baby hamsters. I will be gone most of the summer, but you all will once again be cursed with my presence when the school year starts once again. Til then, stop playing Barren long enough to enjoy the summer sun ;P @>---------------------------[Webpages]------------------------------- http://members.aol.com/ltlolme108/main.htm Ryan Rank "Vamphyri" Note no "l" at the end of it. Subject: The player behind Vamphyri [Make sure you send me your addresses and blurbs about your pages for the newsletter. :)] /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------Silly------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Kinder, Gentler Ways to Say Someone is Stupid > >THE WHEEL 'S SPINNING, BUT THE HAMSTER'S DEAD >A FEW FRIES SHORT OF A HAPPY MEAL >AN EXPERIMENT IN ARTIFICIAL STUPIDITY >A FEW BEERS SHORT OF A SIX PACK >DUMBER THAN A BOX OF HAIR >A FEW PEAS SHORT OF A CASSEROLE >DOESN'T HAVE ALL HIS CORNFLAKES IN ONE BOX >ONE TACO SHORT OF A COMBINATION PLATE >ALL FOAM, NO BEER >BODY BY FISHER- BRAINS BY MATTEL >HAS AN IQ OF 2, TAKES 3 TO GRUNT >WARNING: OBJECTS IN MIRROR ARE DUMBER THAN THEY APPEAR >HE FELL OUT OF THE STUPID TREE AND HIT EVERY BRANCH ON THE WAY DOWN >AN INTELLECT RIVALED ONLY BY THAT OF GARDEN TOOLS > AS SMART AS BAIT >DOESN'T KNOW MUCH, BUT LEADS THE LEAGUE IN NOSTRIL HAIR >IF HE HAD ANOTHER BRAIN, IT WOULD BE LONELY >STRONG, LIKE BEAR..... SMART, LIKE TRACTOR Subject: newsletter ***************************************************************** * Check out http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri (capital K) for * * The ALL NEW Official Barren Realms MUD web page! * ***************************************************************** Blackwulf: Intermitent things should happen like The gang member come to calathar and start fires and stuff. DragonHeart: sheeth action to draw weapon, automatic IF attacked by aggressive mob Merpet: add a flag for enchanted weapons, make it say 'enchanted' Khaavren: Blindness should take away the ability to parry/dodge Whystler: an oust command perhaps to dispose of lost charmies? Bluewing: c 'corrosion' (mob) Does that mob's armor make it too hard to hit? Well make its armor corrode causing damage to the mob and armor! ******* ************** *** *** ************** **** ***Barren Realms*** **** *** *** *** *** *** ******* *** *********** ** ** *********** ***************** Heroing on Br Well around barren realms, lately, Id been hearing that its too hard to get experience around level 49, and especially level 50. A couple of things about that. First of all, that is not entirely true. I know there are not any areas full of no-sanc level 50 mobs just waiting to be killed, but after all level 50 is suppose to be the hardest one right? But take almond joy for example. A perfect match for level 50s, hes a good mob to walk to if you want to get some nice experience. He is sanced but luckyly enough he has no sword to chop you in two with ;) One other thing about level 50 is having sanc and healing items yourself. Even for druids this is a good idea to conserve your mana for fighting. One of the biggest mistkeas people make is when trying to reach herdum is not fleeing. If things arent going your way when you are at 300hp, stands to reason theyll probably be the same at 100hp. If you flee, all you need to do is use a quick holy grail or two and youre back in business. For everybody this drastically reduces your chances of dying. Would you rather lose 6k experience to get 600 hp back and 90k for killing the mob or lose 1.2 million and possibly your corpse form dying? All you need to do is go spend a little time running around to actualy get the healing items, and the rest as they say is history. A little ballad for those in store for the wonders of heroing, and for the people that already know about it :) Heroing In barren realms we enter to play, We all have to leave, but all want to stay, Some people come, some people go but heroing hey, now thats a show. As soon as you hit, that big old level 51, I guarranty you're in for some fun. The heroes and immortals gather round to give you a pummeling into the ground. As your corpses ashes are spread to the earth from which they came, you know your characters life, is forever changed. And so concluded this tale of fright, for when you hero, briefly, everything is right. But for all of you struggling out there to hero, keep up the hard work and hopefully sooner than later youll see your name on the wizlist under the title hero. Thats all for now Uthar /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-----------------Response------------------ > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) > Listra: > I have some ideas that might improve BR. If you like them great, If not, > well thats ok too. > 2. Death - Death is much too easy on characters here, they