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Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jim Wellington<\/p>\n Jul 27, 2001<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Okay,<\/p>\n I gotta be outta my mind to start another eGroup \/ eList, right?<\/p>\n This one’s special.<\/p>\n I’ve been working on a Role Playing Universe for ten years.<\/p>\n ((Ansir Evokateur Working Style?))<\/p>\n “Gamers” can go off and kill things. Role players can hang out and If I’m in as “Rocky” (TaleRocker) and you’re in the room with me The game system (SlashMUD) has been under development by Koryn Might have to hook with a Mac Friendly web provider… (he shrugs).<\/p>\n But anyway.<\/p>\n I woke up with a friendly feeling spirit hovering over me (a ball Heaven Help Us. It’s almost a Reality,<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n = = = = =<\/span><\/p>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n My first really original “Armour”:<\/p>\n {Background:}<\/p>\n ***Tiger Spiders are intelligent spiders who can’t speak to us, but They have been hunted to near extinction by Sectoids.<\/p>\n (***Sectoids are Insect-Human Hybrids that were developed, in ***Tiger Spiders “had an epiphany” when they realized they would Spider Silk Auras will be available to all races as part of a ===== =====<\/p>\n Enjoy?<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n = = = = =<\/span><\/p>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Races Available:<\/p>\n “Elvish” (Non-Faer) “Faer Races” “Furry” (With Claws) “Qaeglan” (“Elvish ((Humanoids)) with Wings and Talons) “Reptilian” “Exo-Skeletal” (May be able to use stingers and ‘Webbing’) “Trollish” “Impossible To Classify” \ud83d\ude42 +=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=<\/p>\n “Rumoured Races”:<\/p>\n *Metamorphs *Watchers<\/p>\n +=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=++=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=+=<\/p>\n [* Qaeglan-Hawks, Tiger-Spiders, Metamorphs and Watchers, will only **Dryads came with the software that is being developed. They’re part Tune in later for details or go to Start dreaming,<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n The reason Aerendel has so many diverse natives and visitors:<\/p>\n Mythology:<\/p>\n During the final years of “The First Wars of Magick” animosities The First wars ended in a stalemate and many members of the Shanti and her friends became so involved with nurturing their That ‘Pocket Dimension’ or Anomaly developed sentience itself. The ‘Last Wars of Magick’ (so named in the same spirit that many The Brotherhood’s ‘Master Race’ the Ghardra, appeared at the Back to the LenJaelienne’s, while rounding up their refugees, When they emerged from their cave they thought they might be the What had happened:<\/p>\n When it looked like the alliance of the Ghardra, Drax, and Which caused a commotion in the great beyond. The Children of She supervised the re-establishment of civilization on the L’Haeren was tall, blond, had pointed ears and an inward, After they proved themselves more than worthy she gave them the When Shanti got sick of life in the material world, she ‘went ((* Shanti went on to become the Founder of the religious sect most Tell me to get some rest, will ya?<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n Sigh, what am I doing still awake?<\/p>\n Any of you with any talent are here-by drafted. (well, more like Any non-stolen graphics of anything even remotely related to This list is yours as well as mine. I only evoked it. It’s a But- jump in and take over.<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n <\/a> I’ve been busy.<\/p>\n [[[ “npc’s” are Non Player Characters, sometimes referred to as Healing skill stuff.<\/p>\n Healers might automatically “Attract” wounded NPCs to heal.<\/p>\n {{ I’m thinking of a Multi-pathed route through Newbie lands \/ sign: +———————————————————–+ (North, South, East, West, Northeast, Up or Down)<\/p>\n Newbie Healers would find [read] “Wounded children, animals, men, A ‘stressed out healer’ would ‘greet them’ and ‘shout’, There would only be one ‘real’ “Wounded” npc {of the all npc’s in the area \/zone would generate \/ be set to “is in low level healers would have a one in three chance to the healer npc would continually encourage “Don’t give up, any wise guy who tried to kill the wounded npcs would be When most npc’s are either healed to better than 50% of their The first healed npc would grant the newbie healer a Other npcs would give them a couple coppers, a silver or two (successful training for level 5 could give the healer a +=+=+=+=+<\/p>\n (I gave ‘Clerics’ three real choices: “Healer” “Questor” and In this context: *** Shamen are a very special class of healer \/ magick users as +=+=+=+=+<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n Jim’s Web Site Now = <http:\/\/www.crosswinds.net\/~qaeglan\/<\/a>> Temporarily? +=+=+=+=+<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n Hi,<\/p>\n “Dryads” came with the software package I’m working with. At Dryads are nearly full sized, sensitive, delicate and much Dryads have been rumoured to be a race of sterile (but extremely I’m thinking (uht-oh, dangerous sign), Dryads are not all women I might revive the Satyr race that came with the package. I (Feedback appreciated)….<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Looky what I found? (slightly esoteric)<\/p>\n coded in like 1995 with a “teach yourself to program in C” book *** New to programming? Do not assume this code is good. I I’ll explain some details about the variable strings after the code.<\/p>\n +++++<\/p>\n {{{Two Routines listed here: “duh()” and “shapechange()” }}}<\/p>\n duh() \/* I wanna hear Mac voices, “Victoria” or “Cellos” sing this return; shapechange() else { printf(“\\n\\n You can ‘Morph’ into the following shapes : “);<\/p>\n morphChoice() \/* I forgot what this does. *\/<\/p>\n printf(“\\n\\n\\t 1. %s”, raceA); \/* Either Dhalgger or Faer-Elf *? fflush(stdn0; switch (go) \/* Apply choice to visible strings step one. *\/ printf(“\\n You feel your stomach pulled inside out and your expMorph++; \/* Get credit for morphing. (a meaningless stat, namelineRaceObvOcc(); \/* reassemble the line that shows name, printf(nameline); \/* print the new name line so the character fflush(stdin); \/* clean out the stacked up variable memory pause(); }<\/p>\n +++++<\/p>\n It’s Eleven Oh Four, do you know where your parents are?<\/p>\n Okay. Dhalggers and Faer-Elves got to choose their morphable Dhalggers ‘Normal’ form was somewhere between “Goofy” (Mickey =====raceB choices:<\/p>\n Dhalggers could choose from a pure dog shape for their raceB Faer-Elves could turn into cats:<\/p>\n Alley Cat Calico Cat Siamese Cat Persian Cat =====raceC choices:<\/p>\n Dhalggers’ raceC came from in-game humanoids:<\/p>\n Ottahrian Human Highe-Elf Forest-Elf Dark-Elf Faer-Elves (the hyphen’s there because a space signalled the blue Faer Cat green Faer Cat red Faer Cat purple Faer Faer Elves were encouraged to be as strange as they could be. C code for robots’ fighting routine tomorrow? (I think it’s all here)<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Everybody, Anybody,<\/p>\n First the good news?<\/p>\n Some of the code to the character generation program(s) Has I’ve found the print-outs of two of the 5 the text files Bad News?<\/p>\n I still have to dig through a zillion boxes to find parts 1, 4 & 5.<\/p>\n And (get this) Part 2 is 42 pages printed in a 5 point font Now the fun part.<\/p>\n Each “monster” has a list of weapons it can use.<\/p>\n Each “weapon type” has its distinct style of being used. Most weapons hit you on one of your body parts (arms, legs, Magic and Psionic weapons hit you in your mind, imagination, You could suffer ‘Freeze damage from cold spells, fire damage (I forgot about some of the ‘gonzers’ I invented to attack some of my weirdest monsters were “12-step-nahtzi-gonzers”, 12-step-nahtzi-gonzers had a weapon called a co-dependence So if you were attacked by a 12-step-nahtzi-gonzer you might read:<\/p>\n — The 12-step-nahtzi-gonzer projects at you with its co-dependence. — The politician-gonzer whines at you with its promises.<\/p>\n *** You suffer 5 points of gullibility damage.<\/p>\n — The sponge-head-gonzer sucks at you with its brain drain.<\/p>\n *** You suffer x points of stupidity damage.<\/p>\n — The farking-idjit-gonzer whines at you with its bullship.<\/p>\n *** You suffer x points of tolerance damage.<\/p>\n Gonzers didn’t die when you disabled them, they ‘shorted out’ I laughed my butt off searching the scene after a fight with a a co-dependence You could pick these ‘items’ up and carry them off market and I suppose things could really get nuts if half a dozen players Oh gawd, the possibilities of waking up in a cartoon world just insert module, “Hallucination Land”<\/p>\n where all these sick characters attack you with bullships and worse?<\/p>\n grinning,<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jim Wellington<\/p>\n Aug 1, 2001<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Good Morning,<\/p>\n I was going to say something about putting up a sign whe characters But I checked and I already did that.