(Zl-eye-f)-nea

[b][i][color="#2e8b57"]Tequila Christmas Cake
[/color][/i][/b][i][color="#2e8b57"]1 cup water[/color][/i]

[i][color="#2e8b57"]1 tsp. Baking soda[/color][/i]

[i][color="#2e8b57"]1 cup sugar
1 tsp. Salt
1 cup of brown sugar
Lemon juice
4 large eggs
Nuts
1 bottle tequila
2 cups dried fruit

Sample the tequila to check quality.
Take a large bowl, check the tequila again.
To be sure it is of the Highest quality, pour one level cup and drink.
Repeat.
Turn on the electric mixer.
Beat one cup of butter in a large fluffy bowl.
Add one teaspoon of sugar.
Beat again.
At this point its best a make sure the tequila is still OK.
Try another cup...just in case.
Turn off the mixerer thingy.
Break 2 leggs and add to the bowl and chuck in the cup of dried fruit.
Pick the fruit up off the floor.
Mix on the turner.
If the fried druit gets stuck in the beaterers just pry it loose with a drewscriver.
Sample the tequila to check for tonsisticity.
Next, sift two cups of salt. Or something.
Check the tequila.
Now shift the lemon juice and strain the nuts.
Add one table.
Add a spoon of sugar, or some fink.
Whatever you can find.
Greash the oven.
Turn the cake tin 360 degrees and try not to fall over.
Finally, throw the bowl through the window.

Finish the tequila and wipe counter with the cat.
[/color][/i][b][i] [/i][i][color="#ff0000"]CHERRY MISTMAS![/color][/i][/b][i] [/i]

For me...this is how it is:

MP3 is a level for learning
MP4 is an RP level
MP5 is a fighting level...the ultimate fighting level actually as defined

So...forcing MP levels seems like a total change to the system as a whole for me. A change that makes the system more automated and functionally processed which, if thats where it is going, is a good idea, but from the perspective of a role player isn't such a great idea. I suppose it really depends how you view the game. For me, as most are aware, its a no simply because I don't like the enormous cocky attitude and arrogance that resonates within the fighting system ruining the RP for me, and (sorry if i misinterpret here but...) not having enough people to batter doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. However, if the game is indeed to become a more automated system then RP has little to do with that factor and as such this idea is a viable one.

Z

Redneck, I am to understand that you as a player are very young. I recall you having issues with your scanner but that being the case, you should not have accepted such a task of producing the artwork that was requested nor payment for it.

I do not think you are entirely a bad person, but I am aware that everyone tries to get away with something at some point in their lives. If you had been paid in an item and found that you could not do the artwork that was requested because of varying circumstances, you should have spoken to Sparrhawk about it sooner rather than remaining silent about it until I offered Sparrhawk and Mya to do some of the artwork.

I most certainly do not mind doing the art for the Lorerootian trophies, but given your past history in the Artisans and had I realized that you were the person Sparrhawk had hired, I would have warned him against it sooner.

The very least you should do is try to find Lazarus and speak to him about the item, or compensate in another way because whether it is intended or not the drachorn scales that were traded away are at this point considered stolen. Sadly I do not know what the value of drachorn scales are, but I would imagine that they are considered a rare item.

For me...this is how it is:

MP3 is a level for learning
MP4 is an RP level
MP5 is a fighting level...the ultimate fighting level actually as defined

So...forcing MP levels seems like a total change to the system as a whole for me. A change that makes the system more automated and functionally processed which, if thats where it is going, is a good idea, but from the perspective of a role player isn't such a great idea. I suppose it really depends how you view the game. For me, as most are aware, its a no simply because I don't like the enormous cocky attitude and arrogance that resonates within the fighting system ruining the RP for me, and (sorry if i misinterpret here but...) not having enough people to batter doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. However, if the game is indeed to become a more automated system then RP has little to do with that factor and as such this idea is a viable one.

