December 2001 newsletters News from the Realms! Have you been on BR in a while? Come visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ The forums are up and going! Here is a rave review: http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/phpBB/ Divebomb: Forum The Forum is a really great idea. You should all go there and bookmark it immediately. It's great reading while you're at work or just sleeping and healing up. I think it will come in handy far more than you believe. It's an easier way for people to quickly comment on ideas instead of waiting for them to be posted in the newsletter. It's great that Kiri can then pull off the really good ideas and put them in the newsletter too. Use this venue, i firmly believe it will be the best way to get the changes in BR that you want! We all want to hear your ideas. :) Dreamkeeper: congratzs I would like to welcome br's newest Imm congratzs Alicia may your Imm life be good. Faustus: I'd like to congradulate Cyclone for finding the object I put out into the realms. In the Shire, he found a new mob named Llewelyn the Mad, and after a fierce battle, he was able to claim the Jeweled Eye Patch of Llewlyn the Mod as his own. (And it's worth it, too.) Sometime soon I'll put out another unique item for you guys to find. Keep your eyes out for another note like that last one... Joysinger: quest i've put it all up in the forum. i didn't remove any mobs or anything (although it would have done something for the athmosphere of this quest) as i didn'T want to interfere with the usual gameplay, specially for newbies. enjoy! oh, it's mort only. (cmon, i know you HAVE morts out there, heroes :p) Faustus: another unique item quest... hello all... I've put out another unique piece of equipment for you guys to try to obtain. This time it's a little different, thoguh. I've left a locked puzzle box at recall. Inside the box is the prize item. All you have to do to claim the item as your own is to figure out how to open the box. As before, I'd prefer heros to sit back and give morts a chance to solve this one. (But heros are welcome to try with their mort characters.) Best of luck to you all... -Faustus IDEAS: Kharn: config +noget disables others to give you items, you auto-refuse to take them. Johan: you should be able to specify the type of armor you would like to make with tan (tan corpse shield, etc.) for a higher failure rate, of course. tanned objects should have no time limit but no value either- I meant monetary value, of course - AC modifiers etc. are very nice al the same) Solkanar: you should be able to buy an object that tells you your bank balance (not for putting in/taking out money tho). Sozz: There should be a spell/skill for heroes to be able to narrow down where in their inv a certain object is - I keep losing stuff I know I have! Java: we need a bbl social Xorex: How about more skills that use certain weapon types like backstab? Maybe it would encourage people to experiment with different weapons Cord: "put all.coins pack" to put whatever gold you have on hand into your pack Johan: the hangman should get rid of all spells as well as eq Xorex: When you type Weather and you're under water it should tell you that you're underwater instead of indoors. It would be a little useful and make sense in game wise Anubis: trip doesn't seem to have a purpose, perhaps if mobs couldn't parry or dodge the round after you trip it would be of more use since mobs don't really suffer from spell lag. Anubis: perhaps blast can make flying mobs hit the ground (land) Frizban: How about a command that sets up an automatic logoff after a specified amount of time (for those of us with no self control "just 5 more minutes!") These characters are up for pwipe and should log in their characters: Calumny, Damacius, Darkness, Drakkan, Hiro, Inju, Jahnke, Mistic, Quao, Viking I'm out of bios after this one! Send me more! BIO: 1) What's your BR name? Scavenger, although I occasionally cross-dress as Scavette or annoy as BIFFSTER, DA L337 HAXOR D00D!!! 2) What race/level are you? Well, if you are going to annoy, you have to go Kender. Also I appreciated the subtlety required in playing a character that wasn't a brute fighter nor a helpless magic user. ;-) (Besides, when I started there weren't any of these strange races like Illithid, Avian, or... Well, you will all find out about what remort will bring soon enough.) 3) How did you pick your Br name? It was a nickname from my first computer job. Gather 'round kids and let me tell you a story from a time before Netscape. A time when Microsoft didn't even know the Internet existed! With no Netscape and no search engines, finding things on the Internet was difficult. There was a lot of memorizing FTP sites and grokking GopherSpace. For some odd reason I had a knack for it and pretty soon all my coworkers would ask me if they needed something from the 'net. One declared that I was the "Internet scavenger" and started calling me that all the time. So when I needed a name for BR, well... 4) What's your favorite area? Gone. Areas come and go and there were some that didn't fit BR's theme at all but were fun. It's good that they are gone but sometimes I get all misty-eyed for the good old days. If I had to pick a current area, I'd have to say that the Smurf area is still a lot of smurf to smurfing smurf. 