Kharn: quest
Hey all, welcome to the Scattergorys Quest!
It's an E-Mail quest, everyone may participate.
Here are the rules:
Write down a Mob, an Item and an Area beginning with A,
with B ... with Z.
You get one point for every entry,
5 extra points if noone else has the same entry
and 10 extra points if you have unique entrys in all three categories of a letter.
For Mobs and Items, the Keywoards count. For areas, the first word counts.
Of course, the one with the most points wins
Send your entries to Kharn@fal40k.de within the next two weeks,
At the "areas", of course articles does -not- count.
So "The Astral Plane" runs under A, not under T. (and it still does not count for P)
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Rorin: Stew of Torture (Quest)
Mon May 5 05:28:14 2003
To: all
"Thrice the brinded cat hath mewd.
Thrice and once the hedge pig whined.
Harpier cries 'Tis time, 'tis time."
More information about the quest at:
http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/forum/vi ... =2199#2199
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Kiri: the current quests running
Mon May 5 05:59:00 2003
To: all
Hey folks! I just wanted to point out that there are quite a few quests running right now.
This is because I have started a "quest committee" and have asked our wonderful heroes
to join in and throw lots of quests for you guys. The thing about quests though, is,
if people don't participate the people RUNNING the quests get really depressed.
And rightly so, they put a lot of work into these things
But quests are lots of fun to play in, and a great way to meet people on the MUD
and run around and do crazy things with your friends.
I encourage everyone to join in and participate in as many quests as they can.
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Rorin: Pop Quest
Tue May 6 17:03:55 2003
To: all
Another spur of the moment quest...
More like "Find a mob" quest.
Well, there's only two winners: Faye with 5 points and Aluminum with 4.
Xorex is sponsoring quest but had gone before the quest is over.
He should be able to give out the prizes when he comes back on.
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IDEAS: Please hit reply and send your responses!
AMystery: I wonder if the track code could be improved by having it search for mobs near your level first. that should be the majority so it should be the fastest
Melissa: the command for 'away from keyboard' should be altered so that when the flag is put up, you don't suffer the effects of hunger, or at least not as fast, and so on, since you are *away* from the computer. It can also be altered so that it cannot be t
Peel: a dispel magic spell that you can pay a healer to cast on you
Liubei: an item that affects your align
Moldfinger: change it so you can hr from battle
Eol: could we have a listing of level 151 Demons on the Wizlist ?
AMystery: I'd love it if the reimb list would show you what mob and vnum each corpse was created in/by. I had one of my char's corpses vanish and i didn't know what killed me
Peel: a demons normal human arm should be able to disarm someone if it does nothing... or have a skill where it could tie up the mobs arm if they have a weapon so they cant hit u with the weapon
Akasha: How bout extending the benefits of ac further past -300 ac or whatever invincible is, -1500 ac shouldnt be good for nothing
Ack: Give size to pets (or anything for that matter) and that way you could put the smaller pets inside packs (ie ferrets, if you charm a smurf or somethign)
Moldfinger: the destruction of a foul rites bag claims it singes your hands. it should do a little damage
Shadowhawk: Have "heal restore" cure poison and disease if needed. Yes, I'm that lazy.
AMystery: avians and demons now vary from the normal equipment slots. Lets continue the theme by adding and removing some slots from other races, especially Ill which is a different body type
AMystery: we have a message for the first time they type delete, lets have a message for the second delete also to know if they actually left or just considered it...
Squanto: it would be gee-golly swell if GTELL decoded drunken messages too, cuz sometimes u wanna talk to ur group without waking up... maybe a reason u were drunk in the first place
Eol: if you cannot exam your pack while asleep, then why CAN you check your inventory?
Gauss: the invis and detect magic commands have the same description "your eyes tingle". It would be nice if they were different for triggers.
AMystery: it seems to me that potions give one time use of the spell, but scrolls really teach you how to use it. Shouldn't we learn a spell by using a scroll?
AMystery: we should be able to throw potions. They hit the victim, splatter and activate
Eol: a sac all.corpse ability
Utena: Coffee should counter being drunk
Lairian: It would probably be nice to change "Help Enhance" to reflect the ability to increase mana and hit points.