Z

For me...this is how it is:

MP3 is a level for learning
MP4 is an RP level
MP5 is a fighting level...the ultimate fighting level actually as defined

So...forcing MP levels seems like a total change to the system as a whole for me. A change that makes the system more automated and functionally processed which, if thats where it is going, is a good idea, but from the perspective of a role player isn't such a great idea. I suppose it really depends how you view the game. For me, as most are aware, its a no simply because I don't like the enormous cocky attitude and arrogance that resonates within the fighting system ruining the RP for me, and (sorry if i misinterpret here but...) not having enough people to batter doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. However, if the game is indeed to become a more automated system then RP has little to do with that factor and as such this idea is a viable one.

Z

For me...this is how it is:

MP3 is a level for learning
MP4 is an RP level
MP5 is a fighting level...the ultimate fighting level actually as defined

So...forcing MP levels seems like a total change to the system as a whole for me. A change that makes the system more automated and functionally processed which, if thats where it is going, is a good idea, but from the perspective of a role player isn't such a great idea. I suppose it really depends how you view the game. For me, as most are aware, its a no simply because I don't like the enormous cocky attitude and arrogance that resonates within the fighting system ruining the RP for me, and (sorry if i misinterpret here but...) not having enough people to batter doesn't seem like a good enough reason to me. However, if the game is indeed to become a more automated system then RP has little to do with that factor and as such this idea is a viable one.

Z

[b]Best Back Story[/b]
Jose

[b]Best Debater[/b]
Kafuuka

[b]Best Fighter[/b]
Lifeline

[b]Best LHO[/b]
Master B / Burns

[b]Best Personal Papers[/b]
Akasha / Shadowseeker

[b]Best PL Entry[/b]
Sagewoman (recently on Mur)

[b]Best Protector[/b]
Ailith

[b]Best Quest (Please specify quest....)[/b]
Cutler (Astral Plane)

[b]Best Quester[/b]
Eigger

[b]Best Role Player[/b]
Thomas the Titan

[b]Best Spell Caster[/b]
Yrthilian

[b]Best Techie[/b]
Rendril Revant

[b]Best Villain[/b]
Granos

[b]Most Addicted[/b]
Sagewoman

[b]Most Influential[/b]
Peace

[b]Outstanding Service to MagicDuel[/b]
Lazarus (or chad or whatever his name is now )

[b]Rookie of the Year (between 20 and 100 AD at time of nomination and awarding)[/b]
Rhah de la Rey

[b]Veteran of the Year (must be on active vets list, only winnable once)[/b]
Firsanthalas

[b]Best Back Story[/b]
Jose

[b]Best Debater[/b]
Kafuuka

[b]Best Fighter[/b]
Lifeline

[b]Best LHO[/b]
Master B / Burns

[b]Best Personal Papers[/b]
Akasha / Shadowseeker

[b]Best PL Entry[/b]
Sagewoman (recently on Mur)

[b]Best Protector[/b]
Ailith

[b]Best Quest (Please specify quest....)[/b]
Cutler (Astral Plane)

[b]Best Quester[/b]
Eigger

[b]Best Role Player[/b]
Thomas the Titan

[b]Best Spell Caster[/b]
Yrthilian

[b]Best Techie[/b]
Rendril Revant

[b]Best Villain[/b]
Granos

[b]Most Addicted[/b]
Sagewoman

[b]Most Influential[/b]
Peace

[b]Outstanding Service to MagicDuel[/b]
Lazarus (or chad or whatever his name is now )

[b]Rookie of the Year (between 20 and 100 AD at time of nomination and awarding)[/b]
Rhah de la Rey

[b]Veteran of the Year (must be on active vets list, only winnable once)[/b]
Firsanthalas

[quote name='Watcher' date='03 December 2009 - 02:24 AM' timestamp='1259825094' post='49008']
As far as the nominations go, as happened last year, one cannot nominate any of their own characters; all nominations must come from another with a complete disqualification penalty for those who choose to try to circumvent this rule.
[/quote]

In regards to the above post:
[quote name='Grido' date='03 December 2009 - 07:34 AM' timestamp='1259843689' post='49026']
I'll take the first bit and apply that, the other two bits are said more eloquently than i did, and also apply.
[/quote]


[quote name='I am Bored' date='04 December 2009 - 10:58 PM' timestamp='1259985520' post='49183']
There you never said we couldn't nominate ourselfs so
[/quote]
Congratulations, I am Bored, you are the first to be disqualified from the 2009 MD Awards.

