September 2, 2003 ----- Original Message ----- From: Kiri Sent: Tuesday, September 02, 2003 5:01 AM Subject: Newsletter September 2, 2003 Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter! Visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ News from the Realms: Quests being run: Comatose: Fantasy Football I want to start a fantasy football league. If anyone is interested send a note to me. Once I have enough players then I will create the league and notify those that were first to respond how to join the league. The number of players is limited so please only join if you are interested in sticking it out through the entire season. I forgot to mention that the league is free. If we hurry then we won't miss a week. That means we need to have everyone signed up and ready by Monday or Tuesday so that the autodraft can have the teams set by Thrusday and the first game of the season. Brodgar: Secret Treasures Quest Do you have a secret item that you use and no one knows about? Have you selfishly kept its wonderful stats for only yourself? Well then good! Here is your chance for your greed to really pay off. If you have an item you know of that is truly an interesting/unique/special piece of equipment, note me about it. If it's special enough and rare enough, you get a prize! That loads in the game. Not renamed quest prizes you have recieved. Remember, the rarer the better! Some restrictions apply, void where prohibited. Limited to one entry per household, no purchase necessary, open to Calathar residents only. Entries not post marked by Sept 1st will have to be post marked by another date. Contest ends when I grow bored of it. Solomnius: clue quest A quest for mortals throughout the lands moulded and placed with comatose hands at recal the first of the clues has been placed till re-boot you have before they're erased the extra description is 'treasurequest' so read away and do your best Solomnius: tropical quest After a wonderfull holiday in tropical Darwin, i've decided to run a tropical quest, here goes... Find me 3 things around the realms, the first thing must be something found in the tropics, the second thing must be something you would take to the tropics, and the last thing must be something you would never take to the tropics. all things must fit in a bag and be handed in approx mid september. I will post another note with the final date. Points will be scored for humor, originality, and content. forgot to mention, quest is for ALL BR residents Buzz: i've lost my mind quest The evil wizard has taken my brain and smashed it into little pieces. i can't seem to think without having my mind in one piece. Once you all help me locate my brian pieces, i will get that little wizard. i will show him who is boss. But i must warn you, he is a very evil man, he has placed my brain in some of the most hiddeous places. Some parts wont be a problem to get cause the guards are so small and weak. But on the other hand, some are strong. So strong that only the bold and brave and go forth and venture into those areas. I am asking for anyone willing to help to please do so. He has given my 7 days to find them all, so please be hasty. i need your help!! on the 8th day of september, i will no longer be able to think of my own free will. i will become a walking zombie, feeding off the thirst of something that i do not have. thank you all for your help. Disaster: IMPORTANT NOTE!!! Hi there realmers. First of all, i'd like to say "congrats" to everyone who sucessfully completed either T-Games 2 or divebomb's outcast quest, well done all. you may remember, a little while back, that i mentioned a very large, vague quest, coming in september With both Tgames2 and outcasts now officially over, it's time to fill you in on some details. ******T-Games 3: Survivor edition****** Let me first say that i'll be copying all notes on this subject to the forums, so i'd suggest that you all check the forums as well. There will be several important differences between this incarnation of T-games and the former two. All players are welcome to sign up (you do NOT have to be a hero in order to play). Players who achieve level 51 will be immediately disqualified from T-games 3. You may not receive ANY help, in ANY form, from any non-T-game character. This includes spells, items, cash, corpse retreivals, donations, and buying any items from shopkeepers that aren't normally sold there. You may not have any other character online at the same time as your Tgamer, even linkdead (immortals, you are the only exception to this rule, since you've proved repeatedly that you can be trusted not to abuse the priviledge). You may choose any race you wish (other than demons, of course). You must have created the character no earlier than september first, 2003. You may delete and restart your character as the non-demon race of your choice at any time. I will not be posting the list of your main characters and your T-game alts at any time. I strongly encourage you to keep that information private, for reasons which will eventually become apparent. Every weekend at a specific time (this time has yet to be decided on, i'm waiting for your input on this) there will be a quest for all people involved in Tgames 3. participation in the quests will not be mantitory, but is strongly encouraged. Periodically throughout the Tgames period, people will be removed from competition. The results of the quests will have some impact on the manner in which this happens. i'm intentionally being vague on the details, since i think it's more fun this way for the time being *evil grin* Until further notice, your tgame characters may not level past level 5 (in order to give people an adequate time to sign up, without certain people jumping way ahead of the pack). Tgames3 will be based around two teams competing against each other, but the overall goal is for the INDIVIDUAL to not be eliminated in the (probably weekly) elimination process. I fully expect this to involve secret pacts, betrayals, and all the other wonderful human traits which make CNN so interesting to watch *grin* If you read carefully, i stated "no help from non tgamers" (being tgames 3, of course) this means you CAN help tgamers on the opposing team-i'd juts suggest not