Barren Realms MUD

Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter!
Visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/

News from the Realms:

Quests being run:

Comatose: Fantasy Football

I want to start a fantasy football league. If anyone is interested
send a note to me. Once I have enough players then I will create the
league and notify those that were first to respond how to join the
league. The number of players is limited so please only join if you
are interested in sticking it out through the entire season.
I forgot to mention that the league is free.
If we hurry then we won't miss a week. That means we need to have
everyone signed up and ready by Monday or Tuesday so that the
autodraft can have the teams set by Thrusday and the first game of
the season.

Brodgar: Secret Treasures Quest
Do you have a secret item that you use and no one knows about?
Have you selfishly kept its wonderful stats for only yourself?

Well then good! Here is your chance for your greed to really pay off.

If you have an item you know of that is truly an interesting/unique/special piece of equipment,
note me about it. If it's special enough and rare enough, you get a prize!

That loads in the game. Not renamed quest prizes you have recieved.

Remember, the rarer the better!

Some restrictions apply, void where prohibited. Limited to one entry per household, no purchase
necessary, open to Calathar residents only. Entries not post marked by Sept 1st will have to be
post marked by another date. Contest ends when I grow bored of it.

Solomnius: clue quest

A quest for mortals throughout the lands
moulded and placed with comatose hands
at recal the first of the clues has been placed
till re-boot you have before they're erased
the extra description is 'treasurequest'
so read away and do your best

Solomnius: tropical quest

After a wonderfull holiday in tropical Darwin, i've decided
to run a tropical quest, here goes...
Find me 3 things around the realms, the first thing must
be something found in the tropics, the second thing must
be something you would take to the tropics, and the
last thing must be something you would never take to the
tropics. all things must fit in a bag and be handed in
approx mid september. I will post another note with the
final date. Points will be scored for humor, originality,
and content.
forgot to mention, quest is for ALL BR residents

Buzz: i've lost my mind quest

The evil wizard has taken my brain and smashed it into little pieces.
i can't seem to think without having my mind in one piece. Once you all help me locate my
brian pieces, i will get that little wizard. i will show him who is boss. But i must warn
you, he is a very evil man, he has placed my brain in some of the most hiddeous
places. Some parts wont be a problem to get cause the guards are so small and weak.
But on the other hand, some are strong. So strong that only the bold and brave and go
forth and venture into those areas. I am asking for anyone willing to help to please do
so. He has given my 7 days to find them all, so please be hasty. i need your help!! on
the 8th day of september, i will no longer be able to think of my own free will. i will
become a walking zombie, feeding off the thirst of something that i do not have. thank
you all for your help.

Disaster: IMPORTANT NOTE!!!

Hi there realmers. First of all, i'd like to say "congrats" to
everyone who sucessfully completed either T-Games 2 or divebomb's
outcast quest, well done all. you may remember, a little while back,
that i mentioned a very large, vague quest, coming in september With
both Tgames2 and outcasts now officially over, it's time to fill you
in on some details.

******T-Games 3: Survivor edition******

Let me first say that i'll be copying all notes on this subject to
the forums, so i'd suggest that you all check the forums as well.
There will be several important differences between this incarnation
of T-games and the former two. All players are welcome to sign up
(you do NOT have to be a hero in order to play). Players who achieve
level 51 will be immediately disqualified from T-games 3. You may
not receive ANY help, in ANY form, from any non-T-game character.
This includes spells, items, cash, corpse retreivals, donations, and
buying any items from shopkeepers that aren't normally sold there.
You may not have any other character online at the same time as your
Tgamer, even linkdead (immortals, you are the only exception to this
rule, since you've proved repeatedly that you can be trusted not to
abuse the priviledge).

You may choose any race you wish (other than demons, of course).
You must have created the character no earlier than september first,
2003. You may delete and restart your character as the non-demon
race of your choice at any time. I will not be posting the list of
your main characters and your T-game alts at any time. I strongly
encourage you to keep that information private, for reasons which
will eventually become apparent. Every weekend at a specific time
(this time has yet to be decided on, i'm waiting for your input on
this) there will be a quest for all people involved in Tgames 3.
participation in the quests will not be mantitory, but is strongly
encouraged. Periodically throughout the Tgames period, people will be
removed from competition. The results of the quests will have some
impact on the manner in which this happens. i'm intentionally being
vague on the details, since i think it's more fun this way for the
time being *evil grin* Until further notice, your tgame characters
may not level past level 5 (in order to give people an adequate time
to sign up, without certain people jumping way ahead of the pack).