<\/p>\n I also mentioned that characters who want to be healers don’t have to That’s going to be complicated, but worth it.<\/p>\n I’ve heard from reliable sources that your soul doesn’t know the (shrug, That might be true.)<\/p>\n here’s a character I rolled in a version of the character generator I Finished Product: showing all the choices made while rolling the +++++<\/p>\n This was taylored for an 80 column display: If you have a proportional You are Ducky McAllister, a male Qaeglan-Ravenna Scout. *Cha You are 18 years old, have a wirey build.You do have night vision. “He seems aware of everything around him, but his heart is elsewhere.”<\/p>\n +++++<\/p>\n The “You are” stuff would be replaced by “He is” when another character A lot of the text in he “look” lines can be changed.<\/p>\n The ‘Obvious Occupation’ (Scout, in the first line) would be a sub The Stat headings line and the stat line were broken up by the fact Stats:<\/p>\n Hea is health (Most role playing games call tha “Con” for constitution.<\/p>\n Str is strength<\/p>\n Dex = dexerity<\/p>\n Agi = agility<\/p>\n Per = perception<\/p>\n Int = intelligence<\/p>\n Wiz = wisdom<\/p>\n Wil = Will power<\/p>\n I.S. = inner strength<\/p>\n M.P. = Magical Potential<\/p>\n Voi = voice<\/p>\n App = appearance<\/p>\n Cha = charisma.<\/p>\n there will be other stats that will be invisible, Attack bonuses, the stats themselves run from “useless” (real bad) to “unbelievable” useless, pitiful, low, average, fair, good, great, excellent, superb Each race (sub species in the Qaeglans’ case) have their own age at The ‘wirey’ build description above is one of several possibilities for night vision is something that most members of certain races are born Each race has clearly defined minimum and maximum heights (has no Weight is a complex computation of race, health and srength. How much a Sprites are tiny, they don’t weigh much. even at their racial max in Skin colours and textures will be a range of choices within that race’s Hair colours and styles will be a racial deal (races with no hair will wings and fur and racial specific appendages (Spider: “You have six Each character will have an outer ‘garment’ which they can change at If a character has chosen a religion, they can show or hide a tattoo or There will be a short mood indicator, or individualization line with a And, finally, the bottom line is one the players can fill in with 80 Elders will be able to look at any character without that character I gotta check something and then send this off…<\/p>\n Take Care…<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n This linking the accounts business is a pain in the butt. Nevermind Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Jim Wellington<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Aug 1, 2001<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Cathi,<\/p>\n Yay! Cathi’s here.<\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n P.S. So far the actual game server can be logged into with a telnet If any of you don’t have any idea what role playing is all about MUSHes are more likely to be entirely role play than MUDs.<\/p>\n (I’ve been slightly cooked in the brain department lately for Wide grin:<\/p>\n >em bows graciously.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n I read “You bows graciously” “say” is another good command. If you’re logged in as a ravishing >”say This isn’t quite as complicated as I thought.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n the server routines will print to your telnet client : “You say, >hug cathi<\/p>\n >Rocky hugs Cathi.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n Until next time….<\/p>\n Oh, I got a message from yahoog about them thinkin they were gonna Rocky waves to “E”.<\/p>\n =====<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n<\/div>\n Hi,<\/p>\n I was pretty happy with this idea when it hit me:<\/p>\n See what you can pick up by reading through what happens when <grin><\/p>\n Jim<\/p>\n P.S. the little map above the text looks best in a non proportional +++++<\/p>\n Underwater Mer caves at Ottarian Village:<\/p>\n (PL = pool Ca = Cave)<\/p>\n ———- 524. “This is the ‘deep end’ of the pool.Older children, and, <<<At “Go Cave” from Space #524 you get this message: “You dive deeper and deeper, pull yourself through {automatically puts you in space # 559. 559. UNDERWATER CAVE << Go Pool.: “You dive strongly and pull yourself Go to message for space # 524 >><\/p>\n 560. Underwater Cave 561. Underwater Cave. 562. Underwater Cave 563. Underwater Cave > Look Dress: “This wedding dress is woven of fine silk<\/p><\/blockquote>\n and lace. The woman it was made for must be about five > Look Dagger: “This Dagger seems to be of tempered steel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n with a glowing blue gem in its hilt. The hilt is shaped > Look Quill: “The quill looks like an ordinary quill, but<\/p><\/blockquote>\n wait- No. It’s carved of Mother of Pearl.”<\/p>\n > Touch Dress: This dress feels cool and smooth, but you<\/p><\/blockquote>\n feel an intense sadness that you suddenly feel could drive > Touch Dagger: This Dagger pulses warm and cold. The Gem<\/p><\/blockquote>\n seems to react to your hand. Then a searing pain cuts <\/a><\/a> > Touch Quill: “This quill has a fine and delicate feel.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n But then your mind fills with visions of betrayal and > Get Dress: “The dress vanishes as you reach for it, then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n reappears as your hand is withdrawn.”<\/p>\n > Get Dagger: “The dagger moves away from your hand, rises<\/p><\/blockquote>\n in the air pointed at your heart, then moves back to > Get Quill: “The quill vanishes as you reach for it,<\/p><\/blockquote>\n then reappears as you pull your hand away.”<\/p>\n > Look Book: “These words are written in blood:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n “Beloved, <\/a><\/a> > Touch book: “Feels like an ordinary book, but then your<\/p><\/blockquote>\n hand freezes, and your arm freezes, you fear your whole <\/a>> Get book: The book turns to dust and blows away. Then<\/p><\/blockquote>\n it becomes whole again as soon as you pull your hand back.<\/p>\n Obvious Exit: East<\/p>\n ============================================================<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n Expand Messages<\/i><\/p>\n Okay, I’m a total dork. I went to the mud site, read through the TMC Hugs, gang!<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
\ninteract in-character. Private Chat with one or many friends will be
\nmore than available. Instead of emoticons you’ll be able to type “flirt
\nKeri” and have everyone in the room see you bat your eyes at Keri.<\/p>\n
\nand “Parsley” you’ll read, “Rocky bats his eyes at Parsley.”<\/p>\n
\nGrant (“Doctor” Koryn Grant) and runs on a Mac OS. I May be able to run
\nit by getting myself a cable modem connection and keeping as spiffy and
\nfast a Mac (PPC \/ G3 or better \/ cheap fast iMac will work) dedicated
\nto sitting there, acting as a server.<\/p>\n
\nof white smokey ‘substance’? Asked if it was a lost soul, would it
\nplease leave. and when I was wondering if it was more like an
\ninspiration looking for somebody to inspire I couldn’t get back to
\nsleep and look where I am now?)<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>2Spider Silk Auras<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nmany of them are telepathic and can use common sign language. They
\nstand up to five feet ‘tall’ and may have a diameter of about six to
\neight feet. (I’ll work out the metrics shortly) They have rudimentary
\n‘hands’ and use their other six ‘legs’ to walk around. They have ‘feet’
\nthat are more like hooves than feet. They will be able to produce one
\nsuit of Tiger Suit Armour per game week (and be able to spit or shoot
\nwebbing at ‘targets’ once or twice a day, so they’ll be valuable
\nfriends, and an enormously rich possibility for Role Play. They will
\nhave stingers and will develop the ability to paralyze NPCs with
\nincreasing accuracy and will thusly enable ‘younger’ characters an
\nopportunity to gain a lot of experience very quickly. They will be
\nwatched closely, anybody who abuses their powers will discover his or
\nher character had developed a debilitating illness and lost half his or
\nher HP and webbing and stinging levels will reset to one any time they
\ntry to train for higher levels.<\/p>\n
\npre-written-history, by “The Brotherhood”. The Brotherhood (sometimes
\ncalled the Brotherhood of Power or the Brotherhood of Knowledge) was a
\nwill-to-power ‘alliance’ of very powerful beings [ members of “The
\nFirst Race”]. The Brotherhood tried several experiments to breed a
\nperfect slave race and Sectoids were one of their nearly successful
\n‘products’. Most Sectoids have a hive mentality and, while they find
\nmost sentient species inedible, they really really hate Mammals,
\nReptiles, and especially Flying species with every fiber in their
\nbeings.