letting your teammembers catch you doing it, they might be angry You MUST have "T-Games 3" somewhere in your title (later, this will change, when i organize you into your teams). if there are any questions, ASK ME!!!! ignorance of the rules is NOT an excuse -you must let me know who your main alt is when you start your character (but like i said, i suggest not telling anyone else) T-Gamers may participate normally in non-TGames quests with the permission of those running the quests, but may NOT, repeat, NOT receive or use any prizes from non-TGames quests Sponsors for T-Games 3 are Divebomb and Comatose. Kiri is a special sponsor, since T-Games are her baby. Any questions regarding T-games 3 should be addressed to me, not the sponsors who already have a ton of stuff they're going to be busy with as for starting a character, i suggest starting one at some random time, to try to disguise who you are, and then send me a tell or a note from your main character telling me which alt is yours i don't want to be changing who your alt is every 2 days, so take reasonable precautions to protect your identity the first time you tell me who you are just thought i'd also let you know, anyone who signs up WILL get a prize, provided you log on regularly and don't just disappear into thin air. the QUALITY of your prize will depend on the effort you put in personally, as well as how long you manage to stay in competition everyone will get something though, and you're not going to be eliminiated based on not being the highest in level or stats (i'm keeping HOW you'll be eliminated a secret, for now) oh, and just to restate it, all mortals, heroes, avatars and imms are very welcome to join i don't know if myself and/or the other sponsors might decide to create characters too or not yet....one of the benefits of the annonimity, i can screw around with you guys to make it more fun if i want to *evil grin* -best of luck to you all. -Dis These characters need to log in or contact me: Abermelin, Ailia, Aldaris, Alias, Andra, Annakas, Anonymous, Aralifas, Assista, Audax, Backpoint, Bonebreaker, Bong, Coke, Collen, Cressida, Drahknon, Dulm, Ecstacy, Erolaek, Fezzik, Fharad, Genevia, Genivieve, Grummel, Heal, Hoss, Jamesbond, Kms, Lieder, Loktar, Lyfling, Need, Puissance, Ranko, Regis, Ryerye, Ryu, Saeryn, Sebring, Ska, Smokedragon, Splash, Starstorm, Stilgar, Stormfist, Styx, Sythiamyr, Thunder, Thunderstorm, Tidbit, Trewe, Wells, Wraps, Yield ------------ IDEAS, please feel free to comment! Again: it'd be kinda fun if sometimes throw hit a different mob, if more than one in the room, rather than just missing or hitting your specified target Crux: weapons that can't be weilded based on their strength should return an appropriate error message when attempted Crux: consolidate the stat information and the ? information Beanis: have things not be able to hit back while asleep Crux: the new magincia moongate room should have a valid response when someone looks at the moongate Crux: gold cost for enhancing should be a function of level, so that lowbies and newbies can have the same advantage as someone feeding cash to their alt Crux: dispel evil needs a counterpart to affect "good" like smite good, or punish the just :) Firebreeder: we should have a merchant like skill so it will hinder people from making level 2 demons and stitting on them as gold bunnies Cacophony: when you're afk and you send yourself a tell, you should send yourself back what your afk message is set to (since there's no other way i'm aware of to see it) Firebreeder: i think druids or elves should have a spell called town portal, so they can teleport to the fountains in other towns ---------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: A great online gaming site www.allakhazam.com Care of Exo, Joe Cartoon (some parts may be adult-rated) www.joecartoon.com Care of Disaster, PVPOnline http://www.pvponline.com/ And... my wedding pictures. Yes, Oakley and I got married. http://www.jarrodlarocco.com/gallery/wedding ---- Reponses by Anakin: Disaster: allow choice of coulours for prompt as we do for cheer (since only the individual sees it, the anti-horrible-couloured-spam argument doesn't apply) >>Colors are available for prompt, I have a rainbow colored prompt on Anakin. *pokes* Isis: give demons their own guildmaster, and let us poor morties type prac at recall again >>Agreed, maybe to put a little twist, set the RC Guardians. icon_biggrin.gif Lairian: It would be nice to be able to pull up a SLIST equivalent filtered for in-guild skills or out-of-guild skills. A SINLIST or SOUTLIST if you wil. >>The "*" on inguilds when typed "SLIST" will be enough, IMO. By Lairian: "*" on inguilds? You have asterisks? I want asterisks...you mean we have asterisks and I've never seen them? *pout* Also, wouldn't it make more sense for the out of guilds to be "*"ed, with a footnote type thing at the bottom denoting that it's out of guild and prompting newbies to read help oog (if that exists...I've never tried...*toe*)? And I like Anakin's bouncy girl...kawaii! _________________ --Lairian I have been informed that I'm an idiot and that the *s are desired to show up in a future patch. I take back my pouting. That is all. Return to your normal lives. Or punking Kandy. Or beating up dwarves at the daycare for their lunch money. Or whatever else passes for normal in the Realms. -------------- Care of Sgetsuo: Country music actual song titles All I Want From You (Is Away) All My Exes Live In Texas All the Guys that Turn Me On Turn Me Down Am I Double Parked by the Curbstone of Your Heart? Double Parked Heart Are You Drinkin With Me Jesus? Are You on the Top 40 of the Lord? At the Gas Station of Love, I Got the Self Service Pump Billy Broke My Heart at Walgreens and I Cried All the Way to Sears Bubba Shot The Jukebox Bubba's Inconvenience Store Come out of the Wheatfield Nellie, You're Going Against the Grain Cow Cow Blues Cow Cow Boogie (Moo Moo My Love) Cow Cow Strut Did I Shave my Legs for This? Don't Believe My Heart Can Stand Another You. Don't Chop Any Wood Mother, I'm Comin' in With a Load! Don't Come Home a-Drinkin' With Lovin' on Yo-mind Don't Give Me A Plastic Saddle 'Cuz I Want To Feel That Leather When I Ride Don't Squeeze My Sharmon. Don't