5) Where do you live (state or province/country)? Milwaukee, WI, US, Earth, Sol, Milky Way 6) What do you do for a living? I collect unemployment. If you know of any jobs for a guy that knows Perl, relational databases, everything Internet, CGI, web server admin, Macintoshes, tech support, documentation, etc. (preferably in the general Wisconsin area), drop me a line, would'ja? 7) If you're a college/grad student, whats your major? One of these days I may finish out the last dozen credits I need to pick up my Computer Information Systems major. I've had two major stretches of taking classes but haven't managed to finish it off yet... 8) What do you want to be when you grow up? What is this "grow up" that you speak of? I just want to make enough money to buy all the cool toys I couldn't have when I only had an allowance. When I hear that question I never think of careers. To me careers are just a means to an end. That end is much more about enjoying life with family, friends, and the woman I love. I am already living that life to a large extent. I suppose that makes me lucky. I don't know if it makes me a grown-up. 9) Are you single? I am unmarried but madly in love with a beautiful, talented, intelligent, sexy, woman who turns out to be the person I've been looking for for a long time. I've been lucky enough to find her and I don't plan on letting her go. Sorry, ladies (and any of you guys that swing that way). 10) What are your hobbies? I've always hated this question because I don't have a good answer for it. I dabble in a lot of things. I like to read, hang out in bookstores, go on rock scrambles in the fall, play games with friends, build things with my dad, and mess around on computers to name a few that pop to mind. But I don't think of myself as really having obsessions that would qualify as hobbies. 11) What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? This is a hard question for so many reasons. The thing I probably hate to do the most is hurting other people. When there comes a time that I know that I have to hurt someone I hate it. I can't remember any specific time that was particularly bad but I have had some really bad breakups with women where I have had to end it and it tore me up. 12) Who do you most admire? Wow. Another hard question. I think people admire those who have something they don't have or who are doing something that they aren't. With that in mind I think I admire people who can get things done. It's one thing to sit around and mutter, "That's easy, I could do that." It's quite another to actually get off your ass and do it. Unfortunately I have a problem getting off my ass and doing it. I marvel at the people who make it look so easy. 13) Which celebrity would you like to hook up with? I'd try and answer "none" but I don't think I'd get away with that. I really don't think about celebrities that way. Odd but true. But I could mention celebs that I've had "crushes" on, I suppose. Umm, Molly Ringwald, Alyssa Milano, Drew Barrymore... Before you make too much about my choices, remember that some of these crushes were awhile ago. They all still look pretty good though. *shrug* Like I say, it's not something I think about a lot. 14) What's the last book you read (including for school)? I think the last full book I read was a very strange collection of Japanese short stories called "Monkey Brain Sushi : New Tastes in Japanese Fiction". I haven't been able to decide if it really was rather bad or if it's just the differences between the cultures. The people on Amazon seemed to like it so maybe I'm just an uncultured lout. 15) What's the last movie you watched? Did you like it? I caught Harry Potter. I have to admit that I preferred Monsters, Inc. (and preferred the Harry Potter book, for that matter) but they both get a thumbs up. 16) If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? If only I could travel, it would be to my lover's side. If I could take someone with, I'd bring her with me to somewhere where we could focus on each other with no distractions. Responses by Cord to the Nov. 7 Newsletter: > Krill: if your in AFK mode, and type something, you should > get a liar flag Cord: to later be cleared by an imm? No, I think this would mostly be annoying. If people want to be online and pretend they aren't, that's their business. > Krill: in the profile bit, why not have a section for > birthdays, just a thought Cord: *shrug* I probably wouldn't use it, but I'm all about having more fields to put stuff into. ;-) > Divebomb: a "globe of invulnerability" spell (for players > and/or mobs) that prevents magic damage Cord: Pretty unique. Not _too_ powerful. I like it. (I also think Divebomb just wants to make big mobs that ultrablast aliases won't work so well against, but that's just me... *grin*) > DwarfMan: See the actual damage # we do. e.g. Your slash > CRIPPLES a trainee! [55] Cord: I personally really like this idea, but... I think it's been shot down before... > Errol: (arena who) a command that tells who is in the > arena Cord: Go to the arena, type 'where'. Accomplishes the same thing, and is pretty simple to do. > AMystery: limbs chopped off and left on the ground > shouldn't just melt, after about half their lifetime > they should become poisonous as bacteria begin > decomposing. You wouldn't eat an arm that's been rotting > for a week would you? Cord: Probably, but I'm a poor college kid. But anyway, I think this is a great idea. > Faustus: I want spec_animate_dead. The thought of a > creature able to animate dead npc corpses (that may even > possibly be aggro) gives me chills... Cord: oOoOoOo... evil. I think this is another great idea... > Dacius: Maybe we should mention the level range of Astral > in its help, That you can only astral to people within a > certain range and mention the level range on summon too Cord: strikes me as valuable info that should be included in those help files. > Leiland: we should have help topics about hero and > avatar... just explaining what level you must attain for > each and hinting at some special priveledges involved... > maybe... Cord: *shrug* Mystery is good... but then, an overview of some of the basics - responsibilities and "legal" behaviors - for all to see (instead of help hero only being available to heros) would be a pretty good idea... > > See: have a spell they lets you detect sneak > > Cord: Seems a reasonable idea to me. Cord: Doh; Fury's right. We already have this. Detect presence. > > Dimmesdale: A new skill for kender, or all races: > > Caution. When used you can't be backstabbed. > > Cord: Given how powerful backstab really is, I think this > would be a very good idea... perhaps having the effect of > preventing other insti-kill attacks as well. Cord: Fury makes a good point that this isn't a PK mud anyway. I guess I was thinking more in terms of flags to add to mobs to prevent these insti-kill attacks... Responses by Baltar to the November 30, 2001 Newsletter: > Pipe: allow short syntax.. "l in lea" to work as l in leather, or wear = > steh instead of wear stethoshchoepe(see i cant spell long thing!) Yeah, but "wear steh" still won't work. :) > Albion: It'd be great if we could put aliases on all the objects so they = > work properly. For instance, I cannot do anything with 'an earthen = > colored band' because there is apparently no keyword that associates = > close to it. Not band, not earthen, not brown, n I believe that you are looking at a brownie bracer (try "bracer"). This is the prerogative of the area writer...sometimes they deliberately choose to make objects have keywords that do not appear in the short descriptions. (I speculate that other times they just goof.) I do find this irritating, but blame the area builders, not the coders. Baltar Kiri's WWW of URLs: What kind of cat are you? http://www.webkin.co.uk/poll-cat-index.html Are you happy? http://quiz.ivillage.com/relationships/tests/happiness.htm Forum discussion of the week (feel free to join in, it just keeps going and going...) http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/phpBB/viewtopic.php?topic=20&forum=12&52 Diary of an AOL Newbie: July 18 I just tried to connect to America Online. I've heard it is the best online service I can get. They even included a free disk! I'd better hold onto it incase they don't ever send me anther one! I can't connect. I don't know what is wrong. July 19 Some guy at the tech support center says my computer needs a modem. I don't see why. He's just trying to cheat me. How dumb does he think I am? July 22 I bought the modem. I couldn't figure out where it goes. It wouldn't fit in the monitor or the printer. I'm confused. July 23 I finally got the modem in and hooked up. that nine year old next door did it for me. But it still don't work. I can't get online. July 25 That 9-year-old kid next door hooked me up to America Online for me. He's so smart. I told the kid he was a prodigy. But he says that's just another service. What a modest kid. He's so smart and he does these services for people. Anyway he's smarter then the jerks who sold me the modem. They didn't even tell me about communications software. Bet they didn't know. And why do they put two telephone jack holes in the back of a modem when you only need one? And why do they have one labeled phone