are, well, just back alive > again. Druids should have a resurrection spell which can only be used a certain number > of times per level, possibly based on whether the character has earned a resurrection by > offering up an acceptable sacrifice to a God. No resurrection earned, character is gone > and player must start over. Hum, some players have invested many weeks if not mmonth to raise their player to say level 35+, and just when they start to have "some" fun, (i.e. seeing somes area without getting bashed by aggros for just wakling in it) you would want them to start over at level 1... hum I would not like that at all personnally... I play BR to have some good time, not to be frustrated. I agree good time means also some challenge, but not: start over at level 1 till you can go to level 2 by heart. :-) > 3. Magic Items - While I realize that everyone likes to earn magic items, it seems like > every mob in the realm is carrying magical equipment. Magical items should be few and > far between, else they lose their overall value. Magical Armor and equipment should be > difficult, if not near impossible in some cases, to obtain. I might agree that some magical item might be harder to get, but we already have variation in the strength of the items you get when you get those equip of a mob... (just an example for real high level (50 , Hero)... how hard it can be to get a enchantable ciquala sword). > 4. Aggressive Mobs - More mobs should be aggressive. This accomplishes a number of > things. It keeps players aware of their surroundings. It forces characters not to just > roam the realms alone promoting player interaction. Its more realistic (When was the > last time a helpless level 8 elf could walk into a room of level 15 hobgoblins, smile at > them and leave, even if they were women and children). And one thing it discourage player to explore new areas. They will tend to stay in fairly known terrain and only move in groups. (Which often have more of the idea of levelling and getting eq than exploring new country, most of the time that is). The game might seem easy for some, but one thing i love about BR is that when i play i have some fun and wont get frustrated so much i wont play anymore for a long while. I wish any improvment made keeps the fun in the game. Lysta /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Silly----------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) The Top 14 Rejected Star Wars Trilogy Marketing Tie-ins 14> Chewbacca Chew'n T'bacca, from Skoal 13> Princess Chia 12> Lando Calrissian Cognac -- 40 Parsecs of smoooooth 11> R2D2, C3PO & KY4U "Adult Action Figures" 10> Han Solo Cups 9> "Do you know me? Probably not, if I'm out of my Stormtrooper uniform. That's why I carry American Express." 8> McDonald's Ewok Burger Happy Meal 7> Metamucil - "May the Force run through you!" 6> Darth Vader Ginsberg doll -- Black robe and goofy glasses sold separately 5> Tampex Tampons, now with starfighter X-wings and lightsabre applicator 4> Volkswagon's "Return of the Jetta" 3> "Ewok On A Stick" toilet brushes 2> Darth Vibrader and the Number 1 Rejected Star Wars Trilogy Marketing Tie-in... 1> Barbie Wan Kenobie's Malibu Deathstar Subject: Newsletter 6/18/97 ******* ************** *** *** ************** **** ***Barren Realms*** **** *** *** *** *** *** ******* *** *********** ** ** *********** ***************** Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD newsletter. Just a few announcements.. We have a new Official homepage at http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri (capital K!) and on it are many real life photos of BR players. Also on this page is a searchable builders guide, links for the immortals, and guides available for every kind of player. Soon to come are an advanced and mudding for dummies guides. Also, I will be including an "our players' pages'" page.. so if you send me a little blurb about your page with an address for it for the newsletter, I'll link it to the official page. I'm still looking for bios and sections to include in the newsletter, so feel free to send me anything you think I could use (no form letters or chain letters please!) -Kiri /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ Mindpower: Be able to put a line like --------- bettween a rooms descriptions and its contents. Jordali: why not put a list of ways to use magical items (i.e., zap, brandish, recite) in one help file somewhere? kiri- well, you can type help zap, help brandish, etc. Since elves have mass invis and druids have mass heal why not a mass sanctuary spell for grouping make it a lvl 30-35 druid spell for 125 manna or so. would beat having to cast sanctuary on a group one person at the time . Worfworf /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >------------Article------------------------ > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Govinda ran a how-calathar-got-its-name quest recently. This is Esteban's entry, the winning entry. ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- ___ |_ _| | | | |n the days before legends were reborn on rich parchments in intricate, |___| calligraphy the world was dark to tales of gods with names of such majesty like Zeus and Thor. When these legacies were recovered they were quickly reproduced in scrolls so that they would not be lost again. ___ / _ \ | | | | | |_| |ne such scroll worked its way throughout the nobility into the hands \___/ of Lord Craven who found himself so moved by the tale of Prometheus and his punishment that he sought to find that barren rock and set free the giver of fire once and for all. _____ |_ _| | | | |he ensuing quest spared little expense and the gods did look favorably |_| upon Craven, enough so that he could not be met with the full wrath of Zeus for the anger of the other gods and more aptly, Hera. Zeus looked to stop Craven, however, for no man would escape the ruling he has delivered, least of which the traitor god Prometheus. The ears of Hera stretched far and to any Olympian save Hermes it would not be safely said. To Hermes then it was passed and the demigods were rallied to face Craven and face him they did. _ _ | \ | | | \| | | |\ |eptune's own, Proteus, fell short to Craven's blade in spite of the |_| \_| frightening shapes he assumed. Upon seeing full ranks of soldiers turn away in horror, Craven simply blindfolded himself and swung at the creature with everything he had. Although he emerged from the encounter in perfect health he also emerged alone. It was the first of what was to be three trials. ___ |_ _| | | | |nfuriated by the damage done to Proteus, Neptune spoke directly to Zeus |___| and threatened to tell all of the gods especially Hera what he had done to put an end to Craven's quest unless Zeus ended this at the next trial. The second trial, Violence, and the third trial Might were then combined for the second trial and Zeus saw to it that Hercules himself would put an end to Craven if he managed to defeat them. The proverbial cards were stacked against Craven and the two demigods whisked Craven off to the square of his commoner's village and delivered a swift and public death to him. _____ |_ _| | | | |ime passed and Castle Craven was left abandoned as it was believed to |_| be cursed by the gods until a much later date when it became an academy. Lord Craven was buried in the square where he was killed and a beautiful fountain was erected in his memory. The commoners established a city on their own and often referred to the fountain in their guttural language as 'Cal' their word for Might and 'Thar' their word for violence. Over the years although the language and its people evolved the story became more of a fable warning against the dangerous pride that comes with Might and the double-edged sword that which is violence. The people of the city governed themselves and always cherished the importance of peace and humility, so much so that they formed a grand, prestigious, elite guard to maintain that peace. The warning of the city 'Cal' and 'Thar' would in time be contracted and became the label of the city, 'Calathar.' Inspiration: 'Prometheus Bound' by Aeschylus /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Response-------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) All responses by Quiver. >Bodo: whenever yu get a tell you shouldbe beeped also..amkes it >easier for you to be able to catch tells when fighteng No...ever try holding a conversation with beeps going off every time someone tells you something? Maybe this could be set with config, tho... >ilvermage: How about having the town drunks carry bottles of ale >or firebreather Would make sense, but maybe they already drank it and threw it away? Another idea along these lines...maybe make a spec fun to have drunks go to the bar to buy ale every so often and drink it. >Lycor: New spell... cure drunkness (druids ?) for emergency >sobering (quest or important conversations)... I like this, but if put in, should take a massive amount of mana to cast. >Totmacher: a section of the arena just for mortals below lvl 20 Another arena possibly...but I remember when we had a hero arena & it kinda flopped... >> CuRiO: Flaming rooms... anyone who enters loses a buch of HPs > >Xyg: same effect as a see invis aggro Not exactly, but a cape or something to protect you would be useful. I could see where this would fit in well (hell?) This would be basically the same idea as water, only you are getting burned instead of you are drowning. >> 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. > >Xyg: Could make a skill for wielding all sorts of weapons (inguild). So that >everyone starts with swords on