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VOLUME TWO, ISSUE TWENTY-SEVEN June 16, 1995
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BE SURE TO WISH YOUR DAD A HAPPY FATHER’S DAY!!!!
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YET ANOTHER !!LONG!! ISSUE
...:/:[ CONTENTS ]:\:...
- Various code updates -
- Notes on clanning -
- New logo at the WWW site -
- Fund raising update -
SOCIAL EVENTS
- Clan Updates -
- The Dark Lord Claims Another Victim -
- Keiko and Kendrick Spar -
- Lots of Weddings -
- The Return of Some Old Faces -
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UPDATES REPORT
(from Ptah)
The mud has been crashing a lot lately because of some bugs related to
the new menu system. We apologize for all the inconvenience; many of the
bugs have been a lot nastier than expected (all we can tell you is to
avoid going over rent and save early and often). Ptah is continuing to
work on the bugs; hopefully he’ll find them all in the near future. In
the mean time, an update was installed on the 14th.
Here's a list of the changes:
- No update rooms are truly no update now. This means that you will not
lose hps to bleeding nor heal from bleeding while in the ooc, will not
get drunk there, will not be poisoned there, etc.
- Ranged yells have had the bugs fixed in them, while the debate rages
on about them. In the meantime, they should at least work properly.
- immortals and mobs now get the original unranged message
- immortals yelling are always audible
- processor usage on yells has been reduced by around 90%
- the distances should be properly calculated now, so you should
only get muffled yells on rare occasions
- The bug with cooking should be fixed now. Had better be. Darnit. :P
And if we find people using it to crash the mud, we'll be ruthless.
- Hellebore (the herb) no longer blesses.
- Some internal, non-chantable spells were added to give temporary
boosts to mind, dexterity, constitution, spirit, and perception. These
spells can now show up on foods and drinks, on wands, and other such
places.
- Getting autorented now completely disconnects you from the mud; this
is 1/2 of the solution to the frequent crashes lately.
- I think I found the cause of the odd behavior with sustained breath.
Give it a try and let me know.
- Make staff has had several adjustments made to it.
- the dexterity stat prereq has been lowered by 15 points
- low dex means a chance of cutting yourself and setting yourself
to bleeding in the process of making a staff
- all the various staves are now lighter
(they still aren't junking, but Ptah's working on it!)
- Throwing and shooting and scanning through closed doors is no longer
possible.
- The stone club should now have the correct bonuses.
- The wall spells should take directions properly now. They only pay
attention to the first letter of the direction you give, so feel free to
aim them n, s, w, e, u, d.
- Whisper is fixed so that it gives messages in the right order and
doesn't give your own whispers back to you. So is ask.
- The minimum damage on a successful blow will now be 1, no more missed
blows from doing 0 damage
- Characters who are sitting out on the menus are no longer updated.
This should solve the other half of the crashing problem.
- The who menu at the entry no longer lists off everyone, only
immortals.
- Just a reminder, as always, you can LOOK IN LAMP to see how much oil
is left.
NOTES ON CLANNING
(also from Ptah)
There was a little incident recently that hinged upon who has the
authority to get a person clanned. The answer is simple: ONLY the
guildmaster has the authority to ask that a person be clanned. The
person in question may approach the immortals to be clanned, as long as
the gm has given prior approval of the individual to the immorts.
There have been cases of other clan members acting as 'deputies' or
'acting GMs'. This is for cases when the actual GM is absent from the
mud for an extended period of time. There have been two ways of doing
this:
- the acting GM is actually set as GM with the guildmaster flag, and
the previous GM is then made a normal clan member. This is used in cases
of extended absences. The normal GMship can then be restored after the
absence ends. You must, of course, get an immortal to change the flags
for you.
- the GM retains the gm flag, but names someone to act on his or her
behalf. This is done for shorter absences. In this case, the immortals
MUST be notified as to who the individual is. And there can only be one
person thus identified as the acting GM.
Finally, if you have some sort of standing arrangement whereby a given
person is assumed to be the second in charge--notify the immortals, and
of course, as with all clan policies, notify the whole clan. And when
GMship changes, let everyone know who the second is, whether it has
changed or not. If you do not, it will be assumed that you as new GM are
indeed the sole person in charge.