when you are not suppose to hook it to the phone jack on the wall? I thought the dial tone sounded funny! Boy, are modem makers dumb! But the kid figured it out by the sound. July 26 What's the Internet? I thought I was on America Online. Not this Internet thing. I'm confused. July 27 The 9-year old kid next door showed me how to use this America Online stuff. I told him he must be a genius. He says that he is compared to me. Maybe he's not so modest after all. July 28 I tried to use chat today. I tried to talk into my computer but nothing happened. Maybe I need to buy a microphone. July 29 I found this thing called Usenet. I got out of it because I'm connected to America Online not Usenet. July 30 These people in this Usenet thing keep using capital letters. How do they do that? I never figured out how to type capital letters. Maybe they have a different type of keyboard. JULY 31 I CALLED THE COMPUTER MAKER I BOUGHT IT FROM TO COMPLAIN ABOUT NOT HAVING A CAPITOL LETTER KEY. THE TECH SUPPORT GUY SAID IT WAS THIS CAPS LOCK KEY. WHY DIDN'T THEY SPELL IT OUT? I TOLD HIM I GOT A CHEAP KEYBOARD AND WANTED A BETTER ONE. AND ONE OF MY SHIFT KEYS ISNT THE SAME SIZE AS THE OTHER. HE SAID THATS A STANDARD. I TOLD HIM I DIDN'T WANT A STANDARD KEYBOARD BUT ANOTHER BRAND. I MUST HAVE HAD AN IMPORTANT COMPLAINT BECAUSE I HEARD HIM TELL THE OTHER SUPPORT GUYS TO LISTEN IN ON OUR CONVERSATION. AUGUST 1 I FOUND THIS THING CALLED THE USENET ORACLE. IT SAYS THAT IT CAN ANSWER ANY QUESTIONS I ASK IT. I SENT IT 44 SEPARATE QUESTIONS ABOUT THE INTERNET. I HOPE IT RESPONDS SOON. AUGUST 2 I FOUND A GROUP CALLED REC.HUMOR. I DECIDED TO POST THIS JOKE ABOUT THE CHICKEN THAT CROSSED THE ROAD. TO GET TO THE OTHER SIDE! HA! HA! I WASNT SURE I POSTED IT RIGHT SO I POSTED IT 56 MORE TIMES. AUGUST 3 I KEEP HEARING ABOUT THE WORLD WIDE WEB. I DON'T NOW SPIDERS GREW THAT LARGE. AUGUST 4 THE ORACLE RESPONDED TO MY QUESTIONS TODAY. GEEZ IT WAS RUDE. I WAS SO ANGRY THAT I POSTED AN ANGRY MESSAGE ABOUT IT TO REC.HUMOR.ORACLE. I WASNT SURE IF I POSTED RIGHT SO I POSTED IT 22 MORE TIMES. AUGUST 5 SOMEONE TOLD ME TO READ THE FAQ. GEEZ THEY DIDN'T HAVE TO USE PROFANITY. AUGUST 6 SOMEONE ELSE TOLD ME TO STOP SHOUTING IN ALL MY MESSAGES. WHAT A STUPID JERK. IM NOT SHOUTING! IM NOT EVEN TALKING! JUST TYPING! HOW CAN THEY LET THESE RUDE JERKS GO ON THE INTERNET? August 7 Why have a Caps Lock key if you're not suppose to use it? Its probably an extra feature that costs more money. August 8 I just read this post called make money fast. I'm so excited. I'm going to make lots of money. I followed his instructions and posted it to every newsgroup I could find. August 9 I just made my signature file. Its only 6 pages long. I will have to work on it some more. August 10 I just looked at a group called alt.aol.sucks. I read a few posts and I really believe that aol should be wiped off the face of the earth. I wonder what an aol is. August 11 I was asking where to find some information about something. Some guy told me to check out ftp.netcom.com. I've looked and looked but I can't find that group. August 12 I sent a post to every Usenet group on the Internet asking where the ftp.netcom.com is. hopefully someone will help. I cant ask the kid next door. His parents said that when he comes back from my house he's laughing so hard he can't eat or sleep or do his homework. So they wont let him come over anymore. I do have a great sense of humor. I don't know why the rec.humor group didn't like my chicken joke. Maybe they only like dirty stuff. Some people sent me posts about my 56 posts of the joke and they used bad words. August 13 I sent another post to every usenet group on the Internet asking where the ftp.netcom.com is. I had forgot yesterday to include my new signature file which is only 8 pages long. I know everyone will want to read my favorite poem so I included it. I'm also going to add that short story I like. August 14 Some guy suspended my account because of what I was doing. I told him I don't have an account at his bank. He's so dumb. Happy Holidays! News from the Realms! Have you been on BR in a while? Come visit us at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ Because I will be away, this will be the last newsletter until January 6th. Kiri: As you already know, the new boards are up and are majorly successful. Check them out at http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/phpBB/ And at Pumba and Cianan's endless requests, I've also updated the mortal pics on the site. http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/pics/ for pictures of Cianan, Solkanar, and Pumba on the mortals page. Players who need to log in or contact me: Alanya, Aperson, Dafreak, Fincor, Fizban, GoldenAxe, Harx, Justin, Krago, Laera, Moribund, Nerad, Quark, Rayne, Reknam, Shimoda, Strummer, Tinkerer, Tyalia, Vortex, Yaim Ideas: Skalord: Modify the flee command so you may escape or recall. Allow the user to set the flag. Prodigy: would it be possible for two-handed items to have a "two-handed" flag when identified? that would help alot Prodigy: i think heroes/avatars should be able to trade in unused practice sessions for hp or mana Violet: why aren't there potions that make you sneak or hide? those really could ease an avian's life ;) Prodigy: i think it would be really nice if peek could be toggled off Prodigy: now that the enhance armor skill is gone, perhaps it could be replaced with an enflame armor skill? BIO: 1) What's your BR name? Belle 2) What race/level are you? I was a Dwarf (my preferred race) until I reheroed as a Kender today. 