Get ready for a long one...

[b][i]Aeo:
Would you make a list of your weaknesses in your pages? I lied, as part of the RP. DUHH!! you would hide your weaknesses as well. actually i don't think i've ever seen a list of weak spots in ANY PLAYER PAGE.[/i][/b]
In general Role Play games, your character description (in MD, that’s your papers for the most part) is there so that people playing with you are aware of what they see visually and potentially what they are or are not able to interact with in regards to you. That doesn’t mean you make a list of weaknesses you are correct. However, it does mean that your story should at the very least allude to them. Especially if you are playing something irregular that people won’t be able to draw conclusions from, because they arn’t inside your brain to see what you feel is obvious. Your papers are not your RP, so writing lies in them, in my opinion, is a terrible thing to do. Your papers/description are/is there for ooc informational purposes in order for those playing with you to be more well informed. If you don’t want someone to know something, then of course don’t put it there. Anything visual should be there because their character could see it anyway, other than that, it’s down to how well you interact with others in game as to whether you can pull something off or not.

[b][i]Aeo:
and no, RP shouldn't be based off game mechanics. it will simply spawn some gods into this world and trillions of weaklings crawling around.that would utterly squash the creativity of new players and make them leave the game before they even get a taste of it

Udgard:
It's a bit hard with stats and trying to *hit* people that *dodge*, but I found my way around that and just cast a frog spell if necessary. They can't *resisted the spell with magical dragon scale armor* when they're clearly saying *ribbit*

Burns:
There are limits imposed by the game such as illusions[/i][/b] - (not a quote, but my summary of a post)

This isn’t like any other live text based role play game. It isn’t a free world, there is a world built around you. That’s the confusing thing. You are born into Magic Duel as whatever age you choose, but no matter what age you are, you are still a new born. At least that’s how I see it. You worry about spawning gods....but you have no issue with god-modding...seems odd to me. Ud demonstrates the game mechanics in play there, so does Burns, I would have thought that that would be an adequate explanation no?

[b][i]Aeo:
you can't just make a program that stops you from saying *kills Mur*[/i][/b]
No one suggested that. They just suggested that that was a very dull thing to do, and I’ll explain my view on that at the end of this post.

[b][i]Aeo:
Godmodders will always be here.[/i][/b]
As long as you are happy for people to act in a certain way, they will. I could say...thieves will always be around, but I doubt that would stop you from installing an alarm system in your house. So you are correct, they will always be around , but I fail to see your point?

[b][i]Aeo:
Oh, and Udgard, asuming you were a new player, would you play this game for a year and a half, striving everyday to rise your stats, getting beaten up by older players, just to be allowed to say *attempts to kick X or Y*?!
and then to be answered *dodges*!?[/i][/b]
Have you considered why role play should be an attempt and not an act? As you said earlier, not all your information is likely in your papers. Only you truly know the limits and strengths of a well thought out character. As such, only you could say how they would or would not react, what they could or could not dodge. I could not just walk up to your character and hit him, for all I know your character might have the ability to dodge me very easily. I can go to hit you, I can try to hit you, but then you say whether I do or not. I give you that freedom and trust. I give you the freedom to show me what and who your character is, and in turn you give me the same respect and freedom. As a result we build both a knowledge of one another’s character and also a respect for each other’s actions. Sometimes I realise I will get hit, because you write the RP in a clear enough way, and I know my character well enough. It’s a story we build after all. One argument I hear often is “everyone wants to win though”, of course, and if you understand that properly, then sometimes you will allow yourself to get hit, sometimes you will lose. That’s called mutual respect. Of course sometimes enforced action will happen, more often than not when it is a friendly gesture, because the point is for everyone to feel involved, understood, and respected, and of course for the story to progress and build. The latter is a bit of a complicated one, but I think I've explained what I mean.