Strike A Match (To The Book Of Love) Drop Kick Me Jesus (Through The Goal Posts Of Life.) Four on the Floor and a Fifth Under the Seat Get Off the Table, Mabel (The Two Dollars is for the Beer) Get Your Biscuits In The Oven, And Your Buns In The Bed. Git Up Off'n the Floor Hannah (a Bitter New Year's Eve) Going to Hell in Your Heavenly Arms Guess My Eyes Were Bigger Than My Heart. Hand me the Pool Cue and Call Yourself an Ambulance Her Only Bad Habit Is Me Here's A Quarter (Call Someone Who Cares) High Cost of Low Living Hold On To Your Men..Cause she's Single Again How Can I Get Over You if You Won't Get Out from Under Me? How Can I Get Over You Till You Get Out from Under Him? How Can I Miss You if You Won't Go Away? How Can You Believe Me When I Say I Love You, When You Know I've Been A Liar All My Life? How Come Your Dog Don't Bite Nobody But Me? How Did You Get so Ugly Overnight? I Bought the Shoes that Just Walked Out on Me I Can't Pass the Bar, and There's One on my Way Home I Changed Her Oil, She Changed My Life I Don't Care if it Rains or Freezes 'Long as I Have My Plastic Jesus Sittin' on the Dashboard of my Car I Don't Do Floors I Don't Know Whether To Kill Myself Or Go Bowling I Fell for Her, She Fell for Him, and He Fell for Me I Fell In A Pile Of You And Got Love All Over Me I Flushed You From The Toilets Of My Heart I Gave Her My Heart And A Diamond And She Clubbed Me With A Spade I Gave Her the Ring, and She Gave Me the Finger I Got Tears In My Ears From Lying On My Bed Crying On My Pillow Over You. I Got the Hungries for Your Love, and I'm Waitin In Your Welfare Line I Got Through Everything But The Door I Guess I Had Your Leavin' Coming I Keep Forgettin' I Forgot About You I May Be Used, But Baby I Ain't Used Up I Only Miss You On The Days That End In "Y" I Sat Down On A Beartrap (Just This Morning) I Sent Her Artifical Flowers For Her Artificial Love I Still Miss You Baby... But My Aim is Getting Better I Want a Beer as Cold as My Ex-Wife's Heart I Wanted You To Leave Until You Left Me. I Wanna Whip Your Cow I Was Looking Back to See If You Were Looking Back to See If I Was Looking Back to See if You Were Looking Back at Me I Went Back to My Fourth Wife for the Third Time and Gave Her a Second Chance to Make a First Class Fool Out of Me I Wish I Were A Lesbian I Wish I Were A Woman (So I Could Go Out With A Guy Like Me) I Would Have Wrote You A Letter, But I Couldn't Spell Yuck! I Wouldn't Take Her To A Dawg Fight, Cause I'm Afraid She'd Win I'd Rather Hear A Fat Girl Fart Than A Pretty Boy Sing I'd Rather Pass a Kidney Stone than Another Night With You If Fingerprints Showed Up On Skin, Wonder Whose I'd Find On You. If I Ain't Got It, You Don't Need It. If I Can't Be Number One In Your Life, Then Number Two On You If I'd Killed You When I Wanted To, I'd be Out of Jail By Now If I Had It To Do All Over Again, I'd Do It All Over You If I Had My Life to Live Over, I'd Live Over a Delicatessen If I Were In Your Shoes, I'd Walk Right Back To Me If Love Were Oil, I'd Be A Quart Low If My Nose Were Full of Nickels, I'd Blow It All On You If My Nose Was Running Money, Honey, I'd Blow It All On You If I Had a Nose Full of Nickels, I'd Sneeze Them All Atchoo! If She Hadn't Been So Good Lookin' I Might Have Seen the Train If the Devil Danced in Empty Pockets, He'd Have a Ball in Mine If The Jukebox Took Teardrops If The Phone Doesn't Ring, It's Me If Today Was a Fish, I'd Throw It Back In If You Can't Be Good, Be Bad With Me If You Can't Be Good, Son, Be Good At It If You Can't Bite, Don't Growl. If You Can't Live Without Me, Why Aren't You Dead? If You Don't Leave Me, I'll Find Someone Who Will If You Ever Get the Feelin' I Don't Love You, Feel Again. If You Leave Me, Can I Come Too? If You Leave Me I'm Gone If You Really Loved Me, You'd Leave If You Got the Money, Honey, I Got the Time If You're Gonna Do Him Wrong Again, You Might As Well Do Him Wrong Again With Me! If You're Gonna Do Me Wrong, Do It Right If You Want to Keep the Beer Real Cold, Put it Next to My Ex-Wife's Heart If You Want Your Freedom PDQ, Divorce Me COD If Whiskey Were A Woman, I'd Be Married For Sure. I Like Bananas Because They Have No Bones I'll Marry You Tomorrow, But Let's Honeymoon Tonight. I'll Tennessee You In My Dreams I'm Drinkin Christmas Dinner (All Alone This Year) I'm Gonna Hire A Wino To Decorate Our Home. I'm Gonna Put a Bar in the Back of my Car and Drive Myself to Drink I'm Here To Get My Baby Out Of Jail I'm In Love With A Capital U I'm Just an Old Chunk of Coal (But I'm Gonna be a Diamond Someday) I'm Quittin' Wild Turkey Cold Turkey I'm So Miserable Without You, it's Almost like Having you Here I'm The Only Hell Mama Ever Raised I'm Under The Table Over You Is It Cold in Here, or Is it Just You? It Only Takes One Bar (To Make A Prison) I've Been Flushed From The Bathroom Of Your Heart. I've Been Roped And Throwed By Jesus In The Holy Ghost Corral. I've Got a Cowboy In The Saddle, and Another One's Holding My Horse I've Got the Cob, If You've Got the Corn I've Got $5 And It's Saturday Night I've Heard that Tear Stained Monologue You do There by the Door Before You Go It Ain't Easy Being Easy It Took a Helluva Man to Take my Anne, but it Sure Didn't Take Him Long It's Not the High Cost of Living, It's the Cost of Living High I Would Kiss You Through the Screendoor but It'd Strain Our Love Jeremiah Peabody's Polyunsaturated Quick Dissolving Fast Acting Pleasant Tasting Green and Purple Pills Jesus Loves Me But He Can't Stand You Jim, I Wore A Tie Today Last Night I Went to Bed with a "10" and Woke this Morning with a "2" Lay Something On My Bed Besides A Blanket Legendary Chicken Fairy Make Me Late For Work Today. Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Papa's Head) Mama Get The Hammer (There's A Fly On Baby's Head) Get the Hammer Mama, There's a Head on Papa's Fly Meet Me In the Gravel Pit, Honey, cuz I'm a Little Boulder There Mommy, Can I Still Call Him Daddy? My Head Hurts, My Feet Stink, And I Don't Love Jesus. My John Deere Was Breaking Your Field, While Your Dear John Was Breaking My Heart My Lips Want to Stay (But My Heart Wants to Go) My Phone Ain't been Ringing, so I Guess it Wasn't You My Wife Ran Off With My Best Friend, And I Sure Do Miss Him Nashville Rash Ned Nostril (and his South Seas Paradise, Put Your Blues on Ice, Cheap at Twice the Price Band, Icky Icky Ucky Ucky) No Way, Conway (I Ain't Gonna Twitty Tonight) Occasional Wife Oh, I've Got Hair Oil On My Ears And My Glasses Are Slipping Down, But Baby I Can See Through You Our Love is Illegal, Cause Our Names Ain't the Same Overlonely and Underkissed Pardon Me, I've Been Pardoned Pardon Me, I've Got Someone To Kill Phantom Of The Opry Pick Me Up On Your Way Down Pick Me Up Or Let Me Down Poultry Promenade Queen Of My Double-Wide Trailer Redneck Martians Stole My Baby Red Necks, White Socks, and Blue Ribbon Beer Refried Dreams Run for the Roundhouse Nellie (He Can't Corner You There) Saddle Up the Stove Ma, I'm Riding the Range Tonight She Broke My Heart, I Broke Her Jaw She Can Put Her Shoes Under My Bed Anytime She Feels Like A New Man Tonight. She Got The Gold Mine And I Got The Shaft She Got The Ring And I Got The Finger She Looks Good Through the Bottom of My Shot Glass She Made Toothpicks Out Of The Timber Of My Heart She Offered Her Honor, He Honored Her Offer, and All Through the Night It Was Honor and Offer She Thinks My Tractor's Sexy She Walked Across My Heart Like It Was Texas She's Actin' Single..... I'm Drinkin' Doubles She's Got the Rhythm (And I Got the Blues) Slap 'Er Down Again Paw Thank God And Greyhound She's Gone Thanks To The Cathouse, I'm In The Doghouse With You The Alcohall of Fame The Bridge Washed Out and I Can't Swim and My Baby's On the Other Side The Last Word in Lonesome is Me The Man That Came Between Us (Was Me) The Old Home Fill 'er Up and Keep On Truckin' Cafe The Pint Of No Return. There Ain't Enough Room in my Fruit Of The Looms to Hold All My Lovin' For You There's A Tear In My Beer They May Put Me In Prison, But They Can't Stop My Face From Breakin' Out This Good Girl's Gonna Go Bad This White Circle on My Finger Means We're Through Tight Fittin' Jeans Timber... I'm Fallin In Love Trainwreck Of Emotion Up Against the Wall, Redneck Mother Velcro Arms, Teflon Heart Waitin' In Your Welfare Line Walk Out Backwards Slowly So I'll Think You're Walking In Warm Beer and Cold Kisses Warm Beer Cold Women We Used To Kiss On The Lips, But It's All Over Now Welcome to Dumpsville, Population Me What Made Milwaukee Famous Has Made a Loser Out of Me When the Lightning Struck the Coon Creek Party Line When You Wrapped My Lunch in a Road Map, I Knew You Meant Good-Bye Who's Gonna Mow Your Grass? Who's Gonna Take The Garbage Out When I'm Dead And Gone? Who's Makin' Time with the Time Keeper's Daughter, when the Time Keeper's Keepin' Time? Whose Bed Have Your Boots Been Under? Why Have You Left the One You Left Me For? Why Don't We Get Drunk and Screw Would Jesus Wear A Rolex On His Television Show? Yard Sale You Ain't Much Fun Since I Quit Drinkin' You Ain't Woman Enough To Take My Man You Ain't Nothin' But a Hound Dog ('s Leavins') You can Lock Me Up in Jail & Throw Away the Key, But You Can't Keep My Face from Breaking Out You Can't Have Your Kate And Edith Too. You Can't Roller Skate In A Buffalo Herd You Changed Your Name From Brown to Jones, and Mine From Brown to Blue You Done Stomped On my Heart (and You Mashed That Sucker Flat) You Were Only A Splinter As I Slid Down The Banister Of Life You'd think my Bed was a Bus Stop, the Way You Come and Go Your Negligee Has Turned To Flannel Nightgowns. You're The Hangnail In My Life, And I Can't Bite You Off You're a Hard Dog To Keep Under The Porch You're Going To Ruin My Bad Reputation You're Out Of Step (With The Beat Of My Heart) You're The Reason Our Kids Are So Ugly You're The Ring Around My Bathtub, You're The Hangnail Of My Life You've Already Put Big Old Tears In My Eyes, Must You Throw Dirt In My Face? You've Got Sawdust On The Floor Of Your Heart 80 Proof Bottle of Tear Stopper 800 Pound Jesus Get Your Tongue Out Of My Mouth, Because I'm Kissing You Goodbye. If I'd a Knowed that You'd a Wanted to of Went with Me, I'd a Seed that You'd a Got to Get to Go She's Got Freckles On Her, But She's Pretty I'd Like You a Whole Lot Better if We Slept Together I Made Up The Title, You Make Up The Song Go Back To Texas and Cheesey French Fry Lake September 9, 2003 Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter! Have you visited us recently? Check out the mud at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ Don't forget to check the forums as well - http://www.barrenrealmsmud.com/ ----------------------------------- News from the Realms: Currently running quests: Lairian: Heritage Quest To all the living and breathing in the Realms, greetings. I have undertaken the job of recording and condensing the history of all races represented within the Barren Realms. However, being one elf, I do not feel that I can be trusted to truely tell the tale of any one race. I ask those of the Realms to represent their race in finding their true heritage. I will be asking every week for members of a certain race to trace their history within the Realms. I will do preliminary research and give you a shove in what I believe is the right direction. Every week a different race will quest, on Saturday at 5 pm system time. First Quest to begin on the 13th, and another every week. Humans first, then Kender, Illithid, Dwarves, Druids, and Avians. ONLY one quest per PLAYER please, and morts at that. Level does not matter for this. Killing WILL NOT be part of the quest. In fact, any killing of quest related mobs will result in a slay. This is a ROLE PLAY quest. So, choose your favorite race, and get a character up to 10ish if need be. ANY SKILL possessed by a race is legal. However, no skill is legal if the race does not get it. Please don't use alts to locate stuff, lest you be DQed. Thanks Leiland for sponsoring, please direct questions to the forum at www.barrenrealmsmud.com. AMystery: Dying to suceed All of you drifting aimlessly through life, here is your chance to make your life mean something, by dying! I'm holding a quest to find honorable deaths. You need only go, die, and record the battle message. Then note me with why it was worthy and the exact message For those of you who remember an earlier quest with the same plot, feel free to resubmit your entries This time I'll put a time limit on it. You have