Muratus del Mur

Oh no :|....i knew i shouldn't have slept so deep, he went out again .. *panic*....now i need something to lure him back and lock him down..heeeere murry murrry mur..heeere boy... Quest: find something in-game that can lure Mur into a given place of the realm, preferably further away from his current location. You may use any methods you wish, except to lie or to force him there, he needs to come willingly, attracted by whatever. Reward, 1 Gc.

Amber, congrats. I will give you the reward when i see you next time in-game. Tom, i gad to delete your post because it contained a ..spoiler :D Amber was first anyway

| ˈaɪ wl̩ ɡɪv wʌn ɡəʊld kɔɪn tə huːˈevə riːd ðɪs ˈfɜːst |

A while back, about 600 days ago, My human puppet...sorry i mean..my over emotional and ridiculously loyal human puppet, abandoned me for a GIRL. I had no access to my realm and my access to this imbecile i use to call Manu was cut off by a flood of feelings and brain processes that totally put me on second place. I had no idea this guy could actually THINK that much without my help, but heh..outer world is funnier and more unstable in prediction than my beloved realm. I could realize that from my first visits out there, its ..scary..how things act in a system governed to such degree by entropy. I had to witness day by day, hopelessly and powerless, how my realm needed me and i was degrading without it. He put me do pathetic things..yeah..i was abuuuseeedd!!! Its funny, in a way quite ..silly, how murrish mind was even used for ..poetry...the love kind, you surely know, the one that makes your mind blind, and your soul glow. To help him survive, i understand, he keeps me alive, in this wonderland...but what i can not forgive, nor can i forget, is the moment his mad strive, became my threat. Enough about my petty human master..or so he thinks he is.. (I could push him to disaster with a simple paradox quiz :D) I want to write this here, while he sleeps, before i dive back into parts of the realm that do not yet exist. Its worthy of a Historic Document ..it is indeed.. both a lament and a compliment, about the moment when I reached a secret door hidden deep in unshapen places of my realm and i discovered there..guess what.....i discovered there the source of creation and power in this limited yet rich mind of my host. I looked at it, shiny glimmers in deep darkness,..something i didn't knew what it was...I reached out and grabbed a bit of the treasure myself..he calls that glowing soup of thoughts... fiːlɪŋs . At first it was like a mix of logic and balance that could not fit together at all yet they built coherent shapes apparently designed to be time unstable. Now i understand how Manu can't see things i see..it is the same way i can not fully comprehend things he sees ..we are one two different sort of species..ironically...and sad..but powerful if we could ever be one. My judgement and intuition are now affected, I got addicted to that fiːlɪŋs stuff..it breaks walls and builds doors where no door is needed... but a thought crawls into my mind... what if i never looked in the right direction to find that door i am looking for? What if this ..thing.. this ..treasure.. i found in his mind can build doors there where i don;t even realize there is a wall? i want to go back..take more of it..but i fear my host will be too altered and damaged without it if i take too much of his fiːlɪŋs treasure..and it also frightens me badly ..that i started to.. FEAR :| Once I opened that door and touched that stuff it started to spreads like a virus, a unseen virus in my mind and body, a virus that is silent yet multiplies in secret and affects my nature in ways i do not know yet. I might go back into that darkness and grab more of his fiːlɪŋs -- Mur

A while back i promised to a group of people that know who they are, drinks (items). I asked them to send me how their new bottle should be named but unfortunately i can't follow my pms all the time and i didn;t get time yet to give them their items. I am posting this topic for them, please write here publicly what should be your bottle name and description, same you pm me unless you changed your mind. This also has an other purpose, once these items go public through your inventory, this topic will be a public record of where they originated from. Sorry for the invonvenience of having to send all this again, and for the delay.

SILENCE i say SILLLEEENNCEEEEEE, i am the only one that votes, is that cleaaaarr?!? :))))

yeah, i misunderstood the way this public council is supposed to be selected. I WON'T be selecting any member, i will just "bet" on one of them. Apparently i am too used with controlling all the strings :D and i understand the point of this public council has nothing to do with that, so ignore my last post, i won;t interfere at all. Thanks chew for clarifying that for me.