\nA small but significant minority of Sectoids are born with
\nnear-human faces that are usually hideously malformed. These ‘ugly
\nones’ were either eaten or driven off by ‘True Sectoids’. Most of the
\nSectoids you will see in Aerendel are from this group. L’Haeren (the
\nNearly Immortal Prince of Aerendel) has promised sanctuary to any
\nmember of any species as long as they abide by the laws and customs of
\nthe Principality. Some Sectoids are truely grateful for this
\nacceptance, some are spies for their species.)<\/p>\n
\nhave to form an alliance with the ‘Two Legs’ or face total annihilation
\nas a species. Many Tiger Spiders are gifted “Psidahrians” (Extra-
\nSensory Types who can communicate with ESP and sometimes spend
\nlifetimes learning to control “Other Psycho-kinetic ‘Talents'”. The
\nfirst Tiger Spiders (Nicknamed as such because of the yellow and black
\nstripes on their legs) who contacted the ‘Two Legs’, brought them gifts
\nof Spider-Silk Armour (light weight, extremely protective, and better
\nthan average in resiliency\/longevity). The armour is so light, one
\nDruid commented, “it feels more like an aura than any armour.” and that
\nnickname stuck.<\/p>\n
\n“Newbie Kit” that everyone will find in their possession when they
\nwander into Aerendel. It is basically invisible, and so protective that
\nit might make gaming boring for hard-core gamers. {Throw it away or
\nsell it (when shops start buying things) and equip yourself rather
\nnicely. Then go fight the monsters by following the trail away from the
\n“peaceniks and assorted weirdoes” who don’t want to play with swords
\nand kill each other for a living.}
\n{{ We are also looking into an amulet that will turn off ‘hunger
\nand thirst’ so pure Role Players won’t have to dehydrate and starve to
\ndeath and find themselves automatically evicted from the world \/ game
\nin the middle of a meeting of the ‘Council of Sentient Species’ or
\nwhatever. }}<\/p>\n
\nThis actually came to me in a dream I was standing in a field and a
\nhuge spider sent me the message, “Don’t look if you’re afraid of
\nspiders.” and a stream of knowledge that translates to: “We’re not
\ncrazy about helping your kind, but if you’ll sign a treaty with us we
\ncan teach you spells your kind has forgotten and aid some of you in
\ndeveloping your psychic talents.”
\nThen wandered into a novel I was writing very shortly after that
\ndream. (I finished writing that novel in rough form in like three
\nmonths.) Tiger Spiders appeared ‘out of nowhere’, took over a Palace\/
\nFortress that had been a prison used by the ‘Krim alliance’ (Sectoids,
\nTrolls, Drax and a horde of (weak and stupid) Ghardra, led by a
\nGhardran Arch-Mage (a very dangerous creature. One or two can send a
\nwhole planet back into the dark ages.)
\nThe Castle is now “Spiders Palace” and guards “The Rift” (only
\ndecent pass through the Aeren Mountains.)<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>3Available Races: The short list.<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nHighe-Elf Forest-Elf Mer Half-Elf Dark-Elf Dehlvarian Human<\/p>\n
\nSprite Dryad Faer-Elf Dhalgger<\/p>\n
\nFaaxen Khatzen Ursan Ottahrian<\/p>\n
\nQaeglan-Dove Qaeglan-Ravenna *Qaeglan-Hawk<\/p>\n
\nDrax Gremlin Ghardran<\/p>\n
\nSectoid *Tiger-Spider<\/p>\n
\nRock-Troll<\/p>\n
\nYmmp<\/p>\n
\nbe available as “Avatar Races”.
\nThis means players will have to earn the privilege of playing one of
\nthese characters by proving themselves to be Conscientious and
\nCompassionate\/Intelligent enough not to want to ruin the game part of
\nit for others.] Vampires might also be a possibility.]<\/p>\n
\nof our mythology. I got infected with a few ideas concerning them,
\nand kept them viable as a player race.<\/p>\n
\n<http:\/\/www.crosswinds.net\/~qaeglan\/AerInfoGame.html<\/a>> for better, but
\nstill sketchy, details.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>4The Anomaly<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nbetween ‘The Children of Light” and “The Brotherhood” became so
\ndeadly (whole planetary systems were vaporized) that a young but
\nhighly evolved member of the First Race, *Shanti, and several of her
\nmost compassionate friends, feared that the whole material universe
\ncould come to an abrupt and premature end. They created a ‘Pocket
\nDimension’ and molded it into a corridor through which they would be
\nable to help as many living creatures escape what they feared was the
\nultimate Armageddon as possible. (more than a million years ago).
