May 2002 newsletters Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter! Come visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000 Don't forget to tell your friends about us. We've been a little low on mortals and fresh blood lately, so make sure you tell your online friends by email, icq, any way possible to come visit and check us out! News from the Realms: Darkcrad: the deadline of the drawing quest will be postponed till may 10th there's only one submission, so i guess there aint a lot of competition.. so get your drawing utilities ready and draw any character you want to best describe him/her oh and amystery would like to see how you people think of him, so hes maybe a good imm to draw about my email address is darkcrad@hotmail.com for those who have drawings ready to submit please send them to my email address, or post a link to the picture you drew ANYONE CAN JOIN :D!!!! and you do not need to draw it in pencil and paper!! you can use adobe, pbrush, anything, just send me a visable image lol Characters that need to log on or contact me for their passwords: Artemis, Arvis, Babette, Batusai, Bylox, Chinchilla, Ciaran, Dean, Dias, Dilfar, Dorkus, Durwin, Extreme, Farimar, Greyson, Gus, Haden, Ianto, Ironman, Jag, Jerle, Kalten, Kaycen, Kwanjanim, Lai, Leggo, Mina, Nicol, Phlegar, Rath, Recursive, Sable, Scooby, Snood, Soldar, Srykr, Starmyst, Stool, Titon, Torsion, Weare, Win, Wong, Wongfei, Xaviero IDEAS: Divebomb: killing neutral mobs shouldn't change your alignment...they're neutral Xorex: Perhaps a way to turn off being able to receive things from other players...kind of like !social, mainly to prevent people from giving you equ that drains you every tick Lairian: The bottles of red wine in the haunted mannor off of the hunting grounds should get one drunk. Xorex: spell: summon sprite or summon small creatue, It's somewhere between a charmie and a weak extra attack. The char (probably elf or druid) summons a small creature to help them fight. The creature can't start fights or social. Not sure if it should Divebomb: all mob memory with your name should be erased when you die Xorex: kenders ought to be able to pickpocket mobs for gold Kiri -- um, they can. Steal gold mobname Xorex: raise the hangman stakes a little bit Radicaled: if we aren't allowed to flee when tripped why are mobs? Delariand: Make the amount of time between wimpy mob's movements longer? i'm so sick of chasing down a wimpy mob, only to have it move as i'm typing out the command to attack it :/ BIO: FireLily 1. What piece of equipment would you most like to have irl and why? Lord Vultures Wings. I would love to fly. 2. If you could be any kind of M&M what kind would you be and why, also what color? I would be a blue "plain" (although I don't think they're plain at all) M&M because that's my favorite kind. 3. What color is your toothbrush? Pink 4. Do you have any pets? Yes I have a cat named Simba. He is almost 7 years old. He is orange with white paws and a white belly and lots of cute stripes. He is very naughty. 5. When's your birthday? August 15, 1983 6. What is your favorite sport and favorite team? I am not a big sports person, but if I had to choose, I'd say Baseball and the New York Mets 7. Who was the hero/imm who helped you when you first started BR? I wish I could remember! I would like to give them a great big hug! I just know that they were extremly helpful and stayed with me for a long time. 8. Which mob is your favorite? The one in my mind that repops every 5 second, dies with one blow, deals no damage, and gives me 9 million experience points. 9. Who introduced you to the mud? Have you passed the favor on to anyone? I found the link to it a long time ago from a now-extinct BBS called Keyboard Palace. I went on when I was about 10 but I was too young to get it, so I relogged on last summer out of boredom and got hooked. 10. If you were an animal, what would you be? Either a cat (so I could live a life of luxury and be a sneaky little troublemaker at the same time) or a bird so I could fly high in the sky and sit in trees, and be a beautiful color. 11. What significant events greatly affected your life? When my mother passed away four years ago... I'd say that is the single event that has had the most impact. Sorry to be a bummer. 