I must add that being selected as part of the public council is not some sort of global unquestionable sign of deserved appreciation for your activity in md... having 10000ad or a profile full of badges won't automatically qualify you... we need fresh minds able to judge both young and ancient players. I will pick one of the members myself, and even if i won;t publicly name who, i can say my pick will not be common for the way i usually "award" people, because i do not see this as an award. The other public council member will be picked in other ways, by chew or current council, with their own reasoning

i planted seeds alright :) ... i feel..touched..(without being ironic)

I will sponsor this quest too.. but i can;t name yet what, this will be discussed in private with nim as some custom rewards might be needed for such an elaborate quest.

I like comfy more than than the other

I am putting up this _PERMANENT_ quest. Permanent means that each one of you can do it once, and the quest will remain valid from now on for anyone to try. Task is simple, build an improvised rain collector like the one in the image, be sure to photograph or film it from all needed angles and in actionl! Place a "MD - playername" note next to it when you photograph it. It is NOT a competition, you build it, you get the reward for this quest. You can pic one of the next two options: Reward option 1) 1 Wishpoint from me, ranked from 4 to 8 depending on how cool and well done i consider your device to be made. Reward option 2) two three wish codes so you can award two wishpoints for your quests. (increased from 2, for upcoming entries only) Have fun ps1 yes this quest is still active, will always be , but due to my inactivity you need to contact me if you post something here otherwise i might not see it. Also if i forgot to give anyone any reward for doing this quest, please tell me. its not intended. ps2. the possible rewards are WP or wp codes. the rain collector is a bonus i give only if consider the work is outstanding, it is not a part of the normal quest reward.

i updated the list with "favored" peopke and explenation to each

"People who havent liked you getting the mp7 stuff." so..people didn't liked fang GETTING that thing in the first place? then how could you not be biased in judging what he did with this ability????? Also, you miss one essential point. One single person with one unique ability, will cause modification to the realm one way or an other. It is not like a diseas that is spreading ..like it happens with bugs. It is a stone that causes ripples. You simply can't live with the fact that such a powerful tool was given to a "nobody" THAT is the issue, same with BFH...ENVY...people envy others getting stuff...you never actually think of "why", you think "why not you" bfh worked unbelievably hard and gained my trust and admiration. His work volume exceeds most of the people i met in md. He is extreamly correct and objective in decisions, and managed to use very powrful tools with great care. When an additional hand was needed to control bans, he was perfect candidate (for this and for many other things too) From my point of view, i think things like this: i have "features" and "potential roles", and i need to associate them. I grab a player form the many available and i give that person stuff to play with. I could do it randomly but why to risk doing it randomly when md is so good at filtering people out. I honestly do not care between your personal competition, if i find someone that deserves, wishes and is suitable to a role, and i have the needed tools for that role, and the time, i will give that role to the first one requesting it. So far there were very very few people to fight over the same role anyway.

yeah the scenes look cluttered. I was kind of overexcited by the new way to add clickables and flooded with too many things. I will try to make more elegant changes in the future :)

i believe such a topic is uncalled for, and also my reputation is highly overrated. Its not me that keeps MD alive, md is alive because of others that are far more involved than i am, and you should focus your attention towards them, if you want to thank someone for md growth. My merit ended a couple of years ago. The only thing i consider myself good for in md, is my intuition regarding md chain of events/evolution, but thats something almost nobody respects or believes in anymore, so, i really don;t need such topic that simply repeats how awesome i am that i created md and bla bla. Thank you

Note: now with easy to add scene additions we could add more relevant things to places where you can collect items, maybe some sort of totem to symbolize this functionality? or a trader symbol/painting/statuette... it will add a visible indicator in addition to the scene flags add in tribunal there can be more item colelcting places, probably i missed adding one