Note that under neither circumstance does a second have the ability to
clan if the GM just happens to not be online at the time. This is for
cases of extended absence from the mud ONLY.
To my knowledge there are no current 'acting gms' in any of the clans.
But I do know that some GMs intend to be absent soon, and they should
contact an immortal and make arrangements ASAP, or possibly be removed
from gmship during their absence, just so someone is at the wheel.
-Ptah
HOMEPAGE UPDATE
(also brought to you by Ptah ;)
The Legend homepage now sports a thumbnail picture of the LegendMUD logo
that was going to go on the t-shirts. Anyone with graphical browsers
can see the picture as an online image by going to the MUD URL:
http://www.cs.cmu.edu:8001/Web/People/johnmil/legend/legend.html
We hope to have a fullsize version of the image available soon as well.
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FUND DRIVE UPDATE
Thanks to the donations that have come in (and an advance from Sadist),
Legend will be acquiring a new machine, very soon!!! According to Ptah,
we'll probably be getting "a 486K and lots of RAM" sometime next week.
However, we still need to keep up the fund raising.
As we’ve mentioned before, an anonymous player has pledged to match ANY
donations made by players (non IMMs) up to the sum of $200. Thus, your
donation will essentially be DOUBLED. If you can send a dollar, it will
count as $2! If you can only send $25, it'll count as $50! Please make
this generous person's gift worthwhile by doubling our efforts to get a
new site for LegendMUD.
Current status:
TOTAL CASH IN HAND: $1110 up by $225
TOTAL DONORS: 18 up by 6
ROUGH TOTAL PLEDGED: $1110 up by $50
TOTAL PLEDGES: 21 unchanged
AVERAGE DONATION: $62
Items donated: a 200mb hard drive
a monitor
a keyboard
We suggest that those who have the money burning a hole in their pocket
go ahead and send the checks directly to the following address and we
will
get the letters out to them as soon as we can, perhaps even crossing in
the mail. This is the address to send donations to:
(make checks payable to Raphael and Kristen Koster)
Raph and Kristen Koster
University Station
PO Box 1114
Tuscaloosa AL 35486-1114
USA
If you are an overseas donor who cannot write a check in US Dollars,
please
email us at [email protected].
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CLAN UPDATES
The Hermetics held a secret meeting some two weeks ago to elect a new
GM. After much deliberation, they chose Zandy to lead them. Although
Zandy had declared himself Rogue in the past few weeks, he apparently
returned to the fold to take up the burden of leadership for his folk.
What exactly Zandy will adopt as his new Hermetic policies is yet
unknown...the Hermetics remain as elusive as ever...
The Knights have also undergone a shift in leadership. After Khelleck,
the long standing GM of the Knights, announced his upcoming retirement,
Birdy became acting Guild Master. However, a few days later, Dominic
succeeded Khelleck as GM, whereupon Birdy promptly resigned from the
Knights, citing long standing philosophical differences between herself
and them.
In the midst of all these changes, Lirra, a prominent Hermetic,
transferred her clan allegiance from the Hermetics to the Knights.
War continues to brew between Kiera and the Order of the Scroll.
Reportedly, Kiera's latest demand to OTS members is three million gold
coins and a trans mob named after her. Reportedly, Kiera has killed
Shelby, Dagney, and Greyscot on at least one occasion and been killed
once herself (to see the current “score,” check out Kiera’s title). The
OTS is also heard to have “accidentally” attacked Mercenary, although
this allegation could not be verified at press time.
In other clan news, the Dark Lord (also known as "Our Lord of the
Dark, Sucking Sounds") gained yet another victim....er....convert:
And it came to pass that on a day most dark and drear and positivley
reeking of elevator music, that the people of Legend had yet another
unearthly visitation, one that squished and blooshed, and also spoke in
annoying all caps. And thus saith the Dark Lord, "MALORN! THE TIME IS
NEAR"....and the saith Malorn most eloquently, "Me?" Fearing the worst,
Connel cried out "Och no!!!! not him!!!!!""Now?," asked Malorn rather
plaintively, while No impatiently demanded of this Dark Lord "You know
who i am yet?"
Responding, perhaps, to No’s question, Ford called out "Bill Gates? Only
dark lord I know of.."
