I am Bored

If I were to put together a large list, what would the best way to do that? (what info would be needed to make it viable to actually update all of them) I can pretty easily get:
- The scene coords
- The item name (eg. item15, item16)
- Current x/y
- Correct x/y

As an example that needs fixing (LR back entrance): 3_-3x-4_1 - item16 - current position x:229 y:151 - correct position x:228 y: 152

As a note for anyone trying to fix this with A25 tools, the y positions above are what the backend says the position is. When actually shown in the scene, it's 3 pixels higher at 148, and I don't know which number your interface will show.

There's a minor issue with the alignment of small (<20px in both dimensions) clickables on Firefox. This causes the images to appear one text line (~10px in this context) down from where they're supposed to. (see image #1) This particular instance can be seen in the branches at Oak Fort.
This is caused by the extra whitespace within the `<a>` tag (image #2), removing it (image #3) resolves the issue and returns alignment to normal. (image #4)

There's a minor issue with the alignment of small (<20px in both dimensions) clickables on Firefox. This causes the images to appear one text line (~10px in this context) down from where they're supposed to. (see image #1) This particular instance can be seen in the branches at Oak Fort.
This is caused by the extra whitespace within the `<a>` tag (image #2), removing it (image #3) resolves the issue and returns alignment to normal. (image #4)

i must agree, i have no knowldge of what sanity is.... anyone care to explain?

it has been named!

Very few pieces of equipment in MD have descriptions, one of them that does however, the Chalak, refers to "the seals of the eight great kings of the eastern realm". What could this mean? Is it possible that two of the seals have been lost, or could it even be referring to a different set of seals entirely?

I believe this is an issue with you choosing to have too many labels. It would be possible to disable the scrollbar, but that would make it difficult for most to be able to scroll down. The other solutions are to make the label link text smaller, or to use a button to expand the labels and have them collapsed by default.

Because I was bored, I decided to type this up in more of a story form, as there were both a few things I realized as I was going would sound better if worded differently, and there were also a few things that I simply couldn't word the way I wanted because it had to be put in the form of me doing something. The original story was surprisingly  coherent, considering it was made up as I went, but I'll let you be the judge of how believable it actually is.
 
A brief warning, this ignores 90% of MD's actual lore regarding drachorns, and should read as a story, nothing more. And, without further adoo, here it is:
 
 
Orvid approaches the house slowly, holding something covered by a cloth in his right hand, then turns to face the crowd, standing just in-front of the old building. Clearing his throat, he begins, "We have gathered here today, not to mutate a drachorn, but to purify it". This proclamation shocks the crowd, so he begins to tell a story.
 
"Long ago, the drachorns were hunted down and ruthlessly killed, until all but one remained. This lone drachorn is who we will come to know as the Original. She was the prisoner of a Golemus wizard, who performed many experiments upon it, each one resulting in a small change in her DNA. She endured many an experiment, but, over time, it became too much for her, and she eventually collapsed. As the wizard had no use for a weak creature that couldn't even stand up to a few little experiments, he threw it out. On this particular day, there was a storm brewing, so, even in her severely weakened state, she knew she had to find shelter. Ever so slowly, she crawled towards the cliffs, where she knew there must be caves within which she could find shelter. At last, she arrived, and, once inside one such cave, promptly collapsed, and fell into a deep sleep.
 
"Now, she didn't realize it at the time, but this particular cave was home to something else as well, the tiny men. Seeing such a terrifying creature in such a weakened state, they realized they had a chance to take the magnificent beast. Quickly, they concocted a plan to imprison it, while nursing it back to health. As soon as they were sure she was asleep, they acted, tying the creature down with hundreds of ropes, so that she couldn't hurt them. Ever so carefully, they treated the great creature's wounds, nursing it back to health. In time, she became a great friend of the tiny men, who continued to aide it whenever they could.
 
"When the time came for her to lay her eggs, there was no safer place for them but with the tiny men. Even to this day, the tiny men still care for the eggs of the drachorns."
 
"Those eggs, however, are impure! They contain the DNA of the Original after having been experimented upon by the wizard!" Orvid declares, "Today we shall purify one of these creatures, to return it to its rightful form!" Noting a bit of disbelief in the crowd, he says, "Think what you will of the story my friends, but now you shall see the proof".
 
