October 9, 2004 Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter: Visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ or our web site at http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/ ----------------- Idea: (Yes. ONE idea. Where oh where did my little ideas go? Oh where, oh where could they be?) Havoc: get rid of melting eq from acid blast, it is completely lame! ------------ These characters need to log on or will lose their characters: Alark, Avantine, Azdrial, Azzark, Barlow, Bloodmaul, Champ, Deadlydwarf, Eladamri, Ender, Fierce, Gabriella, Gundam, Gypsyb, Iorek, Janie, Kalith, Khalin, Krysanth, Kurosy, Leshrac, Namdab, Omega, Roy, Sammantha, Seraphin, Silverstar, Solitude, Solkanar, Soulwarden, Spyke, Tea, Thordain, Wizborn ----------- Reply to the last newsletter by Everybody: Quote: Home: for demons when a you get a new limb that will replace a rotten one, it sould say that its growing under the rotten one. i hate haveing a good limb replaced by something when i think its going to take over a rotten spot. Rhyme: when you bamf a mob successfully, all of their equipment and gold fall to the ground. Demon limbs always grow under the oldest copy of a limb (if it's a limb that is useless in duplicate, it will grow under the rotten one). Demon limbs do always tell you what kind of limb they're growing under. Should you ever see a limb replaced that doesn't fit these rules, it is a bug. Please log it and send the log to slart along with a bug report. Having bamf work that way would seriously unbalance the spell. -------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: From Scavenger.. he sent this with the "WTF?" tag http://www.turtlequest.com/art/TMNTdd.html The Mows - if you love cats, you will love this cartoon http://www.mows.com/latest.html Kitten Handles http://www.everything2.com/index.pl?node=handles+on+kittens The Unofficial Mr. Bigglesworth Fan Club http://bennyhills.fortunecity.com/leary/378/bigglesworth.html ----------------- Getting old... Your potted plants stay alive.. Having sex in a twin-sized bed is absurd. You keep more food than beer in the fridge. 6:00 AM is when you get up, not when you go to sleep. You hear your favorite song on the elevator at work. You carry an umbrella. You watch the Weather Channel. Your friends marry and divorce instead of hookup and breakup. You go from 130 days of vacation time to 7. Jeans and a sweater no longer qualify as 'dressed up' You don't know what time Taco Bell closes anymore. Your car insurance goes down and your car payments go up. You feed your dog Science Diet instead of McDonalds. Sleeping on the couch is a no-no. You no longer take naps from noon to 6 p.m. Dinner and a movie - The whole date instead of the beginning of one. MTV News is no longer your primary source for information. You go to the drugstore for Ibuprofen and antacids, not condoms and pregnancy test kits. A $4.00 bottle of wine is no longer 'pretty good stuff'. You actually eat breakfast foods at breakfast time. Grocery lists are longer than macaroni & cheese, diet Pepsi & ho-ho's 'I just can't drink the way I used to' replaces 'I'm never going to drink that much again' Over 90% of the time you spend in front of a computer is for real work. October 19, 2004 Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter: Visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ or our web site at http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- IDEAS - Reply! Havoc: reduce the lag time for shield and stone skin AMystery: be able to drink from severed limbs. where does all that blood go when you chop it off? i bet if you picked it up you could suck out a drink or two of fresh blood. lets change limbs to be both food and drink, or randomly be one or the other when cre Spilf: when someone heros.. it should say so and so heroed.. some simple messgae ,, then 10 min after he heros the xp should be dooubled.. like u earn 500 xp.. and 500 bouns xp.. etc Morbo: I think that there should be a form of transporation that allows one to go underwater. Perhaps using this device the person wouldn't be subject to being tripped. I think people would use this to go to the Deep Sea and other areas that are too annoying. I think people would use this to go to the Deep Sea and other areas that are too annoying to explore in. Morbo: I think it would be dandy if there were a 'sell all' command. Not, to sell everything in your inventory. But, to say, 'sell all.longsword' if you have a lot of them. Tripp: make teleport be able to have more then one key word to help narrow down witch mob you go to ------------------------------------------------------------ Reply by Everybody: Quote: Havoc: get rid of melting eq from acid blast, it is completely lame! Acid blast does not melt eq. Acid breath, on the other hand, does. The damage description associated with the two is actually very similar, as well. Acid blast: Your acid blast mauls a citizen! Acid breath: Your blast of acid mauls a citizen! See? It's unlikely we'll change the breath spells to not melt eq, as that's simply a hazard of fighting those certain mobs. ------------------------ kiri's WWW of URLs: Tom is a furry photosynthetic device for turning cat biscuits into more Tom. http://www.dansdata.com/personal/tom.htm Mt. St. Helen's live lavacam http://www.kirotv.com/news/3770913/detail.html We are a camera http://weareacamera.ilovegames.co.uk/ Scary Bunnies http://home.pacbell.net/bettychu/2003allbreedbisris/BIS.html ------------------------- Exam Answers Please note the GCSE's are public exams taken by 13 year olds in UK This is an indication of the wonderful future that awaits the UK.... the level of answers in GCSE exams! This is a compilation of actual student GCSE answers... 