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=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= .............._______ ............./ / THE LEGENDARY TIMES ............/ / http://www.legendmud.org/ .........../ /.....______.._____.....______.._____.......____ ........../ /...../ /./ \.../ /./ \...../ \ ........./ /...../ ___/./ ____/../ ___/./ __ \.../ /\ \ ......../ /...../ /_.../ /....../ /_.../ /..\ >./ /./ / ......./ /...../ __/../ /____../ __/../ /.../ /./ /./ / ....../ /_____/__/__../ \_\ /./ /__../ /.../ /./ /_/ / ...../ / /./ /./ /./ /.../ /./ / ..../ /_/..\______/./_____/./__/.../__/./_______/ MUD .../________________/ running on mud.legendmud.org 9999 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= VOLUME TEN, NUMBER FOUR January 25, 2003 =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= TABLE OF CONTENTS The Editor's Note NEWS, REPORTS, UPDATES Calendar of Events Expies Nominations - Last Chance! Expies & Campaigning Recent Updates Recent Q&A Topics LEGENDITES NZ LegendMEET? Clan News The Knights of Takhisis Clan Formed The Acquisitioners Guild Formed The PK Front Little Girl Can't Hold Match to Ramirez A Sonnet. She Wants A Sonnet. Going Soft The Adventures of TheThing - Part III (New Direction) ___ ___ \ |-----------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| The Editor's Note |__\ '-----------------------------------------------------------------' Only three week's left until Valentine's Day and the Expies! Be sure to send in your nominations before the weekend is over. The next step will be a tallying of the nominations and a formulation of the final ballots! Look for those in mailboxes and available on the web soon! Don't forget about the tinyplot scheduled for tomorrow evening in India! And Thursday night will be another open PK Practice Session to be held on another port. So if you wanna try out your luck, maybe get a few pointers and not have to risk your neck, this is the place to try! Have a great week! -Kaige ___ ___ \ |-----------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| LegendMUD Calendar of Events |__\ '-----------------------------------------------------------------' [All times are system time unless otherwise specified] JANUARY FEBRUARY Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa Su Mo Tu We Th Fr Sa 1 2 3 4 1 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 26 27 28 29 30 31 23 24 25 26 27 28 Sunday, January 26th 6:00 pm Tinyplot in India -- Details TBA 11:59 pm Expies Nominations Ballots Due Thursday, January 30th 7:00 pm Q & A in the OOC Auditorium 9:00 pm PK Open Practice Coming in February.... - St. Valentine's Day -- LegendMUD's birthday! - vote in the final Expies ballot and attend the Expies ceremony! - the Stock C(h)ar PK tournament returns! ....and much much more! @>-->--->--- Valentine's Day is Coming Soon! ---<---<--<@ Send your short ic/ooc VALENTINE'S to the LT by Monday Feb 10th! Let someone know you're thinking of them... either fondly or that you're plotting against them! See back Valentine's Day issues for ideas and examples of length. ___ ___ \ |-----------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| Expies Nominations - Last Chance! |__\ '-----------------------------------------------------------------' Nominations for this year's Expies event are due by 11:59 pm Sunday, January 26... If you want to nominate someone for one of the awards or a write-in, do it soon, time is running out! Even if you only nominate one character for one award, we want your ballot! Don't think your nomination will count? One nomination can be the difference between someone making the final ballot or not. Yours could be the deciding factor! ___ ___ \ |-----------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| Expies & Campaigning |__\ '-----------------------------------------------------------------' If you plan to participate in this year's Expies in any way, whether you expect to win an Expie or are just nominating and voting, it is imperative that you read this. Due to activities in the past couple of years and complaints regarding such, we are instituting a new policy. We have always discouraged campaigning and bribery to win an Expie. It is not within the spirit of the Expies. Unfortunately, despite such discouragement, it still happens. Starting this year, we will begin disqualifying nominees that participate in campaigns and utilize bribery to win nominations and votes. Campaigning just to disqualify someone will result in disciplinary action against the campaigner. What constitutes campaigning? Illusions, notes, board posts, repeated comments on channels, and other like activity in the game encouraging people to nominate/vote a certain way. This includes campaigning both for and against something/someone. What constitutes bribery? The offering of XP, coupons, strings, equipment, quest help, money, etc to secure someone's nomination or vote. Please report any activities of such, preferably with logs. ___ ___ \ |-----------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| Recent Updates |__\ '-----------------------------------------------------------------' /\ CODE UPDATES / \ / \ There was one internal fix for builders made that isn't being /_ _\ used in and installed areas, so there is no code update for | | this