like 50% so you're able to fight with swords >(or slashing weapons)(kenders would start with dagger) and later on you have to prac whip >to wield prof jones thing etc.. Hmm...maybe make this add a slight bonus to those weapons, but you should be able to still wield them. (I've seen nowield unless you've practiced on other muds, & it sucked). -Quiver /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Bios------------------------ > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Most everyone of you know something about me by now, Im the heroine's Dawnfire and Rachel on the mud. Most of my friends call me Rachel, exept for a few locally who know me by the name of Mina. Ive been with br now probly about four to five months now, and honestly its quite a surprize. When I joined, it was to humor a friend of mine who goes by the name of sparr here. I had tried several muds before, and found them to be completly to my dislike, and i had vowed to never play another one again. (Shows me what i get for saying never :)) Back then I would hang out at varios mushes, mostly anime related, but also one pern, and one camelot releated one. But I guess that day was unusual in itself, Sparr is extremly hard to call, either never home, or on the internet and I get a busy signal. Anyways he helped teach me a few things here, untill he went linkdead, and then disconnected from the mud and a heroine, class avi i believe, stepped in to take over, If it hadnt been for her appearance I probly would have been offline within minutes, but I found her pleasent to talk to, and chat is always more preferable to me than anything else, so i stayed on and while talking learned the game itself. When i got off for the night i had every plan the next morning of returning to one of my mushes, but instead found myself logging back into the mud instead, where ive been eversince. (well unless my servers down or something else comes up :)) What can I say about myself.. Well, alot of what i am online, isnt the way I am offline. First off, i find it *EXTREMLY* hard to make friends offline, all those that I do have now comming from either the local bbs's, or internet, and not one comming from highschool or other places. In school I was often daydreaming, seldom paying attention in class, and constantly reading, (other than what I was supposed to be reading) mostly science fiction stuff, Star wars and Star Trek Mostly, i love all four ST series and Star Wars, I am also deeply interested in space, my grandfathers cousin being the command module command for apollo fourteen, and one of the few to ever go solo around the moon. I was also a teachers pet for the most part, always friendly with them and seldom got into any trouble for my lack of attention. Needless to say this helped get me few friendships, and my being quiet and a loner didnt help any either, leaving me with more enemies than friends, and all but a few of those i did have i could still have cared less if they had dropped off the face of the earth. For those few that I did concider true friends, and do have, id do almost anything for though, as long as it wont get me in trouble. I hate being in trouble and will do almost /anything/ to avoid getting into it if i can, the same being true of having someone i care about mad at me as well. Hmm, character flaw? Perhaps, but oh wells, noones perfect. I was born in kinderhook ny, just south of albany newyork, and the sight for legend of sleepy hollow, as well as some other ones. Before my father went army, we also lived in Platsburg NY, And norfork Virginia, the latter with my eldest cousins, our fathers having had an idea for a macanics shop, both of them really good with cars. Me, i probly know the least about them of everyone in my family. It didnt last long, and we moved back to Kinderhook ny, where father joined the army. After he went into the army, as a Cannon Fire Direction Specialist, we moved to Germany and were their for three years, getting back in the states at around 10 pm october thirty first. While in germany, which i did like, we used to go visit the castles and fairs all the time. Cali was next, exept for a brief stay in kinderhook between germany and California, january or febuary i believe, we had been in cali untill the end of my nineth grade year. In cali he was baced at the now non-existant Fort ord, and home of the fast deployment devisions that were ready to be deployed in 24 hours notice. Located in Monterey bay, i think ive been extremly lucky in where ive lived, all of them extremely nice. When the bace closed we moved to Fort Campbell Ky, Though i live in Clarksville TN, about 30 minutes south of nashville. The bace is actually more in TN then kentucky, but the main post office is In KY, and thats what its state is baced by. Now we move again in a few days, to Salt lake