Hey all you! Guess what? I have started a Google Site thingy. Actually, it’s more for the Fairy Garden, since I want to be able to put information up about that without having to use the default web space given to me by YourMUD.net. So if any of you haven’t gotten into the garden or don’t even have a nice client to do so with, maybe I’ll try getting a client up there if possible. But in either case, I’m going to start putting fun-ness up on that thing. Oh, you’ll probably want to know where it is..it’s here: http://sites.google.com/sites/fairygardenmud. Enjoy! And hope to see you there.
Fairy Garden Info
For those of you who have access (manually created account) at the Fairy Garden, here is the Telnet connection information:
Address – fairygarden.mcp-server.com
Port – 3349
I prefer MUSHClient for a manual client. It’s VERY lightweight initially but can be expanded to a super-bogged down system if you so desire. Mushclient Download
Setting up MUSHClient: File>New World and No to ‘Load from another world.’ Go into File>World Properties once the black world window is created and select the IP Address choice on the left-hand list. Type the above address and port into their respective boxes and then select the Connecting selection in the left-hand list. If you wish to auto-connect, you will type in your username and password (which I give you myself) and then make sure you select MUSH/MOO (CONNECT name password) in the Connect dropdown. You can now OK out and click the connect button which is….the third button from the left on the World Toolbar. The menu alternatives for connecting are Connection>Connect or Crtl-K.
Remind me if I don’t do this, but I’ll get connection details in for ZMUD also if you need them.
Happy times and not so happy times
Heh. It was amusing, really, in reality. Recently I had a run-in with a member of the Qashar clan, some weird new Shallam-fighter club. Anyhow, one member had prism’d into my house in Ashtan not long ago and just kinda hung out for a while before he finally left. Then about a month or two later, he prism’d in again, but this time was gated to by members of his clan. Well, there was a nice little duel/fight right in my house, which the city of Ashtan did not like. Of course, the whole time I had no idea what was going on and why MY property was being targetted for trespassing. But of course, Ashtan didn’t take it lightly and thusly boarded my house up. So now I have numerous assets tied up in the Ashtan subdivision which I cannot get to. It’s okay though. I’ve finally calmed down, as I was pretty upset before. But honestly, if I were ever able to get in, I would demolish the house, build a few more rooms elsewhere, move my bed artifact there and finish destroying the Ashtan house. Of course, moving the bed costs 250 credits, which is something like 5/6ths the original cost, and destroying the entire house would give me somewhere around 390 credits or so. So I’d be left with 150 or so, maybe less. It’s depressing, really, but I’m finding big houses are difficult to maintain.
Update on the Fairy Garden! I’ve been building building building! And I added a few tools found on mushcode.com, plus a few more that I developed by myself. And besides that, I’m in the middle of uploading zMapper images to Skydrive, so those should be available sometime later tonight.
That’s all the interesting things for now I think. If I’ve forgotten any, well let me know :P.
Conversation with a Tsol’aa
So I was talking with Skegonga last night and the conversation kind of veered in a certain direction. The gist of the conversation was about microbiology, and later I was reading some of Gary Larson’s comics and thought this one was awfully ironic, because I had mentioned exactly what this one entails (in a realistic sort of way, of course).
Three comments shoves the druid into action
So I got three comments from Skegonga and I decided that now would be a beautiful time to say something, as I haven’t for a while! So…what am I supposed to say? Oh! I explored some and got my new explorer ranking and I am soooo excited. It was about one or two weeks ago in the Griesly Manor. Unfortunately though, the entire populous near my ranking has been upity-ing up the scale WITH me, so I didn’t actually gain any rank points at all. Instead, Terran Master just kind of floated on down to me *sigh*. Still, I got it, and that’s fun fun fun! Besides that, not a lot has been happening. I almost have level 82. I’m VERY excited about that. Less than 10% to go maybe. I haven’t been finding enough time to do quests or hunt anything very nice as of late, just because I been out and busy so much. But besides that, everything’s well. Hmm…I’m not sure what to say now. Maybe I’ll leave and come back when something interesting happens. -Samakhulis
Thoughts on Roleplaying and PK
Over the recent months, I’ve noticed an increased amount of PK, especially in my area of allegiance. Of course, it is acceptable and allows for a bigger player-base. However, it seems as though much of the PK that occurs is due to spite and grudges. None of it, in my opinion, is roleplayed very well. As I’ve been working on my own MUSH, I read through the PennMUSH developers’ writings on roleplay, factions and things. And I have to say that they brought up some very good points.
From what I see, and from what I perceive, those factions specifically aligned against my own seem to know when our defenses are low and make gigantic and harmful attacks at those times. Correct me if I’m wrong, but that’s how it seems to be. Javelin, or was it Raevenos, or someone else..I don’t remember, said that factions and roleplaying should be best brought together with agreements by faction leaders. It seems a little backward from the way things are, and I admit that true underhanded playing adds a LOT that you would not have with roleplaying agreements. But the idea was this: HL1 gets together with HL2. House1 is enemied to House2. HL1 says to HL2, “I want to try a roleplay where our houses fight it out and do such and such” and HL2 says, “Okay..but make sure you do it around this time, because my members will be around then and you won’t have an unfair advantage.” And so it goes on and the house leaders make some sort of arrangement.
