November 2002 newsletters Welcome to the BR newsletter! Sorry it's been so long, folks. I've been insanely busy and going through a lot. I know you all know the feeling. Come visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ Why? I'm so glad you asked! * We have remort - you can become a demon and play through with evil, sick limbs that do many nasty and creepy things! * You have friends you didn't even know you had, yet. Just play and group for a little while and suddenly you have new buddies to play with all night before an exam, and to complain to after you get your grade back! * We have 147 unique and interesting areas, including a bunch new puzzle types from Faustus and Divebomb that include secrets, new tricks of code, and other fun things to explore! * Sej says 'cause its like calgon it can take you away and put you in your own little adventure'. * Or as Scavenger says: Scavenger chats 'I love BR because it has all the fun-loving cross-dressing IMMs you could ever want! (And one more besides...)' Can you think of more reasons? The person with the best list gets them printed and a prize from me. IDEAS SUBMITTED - please hit reply and give me your thoughts on these. They are actually read!: Dawne: how about with a higher percentage in roundhouse, you become able to get up more quickly after falling? Anakin: how about a muzzle that has track for demons? Its: a light on the ground should light up a dark room just the same as a light that someone in the room is holding Anakin: A "deposit all" command that deposits all the gold you got at that moment. Electron: instead of the "you cant let go of it" message, you should replace it with the item name Radicaled: as a demon allow yourself to know what level each of your limbs are, as to not replace the wrong level Radicaled: make it so when traveling/trackgin u don't get spammed and disconnected Amarilla: a command called glance, where instead of LOOK showing all the characters eq you could "glance" at them and just see their condition to know if you need to heal them Grond: Post the TQuest team backgrounds on the Barren Realms web site, so we can read them all! -- Note, they are there! Look on the hero section, Grond! Isis: be able to buy things that are up to... say... 5 levels above you instead of 2, so you can keep them for later Mayhem: being able to color the prompt like a gratz -- Note from Kiri -- You can! Just put color codes in your prompt, they work! Divebomb: Add a one-way connection from somewhere in Calathar to the Arena so that people can walk in as well as use the command (this is in light of the recents notes complaining about random squishing of morts by heros) Xorex: rename the MZF category on the forums to the BR builder category so people will stop downloading MZF. (someone actually did this when i told them to go the forums for the builder) Anakin: more games (i.e. C4). I mean more kinds of games. Radicaled: make it so when you die you go somewhere besides recall.... people complain about battles Disaster: how about making all the shops in town a different terrain from the rest of the city, say inside vs. city, then making aod a stay-terrain, to stop him from getting in the way in shops. not a big deal, i know, but it would be nice for the newbies Liubei: a shopkeeper that can change the personalization flag to you for 100k Radicaled: a teleport potion tried to teleport a mort to sanct, don't know if it could happen but if it can, maybe fix it Amarilla: have the pills tell you what spells are on them when you identify them Slothrop: when you cast something on yourself that's already on you, it should replace the previous thing Anakin: We can get a body part by typing the name like "get Anakin backpack" will get a body part of me on a backpack. Araby: "where mob" showing who's the nearest mob Equinox: A meditation skill for druids that's kind of sleeping/resting that regains mana faster Moldfinger: we should change the point social to point in a direction. point north means you point north... Grond: Fireproof spell. 'Nuff said. Sej: in a fight both sides lose mv with each blow so that way you can wear down the opponant or vice versa. cause sometimes ya get tired in a fight Utena: A skill "visify" to visify items Cowculator: we need a joke channel Puppetmon: A option on the "aff" screen that shows how long or how many ticks your drunk for Abaddon: A way for demons to see at what level they got their appendage. Perhaps using examine would work. I dont know how feasable this is, but it would be nice. Geko: i think it would be neat to be able to put color in you title, you could personalize more Goku: it would be cool to see death messages... IE. you use kick to kill a mob, you see "You kick 's head right off its body.", or a spell like Acid shows "You melt into a sticky pile of mush." it would add a bit of texture i guess, to get a ni Sej: mobs randomly fighting other mobs to make it more life like? RadicalEd: add a help drunk for those low morts that get drunk and can't eat or drink anything Sej: be able to eat mob corpses like body parts when you are hungry Sej: make a real barren realms so i could come and live there :) Divebomb: a reverse version of the room_damage speco that heals instead of hurts Divebomb: a regeneration speco that does the opposite of the drain_hp speco but without any echos (to eliminate spam) Shiloh: tellh should unscramble drunk like chath Paladinkain: things that steal from you should not be allowed to have a good alighnment Araby: I read that elves can see far away and can hear better than anyone, shouldn't they have a skill called hunt that's like birdseye/track? Araby: Dwarves are more of a miners shouldn't they get like a skill called "mine" that they can do some minings on mountains and get some treasures, or probably gold? Sej: a spell to listen in on the conversations in the next room. a spy spell. Kiri -- I think this would be a VERY bad idea! People would not feel safe and comfortable to talk anymore. Slothrop: if a light is on the floor in a room, that room should be lit Sej: when someone assists on an attack you attack has a x% chance to actually hit the other person also Liubei: slot machines in the high rollers lounge that cost 100k and has a jackpot of 5 mil Isis: make healers able to sell dispel magic? Elrond: for the vehicle your in should recall with you AMystery: add level info