Orvid removes the cloth covering the thing he's been holding in his right hand, revealing it to be an egg. "I have here, an egg of a descendent of the Original". He then takes out a steel spike, while carefully shifting the egg to his left hand. "And now, observe carefully". Quietly, Orvid starts chanting something. Ever so slowly, the chanting gets faster and faster, louder and louder, until at last, he yells, "Purifica această fiară!" Immediately upon yelling this, he throws the egg up in the air, and makes as if to slice the egg in two with the, now glowing, steel spike. Instead of splitting in two, as the spike exits the bottom of the egg, it takes with it a black goop.
 
Quickly, Orvid catches the egg with his left hand, casting the, no longer glowing, goop-covered spike aside. He then takes out a pillow, setting the egg on it, and steps back. "Now the real magic happens", he declares.
 
The egg then starts to glow red, followed very quickly by many other colors, all swirling together. As the egg starts to glow, a small wind starts up, and, as the swirling colors grew ever more violent, the wind picks up, and the ball of swirling colors starts to grow, encompassing the pillow upon which the egg rested. The light gets brighter, the wind louder, and the swirling of the colors more violent. Ever so slowly, what looks like a creature begins to form in the center of the swirling mass.
 
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning comes down from the sky, striking the very center of the swirling mass. Instantly, the light dies, the colors vanish, and it becomes dead silent, the wind having stopped.
 
Having been knocked down by the shockwave caused by the lightning strike, Orvid stands back up carefully, and approaches the new hatchling, lifting it, still on the pillow, for the crowd to see. "I present to you, the original form of the drachorn!"
 
 
As a note for the sake of records, the ID of the drachorn used in this mutation is 828505. Should the story of it's birth ever be forgotten, it can now be rediscovered.

As I see this topic 9 minutes before midnight the day before.

I actually think that there are some very nice, clean, points of expansion in the realm. The Gazebo of Chaos is one of those very few places. What I consider nice and clean are places in the realm where paths end, but appear to go on, or places that you can see, but can't get to. There are many such places in the realm, some are small, the side paths in front of the temple in the east being one of the more obvious examples, while others, such as the Gazebo of Chaos, are much larger.

The title says it all.
I am making here notes about possible future md concepts, but for now they are useful as they are, pure information. Who sais md is "so much different" than RL, its "so blind"
 
When i say fights, I am talking about "personal" fights, fights that use ideas as weapons. Fights that use weapons as weapons, lower or raise your reputation and respect others have for you.
 
If you pick an inferior target:
- you have high chances to win, this adds up to your stregth and reputation
- if you lose, the damage you take is a lot bigger and risk for fatality increased
 
If you pick on a superior target:
- you have low chances to win, making a potential win a great booster
- if you lose, the act itself can be seen as disrespectful.
- regardless if you win or lose the fight, attacking someone from a different standing/level/reputation category than you, will increase fluctuations and instability in how people see you, This might be of good strategic use if you need to get out of a stuck situation (like preconceptions)...but can be deadly.
 
 
Note: Reply only if you understand why a reply might be needed here, this is not a discussion, feel free to complete/correct the above ideas.
 
 
(a25)
 
 
 

Recently, there have been a couple of, what I'll refer to as realm quests, such as the current "Mystery of the Orb", as mirus has described it.
 
I propose that future things like this be entered into the AL. 
 
This would allow much more realm involvement than the current global message only method does, because, if you idle in populated areas, such as the GOE, you may not even know that anything has happened if you don't see the original messages.

Recently, there have been a couple of, what I'll refer to as realm quests, such as the current "Mystery of the Orb", as mirus has described it.
 
I propose that future things like this be entered into the AL. 
 
This would allow much more realm involvement than the current global message only method does, because, if you idle in populated areas, such as the GOE, you may not even know that anything has happened if you don't see the original messages.

Recently, there have been a couple of, what I'll refer to as realm quests, such as the current "Mystery of the Orb", as mirus has described it.
 
I propose that future things like this be entered into the AL. 
 
This would allow much more realm involvement than the current global message only method does, because, if you idle in populated areas, such as the GOE, you may not even know that anything has happened if you don't see the original messages.

Casting the spell yourself builds knowledge and experience, but, if simply writing about it, the details would fade. Perhaps have the total regenerable casts increase with continued use (up to a point at least), and decrease with continued use for spell stones? This would mean there is a way to counter the decrease from imprinting the thoughts on stones.

Hopefully I'm getting the question asked by Mur right, if not, it can be fixed later, but, How should a player start in MD? What should happen? What should they do?
 
 
 
My own answer,
 
Amidst a sea of thoughts, we must forge our own paths, and discover the realm as we see it, not the exact same way as others see it. Through this, we will write our own paths into MD, building both our own role, and defining that which is MD in our own terms.