1. Ancient Egypt was inhabited by mummies and they all wrote in hydraulics.They lived in the Sarah Dessert and traveled by Camelot. The climate of the Sarah is such that the inhabitants have to live elsewhere. 2. The Bible is full of interesting caricatures. In the first book of the Bible,Guinessis, Adam and Eve were created from an apple tree. One of their children,Cain, asked, "Am I my brother's son?" 3. Moses led the Hebrew slaves to the Red Sea, where they made unleavened bread which is bread made without any ingredients. Moses went up on Mount Cyanide to get the ten commandments. He died before he ever reached Canada. 4. Solomom had three hundred wives and seven hundred porcupines. 5. The Greeks were a highly sculptured people, and without them we wouldn't have history. The Greeks also had myths. A myth is a female moth. 6. Actually, Homer was not written by Homer but by another man of that name. 7. Socrates was a famous Greek teacher who went around giving people advice. They killed him. Socrates died from an overdose of wedlock. After his death, his career suffered a dramatic decline. 8. In the Olympic games, Greeks ran races, jumped, hurled the biscuits, and threw the java. 9. Eventually, the Romans conquered the Greeks. History calls people Romans because they never stayed in one place for very long. 10. Julius Caesar extinguished himself on the battlefields of Gaul. The Ides of March murdered him because they thought he was going to be made king. Dying, he gasped out: "Tee hee, Brutus." 11. Nero was a cruel tyranny who would torture his subjects by playing the fiddle to them. 12. Joan of Arc was burnt to a steak and was cannonized by Bernard Shaw. Finally Magna Carta provided that no man should be hanged twice for the same offense. 13. In midevil times most people were alliterate. The greatest writer of the futile ages was Chaucer, who wrote many poems and verses and also wrote literature. 14. Another story was William Tell, who shot an arrow through an apple while standing on his son's head. 15. Queen Elizabeth was the "Virgin Queen." As a queen she was a success. When she exposed herself before her troops they all shouted "hurrah." 16. It was an age of great inventions and discoveries. Gutenberg invented removable type and the Bible. Another important invention was the circulation of blood. Sir Walter Raleigh is a historical figure because he invented cigarettes and started smoking. And Sir Francis Drake circumcised the world with a 100 foot clipper. 17. The greatest writer of the Renaissance was William Shakespeare. He was born in the year 1564, supposedly on his birthday. He never made much money and is famous only because of his plays. He wrote tragedies,comedies, and hysterectomies, all in Islamic pentameter. Romeo and Juliet are an example of a heroic couplet. Romeo's last wish was to be laid by Juliet. 18. Writing at the same time as Shakespeare was Miguel Cervantes. He wrote Donkey Hote. The next great author was John Milton. Milton wrote Paradise Lost. Then his wife died and he wrote Paradise Regained. 19. During the Renaissance America began. Christopher Columbus was a great navigator who discovered America while cursing about the Atlantic. His ships were called the Nina, the Pinta, and the Santa Fe. 20. Later, the Pilgrims crossed the ocean, and this was called Pilgrim's Progress. The winter of 1620 was a hard one for the settlers. Many people died and many babies were born. Captain John Smith was responsible for all this. 21. One of the causes of the Revolutionary War was the English put tacks in their tea. Also, the colonists would send their parcels through the post without stamps. Finally the colonists won the War and no longer had to pay for taxis. Delegates from the original 13 states formed the Contented Congress. Thomas Jefferson, a Virgin, and Benjamin Franklin were two singers of the Declaration of Independence. Franklin discovered electricity by rubbing two cats backwards and declared, "A horse divided against itself cannot stand.". Franklin died in 1790 and is still dead. 22. Soon the Constitution of the United States was adopted to secure domestic hostility. Under the constitution the people enjoyed the right to keep bare arms. 23. Abraham Lincoln became America's greatest Precedent. Lincoln's mother died in infancy, and he was born in a log cabin which he built with his own hands. Abraham Lincoln freed the slaves by signing the Emasculation Proclamation. On the night of April 14, 1865, Lincoln went to the theater and got shot in his seat by one of the actors in a moving picture show. The believed assinator was John Wilkes Booth, a supposedly insane actor. This ruined Booth's career. 