week. next week will have several changes in it. | | | | |__| HELP FILE UPDATES /\ / \ The following helpfiles were update in the past week. / \ /_ _\ General Topics: | | JARGON, UPDATES | | | | Thanks to all the immorts and players who made this possible. |__| /\ / \ AREA UPDATES / \ /_ _\ If you want to suggest specific improvements or new additions | | to existing areas please don't hesitate to submit them with | | the idea/bug/typo commands or drop mudmail to the builder | | currently responsible for the area (use AREAINFO to find out!) |__| /\ Valentine's Day goodies are now on sale in the OOC! / \ / \ Barabas is the newest member of Legends of the Past. /_ _\ Hope you enjoy his replica. ;) | | | | Immortal directory now matches WIZLIST and taking the | | elevator to the admin floor echoes properly. |__| /\ Charmy's specials shouldn't hit after their target has fled. / \ / \ 1802 ALASKA /_ _\ Lower prices on furs from smaller animals. Fixes to | | messages while snowblind and oddness with dropping and | | getting snowballs. Various minor bugs and typos fixed. | | Crashing bug fixed with fighting one of the mobs there. |__| AFRICAN SAVANNA /\ A few more comments from the big-game hunters. / \ CELTIC IRELAND / \ Careful with Cian! Duncan finished forging his new weapon. /_ _\ THE CRUSADES | | Slay room should be more bulletproofed . Trees can be | | chopped down and turned into wood suitable for the | | shipbuilding skill. Various bugs and typos fixed. |__| FRENCH INDIAN WAR /\ Fixes problems on things that should be possible to skin. / \ HOSPITALLER MALTA / \ Fixes the thicket. Fixes a bad attack type. /_ _\ PORT OF LONDON | | Vampire should be matching his spells to his messages. | | ROMANIA | | Clarifies requesting multiple items be given one at a |__| time so people don't get stuck. /\ SHERWOOD / \ Thomas can't land kicks if you're not in the same room / \ with him. Various typo fixes. /_ _\ THE ALHAMBRA, ARABIAN NIGHTS, AZTECS, BENGAL, CASABLANCA, | | SOUTH SEAS, TEA ROUTE TORTUGA, and VICEROYAL PERU | | Various minor bugs and typos fixed. | | |__| In Progress Area Updates /\ / \ This section is intended to share what builders are working / \ on behind the scenes. It is not a perfect record of progress /_ _\ as all builders do not commit updates every week. Badgering | | builders about their progress will get you flogged. | | | | Kae Larderello (Dante's Hell) |__| Piccolo Ming Dynasty China =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= _______ ____ _______ / ___ \ / __ \ / ___ \ Logs of Q&A sessions are available on the | / \ | \ \/ / | / \ | web pages for those who are unable to attend | | | | \ / | \___/ | or had to leave early. The most recent ones | | | | / \/\ | ___ | are listed on the sitemap page or you can | | /\| | / /\ / | / \ | get a complete list on the Q&A index page | \_\ \ | \ \/ \ | \ / | at the url below. \___\/_/ \__/\/ \_/ \_| http://www.legendmud.org/Community/lectures/QandA/QA_index.html RECENT TOPICS o Giving Multiple Items for Quests o Klein Advantage? o Losing XP in Crashes? o Pk Healing Scenario o Progress on Hades and Hell? o Wary/Agg with Stun o Skill Lag & Spamming? o Wimpy and Skill Lag o Long Repops & Skill Lag? o Delay Wrong on Some Skills? o Make Bandage and Item Size? o Moods & Socials? o Shipbuilding & Lumberjacking o Wineseller in Britain? o New Weapons? o Why Stat Restriction on Mundanes? o General Questions/Suggestions ___ ___ \ |------------------------------------------------------------------| / /__| LEGENDITES: Information Regarding the People of Our World |__\ '------------------------------------------------------------------' Agaz has reached 200 million experience! =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= NZ LegendMEET? Having been paying attention as of late I've noticed there are quite a few players who are from NZ, and a good portion of those reside in Invercargill. Because of this I propose we have our own LegendMEET right here in Invers, those who are interested mudmail me and I'll start organizing something. Cheers, EiSA. ___ ___ \ |--------------------------------------------------------| / /__| Clan News |__\ '--------------------------------------------------------' The Knights of Takhisis were formed on January 19, 2003. These Knights fight with their own set of values, morals, and honor. Their goal is to kill in the Dark Goddess' name, and become powerful enough to re-open the portal, and bring her back into the mortal realm. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Acquisitioners Guild formed on January 19, 2003. We are a group of people who gather together to provide you, the citizens of this world with requests that you might have. We offer mail ordering, just mail your request and your offer to any of the TAG members. Payment plans, if you can not afford to pay for you request at the time of requesting we will name a down payment, and accept the rest in installments within an agreed period of time. Also, we offer insurance on all of our items, if dissatisfied with an item within 2(two) days of purchase we will take it back for a 50% refund (administration/effort fee), just notify the TAG member which acquired the item in the first place. If interested we offer DT Insurance. With this program all you do is pay monthly payments (payments vary from person to person) and in case of a DT, TAG will work on retrieving your equipment for free. Another advantage of using TAG is that your requests will NOT go up on Auction unless you decide to not purchase the item, or there has been no price decided prior to the acquisition of the item. We also plan on offering list making services, inquire with your local TAG member about that. Prince Corvin of Amber TAG Spokesperson =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= There are currently 16 RP clans and 9 PK clans. This leaves open slots for seven (7) more clans to form. For more information, read HELP CLAN and see the clan information list via the CLANS command while logged into the game. For a basic handbook and reference guide for players interested in starting and running a clan, we recommend that before you even type FORM, you visit: http://www.legendmud.org/Reference/gm.html. ___ ___ \ |--------------------------------------------------------| / /__| The PK Front |__\ '--------------------------------------------------------' Little Girl Can't Hold Match to Ramirez It had been well planned. He knew he couldn't take the little girl alone. He had to drag in the cavalry. He had not become manager at a pizzaplace for the sake of his blue eyes. It had taken devious planning. And that he had needed again. He had to find a way to give the little girl a thorough beating before daring to even come near her. And thus he had called on his old friend Joe. They had set up a boxing match. Joe's job was to give the 7 year old girl a few hard hits to the head, then pretend a knock out. And it had worked. Of course the little girl had made charcoal out of his friend - but really, isn't that what friends are for? In the following confusion over the famous boxer's death it had been a piece of pizza to finish off the still dizzy brat. Finally, Richard 'the girlstalker' Ramirez had his revenge over little Dinah 'firebug' Greenfoss. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Grendels had the most active members this week with about half their members involved in some sort of skirmish. After a brief upheaval within the Panuccis Pizza franchise, they seem to be focusing on getting the kitchen finished and still defending their reputation as a reputable pizza parlor. With Barabas "rewarded" by his lord for fulfilling his quota, the Infernals are left with new management and one wonders what kind of course of action they will follow. The Knights, Syndicate and IRA were also out in small numbers this week. A pair of Coven witches were sited in battle. A single member of the Hermetic Order and only one from the School of Hard Knocks were seen out on the PK front this past week. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= This past week there were 74 pkill-related deaths involving 52 different characters. Of those 52 characters, 27 of them were accept all at the time. So come on, let's get YOUR name up in lights! We can't report on it if you don't tell us about it! If you have you witnessed or committed any glorious or nefarious deeds, send a short report to us at the LT. If you are looking for a fight, recruiting, or anything else related to PK (not necessarily PK Clan related), send it in! It's free AND you'll get a prize token! Be a celebrity, the envy of all your friends! Tick off your enemies or just tell your side of the story! The possibilities are endless -- act today!! _______________________ / \ o O | Wonder what folks are | `\|||/ | doing over at LegendMUD?| (o o) \_______________________/ ooO_(_)_Ooo________________________________________________________________ _____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|___ __|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____|_____| A Sonnet. She Wants A Sonnet. Lawrence Windstrom chewed on his fingernails, absentmindedly ruining the careful manicure that Lady Ahania Linnell had given him earlier during her first attempt to teach him proper manners of a gentleman. A sonnet, Lady Ahania had said. You have to write your lady a sonnet. That's simply proper courtship. He carefully penned down the first lines that went through his silver-haired head. Dechtire, you set my fire, Next to you I could be a liar, Now come roll with me in the briar, And we'll get lost in the mire, Then we'll go see the friar... Even Lawrence had sense enough about him to realize that that piece of poetic injustice to woman might not be well received. He quickly tore the page off the notepad and threw it away with a pained look. Sonnet. He had to come up with a sonnet. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= Going Soft A young man came stumbling into one of my favorite eating establishments wearing nothing but a look of stupidity. 'Can you help me?' he asked, voice full of despair. 'No, and go outside. You're ruining my dinner,' I replied with my usual diplomacy. The young man nodded and did as he was told. He was smarter than he looked. After I had finished eating my meal and flirted with the serving wench, I got up to leave. Once outside, I again saw the naked young man with the lost look on his face. What a pain. 'Will you help me now?' he asked. 'Aaaarrrghh, what is it you want of me?' I yelled at him. 