Muratus del Mur

Show of force 3 - What's a Mur Muratus del Mur started as my main character in MD several years ago, ruler of entire MagicDuel realm, invisible and unbiased judge of both good and bad actions, making both official but also secret chess moves in the realm balance. It started after I was known as King Manu, but slightly MD changed myself and in an unspeakable way it brought answers before actual questions. King Manu was more of a leader type, but Mur can be considered a creator/crazy god type. I knew the feelings that drove this entire thing, and used time to disect them in words, logic structures, and even scientific explenations. Years ago I had no chance to tell you the answer in this way, keeping its flavor and its true feeling. Now I evolved, I learned from you, I always do. I mirror myself, in the realm but the reflections I get back are from the people in the realm, not from the realm itlsef. The story of Mur, who he and what it happen next, starts with a simple , yet tricky question. What's a Mur?..It was a question I designed, for you to ask but never find. It was my challange, it still might, to show the a truth I could not write. Yet some of you got really close, had the answer at their nose. The quest ends now, took you three years, its time the answer reach your ears. I think I ..lost.., yet none have won, imagine that, if you really can. I will not hide, i know its hard, to do a quest without reward. Yet those that won can know they did, without anyone to confirm their deed. The way you searched, its the reward, regardless of the answer found. I never give rewards for riddles that I value most, consider it a paradox. I put your reward in the result and my motivation in your feedback. What is a Mur, I'll stop the tease, but still can't tell it with such ease. You all forget what words once ment, you know their form but lost content. A Mur reminds you of that fact, that words mean thought behind a sound. You searched the letters, found relations, but missed the feelings that were obvious. It is a thought, you already feel, it is a name that is not real. The Mur itself is just a clue, to point the meaning that is true. A point of void to place the border, so questions all can find their order. You found it means "Wall", oh thats so true! it's the important clue. A wall indeed its most you found, searching meanings all around. A single word can't answer it, you had to follow bit by bit. You always had the other clues, but one by one you had them gone, giving them meanings of their own. I lost this quest because I learned, that secrets work if stay untold. I should have stoped to write this bit, to have the best of riddles kept. I do however think this should, become the lesson that it could, to reveal all and skip the blurr, that some could cast on what means Mur. So lets see the clues that left a trace, to find the Mur's secret face. Its not exagerated, I pick my words, I know my reasons. Some think I gamble, when words and rhymes I do slightly tremble. The face i mean is there alright, as dark and black shadow, its wings show light around the night to follow. It discovered the realm, you all know to what I aim. Now think of it, I always said, the realm was there, I just discover. To follow the trace and reveal some connections, imagine the spitt in the Angiens development. A face for one to show the light, a face for one to show the dark, yet one from the other will emerge. I will spoil this one, because its late, I put a meaning on a plate. I wish I said this clue much sooner, but I was somehow scared, It would have turned truth to rumor, or damage logic bad. The angiens dark face hides nothing more than a reflexion. Like the mirror on that wall, a truth of history repeated, the story of our ancient fall, with all implications on purpose intended. There is a catch to all I say, I want to make you think, don't take me wrong I pray, but other things should link. To see the music behind words, listen to what's hidden, to feel the colors behind thoughts, reveals a story yet unwritten. But that's a story I still reserve, to torture minds of briliant people, it is a practice to preserve, the neverendin MD meanings ..ripple. So back to clues, what else is there? Oh yeah, my name, an arrogant character with great fame. Muratus "of the" Mur, like the derivate of something, still keeping the initial name somehow. Its like something of the same something, yet different. More? Less? depends what dirrection you look at it, yet is the same, like the repeating yet different history symbolized in the mirror story. The times that I hold, the rumors i provoke..they all have their purpose, but don't get paranoid. You need to see, attention is mandatory, there is no mirror in the entire MD game, nor in scenes or rooms or items, yet I hold a big clear mirror in my inventory. How rude of me, to wave the biggest clues at you without