exactly 1 week to die for a cause, so next friday night your deaths will be enumerated for all to see. Get started! Disaster: Tgames 3 hey all, just a reminder that if you have yet to tell me you want to join up, you should quickly. just for the curious among you, we currently have 18 players signed up, so we should have a real blast with this :) more are always welcome though, provided that you start your character and tell me its name BEFORE i remove the 5-level limit and place you into your teams/tribes (yes, we're going with tribes, sinec this is after all based loosely on the "survivor" tv show ) if the current trend of les and less people joining every day continues, i plan to have a grand kick-off party/quest-ish thingie this coming sunday evening. this is still tentative though, i do want to give as much time as reasonably possible to other people who want to join up i'll do my best to keep you posted, and give you an exact time as soon as i know it for certain (i should either have the time, or a postponement, by friday evening at the latest) -dis oh, and if you don't see me online to send me a tell about your tgamer, that's fine, you can do it in a note. NEWS: Disaster: new help files just for your information, the help files have been reworked and the new versions are now implemented. as before, "help help" will give you a brief introduction to the help system, including a description of "help summary" and the help menu system. i don't THINK that i missed any typos/out of date information/etc when i was reworking them, but if you find anything that needs to be fixed, please report it with "typo". -Dis ------------------- IDEAS: (Feel free to respond via email to me or on the forums) Exe: we should be able to put colors on emotes, then we could trick people Crux: place a map to lershar on aod Kiri -- this is coming Disaster: mobs more than 5 levels below me shouldn't automatically make their saving throw against death field Crux: revamp wyhtl, most notably the doors Kiri -- what exactly do you mean? If you think it's a bug, please use the bug command (help bug) to report it, otherwise, send me an email to explain this. --------------------- Responses to last week's Newsletter: Anakin: Again: it'd be kinda fun if sometimes throw hit a different mob, if more than one in the room, rather than just missing or hitting your specified target >>Yeah, or base the throw % on your dex, so it can do something. ^_^ Firebreeder: we should have a merchant like skill so it will hinder people from making level 2 demons and stitting on them as gold bunnies >>If we already have 5 demons, 4 which are avatars, I think we deserve to have a gold hoard. Leave my demons alone, level 50's are already giving me a headache. Cacophony: when you're afk and you send yourself a tell, you should send yourself back what your afk message is set to (since there's no other way i'm aware of to see it) >>*lol* It's probably just me but I use an alt to check what my afk message is. Firebreeder: i think druids or elves should have a spell called town portal, so they can teleport to the fountains in other towns >>Already have discussed this, denied. --- Divebomb: disaster wrote: yeah, i use an alt to check my afk message too. it's really annoying to have to do it that way though I just type the afk message every time. i'm willing to be those five extra keystrokes each time is not going to be the cause of arthritis... i'll type: "afk brb" "afk iaw" "afk food!" "afk I'm afk!" What is this recent monstrous need to check your afk message so often? _----- Everybody: The simplest way (imo) is that if you just type afk (going afk, not coming back), it shows you what your current afk message is. I have the same problem... I put one up at some point, and then never remember what it is, because I 1) don't go afk all that often, and 2) almost never type a new message in when I do go afk. This seems like something that wouldn't take much to code in, and would be a nice add-on, to me. --------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: Who would buy that? Auctions oddities! http://www.whowouldbuythat.com/ Looking for a daily online comic? http://www.buzzcomix.net/ The magical world of magic eye http://www.magiceye.com/ Irfanview, a great free image program http://www.irfanview.com/ ------------------- The following are actual, unedited, notes written by doctors on patients' medical charts: 1. Patient has chest pain if she lies on her left side for over a year. 2. On the second day the knee was better, and on the third day it disappeared completely. 3. The patient has been depressed ever since she began seeing me in 1993. 4. The patient is tearful and crying constantly. She also appears to be depressed. 5. Discharge status: Alive but without permission. 6. Healthy appearing, decrepit 69 year-old male, mentally alert but forgetful. 7. The patient refused an autopsy. 8. The patient has no past history of suicides. 9. Patient has left his white blood cells at another hospital. 10. Patient's past medical history has been remarkably insignificant with only a forty pound weight gain in the past three days. 11. Patient had waffles for breakfast and anorexia for lunch. 12. She is numb from her toes down. 13. The skin was moist and dry. 14. Occasional, constant, infrequent headaches. 15. Patient was alert and unresponsive. 16. I saw your patient today, who is still under our car for physical therapy. 17. The patient was to have a bowel resection. However, he took a job as a stockbroker instead. 18. Skin: Somewhat pale but present. 