NEWS from the REALMS: Come visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ ---------------------- IDEAS: Universal: An option that you can toggle that changes whether you see the text when a mob or character parries or dodges. Demonlord: why not just take plague away from elves, i dont i've ever know of ANYONE that actually uses, let alone as an oog spell Universal: Things with a character's name on it such as corpses or body parts, should have your name as a syntax. Criterion: the spell bless should positively affect alignment Kinda: Pet's should be able to carry something - at least in their mouth Rhyme: maybe if someone writes a note while drunk, it is littered with funny confessions... all of them hopefully untrue. but like they say, nobody is as honest as a drunk. Tiamet: put a Siberfels item in Help Rumors 30 Vader: on chath and battleh put the time of each chat ------------------------- Responses: Fireheart: the dive belt sold at lexies should be scuba. pretty please? = > *mutter* ;) Dive belt = weight, not air. Baltar ------------------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: You will HATE me for this. http://www.lemonizer.com/banana/ Ever feel like your computer is like this? http://www.thinkgeek.com/images/products/other/looflirpa/zoom/habicase.jpg Cool Asian Art and Item Website http://www.asianartmall.com/ Learn about the molecule that'll cut off your fat http://www.newscientist.com/news/news.jsp?id=ns99994974 -------------------------- From dove: The tribal wisdom of the Dakota Indians, passed on from generation to generation, says that, "When you discover that you are riding a dead horse, the best strategy is to dismount." However, in government, education, and in corporate America, more advanced strategies are often employed, such as: 1. Buying a stronger whip 2. Changing riders. 3. Appointing a committee to study the horse. 4. Arranging to visit other countries to see how other cultures ride horses. 5. Lowering the standards so that dead horses can be included. 6. Reclassifying the dead horse as living-impaired. 7. Hiring outside contractors to ride the dead horse. 8. Harnessing several dead horses together to increase speed. 9. Providing additional funding and/or training to increase dead horse's performance. 10. Doing a productivity study to see if lighter riders would improve the dead horse's performance. 11. Declaring that as the dead horse does not have to be fed, it is less costly, carries lower overhead and therefore contributes substantially more to the bottom line of the economy than do some other horses. 12. Rewriting the expected performance requirements for all horses. And of course a favorite . . . promoting the dead horse to a supervisory position. Welcome to the BR newsletter! Visit us at: telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ ------------------ IDEAS: Dispair: nosummon and antisocial affect bits for mobs Shadowhawk: Make the word of recall take you to hr if you are a hero. Shadowhawk: a skill that lets you quaff potions in battle with a % chance of failure, mabey for heros only. Dispair: level-specifiable aggros, instead of just aggro for players less than mob level (so mobs might attack high players but not low ones) Dispair: a drunk character who isn't drunk enouhg for "drunk" to be in affects should be "tipsy" --------------------- REPLIES to the last newsletter: > IDEAS: > > Demonlord: why not just take plague away from elves, i dont i've ever = > know of ANYONE that actually uses, let alone=20 > as an oog spell Hey, if you don't like it, don't PRACtice it. > Universal: Things with a character's name on it such as corpses or body = > parts, should have your name as a syntax. 'Twould be nice, but I bet it'd be a pain to code. > Criterion: the spell bless should positively affect alignment I think altering one's alignment is already easy enough. Go kill some hobgoblin soldiers or dark horsemen or large spiders or something. > Kinda: Pet's should be able to carry something - at least in their mouth Some "pets" can. Look around. Baltar ------------------------ Kiri's WWW of URLS: Ring ring ring ring.. more banana phone http://raffi.ytmnd.com/ The most unusual fonts online http://www.fontsnthings.com/ Stock photo site http://www.abnormis.com/ IF you don't know this site, you're missing out http://homestarrunner.com/ ----------------------- Top 47 Oxymorons: Top 47 OXYMORONS: 47. Act naturally 46. Found missing 45. Resident alien 44. Advanced BASIC 43. Genuine imitation 42. Airline Food 41. Good grief 40. Same difference 39. Almost exactly 38. Government organization 37. Sanitary landfill 36. Alone together 35. Legally drunk 34. Silent scream 33. 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