i added that list to the big list, waiting for more names of people one or the other think i favored. Apparently favoritism is one of my biggest issues so lets get to the bottom of all this once and for all. You will not like the outcome of this, but if you doubted my reasoning, now you have to deal with the consequences @DD exactly how i think...someone needs to give such things, and if a public vote is not an option, or a very fair process of selecting people is not efficient (or time efficient) ...i use the only one thing that can compensate all this, my intuition. When i selected Chew for this i used intuition, sustained by details such as (loyalty, perseverence - proof: active days, skill not proved but compensated by a good communication with him (at that time) etc) ..all these factors, that are very personal , helped me decide to give chew his powers... This does mean i favored him more than others...is it a bad thing i look for reasons why to favor one or the other more? I might understand this entire problem wrong. Or you do. In some cases its a race, in others it is a search. If it is a race, then favoritism is damaging. If i look for people to give favors, then thats a good thing, right? or not? I will reply to ALL player entries in that long list I updated in my initial post about favors....oneee by oneee....and not only reply I thought my judgement in md is respected _as it is_ ...its clear to me its not...so if you want something totally open, totally free of my intuition and judgement , but "FAIR" and free of any favors, fine, lets see how md will look after this. --- even if i reply to each entry, there is one thing that might explain many entries there. If i "feel" that a person is more "interesting" that he/she is able to show, and if that hidden treasure inside that person is more imprtant than the risk that person presents to md community , i will allow that person to come back, ignore some of the rules, give some unfair advantages and so on. MD is about the people in it, i never meant it to be "fair" in any way. For this sort of decision you must use intuition and feel, does not fit so much with logic but logic does help. I think i define the very meaning of favoritism here... so ..what to do? I can exclude myself and my decisions from md future, apparently they are harmful, lets see how all of you will deal with being "fair" and doing no "favors"..can't wait to see that, in fact, i dream for that day when md will be able to promote interesting people by using some fixed and fair judging system. i am angry, but i believe i am correct and coherent in what i say, feel free to tell me otherwise

Chew, i assume you can take direct hits so i won't mind my language, as you don;t do with yours :D are you simply making a charade out of this? You named some people and some reasons on that list that you know for certain what is all about them. Are you simply posting what people espect to hear? What a waste of time if you do that. If not, and i hope its not that, i will take that list as real and analyze each entry. Are you seriously saying i favor all people on that list? You do realise that with all the lists combined, i start to favor more people that are currently active in md...so if i favor all, where is the damage??

i intentionately keep functions of new clickables for later because i have a secret plan that might or might not work, to add some cyclicity in the real... making them regular editable items will be the last solution if i won;t be able to make something else out of them