\nThey refined the dimension to the point where it could actually sense
\nthe compassionate aspirations of loving beings and open ‘wild
\nportals’ to times and places where those compassionate beings were in
\nthe most danger and ‘auto morph’ its interior to appear ‘friendly’
\nand search for safer, more idyllic times and places where those ‘good
\npeople’ would be let go.<\/p>\n
\nFirst Race took a look at their devastation and abandoned the
\nmaterial universes altogether. Others stayed around to aid or tamper
\nwith the emerging Elvish races. It became extremely important to many
\nof them that a balance be maintained so the worlds would never again
\ncome that close to extinguishing themselves.<\/p>\n
\nfavourite young races that they all but forgot about their Emergency
\nescape plan.<\/p>\n
\nIt also developed a longing for company and created what we now call,
\n‘The Faer Realms’ where it tampered with physiology, biology and
\nphysics to give some creatures that it really liked, the ability to
\nfly and live for very long stretches of time. The Anomaly discovered
\nhow to rejuvenate many of its favourites, helped them develop extreme
\nlongevity at the dna level, formed areas within itself that if felt
\nwould most entice its favourites to remain within its boundaries and
\nkeep it entertained and ‘busy’. But then it felt the re-emergence of
\ndangers outside and focused its attention outward into the
\n‘elsewhere’, where it felt the need or desire to educate and speed up
\nthe evolution of younger, pre-sentient races. (it could always ‘tap
\ninto the wisdom’ of members of the ‘First Race’ and communicated,
\ntransferred information through dreams and visions. Often it was
\nunable to communicate perfectly in these ways. But it liked some of
\nthe combinations of ideas and misconceptions its ‘citizens’ came up
\nwith and developed a fondness for absurdity as well as compassion.)<\/p>\n
\ncalled World War I on Earth, ‘The War To End all Wars’) Emerged on
\nthe planet where Shanti had built and molded the Anomaly. (Theories
\ninclude the possibility that members of the Brotherhood still in the
\nMaterial Universes felt the power of the Anomaly growing and became
\nvery interested in gaining access and possibly using it to go back in
\ntime and win the original ‘Wars’ and set themselves up as the
\nvainglorious rulers of every Dimension and ‘reality’ they could gain
\na foothold in.) Shanti (Still alive in her original form, those
\nthousands of years old (and still looked like an 18 year old) found
\nthe Highe-Elf LenJaelienne family, saw lots of goodness and ‘mensch’
\nqualities there and inspired and led them to the spot where she had
\ncreated the Anomaly. This took them twenty years, as they were
\nrounding up animals and out-castes from even younger races (Forest
\nElves, Delvahrians, Mer, even Dark-Elves, Drax and Sectoids who had
\nno taste for the war and\/or had rebelled against the racist
\nmegalomaniacal policies of most members of their respective races. (A
\nrelatively new race, called Humans, had emerged and reproduced at an
\ninsane rate and had all but claimed the entire planet for
\nthemselves.)<\/p>\n
\nbeginning of this ‘Last Wars Of Magick’ time and threatened the
\nhumans, and everyone else, with total extinction. The Drax and
\nSectoids signed on with the Ghardra ( The Ghardra (singular=
\nGhardran) are race in which less than one percent hold all the power,
\ndo most of the thinking and plotting, and rule the other 99% by
\n‘keeping them down’ and ‘under control’ in deplorable conditions that
\nmade their existence nearly impossible.)<\/p>\n
\nthe husband and wife became separated, believed their spouses dead,
\nremarried humans, had children, lost their second spouses and then
\ndiscovered each other when they set sail for a ‘promised land’ that
\nbecame Aerendel. They reached what they thought was the Island of
\nAerendel during a horrendous storm and followed an insanely
\npersistent dove up into the hills where they discovered a cave and
\nherded everyone they could save into the safety of that cave before
\nthe storm to end all storms changed the face of their planet.<\/p>\n
\nonly sentient life on their planet.<\/p>\n
\nSectoids, along with Trollish conscripts (Collectively known as the
\n‘Krim’) just might take the planet, Shanti remembered her Dimension
\nand went to rediscover it, and found an abundance of amazing new
\nintelligence creatures living within. Ursans (Bear like) Khatzen (Cat
\nLike) Faaxen (Fox like) Ottahrians (“Otterly delightful creatures”)
\nand many of the Faer Races emerged for the first time to what had
\nonce been the planet their ancestors had come from. They absolutely
\nloved the ‘real world’, which felt ‘fresh and new’ (and ‘dangerous’
\nwas not in their vocabulary, but ‘thrilling’ was. Shanti explained a
\nfew things about the danger to this world, led these new creatures
\nback through the Anomaly to a very safe time and imported military
\ngeniuses and weaponsmaster to teach them the nasty arts of saving a
\nplanet from complete annihilation. (Which later earned her the
\nnickname “The Avataress of Peace, Love and Carrying a very big
\nstick”. She then led a fully trained army out of the Anomaly, into
\nthe middle of the fracas, Was amazed herself by the appearance of
\nQaeglans (citizens of another world, which they had freely shared
\nwith Sectoids (who had been able to invade and use the Anomaly) and
\nwere repaid for their kindness by being declared enemies and hunted
\ntoward extinction in their own world, found the Anomaly and flew in,
\nsaw the hated Sectoids trying to ruin another planet, flew back,
\ngrabbed most of their people, and their families, flew out and and
\njumped into the fracas (taloned feet first). Shanti’s forces and the
\nQaeglans won. The Brotherhood was so overjoyed they tried to destroy
\nthe planet.<\/p>\n
\nLight, The Brotherhood, and the ‘disinterested’ held a
\nmulti-dimensional conference, re-established the balance- sent spies
\ninto each other’s camps and severely reprimanded Shanti for ‘Creating
\nthe problem in the first place’ and made her a ‘prisoner’ of that
\nplanet for centuries.<\/p>\n
\nplanet, which had a good head start, seeing as her people could run
\nthrough the Anomaly, find a book on technology, or even entice
\nengineers or inventors back to her world. This prompted another
\ninter-dimensional conference, in which it was decided that she would
\neither turn the Anomaly over to a committee of three highly place
\nmembers of a Triumvirate (each member appointed by the most prominent
\nmen in their Groups’ hierarchies) or be hunted down and uncreated.
\nShe basically gave them the finger and disappeared, reappeared with a
\nroom full of White Dragons and told them to go ahead and try- they
\nbacked down. She gave the White Dragons the run of the Anomaly and
\nwent back to Aerendel where she flittered about disguised as a dove
\nand took an interest in the LenJaelienne step brothers.<\/p>\n
\nmystical nature. Haemahr was large, muscular, solid, dark haired,
\nthickly bearded, and had the soul of a brooding, brawling, genius
\n(musician) who lost his heart every other week and flew off the
\nhandle at the mere whisper of injustice anywhere. They made each
\nother feel incomplete, like they had totally ignored the path the
\nother had embraced and both felt like their parents loved the other
\none more acutely. But they loved each other, defended each other
\nad-nauseum to their less tolerant friends and once or twice a year
\nfeuded like cats and dogs.<\/p>\n
\nsecrets of near immortality (L’Haeren practices his secret routines
\nevery weekend and remains looking like a twenty five year old.
\nHaemahr ages dramatically week by week and then goes into a month
\nlong trance and re-emerges, looking like a youth again. He’s been
\nnicknamed ‘Father time’, goes into his trance for the last month of
\nwinter and re-emerges with the first days of spring.<\/p>\n
\nbeyond’ and discovered that she’d a direct line to the heart of the
\nCreator all along and had been a willing agent of the Creator’s will.
\n(Many members of the First Race denied or doubted the existence of
\nany single Creator and will never believe her accounts in this area.