19. Patient has two teenage children, but no other abnormalities. September 18, 2003 Welcome to the weekly Barren Realms MUD Newsletter. Do you still play often at Barren Realms? Has it been a while? Do you remember the friends, the fun, the excitement? Don't forget we're still here, still free, and still fun! If you've forgotten a thing or two, the players will show you what you need to know! Just log in to: telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ ----------- NEWS FROM THE REALMS: Ongoing Quests: Disaster: Tgames 3 well all, at long last it's time to really get started with the tgames. i've tried my best to arrange your teams as equally as i can manage. you are being placed into two tribes, the "Kalonek tribe" and the "Krenv tribe". for your information, kalonek means "brave" and krenv means "strong" in breton. please place the appropriate tribe name in your title. The new level cap is at 25, please don't go past level 25. i'm doing this because i want you all to have fun grouping, making your characters stronger, etc-it'll be more fun taking the time to enhance than just sitting at 50 forever, if you ask me. be warned that there IS atleast one "mole" per team. this person will be trying to sabotage your efforts, get you killed, etc. just one more way to make this a fun experience for you all, i think. please, PLEASE be familiar with all rules as posted on the forums. ignorance is NOT an excuse. the following note will list all of the people on the kalonek and krenv teams (still waiting a few more minutes though, in case there are any last minute entrants). -dis Kalonek Tribe: illiaden, inspire, drail, andriel, tiamet, robert, delidien, soulranger, exhile, rammshein, mathiu, batman Krenv Tribe: indulgence, durran, naugrim, merc, miccis, gamer, soujuri, necromancy, xanthea, surviver, aniel, mourdrydd, thentia if you are not on this list, that means you are not participating. if i have somehow missed including you, contact me VERY quickly about it, or you'll have lost your chance -dis your first task is to write a description for yourself. you may gain extra points by having a theme for you tribe, by dressing in costume, by having an appropriate title, and writing a team story. you'll be judged next sunday at 6pm system time oh, and if you feel like it, i'd love to also receive notes you send to your group, and any feedback/ideas you guys have. this is, after all, YOUR quest more than it is mine, so i will do my best to incorporate what you want provided you communicate that to me -dis i would have thought this would be common sense, but if you tgamers go afk, PUT UP A FLAG! i've told you i'm going to mess with you, and i'm not about ot send you tells first. if you're not afk/busy, i consider you fair game *evil grin* oh, and if i see you wandering around killing stuff with a flag up, trying to avoid me messing with you, then i'll REALLY mess with you *grin* have fun! -dis ok, i'm softening one rule for you guys (but only one, so far). i'd originally said that tgamers couldn't use non-tgames quest items. i realized that "wait a sec, what about quests run for tgamers that i'm not directly involved in?" and this is what i decided. tgamers still can't use quest rewards that they personally diddn't earn (so no using your alts' prizes). if an eq prize is given for an "unofficial" tgames quest (one run for tgamers without my involvement) and the eq is better than what could be had at that level normally, please talk to me before you use it (or at least send me a note). i've been on daily so far, so i don't think that a delay of at MOST 24 hours will be too big an inconvenience for you, and please know that i'm only asking you to do this to keep the experience as fun and interesting as i can for you. prizes that are the equivalent of what is already available (such as renames) you don't have to send me a note about. oh, and the titles you guys have (leader, 2nd in command, etc) are a really fun and worthwhile effort for any roleplaying you guys choose to do, but i don't consider them official in any way. every person on the team is exactly equal. -dis --- Quest RESULTS: Kiri: July Typo Quest Well, I'm *still* fixing these typos from July, and believe me, there are pages and pages of them. Disaster won by a landslide, and also redid our helps for you guys to reflect the proper grammar and spelling because I might be finished in 2005 if I tried to do all of it myself. Disaster, thanks and please come get your prize. Special thanks also go out to: Sozz, Oversoul, Ghaleon, Xorex, Leiland, Frizban, Beanis, Souljah, Slart, Chimeron, Everybody, Cataclysm, Glorn, Violet, Dryrrdlor, Nita, Indiglo, Drawoh, Jalla, Wizzywig, Crux, Squidster, Rabies, and anyone else I might have missed. DevilsAngel: Quest ended...Two actually Well yesterday was the last day for Banner entries to the banner quest. Thank you for all that sent one in. I have 4 entries. They are all well done!! I will announce the winner in a few days, I probably will need to confer with EB and Kiri, so please be patient. Since the mudd crashed the searching quest has ended as well. I know that some wee morties found them and got a good chunk of money and a rename in some!!! To those who didn't find any, better luck next time. I will be doing these from time to time. Thanks to all who participated in both quests!! You guys are why we run them!! *bounces* Dev Lairian: Heritage Two people participated in the Human Heritage quest, though neither finished. Both should talk to Leiland to recieve proper compensation for their time. The full path and dialogs will be up on the forums shortly, for those interested in seeing how things went. Leiland and I plan to scale down difficulty a bit in future quests due to a great underestimation of difficulty on our parts. Regardless, the quests will continue. Next Saturday, Kender! Please, all Kender who wish to sate their curiosity about their race's past, join me in Quest Headquarters at 5 pm system time...this time we mean 5 pm (we hope...). *toe* ------------- These players need to log in or will lose their characters after a year and a half of inactivity: Albion, Althea, Apollyon, Asterix, Baofu, Barthezz, Beard, Bliss, Caryn, Celes, Chezz, Crash, Cyrus, Demitrius, Eldane, Feiid, Fenril, Florentyna, Fudge, Inoz, Keskonrix, Korgan, Kusanagi, Lunn, Mesa, Mid, Obelix, Otto, Panoramix, Ritz, Saeros, Secretagent, Serendipity, Tania, Timetracker, Tomo, Took, Tracker, Tynian, Zeon ------- IDEAS - please feel free to reply via email or on the boards: AMystery: lets extend undead so that undead limbs are actually undead and can spawn baby limbs AMystery: i think lowbies should almost all have sneak just because they are small and they should lose it as they get bigger, say around level 15 they outgrow it Ghaleon: If you ignore someone, his name shouldn't appear at all in your screen. IE: Who Knightwing: Just a thought that would be nice for Avians. I know it doesn't