Moldfinger: add the keyword for the limb being replaced to either the message when you level or the message the first time you type replace
Rorin: A message in hinfo "see sneak"
Rorin: Would be nice if we can toggle a timestamp in config and the channel histories would come up with it once toggled on
AMystery: move BR to IPv6, make us even more geeky
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Responses by Amystery:
Hello people, I'm bored and I've shared my knowledge with everyone else, so now I will add some to these ideas.
AMystery: it doesn't seem right that wimpy and memory can be used together. if the mob flees then it shouldn't remember me and try to attack, it already knows its inferior
Makes sense to me, but who says logic matters in a game where we kill giant talking fire newts?
Stars: make it so that you sell items to only the shopkeeper that can buy them. That way you will not get the message "aod looks uninterested in a sword".
Not necessary
Birdseye: make all mobs become aggressive in the arena *g*
Interesting idea, of course we don't like having mobs in the arena
Grogar: pills shouldn't be affected by hunger..
I dunno, I find it hard to swallow a pill when I'm very full. Still, it is frustrating when I can't eat a red pill after a pie.
Wood: there should be a druid spell called create beer
Make it create firebreather, just so it has a downside
DevilsAngel: a history of all the tells you have sent
I would like this! I often wish just what I said that someone is replying to.
Leiland: ban laughing buddha from the arena
Sounds fair.
CrazyChaos: when you're in the rapids, a lake, a river, etc. you should be able to drink from it like drinking from a fountain
It would make sense, but unfortunately that's not practical with the area file design. Now if you were underwater, i could see it happening, of course you would drown if you tried to drink while underwater...
RadicalEd: create a new type of afk, only called aak for when i fall asleep while mudding...
How would you set this if you are asleep?
RadicalEd: make the O in c4 a different color than the board so its easier to see?
I tried to check this out, but the machine doesn't like me. If it is the same color, I'm all for it being more visible.
Xorex: when someone summons a mob, it should get a flag so that only people grouped with the summoner can get experience for killing it
This would really annoy people who have high alts for summoning, but that's fine with me. Another idea would be to make summoned mobs aggro to the summoner. I know if someone ripped me from my home, through another dimension and into a strange area I'd be rather pissed.
Xorex: There should be a restrictive measure on healing spells, either making them only work on grouped members or making them cost exponentially more to cast on other players with levels nowhere near the caster's
Intriguing. I do like the idea of restricting players just healing just anyone, but I'm not sure this is the best way. I'd rather not restrict it by code.
Birdseye: allow thief mobs to steal from other mobs, and have the mobs react to the thief as they would react to a player stealing from them
It would be amusing and I can see the benefit of having thief mobs do what they logically should. Not a very high priority though.
Birdseye: vision should not be affected by drunkenness, or detect hidden should be affected by drunkenness - they are both about powers of observation...
I wasn't aware any skills were affected by drunkenness, especially vision. I never noticed this on my avians at least, but next time I have a more one, I'll check
Keiichi: A help command to that gives information about being hit by lightning. Some people don't know they can be hit by lightning.
And when we add this, also add the command to let the imms control the lightning bolt...for...um...subtle persuasion.
CrazyChaos: Frenzy/berzerk should last longer, but still not too much. Maybe kind of like Sanctuary works.
Its hard to stay enraged for very long. It would be interesting to have a negative consequence for using frenzy or berzerk too long. Staying enraged for too long hurts your heart, brain, makes you less able to functio, etc.
RadicalEd: some kind safety for remort like delete
Sounds good to me. I can see how I would be tired and type remort instead of recall.
Stars: make it impossible to trip or be tripped on or in water, swimming, sailing on a boat, underwater etc.
Sounds good, is there actually a room type that is on water? I don't recall it but i might be wrong. On a boat you could easily be tripped.
Icecold: nuke charmie code or modify it. i hate it. i hate it.
Why? I find it amusing.
hate hate hate it! hehe. how about it set your gold (bank account, too)
to 0 and your exp to the max you need to level instead of a killer flag?
Interesting, but killer flag is automatic. I'd rather have decisions such as changing xp and gold left up to an imm.
and make area attacks from players not affect char
area attacks don't hit players outside of the arena, or in for that matter
Stars: I love the idea of peek being a command for looking at players. However, I prefer to see a mob's inventory just by looking at it. How about switching it back just for mobs?
I agree, that would be nice. How about an autopeek and/or an autopeek player option?
Shi: you might want ot fix the help file for peek
Sounds good to me too
RadicalEd: change the peek help file so it matches the adjustment
See above
CrazyChaos: Maybe demons could get windzone or blast, dependant on what type of wings they get.