\nShe voluntarily allowed them to try to uncreate her several times and
\nthey have never succeeded. This, they believe, is ‘spooky’ but they’d
\nrather believe she discovered some kind of parlor trick than believe
\nher accounts of worlds ‘beyond beyond’.<\/p>\n
\noften referred to as “The Church of Peace, Love and Freedom”))
\n[‘shanti’ actually means “peace” in Hindi (and maybe Sanscrit)] )<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>5Artists and Artwork Wanted.<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\npleaded with, cajoled, whined at and\/or bribed with loads of stuff
\nthat money can’t touch (or isn’t interested in?).<\/p>\n
\nanything I’ve hinted at in the racial descriptions (or will hint at
\nhere.) can be sent to the list, or popped into files that are related
\nto this list. They don’t give us a whole universe of megs but a bunch
\nof stuff can go into the file section.<\/p>\n
\nbrain child. All kinds of children grow beyond their parents’ wildest
\ndreams. (which might be difficult in my case. I have some rather wild
\ndreams.)<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>6Healer Characters and ‘Wounded’ npcs<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\n‘monsters’ or Mob’s (as in ‘mobiles’) ]]]
\n[[[ “pc’s” are Player’s Characters. Sometimes referred to as alter
\negos of “Me, if I could actually live my dreams.” ]]]<\/p>\n
\n‘Training Grounds’?. –> }}<\/p>\n
\n|
\n|
\n| Choose from the Paths ahead : |
\n|
\n|
\n| Healers’ Utopia — Up [u] ^ |
\n| Fighters’ Training – Down [d] v |
\n| Save the world from Crazy Robots–North [n]–> |
\n| <– Magick Students, head South [s ] |
\n| Artisans and Professionals head [w] west |
\n| Artists \/ Musicians \/ Poets head East [e]–> |
\n| Psi? use the only other listed option [ne] |
\n+———————————————————–+<\/p>\n
\nwomen, and monsters of all races, all desperate for healing.”<\/p>\n
\n“Thank goodness you’re here- pick a patient and [“hea [target]”]” (if
\nthe npc is a wounded child type “hea child” without the quotes.)<\/p>\n
\nnewbie’s race} in the room (generated by whomever entered) if
\nmultiple newbies of the same race stumbled in at once the ‘Stressed
\nout healer’ npc would shout, ‘Count the number of wounded %npc name
\n(s) here, are and if there are 3, type [“hea 3 [target]”] (((“Or type
\n“say [text] and press return or enter to ‘talk’ and choose who heals
\nwhich character”)))<\/p>\n
\nserious trouble” and rigged so as not to auto-heal themselves.<\/p>\n
\ndo any good at all with their initial efforts.<\/p>\n
\nkeep trying!”<\/p>\n
\nfragged by the healer’s staff or a bolt of potent lightening hurled
\nby the gods. or whomever. “You’re dead, your name and isp address has
\nbeen recorded
\nin the log, try that again and you will be barred from this game.”<\/p>\n
\n“normal”, or
\nreached 30 H.P. (whichever is easier) they would “stumble to their
\nfeet” and give their benefactor a couple coins, explain, “It’s all I’ve
\ngot- take it, you’ve earned it.” and shuffle off to recover somewhere
\n(the “Wounded” tag might change to “recovering”) the npc healer would
\nsay, “sometimes they insist that you accept heirloom jewels or valuable
\nitems you can either donate to a worthy charity, keep, or sell.”<\/p>\n
\n‘level up’ in healing, moan, and announce [his or her self] to be a high
\nranking healer who got too close to the action. (and possibly give
\nthe healer newbie a generic healer’s staff* or something (* & no, not
\na nurse or two and a stressed out typist agonizing her way through
\narchaic databases… but a stick with a medical symbol on it or
\nsomething)<\/p>\n
\nand maybe a silver dagger with an emerald in the hilt for good
\nmeasure.
\nAt the end of the ‘newbie training program’ a master healer
\nwould touch the character and: “You feel incredibly good as massive
\ncurrents of healing energy course through your body, healing,
\nrelaxing and invigorating you- to the point where you begin to wonder
\nif physical love or drugs could ever match this high.” or something
\nsimilar.<\/p>\n
\ncustom (bonded) weapon or device that would come in the color of the
\ncharacter’s favourite religious sect (grey for agnostics?) (various
\nsects might have better results when healing) (the Church of Peace
\nand Love would certainly have more dedicated and powerful healers
\nthan the Church of Hatred, Fear and Death, whose founder is often
\nreferred to as “Stupid ghost, him think him really am some kind of
\ngod or somping. Him nuffing!” Muhdagus spits on the ground.) & If
\nthe healer character trains with that gift readied, The gift would
\ndevelop magical properties like an effortless teleport spell that
\ncould yank endangered PCs out of harm’s way in a hurry.)<\/p>\n
\n“Protector”)
\n(they could call themselves Priests, Monks, Nuns, Priestesses or
\nanything within reason. I detest censorship, but since I’m planning
\nto have kid-specific regions, anybody calling a character a ‘whore
\nfor the gods’ would feel like a snowball in hell if they tried to
\ninvade a kid’s area.) I’d want to find some dedicated parent type to
\nhang out in the kids’ areas (invisibly?) and monitor everything that
\nhappens there.)<\/p>\n
\nHealers were the strongest in the healing arts, could
\nbash away with maces and blunt weapons or be given a ‘staff’ at
\ncharacter generation that would make them almost invulnerable to PC
\nattacks (80% plus defence bonus) the staff would shatter if ever used
\nto attack another PC.
\nQuestors weren’t quite Paladins. They were Religious
\ndevotees with weapons skills. (often sent on trumped up quests
\nbecause local authorities found them obnoxious for some reason or
\ndidn’t like the way members of the opposite (or same) sex looked at
\nthem during meditation or something. They had sharp weapon skills
\n(could choose actually, but sharp was the most likely).
\nProtectors were the religious Martial Artists. (secular
\nmartial artists ‘paid more’ for advancement. Religious Martial Artists
\nsupposedly took vows of poverty and ‘were expected to turn over and
\npayment for their services to their church or sect.’
\n**And Healers earn 3 bonus Religious Points (toward stuff
\nlike charisma improvement etc) points every time they cast a healing
\nspell. or used their ‘hands on’ healing skills. Questors would earn 2
\npoints. Protectors earn 1 Religious Bonus Point for every
\nhealing spell they cast. \/ healing act they commit ((independent of experience
\npoints)).<\/p>\n
\nare “Seekers”
\n**** A Psi-Healer would be pretty wimpy at first but develop
\nphenomenal healing talent later on.<\/p>\n
\nor <http:\/\/www.angelfire.com\/vt\/aerendel<\/a>> if crosswinds
\ntakes like, forever to load…
\nAOL IM IDs = “TaleRocker” & “Aerendel”
\nYahoo Instant Messenger (and MSN IM)= jaerendel (rarely there)
\nICQ (?) Aerendel, #115145390, *** But I might never bother with
\nICQ — 3 invitations to sex chat in the first five minutes I was on?
\nfrom people I never heard of?