actually fit in 'Affects', but that might be a good spot to tell Avians how long their plucked feathers will still last. It would be nice to know. Thanks! Knightwing Batman: when will the blackjack table be fixed?? Kiri -- Assume it is QUITE low priority on the to-do list. The code is a big ugly mess, and there are other things we'd prefer to fix. Unless Alicia gets bored. -------------- Response by Comatose: This made the who would buy that list http://www.shopgoodwill.com/viewItem.asp?ItemID=655277 This actually makes me laugh. My wife inherited a collection of beer cans. I was curious about the worth of the collection. I found out that some of the cans could be worth 100+ dollars. -------------- Kiri's WWW of URLs: The Current Moon phase, illustrated http://www.0format.com/ A neat personal gallery. Maybe be a little adult rated. http://www.dubtastic.com/ How much is inside? http://www.cockeyed.com/inside/howmuchinside.html The top 11 strangest Star Wars Action Figures http://ugo.com/channels/filmTv/features/eleven/strangeststarwars/ ----------- These are awful, but it was the best I could do this week: Questions How come wrong numbers are never busy ? Do people in Australia call the rest of the world 'up over'? Why doesn't Tarzan have a beard? Why is it called lipstick if you can still move your lips? Why is it that night falls but day breaks? Why is the third hand on the watch called a second hand? Why is it that when you're driving and looking for an address, you turn down the radio? Why is lemon juice made with artificial flavor, and dishwashing liquid made with real lemons? Can you buy an entire chess set in a pawn-shop? Day light savings time - why are they saving it and where do they keep it? Do pilots take crash-courses? Do you think that when they asked George Washington for ID that he just whipped out a quarter? Have you ever imagined a world with no hypothetical situations? How can there be self-help "groups"? How do you get off a non-stop flight? How do you write zero in Roman numerals? If a candle factory burns down, does everyone just stand around and sing "Happy Birthday?" If a jogger runs at the speed of sound, can he still hear his walkman? If Barbie's so popular, why do you have to buy all her friends? If blind people wear dark glasses, why don't deaf people wear earmuffs? If cats and dogs didn't have fur would we still pet them? If peanut butter cookies are made from peanut butter, then what are Girl Scout cookies made out of? If space is a vacuum, who changes the bags? If tin whistles are made out of tin, what do they make fog horns out of? If you jog backwards, will you gain weight? Why do the signs that say "Slow Children" have a picture of a running child? Why do we sing "Take me out to the ball game," when we are already there? Why is the time of day with the slowest traffic called rush hour ? September 30, 2003 Welcome to the Barren Realms MUD Newsletter! Visit BR at telnet://barren.coredcs.com:8000/ News from the realms: Quests Running: DevilsAngel: A spooky Halloween haunted house!!! Thats right folks, Halloween is on the way! It will be October Very soon!! On the first day of October the first ever BR Haunted halloween house will OPEN!! If you would like to "tour" the house and win some nifty prizes...just send a tell to ME when you see me on. All MORT levels can play! You may play with more than one character. If that character dies though, quest over and you have lost. You must get through the haunted house alive to have a chance of winning!!! Will you die? Chances are likely. Please show up for quest with NOTHING, I repeat NOTHING in your inventory. Wear your eq only, be sober and without spells on you. Do NOT forget these simple rules. When I call your level, be ready to go through. Send me a tell after you hear the announcement. Obviously the haunted house can not be open at all times. It will be a ONE at a time quest. Remember the littlest mortie to the largest mortie can play in this quest and have just as good a chance at Wonderful HUGE prizes!! The haunted house will be open at various differant times throughout October. Watch for announcements over quest and chat when it is open to which levels and get that character on and send a tell! Special thanks to EB and Faustus for helping with ways to make this quest run more smoothly, and be more fun for you!!! A couple of things to add....You can have Giant strength and fly on you, those are the only two spells though. You may NOT have a bag as your held item. You may also Not use the t-games2 mort sword. I think that is all I've changed/or forgotten. The house will open on Wed!! For levels 3-9 to start off!! Send me a tell when you see me on Wed after you hear the announcement. I will announce over both quest and chat!! Thanks for reading! Quest Results: Disaster: tgames official quest number 2 well, kalonek found 129 items and krenv found 17 items. however, one of the kaloneks cheated by locating hte item before he was allowed to, earning a 150 point penalty for the kaloneks. kaloneks, please have your votes to me by 6:00pm monday evening, i'll announce who was voted off as soon as i can after that time. oh, and i'm not telling you guys who the cheater was. i gave a few hints to people online tonight, but that's it. Disaster: had a little "find me" quest for tgamers winners won the permission to advance an extra level (for them ONLY, NOT for the whole team) here are the allowed levels for the winners: robert 30, mourdrydd 26, indulgence 26, delidien 26 Disaster: tgames 2nd elimination the votes are as follows: illiaden 5, hecete 5. however, the votes for illiaden primarily came from people who were online for the quest, and sine i said i'd count those for more, illiaden is voted off as per the rules illiaden, you are no longer a tgamer, and may not help tgamers in any way including giving them any eq. thanks for playing DevilsAngel: Small quest I ran a small bamf quest today. There were 7 participants who all did Very well!! The object of the quest was to get bamfed and then transed back, telling me what area you were in. There were 3 rounds of stiff competition. We had 3 winners. Pteppic amazed everyone with an overall score of 23, Ghaleon had a very nice 12, and Mansi coming in third