They already have a wing attack, no need for another, although adding some manual commands to use instead of auto attacks would be interesting. rather pointless though
Hana: I'd like something to be done about the Commander of the City Guard...I'm sick of him kicking my ass when I'm trying to kill termites
Don't attack him. He's not hard to avoid and is visible.
Crater: The "eyes of the green dragon" in Chmabers in the Clouds that teleport you to the council should take less time to teleport you.
Don't think its variable, but it might be a good idea.
Brodgar: Add a few bells and whistles to reimb so that data like renames aren't lost to crashes.
Also add information about what killed you and where to the log
Enter: the help peek should be updated due to the changes of the skill
Addressed above
Shi: there should be a use for extra prac sessions
Trade them in for gold?
Moldfinger: a way to forget a skill, particularly an OOG. You have an XP penalty of double your max XP for that level but then you go down to what it would be without the OOG penalty next level
I like that idea! Its brilliant! You are brilliant!
DevilsAngel: we should have a beep history, that way if we missed any we could see that!!
Do you have a problem with that many people beeping you? I tend to torture people who beep me unnecessarily.
DevilsAngel: that only Ken can use tainted weapons, like how only Elves and druids can handle flaming
It makes some sense. I'd rather see it so taht when a non-ken got a tainted weapon it would damage them and poison them, but they could still get it. You drop something burning, but taint is a slow killer. You could use it for a bit until you complete died. Even better, have a non-kender with a tainted weapon be unable to heal.
Peel: a skill/spell that avians can use to put poison on their claws
And when you sleep and wrap your claws around you, you get poisoned and die! Yeah!
Shadowhawk: how about demons get enhanced damage? We are supposed to be all mean and stuff right?
Yeah, demons are so weak! We desperate need to do something to fix them. Have you ever seen a demon in the arena? They are always getting their butts kicked!
Eol: a command that shows the ten most recent characters who used the profile command with your character's name
Privacy violation. You make the profile public, but the people looking at it still have a right to privacy.
Melissa: the command for 'away from keyboard' should be altered so that when the flag is put up, you don't suffer the effects of hunger, or at least not as fast, and so on, since you are *away* from the computer. It can also be altered so that it cannot be t
Then people would run around with the flag up so they don't get hungry. Now being unable to move while afk might be interesting.
Peel: a dispel magic spell that you can pay a healer to cast on you
That would be nice.
Liubei: an item that affects your align
Be interesting. I could use this, especially when my demon gets hit with change align
Moldfinger: change it so you can hr from battle
Eol: could we have a listing of level 151 Demons on the Wizlist ?
Why?
Peel: a demons normal human arm should be able to disarm someone if it does nothing... or have a skill where it could tie up the mobs arm if they have a weapon so they cant hit u with the weapon
disarm requires a weapon, but using a bony stump I'd think you could disarm, also crush would seem to disarm a mob. Also make crush more useful.
Akasha: How bout extending the benefits of ac further past -300 ac or whatever invincible is, -1500 ac shouldnt be good for nothing
Often suggested, always desired. I think this will eventually happen. The problem is, you couldn't hit a mob with a -1500 ac either. Bruising a mob with 3 million hp is rather pointless.
Peel: poses for demons like all the other races
I'm for it. Write some
Ack: Give size to pets (or anything for that matter) and that way you could put the smaller pets inside packs (ie ferrets, if you charm a smurf or somethign)
Now this is a huge can of worms. its an amusing idea, but don't hold your breath:)
Moldfinger: the destruction of a foul rites bag claims it singes your hands. it should do a little damage
Make it 10% of the person's hp
Shadowhawk: Have "heal restore" cure poison and disease if needed. Yes, I'm that lazy.
Lets help the lazy person be lazier!
AMystery: avians and demons now vary from the normal equipment slots. Lets continue the theme by adding and removing some slots from other races, especially Ill which is a different body type
I'm all for making the races more unique.
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Kiri's WWW of URLs:
From Shadowhawk, a site I've personally enjoyed very very much:
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From Amystery, something only a lawyer would enjoy.. which, I guess, I am.. soon, anyway
http://www.panix.com/~eck/telemarket.html
From Oakley.. soo.. soo true
http://www.penny-arcade.com/view.php3?date=2003-03-2
I'm not sure of the point of this.
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/fetchfido/ ... _bunny.htm
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