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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .............._______ ............./ / THE LEGENDARY TIMES ............/ / .........../ /.....______.._____.....______.._____.......____ ........../ /...../ /./ \.../ /./ \...../ \ ........./ /...../ ___/./ ____/../ ___/./ __. \.../ /\ \ ......../ /...../ /_.../ /....../ /_.../ /..\ >./ /./ / ......./ /...../ __/../ /____../ __/../ /.../ /./ /./ / ....../ /_____/__/__../ \_\ /./ /__../ /.../ /./ /_/ / ...../ / /./ /./ /./ /.../ /./ / ..../ /_/..\______/./_____/./__/.../__/./_______/ MUD .../________________/ running on mud.legendmud.org 9999 208.188.102.145 9999 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= http://www.legendmud.org/ ftp://ftp.legendmud.org/pub =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= VOLUME SEVEN, ISSUE SEVENTEEN August 2nd, 2000 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TABLE OF CONTENTS Calendar of Events NEWS & REPORTS Reminder: Austin LegendMEET 2000: Hotel Info Cenja Gets Her Groove Back Friends and Family RP Workshop LegendMUD Connection Analysis LEGENDITES Announcements Imperial Tournament: An Invitation Conspiracy III ___ ___ \ |------------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| UPCOMING CALENDAR OF EVENTS |__\ '------------------------------------------------------------------' [All times are system time unless otherwise specified] o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_August_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o_o LegendMUD Summer Odyssey continues... A monthlong celebration of the Industrial era. Thursday, August 3 at 7:00 pm Q & A in the OOC Auditorium Subject: Immortal Applications Friday, August 4 at midnight Industrial Flag Hunt Saturday, August 5 at 4:00 pm Imperial Tournament, hosted by the Knights of Legend *Sunday, August 6 at noon Q & A in the OOC Auditorium Subject: Immortal Applications ** Special Day/Time for ** ** Non-US timezones ** Tuesday, August 9 at 8:00 pm RP Workshop: Friends and Family Featured Speaker: Lirra Thursday, August 10 at 7:00 pm Q & A in the OOC Auditorium Saturday, August 12 at noon "Darwin" Recalltag -- skills and spells allowed at 1:00 pm Trivia Challenge: Modern History ___ ___ \ |------------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| NEWS AND REPORTS |__\ '------------------------------------------------------------------' Immort Application Forms are available from http://www.legendmud.org Immort Proposals are Due September 1 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Reminder: Austin LegendMEET 2000: Hotel Info Just a reminder that reservations need to be made by August 4th, 2000 to get the special group rate for the Austin LegendMeet for the weekend of August 18-20th. Also, if those of you who have already made reservations or are local and are planning on coming could drop me a note I'd appreciate it! Please call 1-877-203-0174 (this is a toll-free call) to make your own reservations before August 4th, 2000. Be sure to tell them you are with the LegendMUD group to get the special flat rate of $59 (+tax) a night: The $59 flat rate is for 1-4 people per room and that includes breakfast. Other amenities include an outdoor pool/jacuzzi, free parking, data ports on the phones, coffee makers in the rooms. The hotel is newly rennovated and they have both smoking & nonsmoking rooms available. We have blocked out a total of 10 rooms to start with. There are 5 smoking and 5 non-smoking rooms. But if we need more of either or just more in general it's not a problem at this early date. Checkout is set for Sunday but, if you need to come early or leave later, just let them know that as well. There are many other hotels/motels in the area. You can search someplace like travelocity.com if you'd like, but this was by far the most helpful and one of the best values I found. Hope to see you there! If you've got questions, drop me a note. -Kaige []-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[] Cenja Gets Her Groove Back There once was a blonde named Cenja. Cenja lived in a happy-go-lucky land called LegendMUD. Well, okay, it wasn't so happy-go-lucky. People were sometimes mean to each other and there were a lot of monsters that would kill you and eat your body and steal all your clothes if you weren't looking, which could be a total bummer. But anyway, Cenja was totally happy at Legend. She knew a lot of really super spiffy people and had lots of friends. She was always really amused by the people at Legend, for lots of them were funny and smart. Some were even both funny and smart. Legend had these way-cool channels to listen to and talk to if you wanted, which was groovy. She would listen to the people talk on these channels and would laugh and laugh. One day, Cenja was listening to the people talk when someone said a bad word. There was a lot of snickering in response to this bad word. Cenja even snickered, because she is, like, totally okay with bad words. The next day, Cenja listened to a long talk about drugs. Some people were into pot, others into other stuff that Cenja didn't really know all that much about. She didn't snicker this time, but ignored it. No big deal, really. Cenja was okay with people talking about drugs, although worried