Prince Marvolo

Marvolo is 61 - Cool. If I knew that I'd have saved up for them retirement funds...

Happy birthday Marvolo! Have a wonderful time and drink plenty of beer! :D

happy birthday :)

Happy birthday Marv

No wonder there's thunder outside tonight. Happy Birthday Marvolo! :D

Happy B-day Marv!! :D

Happy Bifday
 
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Happy Birthday :D

Happy birthday :)

My entry:
 
http://dstdst.wix.com/hellhounds

Are we really going to have this discussion?
 
Let me just quote something:
(source, "dum dum dummm..." The Internet)
 
I hope we can end this right here.

[log= Drawing]

[/log]
Materials:
20 water
2 Lumber
4 Branches
15 Unidentified plants
11 resin
3 memory stone
5 sand
3 colored paper
The lumber is cut down to form two parts, one where the crutch rests under the arm and the second the foot guard.

The largest branch that can be found is hollowed out.

The unidentified plants are fermented and beaten. The fibers are extracted from the plant and weaved together to form string.
Two large memory stones are set to the side and one crushed, three pebbles are selected from the crushed one.
Three heated resin are applied to the colored paper and three sand sprinkled over the paper to make sand paper.

Cut a single vertical slit in the branch at knee height and then another at ankle height. This is where the ball joints will be added too later. Be careful not to cause horizontal cracks. Then make two slits at the base of the hollow branch going up about 4 inches.
Cut three holes all the way through into the two intact memory stones.
Soak the branch in water over night and add more as needed. When the hollow branch is flexible slowly pull the first slit with out making the slit split the entire piece. When it is wide enough push one of the memory stones into the slit with the holes facing up and down but at a slight angle where the holes can be seen.

Do the same to the slit at the ankle area.

For the two slits at the base spread it apart to where it looks like a three pronged fork.
 Let the hollow branch and stones dry.

The arm rest lumber piece is glued to the top of the hollow branch with some heated resin.
On the side of the hollow branch at about hand height, it is sanded flat. Cut three straight lines and then add notches into the lines.
Then cut the string into three long pieces. Cut one hole into each of the three memory stone pebbles. Tie one string to each pebble. The loose string slide, one through each of the groves.

Remove the knee memory stone joint, use an item and the holes to pry it out. Take one string and match up its place on the grooved panel to the hole in the stone. Do that for all three.

Do the same for the ankle joint.
The string closest to the front is glued with resin to the front base split. The string the back is glued with resin to the back base split.

The center string is glued into the center hole of the ankle joint.
Then the lumber foot guard is glued to all three prongs at the base of the hollow branch.

The front stone knob on the panel can be adjusted to make the toes of the foot lift. Pull too much and you could fall or just hop around on the heel of your foot.

The back stone knob on the panel helps to balance the weight on the foot.

The center stone knob on the panel pulls the leg up off the ground. Sliding the knob down on the panel will let the foot fall.

Now... for how it is attached. Hmm.... I have a more permanent solution.

With the remaining branches, spikes are cut and glued with resin to the side of the crutch. The spikes will hold the crutch... close to the body.... permanently.

Or if you prefer the pain free method... make up some more string and tie yourself to the crutch.

But if I make the crutch... I may not have enough string to secure the crutch to you with that method.

-Assira the Black
 

Respect is an invisible factor that is highly important in your evolution in MD community.
 
Respect is earned not asked for or given as a gift...but you can fight to keep it.
There is no written rule to influence your evolution in md based on how you show your respect to older players, especially to those that dedicate countless hours of their lives to make things more enjoyable to all of you, however, it is obvious that if you fail to respect such people, things won't go to far or too good for you. I am talking here about many people, people that actively help extending MD, or do quests and events or earned their position if MD society over the years.
 
(eg:Recently someone was rejected from md for lack of respect, while others constantly fail to achieve things they might deserve simply because they don't realize the importance of respect and gratitude towards people that are far ahead of them.)
 
I am making this topic to raise some alarms about some things.
 
Some of you are stupid enough to think that if they avoid curse words and find subtle ways to mock or annoy someone, "it is fine". Please remember where you are. Here in MD the majority of people present _survived_ to be where they are. They are in general highly intelligent and/or dedicated. It is very likely that your attempts to offend someone in a "sneaky" way will cause more retaliation on the long run than a plain honest offense. IF YOU TRY TO OFFEND OTHERS THINKING NOBODY CAN SAY ANYTHING AGAINST SIMPLY BECAUSE YOU USED SMART WORDING, YOU INSULT THEIR INTELLIGENCE (me included).
 
You should respect other people in here regardless if you hate them or fight them. Try to understand this very well.
 