\nWriters Check out:
\n<http:\/\/www.yahoogroups.com\/group\/CreativeWritersWorkshop<\/a>>
\nRole Players \/ MUDders MUSHers: <http:\/\/groups.yahoo.com\/group\/Aerendel\/<\/a>><\/p>\n\n
<\/a>7Dryads<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nfirst, I thought another flying race would be over kill. but..I took
\na look at their description in the internal files of the game and
\nthey average about four feet tall? How could I kill off a race whose
\nonly fault is being beautiful and misunderstood?<\/p>\n
\nmaligned winged creatures who have inhabited the ‘Faer Realms’ (and
\nlots of Earth’s mythology) for millenniae. (Aerendel quite often
\nconnects to Earth, but is not ‘here’, it’s where all the good hippies
\nwent when the yuppies took over down here on Earth.) (they sent me
\nback here to recruit you.)<\/p>\n
\nattractive) females who steal babies from anyone else and love them
\nto death, bring them up elvish (yay!).<\/p>\n
\n(guys may appear almost as beautiful as the women) and most men would
\navoid humans entirely because they’re accused of being perverts on
\nsight and considered trophy game by most testosterone poisoned idjits
\nof lots of races. And well, yes Dryads have rescued many many human
\nand ‘other’ children, from abusive families. They may have a
\nlarcenous streak, don’t understand human economics (who does?) and
\nhave no idea why they shouldn’t have every beautiful thing they lay
\ntheir eyes on. They keep their children well hidden, because they’ve
\nvery often been raped and slaughtered on sight. They may revel in
\nsensuality and sexuality and not be the sort of people you’d want
\nyour children to hang around with, because, face it- How’re ya gonna
\nkeep em down on the farm after they’ve been ‘pixilated’ and\/or
\nseduced by gorgeous, innocent to a fault, perfectly formed, creatures
\nwith silken butterfly shaped wings they can wrap around you, tickle
\nyour wildest fancy and revel in whatever you discover in yourself
\nthat you can share with them (before they fly away and look for
\nsomething else to tickle their fancies)? The truth could be that they
\nabsolutely adore everyone they see and constantly need new inner or
\nouter worlds to explore. (an ENFP race?) They wither away and die
\nwhen trapped by controlling lovers. And have no use for most human
\nconcepts and constraints?<\/p>\n
\nmight turn one of the other races into “Squirrels”.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>8C code for yer basic race change operations. (don’t try this at home, kids…)<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nin one hand and a pile of reference manuals on the floor next to me.<\/p>\n
\nlearned with this generic C compiler (which promised it could handle
\nfiles as big as they could ever get and went app-solutely ape shit if
\nyou got anywhere near 1 meg in size.) might have had other
\nidiosyncrasies not common to many compilers. I just retyped the
\nstuff below here. (Now, July 2001), wearing bifocals that I’m not
\nused to, and it is part of a larger program that might have had some
\nbizarre “includes” way up at the top somewhere. ***<\/p>\n
\none to me….*\/
\n{
\nprintf(“\\n (You just had a brain fart : \\*You’ve sent me a message
\nI cannot compute.\\*) “);<\/p>\n
\n}<\/p>\n
\n{
\nif ((race != Dhalgger) && (race != Faer-Elf)) \/* If you can’t
\nmorph, this won’t work.*\/
\n{ duh(); return; }<\/p>\n
\nprintf(“\\n\\t 2. %s”, raceB); \/* Animal form. *\/
\nprintf(“\\n\\t 3. %s”, raceC); \/* Dhalgger’s humanoid form or
\nFaer-Cat options. *\/
\nprintf(“\\n\\t (4. You can remain as you are.) : “);
\nprintf(“\\n\\n Please Choose [ 1-4] : “);<\/p>\n
\nscanf(“%d”, &go); \/* Get input. *\/<\/p>\n
\n{ case (1) : { raceNow = race1; apparentRace =
\nraceNow(raceName,raceA); break; }
\ncase (2) : { raceNow = race2; apparentRace =
\nraceNow(raceName,raceB); break; }
\ncase (3) : { raceNow = race3; apparentRace =
\nraceNow(raceName,raceC); break; }
\ncase (4) : { printf(“\\n Okay, you remain in your present
\nform.”); return; break; }
\n}<\/p>\n
\nnerves burn. “);
\nprintf(“\\n Forces pull you apart molecule by molecule as your
\nbody turns to putty. “);
\nprintf(“\\n But when it’s over you feel a massive influx of
\nrelief and renewed vigor.”);
\nprintf(“\\n You have successfully morphed into your %s form.”,
\napparentRace);<\/p>\n
\nunless you want to peek in from time to time to see how often
\ncharacters morph. *\/<\/p>\n
\nage, race and obvious occupation *\/<\/p>\n
\nknows what he\/she looks like? *\/<\/p>\n
\ncache so the computer doesn’t lag to death? *\/<\/p>\n
\n}
\nreturn; \/* Go back to your regularly scheduled activities. *\/<\/p>\n
\nforms at character generation time.<\/p>\n
\nMouse’s buddy) and Chewbacca. Upright Humanoids with dog heads.
\n(Loyal as hell, great healers, but they were not at all suited for
\nmilitary occupations.)
\nFaer-Elves were Mustard coloured or Green skinned, spindly
\nlittle guys who put the “P” in peevish. They invented ‘Faeromancy’,
\nthe non-lethal but extreme nuisance school of Magick. (since citizens
\nof the ‘Faer Realms’ were, on the whole just about immune to death,
\nthey got real creative, and taught people how to turn whole rooms
\nfull of PCs and NPCs to sticky smelly gorp with “Chicken Soup”
\nspells. Noodly things would curl around everybody and sting them,
\nhold them immobile and zap one or two hp out of them every now and
\nthen. ((I should have let them morph into life sized skunks who
\ncould dance around in glee as their spells made ‘normals’ burn their
\nbrains out in helpless anger. ))<\/p>\n
\nstring: \/* Capitalized to distinguish from dog npcs *\/
\n(And the room description would read “Arnold the
\nWeener Dog is here”.)
\nDoberman Sheep Dog Hound Dog Wolf Hound Weener Dog
\nBeagle Husky Corgy Collie
\nPointer Peekinese Poodle Spaniel Pug Setter
\nChihuahua (or beg an Elder for your favourite)<\/p>\n
\nHimalayan Cat Manx Tiger Cat (or ask an Elder for your favourite)<\/p>\n
\nHalf-Elf (( Not Mer, Mer have racial Stun powers, I let the
\nDhalgger-Ottahrians believe they had claws, but couldn’t pick locks
\nwith them.))<\/p>\n
\nend of the string to the save function and all the other variables
\nthat got saved were out of place. it got ugly) Faer Elves 3rd form
\nwas something like Felix the cat with psychedelic fur:<\/p>\n
\nCat they could customize their descriptions to include blue and
\nyellow stripes; red, orange and pink day-glo patterns, whatever… I
\nthink they all came with obligatory dark glasses and played the
\nsaxophone.<\/p>\n
\nVegetarian Faer Elves were expected to torture and eat mice when they
\nwere cats and everybody was warned that they didn’t want to know what
\nFaer Cats ate. (Faer Cats had claws. Dhalggers were canine monsters
\nin their dog forms (teeth=weapon of choice) Faer Cats and the
\n“Khatzen” were supposed to make each other nervous and curious about
\neach other but were emotionally and intellectually incompatible.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>9Gonzoid Monsters<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\n(have) been found! Oh no! Now what???<\/p>\n
\n(chargen2.c and chargen3.c) that were compiled separately into
\nexecute-able programs. Everything (after the first step\/first
\nprogram was called by the menu program) had to be called by the
\nprevious program (the last thing each linked program did before it
\nshut itself off was tell the computer to wake up the next segment)<\/p>\n
\n(Microscopic) Part 3 is only 35 pages same microscopic font.<\/p>\n
\n(Swords are “swung at” the target. Axes are ‘chopped at’ the target..)<\/p>\n
\nhead, neck, etc…)<\/p>\n
\nego, self-image (I got creative) <wink><\/p>\n
\nfrom fire spells, confusion damage from psionic projections, (you
\ncould die from confusion damage) (part of the psi-bolt hit you
\nroutine was to pick how it effected you, you could imagine your soul
\ncaught on fire, your private parts froze, your whole being
\nexploded…)<\/p>\n
\ncharacters who specifically asked not to be able to kill either PCs
\nor ‘living’ NPCs [ PCs are players’ Characters NPCs are
\nNon-Players’-Characters or computer generated ‘monsters’ ] [ ‘gonzer’
\nis the Ymmpish word for ‘robot’. Some gonzers look like vacuum
\ncleaners with dangerous attachments trying to kill people. Some
\ngonzers look very much like living beings. Most Gonzers were
\noriginally built by Ymmps in the future to teach weapons skills to
\nnovices)<\/p>\n
\n“politician-gonzers”, & “sponge-head-gonzers”<\/p>\n
\nand their method of wielding that weapon was “projects”.<\/p>\n
\n— The 12-step-nahtzi-gonzer scored a decent hit.