3) How did you pick your Br name? I am southern and have always wanted to be a southern belle, hence the name. 4) What's your favorite area? The Asylum, I could spend years there and never get bored. 5) Where do you live (state or province/country)? North Carolina 6) What do you do for a living? I work at the local casino as a Gaming Host (pay jackpots, fill hoppers, etc....) 7) If you're a college/grad student, whats your major? I came close to getting my Criminal Justice degree, but being a slacker takes up a lot of time ;) 8) What do you want to be when you grow up? I would love to be an editor at a publishing house, life doesn't get better than reading all day. 9) Are you single? I am not married, but I am in love with the most phenomenal man amd I am going to marry him in a year or so. 10) What are your hobbies? I love to read, and listen to music, and I am totally BR-addicted. 11) What's the hardest thing you've ever had to do? I can't say directly, but recently I had to hurt some people very close to me for reasons that they couldn't understand at the time. It's better now, but I can't stand causing pain to people that I love and who I know love me. 12) Who do you most admire? I would have to say that the person I most admire is Vain. He's the most selfless person I have ever known, he's sweet to a fault, generous without measure, gentle and kind. He's also brilliant and driven to succeed. I am sure there's more that I left out.....but when I think about him I get kind of fuzzy in the head :) 13) Which celebrity would you like to hook up with? Oh boy, let's see. I will use the question as my guide and pick only one.....I would have to say George Clooney, he's extremely sexy. 14) What's the last book you read (including for school)? I think the name of it was Earth and Sea or something like that......it's a romance novel.......yes, I like romance novels ;) 15) What's the last movie you watched? Did you like it? The last movie I watched was on some episode of MST3K, with Vain.......can't remember the name of the movie, but that episode made me laugh until I cried. 16) If you could be anywhere in the world for a week, where would you go? I would grab Vain and go to the British Virgin Islands and rent a cottage off the beach. Responses by Amystery: See: you should be able to land when affected by levitation Amystery: I think levitation is a more forceful spell than fly, you can't land with it without the casters' permission. With fly you just stop flying but levitation involves no work on your part. Of course when I just tried it I could land while using levitation. Padan: if it isn't to much code it would be interesting for sanctuary to actually wear off, start off stopping like 60% fdamage then down to like 35 before it goes out Amystery: I would like that but I'm rather comfortable with how all spells just end now. Bonebreaker: Make back to keyword for backpack? Amystery: That's up to the designer of the backpack. Some of them do use back as a keyword Anyone: peck should do more damage when you start to see stars then all turns black but should make you sleep during the fight so you suffer double damage on the next round ... and peck should do more damage as you level, like with roundhouse... your beak would get harder and sharper and you would get more accurate with those eagle eyes... Amystery: Also seems like a good suggestion Anyone: shriek should work with no target... it's not as if you can't shriek unless you're fighting Amystery: makes sense to me. Not sure what it would do except be an area attack. Anyone: when you level up and get a beak, wings, talons, etc. you should lose a percentage of your hp (sharp pains shooting through your body an' all...) Amystery: That would seem to ad some realism to it. > Kharn: disable "tell" channel while ppl are in the void Cord: seems a reasonable thing to me... " cannot accept tells right now; their link may be dead." Or something. Amystery: I just wonder if this could be abused, then you know a player is LD and you can go molest them which results in at least one of you getting in trouble. Replies by Cord to the Oct. 24 2001 Newsletter: > Lugin: make the instructor cast spells