12. What is your favorite area in the realms, and why? I love Candyland. It is so well designed. It has tons of areas, so many mobs, fun for all levels. The castle is ingenious, I love the spiral staircase! I think it is just peachy keen! I also love the Amazons because it has so much great EQ. 13. What is the longest amount of time you have ever spent in one sitting on the realms? Oh, I'd say a few hours. Never more than eight, I'm sure. I tend to have it on once I get back from class until I go to sleep. That doesn't necessarily mean I'm playing the entire time. 14. If you could go back in time to 1BC, what modern invention would you bestow on our primitive ancestors to make their lives better? Antibiotics. 15. Given only a golf club, a shoe, some flypaper, sand and a cube - what would you make? An abstract sculpture that would sell for thousands of dollars in an art gallery! 16. What one thing would you change about the world? The complete disregard for the sanctity of all life on this planet that most people seem to have. 17. What one super power would you like to have? Like I said before, I'd love to fly. Responses by Divebomb: > IDEAS: > > See: Have a time stamp option (show the times of the > chats and such) DB: Not a bad idea. I assume you mean on the history not as they chat it. :) > Radicaled: create a tongue social to stick your > tongue out at someone, to wildly flap your tongue > about and then try to touch your tongue to your nose DB: help writesocial > FireLily: make the 'fake' social do random numbers > from 10-20K so you can't always know when someone is > doing a fake report ;) DB: Too complicated for a social based on the structure. Fun and interesting, but doesn't really merit the difficulty. > Liubei: wear all.itemname should work like for wear > all.sigon DB: Probably, but just type "wear sigon" and hit enter a bunch of times for now. > Radicaled: make it so there is someway to see the > level of the mob (if there is a way, heh, i'm an > idiot) DB: con is a guestimate. Their is a level range depending on what he is (perfect, merciless, lucky day, etc) > Radicaled: avians should get a skill similar to > glare only it paralizes them from fleeing DB: I think a paralysis spell/skill would be kinda cool. But only if mobs get it too *whistle* > Radicaled: allow us to see how much damage we > actually do ( i know i've submitted it already, but > just want to emphasize :P) DB: Why? You don't know how much you've hurt him when you hit him. You know how bad you're hurting when you get smacked, hence knowing your own hp. Knowing your group's hp (by typing gro) can be taken as you guys are communicating that information without having to type it yourself. > Radicaled: blast says it knocks mobs to the ground, > so maybe they should come down from fly DB: I think they should be put into a wait_state, but not lose their fly, they could easily get up and start flying again. (wait-state is what makes you sit there unable to do anything after trip, disarm, performing certain skills - people like to call it round lag) > FireLily: When you give a non-damaged piece of eq to > Harry, he should say "I repair DAMAGED armor" DB: Yip > Thalas: A command to clear all notes you have from a > specific board, like note clear all, or note clear > hero... so if you have several characters you don't > have to sort threw them all DB: Sounds good to me. > Wasabe: Major Premise: Colors are fun. Minor > Premise: Descriptions are fun. .: Descriptions and > Color are fun. get it? good. DB: Colors in descriptions seem to be a good idea to me. I know Slart is very anti-colors because he gets dazed (it must remind him of all those times he did LSD - or something). I can see not putting colors in titles because you see that a LOT. Colors in personal descriptions requires a look to see it and colors in room descriptions would be controlled by the area building commitee so they're not obnoxious (unless the random colors fits a theme). > Xorex: A skill/spell for getting rid of illithid > spells DB: I like to consider it a perk of illithid powers. > Zwerg: spells/skills that require bad weather to > work DB: Help call lightning. Weather is too unpredictable to make those spells worthwhile... right now... Kiri's WWW of URLs: Does it surprise you at ALL that Scavenger has this shirt? http://www.game-skins.com/gspa001.shtml Gorgeous new Hubble shots http://www.hubblesite.org/news_.and._views/ And this is a scary parody http://www.rumproast.com/devon/ Does your city lead the US in internet usage? http://dailynews.yahoo.com/h/wisc/20020428/lo/1177379_1.html This week's joke is from Firelily: ============================================================= A M A Z I N G - B U T - T R U E F A C T S ============================================================= Sixty Amazing-but-True Facts! * In the weightlessness of space a frozen pea will explode if it comes in contact with Pepsi. * The increased electricity used by modern appliances