Tgames3 will be based around two teams competing against each
other, but the overall goal is for the INDIVIDUAL to not be
eliminated in the (probably weekly) elimination process. I fully
expect this to involve secret pacts, betrayals, and all the other
wonderful human traits which make CNN so interesting to watch *grin*
If you read carefully, i stated "no help from non tgamers" (being
tgames 3, of course) this means you CAN help tgamers on the opposing
team-i'd juts suggest not letting your teammembers catch you doing
it, they might be angry You MUST have "T-Games 3" somewhere in your
title (later, this will change, when i organize you into your teams).

if there are any questions, ASK ME!!!! ignorance of the rules is NOT
an excuse -you must let me know who your main alt is when you start
your character (but like i said, i suggest not telling anyone else)

T-Gamers may participate normally in non-TGames quests with the
permission of those running the quests, but may NOT, repeat, NOT
receive or use any prizes from non-TGames quests

Sponsors for T-Games 3 are Divebomb and Comatose. Kiri is a special
sponsor, since T-Games are her baby. Any questions regarding T-games
3 should be addressed to me, not the sponsors who already have a ton
of stuff they're going to be busy with as for starting a character,
i suggest starting one at some random time, to try to disguise who
you are, and then send me a tell or a note from your main character
telling me which alt is yours i don't want to be changing who your
alt is every 2 days, so take reasonable precautions to protect your
identity the first time you tell me who you are


just thought i'd also let you know, anyone who signs up WILL get a
prize, provided you log on regularly and don't just disappear into
thin air. the QUALITY of your prize will depend on the effort you
put in personally, as well as how long you manage to stay in
competition everyone will get something though, and you're not going
to be eliminiated based on not being the highest in level or stats
(i'm keeping HOW you'll be eliminated a secret, for now) oh, and
just to restate it, all mortals, heroes, avatars and imms are very
welcome to join i don't know if myself and/or the other sponsors
might decide to create characters too or not yet....one of the
benefits of the annonimity, i can screw around with you guys to make
it more fun if i want to *evil grin*

-best of luck to you all. -Dis

These characters need to log in or contact me:

Abermelin, Ailia, Aldaris, Alias, Andra, Annakas, Anonymous, Aralifas, Assista, Audax, Backpoint, Bonebreaker, Bong, Coke, Collen, Cressida, Drahknon, Dulm, Ecstacy, Erolaek, Fezzik, Fharad, Genevia, Genivieve, Grummel, Heal, Hoss, Jamesbond, Kms, Lieder, Loktar, Lyfling, Need, Puissance, Ranko, Regis, Ryerye, Ryu, Saeryn, Sebring, Ska, Smokedragon, Splash, Starstorm, Stilgar, Stormfist, Styx, Sythiamyr, Thunder, Thunderstorm, Tidbit, Trewe, Wells, Wraps, Yield

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IDEAS, please feel free to comment!

Again: it'd be kinda fun if sometimes throw hit a different mob, if more than one in the room, rather than just missing or hitting your specified target

Crux: weapons that can't be weilded based on their strength should return an appropriate error message when attempted

Crux: consolidate the stat information and the ? information
Beanis: have things not be able to hit back while asleep

Crux: the new magincia moongate room should have a valid response when someone looks at the moongate

Crux: gold cost for enhancing should be a function of level, so that lowbies and newbies can have the same advantage as someone feeding cash to their alt

Crux: dispel evil needs a counterpart to affect "good" like smite good, or punish the just

Firebreeder: we should have a merchant like skill so it will hinder people from making level 2 demons and stitting on them as gold bunnies
Cacophony: when you're afk and you send yourself a tell, you should send yourself back what your afk message is set to (since there's no other way i'm aware of to see it)

Firebreeder: i think druids or elves should have a spell called town portal, so they can teleport to the fountains in other towns

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Kiri's WWW of URLs:

A great online gaming site

www.allakhazam.com

Care of Exo, Joe Cartoon (some parts may be adult-rated)

www.joecartoon.com

Care of Disaster, PVPOnline

http://www.pvponline.com/

And... my wedding pictures. Yes, Oakley and I got married.

http://www.jarrodlarocco.com/gallery/wedding
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Reponses by Anakin:

Disaster: allow choice of coulours for prompt as we do for cheer (since only the individual sees it, the anti-horrible-couloured-spam argument doesn't apply)
>>Colors are available for prompt, I have a rainbow colored prompt on Anakin. *pokes*

Isis: give demons their own guildmaster, and let us poor morties type prac at recall again
>>Agreed, maybe to put a little twist, set the RC Guardians. icon_biggrin.gif

Lairian: It would be nice to be able to pull up a SLIST equivalent filtered for in-guild skills or out-of-guild skills. A SINLIST or SOUTLIST if you wil.
>>The "*" on inguilds when typed "SLIST" will be enough, IMO.

By Lairian:

"*" on inguilds? You have asterisks? I want asterisks...you mean we have asterisks and I've never seen them? *pout*

Also, wouldn't it make more sense for the out of guilds to be "*"ed, with a footnote type thing at the bottom denoting that it's out of guild and prompting newbies to read help oog (if that exists...I've never tried...*toe*)?

And I like Anakin's bouncy girl...kawaii!
_________________
--Lairian

I have been informed that I'm an idiot and that the *s are desired to show up in a future patch.

I take back my pouting.

That is all.

Return to your normal lives.

Or punking Kandy.

Or beating up dwarves at the daycare for their lunch money.

Or whatever else passes for normal in the Realms.

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Care of Sgetsuo:

Country music actual song titles

All I Want From You (Is Away)
All My Exes Live In Texas
All the Guys that Turn Me On Turn Me Down
Am I Double Parked by the Curbstone of Your Heart?
Double Parked Heart
Are You Drinkin With Me Jesus?
Are You on the Top 40 of the Lord?
At the Gas Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump
Billy Broke My Heart at Walgreens and I Cried All the Way to Sears
Bubba Shot The Jukebox
Bubba's Inconvenience Store
Come out of the Wheatfield Nellie, You're Going Against the Grain
Cow Cow Blues
Cow Cow Boogie (Moo Moo My Love)
Cow Cow Strut
Did I Shave my Legs for This?
Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You.
Don't Chop Any Wood Mother, I'm Comin' in With a Load!
Don't Come Home a-Drinkin' With Lovin' on Yo-mind
Don't Give Me A Plastic Saddle 'Cuz I Want To Feel That Leather When I Ride
Don't Squeeze My Sharmon.
Don't Strike A Match (To The Book Of Love)
Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goal Posts Of Life.)
Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat
Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer)
Get Your Biscuits In The Oven, And Your Buns In The Bed.
Git Up Off'n the Floor Hannah (a Bitter New Year's Eve)
Going to Hell in Your Heavenly Arms
Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart.
Hand me the Pool Cue and Call Yourself an Ambulance
Her Only Bad Habit Is Me
Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares)
High Cost of Low Living
Hold On To Your Men..Cause she's Single Again
How Can I Get Over You if You Won't Get Out from Under Me?
How Can I Get Over You Till You Get Out from Under Him?
How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away?
How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You, When You Know I've Been A Liar
All My Life?
How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Nobody But Me?
How Did You Get so Ugly Overnight?
I Bought the Shoes that Just Walked Out on Me
I Can't Pass the Bar, and There's One on my Way Home
I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life
I Don't Care if it Rains or Freezes 'Long as I Have My Plastic Jesus Sittin'
on the Dashboard of my Car
I Don't Do Floors
I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling
I Fell for Her, She Fell for Him, and He Fell for Me
I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me
I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart
I Gave Her My Heart And A Diamond And She Clubbed Me With A Spade
I Gave Her the Ring, and She Gave Me the Finger
I Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Bed Crying On My Pillow Over You.
I Got the Hungries for Your Love, and I'm Waitin In Your Welfare Line
I Got Through Everything But The Door
I Guess I Had Your Leavin' Coming
I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You
I May Be Used, But Baby I Ain't Used Up
I Only Miss You On The Days That End In "Y"
I Sat Down On A Beartrap (Just This Morning)
I Sent Her Artifical Flowers For Her Artificial Love
I Still Miss You Baby... But My Aim is Getting Better
I Want a Beer as Cold as My Ex-Wife's Heart
I Wanted You To Leave Until You Left Me.
I Wanna Whip Your Cow
I Was Looking Back to See If You Were Looking Back to See If I Was Looking
Back to See if You Were Looking Back at Me
I Went Back to My Fourth Wife for the Third Time and Gave Her a Second
Chance to Make a First Class Fool Out of Me
I Wish I Were A Lesbian
I Wish I Were A Woman (So I Could Go Out With A Guy Like Me)
I Would Have Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck!
I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win
I'd Rather Hear A Fat Girl Fart Than A Pretty Boy Sing
I'd Rather Pass a Kidney Stone than Another Night With You
If Fingerprints Showed Up On Skin, Wonder Whose I'd Find On You.
If I Ain't Got It, You Don't Need It.
If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You
If I'd Killed You When I Wanted To, I'd be Out of Jail By Now
If I Had It To Do All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You
If I Had My Life to Live Over, I'd Live Over a Delicatessen
If I Were In Your Shoes, I'd Walk Right Back To Me
If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low
If My Nose Were Full of Nickels, I'd Blow It All On You
If My Nose Was Running Money, Honey, I'd Blow It All On You
If I Had a Nose Full of Nickels, I'd Sneeze Them All Atchoo!
If She Hadn't Been So Good Lookin' I Might Have Seen the Train
If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets, He'd Have a Ball in Mine
If The Jukebox Took Teardrops
If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me
If Today Was a Fish, I'd Throw It Back In
If You Can't Be Good, Be Bad With Me
If You Can't Be Good, Son, Be Good At It
If You Can't Bite, Don't Growl.
If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead?
If You Don't Leave Me, I'll Find Someone Who Will
If You Ever Get the Feelin' I Don't Love You, Feel Again.
If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too?
If You Leave Me I'm Gone
If You Really Loved Me, You'd Leave
If You Got the Money, Honey, I Got the Time
If You're Gonna Do Him Wrong Again, You Might As Well Do Him Wrong Again
With Me!
If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong, Do It Right
If You Want to Keep the Beer Real Cold, Put it Next to My Ex-Wife's Heart
If You Want Your Freedom PDQ, Divorce Me COD
If Whiskey Were A Woman, I'd Be Married For Sure.
I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones
I'll Marry You Tomorrow, But Let's Honeymoon Tonight.
I'll Tennessee You In My Dreams
I'm Drinkin Christmas Dinner (All Alone This Year)
I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home.
I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of my Car and Drive Myself to Drink
I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail
I'm In Love With A Capital U
I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna be a Diamond Someday)
I'm Quittin' Wild Turkey Cold Turkey
I'm So Miserable Without You, it's Almost like Having you Here
I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised
I'm Under The Table Over You
Is It Cold in Here, or Is it Just You?
It Only Takes One Bar (To Make A Prison)