Hopefully I'm getting the question asked by Mur right, if not, it can be fixed later, but, How should a player start in MD? What should happen? What should they do?
 
 
 
My own answer,
 
Amidst a sea of thoughts, we must forge our own paths, and discover the realm as we see it, not the exact same way as others see it. Through this, we will write our own paths into MD, building both our own role, and defining that which is MD in our own terms.

Hopefully I'm getting the question asked by Mur right, if not, it can be fixed later, but, How should a player start in MD? What should happen? What should they do?
 
 
 
My own answer,
 
Amidst a sea of thoughts, we must forge our own paths, and discover the realm as we see it, not the exact same way as others see it. Through this, we will write our own paths into MD, building both our own role, and defining that which is MD in our own terms.

Linking to Mur's forum profile (http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/user/2-muratus-del-mur/) produces this HTML:
[ <a href="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/user/2- <font color=" #aa0000'="">Mur -del-mur/' target='_blank'>Forum link</a> ] Which displays as:
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Because I was bored, I decided to type this up in more of a story form, as there were both a few things I realized as I was going would sound better if worded differently, and there were also a few things that I simply couldn't word the way I wanted because it had to be put in the form of me doing something. The original story was surprisingly  coherent, considering it was made up as I went, but I'll let you be the judge of how believable it actually is.
 
A brief warning, this ignores 90% of MD's actual lore regarding drachorns, and should read as a story, nothing more. And, without further adoo, here it is:
 
 
Orvid approaches the house slowly, holding something covered by a cloth in his right hand, then turns to face the crowd, standing just in-front of the old building. Clearing his throat, he begins, "We have gathered here today, not to mutate a drachorn, but to purify it". This proclamation shocks the crowd, so he begins to tell a story.
 
"Long ago, the drachorns were hunted down and ruthlessly killed, until all but one remained. This lone drachorn is who we will come to know as the Original. She was the prisoner of a Golemus wizard, who performed many experiments upon it, each one resulting in a small change in her DNA. She endured many an experiment, but, over time, it became too much for her, and she eventually collapsed. As the wizard had no use for a weak creature that couldn't even stand up to a few little experiments, he threw it out. On this particular day, there was a storm brewing, so, even in her severely weakened state, she knew she had to find shelter. Ever so slowly, she crawled towards the cliffs, where she knew there must be caves within which she could find shelter. At last, she arrived, and, once inside one such cave, promptly collapsed, and fell into a deep sleep.
 
"Now, she didn't realize it at the time, but this particular cave was home to something else as well, the tiny men. Seeing such a terrifying creature in such a weakened state, they realized they had a chance to take the magnificent beast. Quickly, they concocted a plan to imprison it, while nursing it back to health. As soon as they were sure she was asleep, they acted, tying the creature down with hundreds of ropes, so that she couldn't hurt them. Ever so carefully, they treated the great creature's wounds, nursing it back to health. In time, she became a great friend of the tiny men, who continued to aide it whenever they could.
 
"When the time came for her to lay her eggs, there was no safer place for them but with the tiny men. Even to this day, the tiny men still care for the eggs of the drachorns."
 
"Those eggs, however, are impure! They contain the DNA of the Original after having been experimented upon by the wizard!" Orvid declares, "Today we shall purify one of these creatures, to return it to its rightful form!" Noting a bit of disbelief in the crowd, he says, "Think what you will of the story my friends, but now you shall see the proof".
 
Orvid removes the cloth covering the thing he's been holding in his right hand, revealing it to be an egg. "I have here, an egg of a descendent of the Original". He then takes out a steel spike, while carefully shifting the egg to his left hand. "And now, observe carefully". Quietly, Orvid starts chanting something. Ever so slowly, the chanting gets faster and faster, louder and louder, until at last, he yells, "Purifica această fiară!" Immediately upon yelling this, he throws the egg up in the air, and makes as if to slice the egg in two with the, now glowing, steel spike. Instead of splitting in two, as the spike exits the bottom of the egg, it takes with it a black goop.
 
Quickly, Orvid catches the egg with his left hand, casting the, no longer glowing, goop-covered spike aside. He then takes out a pillow, setting the egg on it, and steps back. "Now the real magic happens", he declares.
 