24. Meanwhile in Europe, the enlightenment was a reasonable time. Voltaire invented electricity and also wrote a book called Candy. 25. Gravity was invented by Issac Walton. It is chiefly noticeable in the autumn when the apples are falling off the trees. 26. Johann Bach wrote a great many musical compositions and had a large number of children. In between he practiced on an old spinster which he kept up in his attic. Bach died from 1750 to the present. Bach was the most famous composer in the world and so was Handel. Handel was half German half Italian and half English. He was very large. 27. Beethoven wrote music even though he was deaf. He was so deaf he wrote loud music. He took long walks in the forest even when everyone was calling for him. Beethoven expired in 1827 and later died for this. 28. The French Revolution was accomplished before it happened and catapulted into Napoleon. Napoleon wanted an heir to inherit his power, but since Josephine was a baroness, she couldn't have any children. 29. The sun never set on the British Empire because the British Empire is In the East and the sun sets in the West. 30. Queen Victoria was the longest queen. She sat on a thorn for 63 years. She was a moral woman who practiced virtue. Her death was the final event which ended her reign. 31. The nineteenth century was a time of a great many thoughts and inventions. People stopped reproducing by hand and started reproducing by machine. The invention of the steamboat caused a network of river to spring up. Cyrus McCormick invented the McCormick raper, which did the work of a hundred men. 32. Louis Pasteur discovered a cure for rabbis. Charles Darwin was a naturalist who wrote the Organ of the Species. Madman Curie discovered radio. And Karl Marx became one of the Marx brothers. 33. The First World War, caused by the assignation of the Arch-Duck by an anahist, ushered in a new error in the anals of human history. October 28, 2004 Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter: Visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ or our web site at http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/ ---------------------------------------------------------- IDEAS - Reply! Morbo: I think Locate Object should be able to show the area that the items are in also. Perhaps this could be added at a certain level so as not to be too powerful. Morbo: As someone who wishes he knew more about the Average Damage on weapons, and knowing others who wish they did too, I think it would be helpful if there was a Helpfile on it. Morbo: I think it would be quite helpful if there was a helpfile on Save VS Spell and all the other incarnations of it. Morbo: I believe it would be helpful if, like the NoSummon command, there was a NoGive command. This way a hero, or anyone actually, could set it so that they would not be able to receive items (especially from mortals). These characters need to log in: Akijuma, Azdrial, Azzark, Birdseye, Boil, Certar, Champ, Cowculator, Cristobal, Demonizer,Derion, Dethick, Dice, Eladamri, Elements, Eno, Faelin, Ghengis, Guinan, Gyrow, Halassimo, Haloman, Isande, Jasserande, Jax, Kalith, Karn, Kenji, Kurgan, Newel, Nokisi, Nostero, Oden, Rainy, Ramza, Roy, Sehkmet, Seraphin, Shayd, Shaydo, Shub, Skalord, Skinny, Smokey, Soulwarden, Stormyfx, Sunrise, Telemachus, Thorturtle, Tyro, Wizborn, Kiri's WWW of URLs: What historical lunatic are you? http://rumandmonkey.com/widgets/tests/lunatics/ Kitty helping http://www.jengajam.com/r/PC-Kitty Some sick/and/or funny pics http://www.australianmalls.com.au/canberra/funny_photos.cfm?requesttimeout=120&seepic=232 I Love Bees (ooo.. mystery...) http://www.ilovebees.com/ Funny Landlord Letters Excerpts from actual letters sent to landlords... 1. "The toilet is blocked and we cannot bathe the children until it is cleared." 2. "I want some repairs done to my stove as it has backfired and burnt my knob off." 3. "This is to let you know that there is a smell coming from the man next door." 4. "I am writing on behalf of my sink, which is running away from the wall." 5. "I request your permission to remove my drawers in the kitchen." 6. "Our lavatory seat is broken in half and is now in three pieces." 7. "Will you please send someone to mend our cracked sidewalk. Yesterday my wife tripped on it and is now pregnant." 8. "Will you please send a man to look at my water, it is a funny color and not fit to drink." 9. "When the workmen were here they put their tools in my wife's new drawers and made a mess. Please send men with clean tools to finish the job and keep my wife happy."