telling you a nice story. I even mirrored your details and name when you clicked me..ha..that was a desperate and clear clue. The MD Pattern There are more, but I made my point. Mur is a pattern to expect. Its meaning slipped within your knowledge, not your heads, it is not manipulatory or intrusive, but it is my sort of "art" in all its glory. Its ment to say, what i was to stupid back then to explain directly. You read the story of the mirror now, stop thinking, there is no math, there might be physics but its all nature afterall. All you need to see the forest is to stop analysing each tree, information is free, the path is the one difficult. You can learn how the most complex things work by analising even the simplest ones. My lesson ended, I might do to, but now i know which way to go. MD is art, It holds much more, regardless of how insane i might go , my legacy, and the skill of its inhabitants, will offer me the WALL i always searched for. Oh yeah. MD is my wall, i am its mirror, and that works the opposite way to, but NO, thats not all. It is a pattern. I am just the advertiser of this pattern, a popular charcter with all the rights to show the symbols. I learned something shocking. I built MD based on things deep in me, yet, it proved later they were not just mine. Then i discovered a pattern, one I represented, but not caused. Step by step I understood things ... to many to spell. MD built Mur, Mur built MYSELF, and I built MD... and above all, the patterns are valid, its not a personal thing with me as a person in rl, it is a general story, where the word Mur is not even a name with a meaning. You see me as a "god" in MD..oh yeah..its what i am in md ...made me realize we all are gods in our own mirrored universes. Its not programming, logic or color, it seems there is only one tool that can fit my needs right now and its called art. I'm kind of doomed regarding that, I might be skilled but I am not an artist really. I built my own kind of art, has no name yet. Its the logic methods you see in MD, , ways were thought, number and color combine, long story, but its beautifull. I wish I could use the skills I perfected, in ways to support my past, like improve MD, fix its gaps that are driving people away, fix my life and so on, but Mur is now trapped in its own mirror, escaping reality in its own way, both in MD and in RL. My experiments continue, but I might give them more personal touch from now. I searched enough to be objective just to realise i did and valued the opposite, and it was in the end a very subjective and personal way to put things that helped me understand something I supposed initially to be as pure as math and without interpretations, but it wasn't. I search the big mirror, don't we all? But i shattered in many shards, and now I look through each and so I should. It is a path we all follow, cause we are all just shards. I cant finsih things, in general i mean. It is sort of a curse or doom. However like someone told me, my skill is to "not finish them". I will perfect that. I will build things that finish themselves. I guess, if MD was indeed a series of unavoidable coincidences and logic paths as i concluded, it also means a stable and perfectly interconnected mechanism can be initiated by a single spark. Like planting a seed in the right conjuncture. What if i could build a seed, one of color and logic, a reaction to cause the chain of coincidences that follow. A point in the future to cause all its events in the past... I know now this is possible, it happens, but are the shards able to achieve that, or not. Cant ask a plant to run, or an animal to grow roots...can the shards do that , even as a test, like md was, or that remains reserved for the neverexistant initiall mirror? I left that end unwritten yet, but all the strings are there to connect, with mur's mirror, and other MD things.. There are words and sounds and combination of those that are meaningfull regardless of culture. It makes me wonder.. a lot of things. I will enjoy reading your replies, as always. some time ago I honestly thought that i will never reveal its secrets. People close to me probably thought I should have revealed it first to them, but i didnt. I appologise to them, but they should know that nobody untill now, no friends, relatives, players or strangers knew this before i write it here. I flipped a coin, this was the decision so to say. P.S. there are things I wanted to put in MD as clues to mur , that were supposed to bring other interesting details of its meaning. I didnt managed to do that in MD but I might continue in the mirror story that just started. (example: refering The Mur like it is a device, a core inside someone... and many more clues, excluding tomatoes, lol) P.S.2 The Mirror story is NOT adventure log story, it will continue privately but will intersect with MD in several places because its main character is Mur.