faster on lvl 1 characters Cord: there are times when I've thought that this would be helpful... but usually the lag between spell castings can be used for instructing the newbie on various parts of the game... Amystery: I was pondering having a set of spells that the newbie or the hero with them could order the instructor to case. Ex: "instruct newbiename" would cause the instructor to cast a set of spells, sanc, CM, bless, heal on the newbie. either only work for level 1 or 1-10. > Straad: what about a thief that steals from everything mobs and > characters alike. Cord: Makes sense. I can't really see any (logical) reason for thieves to distinguish between mobs and players... code wise, it's probably a whole nother issue... Amystery: It would be fun to see two thieves stealing from eachother, but it would also seem to be an easy way to get lots of money. Find an area with a single thief and lots of mobs, kill the thief who has all the mobs' money. If mobs occassionally detected the thief and killed it that would make it even more interesting. > > > Wasabe: We should be able to enchant shields... to provide a reason > > > for dwarves not to just use weapons but shields... to bash! > > > > Divebomb: Or get an area designer to just design a good shield. I'm > > sure they would, but nobody would ever use them. > > Liquid: It might envourage the use of shields if this is put in. I used > to equip a shield when I was mortal, it's quite useful for the > AC-challenged Avian Cord: I can think of a few Illithoids (no dual) who would be tickled pink to have a decent shield to use... and if there were _good_ shields, I'd wager people might start using them more... Amystery: I think if the effect of shields was made stronger, say you only took half or less damage then people would use them. Fights would be twice as long but with less risk. I think that would make people willing to use them, at least when they were afraid of dying or about to level. > > > Turale: make trip in-guild for humans! > > > > Divebomb: Of course, nobody deserves trip more than the martial > > artist! > > Liquid: I'm all for it Cord: Agreed. Amystery: Likewise, trip seems to be a pretty basic skill for a human. Of course disarm also seems pretty basic but not all races get it. > > > Wasabe: I want to kick people out of the vehicle I purchase... it > > > should be the owners right... > > > > Divebomb: If you're really ticked off at them for being on, drive to > > alandra, go into the arena, and beat the crap out of them before they > > know what's going on. ;) > > Liquid: Sorry but I agree with Wasabe. Or at least you could be able to > "close" and maybe "lock" the vehicle Cord: Pehaps pointless, but yes... it does make sense that one would be able to close and lock a vehicle... Amystery: Maybe the driver should be about to kick people out. Not the owner. > > > AMystery: when two invisible mobs or players or players & mobs > > > fight, they should remain invisible. only when one is visible should > > > the other become so. After all, invisible creatures should be able > > > to see eachother and fight > > > > Divebomb: Just because I am invisible does not mean I can see you. > > That's why invis and detect invis are different spells. The concept of > > invisibility is that you can remain unseen so long as you do not > > attack (or are forced to attack). You'd be altering the entire > > concept, not just the way it works. > > Liquid: Well if they are both invis and both have detect invis cast > they should remain invis :) Cord: It's like cloaking devices: you have to de-cloak before you can attack. ;) Anyways, I personally wouldn't want to try fighting someone without any visual feedback as to the current position of my sheild, sword, or feet... and anyways; how hard is it to just cast invis again after a fight? Amystery: Actually I was thinking about people in the room with the two fighting chars. If the spectator didn't have detect invis then they shouldn't see anything. The two invis players can already see at least themselves (how else do they function?) and presumably the other person. > > > Johan: pass door should have an -ac modifier as well - if you're > > > translucent you must be harder to hit > > > > Divebomb: Not necessarily, you probably just look funny because you > > can pass through walls. > > Liquid: Well if a door doesn't touch you then what makes a mob able to? Cord: Heheeh... that's why it's pass door and not pass mob. ;) It's a picky spell, that pass door... Amystery: I've wanted this for a long time > Darkcrad: a super cool spell called "kamakazy" it kills yourself and > kills all the mobs in the room oOOoOOoo well of course not all mobs will > be affected by this spell cos that would be kinda cheap :P Cord: An interesting idea... a spell so powerful, that by using it, you risk your own life. Misfire == death. This could be rather