I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart.
I've Been Roped And Throwed By Jesus In The Holy Ghost Corral.
I've Got a Cowboy In The Saddle, and Another One's Holding My Horse
I've Got the Cob, If You've Got the Corn
I've Got $5 And It's Saturday Night
I've Heard that Tear Stained Monologue You do There by the Door Before You
Go
It Ain't Easy Being Easy
It Took a Helluva Man to Take my Anne, but it Sure Didn't Take Him Long
It's Not the High Cost of Living, It's the Cost of Living High
I Would Kiss You Through the Screendoor but It'd Strain Our Love
Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant
Tasting Green and Purple Pills
Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You
Jim, I Wore A Tie Today
Last Night I Went to Bed with a "10" and Woke this Morning with a "2"
Lay Something On My Bed Besides A Blanket
Legendary Chicken Fairy
Make Me Late For Work Today.
Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head)
Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Baby's Head)
Get the Hammer Mama, There's a Head on Papa's Fly
Meet Me In the Gravel Pit, Honey, cuz I'm a Little Boulder There
Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy?
My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus.
My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My
Heart
My Lips Want to Stay (But My Heart Wants to Go)
My Phone Ain't been Ringing, so I Guess it Wasn't You
My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him
Nashville Rash
Ned Nostril (and his South Seas Paradise, Put Your Blues on Ice, Cheap at
Twice the Price Band, Icky Icky Ucky Ucky)
No Way, Conway (I Ain't Gonna Twitty Tonight)
Occasional Wife
Oh, I've Got Hair Oil On My Ears And My Glasses Are Slipping Down, But Baby
I Can See Through You
Our Love is Illegal, Cause Our Names Ain't the Same
Overlonely and Underkissed
Pardon Me, I've Been Pardoned
Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill
Phantom Of The Opry
Pick Me Up On Your Way Down
Pick Me Up Or Let Me Down
Poultry Promenade
Queen Of My Double-Wide Trailer
Redneck Martians Stole My Baby
Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer
Refried Dreams
Run for the Roundhouse Nellie (He Can't Corner You There)
Saddle Up the Stove Ma, I'm Riding the Range Tonight
She Broke My Heart, I Broke Her Jaw
She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime
She Feels Like A New Man Tonight.
She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft
She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger
She Looks Good Through the Bottom of My Shot Glass
She Made Toothpicks Out Of The Timber Of My Heart
She Offered Her Honor, He Honored Her Offer, and All Through the Night It
Was Honor and Offer
She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy
She Walked Across My Heart Like It Was Texas
She's Actin' Single..... I'm Drinkin' Doubles
She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues)
Slap 'Er Down Again Paw
Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone
Thanks To The Cathouse, I'm In The Doghouse With You
The Alcohall of Fame
The Bridge Washed Out and I Can't Swim and My Baby's On the Other Side
The Last Word in Lonesome is Me
The Man That Came Between Us (Was Me)
The Old Home Fill 'er Up and Keep On Truckin' Cafe
The Pint Of No Return.
There Ain't Enough Room in my Fruit Of The Looms to Hold All My Lovin' For
You
There's A Tear In My Beer
They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out
This Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad
This White Circle on My Finger Means We're Through
Tight Fittin' Jeans
Timber... I'm Fallin In Love
Trainwreck Of Emotion
Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother
Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart
Waitin' In Your Welfare Line
Walk Out Backwards Slowly So I'll Think You're Walking In
Warm Beer and Cold Kisses
Warm Beer Cold Women
We Used To Kiss On The Lips, But It's All Over Now
Welcome to Dumpsville, Population Me
What Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me
When the Lightning Struck the Coon Creek Party Line
When You Wrapped My Lunch in a Road Map, I Knew You Meant Good-Bye
Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass?
Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out When I'm Dead And Gone?
Who's Makin' Time with the Time Keeper's Daughter, when the Time Keeper's
Keepin' Time?
Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under?
Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For?
Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw
Would Jesus Wear A Rolex On His Television Show?
Yard Sale
You Ain't Much Fun Since I Quit Drinkin'
You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man
You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog ('s Leavins')
You can Lock Me Up in Jail & Throw Away the Key, But You Can't Keep My Face
from Breaking Out
You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too.
You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd
You Changed Your Name From Brown to Jones, and Mine From Brown to Blue
You Done Stomped On my Heart (and You Mashed That Sucker Flat)
You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Banister Of Life
You'd think my Bed was a Bus Stop, the Way You Come and Go
Your Negligee Has Turned To Flannel Nightgowns.
You're The Hangnail In My Life, And I Can't Bite You Off
You're a Hard Dog To Keep Under The Porch
You're Going To Ruin My Bad Reputation
You're Out Of Step (With The Beat Of My Heart)
You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly
You're The Ring Around My Bathtub, You're The Hangnail Of My Life
You've Already Put Big Old Tears In My Eyes, Must You Throw Dirt In My Face?
You've Got Sawdust On The Floor Of Your Heart
80 Proof Bottle of Tear Stopper
800 Pound Jesus
Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth, Because I'm Kissing You Goodbye.
If I'd a Knowed that You'd a Wanted to of Went with Me, I'd a Seed that
You'd a Got to Get to Go
She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty
I'd Like You a Whole Lot Better if We Slept Together
I Made Up The Title, You Make Up The Song
Go Back To Texas and Cheesey French Fry Lake