'I have lost all my stuff and it is very cold out tonight,' he whimpered, 'Could you help me get some clothes or possibly some food'? I pondered his question for a while and then turned and walked away. I didn't kill him. Do you think I'm going soft? =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Adventures of TheThing (embellished) - Part III (New Direction) LadyAce was the first to listen to TheThing's plight. She sat there patiently as he explained how DeathWalker and Onkyo had tricked him into this life that he had not wanted in the first place. LadyAce, however, did not have the power to assist TheThing, but she granted him an audience with Sandra, the head of the Gods of Administration. TheThing sat in Sandra's office, repeating his long story, but Sandra replied that the rules were the rules, and he would have to redeem himself like any other that wanted out of PK. TheThing resorted to begging at this point, practically crying to Sandra, kneeling and pleading to no avail. He was on his own like at no other time in his life. A stranger in a strange land, far from his original 'clan' The Fantastic Four, and without many people he could call 'friend', he left the Immortal complex broken and distraught. TheThing dragged himself down to the war board and declared his intentions for all to see. 'I am leaving the PKill arena. I will be devoting all of my time and energies to this quest. I would appreciate it if people would not involve me in their battles, not seek me out for a fight, and help me if they can in this long quest.' He might as well have been a teenager in the lunch room who had put a 'kick me' sign on his own back at this point. What TheThing didn't know was that the bullies and evildoers of Legend lived for this kind of thing (no pun intended). Someone asking to be left alone, a known hothead and lousy PKiller, it was just too tempting to pass up. So as much as TheThing ran and hid, and tried to gain experience, his XP hole got deeper and deeper. And to make matters worse, every time he was jumped, attacked, killed, he got right up on the public channels and whined and cried about it saying how unfair the world was and how he didn't want to be in PKill any more. Suddenly a turning point came for TheThing, an event which would change him forever in ways he could only begin to understand. A fight had broken out in medieval Sherwood. No one remembers who all was involved and how it had begun, but TheThing was asked to join a small gang fighting another small gang, avenging some supposed wrong-doing. In the course of this fight, someone got killed, and then killed again as they had reincarnated and were gathering their belongings. Multi-death they called it. One of the worst offenses a PKiller could perpetuate. And here was TheThing caught up in the middle of it, accused of the multi himself, and now targeted for death by all who knew him. +++++ Unbeknownst to TheThing, this bloody battle had split him somehow. The evil atrocity he had committed somehow divided his better half and turned him into a rabid bloodthirsty killer, constantly on the run and desperately trying to hold onto what life he had left. Somewhere off in his own home town, Dev Sibwarra was born. 'Borne of the trials and tribulations of a regretful PKiller' TheThing would go on to say later. Not quite a son to TheThing, certainly not a brother, but literally a part of TheThing, Sibwarra was to be the goodness that TheThing had left behind. But we digress from our story. +++++ TheThing had become enamored with Chante', a lovely lass who was friendly with just about everyone and she used her druidess skills to heal him as they ran from place to place. But even Chante' betrayed him. Having made no promises to TheThing, Chante' had an affair with Leatherface, one of TheThing's good friends. Leatherface and TT began to fight over Chante' and TheThing had yet another enemy. Now on the run constantly, TheThing made enemies by the handfuls. Craven chased TT halfway around the world, delighting in the reactions he elicited. TheThing couldn't help himself, whining and screaming on the public channels at every turn, and posting repeatedly to public boards and the war board that he just wanted to be left alone. In desperation, TheThing learned some magic tricks, like spells that would cast light healing on him, and ones that would make him disappear, to reappear at an Inn, quickly escaping his enemies. He had to carry massive amounts of 'spam gear' with him to accomplish these feats, however, as he wasn't smart enough or spiritual enough to do it on his own. But soon, even the desperate tricks were not enough to keep him safe. His enemies learned how to circumvent his new skills. Just when it seemed he had nowhere to escape the chasing, he remembered his brief training from the Knights of Legend. =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= =-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-= The Legendary Times is published by the immortals of LegendMUD. Please send replies, additions, or corrections to our address at [email protected] for inclusion in the next edition. All subscription options are now handled at this url: http://www.legendmud.org/lists/listinfo/legendarytimes For RP submissions, copyright ownership remains with the author. 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