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Disaster: devilishly hard quest (but more than worth it, i promise)
Realmers, I need your help!! I've just intercepted a treasure map from a mob messenger, bearing directions to a lost treasure of great power
You must help me decode the message, and follow the directions to get the treasure. Amystery is sponsoring me in this quest. Hurry, before it's to late (there MIGHT be prizes for finishing, but no promises for second fastest)
The code is a random permutation of the 26 letters of the alphabet, used consistently for the whole message (eg. if A-->B then all the "A"s will be "B"s) and all spaces and punctuation have been removed
EXNKX FVINU NXANK RJEJO XAXAK JORAX ALAJU WRKJZ LNVCY NEXRJ UCBJJ VXJXA LEAJY
JTULP FLGAL KLALG FUUYK LYNKL WJOTJ KXALD OLEXK LXOKV XJINU NXANK NVCEL LHXAL IJUJE
ENUXK LLXJX ALGLE XXJTF VCNAF CCLVE LNEAL UUSJN XXALV YNEEN RNFVX AKJOR AINUN XANKJ VXALG NWXJT KLLYJ
KXXAL VTKJB EJOXA YJFVX RJLFR AXKFR AXKJJ BEVJK XANVC XALVJ VLULE EXANV XAKLL KJJBE LNEXN VCCJG VFVXJ NVXAN KFNRJ
XJXAL VJKXA LNEXY JKXFJ VJTXA LIFXW NVCTF VCXAL QJJRN XLXJR LXXAL XKLNE OKLTK JBXAL
SJPIN UULCO ZGPWQ
please note that the length of the lines doesn't matter at all, nor does the size of the letter groupings.
as a starting hint, the word which appears the most often in the text is the word "the"
also, please copy and paste this thing somewhere, because i REALLY don't want to have to retype it if it gets lost somehow
have fun, and enjoy!! it'll be worth it, i promise
by the way, since the prize is for mortals, please only take it if you're a mortal. if a hero can decode this, and prove it to me, well i'm sure something can be arranged
-disaster
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Players that need to log in:
Abby, Akira, Anthonylc, Auris, Baal, Babyface, Cogline, Corwise, Cutty, Daimos, Daisy, Dionysus, Furunkel, Gail, Gingus, Haile, Happy, Kael, Kandris, Klic, Kronus, Lavitz, Lectral, Lokincarnate, Marie, Merci, Octomous, Oin, Pepsir, Pikachu, Pressure, Ramman, Rhotor, Shadoow, Sox, Striko.
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Replies from Zerochocobo:
Its: a light on the ground should light up a dark room just the same as a
light that someone in the room is holding
-I agree, it just makes sense that if there's a light in a room, it will lit
up.
Radicaled: as a demon allow yourself to know what level each of your limbs
are, as to not replace the wrong level
-This is very useful for demon_reheroes who wish to see the level of their
appendages that will get replaced.
Radicaled: make it so when traveling/trackgin u don't get spammed and
disconnected
-It doesn't disconnect you if you are tracking. You just get spammed and
disconnected if you have a trigger
Amarilla: a command called glance, where instead of LOOK showing all the
characters eq you could "glance" at them and just see their condition to
know if you need to heal them
-I'm gonna like this if implemented. I don't like going through those messy
inventories
Divebomb: Add a one-way connection from somewhere in Calathar to the Arena
so that people can walk in as well as use the command (this is in light of
the recents notes complaining about random squishing of morts by heros)
-Some mortals just wouldn't learn their lesson and they are the ones who
actually attacks us first. Heroes fighting mortals should be in the hero
etiquette, they know they will win, what's the point of fighting a mortal?
Anakin: more games (i.e. C4). I mean more kinds of games.
-Just to add, I meant like chess games and what not. (2 or more player
games)
Liubei: a shopkeeper that can change the personalization flag to you for
100k
-I agree, 110%
Grond: Fireproof spell. 'Nuff said.
-I really don't get this, is this like a spell to raise save vs breath?
Cowculator: we need a joke channel
-There's already tons of jesters in BR that I consider all the channels a
joke.
Abaddon: A way for demons to see at what level they got their appendage.
Perhaps using examine would work. I dont know how feasable this is, but it
would be nice.
-Yeah, what I said above.
Geko: i think it would be neat to be able to put color in you title, you
could personalize more
-One of the reasons I took the gratz channel off is because of this colors,
please stop annoying me. I'm about to blow up.