to the info channel delete message AMystery: add an argument to delete to give a reason. might get some interesting feedback. good thing to log or report on info Xornot: it seems silly that black is the only ascii color that has a longhand version (black) but no short code, because you can only use shorthand in prompts and "black" shows up as a nice grey. Anyway, I just found this mud today and i love it! I plan on Sej: be able to use things by feel when blind so the cure blindness potion in my inventory is usefull Disaster: damp1, damp2, damp3 to represent increasing amounts of damage Liubei: heroes should automatically always have autosac on so they cant turn it off Cord: how about making it not-possible to summon a fighting mob? Its: when you remort if you have a corpse it should go away AMystery: I'd like to see imm stats be higher to give that seeming level of power over heros. sure aliases will kill us, but having that visual difference is important Araby: Put a command like "put all.coins " so it doesn't have to type in all those numbers Its: at level 1 demons should be able to use thier old aliases Paladinkain: mobs should not be allowed to start off combat by disarming as the VERY first thing they do as players are not allowed to do this for the most part they have to wait one round, so should mobs AMystery: i don't think imms should be effected by align on eq Kiri's WWW of URLs: From Scavenger - a little bit naughty, big shock there. What do your macs do at night? http://sleazy.macfreak.org/ Wedding Dresses for the mudding ladies who seem to be getting married all the time now! http://www.lindsayfleming.com/sabina.htm#lindsayfleming http://www.lindsayfleming.com/arran.htm#lindsayfleming Another amusing comic from our source, Scavenger http://www.sluggy.com/daily.php?date=020930 Somebody must stop these guys. http://www.geocities.com/Colosseum/Arena/4224/ Evite to the war on Iraq http://www.defectiveyeti.com/iraqevite/ Funny things to do at the mall: 1. Ride mechanical horses with coins fished out of the reflecting pond. 2. Try pants on backwards at the Gap. Ask the salesperson if they make your butt look big. 3. Dial 900 numbers from demonstration phones in Radio Shack. 4. Sneeze on the sample tray at Hickory Farms and helpfully volunteer to consume its now unwanted contents. 5. At the bottom of an escalator, scream 'MY SHOELACES! AAAGH!' 6. Ask the sales personnel at the music store whether inflated CD prices are in pesos or rubles. 7. Teach pet store parrots new vocabulary that makes them unsalable. 8. Stomp on ketchup packets at Burger King... 9. ...but save a few to slurp on as snacks. Tell people that they're 'astronaut food'. 10. Follow patrons of B. Dalton's around while reading aloud from 'Dianetics.' 11. Ask mall cops for stories of World War I. 12. Ask a salesman why a particular TV is labeled black and white and insist that it's a color set. When he disagrees, give him a strange look and say, 'You mean you really can't see it?' 13. Construct a new porch deck in the tool department of Sears. 14. Wear pancake makeup and new clothes and pose as a fashion dummy in clothes departments, occasionally screaming without warning. 15. Test mattresses in your pajamas. 16. Ask the tobaccanist if his hovercraft is full of eels. 17. If you're patient, stare intently into a surveillance camera for an hour while rocking from side to side. 18. Sprint up the down escalator. 19. Stare at static on a display TV and challenge other shoppers whether they, too, can see the 'hidden picture'. 20. Ask appliance personnel if they have any TVs that play only in Spanish. 21. Make unusual requests at the Piercing Pagoda. 22. Ask a salesperson in the hardware department how well a particular saw cuts through bone. 23. At the pet store, ask if they have bulk discounts on gerbils, and whether there's much meat on them. 24. Hula dance by the demonstration air conditioner. 25. Ask for red-tinted lenses at the optometrist. 26. Sneak up on saleswomen at the perfume counter and spray *them* with your own bottle of Eau de Swane. 27. Rummage through the jelly bean bin at the candy store, insisting that you lost a contact lens. 28. Ask a saleswoman whether a particular shade of panties matches the color of your beard. 29. In the changing rooms, announce in a singsong voice, 'I see London, I see France...' 30. Leave on the plastic string connecting a new pair of shoes, and wander around the mall taking two-inch steps. 31. Play the tuba for change. 32. Ask the Hammond organ dealer if he can play 'Jesus Built My Hotrod'. 33. Record belches on electronic sampling keyboards, and perform gastric versions of Jingle Bells for admiring onlookers. 34. Ask the pharmacist at the drugstore which leading cold remedy will 'give you a really wicked buzz'. 35. Ask the personnel at Pier 1 Imports whether they have 'any giant crap made out of straw'. 36. 'Toast' plastic gag hot dogs in front of the fake fireplace display. 37. Collect stacks of paint brochures and hand them out as religious tracts. 38. Ask the information desk for a stroller, and someone to push you around in it. 39. Change every TV in the electronics department to a station showing 'Saved by the Bell'. Chant the dialogue in a robotic voice, and scream if anyone tries to switch channels on one of the sets. 40. Hang out in the waterbed section of the furniture department wearing a Navy uniform. Occasionally run around in circles yelling 'scratch one flattop!' 41. Hand a stack of pants back to the changing room attendant and scornfully announce that none of them are 'leakproof'. 42. 'Play' the demo modes of video games at the arcade. Make lots of explosion noises. 43. Stand transfixed in front of a mirror bobbing your head up and down. 44. Pay for all your purchases with two-dollar bills to provoke arguments over whether they're real. 45. If it's Christmas, ask the mall Santa to sit on *your* lap. 46. Answer any unattended service phones that ring in department stores and say 'Domino's.' 47. Try on flea collars at the pet store while occasionally pausing to scratch yourself. . At the stylist, ask to have the hair on your back permed. 49. Show people your driver's license and demand to know 'whether they've seen this man.' 50. Buy a jawbreaker from the candy store. Return fifteen minutes later, fish it out of your mouth, and demand to know why it hasn't turned blue yet.