Date: Tue, 2 Mar 1999 23:05:37 -0500 (EST) Ideas: Rand: If laughing buddha has to be hp based, could it be based on your base hp instead of your current? AMystery: a healer command to dispel all magic on a player. either hero only or very expensive Dragonmaster: to easy to level low levels and to hard to level level 20s and up Dragonmaster: see what spells other races get by typing "slist (race)ex type slist avi to see avain spell list Melkor: a command 'show prompt' so you can see the syntax of your current prompt. This will make it much easier to edit. Symon: Shouldn't you be able to get (all) spells from clericus like combat mind,bless,etc,etc..,for a reasonable price ofcourse? Hello. I was talking to one of the higher lvl persons on BR and i asked them about a spell i was thinking of. I thought about this all school day (like there's anything else to do). Anyways. I was thinking of a spell called Furiate. This would allow the spell caster to run at the mob and just go nuts. I was thinking for spellcasters (druids) but if in a group they would become the target and it would lower their armor class to almost naked or something. pretty much all it does is stop the mob from dodging and parrying the attacks. i don't think it'd be too much of a powerful spell...but that's my opinion. (it won't modify any attributes except armor class) Let me know what you think WarpDrive /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Reviews: The Thieves Forest By Elwood Brave adventurers seeking to increase their wealth should explore The Thieves Forest. Be warned though, for this area hides many thieves that will gladly lighten your purse if given the chance. Assassins also lurk here guarding their treasure and will fight to keep possession of their hoarded gold. Finally, the master assassin awaits here for you, beware for he is the master assassin for a good reason and does not take kindly to intruders invading his domain. There is great wealth to be found here as well as a certain dagger often sought after by kenders. Stay on your toes in this area and you may leave with a heavy purse, if not you may find yourself leaving the hard way. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Responses by DAEHDER: Hi Kiri > Exor: skill called meditate for elves. > automatically works when you sleep. Brings > back your mana twice as fast. skill level > should be 30 to 40 Seems like you want something for nothing. How can you meditate while sleeping? Take a gulp of ale and sleep it off!! Works very well. > Delariand: Avians should have some sort of > self healing skill such as medicine I've been playing Daehder for a while now. I have had no need for healing skills as I have a stack of beers in my backpack. Seems a bit odd to have a drunken avian, but at least I've seen level 30 now without grouping once. > Eldrock: if you have to wield a weapon to > disarm, it stands to reason you must wield > a weapon to parry (this would apply to > mobs as well) Actually the mobs have weapons (sort of). The game was coded to allw mobs to defend themselves. The real weapons and armour you can get from them is just extras so you can equip yourself. :) > BadJuju: why not put actual trophies in > the quest room for people to look at (of > course this would be up to whoever is > running the quest) Ever seen when some person dump a whole lot of stuff at recall and you get spammed out of the game when you arrive there? Well, with all the trophies, you could get the same effect in the quest room. :) Now for all that Illithid stuff: > You Ridicule about its childhood. > Or somthing like that if i recall. > However i STILL cant figure out what 'awe' > does so if anyone knows, and knows what it > says when it does it i'd appreciate it. Hehe, yep that is right. What it does is that if you put awe in first then the mob doesn't hit you for that round. Seems pointless, but works helluva nice when you are in a group. You awe the mob, the rest of the group chucks in a few hits. The mob just looks at them and takes a bit of damage. Doesn't work when you are alone, you just waste mana :) > Fury: I guess no one knows how to play an > illithid, or worse, they dont think its > worth their time...... I may be completly > ? off, if i am im sure someone will tell > me.... As for improving the illithid? > Well each race i think can be improved, > and will be down the line. Well, basically I for one know how to play an Illithid. Actually if you really look at it, Illithids need to be scaled down, but then no-one would play them and you could actually play them without using detonate. WOW!! I can hear some say, if not detonate, what then? You could actually DISCOMBOBULATE with many of the other offensive spells, just start to use them. I just about never allowed anyone else in my group to tank at all, because of my AC and also allowing the other group members to get their attacks in. Don't think that I had some massive HP aswell, because I tend to only enhance things like WIS, DEX and CON. Illithids are powerful beings, you just need to practice a bit. And for those who have no idea of who I am or which Illithids I played , I used to play Ahkran, ZulX, Zababa, Reality and a few other Illithids, Also humans, elves, and avians. Been here for a while, hehe. Daehder /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) BIO SECTION: Your BR Name: Auger Your rl first name: Graham (Auger) Your race on BR: Human - Avatar Where you live: Sheffield England - Home of the Full Monty What you do: Postdoctoral reseach investigating a coreceptor for HIV Hobbies: Basketball (In England huh), Diving Highboard (I know I must be mad!), Cycling, REading, AD & D etc, Music, DRINKING BEER!!! and speaking like this ' hjerih hskajw huwreoin rewhoi' in real life., Oh and of course my RL grilfriend Fiona. Favorite thing about BR: Well BR that says it all Thing that annoys you most rl/br: People that winge about losing thier corpse without even trying to look for it Your favorite BR food: other than pot pies! - JUST HOT PIES Wierd Experience - being stuck being unable to recal or move out a a square with an angel of some sort. In fact I can't remember where it was WIERD. Auger /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Installation two of the quest I ran. If you remember, I asked for the letter you never thought you could write. Here are two non-winning entries, but still good for effort, no? Derw: the quest Dear Kiri, I have had a secret crush on you for a very long time... and, well, what I really want to say is... will you marry me? Sincerely, Derw (this is totally imaginary, and the best thing i could come up with for the quest, for right now) Derw, the friendly Elf :-) HitMan: the letter I never thought I'd write Dear US Government, it has come to my attention that your figures showing how much organised crime is in Washington are grossly inaccurate. I myself have several weapons caches all around the White House, which I am going to use in the near future, On May 5th, 2000, I shall rain fire on Washington DC and destroy you all utterly! MUHAHAHAHAHAHAAAA! You will not be able to trace me as I posted this, not in a mailbox in my home town of Little Rock, Arkansas, but from a mailbox in Washington itself. Nice try. Your sincerely, William J Clinton. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Kiri's WWW of URLs: Floaty enterprises: Hey, you remember those cool pens with the floaty things in them? Well you can send those people an idea for a pen, and if you win, they make the pen! http://www.floaty.com/index.facp?sid=918543051-2326 The Urban Legends Archive: http://www.urbanlegends.com/ The Internet virtual Pizza delivery. THis is kinda cool cuz you can put eye balls and stuff on your pizza. Appeals to the sick side of me ;) http://spidey.ecst.csuchico.edu/~pizza/pizzaweb.html Those of you who know me knew THIS was coming. All I can say is, its the best damn site on the web! http://www.hamsterdance.com/ /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >> >Overworked! >> >=--= >> > For a couple years I've been blaming it on lack of sleep and too >> > much pressure from my job, but now I found out the real reason: >> > >> > I'm tired because I'm overworked. >> > >> > The population of this country is 237 million. >> > >> > 104 million are retired. >> > >> > That leaves 133 million to do the work. >> > >> > There are 85 million in school, which leaves 48 million to do the >> > work. >> > >> > Of this there are 29 million employed by the federal government, >> > leaving 19 million to do the work. >> > >> > 2.8 million are in the Armed Forces, which leaves 16.2 million to do >> > the work. >> > >> > Take from the total the 14,800,000 people who work for State and >> > City >> > Governments and that leaves 1.4 million to do the work. >> > >> > At any given time there are 188,000 people in hospitals, leaving >> > 1,212,000 to do the work. >> > >> > Now, there are 1,211,998 people in prisons. >> > >> > That leaves just two people to do the work. >> > >> > You and me. >> > >> > And you're sitting at your computer reading jokes. _____________________________________________________________________ | _____ __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ __ _ _ _ _____ | | | | |__| |__/ |__/ |_ | | |__/ |_ |__| | | | | | | | |_____\ | | | \ | \ |___ | | | \ |___ | | |___ | | | \_____ | | | | ___ ____ ____ _ ____ _____ _____ ____ ___ | | | ______/ | | |_ | | | \__ | |_ | | |_ |__/ _____/ | | ________| | |___ \_|_/ ___/ |___ |___ | | |___ | \________ | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | No such thing as a failure who keeps trying...coasting to the bottom| | Is the only disgrace...