Current list of favorised players: nimrodel: Fang Archbane - (who made it to mp7 with his illusionist meteor), after discussing with fang in private, i realised there are aspects of his character that might be needed more in md. His intentions were of most honest kind but he had no tools. I considered him a character with good intentions but no way of actually putting them in practice, and there was also no use of the mp7 features at that moment. Giving him mp7 was an opportunity for both me and him, for me to experiment what happens and for him to put in practice what he presented as his dream. There was no competition over a similar role, so why am i accused of favorising him..i favorised him against who? I simply boosted a potential md role. Seigheart - (who was sponsored with a spell doc as a reward for a quest that should've ensured him some punishment), i name my sponsorship before the quest starts, and i intend to keep my promises because they are basically made to the winners not just to the organizer. Punishing someone for a bad quest never happened and never will, as long as the quest comes from that person initiative, it can;t be considered a chore. Leixer - (who got a drachorn in those days when GGs were rare for being 'persistent'. All he was persistant was at beating the crap out of the system by putting his finger in all the loopholes he could find and tearing the system apart.). i do not remember the exact story. It might be the case that from time to time i give things about to be extinct, to random people i get in contact with or that are online at that time. Something so rare, could have similar effects in the hands of someone earning it or someone that received it for free. Again, i do not remember the exact story. Eon - was shown favouritsm as well. a lot of people suffered because of him. what eon did bad was based on things totally ok for everyone else. Just numbers differ. He only used earned abilities and powers, nothing special at all....do you expect me to punish someone in public because he becomes inconfortable to the community? Indyra - is another huge example for favouritism. Lair keepers didnt even last for a few months. in this case it is possible that my personal, almost family relation with her, influenced things a bit. She had the advantage to be able to explain me in detail her intentions with the lair, and i had the confort of being able to explain someone face to face what i wanted to happen with that guild. Faced with such a good opportunity to get the lair and drachs back in game under someone that i knew for sure that she knows what to do, was too tempting to ignore. She got her role both as favor and as an earned role. Many earn a role that they never get. So yes, it is a favor, but was not detrimental to others or to md. What she did later with the role could have happend to anyone else that starts something but abandons it due to personal rl issues...yet you do not comment on those situations... updates: no one: Phantom Orchid - What's the story with her / him? Got out of jail, got revived i got her out of jail a couple of days later than she was supposed to be put. This happend after a very debateable jail time, that can be considered one month more than initially intended. After getting out, somehow she gets killed, right after that. I was aware that killing her is perfectly "legal", yet as a player, i offered her a reviving elixir, gift...she used the elixir and revived. Why i did it? mainly because i found it almost offending to me that she got killed just when i released her...and at the same time way to mocking towards her..so i acted, as a favor if you prefer calling it that. I did not use any authority in this, i did not accuse as abuse or did anything else to the killer...it was a role vs role situation. Burns: Cryxus, flag/tag group. had a role that aimed for this ability, and from time to time i grant abilities that are fit, without any other reason. MR's (mostly MRD), got an ally. had a role that aimed for this feature, and from time to time i grant abilities that are fit, without any other reason. Shadowseeker, got a flag/tag group. in a long series of research related discoveries, ss gained my trust and admiration, so i gave him things that i believed fit with his achievements Udgard and yrth, crafter abilities and ally. because of their assumed roles, combined with dedication and good understanding of how items should work and how their values should be preserved Shoeps... yeah. "yeah" is not enough detail to describe potential favoritism Shoeps reached a top authority postion and for that he received access to any needed tools and immunity to any rules except my own indications. It is happening same way now with council, and shoeps was at that time equivalent of council. Renavoid, almost as much as Shoeps. there is an enormous difference between shoeps and renavoid. However both achieved very well contoured roles, with great personality, i consider they EARNED whatever i gave them. Do i need to remember any of you that there is an endless list of abilities that you can;t get any other way other than given by me or someone in council? From time to time i needed to give out certain things and i did so to people that i considered they both deserved and were able to handle such benefits. Khalazdad, practically a whole land to himself. Key changes to md social dynamics are essence to give lands personality. A leader of such presence was needed, and a leader of such skill appeared. Connecting one+one together is so obvious and simple, so why should i not give such things out if they are expected, needed and the opportunity comes? Maybe i should remove any variation between characters and make you all perfectly equall? ..i assume that will please you, but will also make things lifeless. Khal story, boosted by me actions and his skill, remains a key element in md history, a much needed element. Peace, countless things over many, many years, creatures, items, illusions and so on. same as khal. Cutler, Rendril and Chewett, freedom in coding stuff. THEY EARNED IT, all of them giving coding access is probably the one thing that happens just once every many years and when it does, imagine i need to trust those people skill and understanding of md with my life. If you place of "favors" list that i gave anyone coding access, then you are basically saying i am sabotaging my own 'baby' dst, huge freedom. yet not coding freedom her freedom comes from an odd perspective. She managed over the years to adapt and swim around rules, control her impulses and achive anything she wanted without breaking the rules. When she did cross the line, she ended up in jail. Nobody else acts as a sort of policeman, investigator. She did that long before any tools were available to her..in other words she earned her role, quite the hard way, On top of that, as i already said, her role is very useful to md. Fenrir/Seigheart, allowed to avoid punishments repeatedly (e.g. Ann.1616 & 1674) (Note, not saying that people don't deserve another chance) bahh..i really wish to remember what that was about. It was something very interesting and the announcemnt was part of the setup for something.. I keep this answer open for when i remember what it was about Liberty, alt abuse as role. yes, the only person to go so wild about alts, and keep it unhidden. Liberty was actually very dedicated to those alts and everything was basically part of his role. I gave this role, once, because it was fitting to how he behaved toward those alts. Diversity is healthy, having an illegality as an official role, is diversity..it is the exception that is always needed. Same way like with many others, i had no other reasons other than to give a shape to somethign that already had a shape, if you understand what i mean. Alyon, flag group where ally already existed. not sure what you are talking about, it could be possible i give things forgetting they are already given. i do mistakes. not sure this was one, because i don;t remember what this is about really. Chewett: dst - Why her role? Why can she abuse and cause rifts and it be called "working" no one - See dst, mostly pending reply eon - why skilldamage, his killing role? skilldamage comes with boss heads. killing role? why? are you serious? who else? ..ask why a killing role, not why eon. considering his achievements in fighting and a reputation as a killer actually, this role was perfectly fitting. myself - Why everything? as i discussed with you in