I really like this idea, simply because I’m horrible at PK. And it seems more enjoyable to me and I’m sure to others like me. I mean, I’m not into PK. I’m into roleplaying and monster-hunting. If I experience an unexpected and unfair attack by an enemy faction, well, it pretty well depresses me for days on end, because I can’t stand how I’m not that good at doing what I’m supposed to be good at doing (specifically DEFENDING Nature). So this idea of agreed roleplay between factions seems like a very nice idea.
Of course, I know most people will disagree with me, and even -I- might disagree with me, because, like I said before, underhanded and unannounced roleplay is so much more exciting than a planned out war.
Okay. I’m done! And it’s late. And I’m tired. And I don’t want to wait for the Fairy Garden to shut itself down (which it now does at 3:00am EST).
The Fairy Garden
New PennMUSH is LIVE!! Whee! I’m so excited.
fairygarden.mcp-server.com
Port: 3349
Right now I don’t have character creation enabled, so you’ll have to email me or contact me in-game with one of the guest accounts what you want your name and password to be.
So, this would be in official terms, beta stage. Nothing is very interesting. Two areas, a plain and a forest..oh and a big tree inside the forest. Plus all the storage rooms and stuff. Anyhow, all you thousands of fans of mine (actually, three or four from what I can tell from the comments) can try it out if you want. Ideas are already pouring in from people..Loreen in particular. I’ll have to sort through them and figure out what I want. But for now, it’s just a basic ‘let’s get it working and make it interesting too’ kind of stage.
We’ll see. Let me know!
9-28-09
Oh..my. So, it looks as if I’m finally being ‘discovered’ here. Nixxe just found it and went crazy..well, I don’t know if CRAZY is the right word, but it was sure funny. So that makes four or five people now that have commented at all…maybe more see it.
So there’s this staircase in Pandora’s temple. And the railing disappears right up there at the top. And I discovered you can jump off..but it’s not very nice when you jump off. I was going to say something, but then I figured I’d get in trouble for saying anything AGAINST Her, so I didn’t. But this isn’t THERE, is it? I hope not. Because Mischief is trouble…and when you can’t get rescued because of mischievous kill rooms, well, praying is a HUGE hit on one’s experience. So I’ve been spending the last three months trying to get back up to where I WAS in my level. How annoying. How perfectly annoying. Still..it DID do some good because I’ve made about 25000 gold out of it all, which is really really nice.
I’ve been getting ideas about updating my affliction list. There were a few comments as to how nice it is to have. But I haven’t touched that thing for a VERY long time. So I’m not sure..it’s been so long in fact, that I’m not sure I can get everything there is to get.
8-7-09
Hmm…I’m not sure what to say..any ideas?
8-5-09
Hi everybody (all two or three of you)! Are I crazy or what? I feel totally nuts. So I found some time to spend in the Realm, which has proved very exciting. Of course, hanging out with friends sure kills the hunting and harvesting and exploring time I like so well, but that’s to be expected and besides, I think I find my friends to be a whole lot more interesting.
Oh, I suppose you want an update on all my exploration activities and things. After all, nothing useful has been posted here since like March..except for the comic and the inspiration from Alynia..
So a few new places opened up (mostly islands) such as Lothos, Meropis, and some island south of Meropis. I managed to go to Lothos a while back and also was able to complete my attestation of the Marque of Unquestioned Seaworthiness (or whatever it’s called when you complete it). So yeah..now I can sail and everything, although nobody’s let me yet.
Maybe someday I’ll buy my own boat and be happy sailing all by myself.
As for quests, I discovered how to find the Skolef in Green Lake. It’s some wierd tentacle creature that can wrap you up and pin you against the wall. Nasty. Anyway, it’s Green Lake and that’s all you get for finding him. But either way, he’s really cool.
Anything else of note? Not really. Actually, there IS some things such as Kongregate and how much I like it. But that’s OOC and irrelevant.
OH! Another OOC-ish thing. Did I mention PennMUSH? I think I did..however, I’ve discovered a TON more on how to develop stuff. In fact, I discovered a whole website with a bunch of examples and tools and I can break them down and find out how things work and…well…things like that. I’m loving it!
Loreen? She’s well. Have I mentioned Loreen? She’s the BEST Xorani gal a little fairy like me could ever dream of. All my friends like her too, I think. I hope…
Anyhow, I think that’s it for now. Maybe I’ll also include PennMUSH tools and tips here. Or not..but maybe I will. Still I want to keep some of my ideas to myself, y’know. But with the amount of support (or lack of, I should say) I see online, SOMEBODY’S got to have SOMETHING on that whole system. And it might just have to be me if I can’t find somebody else.
Okay. I’m done. Take care, ya’ll!
-Sama M.