Sej: be able to eat mob corpses like body parts when you are hungry
-No thanks, eating a corpse of a giant is not a great task.
Shiloh: tellh should unscramble drunk like chath
-I don't see why not.
Sej: be able to use things by feel when blind so the cure blindness potion
in my inventory is usefull
-Stuff like these are always confusing, they are basically useless. I saw a
wand that has summon and one that has teleport in it. How can you use that
wand if you can only summon or teleport on a mob on the same room you are
in?
Disaster: damp1, damp2, damp3 to represent increasing amounts of damage
-Is this another one of your tricks to show people that my damp suck? ;P
Liubei: heroes should automatically always have autosac on so they cant turn
it off
-I don't think this is necessary.
I still like carrying corpses for corpse runs
Cord: how about making it not-possible to summon a fighting mob?
-It's absurd to summon a dying mob from a trying-to-level newbie, isn't it?
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Kiri's WWW of URLs:
From Amystery:
http://icanstilltellyourwifebill.com/
A very convincing Ad:
http://www.abrupt.org/CJ/damage.jpg
I LOVE this cat (and so will you)
http://www.broenink-art.nl/maukie.swf
Some really good mocks of old ads (From Oakley)
http://homepage.mac.com/leperous/PhotoAlbum1.html
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BIOS:
I'm starting a new bio section that I ask anyone who wants to participate to go ahead and do so. The purpose of this new bio section is to provide real life information in order to promote networking for jobs, ways to make nearby friendships or even find love. Basically I'm going to ask you guys to fill in as little or as much as you'd like to, reply to this, and I will include it in future newsletters. If someone wants to contact you, they will via the mud or an email you might provide.
NAME ON BR:
BR RACE/LEVEL:
YOUR REAL AGE:
YOUR REAL LOCATION (State/province & Country):
YOUR OCCUPATION:
YOUR GOALS FOR THE FUTURE:
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO BY POSTING HERE? PUT AN X NEXT TO ONE OR ALL: NETWORKING FRIENDSHIP FIND LOVE
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A MAN/WOMAN?
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A FRIEND?
WHAT KIND OF JOB ARE YOU LOOKING FOR?
IF YOU GO TO COLLEGE, WHICH ONE?
HOW TO CONTACT YOU - ON BR VIA NOTE OR EMAIL?
IF EMAIL, PUT IT HERE:
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SAMPLE BIO BY KIRI:
NAME ON BR: Kiri
BR RACE/LEVEL: Druid 155
YOUR REAL AGE: 25
YOUR REAL LOCATION (State/province & Country): California, US
YOUR OCCUPATION: Law Student
YOUR GOALS FOR THE FUTURE: To eventually become a full time mediator
WHAT ARE YOU LOOKING TO DO BY POSTING HERE? PUT AN X NEXT TO ONE OR ALL: NETWORKING X FRIENDSHIP FIND LOVE
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A MAN/WOMAN? N/A
WHAT DO YOU LOOK FOR IN A FRIEND? N/A
WHAT KIND OF JOB ARE YOU LOOKING FOR? Something legal that pays.
IF YOU GO TO COLLEGE, WHICH ONE? Loyola Law School, Los Angeles
HOW TO CONTACT YOU - ON BR VIA NOTE OR EMAIL? Either
IF EMAIL, PUT IT HERE: kiri_2@hotmail.com
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THis is a joke, hopefully no one is offended:
The League of United Nations
Top 10 Reasons For Being French
When speaking fast you can make yourself sound gay.
Experience the joy of winning the world cup for the first time.
You get to eat insect food like snails and frog's legs.
If there's a war you can surrender really early.
You don't have to read the subtitles on those late night films on Channel 4.
You can test your own nuclear weapons in other people's countries.
You can be ugly and still become a famous film star.
Allow Germans to march up and down your most famous street humiliating your sense of national pride.
You don't have to bother with toilets, just shit in the street.
People think you're a great lover even when you're not.
Top 10 Reasons For Being American
You can have a woman president without electing her.
You can spell colour wrong and get away with it.
You can call Budweiser beer.
You can be a crook and still be president.
If you've got enough money you can get elected to do anything.
If you can breathe you can get a gun.
You get to be really obese.
You can play golf in the most hideous clothes ever made and nobody seems to care.
You get to call everyone you've never met "buddy"
You can think you're the greatest nation on earth.