[b][i]Tarq
roleplaying should consider what a character cannot do as much as what s/he can do.[/i][/b]
Couldn’t agree more.

[b][i]Aeo:
you are trying to manipulate us, by using your influence in this game and what you have best here. Not like anything's wrong with that, but it's just the most annoying, self centered thing I can think of.

the more you try to deny or forbid something, the more everybody will try to do it[/i][/b]

It’s not about trying to deny or forbid you. It’s about making interaction just that, and not some grab for power or to demonstrate the girth, or lack of, in a certain area of your anatomy. It’s about making role play viable. When you say “you” are trying to manipulate “us”, could you clarify precisely what it is you mean by that?

[b][i]Jester
I don't play MD to fight. I play MD to interact with friends[/i][/b]
This is the main thing really isn’t it. People role play... to play. If you choose to god-mod and you meet another god-modder then...no one will ever win or lose, there will be no story just a big bash up with very little of any interest for anyone else involved. Role play gets cut short so quickly because someone decides to just walk in somewhere, hack everyone to death, and walk out again. Is it really such a surprise then that people either ignore that sort of thing or argue with the person who did it? The god-modder has just walked into a piece of game play they don’t understand and have no part in (yet), then decide to obliterate it, ruining the game for everyone involved instead of adding to it. It is the same on a one on one basis too. Coming up to me and saying you chop Bob down accomplishes nothing, it doesn’t move the game forward, it doesn’t seem realistic and it doesn’t make me want to play with you. How about creeping along against the wall trying so Z doesn’t see you? Then Z might or might not see you. If he doesn’t see you, creep some more, then get to Bob, then get your axe out, run your thumb across it...do you see where I’m going with this? You elongate your actions, you make the game, you create the story, you make people want to play. For me, Burns (yes, shock horror, Burns, supposedly a grinder) is a very good example of someone who does this extremely well.

Anyway, that's my two cents as you guys like to say.

Z

I am sending you to Africa! Anywhere as long as you get there.

HAHAHA

love this bit;
[i]and kids (baby goats!) [/i]

the ! especially

[quote name='dst' date='03 December 2009 - 11:06 PM' timestamp='1259878002' post='49050']
You water Tree with goat's milk? O_O What next? Baby goat blood?
And yes! Let's send Z to Africa! This way I can abuse Tree muahahaha!!!
[/quote]

Muahahah yeah give it a shot, and I´ll show the world how far an ass-kicked-clown will fly...

[quote name='Grim Angel' date='03 December 2009 - 05:45 PM' timestamp='1259858700' post='49037']
More like no wonder Bob's actually been dying lately... Who needs us Haters?
[/quote]

BOB will never die, Puppetstick-head! [img]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/public/style_emoticons//cool.gif[/img]

Going through my work e-mails, I found the following from a company called Aarca...for some reason...I have no idea why *cough* it made me laugh rather a lot...

[i]"This year we won't be sending you a Christmas card.
Instead we have spent our Christmas card money on a Goat for struggling people in the third world.
But it doesn't stop there, we are paying for the goat to have an animal shelter built, food and vet/medical care so that the local people truly get the best out of it.
Goats provide loads of benefits – they give a family milk to drink, fertiliser for their crops, and kids (baby goats!) to add to the herd or to sell at market.
We hope you do approve – the cards would be binned in January – the goats will give people a sustainable income for a very long time!"[/i]


Z

Well, I believe everyone should have the same chances in winning anything, even if they did win the same thing before.
If it`s all about votes, then it should be a chance for anyone.
If there`s gonna be a jury, then those who won before should be left out, like the Nobel Prize.