that they were actually doing the drugs. Then a few people jumped in and started talking about adult things that, like, totally can't be discussed here. Cenja wasn't so sure about this, but she didn't say anything. People can say what they want to, she thought. No big deal. The next day, people talked about drugs and stuff in front of Cenja again on the channels. She frowned at this and wondered why people talked about drugs all the time. Cenja totally wanted to be cool, but she was taught that drugs were bad and stuff. Plus, she was kinda tired of hearing about the drugs again and again. She was getting a headache from all the talk about pot and stuff. So Cenja said something about it, suggesting that they, like, find something new to talk about. Cenja was kinda offended at all this drug talk because it was really bogus. The people weren't happy with Cenja. They wanted to talk about drugs. Cenja was totally miffed, but pointed out that there were other things worth talking about. You know, like the weather, books, music and stuff. But the people didn't like what Cenja was saying. They said that if she didn't like what they were saying, she should just not listen to the channels. This was just not cool because Cenja thought the channels were for everybody to enjoy. Some people didn't like her statements so much that they totally dissed Cenja and called her a ``liberal fascist!'' Cenja was soo bummed out about this. She wanted to listen to the channels too. She pouted and thought about what a ``liberal fascist'' was. She didn't know really what that meant, but it sounded totally bad! She wanted to prove that she was still cool and stuff, but how? She thought and thought and thought until her thinker hurt something awful. Finally, she decided that she'd go talk to the Wise Dude and find out what this ``liberal fascist'' stuff meant. Cenja put her so-cute daughter, Gwajeth, into a baby backpack, slung her on her back, and wandered off to find the Wise Dude. The Wise Dude lived outside a German village named Kleinstadt. He lived in a little hut made of tree branches and mud because he just really liked it. He wore cool sunglasses and sat around thinking up really cool, wise things to say. He had long brown hair and didn't believe much in haircuts. He was still cool though, `cause you don't have to have haircuts to be cool. Anyway, he was happy to see Cenja because she brought him a big apple pie. You have to bring wise dudes presents if you're gonna ask them questions, right? ``So, Cenja, why are you here?'' the Wise Dude asked in a big, booming voice. ``I need to know what a `liberal fascist' is, Wise Dude. I want to listen to the channels like everybody does.'' Cenja told him all about her little adventure with the drug people. ``A wha? I dunno what that is. Lemme look it up.'' So Wise Dude rummaged through his old backpack, searching for the answer. He began to mutter and curse quietly to himself, not finding what he was looking for. Finally, he brought a big, yellow book out of his backpack. This book was called a ``thesaurus.'' It wasn't a dictionary, but the thesaurus was totally cool in that it had dictionary definitions in it too. ``Hmmm... It says here that liberal is an adjective. Cool.'' ``No kidding, Wise Dude. I need to know what it means.'' ``Oh, groovy. Says here that liberal means open-handedness, generous.'' ``Oh neat! That's a good thing! What's the other word, fascist?'' Cenja asked. ``Oh, yeah, I'll look that up.'' Wise Dude flipped through a few pages. ``Oh, here. It says here it was a political movement. Says it has a centralized government that has a dictatorial leader. Oh, it also says it's a tendency towards strong autocratic or dictatorial control.'' Cenja thought about this. She felt more than a little confused and frowned. It, like, totally didn't make sense. Her head started to hurt. ``Wise Dude, how can someone be open-handed and generous but dictatiorial at the same time?'' Cenja tilted her head to one side and looked at the Wise Dude, hoping for help. ``Dictators aren't generous.'' ``I dunno. Doesn't make any sense to me. Oxymoron. Thanks for the pie, Cenjie, you're totally groovy.'' ``Why would someone call me something that doesn't make sense like that? That's, like, totally bogus. And mean too.'' ``Bogus, yeah. The channels are for everybody and people who say otherwise just aren't groovy.'' Cenja nodded. Maybe some people just aren't groovy. []-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[] Friends and Family RP Workshop On Tuesday, August 8th, at 8pm EST Lirra will be hosting a Friends and Family Seminar. This seminar will focus on gaining helping players gain various ties and relations to other characters on the game, as well as help them work out minor details of their character's past. The seminar starts out with a short lecture, and will then move into a workshop where players discuss different aspects of their character's lives, and how others might be able to gain ties to that character, either through business references or other sorts of roleplay experience. []-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[] LegendMUD Connection Analysis Peak Mortal Players 56 Average Peak was 47 Peak PKOK Enabled Players 26 Pkok enabled Characters represent approximately 