fun... Sozz: I think is is a silly idea...we have enough whiners from mis-teleports, we don't need to add 'kamikazi' whiners. The problem is, noone really READS the help files on the spells, and actually heeds the warnings. I can see it now 'Help! I used this spell and it killed me! I need a cr!' and so forth and so on..00000001111111111111111111 Amystery: I used to love disintegrate so I'd enjoy another spell like that. I think this would be a fun hero spell though. And if they whine we just kill them again. > > AMystery: be able to put mental barrier on mobs when > > writing areas. the spell lasts until someone attacks > > the mob then it goes for the normal one round > > Packor: How will it get the spell back? I mean other > mobs must be dispelled, but with a MB mob you only have > to attack. Cord: When the mop repops, it would have the spell once again. Amystery: Yup, that's the idea. It won't cast it on itself after you attack so you can rather easily get it off the mob. Of course with MB you can't tell its on there until you attack. Sozz: This is an interesting idea...I think a flag would have to be developed for it though, just like sanc has a flag, because I think people have a right to know they're be kicking their own bottoms when they attack a mob with mental barrier. I don't see this as an especially nice addition to mort areas...but in hero areas it could be fun. Amystery: As someone who is often on the wrong end of MB I agree, but when I ponder the spell I like how there is no flag. It seems to fit the kind of spell. Sanc shows a certain kind of alignment, you are good enough to be granted sanctuary (i don't think evil mobs should have the same sanc, make it the dark aura) but MB is just a spell, it says nothing about the caster Replies by Cord to 11/30/01 Newsletter: > Horus: oh, since I got a response to my enahance thing... I should > clear that up... I was suggesting it tell you "you have enhanced str 2 > times amd con 1 time this level" Cord: After each time you enhance? Or in the stat menu? It _is_ only 5 things to remember... > Divebomb: make some way for builders to make mobs follow and possibly > even group(and autoassist mobs in their group). Cord: Divebomb and his ever-evil ideas. I like it. > See: you should be able to land when affected by levitation Cord: Sounds like a bug to me... > Padan: if it isn't to much code it would be interesting for sanctuary > to actually wear off, start off stopping like 60% fdamage then down to > like 35 before it goes out Cord: This then brings us back to being able to "recharge" (recast) spells you are already effected by... in this case, to bring sanc back up to it's full level of effectiveness. > Bonebreaker: Make back to keyword for backpack? Cord: Why not use pack? > Anyone: peck should do more damage when you start to see stars then all > turns black but should make you sleep during the fight so you suffer > double damage on the next round ... and peck should do more damage as > you level, like with roundhouse... your beak would get harder and > sharper and you would get more accurate with those eagle eyes... Cord: More damage on fade-to-black is interesting, but for the record, it _does_ make your character go to sleep. Trouble is, you can't sleep while in combat, so it really doesn't do anything, unless you happen to get lucky and kill the mob with a peck that brings the stars... then you will find that you are left sleeping, because the combat was over after the damage was assessed from that peck, which takes place before the stars come. > Anyone: shriek should work with no target... it's not as if you can't > shriek unless you're fighting Cord: Agreed. > Anyone: when you level up and get a beak, wings, talons, etc. you > should lose a percentage of your hp (sharp pains shooting through your > body an' all...) Cord: Seems reasonable, I suppose... > > > See: you should be able to throw through open doors > > > > Cord: Also seems like a good idea. > > Sozz: This makes sense, but what if the author didn't design the door to > be 'door-like' at all? What if it's supposed to be just a crack in the > rock? Cord: If one's character can fit _thru_ this crack, I would image that you would be able to throw thru it. Tho Sozz later makes a good point with the freezer door at RHPS: it seems it is possible to throw thru open doors... > > > Darkcrad: a super cool spell called "kamakazy" it kills yourself and > > > kills all the mobs in the room oOOoOOoo well of course not all mobs > > > will be affected by this spell cos that would be kinda cheap :P > > > > Cord: An interesting idea... a spell so powerful, that by using it, > > you risk your own life. Misfire == death. This could be rather > > fun... > > Sozz: I can see it now 'Help! I used this spell and it killed me! I > need a cr!' and so forth and so on.. 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