Volume Four Expie Edition
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Flashbulbs flashed, the red carpet was rolled out, papparazzi was beaten up and the clinking of Kaige's famous strawberry daiquiris could be heard for miles. Yes, that most glamorous of events was upon us, the 1997 Expies! Here for those who were unable to attend is the list of winners and runners-up, also included is a list of write-ins which are the special player-created categories. Thankyou to those of you who voted, and a most special thanks from all of us to Flagg who so tirelessly offered his services to this event. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= ________________ The / / LegendMUD 3rd Annual / / / _________/ / / / ___ ____ _________ ____ _________ _______ / /______/ | | / / / __ / / / / / / \ / / | |_/ / / / / / / / / _____/ / _____/ / /________ | / / /_/ / / / / /___/ / /___ / / / _ | / _____/ / / / /____ _\__ \ / / / / | |/ / / / / / / / /_______________/ /___/ |___| / /___/ /________/ /_________/ /___/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= mud.aus.sig.net 9999 129.1.78.16 9999 http://mud.aus.sig.net/ =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Expies Results! April, 1997 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Elessar Memorial Award (for best history in an area) Winner: Rusalka's Tudor England Runner-Up: Leila's Gypsy Carnival H. G. Wells Medal (for the place you would most like to visit if you could time travel) Winner: Leila's Gypsy Carnival Runner-Up: Rusalka's Tudor England Best Room (For description and special effects) Winner: On the Moon (Gypsy Carnival) Your spaceship has crashed into the eye of the great man on the moon though he seems unaffected by the event. His other huge eye winks a welcome hello and a broad grin spreads across his cratered face. You notice that you too have become monochromatic; looking down at your hands and arms you see none of their normal hue. Yet this hardly bothers you as sprinklings of glitter and tinsel fall from the starry sky. A strange, bright light shines in your eyes and sets the room ablaze, removing all shadow and definition. Runner-Up: On The Bridge of Leaps (Land of Shadows) You stand gingerly on the bridge, each footstep making the bridge sway, the wind gusting through the valley only making it worse. You lose your footing and hold on for dear life, grasping at a rope that should have given way long ago. You wonder how long you can maintain your balance? Long enough to get across? Best Item Winner: A cloudy grey opal ring Runner-Up: An obviously fake beard The Vampy for Best Mob Winner: A rat catcher Runner-Up: The shade of Cuchullain The Lampy for Best Quest: Winner: The Queen Elizibeth/Traitor Quest Runner-Up: The Ringmaster Quest Best Special Effect (this award goes to the best, most creative, and most interesting use of the mud's acts system to create a 'special effect.') Winner: The Carnival Games Runner-Up: The Carnival's atmosphere Best Deathtrap Winner: THE STAR CHAMBER With a distinct sense of foreboding, you peer through the doorway. The room is shadowy; the only light is from the dim lamp on a round table in the center of the room. Around the table huddle the indistinct shapes of men. Their words are low murmurs, and fear forbids you to move closer despite your desire to hear more. Runner-Up: OVERCOME BY A MILLION SERPENTS The neverending mass of slithering bodies surrounds you. A snake drops from its resting place onto a mass of squirming bodies resulting in a hissing and spitting in an angry frustration. Everywhere you look the walls move, the floors move, the ceiling quivers. Golden Squirrel Trophy (In the early days of the mud, Fionn's vorpal squirrels caused innumerable deaths. This award honors the mob whose design best epitomizes the spirit of the vorpal squirrel.) Winner: The hounds of Cullan Runner-Up: The brickmakers Best Writing (overall writing in an area that makes it come alive) Winner: Leila's Gypsy Carnival Runner-Up: Rusalka's Tudor England Best Area (overall design) Winner: Leila's Gypsy Carnival Runner-Up: Rufus' Land of Shadows Best Bug (given to the most interesting/conspicuous blooper in an area or in coding) Winner: Everybody who logged onto the mud connected to the same char. Runner-Up: Being able to take the Crimson Shield out of the Shadow Lands. Best Reason For Turning Down A Reimb Request (given to the reason and to the immort who gave it) Winner: I don't have load *duck* - Rufus Runner-Up: Ask Choc. - Spencer Immortal You Are Most Likely To Ask For Help Winner: Sabella Runners-Up: Rufus, Rusalka, and Sandra Best Poofs Winner: Leila You feel the cool steel of scissors on the back of your neck... Then a little mousse. A tiny brush flicks away the stray hairs. You are blinded by a mist of hairspray and when the cloud lifts you see your reflection in the mirror Leila holds. Your face falls. 