45% of active players. The first two tables below show the Average Mortal Players and Average PKOK Enabled Players connected to Legend by hour of the day as polled approximately on the hour system time during the period noted above. The third table shows the same averages calculated by the day of week. hour 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 ------------------------------------------ avg 32 32 28 22 18 16 15 14 16 21 22 26 pke 15 16 15 12 10 7 5 4 6 7 8 9 hour 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 ------------------------------------------ avg 30 28 32 32 31 37 39 34 38 37 37 36 pke 12 10 13 13 14 14 17 15 16 15 17 17 day MON TUE WED THU FRI SAT SUN ------------------------------------------ avg 28 28 28 29 29 29 28 pke 12 12 13 13 13 13 12 ________________________ / \ o O | Wonder what folks are | `\|||/ | doing over at LegendMUD?| (o o) \________________________/ ooO_(_)_Ooo________________________________________________________________ _____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ __|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| ___ ___ \ |------------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| LEGENDITES: Information Regarding the People of Our World |__\ '------------------------------------------------------------------' Announcements Imperial Tournament: An Invitation A young boy in a red and black uniform rode up to the window of the Legendary Times office and shouted: Hear ye, hear ye! I hold here an open invitation to all persons of name from the Emperor Frederick and his champions, the Knights of Legend! Beyond the walls of Kleinstadt, an Imperial Tournament shall grace the grassy fields. Let all with skills of arms come forth to contest, and stand for the glory of their houses. Let all those with hearts inclined to cheer and merriment come forth to witness the event. Let everyone gather on August the 5th, at 4 o'clock! * * * Congratulations to Ranara and P-Bliz, who were wed on August 2nd in a private evening ceremony. * * * Clan News The RP clan 'The Knights of the Dark Circle' has formed. There are currently 21 RP clans and 11 PK clans available for players to join. For more information on clans, try the following commands: CLANS ALL CLANS HELP CLAN []-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[]-[] THE CONSPIRACY pt. III Diary notes by Lord Marcel Alexander of the Seven Circles Ireland, somewhere south of Kilkenny, June 23, 489 A.D. I observed the most curious incident earlier this week. I was minding my own business drying my clothes at a roadside inn - it was raining cats and dogs outside - when a group of people caught my attention by means of their loud argument. One of them was a Grecian looking fellow. It was easy to tell that he was not native to the region of Kilkenny in this early age - not only did he wear clothes that marked him as totally out of place, he also carried a fairly large gun. He was waving his arms at another fellow, asking him if he thought he could run fast enough to get away if the first guy was to fire a volley of lead in his general direction. The other fellow, the one being threatened, I did recognize. He was Lugh, the Celtic Sun god, - not a half bad fellow, really, though he tends to get himself caught up in all sorts of strange adventures and quests to end the reign of darkness, or whatever. Being a true Irish, all he said was, "Try me." Need I say that Strife tried? The local townsfolk were - obviously - throwing themselves right and left, trying to avoid what they believed to be the dark sorcery of Strife's firearms and calling upon half a dozen Celtic deities in addition to Christ to protect them. I noticed a gaunt-looking girl calling herself Harlequin cheering Lugh on heartily, calling him father. No big surprise, really, the Celtic gods know a thing or two about having fun - in that respect they're a wonderful brawling and love-making bunch. Who knows, maybe Lugh will get luckier with this kid than he ever was with Cuchullain. Well, I did the sensible thing when Sun gods and Grecian avatars of all things mean and nasty begin to throw insults and then pieces of household tools after each other; I sat down beneath my table and watched the show. Strife got out of there with his Olympic butt in one piece; Lugh must have had a bad day or something. In any case, what really made me pay attention - besides the flying tableware and the hot lead - was the way the locals quickly shrugged the brawl off as if it had never happened. A few minutes after Strife and Lugh were out the door, no doubt chasing each other all over Kilkenny, it seemed as if nothing had ever happened. The barmaid was cleaning the table; the innkeeper stood around like a stout patriarch talking to his guests; the good farmers and craftsmen were dicing and swapping stories. An old man was snoring in the corner by the fireplace. Just a few scattered plates on the floor hinted that moments before, the gods were duking it out in this quiet little roadside inn. I marvel at the human ability to ignore the supernatural, even when it crawls up to punch them in the face. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Legendary Times is published by the immortals of LegendMUD. 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