Meanwhile, the Dark Lord continued his call to the woeful Malorn, "YES,
YOU. THE TIME HAS COME FOR YOU TO SUBMIT TO MY MASTERY! SIMPLY PERMIT ME
TO ATTACH MY SUCKERS UPON YOUR SOUL, AND YOU SHALL BE MINE." Malorn
sighed and replied "already?...... i... guess" No snorted, and retorted
"You guess? this is an honor!" He whapped Malorn. Malorn, reeling from
No's blow, asked his would-be lord "will it hurt?" "I am sure it is a
great honor," he continued, "I was just surprised so soon..."
"OF COURSE IT HURTS," the Dark Lord thundered, "WHY WOULD I BOTHER DOING
SOMETHING THAT DIDN'T HURT?" "Because you're a nice Dark Lord?," No
helpfully suggested.
A dark silence fell, and then there was a wet sort of sniffling sound "I
AM SO A NICE DARK LORD!," was the reply. "I GIVE TO THE UNITED WAY, I
SENT JERRY LEWIS MONEY LAST TIME I SAW HIM, AND I EVEN MAKE A POINT OF
MOVING WORMS I SEE ON THE SIDEWALK INTO THE GRASS." The Dark Lord paused
for a moment. "Aha, Jerry Lee Lewis is in league with the devil!," Uzrok
triumphantly cried, while Greyscot gasped "You interacted with Jerry
Lewis. That IS dark!" The Dark Lord continued on "WHY, I EVEN LISTEN TO
BARRY MANILOW!" "NOOOOOOOOOOO" wailed Connel,".....NOT BARRY!!!!
Somewhat absently, No, ever the faithful Anti-Paladin remarked "I like
barry (sometimes when REALLY drunk)."
Meanwhile, Malorn steeled himself to accept his fate. Gulping, he called
out to the darkness, "I am ready, Dark Lord."And then, because even in
his fear, he couldn't resist wondering about the mechanicis of the
process, Malorn asked "So where exactly do these suction cups attach?"
The Dark Lord answered his query by ordering "MALORN, BARE THY FOREHEAD,
FOR IT WILL BE THERE THAT MY SUCKER SHALL ATTACH AND INVESTIGATE THY
INNER SOUL."
Malorn quietly groaned. "I knew it was gonna be the face." "Better than
some other places," replied No, and Malorn agreed: "I can think of
worse, yes." Parrilyn thoughtfully frowned and said "I dunno about
that." No raised his eyebrows and said "It would hurt." Parrilyn
chuckled politely. "Depends on how skilled the DL is" and checked for a
Hoover sticker on the Dark Lord.
Peering up into the darkness, Malorn offered himself to the Dark Lord:
"I dof my helmet to thee Dark Lord." The Dark Lord peered carefully at
Malorn's exposed brow and ordered "MOVE THAT LAST WISP OF HAIR TOO." "Oh
yeah," mumbled Malorn, and having complied with the Dark Lord's wishes,
closed his eyes. "MUCH BETTER," declared the Dark Lord, and settled down
to the job. All over the MUD, a huge THWOCKING sound was heard as the
Dark Lord literally sucked Malorn’s soul, the very core of his ethical
being, from out of his skull. As the process continued, the *thwock*
turned into an odd sort of *thschieeeoooup* sound. Finally, the Dark
Lord happily exclaimed "AHHH" while poor Malorn screamed "OUCH!!!!!"
"Eeeuuuwww" said Tad,"... yuck." No agreed, grateful that his own
initiation as an Anti-Paladin had been less...graphic. Malorn
groaned."Ewww is right.... this is a wierd" Thoughtfully, he peered
upwards. "Is the sky supposed to turn purple?"
A loud dampish *sproingy* sound was heard. "YUMMY," the Dark Lord
beamed,. "YOUR SOUL IS PERFECT." The Dark Lord reconsidered. "WELL, NOT
PERFECT. IT DOESN'T HAVE ANY CHOCOLATE, WHICH IS REQUIRED FOR
PERFECTION." "MALORN, It suggested in a wheedling tone, "I CAN PUT SOME
WHIPPED CREAM IN THERE, IF YOU WANT. IMPROVE MATTERS A LITTLE. AND YOU
WON'T HARDLY BE ABLE TO TELL IT APART FROM YOUR ORIGINAL BRAINS, EVEN."