Since some of you are quite young and in RL they have probably little reasons to learn respect for other reasons except fear, i will enumerate a few other reasons that should be seen as reasons to respect someone. By respecting someone i mean you should be aware and appreciate several things, a few very important that some miss are:
 
- their contribution to make MD more enjoyable, even if not announcing such things
- the time they dedicate to actively participate in all the things/events/roles that keep md alive
- their active days compared to yours (older players are here for more time and they survived longer than you)
- them avoiding using their earned abilities to make your life miserable
 
MD is in full process of changing. With the new A25 tools many things will need to be run in fast-forward mode to compensate the lack of people. I will actively start to dismiss and avoid to include in this change people that give me a headache, fight eachother or cause other more valuable people to enjoy md less. You have plenty of time till then to adjust your behaviour and learn that you should respect other people regardless if you disagree or fight them or whatever.
 
Authority is directly related to respect. People given full or partial authority over a more or less bigger or smaller part of md, earned their position, and if you fail to respect them (again, regardless if you agree to them or not), you are basically telling me, and them, you can't integrate in this community.
 
I am shocked to see that some of you take so many things for granted and forget you are here on a private territory. For example, you are able to enjoy a nice quest, because someone put a lot of passion and effort in doing it nicely. You noticed the sponsorship goes to the winners not to the quest creator. You are able to play md because some are dedicating hours of their lives to do it, not for a salary, without any obligations, purely out of passion.
 
Offences, REGARDLES HOW SUBTLE, have no place here. There are countless other ways to manifest your antipathy towards others, other than disrespecting them. The lack of respect leads to lack of passion for making md better and more enjoyable, therefore, i consider it a threat to md evolution, and those that do it are the source of this threat, therefore, expandable.
 
Many years ago in md history i don't recall this to be a problem as it is now. Today, older players try not to react to such cases because THEY respect you those that don't respect them, but slowly everyone, including myself, realize that action needs to be take in order to impose respect and authority. It is risky to make it as a written rule, because it can be interpreted, but as i said, this factor will be taken into account when someone above you will decide if you should stagnate where you are or given some help (roles within the community, sponsorship to your quests, opportunity to make yourself more known, etc)
 
Things i personally consider a lack of respect:
- talking to someone in charge (with development, with an event, with a quest, with any form of leadership, etc) as if they are obligated to do things they do for fun or for you
- wasting someones time intentionately or as a joke
- spreading false rumors about someone behind their back
- using knowledge about some character personal RL as argument against them (whats out there is separated from what is in here)
- (please add your own things you consider disrespectful in a reply)
 
I myself need to adjust my behaviour too, because a person that wants to be respected should also respect others...and as you know i am very arrogant sometimes, but i am working on it :p
 
 
That being said, be advised that my patience and tolerance to annoyingly rude people is getting lower and even if i won't take direct actions against them imediately, they will slowly be marginalized by the community and eventually kicked out if they continue to show they don't have a clue what respect means.
 

Hello there!
 
What follows is my first quest created, so try not to judge me too harshly! :D
 
We all know what emotions feel like and we all know what they look like, at least...on a person. But emotions can be triggered through seeing or smelling something that stimulates an old memory, this can be consciously or subconsciously. This is thanks to the amazing part of our brain called the limbic system, also known as "the emotional brain", and human conditioning to associate through sight and smell!
 
We can also flip this on it's head! We often associate certain objects to our emotions. For example: when upset people can crave chocolate - due to the body recognizing that chocolate can make us happy - because of the tryptophan levels in it being used by the brain to create serotonin!
 
Anyway, enough of the science lesson though and down to the task at hand! 
 
For this quest your task is to recall 4 different emotions and draw an object that you associate to each one. You should also provide a sentence or two about what it is that makes you associate the two for each emotion.
 
You could draw a bar of chocolate, a horse, a carrot or even a toilet? Who knows what you feel when sat on a toilet! (Though we probably don't want to know...)
 
This could be an association you yourself feel or it could just be a generally associated object and emotion, e.g Tombstone >> Sadness.
 
Where to post
 
Please post all entries here on this thread.
 
Judging
 
All entries shall be judged by myself and two others. We will be looking at if you've made a good connection between the emotion and object, how well it's drawn and more subjective reasons such as is it funny, is it cleverly done, etc.
 
Winners will receive
 
1st: Wish point + Tear Filled Cranium + 3sc
2nd: 10th Anniversary Aramor + 8sc
3rd: Imperial Aramor  + Teleport to PC Stone  + Random item + 8sc
4th/5th/6th: 5sc
 
Closing date
 
All entries should be in from one week of this post (MD Day 125) no later than 23:59 ST
 
Good luck and have fun!  ^_^
 
Sponsors for extra prizes (4th, 5th, 6th, etc) are welcome!
 
Current sponsors
 
*Syrian* - WP (1st), Teleport to PC Stone (3rd)
 
gonzalocsdf - 5sc (2nd & 3rd), 2sc (4th, 5th & 6th)
 
*Sasha Lilias* - Imperial Aramor (3rd)
 
Muratus del Mur - 3sc (All participants), Random item (3rd)

As there is a topic for it already, I'll throw out my opinions here.
 