I do not disagree with whining, everybody does it. But what is the point of whining and sit with hands crossed if not actually try to change some things?

I'm thankful for the people close to me here who keep me (in)sane on a daily basis just by being themselves, and everyone else who makes things interesting. Also for someone who took the time to care and give me information on something when he didnt have to. I'm also thankful to Bob, for bringing the magic, and his designer for making him so awesome.

Z

I'm thankful for the people close to me here who keep me (in)sane on a daily basis just by being themselves, and everyone else who makes things interesting. Also for someone who took the time to care and give me information on something when he didnt have to. I'm also thankful to Bob, for bringing the magic, and his designer for making him so awesome.

Z

I'm thankful for the people close to me here who keep me (in)sane on a daily basis just by being themselves, and everyone else who makes things interesting. Also for someone who took the time to care and give me information on something when he didnt have to. I'm also thankful to Bob, for bringing the magic, and his designer for making him so awesome.

Z

I'm thankful for the people close to me here who keep me (in)sane on a daily basis just by being themselves, and everyone else who makes things interesting. Also for someone who took the time to care and give me information on something when he didnt have to. I'm also thankful to Bob, for bringing the magic, and his designer for making him so awesome.

Z

[quote name='(Zl-eye-f)-nea' date='25 November 2009 - 11:10 PM' timestamp='1259187012' post='48471']
HAH as if we could forget you! Gorgeous Kid mate

Z
[/quote]

agreed

take as long as you need brother, MD will be waiting


...and i expect her first words to be "all hail savelfuser"

Some things must be done. Look after yourself chick. I'll just be using the way of cleansing in your abscence...you know...for barbeques and things...and when you get back deal with my damn P67!

Z

I like to collect the creatures and love their upgrade levels becuase they look good,
im interested to know how they change, coz they are really cool artwork, and enjoy seeing how they work in battle, but im only trying to level a certain creature right now which keeps me battling

maybe that will change when i reach MP5 (eek, im dreading it when i do! gonna be principle rinsed....well not that it will effect me becasue i really dont know what all those tokens actually do, ive got. Think i only bought them because they look cool (except the green angien fart one )
i was interested in how they could change the battles, but its wayyy too complicated for me all the logs and stuff

So yeh i only really wanna see the next upgrades of the creatures at the moment.

Artwork for me brings a new part of interest in the game, with a kind of true lore. something akin to the location pictures for the land we live in gives us. something fact and concrete that we can access for clues to how the lands work and stuff , part of the md world which can be seen and experienced, and to get the new artwork you obviously need to fight and upgrade and be able to access all the areas within md, or do something special to get a drachorn, or tormented soul and like err Pokemon collect (yay! love it!!)

I would like to be good at fighting for back up in RP (one day!), so that i can may escape the clutches of that horrible man Granos who is trying to taint me. I know it was good for ailith but... Just dont do it to me!!: when you pin me down and weaken me! (there IS something which i can use to get me away thankfully ........ even though it would be boring if i did it too often..!) i need to get strong in battle so that i could stop you going for me once and for all!

Annnnyyway regarding other things i like to do, is rp, coz its rather fun way to get to know people
but err yeh i try my best! Sometimes i meet people who are asking questions and making me think about stuff, and sometimes i come accross new and really interesting quests, fun but mostly a chance to get that elusive WP, im still soooo suprised there arnt that many in existence, hoping it stays a little like that! really fun to try and get one, unlock sooo many different things and places (artwork and knowledge!)

ok...i could waffle on for ages about how everything i enjoy here interconnects, cant do one without the other kinda thing! Awesome!(the magics still very much alive for me atm )

DST you probably dont have any reason TO RP, if you are how i imagine, straight to the point with regards to "knowledge of the realm and how it can help us think about our own lives" some of us dont know what to ask! and feel we need reasons for things and not just accept it at face value(probably like yourself) and thats where for us RP comes in handy see if we can coax a starting point off from a few of the people in MD!

i like to RP... um yeh, and i like to talk to peace about necrovion, but she is gone now, and she was my source of "magic" and something else in the game!
The alliances have never bothered to show any interest in me i mean.. i sometimes ask about things, showing an interest, but im one of the hard ones whos gotta know Everthing before getting involved! too much hard work i say!

some people "keep the dream alive" in a different way, i just need to spend a lot of time with people that do
people who are willing and helpful to let me look further and deeper, and not just expect me to know everything!