is causing a shift in the Earth's magnetic field. By the year 2327, the North Pole will be located in mid-Kansas, while the South Pole will be just off the coast of East Africa. * The idea for "tribbles" in "Star Trek" came from gerbils, since some gerbils are actually born pregnant. * Male rhesus monkeys often hang from tree branches by their amazing prehensile penises. * Johnny Plessey batted .331 for the Cleveland Spiders in 1891, even though he spent the entire season batting with a rolled-up, lacquered copy of the Toledo Post-Dispatch. * Smearing a small amount of dog feces on an insect bite will relieve the itching and swelling. * The Boeing 747 is capable of flying upside-down if it weren't for the fact that the wings would shear off when trying to roll it over. * The trucking company Elvis Presley worked at as a young man was owned by Frank Sinatra. * The only golf course on the island of Tonga has 15 holes, and there's no penalty if a monkey steals your golf ball. * Legislation passed during WWI making it illegal to say "gesundheit" to a sneezer was never repealed. * Manatees possess vocal chords which give them the ability to speak like humans, but they don't do so because they have no ears with which to hear the sound. * SCUBA divers cannot pass gas at depths of 33 feet or below. * Catfish are the only animals that naturally have an ODD number of whiskers. * Replying more than 100 times to the same piece of spam e-mail will overwhelm the sender's system and interfere with their ability to send any more spam. * Polar bears can eat as many as 86 penguins in a single sitting. * The first McDonald's restaurant opened for business in 1952 in Edinburgh, Scotland, and featured the McHaggis sandwich. * The Air Force's F-117 fighter uses aerodynamics discovered during research into how bumblebees fly. * You *can* get blood from a stone, but only if contains at least 17 percent bauxite. * Silly Putty was "discovered" as the residue left behind after the first latex condoms were produced. It's not widely publicized for obvious reasons. * Approximately one-sixth of your life is spent on Wednesdays. * The skin needed for elbow transplants must be taken from the scrotum of a cadaver. * The sport of jai alai originated from a game played by Incan priests who held cats by their tails and swung at leather balls. The cats would instinctively grab at the ball with their claws, thus enabling players to catch them. * A cat's purr has the same romance-enhancing frequency as the voice of singer Barry White. * The typewriter was invented by Hungarian immigrant Qwert Yuiop, who left his "signature" on the keyboard. * The volume of water that the Giant Sequoia tree consumes in a 24-hour period contains enough suspended minerals to pave 17.3 feet of a 4-lane concrete freeway. * King Henry VIII slept with a gigantic axe. * Because printed materials are being replaced by CD-ROM, microfiche and the Internet, libraries that previously sank into their foundations under the weight of their books are now in danger of collapsing in extremely high winds. * In 1843, a Parisian street mime got stuck in his imaginary box and consequently died of starvation. * Touch-tone telephone keypads were originally planned to have buttons for Police and Fire Departments, but they were replaced with * and # when the project was cancelled in favor of developing the 911 system. * Human saliva has a boiling point three times that of regular water. * Calvin, of the "Calvin and Hobbes" comic strip, was patterned after President Calvin Coolidge, who had a pet tiger as a boy. * Watching an hour-long soap opera burns more calories than watching a three-hour baseball game. * Until 1978, Camel cigarettes contained minute particles of real camels. * You can actually sharpen the blades on a pencil sharpener by wrapping your pencils in aluminum foil before inserting them. * To human taste buds, Zima is virtually indistinguishable from zebra urine. * Seven out of every ten hockey-playing Canadians will lose a tooth during a game. For Canadians who don't play hockey, that figure drops to five out of ten. * A dog's naked behind leaves absolutely no bacteria when pressed against carpet. * A team of University of Virginia researchers released a study promoting the practice of picking one's nose, claiming that the health benefits of keeping nasal passages free from infectious blockages far outweigh the negative social connotations. * Among items left behind at Osama bin Laden's headquarters in Afghanistan were 27 issues of Mad Magazine. Al Qaeda members have admitted that bin Laden is reportedly an avid reader. * Urine