This is a very long topic, and you will need time and a clear head to understand it. Pease read this post first, it is in a way the first part of "What's a Mur" riddle. http://forum.magicduel.com/topic/8328-the-mirror/ I put it separately because the Mirror story will continue its own way. when you are done reading that, be sure you still have time and your head doesn't hurt from the previous reading , and proceed with next post. This is a long one. It was meant as material for a book, so consider this the short version.

note: regarding uour comments to the deleted posts. i read them both. Show of force 3 will be mqde public next. The Mirror Thoughts too shattered to rhyme to find their path in such short time I'll tell them in my own rhythm in a poetry without its poem Excuse the clues i left behind The riddles that i missed to bind These are things one of a kind That only some will seek to find So here it goes.. Once upon no time... There was a guardian of time, not a being of some sort, or a monster in a fort, nor a wonder chest but an object at its best. This guardian that i tell, was just a mirror on no wall. It was so perfect that it had, only itself and all its pride, nothing to fear nor flaws to hide. So I was saying.. it mirrored all and trapped their imperfections, gave them back just empty reflections. It swallowed all that passed in front, be it object life or be it void, like a dark sun that has died, it gave them back just empty light, nothing escaped whatever they tried. This perfect mirror trapped it all, nothing around to see anymore. It was alone and lost, like a body without its ghost, no reflections left to tell if anything was left at all. No time has passed since then at all, since time was guarded most of all. The things it trapped tried to escape. They tried to show the mirror feelings, reason, beauty, but the mirror had no ears, no fears to fear, nor eyes to look, at the reflections that it took. A giant eye to see it all, and so it did, it saw it all. It stood alone, alone and blind, trying to remember what was there once to find. It slowly turned into terrible horror, the idea that there might actually be not even the mirror. It looked around but there was nothing. just pure perfection without expression. It might have gone a second or a million years untill it happend, no history to write if no time to bend, to start or to end, but at some moment the mirror decided it had no purpose since it blinded. It gave up existing, forgot about the trapped time she was guarding and in all her sadness and furry became to doubt, it lost faith in its own mirrorish clarity, it became blurry. Time was waiting, its what it does. It found a tiny fraction of itself, so small that it couldn't even be considered time at all. It sent it out on a mission, to cause havok and destruction, to cause a crack, an imperfection, and so it did at times suggestion. When the mirror realised its first flaw, it had the proof was waiting for, to give it up, to end it all. More longer moments followed soon, time released its many faces, shattered all in an infinity of pieces. Time was cruel and did not forget, the "time" it lost in its imprisonment. It took the mirror shards so far away, that some forgot what they once were, time escaped, ran fast, very angry and still runs faster day by day. Within its dieing moments, the mirror saw the reflections in each of its shards. Like lonely lost eyes of what was once a great power, they filled the world they once devoured. With their now flawed and shattered view, they took a humble look of what was for them now new. It started for the first time to see itlself, not in whole, but in puzzles of it all. The mirrors wish was now fulfilled, to see the things it only dreamed, to see the reflection of its own face, at least small views of its power, infinity and grace. It now was sure she actually existed. It took to die to see it was alive, It took a flaw for perfection to arrive. It took to lose its purpose, no more prisoner, to achieve something new, we call it now freedom in our view. It lost however something dear, replaced oneness with a fear. Scattered and lost, forever doomed by the curse time cast, it fears to forget, each and every piece that still reflect. So each eye keeps looking, searching, trying, digging deep in reality to see and remember what it means to BE. And so my story ends, almost.. What happend next? try to connect yourself the dots. They danced and danced two by two, just enough the first sees the other too. Paired together but still not united, they float in time, forever divided. Peaking at reflections to see others imperfections, to find their pair, they search their match with utmost despair. Its said that once a shard finds its partner, they both forget their initial purpose forever. You wonder why? Its very simple, just face two mirrors at eachother, to see the two already found, what other shards still look around. What could it be, two hide in two shards of infinity? It is there all, for them to see, to leave this world and find their own infinity. They will keep time away, find the greatness they once were, seeing all untill theire nothing there. They will do the same again, mirroring their past, recreate eternity untill one cracks. Time will escape, will run away, its a future action it already did, shards can't foresee this amazing deed. The two shards unite, becoming one, stepping the steps of the first one gone. Unavoidably they'll fall apart, shattered shards in a dead sun, launching time in its long run. Never ends and never will, time runs fast while shards stand still. They are always doomed to fail, plutting time back in its jail, shards can never be so fast to stop the future cause its past. Now I'll rest to think it all, rest my back to a strong wall. Yet.. There are some reasons still left to hunt, my feeling deep inside my heart...what if the mirror that once were was nothing else but too a pair. Some say its us that shards are now, .. I say why not rocks, or socks or planks, or the multitude of plants, why not.. afterall their're all, just fractions of the whole. They see it too, and share it all, rebuilding universe before the fall. From smallest grain to biggest star Everything still roots that far.. . .... PART 2 ..... . The Empty Wall I stand in front an empty wall And wonder what would happen To have there hanging all alone The mirror that once shattered An unborn world within a world Cruel chaser of all imperfection A chest of secrets never told No shards of incomplete reflection I stay there staring at the void And demons start to whisper I close my eyes and lose my mind As letters start to glitter Its written there on empty wall Where mirrors never see These things now keep to crawl Beyond the reasoning in me I see whispers turn to shapes To symbols never seen before I see my image how it fades It is the price if you explore To help my mind to stay on track I'd give the mirror its own wall A place to hide its unseen back Somewhere to hang so it won't fall I'd take its time and let it go To free the mirror of its burden If it casts its entropy on me My fate will become certain. My dreams begin to end i see But something feels not right The demons I no longer see Perhaps I won the fight.. I see a stranger staring shocked I feel a wall behind my back Unseen something keeps me locked I can't believe I see a crack Mur -- The story continues so does its relation to my character and md realm, but for now enjoy what it is.