Malorn pondered briefly. "Naw," he decided, "I think i will keep what’s
there ... cream rots." "SO DOES WHAT WAS THERE BEFORE. IT JUST TAKES
LONGER," retorted the Dark Lord.
The Dark Lord straightened Its posture a somewhat and went into the
swearing in bit. "MALORN, " IT CALLED, "PLEDGE YOUR LOYALTY NOW AND
FOREVER TO THE DARK LORD! Solemnly, Malorn murmered "I Pledge My soul
now and Forever to The Dark Lord..." "IT IS DONE!," proclaimed the Dark
Lord, "YOU ARE MY ANTIPALADIN, MALORN, NOW AND FOREVER. MY STIGMA IS
UPON YOUR SOUL! MY STAIN UPON YOUR PSYCHE! MY RING AROUND YOUR TUB!
NASTY MILDEW IN THOSE HARD TO REACH PLACES!"
"RESISTANCE IS USELESS, MALORN!" called out Ford in a vaguely Borg-ian
tone of voice. "Wow," remarked Seven, marveling in what he had just
witnessed. "Ew..." said Malorn, "thats a strange feeling." He blinked a
bit as he tried to adjust to his new moral orientation. "Dontcha hate
when that happens?" Penthus offered helpfully.
"YOU CAN HAVE YOUR BRAIN BACK NOW, IF YOU LIKE," declared the Dark Lord.
Brains were occasionally useful, but its fridge was full. "Yeah i will
take the brains back," replied Malorn. The Dark Lord *plotched* the
brains back where they had came from, though not in quite the same
orientation as they had had before. Oh well, It thought, humans didn't
really seem to know the difference. Malorn smiled. "uhhh thanks....
much better," he told the Dark Lord. "THERE.," grunted the Dark Lord,
"LEMME JUST... nnng... GET THIS ... argh...
SUCKER OFF YOUR... agh... FACE..." It groaned loudly "NNNggg!" In turn,
Malorn screamed "arrgh!!!!!" The Dark Lord panted and solemnly intoned
"Dammit." However, It ultimately succeeded in getting free. "Can i have
that eye back?," asked Malorn. Embarrassed, the Dark Lord replied "OOPS
SORRY." and splootched the eye back in. "Ouch," exclaimed
Malorn.."thanks," he added. The Dark Lord considered its handiwork.
"HERE," it said, "LET ME TURN THAT RIGHT SIDE UP FOR YOU."
"ahhhhhhhhhh," exclaimed Malorn in relief. The Dark Lord gave the eye a
final *squoeeerk.*
"Thanks again, oh great Dark Lord," the new Anti-Paladin gratefully
called. The Dark Lord smiled a squishy smile. "ALL BETTER," it intoned.
"GO FORTH, MY ANTIPALADIN! DO MY WILL!" "Always Dark Lord," replied
Malorn. "JUST REMEMBER, the Dark Lord continued, "DO NOT BE TAKEN IN BY
FALSE PROPHETS! YOU AND YOU ALONE UNDERSTAND MY TRUE DESIRES!" "Yes Dark
Lord," Malorn dutifully replied. Them squinting up at the sky again, he
demanded "Is the sky gonna turn back to blue soon?"
The Dark Lord pondered. "ERM," he said, "I UNDERSTAND OIL OF BOGGLE GALL
BLADDER IS GREAT FOR RIPPED OPTIC NERVES. GIVE IT A TRY. WOULDN'T WANT
THAT SQUINT FOR THE REST OF YOUR LIFE. AND IT'LL FIX THE COLOR TOO."
The Dark Lord peered at Its Anti-Paladin. "HMM. I GUESS YOU'D HAVE TO
POP THAT EYE OUT AGAIN TO REACH IT THOUGH. LEMME JUST REACH IN THERE
WITH MY SUCKER..." "Oh..." said Malorn, just realizing the loss of
certain items, "...will my eyelashes grow back?" "NO IDEA." replied the
Dark Lord cheerfully, "NEVER HAD TO DEAL WITH EYELASHES BEFORE, I
USUALLY RIPPED THE WHOLE EYELID OFF. AND I DON'T HAVE EYELASHES MYSELF,
SO......". The Dark Lord’s voice trailed off.