-Blues Traveller | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | Be sure to check out the Official Barren Realms Homepage | | http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | -> Barren Realms: barren.coredcs.com:8000 <- | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | You can contact me at Kiri@li.net for any of the following: | | | | Ideas for Barren Realms | | | | Questions/Complaints | | | | Your scrapbook memories of BR | | | | Your poetry, stories, questions, comments, and bios for the | | mort/hero/imm bio section of the newsletter and BR Magazine. | | | | Getting on the mail list for: | | | | Players file: How to play the game, helps, and the BR story. | | Great information for ALL players, no matter what | | level. | | | | Builders guide: An all new guide on how to build areas for BR. | | Full of new information on bits, liquids, and a | | step by step instruction on building areas. | | | | Builders forum: A place to ask email questions about the area you | | are building | | | | Area list: A list of areas and descriptions of each, in depth | | and helpful | | | \_____________________________________________________________________/ Ascii by Cutlass-Mark Sherlock-msherlo@ibm.net Date: Tue, 9 Mar 1999 00:28:40 -0500 (EST) Brand: make the hps part of consider based off a % instead of a fixed number of hps so it's more accurate WarpDrive: be able to change the color of emotes Ansarok: You should be able to BUY not sell but BUY practice sessions Kai: If the Imps decide to leave in Word of Recall it should be modified so that you can recall when 'cursed' in any way. AMystery: since we have immortal web pages, how about avatar pages? Kiri -- Amystery is now working on an Avatar page. Dunbarth: 'perch' for avians, a skill that has the same affects as a tent. Can also protect one person who is being carried by the avian Dragonmaster: getting more instead of less exp for sudden death kills Kiri -- you don't get less exp for sudden death kills. Dragonmaster: exp for mastering a skill Kiri -- um, no. Dragonmaster: spell that tells you how many hit points a mob has dio here :) skill for humans :trip kick it trips the enemy and kicks them at the=20 same time for high levels like 40-45 /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Written by Flitter. This is an area review of Wyvern's Tower. - Wyvern's Tower - Upon hearing about a legendary creature with the wings of an eagle, and the body of a dragon, I set out west, to find what the people in town called, a "wyvern". Heading west, I came across a shadowy grove, where I found myself lost, wandering for days, until I came to a small clearing. Hurridly walking on, with a renewed sense of hope, I could soon see the outside of a small tower, far off in the distance. As I got closer, the tower rapidly grew and increased in size. The air was getting thicker, and more humid, with every step I took. Walking even faster than before, I tripped over a bramble, sending me tumbling to the ground. Catching my breath, I looked up, right into the gleaming eyes of a huge, scarlet, dragon. The wyvern started to flap its wings, but not soon enough. Crying out in surprise, I grabbed my sword and thrust it into the beast's heart, sending it to the ground, with a loud *THUD*. A glimmering iron sword dropped to the ground at my feet. Picking it up, I knew the adventure had only begun. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) BIO SECTION: =20 Your BR Names: Johan, Solkanar, Axelrod, Eladamri, Leshrac, Stangg, Chromium, Some, Beerman, TheTank, Sysop. Your rl first name: Christian. Your races on BR: All (Solkanar, my druid, is best tho). Where you live: Hampshire, England. What you do: Student. Hobbies: Reading, Magic: the Gathering, BR, general net surfing, biking... Favorite thing about BR: Crashes when u have healed up someone else and haven't saved. Thing that annoys you most rl/br: Crashes when you have just killed loads of stuff or died and have saved. Your favorite BR food (other than pot pies!) Trail rations. Your strangest experience ever: RL: predicting some rugby player's kick would hit the right post and it did (my family can back this up, and the match was live). BR: getting drunk on firebreather and trying to get to A Quiet Corner from recall, in the end I had to ask someone to go there so I could astral 8=ACP . /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Replies by MAESTRO-X: >>Overdrive: how about a 4th attack...you could charge gold and exp. >>Druids need it especially...they can't hit hard with weapons >>?!? Last I heard, druids didn't even get a third attack, and now you want >>to give them a fourth? Druids, elves, and illithids don't hit well with >>weapons for a reason: THEY'RE SPELLCASTERS. If you want a skilled fighter, >>try a dwarf or an avian. reply: Look i don't want to nit pick, but are illithids trully spellcasters? It seems unfair to group ( ILL DRU ELF ) together as "spellcasters" and ( DWF AVI ) as "fighters". Each one is seperate class, the only true "spellcaster" in a major sense would be the Elf mage, the druid would then be the next rung but more of a cleric, Illithids fall somewhere "out there", illithids as i understand are not inherantly weak and neither are druids, that is a defining feature of the elves, hence their offensive spells. This i believe would suggest that Druids and illithids might be capable of some powerful attacks. However I do agree that 4th attack is a little far fetched, even for Dwfs. Just because a race has a primary skill "magic" does not mean they cannot have some secondary features. I mean illithids dont even use "magic"! Also as i understand it dwfs get a good deal of oog attack spells, some of the best, to prac if they so choose. And yes, i know, they are tnl issues with dwfs. This next is for all races..as a hero spell..it's not fully thought out,=20 so bare with me on it.. The spell is cast before combat and lasts oh say as long as frenzy At hero you acquire a "spirit protector" and each race would have a=20 different one For Kenders say a Dragon, Druids a Unicorn, Elves a Firebird, Dwarves a=20 Berserker, Avians a Roc, Humans a (hmm have to think of one later,=20 blanked on it..) Illithids a Leviathan. During combat, your "spirit protector" would randomly appear and "hit"=20 the mob for you..(in effect giving the play an extra attack randomly=20 during combat) The battle message for Elves would read something like.. A Firebird=20 appears and flames engulf your foe. A Firebird *LOPS* (whatever). reply: This is just simply a great idea. >=09What about a spell called Mental Weapon for Illthids, high level >(35-50) and good sized imeadiate mana outlay (50-100) then it would >require a maintnece fee (5 mana) every once in a while.... >Basically allow the caster to create a weapon with his/her mind and >maintain it with his/her mind. The weapons hit/dam could be based on the >casters current level, but it could do a little more than normal (than >the current standards), because it is an extention of the casters very >mind, and therefore the caster can hit more often and deal more damaging >blows than with some simple piece of metal. These weapons could also >cast psionic blast each time they are used. These weapons would also be >the >property of the caster ONLY because once they the leave the casters >possesion they are no more.(this would make disarm interesting anyways.) >Weither or not you can make these scroll enchantable or not is the admins >choice.... > >Fury Hmm. An interesting idea, but it would mean an illithid would never have to look for a good weapon again. Psionic blast every hit would also make this sword INCREDIBLY powerful. Perhaps if this spell created a sword that fought alongside them, thus giving illithids a second attack... ;) reply: Admittedly i just slipped the psionic blast thing in, they weapon idea was the core point. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Kiri's WWW of URLs: For those of you with questions concerning stress: http://www.drkoop.com/centers/stress/page_18_65.asp From=20Scavenger, Scary Squirrel World: http://www.scarysquirrel.org/page1.html User Friendly Comic: http://userfriendly.org/cartoons/archives/99mar/19990306.html The She-Geek (otherwise known as Kiri) http://www.renaissoft.com/april/humor/shegeek.html /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Once again -- more quest entries for the Letter you never thought you could write quest: Solkanar: the letter you never thought you'd write this MUD is the worst MUD I have ever seen! it is not friendly and no-one does anything! I am leaving right now! :P Sol'kanar the Swamp King (I never thought I'd write this as I never will, I am currently possessed by the ghost of Freddie Kreuger) Dracko: Note quest Dear Kiri, I never imagined that a day like this would ever come to me. My life has been changed forever. I want everyone to know that I am now going to be able to fulfill my lifelong dream of filling in for Ginger Spice as the fifth Spice Girl. Thanks for being so supportive Realms! Dracko Treblar: Contest Is it possible to write the letter I thought I'd never write. By definition I am thinking now, hence This cannot be the note I would never write, or is it.? Could this be a note about nothing? To call it nothing, means it has to be something and can't be nothing, can it? Or do any of us think of anything, rather go by instict and=20 survival traits. Please stop laughing at me, I hate it when you laugh at me. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Hi folks. I'm running a little low on bios (read: I'm out of them.) So if any of you haven't done one yet, please fill in the blanks below and send it off to me. Go ahead, let the people know who you are! BIO INFO: Character Name/Names: RL First name: Job in rl: Race on BR: Are you a student? If yes, where?: What state/country do you live in?: What's your homepage URL: Your email?: Hobbies: What will you do when you grow up: Favorite BR memory: Favorite BR mob: Thanks for answering! /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >Love in the Eighties > >I was working part time in a five and dime. My boss was Mr. Magee. He >was six foot four and full of muscles and walked like an Egyptian, but > >was happy to be stuck with him. One manic Monday, while I was busy >working for the weekend, I overheard him make a careless whisper. He >told two of my co-workers, Jack and Diane, that I gave love a bad name. > >Well, I got so emotional, baby. I told him to say say say what he >wants, but don't play games with my affection. He told me it was hard >for him to say he's sorry and not to worry, to be happy. Then he >blamed it on the rain. He was so out of touch. It just took my breath awa= y. >I couldn't fight this feeling any longer. I asked him "What's love got >to do with it?" He told me to get outta his store and his dreams and into = my >car. > >So I figured I might as well jump. I cut footloose, went home and >called my girl, Jenny. (You already know the number) She was on the >other line with Amanda. They were talking about Mickey and how he was >so fine. That blew my mind! Was she really going out with him? I told >her that I had just called to say I love her. She told me she had been >saving all her love for me, but now she was looking for a new love - >asta la vista, baby. I thought "I can't go for that - no can do! Bring >me a higher love!" I called up some of my old west end girls, hoping >that one of them would want to get physical all night long (all night). >First I called Billie Jean - she told me to beat it. I called Rosanna - >her sister Christian blessed the rains down in Africa and then hung up >on me. Come on, Eileen! ... no answer. Nobody told me there'd be days >like these! I was feeling like the owner of a lonely heart. > >Then, out of the blue, my best friend's girlfriend (she used to be >mine) Roxanne calls. Yes, the real Roxanne. She told me she still hadn't >found what she's looking for and that she wanted to take on me. I said >"I thought you were Jessie's girl." She said "Don't you want me? You >don't have to put on the red light - I'm on my own." What a feeling! I >had the eye of the tiger. Who was I f-f-f-foolin? Roxanne drove me >crazy like no one else. She's a beauty! She blinded me with science, >and weird science at that. There was always something there to remind >me of her and I just knew that I'd have the time of my life. I wasn't >about to la-di-da-di. I jumped in my little red Corvette and rocked >down to Electric Avenue. I got my mind set on her. > >When I got to her house (in the middle of her street) I ran. I rapped >on her front door and to this rapper's delight, i heard a voice say >"Who >can it be now?" "Here I am, the one that you love", I replied. I let >my love open the door and was immediately lost in her eyes. I felt >like >a virgin touched for the very first time. She loosened her blouse and >said "Rock me Amadeus!" Well, I felt it was my prerogative to bust a >move. I told her "I'll tumble for ya!" as I pinned her on the stairs, >hungry like the wolf. > >Just then I felt an invisible touch on my shoulder. "Turn around >bright >eyes!" said a familiar voice. As I did, Jessie hit me with a >sledgehammer of an uppercut that spun me right round like a record. He >was hangin' tough and continued to roll with it, knocking the wind from >beneath my wings - broken wings by this time. He rocked me tonight, >for >old time's sake, beating me from head to toe, until my true colors were >black and blue and blood was spilling from my mouth like red, red wine. >"You don't owe me money for nothing!" he snarled. At this point I was >livin' on a prayer. > >I crawled back to my little red Corvette and drove home thinking about >how my tainted love had cut like a knife - how it seems that every >rose, truly, has its thorn. No longer do I want to know what love is. >Love stinks. _____________________________________________________________________ | _____ __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ __ _ _ _ _____ | | | | |__| |__/ |__/ |_ | | |__/ |_ |__| | | | | | | | |_____\ | | | \ | \ |___ | | | \ |___ | | |___ | | | \_____ | | | | ___ ____ ____ _ ____ _____ _____ ____ ___ | | | ______/ | | |_ | | | \__ | |_ | | |_ |__/ _____/ | | ________| | |___ \_|_/ ___/ |___ |___ | | |___ | \________ | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | No such thing as a failure who keeps trying...coasting to the bottom| | Is the only disgrace...-Blues Traveller | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | Be sure to check out the Official Barren Realms Homepage | | http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | -> Barren Realms: barren.coredcs.com:8000 <- | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | You can contact me at Kiri@li.net for any of the following: | | | | Ideas for Barren Realms | | | | Questions/Complaints | | | | Your scrapbook memories of BR | | | | Your poetry, stories, questions, comments, and bios for the | | mort/hero/imm bio section of the newsletter and BR Magazine. | | | | Getting on the mail list for: | | | | Players file: How to play the game, helps, and the BR story. | | Great information for ALL players, no matter what | | level. | | | | Builders guide: An all new guide on how to build areas for BR. | | Full of new information on bits, liquids, and a | | step by step instruction on building areas. | | | | Builders forum: A place to ask email questions about the area you | | are building | | | | Area list: A list of areas and descriptions of each, in depth | | and helpful | | | \_____________________________________________________________________/ Ascii by Cutlass-Mark Sherlock-msherlo@ibm.net Date: Sat, 20 Mar 1999 22:09:09 -0500 (EST) IDEAS: WarpDrive: choose how much you want to drink out of a bottle of beer or whatever to limit how drunk you want to get Kiri -- All or nothing, baby. TheOutsider: Humans should get another auto-attack skill like five-style-fist and 1000 palms Kiri -- How about auto-immortal skill :D WarpDrive: get more exp from a mob if it has an asstant mabe 10% more of what you normally get..mabe 5% you're choice Serinth: was wondering why player corpses cant be tanned by avians, or even wink..wink cursed items =d Dio: avians should be able to hit with there wings not like black but like an auto attack with it Serinth: as a ranger class, I think avians should be able to learn cleric spells like in D&D or at least be able to do something with extra practices, i have 99 to date Johan: vision should include infravision if we have birdseye Bluewing: with 4 tentacles I think illithids should be able to block blows to themselves PrncNeptune: earrings, we have rings, so why not earrings? one for each ear PrncNeptune: in your profile, a quote, your famous quote or someone elses Zaxx: im tired of going to a new place and having to guess if the command is read sign read plaque read badge ect. it should be standardized that if I type "look sign" that whatever object it is, should show the message Tang: move all arena messages from hinfo and combat channels to a special arena channel, which would also act as a communications channel allowing players to offer challenges, b**** about cheap shots, etc, WarpDrive: be able to enhance movement Kinslayer: practice dummy. In the newbie arena make a dummy with about 100k hp but no hit/dam so newbie can bring up there skills % on them Kiri -- Honestly, I am getting so sick of this kind of suggestion, no offense. The way I think BR should be is that as you go along your quest (to become a hero) you are fighting and improving your skills. His: enyance hit or dam roll by 1 for 1 enhance use Zurn: how bout if dispel magic worked on items too? Kiri -- I'm going to create a standard reply soon -- called "This game is already too easy, let's not make it easier" Mitey: How about in the 'alias' command it tells you how many alias defined, and how many you may write, which will be saved to your profile Mitey: As a friend tried to create a race on here, he kept trying to type 1 for his race. Well, it didn't say (or maybe it does) to type the name, and not a #. Kiri -- FYI, this should be in the bug command, not idea :D Type help bug on BR. Mitey: How about a personal color test. To test