private, placing you on the favors list is sad for me. I will answer it here, for everyone you were the first one to exceed me in active days. That, for me, means you cared more about being active than i did. You were trusted with admin related roles long before and never stepped once wrong. You had needed will, knoweledge and power of learning to understand the fine details of what means md seen from code perspective. A coder place was one thing needed and expecting someone suitable, i connected one+one. It was mainly intuition not reasoning behind such a decision, but i prefer to present the reasoning part. It proved i was right i believe. phantom - Why her dreamcatcher with massive powers? Why her new role? dreamcatcher role was suitable at that time for her, it was also a new ability that needed someone and that someone i found in her role/character. My decision still remains, and i can;t give her the same role back due to the way she (ab)used it, but i can give her a new role, similar in concept with that one. Also a new role will be using features not tested before, so she will be a pioneer for this branch awiiya - Why the tree? research related discovery related to seeds i believe. Also i wanted to put at good use a feature i used too rare, clickables that apear only when player is online. Also because awii was simly perfect for such a presence in the realm, who else deserving a tree? Creating diversity and niceley represented roles is a crime now? i thought we (WE) aim to do that for all players, now you question why i did it for one perfect occasion? ----update 2 --- BFH - Why being able to ban? because he proved that he can deal with powerful tools and that he can be really hard to influence and incorruptible by personal grudges. We needed an additional person with ban ability, he was dealing with large numbers of people, so ..why not? He has his limits in who he can ban, just to avoid situations where i would normally close an eye. For example, older players (ad based) are more allowed to do damage than newer players, in those cases it needs to be me or council to decide if they get banned. In some cases, like with phantom, it needs a longer time for such a decision to be taken. The older you get the more immune you get. BFH deals with the people that are not that immune, and he is active enough to handle such a role. Did he stepped wrong so far? Fang - Why MP7? needed a free/unrestricted live test of mp7 to see its impacts. Needed also to give him a chance to fulfill his dream and to allow him to be of help, as he considered that being mp7 will help him train others that can;t train otherwise. Please read the other explenations o posted so far, they all make together a better picture of why Grido - Why let his inactivity continue? Why choose him for LHO leader? because i am hoping one day he returns more active Council - Why protect them? for obvious reason. One of them is to give them the freedom to act the same against people they consider friends and people they consider enemies, anonymity offers a certain power. They are also immune to any rule, because they can make rules. To keep them immune is better to keep them unknown, or their reputation will be torn to pieces be everyone and everything will be blamed on them as individuals. They also need full authority, if i don't protect their identity, their authority as a character will mix with their council role authority , and they will have little to say. Sieg - Why the repeated chances? i saw in him a lot of potential, i was convinced his character will do good, and i am still convinced he would have done so if not hunted down. But because of enormous pressure from both players and council, i gave up. He gave up also, after many many tries of doing good, he failed, but also lost interest because eve3rybody was so ready to stone him. His reputation was tained once due to en event that was forgiven, and since then everything went terribly wrong for him. I in his place would have left long ago, he staid and tried hard...i value such perseverence. Mur - Why do you get to randomly implement stuff that A) doesnt work and B) needs a shedload of work and C) doesnt intergrate with game nicely a) it works , i put the guidelines for the concept, the details to make it perfectly work should be finished by someone else, or by me later. consider them test features to have them in md and consider them when doing other features. b) they don't work fully because they need more work, these two points are related. They need more work because i focus on making the concept, then the details i find boring, sadly, and i get vusy with other stuff c)everything i do, integrates perfectly with the game, its not always in the same time interval, some integrate perfectly with things not already created :) Many development areas are bugged and not used, but they are needed to be there even in that form. Consider for example autumn2050, many of the things there are based on bugged features or unfinished ones, yet without those, the event could not be created. DD - Why does he get the sendtotrialofagony spell? Why? nobody else wished it, he proposed it, it was created...WHY NOT give the one that proposed it a chance to use it? Peace - She has been given shedloads of random stuff, why? nothing random the random stuff like avatar changes or quest related items, were given by me as i was playing loooooong ago. the other things simply fitted with her role and she was ancient enough to be trusted with them. Jester - Why does he get a second/third/forth change? he repeatedly abuses things his actions are fitting with his character. He also hides a lot more than he shows and i believe his contribution/influence on md realm is not yet over Kyphis - Why him? Relating to recent things skilled, organized, creative ... intuition picked him he DOES an excepelent job "related to recent things" Rophs - Why him? Relating to recent things he was NOT involved, i do not know what you are talking about Nimrodel - Why a wish? Why not just "New things come and go, tough luck" like everyone else? not sure what you are talking about Princ Rheagar - Why dreamweaving? one day he sent me a pm with a very useful perspective on things. the moment he showed me there is something under his skull that i consider valuable, i admited it and he got what requested. It requires great courage to admit your own mistakes in front of a man that i once wanted destroyed. Windy - Why the pub? i wanted to make it, am i not allowed to play now? Shadowseeker - Why his interface? earned it big time. His research observations are worthy to fill many research sections. He will be a great addition to the research thing. He deserved it, he got it. simple. Cutler - Why all his powers? very talented character. Zleiphneir - Why all the stuff, alliance, eg this is getting annoying. ask him Junior - Why the many chances? lovable character, did lots of good things for md back when in advertisers, deserved some sort of appreciation back. i included him on a knaty related quest, to test him, he did good, he received from me things suited to his performance and character. I guess you can name that favor, yet i don;t feel "guilty" at all for that. Burns - Why the drachs? don;t rememeber I am Bored - Why the role? stood weeks in a place where he has been forgotten, vey very...VERY smart person, and very perseverent, He also has a high tolerance to boredom, so , i gave him a role to suit him. Ailith - Why her neutral roles? ask her Bottom line...;you ask me why i give out roles that re fitting to the person receiving them??? what the fuck is it favor in giving roles that fit, in order to expand md and make it more interesting? @Nim: Becomming more favored, was part of the rpc thing, of course, how else to give them authority. I can't remember why rpc system was disbanded. yes people become arogant if they have me "on their side"..sadly. You say very few of the old rpc deserved that post...no, in my view almost all deserved it. I say almost because i know of 1, possibly 2, that were true favors, but i won't name them here, that would be not a nice thing for me to do, not here and now. The rest, i considered all to deserve their position. "Many made it just because they knew you out of game as well." - that is a general missconception. I meet people usualy AFTER they do something to deserve my attention, and some even if they deserve it, they don't receive it. I must exclude here relatives..its hard to negociate favors with relatives.