\n++ Your armour absorbs some of the damage ++
\n*** You suffer 4 points of sympathy damage.<\/p>\n
\n‘exploded’ ‘vaporized’ and left behind their weapons.<\/p>\n
\ngonzer and finding:<\/p>\n
\na promises
\na brain drain
\na bullship<\/p>\n
\ntry to sell them to shopkeepers who would look at you funny and say
\nsomething along the lines of, “You expect me to pay you real money
\nfor this worthless piece of doo-doo?”<\/p>\n
\nsell these weapons to players who could attack other players and you
\nhad a high level character no skill in ‘gonzer weapons’ whine at you
\nwith a bullship for 30 points of damage.<\/p>\n
\ndawned on me.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>10Well, hey, it’s August Rolled character description.<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n
\n
\nenter the game saying they can choose a bunch of options and one is to
\ngo off and womp on renegade robots instead of killing people and things
\nin their new world.<\/p>\n
\nkill nothin to survive and have fun. (Characters who choose not to harm
\nanyone can cast healing spells and do other good things to them. They
\nmay be able to step between a wounded party and somebody who’s trying
\nto kill that party and dedfend them the wounded person, just stand
\nthere and block blows from the attacker without attacking the attacker
\nin return.)<\/p>\n
\ndifference between really killing people in the real world and
\npretending to kill cartoons in a game environment.<\/p>\n
\nstarted working with in, yeeesh, 1992?<\/p>\n
\ncharacter and customizing with one line of descriptive text.<\/p>\n
\nfont selected for your email this will not look right:<\/p>\n
\nHea Str Dex Agi Per Int Wiz Wil I.S. M.P. Voi App *
\nGreat SuperbExcel Fair Excel Avg Fair Great Fair Excel Fair Fair*<\/p>\n
\n*Excel<\/p>\n
\nYou are 5’10” tall. You weigh 119 lbs.You can carry 225 lbs.
\nYou have healthy fair skin, long chestnut hair and sapphire eyes.
\nYou have strong rust-coloured wings.
\nYou are wearing a light blue Ranger’s cloak.
\nYou show the mark of he Dove on the hilt of your sword.
\nYou look alert.<\/p>\n
\nlooked at him, typing in a command “look Ducky” or “l Ducky” {without
\nthe quotes} the player ‘controling’ Ducky would see all of the above
\nby typing “l me” (that’s the letter “L” in lower case if it looks like
\nthe number one.)<\/p>\n
\nclass of the Rangers (each sub-class is supposed to have it’s own
\nspecialities, especially in the Bard group, where a dancer would have a
\n‘spell’ called “Hypnotic Dance” which could mesmerize on-lookers so
\nthief characters could pick their pockets more easily, an Artist-Bard
\nwould be able to draw something or someone and then play a couple notes
\non his or her favorite musical instrument (as a concentration aid) and
\nopen a portal to that person or thing (building? area?) a Loremaster-
\nBard would be someone who specialized in studying old stories and
\nancient languages (possibly with an eye toward finding lost treasures
\nor learning magic spells that others have long since forgotten.)<\/p>\n
\nthat I’m writing this on yahoo’s site and the text box appears to be 72
\ncharacters wide for some unknowable reason.<\/p>\n
\ndamage bonuses, defense bonuses, I don’t think the characters
\nthemselves will know if their race is comparatively slow or real quick
\nin fights. (racial round times) I also had a Magical Round time figured
\nout, thinking some races would have a slight advantage in speed over
\nanother.<\/p>\n
\n(real good).<\/p>\n
\nand unbelievable.<\/p>\n
\nwhich they start off as a character. this is the race’s “age of
\nresponsibility” (at which they are legally responsible for their own
\nactions.) In some Dungeons and Dragons games the characters start out
\nat an age that might be 1\/3 or 1\/4 of their way through their life
\nexpectency. (Not here) Half Elves in many D&D games are ‘young’ at 42.
\nElves (Highe Elves here) start their adventuring at 180 years old. In
\nthe real world most animals’ life expectencies are pretty consistently
\nsomething like 5 times the age at which most individuals reach full
\nphysical maturity (using this formula, they figure a good average life
\nspan for humans should be 105.)<\/p>\n
\nthis race. Average build for some races would be “solid”, some are
\nthin, some are chunky. I think I’ll roll a possibility for them and let
\nthe players decide whether they’re skinny, average, fat or whathaveyou.<\/p>\n
\nwith. many members of most races can ‘develop’ night vision by eating
\nmagic herbs to boost their perception stats. Rock Trolls will be blind
\nin daylight<\/p>\n
\nactual effect on how the game is played, just helps you as players
\nvisualize the person you are ‘looking at’ or playing with, or
\nwhatever.)
\nI had the character generation routines generate a random height
\nfor each character and give the players an option to choose their
\ncharacter’s own height.<\/p>\n
\ncharacter can carry is computed by the weight and strenth.<\/p>\n
\nstrength they might have to get a ‘friend’ to carry their boot around
\nfor them. Sprites will have the ability to attract animals who will
\nbond with them and carry their stuff around for them. Even if the
\ncharacer is non-combatant (protected by religious vows from being
\nslashed by PCs) their pack animals would be vulnerable. There will be
\nareas where nobody and none of their pets will ever be able to be
\nkilled. they might fall down and lapse into a coma, but they won’t die.<\/p>\n
\ngroup.<\/p>\n
\na style called ” ” (space) and a color called “no” “you have no hair.”
\nEyes are racial. Bird people, mer, highe elves, half-elves, characters
\nfrom the :faer: group (I’ve re-included Sartyrs as a playable race) and
\nYmmps can have ‘jeweled’ eyes (ruby, sapphire, emerald, lapis-lazuli,
\namethyst, jade) forest elves, half elves and the furry races will have
\neye colours in keeping with their races (brown, green, amber, grey)
\nInsectes and lizard people will have black, brown, red, orange, maybe
\nall white eyes, humans will have human like eye colour choices, ymmps
\ncan choose any of the above, plus silver and gold coloured eyes.