colors, but not spam the mud with cheer, use ctest ^chi^x and it would show 'CTEST: ^chi^x (in cyan)' And only to that char. (continuation from previous idea) Kinslayer: spell balefire: sort of like disintergrate for elves and druids Kiri -- Disintegrate is an illithid skill. We're trying not to make carbon copy races. :D Pagedude: maybe you could ask a shopkeeper to list iterms within a certain lvel range Kiri-- You can. Try typing list 10 20 or list sword, etc. Serinth: give avians a 'bird call' that lures mobs out of an adjacent room Kiri -- this skill is called throw. Avians get it at level 20. Hey its Genevia I have played all sorts of muds but barren is my favuorite mud. Everyone is nice here frendly helpfull and people dont swear alot. I would like to mention AMystery Hellborn Jhaggert Symon Serinth and my favourite person Wolfman these Guys have been the soul of the mud the people that makes this mud an enjoyable experence!!!!! Signed Genevia the Chit Chat girl! /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >>BIO SECTION: >> >>Your BR Name:.Dio >>Your rl first name:Asa >>Your race on BR:Avain >>Where you live:NY east of Bufalo >>What you do:Mud and go to school >>Hobbies:Mud,Master Video games,play baseball and sometimes basketball >>Favorite thing about BR:The people that are freindly and the imms who are nice to everyone. >>Thing that annoys you most rl/br: Real Life is that i am not realy cool and BR is that i have enemeys that hate me. >> >>Your favorite BR food (other than pot pies!) I LOVE BODY PARTS AND COLLECT THEM IN MY BACKPACK!!! /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Responses by Flip >WolfBane: since illithids have tentacles, let them be able to hold >an extra weapon but i would have to be to be a small weapon Very small. The tentacles come out of their mouth. And they're not that big.. Bob the Illithid lunges forward with a small dagger, clutched in his mouth-tentacles, and MUTILATES a mob! Um..sure. >Mitey: If a char cna >cast spells, could they be able to choose how >long it lasts, if they choose below their level (or below whatever amount >of hours for certain spells) >And not exceeding the amount. So if i am level 100, and I >cast bless on Sorta. It defaults to 100 hours, but if I choose this, "c >'bless' sorta 50" it would cast it for 50 hours. I think this would work better if you couldn't say the exact amount of time, but "half" or "low", or something. Half would do it for *around* half (duh), low for maybe 1/4.. >Tom: a Zone where you >can practice using newly aquired >spells/skills and not worry about death Somehow, I doubt this would work well. It would kinda destroy the reason for the penalty for failure on some skills like taint and stuff. >WolfBane: silent steak, for kenders. This lets the kender steal of the >mobs body so they can steal there weapons and armor Yes, just because kenders are able to remove huge breastplates and longswords from large, powerful mobs. Bob the kender screams "Look over there!" The Guardian turns and looks around dumbly. Bob grabs the Guardian's axe and runs like hell. >Korob: i was thinking of maybe >our titles should be in color, make barren >realms look more attractive >Kiri - actually, I think it would be REALLY distracting and gaudy. Please don't let it come to that. I agree with Kiri, that would just make the who list look tacky. >Matrim: push for dwarves. Lets the dwarf push a mob out of the room Perhaps only if the dwarf is invisible, and the mob can't see it. - Flip /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Yggdrasil {15-50} Glop Pronounced ig-dra-sill, this area host the home to many creatures good and evil. This Giant ash tree's entrance stands within Solace's woods. At the base of this giant ash tree, lie the darkest most evil things, most of which you would never want to meet, so evil that you would die if you met one. The roots of Yddrasil hold many demons, some pathetic, some deadly strong. The Trunk is just a single room, connecting the base of the tree to it's tops. The lower trunks hold many messangers, it is said this tree connects many worlds together thru it's roots, and that Ratatosk delivers messages from the demons at the base of the tree, to the eagles on the tops of the canopy. Area Review by: Tom /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Hi Everyone, Prodigy sent us the message below in a recent letter, to be forwarded to all of you. He left on Tuesday for France, so his address there will be Elder Bill Hutchinson Mission Francaise de Bordeaux 67, rue Furtado 33800 Bordeaux France Thanks -------------------------------------- Hiya, everybody: Let me start off by saying that I have no idea who's given email addresses to my parents, so I'm not sure who'll be reading this. Also, let me say that if you want a more personal letter, write me one! *grin* I always write back to anyone who writes to me. You can get my address from my parents, though as far as I can tell, the one they'll include with this letter should be right when I get to France. [Yes, it is -- Tom] If any of you speak French, feel free to write your letters in it. I understand enough to figure it out now. I'm learning A LOT!. You'd be amazed what you can learn in 2 months. I'm not fluent by any means, but I'm to the point that I can read the Book of Mormon and Bible in French, and almost never need to use my English set. If any of you have any questions, all you have to do is ask. I'll answer. Well, I guess that's about it. Once again, send letters! Talk to ya later. --Prodigy /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) This week we won't have the winners of the quest since I'm home and don't have access to them :D Kiri's www OF urls: The MUD staff resource page: http://www.msrp.net/ Bid on celebrities (recommended by Oakley) http://www.hsx.com From Scavenger: ... I'm speechless.... http://www.starwars.com/episode-i/news/trailer/ Park Wars: The Little Menace http://starwars.countingdown.com/ Choose your weapon http://parksabers.com/ The saga continues... http://www.io.com/~ryland/jesusdance/ /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) From: --Fossil I know this guy whose neighbor, a young man, was home recovering from having been served a rat in his bucket of Kentucky Fried Chicken. So anyway, one day he went to sleep and when he awoke he was in his bathtub and it was full of ice and he was sore all over. When he got out of the tub he realized that HIS KIDNEYS HAD BEEN STOLEN, and he saw a note on his mirror that said "Call 911!" But he was afraid to use his phone because it was connected to his computer, and there was a virus on his computer that would destroy his hard drive if he opened an e-mail entitled "Join the crew!" He knew it wasn't a hoax because he himself was a computer programmer who was working on software to save us from Armageddon when the year 2000 rolls around. His program will prevent a global disaster in which all the computers get together and distribute the $600 Neiman Marcus cookie recipe under the leadership of Bill Gates. (It's true -- I read it all last week in a mass e-mail from BILL GATES HIMSELF, who was also promising me a free Disney World vacation and $5,000 if I would forward the e-mail to everyone I know.) The poor man then tried to call 911 from a pay phone to report his missing kidneys, but reaching into the coin-return slot he got jabbed with an HIV-infected needle around which was wrapped a note that said, "Welcome to the world of AIDS." Luckily he was only a few blocks from the hospital -- the one, actually, where that little boy who is dying of cancer is, the one whose last wish is for everyone in the world to send him an e-mail and the American Cancer Society has agreed to pay him a nickel for every e-mail he receives. I sent him two e-mails and one of them was a bunch of x's and o's in the shape of an angel (if you get it and forward it to 20 people you will have good luck but 10 people you will only have OK luck and if you send it to less than 10 people you will have BAD LUCK FOR SEVEN YEARS). So anyway the poor guy tried to drive himself to the hospital, but on the way he noticed another car driving along without his lights on. To be helpful, he flashed his lights at him and was promptly shot as part of a gang initiation. And it's a little-known fact that the Y1K problem caused the Dark Ages. _____________________________________________________________________ | _____ __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ __ _ _ _ _____ | | | | |__| |__/ |__/ |_ | | |__/ |_ |__| | | | | | | | |_____\ | | | \ | \ |___ | | | \ |___ | | |___ | | | \_____ | | | | ___ ____ ____ _ ____ _____ _____ ____ ___ | | | ______/ | | |_ | | | \__ | |_ | | |_ |__/ _____/ | | ________| | |___ \_|_/ ___/ |___ |___ | | |___ | \________ | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | No such thing as a failure who keeps trying...coasting to the bottom| | Is the only disgrace...