perfect, keep posting, i will make a list of playernames and reply in one for all as a note , i received such a reply: "I'm not talking about you favoring, I'm talking about you not doing anything when other people favor dst over me." Please..i am talking about MY favoritism, not others, or favoritism in general in md. Not doing anything towards someone or in a given situation could be considered a favor only if i do something in other similar cases.

I would like to hear some feedback for the event and if you would like similar things to happen in the future or you prefer an other way of doing it (whenever it happens i add new things) The concept behind it is that i want to get people involved into bringing to life certain parts of the realm. This can however come at a cost sometimes, because regardless how much work i put into something, i will not release it if the requirements are not met, once i decide on any requirements Alternatively, i could spend that time working on other stuff, like item functionality instead of scene looks (clickables).

:( so much stress and anger for an event. Events in general were supposed to bring fun not dissapointment of this sort (on all sides). i will not comment further. I can not punish someone for not doing a quest where i was supposed to be more present too, but i wasn't. I feel also responsible, for not interfering in time for example...it would not be just for me to punish him now for abandoning a quest..plus i don't think such a punishment is fit in general..or if it is, we should write some sort of clear rule about it. This simply is a sad situation, with a very rude and careless reaction from seigh..and some more lost time and lack of appreciation towards chewy :(

i can move you to any mp between 2-7. mp1 is not available for a long time, and once it will be available it will be as common as mp3