\nWatchers will have translucent eyes. metamorphs will have to choose
\nwithin the racial limits of the race they are born as.<\/p>\n
\nlegs and two ‘arms’ with black and yellow stripes.)<\/p>\n
\nwill by typing “change clothes” and reading the list or typing in a
\nshort string of letters to be saved as their new clothes. (this garment
\nis pure illusion. Characters can opt to run around naked or covered
\nwith caked mud and moss if they want, and this will show here,
\nindependent of whatever in-game armour they might be wearing.)<\/p>\n
\ntrinket linking them with that sect. Agnostics can wear question marks,
\natheists can have and show the mark of “nothing”. each character can
\nchoose to hide of show his or her or its religious mark to everybody in
\nthe game who looks at them.<\/p>\n
\nbunch of one or two word options, like “You look – ” hungry\/tired\/
\nravishing\/ marvelous\/ agitated… I thought I’d let characters write
\ntheir own mood descriptions.<\/p>\n
\ncharacters or less or leave blank.<\/p>\n
\nrealizing they’ve been looked at (everybody else will read,
\n“[Character’s name] looked at you.” Psi characters will know if anybody
\nlooks at anybody else and will know if one character who has opted to
\nplay PC killer sized up another character to guess whether that
\ncharacter would be an easy target or not. Elders and psi characters
\nover a certain level will be able to see other characters “Current hit
\npoints” number of npc and pc kills and maybe know whether to warn other
\ncharacters of apparent danger. psi characters may not be popular with a
\nlot of characters. everybody might want to have characters with “psi”
\nas their secondary occupation so they can read that stuff.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>11Well, whatdya know, I’m in!<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nthey don’t give you an authorization code unless you ask for it! So
\nanyway, I’m here now and we’ll see what this role playing thing is
\nall about…<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n
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\n
\nclient or a mud client. I could probably configure it so anybody out
\nthere could get whatever IP address I hooked up to and log in, but
\nright now I don’t think I could run it and connect to it myself if to
\ninteract with anybody unless I snuck down to the radio station and
\nsecretly fired it up on one of the networked computers there and
\ncopied down their IP address drove home, connected to the web, fired
\nup the specialized telenet client I bought to connect to the game
\n(it’ll connect internally as well as over the net) and …. sounds
\ncomplicated, doesn’t it? (The radio station’s IP address is pretty
\nconstant, but once in a while they go down and when they come back
\nup, their address has changed a bit? Gack, it’s complicated, I could
\nbe complicating it even further in my mind.)<\/p>\n
\nyou can go to <http:\/\/mudconnect.com<\/a>> and when the page loads there’s
\none of those good old fashioned pull down window things in the upper
\nright corner, (it says, “TMC Navigation”) if you click and find the
\npull down menu spring to life the first real option is I think
\n“Introduction to MUDs” highlight and click or let go and that will
\ntake you to a FAQ page. And you can read a lot of stuff that might
\neven make sense. It might be a whole lot more fun to sniff around and
\nfind a MUD or MUSH that is 99% role play and not much monster bashing
\nand learn a bunch of commands (commonly called “Socials”) so your
\ncharacter can bow and curtsey and burp and make other strange bodily
\nnoises that make kids of all ages laugh a lot.<\/p>\n
\nall kinds of reasons, can ya tell? Getting things done though.) (not
\ncounting P.S. messages that are a couple thousand times longer than
\nthe ‘real message’?)<\/p>\n
\neverybody else reads (presuming I’m logged in as “Rocky”) “Rocky bows
\ngraciously”
\n“em” is an alias for ’emotes’, it calls a text line. you can pretty
\nmuch put any text you like in there. and it will print”<\/p>\n
\ncreature named “Cathi” and type at the prompt:<\/p>\n
\n“This isn’t quite as complicated as I thought.” If you’re fastidious
\nand put in the quotes you’re liable to get two sets of quotes around
\neverything you type after the word “say”.<\/p>\n
\ndelete the creative writers eGroup if it didn’t have any traffic in
\n90 days and by the time I got there to give it a traffic message,
\n“Hey, they’re gonna shut it down if we don\\’t use it.” It was
\nalready dead and gone. sigh.<\/p>\n\n
<\/a>13Mer Caves<\/span><\/h2>\n
\n
\nyour character takes this plunge….<\/p>\n
\nfont The four areas in the cave are pretty much straigh ahead, like
\nonly N, S, E, and W commands move you from place to place.<\/p>\n
\n| 524\/PL|
\n———-
\n———-
\n| 559\/CA |
\n—————————-
\n| 563\/CA | 560\/ca | 561\/Ca |
\n—————————-
\n| 562\/CA |
\n———-<\/p>\n
\noccasionally, adults climb the rocky side of the pool and
\ndive to see how deep they can go. Anyone swimming here must
\nbe ready for loud splashes and cascading water.”
\n{If character has a swimming skill level of 4 or better
\nhe or she will see: }
\n“A Cave is down near the bottom of the pool here.”<\/p>\n
\n<unless you are a Mer>:<\/p>\n
\nthe opening of a cave and then swim several yards. Your
\nlungs begin to ache, you begin to feel trapped. You
\npull yourself along the cave’s underwater cieling. Then
\nalmost miraculously your face breaks the surace. You
\ncan breath. Somehow you pull yourself out of the water.”<\/p>\n
\nYou are lying down, and exhausted.}<\/p>\n
\n“You are in a chamber with a polished blue marble
\nfloor. An eerie green light glows from the walls while
\npale blue and white lights dance around, somehow
\nreflected from the water.
\nA pool is here. <“Go Pool” to go back to the Ottarian
\npool, space #524>
\nObvious Path: South<\/p>\n
\nthrough the cave with ease, but then you have a
\nlong way to rise. Just before you’re sure your lungs
\nwill burst you break the surface. You made it.<\/p>\n
\n“The dancing lights look more like blue and yellow
\nin this chamber with its polished marble floor. As you
\nlook around you are surrounded by four almost identical
\narchways. They look like a natural occurance, but they
\nseem so perfectly formed.
\nObvious Paths: North, South, East, West<\/p>\n
\n“There is another pool in this, the Eastern
\nChamber of this underwater cave. In the eerie light
\nyou look around and see a green marble table, set as
\nif a banquet for two should begin any second.
\nThere is a pool here.
\n<Go pool: and walkers get:
\n“You dive as deeply as you can, but you can’t find
\nany sign of a way out of this pool. You nearly pass
\nout on the way back to the surface and somehow manage
\nto pull yourself back out of the water.”>
\n<Mer surface here. or connect with an underwater river where
\nonly they can survive.*> <<Non-Mer find themselves back in
\nspace #561, lying down, exhausted.>>
\nObvious Paths: West<\/p>\n
\n“In the eerie light you see two thrones of gold
\nand alabaster, shaped like open shells with indigo
\nvelvet cushions for the seats and backs. An empty
\ngoblet of gold lies on the floor, slightly dented.
\nA goblet is here.
\n<“Get Goblet” gives you: “The goblet
\nvanishes as you reach for it. Then reappears when you
\ngive up.”>
\nObvious Paths: North
\n<“Sit [on] Throne” gives you: “Your
\nbody freezes. You feel as if some unseen giant has driven
\na huge, frozen nail through your head and down your spine.
\nYou are thrown to the ground. Your body trembles, out of
\ncontrol.”
\n***Your arms and hand suffer 5 points of frost damage.***<\/p>\n
\n“There is a Large bed in this chamber, with a
\nWedding Dress laid across it. There are unopened gifts
\non a table beside an open book. A dagger and a quill
\nlie near the book.
\nThere is a wedding dress, a dagger, a quill and a book
\nhere.<\/p>\n
\nfeet, six inches tall and slender.”<\/p>\n
\nlike a sea horse.”<\/p>\n
\nyou mad if you don’t leave it alone.<\/p>\n
\nthrough your mind and you cry out, realize you’ve
\npulled your hand back.
\n*** Your hand suffers 3 points of frost damage.***<\/p>\n
\nmurder. You see a beautiful young woman dead. You feel
\nthree hearts breaking and one of them is yours.”<\/p>\n
\nits original spot as you instinctively jump back
\naway from it.”<\/p>\n
\nMy curse forever be upon your people for this! I shall
\nwait, forever if need be, until you are born again and
\nreturn to me.
\n(signed,) “Draemahn, Prince of Mer.”<\/p>\n
\nbody will freeze. But you pull yourself back in time.”
\n*** Your hand suffers 2 points of frost damage. ***<\/p>\n\n
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\n
\nthingamabob, searched for Aerendel, couldn’t find it, twisted a couple of
\nbrain cells thinking about telnet clients…..then…..figured I should
\nprobably read the manual!!! I’m a little busy right now (my life is rapidly
\nbecoming a collection of boxes and unreturned telephone messages) but I will
\nfigure this critter out sometime soon!<\/p>\n\n
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