with 10 overall. Thank you to all 7 folks who joined in. You each have a small prize for playing! Just send me a tell and I will get your prize to you! Thanks again to all who played, and a special thanks to DB who let me borrow his quest for the day! --------------------------- IDEAS: Feel free to reply! Batman: dwarves should be able to break through locked doors/containers/chests with their axes Mathiu: eat pills even when full Redeemer: raise the betting limit on Hangman to make it more interesting and exciting Strydar: A race to oppose demons...angels or serraphims. Similiar to demons, cept good aligned = better. Exo: i know it would be VERY hard to code in, but i personally think you should get xp for EVERY thing you kill, even if it is only like 1 xp... i think no matter what you kill, your gonna learn from it, right? Exo: i think lisette should buy EVERYTHING, not just weapons and armor, and if not that, then make the grocer and the magician not stoppile the stuff you sell them Yuber: make it so you can choose whether or not people see battle update when you die Kiri -- you can. Just turn off chan -battle, and no one will see when you die. Exhile: GIVE FRENZY TO ELVES EARLIER, illithids get it BEFORE elves OOG... wouldnt the in guild race get it first Crux: a cheers emote would be kinda nice to have, kinda like the beer emote but better Kiri -- Standard answer: Ok, write it. See help writesocial and help socialex. Delidien: Help killer, so if newbies see the flag on someone, they can understand why it's given, the etiquette surrounding it, etc Luc: a fly showing that a player is sneaking Home: a new limb for demons, works onlt for demons with wings, a claw. it picks a mob up and you fly up and drup it, the better the wings the higher you can fly and the more damaging the drop Home: if your crushing someone it should act like trip and not let them flee, i mean come on you have them wraped in a tentacle and they just walk away? Puppetmon: some sort of disarm for demons Strydar: isnt there someway to make a higher int or wis do more spell damage? you think this would work... Luc: customizable teleports, astral or summons. sort of like how bamfin and out works. this would be neat. Characters who need to contact me: Abyss, Albion, Alko, Althea, Ankross, Apollyon, Asling, Asterix, Baofu, Barthezz, Beak, Bliss, Celes, Chezz, Crash, Cyrus, Demitrius, Eldane, Feiid, Fenril, Florentyna, Fudge, Gau, Gebes, Gilgamesh, Hawkeye, Horvath, Inoz, Kahlm, Kaleb, Keskonrix, Korgan, Kusanagi, Lenny, Looket, Lunn, Mesa, Mid, Morgaine, Obelix, Otto, Panoramix, Raevyn, Reves, Ritz, Secretagent, Serendipity, Slade, Spiderman, Squeak, Swindle, Tania, Thurain, Timetracker, Tinviper, Tomo, Took, Tracker, Tynian, Vedmak, Whiskey, Zeon ---------------- Kiri's www of URLS: From Mystique "And we've been worried about programming jobs being outsourced merely to other COUNTRIES!?!" http://www.newtechusa.com/ppi/talent.asp Also from Mystique "Okay, this one makes very little sense, but it's kind of hypnotic :)" http://www.clga.net/files/badger.swf From Sgetsuo. I can't figure it out. Maybe you can. http://www.private-eye.co.uk/pseuds.htm Also from Sgetsuo. For complete idiots. http://web14.compaq.com/falco/detail.asp?FAQnum=FAQ2859 ------------- Responses by Anakin: AMystery: lets extend undead so that undead limbs are actually undead and can spawn baby limbs >>Do they stop on the baby limbs? Or do they spawn another baby limbs? I think undeads are already a headache to a couple of people, some don't even bother taking them. They think undeads are too powerful *shrugs* AMystery: i think lowbies should almost all have sneak just because they are small and they should lose it as they get bigger, say around level 15 they outgrow it >>Again, *shrugs*, I'm not really sure if every lowbie should get sneak... heroes are usually on to give them CRs if they need it, and Clericus can heal level < 11 before they get back to work getting their corpse... Batman: when will the blackjack table be fixed?? Kiri -- Assume it is QUITE low priority on the to-do list. The code is a big ugly mess, and there are other things we'd prefer to fix. Unless Alicia gets bored. >>Play blackjack with me... in Yahoo!. Response by DB: I think all races should get sneak except demons at some point, period. Then we don't have to give CRs anymore Response by Disaster: i don't think all races should have sneak. avians are already patheticly easy to level as morts with such powerful in-guild skills. illithids have mb, which pretty much eliminates the need for sneak for corpse retreivals. ------------------ Quotable Bloopers Source information for these quotations are not (always) stated. These quotations are not listed here in an attempt to slander any individual or group. 1. "Whenever I watch TV and see those poor starving kids all over the world, I can't help but cry. I mean I'd love to be skinny like that but not with all those flies and death and stuff." ---Mariah Carey 2. "Researchers have discovered that chocolate produces some of the same reactions in the brain as marijuana. The researchers also discovered other similarities between the two, but can't remember what they are." ---Matt Lauer on NBC's Today Show, August 22 3. "I haven't committed a crime. What I did was fail to comply with the law." ---David Dinkins, New York City Mayor, (answering accusations that he failed to pay his taxes) 4. "Smoking kills. If you're killed, you've lost a very important part of your life." ---Brooke Shields, during an interview to become spokesperson for a federal anti- smoking campaign. 5. "I've never had major knee surgery on any other part of my body." --Winston Bennett, Univ. of KY basketball forward 6. "We're going to turn this team around 360 degrees." ---Jason Kidd, upon his drafting to the Dallas Mavericks 7. "China is a big country, inhabited by many Chinese." ---Former French Président Charles De Gaulle 8. "It isn't pollution that's harming the environment. It's the impurities in our air and water that are doing it."---Former U.S. Vice-president Dan Quayle 9. "Without censorship, things can get terribly confused in the public mind." -General William Westmoreland 10. From Dan Quayle: "I love California. I practically grew up in Phoenix."