Top 10 Reasons For Being English
Two World Wars and One World Cup doo-dah doo-dah.
Proper beer.
You get to confuse everyone with the rules of cricket.
You get to accept defeat graciously in major sporting events
Union jack underpants.
Water shortages guaranteed every single summer.
You can live in the past and imagine you are still a world power.
Bathing once a week-whether you need to or not.
Ditto changing underwear
Beats being Welsh. 10a. Or Scottish
Top 10 Reasons For Being Italian
In-depth knowledge of bizarre pasta shapes.
Unembarrassed to wear fur.
No need to worry about tax returns.
Glorious military history prior to 400 a.d.
Can wear sunglasses inside.
Political stability.
Flexible working hours.
Live near the Pope.
Can spend hours braiding girlfriend's armpit hair.
Country run by Sicilian murderers
Top 10 Reasons For Being Spanish
Glorious history of killing South American tribes.
The rest of Europe thinks Africa begins at the Pyrenees.
You get your beaches invaded by Germans, Danes, Brits etc.
The rest of your country is already invaded by Moroccans.
Everybody else makes crap paella and claims it's the real thing.
Honesty
Only sure way of bedding a woman is to dress up in stupid, tight clothes and risk your life in front of bulls
You get to eat bulls' testicles.
Gibraltar.
Supported Argentina in Falklands War.
Top 10 Reasons For Being Indian
Chicken Madras
Lamb Passanda
Onion Bhaji
Bombay Potato
Chicken Tikka Masala
Rogan Josh
Popadoms
Chicken Dopiaza
Meat Boona
Kingfisher lager
Top 10 Reasons For Being Welsh
You've got to be having a laugh, haven't you?
Top 10 Reasons For Being Irish
Guinness.
18 children because you can't use contraceptives.
You can get into a fight just by marching down someone's road.
Pubs never close.
Can use Papal edicts on contraception passed in the second Vatican Council of 1968 to persuade your girlfriend that you can't have sex with a condom on.
No one can ever remember the night before.
Kill people you don't agree with.
Stew.
More Guinness.
Eating stew and drinking Guinness in an Irish pub at 3 in the morning after a bout of sectarian violence.
Top 10 Reasons For Being Canadian
It beats being an American.
Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
You can play hockey 12 months a year, outdoors.
Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
Where else can you travel 1000 miles over fresh water in a canoe?
A political leader can admit to smoking pot and his/her popularity ratings will rise.
Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
Kill Grizzly bears with huge fuckoff shotguns and cover your house in their skins.
Own-an-Eskimo scheme.
Only country to successfully invade the US and burn its capital to the ground.
Top 10 Reasons For Being Australian
Know your great-grand-dad was a murdering bastard that no civilised nation on earth wanted.
Fosters Lager
Dispossess Aborigines who have lived in your country for 40,000 years because you think it belongs to you.
Cricket captain not afraid to cry live on TV.
Tact and sensitivity.
Bondi Beach.
Other beaches.
Liberated attitude to homosexuals.
Drinking cold lager on the beach
Having a bit of a swim and then drink some cold lager on the beach.
Top 10 Reasons For Being Dutch
having the best football team every four years and never win the world cup
make lousy beer, but still manage to sell it to the entire world
if you can breathe you can get marijuana
get to collect the best recipe's from all over the world, cause you can't cook yourself
beat the English at the sports they invented
you can hate the Germans all your life, collaborate with them for five years and go back to hating them again
pretend water is your best friend in the summer and fight it all winter.
have all kinds of foreigners over and welcome them in their native language so they never learn Dutch
live in the less densely populated area of the world in July, cause everyone is in France
practice a sport no one else does and act happy when winning five gold medals at the Olympics
Top 10 Reasons For Being Scottish
Haggis
Never having to worry about buying a ticket to watch their nation in the World Cup after the qualifying rounds
If you can breathe you can talk gibberish
Hate the English (especially after watching Braveheart)
Billy Connally
Drink whisky better than the English
Never have to worry about understanding cricket
Trainspotting (the film)
Wear a kilt with pride ... not just for fashion
Wear anything with pride ... even though it isn't fashion
You have so much naturally beautiful water in supply, that your neighbours steal it and sell it back to you at premium price.
You have so much oil in supply, that your neighbours steal it and sell it back to you at premium price.
A brilliant ability to count from a very young age.