from male cape water buffaloes is so flammable that some tribes use it for lantern fuel. * At the first World Cup championship in Uruguay, 1930, the soccer balls were actually monkey skulls wrapped in paper and leather. * Every Labrador retriever dreams about bananas. * If you put a bee in a film canister for two hours, it will go blind and leave behind its weight in honey. * Never hold your nose and cover your mouth when sneezing, as it can blow out your eyeballs. * Centuries ago, purchasing real estate often required having one or more limbs amputated in order to prevent the purchaser from running away to avoid repayment of the loan. Hence an expensive purchase was said to cost "an arm and a leg." * When Mahatma Gandhi died, an autopsy revealed five gold Krugerrands in his small intestine. * Aardvarks are allergic to radishes, but only during the summer. * Coca-Cola was the favored drink of Pharaoh Ramses. An inscription found in his tomb, when translated, was found to be almost identical to the recipe used today. * If you part your hair on the right side, you were born to be carnivorous. If you part it on the left, your physical and psychological make-up is that of a vegetarian. * When immersed in liquid, a dead sparrow will make a sound like a crying baby. * In WWII the US military planned to airdrop over France propaganda in the form of Playboy magazine, with coded messages hidden in the models' turn-ons and turn-offs. The plan was scrapped because of a staple shortage due to rationing of metal. * Although difficult, it's possible to start a fire by rapidly rubbing together two Cool Ranch Doritos. * Napoleon's favorite type of wood was knotty chestnut. * The world's smartest pig, owned by a mathematics teacher in Madison, WI, memorized the multiplication tables up to 12. * Due to the natural "momentum" of the ocean, saltwater fish cannot swim backwards. * In ancient Greece, children of wealthy families were dipped in olive oil at birth to keep them hairless throughout their lives. * It is nearly three miles farther to fly from Amarillo, Texas to Louisville, Kentucky than it is to return from Louisville to Amarillo. * The "nine lives" attributed to cats is probably due to their having nine primary whiskers. * The original inspiration for Barbie dolls comes from dolls developed by German propagandists in the late 1930s to impress young girls with the ideal notions of Aryan features. The proportions for Barbie were actually based on those of Eva Braun. * The Venezuelan brown bat can detect and dodge individual raindrops in mid-flight, arriving safely back at his cave completely dry. Welcome to the May 20, 2002 Barren Realms MUD Newsletter!! Come visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ Friends, community, fun and excitement! What more could you ask for? And always, free! IDEAS: (feel free to hit reply and respond to these): Foy: newbies should start out with some food and water Foy: a spell that would move a mob one room over, useful if there are several assisting mobs in the same room Kiri -- a skill does this, Throw. Frizban: Like my idea before: a range for viewing spells and skills 'skill ' Name on BR: Eviene 1. What piece of equipment would you most like to have irl and why? Monsieur Brunette's Beret... I'd look pretty snazzy.... 2. If you could be any kind of M&M what kind would you be and why, also what color? green peanut.... my favorite color is green... and i just like the peanut ones... 3. What color is your toothbrush? blue 4. Do you have any pets? *sniff* not anymore 5. When's your birthday? October 9th 6. What is your favorite sport and favorite team? Ice Hockey; New York Rangers 7. Who was the hero/imm who helped you when you first started BR? This is a tough one... Firelily was the first person to help, and I got a lot of advice from a nice imm... name escapes me... 8. Which mob is your favorite? The smurfs... because when I first started playing, they kept killing me, and every once and a while, though I'm way past that level, I like to go back and whack one... it's just a personal vendetta ;) 9. Who introduced you to the mud? Have you passed the favor on to anyone? a friend :) 10. If you were an animal, what would you be? A moose... i don't know why... i am just fascinated by them! 11. What significant events greatly affected your life? World events or...? The fall of the Berlin Wall started my fascination with international affairs (that and Bono)... The death of my grandmother probably changed my life significantly... this is a tough question.... hmm... 12. What is your favorite area in the realms, and why? Boddy Manor... I had a dream I was in there the other night (scary!) 