"OH WELL, IF WE'RE DONE WITH THIS, I GUESS I HAVE SOME DINNER ON THE
STOVE..." the Dark Lord announced. "Have a good dinner Dark Lord," said
Its Anti-Paladin. "Who's for dinner," queried Bregan, as the Dark Lord
*plotched* and *popped* its way back home to its stove and dinner. The
sounds grew dimmer and faded into the distance. Suddenly a loud shout
was heard. "DARN," blasted the Dark Lord, "BURNED MY GUPPIES AGAIN. TIME
TO ORDER OUT SUSHI AGAIN. SEE YA."
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The Anti-Paladins were also active in the PK arena in the past week.
Augustus reportedly attacked Sir Parneb in the Knight's Hall and was
vanquished by his would-be victim. While Augustus and Parneb were
debating the eventual fate of Augustus' equipment, the mud crashed. In
apparent retaliation for the loss of his equipment, Augustus later
killed both Sir Parneb and Sir Crowe. In a later incident, Sir Dominic,
the Knightly GM, was harried by a group of Anti's which included
Augustus, No, and Moira.However, Dominic successfully eluded his
pursuers, and peace returned to Legend. Augustus also made PK news when
he won a duel with Mercenary (reportedly, quite handily).
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ROLE PLAY MELODRAMAS
(and other Assorted Messes)
Once upon a time, we all were dreadfully concerned about the "lack" of
role play on Legend. Various discussions were held in the OOC about
"Improving Your Role Play" and "Thirty Days to a More Vibrant IC
Persona." However, this much lamented state of affairs has since been
happily (or at least chaotically) remedied. The past few weeks have been
particularly rambunctious.
Shortly after the impromptu wedding of Lark and Kendrick, Lark announced
the happy news that she and Kendrick were expecting to become parents.
However, many reacted to her joyful news rather unexpectedly, and soon
bizarre and fearsome rumors were in the land which suggested that Lark's
child be paternally related to the Dark Lord and/or to stuffed animals
of the rabbit variety. Understandingly, Lark reacted to these
accusations with an angry (and straight forward) denial. However, that
was not to be the last word on the debate, and soon, many other
unsuspecting (and/or absent) bystanders were drawn into the ruckus:
Kendrik: any bees out there?
Keiko: of course there are
Kendrik: for sale silly
Keiko: don't call me silly, you're the one who's wife got pregnant to
the dark lord.
Samuel Norton: Who's been impregnated by the dark lord??
Enigo: Moira, I think
Kendrik: no-one I impregnated my wife
Keiko: No is the father of Lark's baby!?!
Dagney: WHAT?
Keiko: I knew something was up!
Kendrik: HA , that would be the day
Lark: WHAT!?
Keiko: No must have been acting on the Dark Lord's behalf
Kendrik: as I was saying before so rudely LD, No has enough problems
with his drunk of a fiance.
Keiko: You take that back - oh why bother, I'll just archive it.
Enigo: He's not satisfying her enough, huh?
Kendrik: well, it wasn't me that got trashed and killed Aug twice
yesterday
Lark: what are you talking about? that only person i have ever been
with is
Kendrik.
Dagney: wait a minute, Lark's carrying the dark lord's child, keiko
claims that No is the father, Samuel Norton is flirting with lark, the
elementals and mobs have taken over the chat channel? What next?
Samuel Norton: am not! I just offered her a safe haven away from the
chittering of prying eyes.
Keiko: I'd start wildly retracting things Kenny poo
Kendrik: Why, Moira has no probs with me
Keiko: Calling Moira names is a sure way to die. Repeatedly.
Keiko: I have problems with you calling my sister names.
Lark: he did not call her a name
Keiko: he called her a drunk and insinuated that it was a problem for
No
Keiko: and Ken, I may be unclanned, but I can still tell No what you
said.
Lark: she did get drunk yesterday. Auggie made her
Keiko: I don't care if you don't tell him, I will.
Lark: and she did kill auggie twice
Kendrik: it will be a problem for No if he finds out, and Hey she is a
drunk, she just has to stop listening to aug
Keiko: My sister is NOT a drunk.