'It's called the Friends Haircut' Leila snaps as she flounces from the room. 'And there's no need to cry, you know'. Runner-Up: Clutch You feel a low rumble in your chest, and soon your eyeballs are vibrating. You turn to find the bumper of a huge monster truck just inches from your nose. the door opens and Clutch jumps out, leaving the engine running. Clutch jumps back in the cab, throws the truck in gear and roars away, leaving you choking on dust and exhaust. Snazziest Dresser Winner: Flagg Runner-Up: Sabella Best Builder (goes to the immortal whose body of work in building areas is most worthy of the award; you can check who built what by typing AREAS within the game) Winner: Rufus Runner-Up: Leila Best Admin (goes to the immortal whose work as an administrator of the mud has best kept the mud going) Winner: Ptah Runner-Up: Sandra The Sadist or Award for Best Coder (server code, not acts code. This award goes to the coder(s) and the code that was added so please put both.) Winner: Whois code - Ptah Runner-Up: Reconnect code - Gail Best Player Relations Liaison (goes to the best PR immortal for work in RP, games, The Legendary Times, strings, player registration, assisting players, the lecture series, the Expies, the Q&A, the WWW pages, etc.) Winner: Sabella Runner-Up: Spencer Most Helpful to New Players at Legend (Given to the player, male or female, most helpful to newbies) Winner: Eretz Runner-Up: Point Best Clan (the following are eligible) (Given to the organization, be it pkill clan or roleplaying clan) Winner: Mcdougan Runner-Up: The Coven Best Guildmaster (given to an individual player for their past or present leadership of a clan) Winner: Mcdougan (Clan Mcdougan) Runner-Up: Morphine (Mercenaries) Best Roleplaying Melodrama (given to the best group roleplaying performance during the past year) Winner: The Virago saga. The coven caused Malorn and Crowe to fall in love with Virago via a love potion. Virago denied them both and ran away. Malorn and Crowe fought over her. She reappeared in the hands of the Coven, who killed her only to resurrect her as a member of the Coven causing Malorn to call on aid from the Dark Lord and rejoin the APs. Runner-Up: Dusty's kidnapping. Dusty gets lost at sea, looking for gold, and is kidnapped by pirates. She sent several bottles of notes out to sea. A song was also later heard and repeated but no sign was found. A group of adventurers went looking for her but Guapo having gone with the group declared that she escaped. Best Supporting Roleplayer in a Melodrama (given to the best performance by a peripherally involved character or mob) Winner: Guapo in Dusty's kidnapping. Runner-Up: Malorn in the Virago saga. Best Roleplayer (male) (Given to the best male character roleplaying) Winner: McDougan Runner-Up: Tad Best Roleplayer (female) (Given to the best female character roleplaying) Winner: Petal Runner-Up: Ryssa BEST HACK 'N' SLASHER (The Hack 'N' Slash award is given to the player whose play has shown mastery of and great delight in the gaming aspects of the mud.) Winner: Morphine Runner-Up: Point The citizenship awards are given to the player whose presence is regarded as most valuable on the mud, exemplifying the view of the mud as a social microcosm. Best Mud Citizen (male) Winner: Point Runner-Up: Eretz Best Mud Citizen (female) Winner: Govan Runner-Up: LadyAce Best Death (given to the best death, be it specific death on a specific time, or string of deaths, or oft-repeated circumstance) Winner: The many brave explorers in the first 30 min. of the Shadowlands. Runner-Up: Snap's being killed in the inn by the Dhurtah, who permad him after he returned to the game. Best Strung Item (This award goes to the player whose use of a strung item award is most creative) Winner: Ulric's Necronomicon Runner-Up: Daer's Arc of the covenant Best Warcry (Goes to the best personal message used in the warcry skill.) Winner: Ulric's "I HAD TO SLEEP WITH A MOOSE FOR TWO HOURS TO GET THIS WARCRY!!!!!" Runner-Up: Tyche's "WORSHIP ZANDY OR YE SHALL HAVE PAINFULLY LARGE BOWEL MOVEMENTS!!!" (multicollored) Best Player Description (This can be when you look at someone, their short description or the one when you see them standing in a room.) Winner: McDougan Short: a dishevelled, hiccupping Scot Long : A pile of tartan rags lies in a gutter, snoring and reeking of ale. Extra: He hiccups. That's what first draws your attention to the Scotsman lying in the gutter here. He is quite obviously drunk, but manages to slur his speech into barely comprehensible syllables to inform you: "It'sh shtriktly f'r medishindal purposhesh." He then moves back into his own world, and crackedly sings, "You tyke th' hiiiiiiigh road, and I'lb tyke th' low roab, and I'll getsh t' shcotchland afore ye..." Runner-Up: Whiterose Short: a woman enshrouded by the scent of roses Long : A woman enshrouded in a white aura and the scent of roses stands here. Extra: At first you mistake the woman standing in front of you for a statue. Her skin is as white and as smooth as alabaster. The only sign that she is not a statue is that her hair falls to her knees, is aburn in color and curly, and that her eyes are a bright and flashing green. Her lips, blood red, form a smile as she notices you watching her, and she shows off her fangs, startling you for a moment. You start to walk away, but look back over your shoulder for another look, unable to believe at first, that she is truly not a well made statue. You notice a small tattoo on the back of her shoulder. A white rose and a blood red rose with the stems entwined. You also notice on her ankle, a black stem of thorns encircling her ankle. Under the stem of thorns are words, and you move a bit closer to read what they say. "Love never dies, it just gets misplaced" is what the words say, and that is a saying she truly believes in. For she has loved many, but has never truly been happy until now. Best Illusion Winner: Terrorspawn's Santa runs you over with the sleigh DT. Runner-Up: Terrorspawn's Hounds of Cullan DT at the crossroads, Tara. Most Likely to Succeed Winner: Point Runner-Up: Ulric Write-ins: Best Automatic Line Lagmonster brutally slays the lagmonster. Kall gives you a firm backrub - you feel relaxed all over. Wodan: Something is WARG Wodan: Something has shed its wolfskin and has rejoined the human race DT-hugger Karyn Autorenter Nhoj Irony Biggest ego Morphine Best Karma Tyche and his friggin warcries Most Likely to flirt: Agrippa (2) Kae Mara Most likely to lose link: Rummy Hastur McDougan Irony tyche Ugh! Faris Biggest packrat: Mandolin Erica McDougan, seriously - she carries at least 3 full sacks around all the time and will not junk anything til she can't move Conan Kaedon Leila Kaedon with her 40+cookies and numerous toys Buttercup Best Questmeister: Bert (2) Eretz Donelan Best Line from a newbie: I'll trade this coupon thing for 35 levels. "So, how do you use tell?" --a newbie through tells. So, why do they call this newbie Hell anyway? Best Line From a Mobile: [Info] Jane Hartman:"My condolences, *playername*. Now come get your corpse, you fool! "It is NOT Your time to die! *boom*" -- Cesare Best store stock: Fuzar Scariest newbie experience: being kicked by Cruzeiro Not wishing for "Worst Enemy" in the lamp quest. Finding the Vampy Wandering into the Underhill Getting friendship and finding "Barney" Meeting Point Funniest eq item: World peace Biggest Lack: Cobras Most Embarrasing room: Mirror room in Carnival Spammiest strung weapon: Landy's "Clutch's kamikazebackbonenineironspitfirecontientalsamuraiohmylord!(tm)" MOST LIKELY TO DROWN Erica McDougan again - she's drowned in front of 4 different people on 4 different occasions Mitra Daavya Really cool guy Bob Izenberg MOST BORING ACTIVITY killing 1100 horses in Norway to level :) Meditation/hp regen Waiting for the skyblade in the skyblade quest waiting for that new moon! ick! Shadowlands runs when you aren't a hitter, mage, or healer. Waiting for your groupmate to reconnect. Best wedding: Densiva and Myriad (2) Best inn: Royal Stag Best Commander of a Golem Army: Ulric Somar Kaedon and her flying horses Funniest eq item: Hound's severed paw A white lab coat A bowl of goldfish Best pick up lines: Wanna group? What level? My all time favorite *lick* Best Comeback: "Yeah, what she/he said" Best recalltag "Self" announces: Leila (*wiggle Leila*) Funniest Praiser: Krusty Best commander in an army: Mandolin Most likely to be hugged by a total stranger.... Huggy Most Likely to Ignore your pleas for him to leave for a minute so you can do the gold mine quest: Beam. Most interesting events: Chimera's DT tours after he DT's once. Getting a 20 round stun on the Demon Kings Hitting the STAR CHAMBER when not doing the traitor quest Chimera's hitting Level 50 naked by doing the lamp quest Chimera's getting stuck in the Beowulf whale without a light source Best line from a player trying to help another out with the Beowulf quest: "Now, you swim around and act yummy." Most Quest Flags: Point The Gimme That coupon award: Quetzalcoatl The "Golden pkill" award for most deaths: Tallon Stephen Balinor Worst Hack and Slasher: Chimera perhaps a low level druid Mosht lichkely t' try t' ineffechtuabubbly Shchrifishe Me: Ulric Mosht lichkely t' follow in hish fathrrsh footshtepsh: Hastur MOST LIKELY TO DIE JUST AFTER LEVELLING: Kendrik MOST LIKELY TO RIDE ABOUT ON EACH OTHER : Ea! and Tad FUNNIEST IMMORTALS: Ea! and Tad Best game hosted by an imm: treasure hunt Best name of a conference: RP (when you type rp, all you do is give a nice firm poke to everyone in the room) -=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-