For me peace is paramount here.

catching the tailend of khalazadhaddahhdhahzhahad (i cant spell it :S) i was interested by his quest to do with his ideas about how one, in his opinons, should fight in the desert and think about his reasons why. Also to study Rhajadharma, a very interesting and rewarding topic. This being on of the only face value topic i feel i has brought me into thinking about what i should be like in my own life, and "bridged" something between MD and my real life (i wonder if i can class writing poems in that also...md helps me to be creative!)

Peace provided a quest regarding principles. This has single handidly been the only thing i have ever seen in MD regarding principles, in my eyes, and immediately got me involved, after pages and pages of notes i scribbled in my lunch break at work, i managed 4 out of the 12 questions of that section. An essay for each one, sooo many different principles were involved in some of them, all interlinked and affecting each other...not a simple task!
Peace has provided so much time with me in the past, time to talk about what world we live in and how it works, more in an ancient lore type of way. So why do you think that the shades.... love it...though.. there is only One story/parable i fet i have understood of hers/khalazahahahfhdhas and that was by help of kittiness through a quest she was running! All the rest well....like i said i am hard work

phantasm once sat with me at the path of lonlilness and chucked a stone whizzing away, then it kinda um flew straight back into it, and asked me questions about it, he made it really interesting! though i cant remember much now..was a long time ago

Ailith, granos,raven, kittiness, pamplemousse, innocence, and a lot of others have all helped me think differently about different things for differnt reasons, a big part of my experience here

And Zliepheir i feel i have learnt so much from him and bob, yet also feel i know so littler. i bleame it on the Brick wall stuborness

zliephneir, peace and phantasm are the Only people i have found i think who have Actually had a conversation about things deeper in the game!
(i know others do it with quests and very very clever/and fun stuff with quests, and others do it in a creativity exploration like with poems and things which "make you think"

There needs to be more people like them, and especially the people who Talk about it when you are there. helping and guiding people gently allowing them to grow independant thoughts and to discuss. These are the people we need to help "bring the magic" back into MD.
Maybe i havent spoken to the right people...but i mean i Have been playing for a while now, youd think if it was important, someone may have approached me, seeing i was curious!

We all need to be more interested in the err "lore" of the land, the artwork (/pictures/visual gold for conversation starter by the way!) and starts to get others interested! including me! because i will need all the help i can get now peace has gone

(yay im getting negatives! bug off!)

What i did not mention very clearly there is that trying to trap someone into offending you or discriminate you is also a serious thing. I have nothing against man that love man untill one comes next to me wearing a dress and tries to kiss me, well then i explode. If you want to be respected by others , learn to respect the others too.

This is like that, woman want to be equal with man, fine, then don;t expect man to open the door for you or to carry the groceries or pay for your closes, THEN you are equal.

I live in a country where such discrimination is common, but in MD i learned that judging anyone by apparences is not only irrelevant but also a huge barrier against realy understanding that person. Its not about how smart or how cute or how well integrated the person is, its about the "character" of that person, something that MD tries to show and to analize. If you bring in MD your personal frustrations, likes and dislikes, everything will go down without a chance to go up.

Even if you are by nature a person that judges others by race, sex, other, at least try in MD to respect everyone and please don;t mix RL with MD discriminations, ...maybe you will realise that you have A LOT to learn if you do that. I myself learned how idiot i was when i judged people by their preferences or ethnicity, and i still realise how difficult it is to change what others think, like my family or you MD players. If RULES are needed to force you to keep MD clean of that, then so be it. I assure you i will enforce these rules untill md is clean.