Kendrik: like I said, I am not telling No
Malorn: is auggie a bad guy?
Lark: not when she made it know public
Keiko: I am telling No.
Dagney: And next on "The Days of our Legend..."
Kendrik: So You are gonna tell No that Aug got Moira drunk?
Lark: I thought is was "As legend Turns"
Keiko: No I am going to relate what you said about Moira and No.
Kendrik: well, then my only recourse will be to tell No why I said that
Keiko: no dearie, your only recourse will
be to go 'blub blub' or 'bleed quietly'
Kendrik: look, Moira has a drinking prob, she needs to learn control
Dagney: ack!
Keiko: It is none of your business ken.
Kendrik: It is when she blabs about it all over chat
Keiko: It still is not your place to go broadcasting stuff about Moira.
Keiko: Or No
Kendrik: oh, but she can broadcast drunkeness all over the place?
Kendrik: I have not a problem with them, I have a problem with you,
talking of my wife knave
Keiko: eh? who's a knave?
Kendrik: you
Keiko: I sorta thought that was a manly sort of term.
Ego: Knavette?
Keiko: You calling me a man, Ken?
Kendrik: hmm, the term I would use is not liked on this mud, not nice
Keiko: Use what ever term you think you can Kenny poo.
Kendrik: but that would be insulting to the wolves in Eire anyway
Kendrik: I will not stop, this wench has insulted my wife
Keiko: *peer* Knave? Wench? Gee you guys must have graduated 3rd grade.
Kendrik: Keiko is real big nothing; she cannot clan
Keiko: Ooooh wow. So I can't be anything if I am not clanned? Gosh.
Kendrik: well, it is about as brave as a unclanned char calling the DL
a guppy
Keiko: Ken you aren't worth clanning over....
Keiko has since apologized to all concerned for her misconstruing of
Kendrick's remark regarding the paternity of his unborn child (well,
almost all...she missed Lark). Apparently Keiko got carried away with
the rhetoric of the moment. In turn, Kendrick apologized to Moira for
calling her a drunk and spent days searching for the snowcone that she
demanded as a sign of penance. Even so, all sorts of nasty after shocks
continued to echo around Legend..some folks even started to speculate
whether the Dark Lord might not have chosen to er....sow his oats closer
to home, so to speak (in other words, had the Dark Lord called on an
Anti instead of Lark?). And why were Augustus and Moira, that would-be
succubus, spending so much time together anyway? At any rate, it seems
that the whole mess probably won't do much good for the (late?)
friendship between Lark and Moira. In response to all the assorted
nastiness that has occurred, Lark declared "I am sorry for everything
that happened with Moira...I can't take it back or make it up. I am
goin' on with my life..I am going to try to get my life back on track
and raise a child with the man I love."
Keiko was involved in still more high drama this past week, though not
in person. Apparently, Malorn, of the recently sucked out soul, said
something nasty about Keiko, and her good friend Peleg took exception to
it. Various threats were publicly exchanged on chat; the result being
that they held a duel. Since Peleg won, Malorn had to apologize for
whatever it was that he said.
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VARIOUS ANNOUNCEMENTS
Sir Crowe and Willow were wed this past week at a ceremony presided over
by Parrilyn. Other newlyweds include Sir Kendrick and Lark, who were
married at an impromptu service conducted by Llew (they assure their
friends that they'll have a more formal ceremony at a later date). This
round of Knightly matrimony is rounded off by Dominic's recent
announcement that Lirra had accepted his proposal of marriage.
Ptah reports that Branwen & Aneirin & Aramis are back! And, he notes,
"we had a visit from Moonpile, the guy who got us all into mudding in
the first place..."
On a more mournful note, it is your editor's melancholy duty to report
that passing hence of Khelleck from among us into the Hall of Legends.
Khelleck, who achieved level 50 some time months ago and led the Knights
for nearly a year, is a well known and respected figure on Legend. He
will be missed greatly.
Dagney, that Silver Bard, also chose to end her Legend career. Her going
hence was followed by a big celebration (a Legend form of the
traditional wake). Word has it that Imur inherited her legendary black
net stockings. She too will be greatly missed by many of us here.
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