UPDATE: The three winners will be able to pick ONE of the following. Once picked, that prize won't be available to be picked by the next winner. - Usable item, type: gathering tool (probably for water) - One time enhancement to all your creatures (or a selected group) to allow them the next trade (only) to be done without penalty. - Pack of two unmorphed morphs. They are tradeable untill morphed (might turn as never before seen variations or as existing one) - 100 credits, on the account of your choice - Get full tokens on a creature of your choice, regardless of current owner. - 3 shop resets (to be used anytime) - a tour for TWO people (at the same time) to various limited access places, including prison, locked places, unreleased locations and such. (no screenshots allowed, time limited, escorted by me) more might come on the way, tombola ends on 28 november

the winners will pick one of the available prizes in order they are extracted. If there will be just 3 prizes or more i am not sure now.. maybe more. I think i should state the prizes from now... i'll update this shortly

- only paal payments, regardless of reason, so yes subscriptions too - no spelldocs, they fit in the wish shop kind of items and they will be available in that section. they are also not tradeable and in case you didnt figured it out yet, giving such gifts to random people will cause market movement, and that is a good thing. spell docs wont. - no two prizes to same person, the point of three prizes is to have three distinct winners. so the chances are higher.

noted, dark wont be subject of payable opportunities, same like the other bw creatures. but , i will probably add it in wish shop, and tombola will feature a new morph probably. i will give the prizes by allowing the first winner to pick out of 3, the second out of 2 and the third gets the remainin prize tombola awards and auction awards will have similar prizes,... yes there will be other tombolas, not sure when or with what. This also means no bw creatures in auctions or tombolas from now on. Bw creatures will be placed on the marked for free, as adhoc gifts, special occasion awards, but never payed. What the owner will do with it after (like sell it for 200$ directly to his pocket), is no longer my concern. happy? whats the next thing you dislike? update, any direct money offer in my direction, for a creature or benefit in md will result in ban without warning,... just to avoid any temptation