The egg then starts to glow red, followed very quickly by many other colors, all swirling together. As the egg starts to glow, a small wind starts up, and, as the swirling colors grew ever more violent, the wind picks up, and the ball of swirling colors starts to grow, encompassing the pillow upon which the egg rested. The light gets brighter, the wind louder, and the swirling of the colors more violent. Ever so slowly, what looks like a creature begins to form in the center of the swirling mass.
 
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning comes down from the sky, striking the very center of the swirling mass. Instantly, the light dies, the colors vanish, and it becomes dead silent, the wind having stopped.
 
Having been knocked down by the shockwave caused by the lightning strike, Orvid stands back up carefully, and approaches the new hatchling, lifting it, still on the pillow, for the crowd to see. "I present to you, the original form of the drachorn!"
 
 
As a note for the sake of records, the ID of the drachorn used in this mutation is 828505. Should the story of it's birth ever be forgotten, it can now be rediscovered.

Because I was bored, I decided to type this up in more of a story form, as there were both a few things I realized as I was going would sound better if worded differently, and there were also a few things that I simply couldn't word the way I wanted because it had to be put in the form of me doing something. The original story was surprisingly  coherent, considering it was made up as I went, but I'll let you be the judge of how believable it actually is.
 
A brief warning, this ignores 90% of MD's actual lore regarding drachorns, and should read as a story, nothing more. And, without further adoo, here it is:
 
 
Orvid approaches the house slowly, holding something covered by a cloth in his right hand, then turns to face the crowd, standing just in-front of the old building. Clearing his throat, he begins, "We have gathered here today, not to mutate a drachorn, but to purify it". This proclamation shocks the crowd, so he begins to tell a story.
 
"Long ago, the drachorns were hunted down and ruthlessly killed, until all but one remained. This lone drachorn is who we will come to know as the Original. She was the prisoner of a Golemus wizard, who performed many experiments upon it, each one resulting in a small change in her DNA. She endured many an experiment, but, over time, it became too much for her, and she eventually collapsed. As the wizard had no use for a weak creature that couldn't even stand up to a few little experiments, he threw it out. On this particular day, there was a storm brewing, so, even in her severely weakened state, she knew she had to find shelter. Ever so slowly, she crawled towards the cliffs, where she knew there must be caves within which she could find shelter. At last, she arrived, and, once inside one such cave, promptly collapsed, and fell into a deep sleep.
 
"Now, she didn't realize it at the time, but this particular cave was home to something else as well, the tiny men. Seeing such a terrifying creature in such a weakened state, they realized they had a chance to take the magnificent beast. Quickly, they concocted a plan to imprison it, while nursing it back to health. As soon as they were sure she was asleep, they acted, tying the creature down with hundreds of ropes, so that she couldn't hurt them. Ever so carefully, they treated the great creature's wounds, nursing it back to health. In time, she became a great friend of the tiny men, who continued to aide it whenever they could.
 
"When the time came for her to lay her eggs, there was no safer place for them but with the tiny men. Even to this day, the tiny men still care for the eggs of the drachorns."
 
"Those eggs, however, are impure! They contain the DNA of the Original after having been experimented upon by the wizard!" Orvid declares, "Today we shall purify one of these creatures, to return it to its rightful form!" Noting a bit of disbelief in the crowd, he says, "Think what you will of the story my friends, but now you shall see the proof".
 
Orvid removes the cloth covering the thing he's been holding in his right hand, revealing it to be an egg. "I have here, an egg of a descendent of the Original". He then takes out a steel spike, while carefully shifting the egg to his left hand. "And now, observe carefully". Quietly, Orvid starts chanting something. Ever so slowly, the chanting gets faster and faster, louder and louder, until at last, he yells, "Purifica această fiară!" Immediately upon yelling this, he throws the egg up in the air, and makes as if to slice the egg in two with the, now glowing, steel spike. Instead of splitting in two, as the spike exits the bottom of the egg, it takes with it a black goop.
 
Quickly, Orvid catches the egg with his left hand, casting the, no longer glowing, goop-covered spike aside. He then takes out a pillow, setting the egg on it, and steps back. "Now the real magic happens", he declares.
 
The egg then starts to glow red, followed very quickly by many other colors, all swirling together. As the egg starts to glow, a small wind starts up, and, as the swirling colors grew ever more violent, the wind picks up, and the ball of swirling colors starts to grow, encompassing the pillow upon which the egg rested. The light gets brighter, the wind louder, and the swirling of the colors more violent. Ever so slowly, what looks like a creature begins to form in the center of the swirling mass.
 