-Blues Traveller | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | Be sure to check out the Official Barren Realms Homepage | | http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | -> Barren Realms: barren.coredcs.com:8000 <- | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | You can contact me at Kiri@li.net for any of the following: | | | | Ideas for Barren Realms | | | | Questions/Complaints | | | | Your scrapbook memories of BR | | | | Your poetry, stories, questions, comments, and bios for the | | mort/hero/imm bio section of the newsletter and BR Magazine. | | | | Getting on the mail list for: | | | | Players file: How to play the game, helps, and the BR story. | | Great information for ALL players, no matter what | | level. | | | | Builders guide: An all new guide on how to build areas for BR. | | Full of new information on bits, liquids, and a | | step by step instruction on building areas. | | | | Builders forum: A place to ask email questions about the area you | | are building | | | | Area list: A list of areas and descriptions of each, in depth | | and helpful | | | \_____________________________________________________________________/ Ascii by Cutlass-Mark Sherlock-msherlo@ibm.net Date: Wed, 24 Mar 1999 01:19:04 -0500 (EST) Thordain: how about something that avians could wear on thier claws to make theier claw attack stonger? Like something they would use in a cock fight? Hisdos: how bout Group Recall - recalls everyone in a group Serinth: It's obvious that the biggest complaint of Avians is that they cant wear certain peices of armor, and everyone knows that as a race they are weak even at Avatar level, on the MZF page it mentioned for a bird race "an open holed breastplat e" ,anyway Kiri -- For once, and for all, let me say this. And this is the last time you'll see anything about avian armor slots again. Avians are by FAR the easiest race to hero, and to Avatar. We have no intention of making them ANY easier. Thank you, over and out. Paladine: why cant mortals enhance nutrition? Kiri -- who said they can't? Xaz: how about the "all" command work at beich or have a single command to allow you to give beich all your items for repair /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) REVIEW: Malathar Levels (10-35) _______________________________________________________________________ One day I was exploring north of Calathar when I came upon a elven = town. The city was called Malathar. As I strolled along the path towards = the city i noticed i nice herb shop. After a few minutes there I = continued on my way to the city square. As i moved into the town i = noticed many strong elven warriors. I came to a tower and decided to = climb it, all of a sudden I was being attacked by angry griffons. it was = a tough fight, as I exited the tower I saw a note I hadnt noticed = before. It said beware of griffons. At this point I was pondering to = myself how I could miss a note this important. I saw the guardian of = malathar there, a strong warrior. I continued along the path untill I = came to another tower, being a little more cautios this time I went up = and found Captain Allertathala. Luckly he wasnt mean like the griffons. = If you decide to venture to Malathar take a buddy for the griffons will = give you no mercy. Marauder. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) FROM: DIO I think when assarok said that we should be able to buy prac lessons that was a good idea FROM BALTAR: > Kiri -- How about auto-immortal skill :D Yeah! Cool! And you should get it at level 2, because a lot of newbies get very upset when they find out that it's not as easy to level outside the Mud Academy. And as you go up levels, it should get even MORE powerful, until a good 30th level character can SLAY things! Just like an Imm! > Zaxx: im tired of going to a new place and having to guess if the > command is read sign read plaque read badge ect. it should be > standardized that if I type "look sign" that whatever object it is, > should show the message Whoa, way to kill the creativity of the area builders... > Kiri -- I'm going to create a standard reply soon -- called "This game is > already too easy, let's not make it easier" Oh...okay, then, never mind about the auto-immortal skill, in that case... Baltar /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) BIO INFO: Character Name/Names: Lari, Relina, Rah, Nazita, and Leesha RL First name: Dawn Job in rl: SysAdmin/Programmer Race on BR: Human, Elf, Avian and Ill Are you a student? If yes, where?: What state/country do you live in?: Southern Minnesota What's your homepage URL: Your email?: Chailynne@aol.com Hobbies: Computers mostly, reading, cross stitching, scrapbooking, playing with my new neice What will you do when you grow up: I hope I never grow up. ::grin:: Favorite BR memory: I would say heroing on the same kill with 2 of my characters and another player, and all the planning that led up to it. Favorite BR mob: Chiapet cuz it still makes me laugh to think of one running around. Favorite BR area: Les Mis! I loved it, and there was never anyone there. Good way to make money to enhance. Favorite BR food: Tiramisu (when I finally learned what it's description was so I could pick it up from other's miscast spells!) Favorite BR passtime: Stalking Rand ::giggle:: Favorite BR hiding spot: In the museum there is a spot that is private. It's the best place to hide from someone. They can't get there! And how many people can actually find their way to the museum in the first place? ;) /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Kiri's WWW of URLs: The She-Geek, c/o Scavenger: http://www.renaissoft.com/april/humor/shegeek.html The Infamous Exploding Whale: http://www.perp.com/whale/ The Museum of Questionable Medical Devices: http://www.mtn.org/quack/ The American Immigrant Wall of Honor: http://www.wallofhonor.com/wallofhonor/search_f.asp /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) After a brief intermission, more of the poems that were letters you never thought you would write: Tiver: the letter I thought I'd never write... This was the letter I thought I'd never write...you see, I find this letter completly useless and can be replaced! This letter letter is so small and pointless that "The RandomHouse College Dictionary (c)" only devotes one and a half pages for it. And to top that off this lame 1.5 pages is out of 1534!!! This letter includes world like Xanthous, Xebec, and Xylidine...I mean who REALLY gives a rats *ss about these?!?! WHO needs 26, I'm says that 25 is enough for us!!! 25 is a much better number than 26... 25 has an integer square root, It's one fourth of 100, A multiple of 5...Why in all the world would we need this 26th one?? So this letter I thought I'd never write and the letter is "X". So there you have it...I've written the letter, Are you HAPPY now?? look a what you've gone and made me do!! seeeeshhhhhh, I tell you. -Tiver Mitey: The note I'd never thought I'd write to you... No no, I'm not going to write a love letter And no, it won't be offensive. The Sun is in Aquarius and the Moon is in Pisces. -- Well, that's nice to hear... It looks like you have no problem getting the money to come in today. -- Oh, that's interesting. The problem is in figuring out how to disperse it. -- Eh-heh. Oh-kay. A friend would like some, for a very good reason, and so would your partner. How about yourself? -- *HONK* Too far. Back up. Now, re-read all this, and pretend that this is NOT your horoscope. NEXT TIME: Daily Planner... Mitey. AND ONE OF THE WINNERS, DAGMAR: Dagmar: the letter i never thought i'd write to the person or persons who stole my car...When you drove my car away that morning, did you notice how well it ran? When you removed the hood and the front grill, could you tell they had been washed,waxed and polished recently? When you riffled through the glove compartment, did you see the receipts for past repairs? Did you see that the car was up to date on maintainence? Did you see the college parking permits and wonder if the owner had loans to pay off? When you took out the seats, did you notice that the leather was cleaned, that the carpet had been vacuumed recently? When you opened the trunk and pawed through my music collection, did you laugh and make jokes? I notice you didn't steal any tapes, I guess my taste in music isn't as good as my taste in cars. When you stole my road safety kit with the jumper cables, fix-a-flat, flare and emergency light, did you wonder what i would do if i were stuck on the side of the road somewhere? Did you even wonder if i could afford another car? When people admire the car you put my parts on, do you ever feel guilty? Do you ever wonder how I felt? When you ripped apart the inside of my trunk, what were you looking for? Drugs? Did you think everyone was a criminal, just like you? Let me guess... you never thought at all. Another long one, but a winner none-the-less: Flitter: Note Quest -There are many issues that today's youth have to face, and most of the time, we feel as though we're facing them alone. -I'm not talking about sex or drugs, I'm talking about our future. -You go through life, dodging peer pressure, trying to hang out with the right people, and for the most part, just trying to be a good person. -College wasn't a big issue a few years ago, when you were in middle school. But, now, the reality of it has hit you, with full force. -In a few years, you'll be graduating from high school, and thrust into the real world, where you'll have to find a job, find a place to live, and still, have time to sleep at night. -And all the while, you'll be wondering what happened to the care-free days, when all you had to worry about was trying to impress your friends. -It's a hard world, especially now, when your trying to fit in with your friends, while simultaneously trying to find out your place in life. -Life, in general, is stressful, even more-so now than ever. We strive so hard to space ourselves from our parents, and, we're so eager to get out into the real world, and find a job, that we forget how it felt to be a child, even though we're just children ourselves. -The next thing you know, your out on your own, more stressed then you've ever been, but this time it's different. There's no one to protect you, and no one to tell you everything will be okay. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >> Subject: Instruction Labels >> >> >> Some examples of why the human race has probably evolved as far as >possible: >> >> *** Actual label instructions on consumer goods: *** >> >> On Sears hairdryer: >> Do not use while sleeping. >> (Gee, that's the only time I have to work on my hair!) >> >> On a bag of Fritos: >> You could be a winner! No purchase nesessary. Details inside. >> (The shoplifter special!) >> >> On a bar of Dove soap: >> Directions: Use like regular soap. >> (and that would be how?) >> >> On some Swann frozen dinners: >> Serving suggestion: Defrost. >> (But it's *just* a suggestion!) >> >> On a hotel provided shower cap in a box: >> Fits one head. >> (The big one or the little one?) >> >> On Tesco's Tiramisu dessert:(printed on bottom of the box) >> Do not turn upside down. >> (Too late! You lose!) >> >> On Marks & Spencer Bread Pudding: >> Product will be hot after heating. >> (Are you sure??? Let's experiment.) >> >> On packaging for a Rowenta iron: >> Do not iron clothes on body. >> (But wouldn't that save more time?) >> (Whose body?) >> >> On Boot's Children's cough medicine: >> Do not drive car or operate machinery. >> (We could do a lot to reduce the rate of construction accidents if >we >> just kept those 5 year olds off those fork lifts.) >> >> On Nytol sleep aid: >> Warning: may cause drowsiness. >> (One would hope!) >> >> On a Korean kitchen knife: >> Warning keep out of children. >> (Or pets! What's for dinner?) >> >> On a string of Chinese-made Christmas lights: >> For indoor or outdoor use only. >> (As opposed to use in outer space.) >> >> On a Japanese food processor: >> Not to be used for the other use. >> (Now I'm curious.) >> >> On Sainsbury's peanuts: >> Warning: contains nuts. >> (but no peas?) >> >> On an American Airlines packet of nuts: >> Instructions: open packet, eat nuts. >> (have a lobotomy) >> >> On a Swedish chainsaw: >> Do not attempt to stop chain with your hands or genitals. >> (What is this, a home castration kit?) >> >> On a child's Superman costume: >> Wearing of this garment does not enable you to fly. >> (That's right, destroy a universal childhood fantasy!) _____________________________________________________________________ | _____ __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ __ _ _ _ _____ | | | | |__| |__/ |__/ |_ | | |__/ |_ |__| | | | | | | | |_____\ | | | \ | \ |___ | | | \ |___ | | |___ | | | \_____ | | | | ___ ____ ____ _ ____ _____ _____ ____ ___ | | | ______/ | | |_ | | | \__ | |_ | | |_ |__/ _____/ | | ________| | |___ \_|_/ ___/ |___ |___ | | |___ | \________ | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | No such thing as a failure who keeps trying...coasting to the bottom| | Is the only disgrace...-Blues Traveller | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | Be sure to check out the Official Barren Realms Homepage | | http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | -> Barren Realms: barren.coredcs.com:8000 <- | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | You can contact me at Kiri@li.net for any of the following: | | | | Ideas for Barren Realms | | | | Questions/Complaints | | | | Your scrapbook memories of BR | | | | Your poetry, stories, questions, comments, and bios for the | | mort/hero/imm bio section of the newsletter and BR Magazine. | | | | Getting on the mail list for: | | | | Players file: How to play the game, helps, and the BR story. | | Great information for ALL players, no matter what | | level. | | | | Builders guide: An all new guide on how to build areas for BR. | | Full of new information on bits, liquids, and a | | step by step instruction on building areas. | | | | Builders forum: A place to ask email questions about the area you | | are building | | | | Area list: A list of areas and descriptions of each, in depth | | and helpful | | | \_____________________________________________________________________/ Ascii by Cutlass-Mark Sherlock-msherlo@ibm.net Date: Mon, 29 Mar 1999 23:09:21 -0500 (EST) --------------------------------------------------------------------- | | _______ (===|====================- -====================|===) \ __ \ | | | |__| | __ _ _ __ _ __ ___ _ ___ | ___ \ / __ \| | | |/ ___\ | |/ ___\ / ___ \ | |/ __ \ | | | | | | \ | | / | / | _____| | / | | | |___| | | |__ / | | | | | | |_____ | | | | /________/ \____/|_| |_| |_| \_____/ |_| |_| _______ _ \ __ \ | | | |__| | ___ __ _ | | _ __________ ____ | ___ \ / ___ \ / __ \| | | | | |/ __ ____ \ / ____\ | | | | | _____| | | \ | | | | / | | | | | |__ | | | | | |_____ | |__ / | | | | | | | | | \___ \ /__| |__| \_____/ \____/|_| |_| |_| |_| |_| \ \ ___________________________________________________________ / / <____________________________________________________________/ -Govinda Serinth: a command that will list only those skills which can be improved, so you can see only the ones you might like to work on Melchior: How bout putting a mark on donated items so that when people try to sell them, the shops won't accept them. Mitey: How about everything donated has a cost of 0. So this will stop the selling of donated items all together. Or, make the items unsellable. Kiri: As you can tell from these comments, and another one below by Luminus -- selling donated items has been a BIG deal lately. Many people are seriously against it, and in fact, yes, it's against the rules. Others have felt that whatever is donated is free game. I'm curious to hear PURSUASIVE arguments in either direction. Stonehenge: Add fighting stances. Offensive stance, you hit/get hit more and incur/inflict more damage. Normal is like right now. Defensive you hit/get hit less and incur/inflict less damage, but your magic strength also increases. Mitey: Increase amount of ALLOWABLE pagelength to 60. I have an enourmas monitor and I hate having to press enter every 40 lines. but i don't want the real long ones to scroll by Kiri -- don't forget, page 0 will eliminate page pause. Tom: Reserve spaces for Shop-keepers, so they keey there normal inventory, this way you cant run out of things, and only allow so much to be sold :) Kiri -- this is actually a bug. Will hopefully be fixed soon. Serinth: trade practice sessions in for gold =p Kiri -- Nope. As new skills/spells get added for heroes (and eventually remort classes) you'll need those extra practices. So let's stop hearing about them! hehe. Luminus: How about a Donation flag so people can't sell donated items? Natedog: Being new on this mud, I have only one thing that I don't like and that is the 5-level group rule which I think should not be applicable to my mult, in case there is no one on I can group with, I tihnk it should only be fair to group with my multi f Kiri -- Unfortunately, this would severely unbalance the MUD. Stonehenge: When you get zapped by armor that is opposite your alignment, make it cause some damage. Since when does getting electrocuted not hurt? Kiri -- personally, I'm annoyed when I'm playing my mortals over in Pern and I get zapped by a flaming item for a good 20 or 30 hps of damage. When you only have 120 hps, that's a big deal. This is along those same lines.. besides, I do believe it's a magical zap. Stonehenge: New Spell for Illitids, at level 40, Rift, opens a rift in the psionic plane, transporting the caster to the target player/mob. Kiri -- carbon copy of teleport/astral. No thanks. Everybody: with the added concentration on builders recently, perhaps it would make sense to have a note spool for builder Kiri -- just a reminder -- please send a note to Faustus with your email address on the MUD if you wish to be on the builder's forum list. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ REPLIES BY CALLER: Before my replies, I would like to put a little plug in for Friday Night Trivia, starting in two (2) weeks from last friday. At around 10:00 PM Eastern, trivia will commence in the chit chat room. As usual, it is free, but I will have to look at my bank balance to see how much I can pay you. If some nice souls wish to donate money, that will increase the prizes. Now to the responses IDEAS: WarpDrive: choose how much you want to drink out of a bottle of beer or whatever to limit how drunk you want to get Kiri -- All or nothing, baby. --Exactly... how easy is it to either: A) Abstain B) Drink in moderation C) Get drunk out of your mind and suffer the consequences. Besides, I would hate to be the poor coder who did this. TheOutsider: Humans should get another auto-attack skill like five-style-fist and 1000 palms Kiri -- How about auto-immortal skill :D -- Right. Heck, I play a Level 30 Human, and when you have that, use iron monk and concentrate, and the occasional roundhouse, another skill would make us even greater (we are allready the best) WarpDrive: get more exp from a mob if it has an asstant mabe 10% more of what you normally get..mabe 5% you're choice -- I don't proclaim to be an expert, but it seems to me we DO get a little more xp if more than one mob attacks... say, with autoassist Serinth: was wondering why player corpses cant be tanned by avians, or even wink..wink cursed items =d -- Hmmm... good question. Dio: avians should be able to hit with there wings not like black but like an auto attack with it --The way I see it, they are allready holding weapons on them. How can you slice with a sword... it would have to be a funny follow-through to nail them with the wings. Serinth: as a ranger class, I think avians should be able to learn cleric spells like in D&D or at least be able to do something with extra practices, i have 99 to date --You name me one player without extra practices and I will name you a player under level 20. Seriouly, about the D&D Part, this is Barren Realms. We have had a lot of suggestions about what to do with extra practices... I think we should be able to cash them in for 2 gold each... get rid of the numbers. Johan: vision should include infravision if we have birdseye --Why? Bluewing: with 4 tentacles I think illithids should be able to block blows to themselves --If they have two weapons, yes, I think they should be able to block blows. But, look back at Flip's commentary about these tentacles in last week's responses. PrncNeptune: earrings, we have rings, so why not earrings? one for each ear -- *Sob*. How could an earring help you. How many times in a fight will the enemy go for the EAR LOBE? Sorry, I doubt this will ever happen. PrncNeptune: in your profile, a quote, your famous quote or someone elses -- Hmmm.... mabye... mabye... mabye you could use one of the other four, like the PLAN, now that there is a seperate 'webpage' command in your profile. Zaxx: im tired of going to a new place and having to guess if the command is read sign read plaque read badge ect. it should be standardized that if I type "look sign" that whatever object it is, should show the message -- Why even bother with having to look at the sign, include it in the description. And fights... just let the players always win, death is no fun. Xp... why bother with those letters, let's just have everyone imm. You see... if it is too easy, it isn't fun. Tang: move all arena messages from hinfo and combat channels to a special arena channel, which would also act as a communications channel allowing players to offer challenges, b**** about cheap shots, etc, -- YES YES YES!!! I have had enough of having to eliminate all my battle update messages so I wasn't spammed with arena commands. If modelled after other commands... I don't think it would be too hard. WarpDrive: be able to enhance movement Hmmm... makes sence Kinslayer: practice dummy. In the newbie arena make a dummy with about 100k hp but no hit/dam so newbie can bring up there skills % on them Kiri -- Honestly, I am getting so sick of this kind of suggestion, no offense. The way I think BR should be is that as you go along your quest (to become a hero) you are fighting and improving your skills. -- Right On Kiri. Now, if we had that, all it would take is a ZMUD trigger set to kill dummy when you see the death of the dummy... or the repop thing. No, I don't think that would work. Not to mention the shock newbies would face right after they got over that... "Hey, no one told me the creatures fight back *cry**cry*" His: enyance hit or dam roll by 1 for 1 enhance use - Hmmm... I suppose... Zurn: how bout if dispel magic worked on items too? Kiri -- I'm going to create a standard reply soon -- called "This game is already too easy, let's not make it easier" --Need I Say More? Mitey: How about in the 'alias' command it tells you how many alias defined, and how many you may write, which will be saved to your profile -- Question: WHY? Unless I miss my guess, you can write basically unlimited aliases... all of which are saved. Mitey: As a friend tried to create a race on here, he kept trying to type 1 for his race. Well, it didn't say (or maybe it does) to type the name, and not a #. Kiri -- FYI, this should be in the bug command, not idea :D Type help bug on BR. Mitey: How about a personal color test. To test colors, but not spam the mud with cheer, use ctest ^chi^x and it would show 'CTEST: ^chi^x (in cyan)' And only to that char. (continuation from previous idea) -- Well... I suppose. Or, why not just have another char on, bring both into a deserted room... SAY the command you want to test, and look at the results with the other character. Guess what: NO FUSS... NO CODING!! (You may have guessed, I am against coders doing needless crap, pardon my french) Kinslayer: spell balefire: sort of like disintergrate for elves and druids Kiri -- Disintegrate is an illithid skill. We're trying not to make carbon copy races. :D Pagedude: maybe you could ask a shopkeeper to list iterms within a certain lvel range Kiri-- You can. Try typing list 10 20 or list sword, etc. Serinth: give avians a 'bird call' that lures mobs out of an adjacent room Kiri -- this skill is called throw. Avians get it at level 20. Hey its Genevia I have played all sorts of muds but barren is my favuorite mud. Everyone is nice here frendly helpfull and people dont swear alot. I would like to mention AMystery Hellborn Jhaggert Symon Serinth and my favourite person Wolfman these Guys have been the soul of the mud the people that makes this mud an enjoyable experence!!!!! Signed Genevia the Chit Chat girl! Let me second that motion. I would also like to thank Kiri for administrating such a terrific MUD, and for taking time each week to write the newsletter. Thanks, Kir *cheer*. That's all... make sure to read notes for more information about Friday Night Trivia, starting soon. --Caller /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >BIO INFO: >Character Name/Names: Zaz, Garrett, Coren, Lerris >RL First name: Garrett >Job in rl: Student >Race on BR: Dwarf, Druid, Elf, Ill >Are you a student? If yes, where?: Texas Tech University >What state/country do you live in?: Lubbock, Texas >What's your homepage URL: http://english.ttu.edu/grad/speters/whitehead/ >Your email?: G.Whitehead@ttu.edu >Hobbies: Reading (Fantasy/Scifi), BR, UO (no comments from the peanut gallery), Basketball, anything computer related >What will you do when you grow up: Manage a network for a campany (hopefully) and run a tech writing businesson the side with my wife. Play BR (much to the wife's dislike), online game period. >Favorite BR memory: Introducing Jasserande to the Realms. She beat me to Hero. (ok, so I have been in the realms almost 2 years and don't have a hero character. Sue me ) >Favorite BR mob: The Satanic Mechanic, just love the ring that leaves in ones ears. Mean lag, angry stone, agro mobs period; like being kept on my toes. /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Kiri's WWW of URLS: This is a really neat HTML maze: http://www.facemaking.com/3dmaze/startpointoverall.html This was originally from Rabies -- the flaming pop tart experiment: http://www-personal.umich.edu/~gmbrown/tart/ For those of us, like me, who take pride in being a geek, Geek Chic: http://www.geekchic.com/ The Coffee Pot webpage: http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/coffee/coffee.html /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) Article by Hekate: ))))****HEKATE'S CORNER OF HELL****(((( I'm going to be writing a little opinion article in the newsletter for as long as I can keep coming up with topics. I'd be willing to hear your responses -- you can mail me at shade60@hotmail.com This may be a little bit crazy or offensive to some of you, well, deal with it. I'm just here to suck your souls from your skulls anyway. But on a serious side, there's a book I've been reading written in the late 1800s called "What Social Classes Owe to Each Other." It tries to answer some questions, but instead, for me, ended up making me ask MORE questions. It establishes, I think correctly, that American society being capitalist and such that it is, tries to engrain the American Dream of wealth and success into everyone. On a current tip, more than ever before the poor classes have access to televisions. They are able to SEE wealth, even if they may never attain it. So our society encourages everyone to succeed yet distributes the opportunity to succeed unequally. For example, someone born with a silver spoon has more advantages -- monetarily and education wise, than someone born in a ghetto of New York or California. I think most people accept this as reality. This reality leads to crime, organized and non-organized. It's easier (perceived as easier, may not actually be easier) to be a drug dealer than working at McDonalds for maybe $40 a day, after taxes. This leads to crime, and drug problems, etc. etc. Something none of us really want. And of course drugs aren't the only field of crime, either. My question is this. What does that mean about those of us who are middle class or wealthy? Does this take away, at all, from our success? If we succeed, will there always be a nagging feeling (or perhaps someone