city Utah-- Untill next october, when the Unit hes training is disbanded and hes restationed elsewhere west of the mississippi. Of the choices hes been given, Texas, and oklahoma are the most likely ones, the rest being ones he, or mom dont wish to take. This is about all i can think of to say, exept that im 19, and currently in colledge for a computer Sciences degree. So take care all, hope you have a good day, I know i will. (thats another thing, im strongly optimistic). Rachel/Dawnfire @>-------------------[Webpages]--------------------------------------- Well, it took a while, but the Real Poetry homepage has finally been updated. http://www.geocities.com/Paris/LeftBank/4201 The site does however now use java as well as frames, so you will need a recent version of netscape or internet explorer to view it properly. -Phantasia /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-----------------Silly--------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) By Forent: Application for permission to date my daughter: Note: This application will be incomplete and rejected unless accompanied by a complete financial statement, job history, and current medical report (including blood tests) from your doctor. Please be prepared to submit additional information (i.e., psychological profile and polygraph test) as requested. 1. Name (including aliases): ________________________________________________________________ 2. Height: _____________ Weight: _________________________ IQ ______________ GPA: ___________ 3. Social Security #: ____________ - _____ - ___________ Drivers License #: _______________________ 4. Boy Scout Rank: _______________________________________________________________________ 5. Home Address: ________________________________ City: ___________________ State: __________ 6. School Address: _______________________________ City: ___________________ State: __________ 7. Do you have one MALE and FEMALE parent? ______________________________________________ 8. How fast can you run 40 meters? ______________ 2 miles? ___________________________________ 9. Do you own a van? ______ a truck with oversized tires? __________ a waterbed? __________________ (if yes to any of # 9, discontinue application and get out) 10. In 50 words or less, what does LATE mean to you? __________________________________________ 11. In 50 words or less, what does DON'T TOUCH MY DAUGHTER mean to you? ____________________ 12. In 50 words or less, what does ABSTINENCE mean to you? ___________________________________ 13. Do you attend religious services regularly? _________________________________________________ 14. When would be the best time to interview your parents? ______________________________________ 15. Answer by filling in the blank: a. If I were shot, the last place I would want to be wounded is in the _________________________ b. If I were beaten, the last bone in my body I would want broken is the ______________________ c. The one thing I hope this application does not ask me about is ___________________________ d. In case of an accident, my next of kin is _____________________________________________ e. My greatest fear is _______________________________________________________________ f. When I first meet a girl, the first thing I notice is _______________________________________ (if the answer begins with any part of the anatomy below the neck then discontinue application and I would advise that you leave the premises running, keeping your head low, and weaving in and out of cover.) 16. What do you want to be if you grow up? ___________________________________________________ 17. Have you ever been finger printed? ____ Has a DNA sample been taken and recorded? _____________ 18. My dentist is? ________________________________________________________________________ 19. My life Insurance agent is? _______________________ Cash value of policy? $___________________ (I swear that all the information provided above is true and accurate to the best of my knowledge under penalty of death, dismemberment, native American ant torture, crucifixion, electrocution, Chinese water torture, red hot pokers, and a kiss from Phillis Diller.) Subject: Newsletter 6/26/97 ******* ************** *** *** ************** **** ***Barren Realms*** **** *** *** *** *** *** ******* *** *********** ** ** *********** ***************** Noran: Skill for Illithid: 'bend'. Allows the Illithid to pit his spoon-bending ability, and his level, against the level of a no-drop item, potentially ridding themselves of the cursed artifact. Zog: Have 'number of players killed' on the inof screen Draconus: A empty command that will allow us to put what ever is in one container into anouther with out having to type the name of every item in the contaner Flynn: Considering that elves are supposed to be better magic users than the other races I think it's silly that most races also have access to their best attack spell, Fireball. I think higher level elves should have access to a better "elf only" spell. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Article---------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Article by Reykjavik: Hello all. Recently I've been thinking about the differences between the races we have on BR. It seems everyone likes their race because it either has superior offense, superior defense, or as I've seen as a hero...because it can wear the most items. :) It bothers me that this is the only difference between all the races and I'd like to propose a few ideas on changing the races a bit. These are a few things I just came up with, I don't expect them to be flawless and I don't know how hard they would be to implement...but I hope it gets you thinking in this direction at least.... Avians: ------ The idea of gaining new abilities as you pass levels makes a world of sense. However, with the Avians, I think some abilties should depend on your age/stage in life. (i.e. your wings grow big enough to fly at a certain stage in life, not a certain level). This "age" needs to be deturmined by *groupings of levels* and not by the actual age your character is at. Here is a rough idea of certains times in an Avians life it should gain new abilities. In the right chronological order, however these groups should actually be spread over a span of several levels. Some things might be out of place...dunno..just an idea right now. * Training Age: year 1, year 2, year 3, etc. (i.e. years similar to levels...) parry rescue bash throw * Avian Adulthood (same years idea for each of these - years 1-?) peck claw blast windzone shriek hover pluck fling track tailsweep dive birdseye peek * Ancient Avian Warrior dual enhanced damage vision carry tan glare create potion (bah! what's this here for...) :) Humans: ------- Like the special structure idea described for Avians, I think the humans should do a similar thing. They are a people under Buddha....soooo...I think they should achieve abilities as they pass steps proving their worthyness to him. Perhaps they should gain their practices for their level by handing the Human guildmaster a head of a mob at their current level to prove that worthyness (or some kind of other task?)...rather than automatically getting the practices when they pass a level. ....hehe - they should advance a step in ranking under Buddha rather than pass a level?? Could have fun with this idea... Illithid: --------- Let's see...what would make a purple, tentacle-armed creature different than the other races? :) First of all...Illithids are supposed to be superior in intelligence and powers of the mind. So where are the spells like: Clairvoyance (extend mind to allow the illithid to see what is in other rooms..maybe up to 10 rooms away by navigating field of vision through them similar to the n,s,e,w commands) or Observe (allows this to be the only race that can look at a mob in a special way to see hit points, mana, moves, stats it has?) **** Abilities really need to be more specific. The abilities/spells I just described... those are things no other race can do... Enough with the AC enhancing or hit/dam roll enhancing spells for every race under different names!!! So there is a start of what I think you *should* do about these races. I think races shouldn't be deturmined by how many AC spells they have vs. how many attack spells they have. I think you should head more in the direction of what they can do naturally as their race.... Thanks for hearing me out! :) Let me know what you think. - Reykjavik /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >----------------Response-------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >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) Jett: Some skills will carry over, but not all, this is how many people get killer flags, their skills carry over and attack someone's pet that is in the room.... I do like the idea...it would stop from the massive spam at the end of fights...you would have to be more careful...or Oh no...your dead >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. Jett: just type help area, gives an alphabetic list of all areas and their levels >CuRiO: druids should have invis as a spell Jett: They can quite simply buy invis potions, they have sanc and could charge $ for its casting..so money isnt a problem. Druids are strong enough the way it is. >Cutlass: a way to show hp/mana/mv in your prompt in a percent Jett: I like this idea, but I don't know how it is implemented, You could always have it set like %hhp\%Hhp.... Actual hp\Max hp >Nar: maybe there should be a kind of curse from a high level mob that >_really_ randomizes spells... like accidently get earthquake