I am glad you asked all those questions, because I wanted to answer them. 1) the number of tickets you have is exactly the number of transactions you see in your paypal account. I will use directly the paypal logs for the extraction. The winner will be selected based on a random number picked probably by one of you that will be online at that time, or something like that. There is no need to be paranoid, if i want to cheat such a tombola i can simply give the rewards directly, i can actually do that , remember? So stop being paranoid. 2) It is indeed a conflict of concept, but please do not mistaken these prizes with something you can purchase. You will never find WPs or these rare occasion creatures in the shop, otherwise they will not be rare but only "premium". I am careful about the values and their proportions in MD, but hard times require such measures. This is an event , not a shop... 3) The reason I placed one ticked per transaction is not to encourage small transactions but to give equal chances to those that pay 5$ and those that pay more. The tax is considerably higher but thats not a problem. 4) Md is sustained in high proportion by a small group of veteran players that are constantly supporting it regardless if they need the credits or not. I should have simply awarded them a few rare creatures directly, but i am not. I will treat both paying members and nonpayong the same always, remember that. You see when paying members get an opportunity like this but you don't see all the other things I do for members that cant or wont pay anything...what can i say. Again, and again, md is far from being a money machine. Because you complain, please listen and listen good. I am forced to put such things up, like a tombola or payed reward codes, because we are short of some money this month (I will detail the exact required payments to those concerned) , not to mention Rendril deserves a bonus and i am unable financially to give it to him. I have a few other things to use in emergency situations but I am running out of options fast. I am sick and tired of this, if you feel more confortable considering md a money hungry machine, do whatever you think. I used to tell you these things openly and discuss them, but i am sick of sounding like a crying granny and complain about md not having enough money to SURVIVE. This is probably the last time i will justify such a thing. Md costs are of about 1k$/month and without advertising (that costs a lot more than tha), its slowly going down, and its being on that path for a very very long time. The small number of loyal players that come daily is very limited and already supported md financially on -too many- occasions. The solution is to have more players, then things would be different... but we don't and i dont forsee better times. You are complaining about me destroying some concepts in md for the love of money..or something along that line... well think also that after years of building and maintaining MD maybe i could have used such money raising occasions to live out of it, myself i mean, it looks as if its a business afterall. Well i am not, money that comes in md is used for md. Considering that i am currently psychologically incapable of working anything anymore, I could have at least enjoyed a salary supported from my own business, WELL I AM NOT. The only luxury i enjoy from md financial part , right now, is the fact that there is a programmer that can take care of things, and that i sometimes can pay some periodic online thigns such as the countless domains i gathered over the years and never developed, a lot of them in connection with md. Excuse me for being angry, but if you think the tombola is abnormal, suggest a better way. ps. i will read your remarks again when i am less nervous, dont get me wrong, i really appreciate your feedback and it matters...just the situation makes me want to say fu and such.

I don't need the ip's anymore, i thought it was only for some connections that it didnt worked but i was wrong. Because i was somewhere with almost no internet i couldnt check more. Hosting sais they sent a warning email two month before this event announcing the datacenter migration but i somehow missed it. Everything should be fine now.

36) Your computer doesn't run MD, MD runs your computer. bbg (browser based game) is now gbb (game based browser) , welcome to the concept of mirrors, "resistance is futile"...ruM revo.

21. there are no secrets, but making noobs think there are keeps them curious. (read show of force topic if you start believing this to much lol)

14. this project belongs actually to the chinese army that is trying to keep americans and europeans busy while they take over the world. EVIDENCE: there is no chinese translation of MD 15. Mur is actually a pseudonym for a group of people taking turns on one character to screw with your mind and avoid profiling 16. Fyrd Argentus is an alt of Mur, ..you have a MD character too? then so are you. 17. There are so few people left in MD because the last level of the game is played outside the web interface, usually players never win that level.... 18. there is a cow creature and a milk resource but its invisible

i think we shall never know for sure if the tomato is among us anymore or not.... bitter incertitude i hate eggplants so much that i eat them all the time i see them.

relax, everything is fine! pfff...great news afterall... the tomato survived...the tomato is immune!! check out the latest confirmed evidence p.s. tz tz tz ..u're highly stressed. two minutes after the post, 12 people here already, and i was asked who died

no, its deadly serious, that tomato is for real!

We do have an alternate feed to this, but so far is unsure this is the same scene... it might be an other maniac torturing an other poor tomato somewhere in the world. I will update this as soon as confirmed info gets available... untill then this is what i have. Be prepared, it is painful to watch... paramedics say that regardless how fast we spot the location of this horror, they might not be able to help if these images are indeed true.

This is, unfortunatly, LIVE we do not know yet what happend to the Tomato, but police is raiding all possible locations where this footage might be filmed right now.

more pics coming probably tomorow. warning, shocking images parental supervision required. i;m afraid i don't have good news

I am deeply sorry to tell you this but reports talk about a terrible horror that happend. More details and pictures comming soon. i will update this post as soon as evidence get available. Thank you