saying) "Yeah, but you had it easy, that's why you succeeded. You weren't born in a ghetto." Should we be beaten by the media as being spoiled kids of a new generation, brought up on MTv and Nintendo? Are we really what they say we are? If this is true, do any of our successes really MEAN anything? What do we, as a society, owe to those who are underpriveledged? What do we owe individually? Sumner, in his book, says we owe them nothing. They just should accept it as bad luck and move on. Is this true? I don't know. But I'm curious to hear what you all think about it. Until next time when I come to break you ribcages open, Hekate /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) This is the continuation of the quest about "Letters you never thought you would write" Warren: note-quest Time to cheer and time to laugh Time to hear your painful cries With every minute I see your face I can see the hurt in your eyes I wrapped around my arms to you Hoping that it would fade Shielding you from what harm may come Prayin' that you won't be blue Tears that lie beneath your smile Hiding your sadness deep within I hope that you would share the pain And my existance would be worth while Hush now my angel don't weep For I will kiss your tears goodbye Let me see your sweet,sweet smile And forever on my watchful keep Rand: Quest Uncle Sam Uncle Sam, I'd just like to take this time to tell you how much I appreciate everything that you've done for me since I've joined the military. You've shown me how to be a man, given me more money than I know what to do with, and have given me a great attitude on life in general. I've found everything that from the commercials on television to the stories told by my recruiters to be the absolute truth! In conclusion, I'd just like to say, once again, how happy I am..and thank you Uncle Sam. Joining the military was the best decision I've ever made in my life! Rand Shaou: NOte i thought i wouldnt write I never thought i would say this to you. We have been friends for 3years and have shared many times. You have told me about your first loved one..and i was there for you when you first got you rheart broken. You were there for me when my mother died. You comforted me throught the years and been there for me with out even the slightest flirting. well i come forth today and ask for the world to stop. As i graze the earth and bear upon you my love that sum how has been heidden for so long. today i want to ask you , My abby....my love aof all life time....will you marry me? Naddarow: Note: The following is a work of purly, completly, and most-deffinently a work of FICTION...You have been warned! Morticide is the saddest thing that one who as acheived the honorable rank of hero, avatar, or immortal can do. Yet this sad and tragic event is a prevently problem in our mud society. Our honored ones brought to the level of humiliation or disgust where they ACTUALLY delete themselves and become mortals again is a big problem. I am said to say that I have fallen into this category for a number of reasons. One of the main reasons is I have been ridicules, humiliated, and plain out embaressed by a number of our so-called "Immortals" (who shall rename name, But YOU KNOW WHO YOU ARE!) this doesn't only apply to immortals, but also applies to the countless heros and mortals that look at me and laugh, I mean how disrespectful is that??? I suppose in some ways I may have had it coming to me...But I won't get into that at this time:P I don't know what I'll do once I become mortal again...I suppose I might wonder the realms trying to find a nice place to set up my humble brewery. Or I might go see how many different ways Ciquala, King Kandy, or even Papa Smurf can kill me, now that they are more powerful than me and can have there chance to seek their revenge. But As I do this, I will think happy thoughts and sing the tune of M*A*S*H, and enter that dispicable code... I know that non of you will really care, infact you'll probably laugh at me for this, I know you'll say, 'I thought I had no life, but when I look at him,...well my feeling change!' So good by cruel BR, I've known you well, and It is now time for me to head back to that from which I came. -Naddarow /(*) | / | |\--------------------------------------------\ (@)(((((((( | >-------------------------------------------- > | |/--------------------------------------------/ | \ \(*) >Here's some trivial stuff that'll make you think twice ... > > > > > >- The average chocolate bar has 8 insects' legs in it. > > > >- The average human eats 8 spiders in their lifetime at night. > > > >- A cockroach can live nine days without its head before it starves > > > > to death. > > > >- A rhinoceros horn is made of compacted hair. > > > >- The shortest war in history was between Zanzibar and England in > > > > 1896. Zanzibar surrendered after 38 minutes. > > > >- A polar bear's skin is black. Its fur is not white, but actually > > > > clear. > > > >- Elvis had a twin brother named Garon, who died at birth, which is > > > > why Elvis' middle name was spelled Aron; in honor of his brother. > > > >- Dueling is legal in Paraguay as long as both parties are > > > > registered blood donors. > > > >- Donald Duck comics were banned in Finland because he doesn't wear > > > > pants. > > > >- More people are killed by donkeys annually than are killed in > > > > plane crashes. > > > >- Stewardesses is the longest word typed with only the left hand. > > > >- Shakespeare invented the word "assassination" and "bump." > > > >- Marilyn Monroe had six toes. > > > >- If you keep a Goldfish in the dark room, it will eventually turn > > > > white. > > > >- Women blink nearly twice as much as men. > > > >- Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left > > > > handed people do. > > > >- The sentence "the quick brown fox jumps over the lazy dog" uses > > > > every letter in the English language. > > > >- The name of all the continents end with the same letter that they > > > > start with. > > > >- The word "lethologica" describes the state of not being able to > > > > remember the word you want. > > > >- TYPEWRITER, is the longest word that can be made using the letters > > > > on only one row of the keyboard. > > > >- If the population of China walked past you in single file, the > > > > line would never end because of the rate of reproduction. > > > >- The word racecar and kayak are the same whether they are read left > > > > to right or right to left. > > > >- A snail can sleep for 3 years. > > > >- American Airlines saved $40,000 in 1987 by eliminating one olive > > > > from each salad served in first-class. > > > >- China has more English speakers than the United States. > > > >- The electric chair was invented by a dentist. > > > >- Vatican City is the smallest country in the world, with a > > > > population of 1,000 and a size 108.7 acres. > > > >- The longest town name in the world has 167 letters. > > > >- Did you know you share your birthday with at least 9 million other > > > > people in the world. > > > >- "I am." is the shortest complete sentence in the English language. > > > >- The longest word in the English language is 1909 letters long and > > > > it refers to a distinct part of DNA. > > > >- No president of the United States was an only child. > > > >- The Eisenhower interstate system requires that one-mile in every > > > > five must be straight. These straight sections are usable as > > > > airstrips in times of war or other emergencies. _____________________________________________________________________ | _____ __ ___ ___ ____ ___ ___ ____ __ _ _ _ _____ | | | | |__| |__/ |__/ |_ | | |__/ |_ |__| | | | | | | | |_____\ | | | \ | \ |___ | | | \ |___ | | |___ | | | \_____ | | | | ___ ____ ____ _ ____ _____ _____ ____ ___ | | | ______/ | | |_ | | | \__ | |_ | | |_ |__/ _____/ | | ________| | |___ \_|_/ ___/ |___ |___ | | |___ | \________ | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | No such thing as a failure who keeps trying...coasting to the bottom| | Is the only disgrace...-Blues Traveller | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | Be sure to check out the Official Barren Realms Homepage | | http://nightfall.simplenet.com/Kiri | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | -> Barren Realms: barren.coredcs.com:8000 <- | |_____________________________________________________________________| | | | You can contact me at Kiri@li.net for any of the following: | | | | Ideas for Barren Realms | | | | Questions/Complaints | | | | Your scrapbook memories of BR | | | | Your poetry, stories, questions, comments, and bios for the | | mort/hero/imm bio section of the newsletter and BR Magazine. | | | | Getting on the mail list for: | | | | Players file: How to play the game, helps, and the BR story. | | Great information for ALL players, no matter what | | level. | | | | Builders guide: An all new guide on how to build areas for BR. | | Full of new information on bits, liquids, and a | | step by step instruction on building areas. | | | | Builders forum: A place to ask email questions about the area you | | are building | | | | Area list: A list of areas and descriptions of each, in depth | | and helpful | | | \_____________________________________________________________________/ Ascii by Cutlass-Mark Sherlock-msherlo@ibm.net