I loved this!
 
It was great watching the players create their own story, methods, applying them and, most importantly, working as a team! It's exactly what I hoped for when I joined. It certainly sets it aside from many other games that I've played. :)
 
Although it may not be my place, I'd like to thank the following for their extra hard work in making this plan come together and succeed!
 
Assira the Black,*Syrian*, Aeoshattr, Marvolo, Rophs, Lintara, JadenDew, Miq, *Sunfire*, Draconas and StrongWilledLegna.
 
Apologies if I spelt any of your names wrong! :D Thank you again for the awesome experience and here's to the hope of many more! :)

Why not a "Whats a Mur" Tshirt?

If easily offended, I suggest you skip this....
 
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A Tainted Angien, a tormented soul and an unholy priest are standing at the gates of heaven, waiting to be judged before god. Angel Michael appears at the gates and says "Alright then, God has decreed a blessing upon you all, that I shall cast final judgement on whether you deserve a place in heaven or whether you go to hell." They all nod in agreement.

Michael says "Tainted Angien, you took original sin and flipped it in reverse, which we don't like here. However, you also gave a spirit of light to the darkness, which we like here very much. So on consideration, you're in." The Tainted Angien smiled thankfully and floated through the gates.

Michael turned to the tormented soul "You have lived in hell already, your whole life, you are granted a place." The tormented soul contorted himself trying to thank the Angel, and floated through the gates.

Michael finally turned to the priest "As for you...you spent your life lording it over everyone and knowingly spreading unholy rumours, burning books and teaching lies, wreaking darkness everywhere...
you're definitely in."
 
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A tailor visited willows shop..
Said the tailor "I'm looking for fabric of all different colours!"
Said the shop man "I'm afraid I only stock greyscale"
"You don't stock colour?! That's insane! How am I to create tones and styles?"
 "Ack, don't worry, we have plenty of shades here!"
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New Player "I wish I had some sunglasses!"
Demi-God *Drops player in Necrovion*
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What's the difference between a dead fish and a Drachorn? One's scaly and smells like rotting flesh, the other's a dead fish.
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How many Players does it take to screw in a light bulb? One to attempt to screw the light bulb in, while the other fifty fight over who got to do it.
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How many Necrovions does it take to screw in a light bulb? Joke.
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How many Archivists does it take to screw in a light bulb? Just one... plus the seven writing the details of what happened.
 
 
 
ed: and due to popular demand from my set of jokes I can't post because they will offend too many people....(I have pre-warned Grido)
How did Jonn lose his eye? Grido's telescope got too close.
 
ed2, for same reason: Why are they called Golemites? Because if they ever made a decision they'd be called Goledids.

Maybe you could consider having different values, depending on how deep you put those things in the wish shop.
 
To prevent 'free credits', maybe have the first conversion wish available at 3 WPs spent and make that one grant 10 credits, then another one at 5 WPs spent and make that 15, and one at 10 WPs spent that gives 30-40? And the last one with 3-5 charges, maybe, so people like dst who have too many WPs to sensibly use don't sit there with 'worthless' won quests?
 
Just a quick thought i wanted to share before i head out to explore this amazing town again :D

Syntropic Dust, Timeless dust, Liquid Dust -> Vacuum cleaner. 

Syntropic Dust, Timeless dust, Liquid Dust -> Vacuum cleaner. 

If your secret dream is to follow Braiton's trails and turn Drachorns into Wind Dragons, here's a deal you can't refuse:
 
We provide the GG drachorn, free of charge;
You spend the WP (ofc you need to have the corresponding wish available in the Wish shop);
You keep the mutated creature for yourself.
 
All we ask is to prepare a ritual/ceremony for such mutation and to host the event in Necrovion.
Tainted Warriors will bring nightshade.  ^_^
 
 
 
Contact me in game for details, I'll keep this post up to date with the number of available drachorns.
 
Drachorns currently available: 0.

To my impression, many people don't want to go public or share because they are too scared that their results are straight out wrong.
Lots of people have interesting ideas, but they don't want to share them because they are in doubt about them, and are scared to be branded as dumb if they missed something that's pretty obvious once you know about it.
 
Maybe some of you remember the little challenge Mur introduced about the scenes on the wall over the shelves in the Log Review Room. People had the wildest ideas about it, all of them more or less founded. But once you knew the solution, it was so incredibly obvious that you simply felt stupid for not seeing it. I figure that's how most people feel about sharing their researches.
 
[if you're confused now, because you either forgot what that challenge was or because you weren't around at the time, go to the archives, find the log review room and ponder for a while before following this link]

I'm happy because I always see old friends here during the holidays ;)

I'm happy because I always see old friends here during the holidays ;)

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Sasha already saw this :) Honestly it's the best I could do