13. What is the longest amount of time you have ever spent in one sitting on the realms? Probably 2-3 hours... I do have to go to class once and a while! 14. If you could go back in time to 1BC, what modern invention would you bestow on our primitive ancestors to make their lives better? umm... a screwdriver! 15. Given only a golf club, a shoe, some flypaper, sand and a cube - what would you make? I'd stick the flypaper to the shoe, attempt to walk on the ceiling, use the golf club for balance, and use the sand to pad my inevitable fall... the cube can sit there and act as modern art. 16. What one thing would you change about the world? My goal would be to eliminate "reality tv" completely... there is no need for Shipmates... there really isn't... 17. What one super power would you like to have? I would like to have the 'sneak' ability in real life, so i could leave International ! Econ next semester undetected... Kiri's WWW of URLS: From Eviene: As if we didn't already have doubts about hello kitty.... http://www.iggle.com/images/sanrio/hk40k.jpg From Divebomb: http://www.kf.ee/flash/xiaoxiao.shtml From Sgetsuo: http://www.esu.lt/andrius/10/go.htm And from Oakley: http://www.wired.com/news/culture/0,1284,52426,00.html Responses by Radicaled: See: Have a time stamp option (show the times of the chats and such) *i agree, makes it so your not subject to embarassment when you comment on something said four hours ago. Radicaled: create a tongue social to stick your tongue out at someone, to wildly flap your tongue about and then try to touch your tongue to your nose *well i agree, of course. its a logical though :P FireLily: make the 'fake' social do random numbers from 10-20K so you can't always know when someone is doing a fake report ;) *good idea, cause nearly everyone knows the fakerep stats by now. Liubei: wear all.itemname should work like for wear all.sigon *once again a logical argument, i mean you can drop all of a certain item name, why not wear all or rem all? Radicaled: make it so there is someway to see the level of the mob (if there is a way, heh, i'm an idiot) *i was just thinking the same thing Radicaled: avians should get a skill similar to glare only it paralizes them from fleeing *fleeing mobs are annoying Radicaled: allow us to see how much damage we actually do ( i know i've submitted it already, but just want to emphasize :P) *makes it so we don't have to arena people just to find out. Radicaled: blast says it knocks mobs to the ground, so maybe they should come down from fly *i mean it does say knocks them to the ground FireLily: When you give a non-damaged piece of eq to Harry, he should say "I repair DAMAGED armor" *yeah Armor shouldn't be the real stress point of the sentence Thalas: A command to clear all notes you have from a specific board, like note clear all, or note clear hero... so if you have several characters you don't have to sort threw them all *very true, and handy especially on all those Notey days, i think we all know about THOSE days :) Wasabe: Major Premise: Colors are fun. Minor Premise: Descriptions are fun. .: Descriptions and Color are fun. get it? good. *he has a point, color descriptions would be quite interesting. plus allow for some to stand out better Xorex: A skill/spell for getting rid of illithid spells *he he. the ill spells are annoying but isn't that the purpose of ills? Zwerg: spells/skills that require bad weather to work *hmmmm something like call whirlwind of such is a good idea, but that would be a major advantage to druids, when paired with their change weather. Excerpts From Your Dog's Diary Day number 180 8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE! 10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE! 4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE! Day number 181 8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE! 10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE! 4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE! Day number 182 8:00 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 9:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 9:40 am - OH BOY! A WALK! MY FAVORITE! 10:30 am - OH BOY! A CAR RIDE! MY FAVORITE! 11:30 am - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 12:00 noon - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 1:00 pm - OH BOY! THE YARD! MY FAVORITE! 4:00 pm - OH BOY! THE KIDS! MY FAVORITE! 5:00 PM - OH BOY! DOG FOOD! MY FAVORITE! 5:30 PM - OH BOY! MOM! MY FAVORITE! Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD newsletter. THis week is kinda bare, as I have no ideas submitted. Therefore, I am beginning a new quest... The person with the best suggestion from now on each week will be given a small prize for being so involved. Submit via the idea command (help idea on BR) or via email. Feel free to hit reply and respond to anything at all in the newsletter. I'm also inviting people to write articles for the newsletter - on any topic at all. Stop by BR and join the fun at: telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ Reply by Colador: >FireLily: As a reward for being a hero, perhaps we can all get 'safety >deposit boxes' in the bank. we can keep a limited amount in it, of course, >but how better to protect things like stars and other rewards and quest >prizes we aren't using from breath spells Colador -- Thats why you keep stuff like that in your inv so if your bag gets destroyed you don't loose them. Reply by Everybody: ---------- IDEAS - hit reply and respond! FireLily: As a reward for being a hero, perhaps we can all get 'safety deposit boxes' in the bank. we can keep a limited amount in it, of course, but how better to protect things like stars and other rewards and quest prizes we aren't using from breath spells Actually, most imm rewards are non-burnable, so if you keep them outside a bag (cluttering up your inventory), they'll stay safe. In specific, stars are scuba gear, which doesn't burn. Xorex: skill: shatter object, obliterates an object...practical purpose being nodrop/noremove equ I could see this being useful for heroes (avatars) "helping" other heroes by smashing their eq off in arena... otherwise, not. ---------- Replies by FIRELILY: >Mulch: Something you could configure so that when it was the >mud would notify you every time there was a new ticket...it >would save me having to type return every fifteen seconds to >see if the tick had come yet Ticks occur about every minute. you can either repeatedly type time to see if a minute's gone by, or you can set up (via zmud) an actual tick timer, which will tell you whenever a tick goes off. >FireLily: i want to be able to hug inanimate objects ;) Bad idea! I wish I hadn't thought of it! I'm still confused as to why you wanted to be able to hug objects. >Isis: this has prolly been proposed before, but a spell like >charm person or glare for ills would be kinda logical, I >think... Um... why would that be logical? I dunno... I mean, the races are pretty balanced, from what I hear. Adding a spell like that... would it topple the balance? If not, they go for it. I don't like to deprive anyone of anything. Hehehe It's logical because ills are the ones who can control others thinking. Unfortunately, the only way ills would even possibly get a charm spell is if avians lose glare (which I'm all for, anyways... charm on the birds is pretty out of race). >Isis: another ill thing: gate, allows everyone in the ill's >group to enter a gate and go to a mob? or just the ill >himself... it's in a book... What? It's like a teleport that you can let more people use... creates a gate from the current location to another that multiple people would then be able to go through (I assume it'd last something like one tick). As a teleport-like spell, I'm against it (teleport's too powerful to let another race have it). >FireLily: it would be nice if there were a way to see the >last 10 things I said in a tell, as opposed to tellh which >just says the last 10 things other people told me. That's what your command buffer's for in zmud. ;) Of course, there are times that I've wanted to know my last outgoing tells, too. Unfortunately, when we actually had that implemented (when tellh first went in), seeing (combined) 10 of the last incoming and outgoing tells made you lose incoming tells too quickly. So, I'm content with how it works right now. >FireLily: i hate having to type out someone's entire name to >get their profile... Perhaps, but if we allowed partial matching in that field, you probably wouldn't get the person you wanted to profile unless you typed out 90% of their name, anyways. After all, there're some six thousand pfiles on the server... >FireLily: i wish 'fly' would show up in the affected spells >list hmm, when I wrote this idea, it wasn't showing up. but now it is. what gives? It shows up when fly (or levitate, when it's levitate) is cast on you, via spell, scroll, potion, wand, staff, etc. However, it doesn't show up if you're wearing equipment of type fly (i.e. vulture wings). I'd actually like to see fly eq have the spell show up in affects, myself. >Liubei: when newbies first enter the game they should have a >small bag or pack called the newbie pack/bag