from heal... Jett: hmmm like a mind confuse spell...The caster wouldnt know what their spell would actually do, kinda like a drunk walking...it could also have a counter spell to negate it... >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 Jet: hehe...Its not that hard to tell who is drunk...just try and talk to them... >Mandwe: make it illegal to sleep in some parts of the city, sortt of >llike loitering Jett: Its a neat idea..but imagine how many more people will get jumped by the elite guardsmen.. I guess if signs were posted in the areas then it would be the players own fault...not sure how to implement this though >CuRiO: a spell: repair armor (maybe a skill) to fix armor w/o going to >beich... Jett: I really like this idea..have it replace the avians Tan skill?...or give this skill to illithids or kender >Cutlass: disable 'emote' for drunks ... would balance drunkeness better Jett: then how are we supposed to talk to em :P...penalties for drunks is an idea..but isnt the lack of talking abitlity and walking bad enough /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Bios------------------------ > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Here is my bio. Most of you know me as Whystler. The rare moments i am not online or sleeping, i listen to the name Fons de Kort. I live in the netherlands, where.....well, i am supposed to study computer science. I like to go out in the town, am a parti cular fan of the comical novel series of Robert Asprin and ocasionally i work out in the fitness room. My first MUDding experience (and the reason i can get a little paranoid), was on an extremely hostile PKill MUD. They particularly delighted in luring newbies into death traps or, for them, fatal mobs so they could loot their corpses. I managed to escape these antics, but needless to say i profoundly prefer soloing. I tired of this MUD quickly and went to another one, this time one that emphasized on r oleplay and had an extensive social structure. Since i prefer to use a game to play, i didn't like it much there either, especially since their rebirth system completely unbalanced the entire MUD (a rebirth system allows a player to regress back in leve ls without losing stats or already available skills. In fact, you even get some EXTRA HP/mana for rebirthing and a special skill). Then i came to Realms. I instantly took a liking to the place, because of the great help the hero guiding me trough provided. So far no one bothered to show me the ropes on the other MUDS, so this was a great improvement. Then this MUD had a particularly interesting variation of the ranger class (one of the classes i favour), the avian, so i was sold. It's been a year since and i finally, after making every mistake and learning every survival technique the hard way. i finally made it to hero. This in a nutshell is how i came to be... Whystler, of the order of the bleeding beak. @>-------------------[WEBPAGES]---------------------------- I moved my BR page to: http://www.seedship.com/barren/ Bob/Klatu -- rellis@voicenet.com klatu@seedship.com http://www.voicenet.com/~rellis/ http://www.seedship.com/ /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >---------------Silly----------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) YOU KNOW YOU'RE TOO STRESSED IF... You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing that you have said it before. The Sun is too loud. Trees begin chasing you. You can see individual air molecules vibrating. You begin to explore the possibility of setting up an I.V. drip solution of espresso. You wonder if brewing is really a necessary step for the consumption of coffee. You can hear mimes. You ask the drive-thru attendant if you can get your order to go. You begin speaking in a language that only you and Channelers can understand. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing that you have said it before. You keep yelling "STOP TOUCHING ME!!!" even though you are the only one in the room. Your heart beats in 7/8 time. David Lynch comes up to you and says: "Hey!, can I film you?" You and Reality file for divorce. You can skip without a rope. It appears that people are speaking to you in binary code. You have great revelations concerning: Life, the Universe, and Everything else, but can't quite find the words for them before the white glow disappears, leaving you more confused than before. Antacid tablets become your sole source of nutrition. You discover the aesthetic beauty of office supplies. You begin to talk to yourself, then disagree about the subject, get into a nasty row over it, lose, and refuse to speak to yourself for the rest of the night. You have an irresistible urge to bite the noses of the people you are talking to. You say the same sentence over and over again, not realizing that you have said it before...