Again: it'd be kinda fun if sometimes throw hit a different mob, if more than one in the room, rather than just missing or hitting your specified target

>>Yeah, or base the throw % on your dex, so it can do something. ^_^


Firebreeder: we should have a merchant like skill so it will hinder people from making level 2 demons and stitting on them as gold bunnies

>>If we already have 5 demons, 4 which are avatars, I think we deserve to have a gold hoard. Leave my demons alone, level 50's are already giving me a headache.


Cacophony: when you're afk and you send yourself a tell, you should send yourself back what your afk message is set to (since there's no other way i'm aware of to see it)

>>*lol* It's probably just me but I use an alt to check what my afk message is.


Firebreeder: i think druids or elves should have a spell called town portal, so they can teleport to the fountains in other towns

>>Already have discussed this, denied.

yeah, i use an alt to check my afk message too. it's really annoying to have to do it that way though

disaster wrote:yeah, i use an alt to check my afk message too. it's really annoying to have to do it that way though

I agree. *nod self*

disaster wrote:yeah, i use an alt to check my afk message too. it's really annoying to have to do it that way though

I just type the afk message every time. i'm willing to be those five extra keystrokes each time is not going to be the cause of arthritis...

i'll type:
"afk brb"
"afk iaw"
"afk food!"
"afk I'm afk!"

What is this recent monstrous need to check your afk message so often?

Well see, some of us put much more creative effort into our afk messages ;-), and then don't change them for a really long time... and forget...

Gold bunnies...I like that term. ^__^

The simplest way (imo) is that if you just type afk (going afk, not coming back), it shows you what your current afk message is. I have the same problem... I put one up at some point, and then never remember what it is, because I 1) don't go afk all that often, and 2) almost never type a new message in when I do go afk. This seems like something that wouldn't take much to code in, and would be a nice add-on, to me.

or even a new command, if mucking about with the current afk command is too much of a hassle. "afkreport / afkrep" or any other arbitrarily chosen command, which would show you your current afk message.

AFK flag is used if you are away from your keyboard right? Hence it shouldn't bother people if the afk flag works that if we put "afk" it will look like this:
Just a suggestion *shrugs*

why not just not go afk for more than 10 or so minutes. If you are going to be gone for more than that maybe just log out. In my opinion we have WAY WAY WAY to many afk heroes on with void and food triggers. I think it looks awful. If you are in another window and checking back every so often *about every 10 or so min* put up a busy flag instead. It still doesn't look to good, but to me it is better than the ever absent 10 heroes and avatars on.

i don't think there's much difference between an afk or a busy flag. for myself, i use busy when i am in the screen, but not wanting or able to be disturbed (for example, in a really important conversation or something similar) while i use afk when i'm not in the screen.

and i'll admit, i'm one of the worst offenders (especially recently) when it comes to staying logged on while afk, but only for some specific reasons. chief among these is the start of tgames 3, since there have been so many people asking me questions/signing up/etc. (also, setting myself up a log to capture my anti-void trigger's "who" lists can be used to enforce my "no alts on with tgamers" policy). i know of several cases where heroes running quests have stayed online in that way, creating logs of the questwatch channel to prevent people locating a certain object.

ideally, i'd love an IAW flag for when i'm at the computer but in another window, but there's a limit to how many flags we would want, i'm sure. these additions to the afk code would make it a lot easier for those who ARE going afk to atleast make sure their afk messages are accurate.

When has staying online (or afk for this matter) for a long time been an offense? I see it on some imms who forget to put up their AFK flags. I think that's an even bigger problem if a problem arises and heroes can't do anything to deal with it.

yeah, better to be afk WITH a flag than afk without one, that's for sure.

Ok you missed my point. NO there isn't a RULE>...and no this didn't come from ANYONE but me. Yes Disaster I understand when people are running quests and want to log questwatch... that is a totally seperate thing. I'm talking about when I log on at 3pm and there are 10 heroes/avatars/imms on *since you guys brought up imms I will include them to* and 9 out of 10 are afk. If a newbie logged in at that time rather than me and knew about mudding and typed who what would they think of our mudd>? My comments was to maybe show that afk is a bit abused. Do we need to be logged into BR 24 hours a day when we are in the living room watching Friends? My point was that maybe when you are going to be gone for a LONG TIME you could log off.