well... they do get a bag... i think... umm... no, the closest to that is that they have to wander off to the newbie grocer and buy a bag from him. As to them starting with one, I don't think it's necessary. >FireLily: if we have someone on ignore, it'd be nice if they >stayed on ignore until you took them off, not every time you >logged off This has bugged me for a while. I'd much rather it worked until the mud rebooted, or the list itself was saved with the pfile information (which seems better to me). Reply by Anavrinman: > IDEAS: (feel free to hit reply and respond to > these): > > Foy: newbies should start out with some food and > water > Anavrinman: I don't think so. It makes more sense to require them to learn purchasing skills as early as possible. BIO of EVERYBODY: ---------- Bios: BIO: Name on BR: Everybody (and some others) 1. What piece of equipment would you most like to have irl and why? Kandy's sugar sword. How cool is a sword made entirely out of sugar? 2. If you could be any kind of M&M what kind would you be and why, also what color? blue, mint. mmmm... mint's so yummy... 3. What color is your toothbrush? white? 4. Do you have any pets? no, I'm allergic to most common pets. 5. When's your birthday? August. in there sometime... if you log on during that time, you'll probably find out more specifically. 6. What is your favorite sport and favorite team? Ultimate Frisbee/Fencing... I don't follow any professional sports, those're just my favorite ones to play (thus, no teams...). 7. Who was the hero/imm who helped you when you first started BR? Ohaern, after I restarted at least twice. That was ages and ages ago... 8. Which mob is your favorite? I'm going to have to say the Mauve Dragon. Not sure why, I just like him. 9. Who introduced you to the mud? Have you passed the favor on to anyone? A couple of friends from high school. I've tried a couple times. Other people simply don't get the enjoyment out of BR that I do, somehow. 10. If you were an animal, what would you be? a housecat, so I would live a pampered life of ease while keeping my complete independence. 11. What significant events greatly affected your life? My grandfather's death, graduation from high school.... some others, I think, but can't recall at the moment. 12. What is your favorite area in the realms, and why? Any of Mack's areas. They're ridiculously humorous. 13. What is the longest amount of time you have ever spent in one sitting on the realms? The longest I can recall is about 14 hours... that was the day after I imm'ed, when I was writing up my room while online. 14. If you could go back in time to 1BC, what modern invention would you bestow on our primitive ancestors to make their lives better? the steam engine. or the printing press. not sure which would be neater. 15. Given only a golf club, a shoe, some flypaper, sand and a cube - what would you make? a propeller - stick the cube on the handle-end of the golf club, and the shoe in the center, and make it spin. 16. What one thing would you change about the world? religious zealots. 17. What one super power would you like to have? invisibility Kiri's WWW of URLs: From scavenger: http://www.singingdictionary.org/ From Rabies: http://web.mouser.org/megaball/ Dio suggested this one: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~mule/smurfgen.html The best Buffy the Vampire Slayer spoiler site on the web - currently empty because the end of season, but bookmark it for later http://www.angelicslayer.com/tbcs/spoilers.html Mothers, Historically COLUMBUS' MOTHER: "I don't care what you've discovered, you still could have written!" MICHELANGELO'S MOTHER: "Can't you paint on walls like other children? Do you have any idea how hard it is to get that stuff off the ceiling?" NAPOLEON'S MOTHER: "All right, if you aren't hiding your report card inside your jacket, take your hand out of there and show me." ABRAHAM LINCOLN'S MOTHER: "Again with the stovepipe hat? Can't you just wear a baseball cap like the other kids?" MARY'S MOTHER: "I'm not upset that your lamb followed you to school, but I would like to know how he got a better grade than you." ALBERT EINSTEIN'S MOTHER: "But it's your senior picture. Can't you do something about your hair? OY! Styling gel, mousse, something?" GEORGE WASHINGTON'S MOTHER: "The next time I catch you throwing money across the Potomac, you can kiss your allowance good-bye!" THOMAS EDISON'S MOTHER: "Of course I'm proud that you invented the electric light bulb. Now turn it off and get to bed!" PAUL REVERE'S MOTHER: "I don't care where you think you have to go, young man, midnight is past your curfew."