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning comes down from the sky, striking the very center of the swirling mass. Instantly, the light dies, the colors vanish, and it becomes dead silent, the wind having stopped.
 
Having been knocked down by the shockwave caused by the lightning strike, Orvid stands back up carefully, and approaches the new hatchling, lifting it, still on the pillow, for the crowd to see. "I present to you, the original form of the drachorn!"
 
 
As a note for the sake of records, the ID of the drachorn used in this mutation is 828505. Should the story of it's birth ever be forgotten, it can now be rediscovered.

Because I was bored, I decided to type this up in more of a story form, as there were both a few things I realized as I was going would sound better if worded differently, and there were also a few things that I simply couldn't word the way I wanted because it had to be put in the form of me doing something. The original story was surprisingly  coherent, considering it was made up as I went, but I'll let you be the judge of how believable it actually is.
 
A brief warning, this ignores 90% of MD's actual lore regarding drachorns, and should read as a story, nothing more. And, without further adoo, here it is:
 
 
Orvid approaches the house slowly, holding something covered by a cloth in his right hand, then turns to face the crowd, standing just in-front of the old building. Clearing his throat, he begins, "We have gathered here today, not to mutate a drachorn, but to purify it". This proclamation shocks the crowd, so he begins to tell a story.
 
"Long ago, the drachorns were hunted down and ruthlessly killed, until all but one remained. This lone drachorn is who we will come to know as the Original. She was the prisoner of a Golemus wizard, who performed many experiments upon it, each one resulting in a small change in her DNA. She endured many an experiment, but, over time, it became too much for her, and she eventually collapsed. As the wizard had no use for a weak creature that couldn't even stand up to a few little experiments, he threw it out. On this particular day, there was a storm brewing, so, even in her severely weakened state, she knew she had to find shelter. Ever so slowly, she crawled towards the cliffs, where she knew there must be caves within which she could find shelter. At last, she arrived, and, once inside one such cave, promptly collapsed, and fell into a deep sleep.
 
"Now, she didn't realize it at the time, but this particular cave was home to something else as well, the tiny men. Seeing such a terrifying creature in such a weakened state, they realized they had a chance to take the magnificent beast. Quickly, they concocted a plan to imprison it, while nursing it back to health. As soon as they were sure she was asleep, they acted, tying the creature down with hundreds of ropes, so that she couldn't hurt them. Ever so carefully, they treated the great creature's wounds, nursing it back to health. In time, she became a great friend of the tiny men, who continued to aide it whenever they could.
 
"When the time came for her to lay her eggs, there was no safer place for them but with the tiny men. Even to this day, the tiny men still care for the eggs of the drachorns."
 
"Those eggs, however, are impure! They contain the DNA of the Original after having been experimented upon by the wizard!" Orvid declares, "Today we shall purify one of these creatures, to return it to its rightful form!" Noting a bit of disbelief in the crowd, he says, "Think what you will of the story my friends, but now you shall see the proof".
 
Orvid removes the cloth covering the thing he's been holding in his right hand, revealing it to be an egg. "I have here, an egg of a descendent of the Original". He then takes out a steel spike, while carefully shifting the egg to his left hand. "And now, observe carefully". Quietly, Orvid starts chanting something. Ever so slowly, the chanting gets faster and faster, louder and louder, until at last, he yells, "Purifica această fiară!" Immediately upon yelling this, he throws the egg up in the air, and makes as if to slice the egg in two with the, now glowing, steel spike. Instead of splitting in two, as the spike exits the bottom of the egg, it takes with it a black goop.
 
Quickly, Orvid catches the egg with his left hand, casting the, no longer glowing, goop-covered spike aside. He then takes out a pillow, setting the egg on it, and steps back. "Now the real magic happens", he declares.
 
The egg then starts to glow red, followed very quickly by many other colors, all swirling together. As the egg starts to glow, a small wind starts up, and, as the swirling colors grew ever more violent, the wind picks up, and the ball of swirling colors starts to grow, encompassing the pillow upon which the egg rested. The light gets brighter, the wind louder, and the swirling of the colors more violent. Ever so slowly, what looks like a creature begins to form in the center of the swirling mass.
 
Suddenly, a bolt of lightning comes down from the sky, striking the very center of the swirling mass. Instantly, the light dies, the colors vanish, and it becomes dead silent, the wind having stopped.
 
Having been knocked down by the shockwave caused by the lightning strike, Orvid stands back up carefully, and approaches the new hatchling, lifting it, still on the pillow, for the crowd to see. "I present to you, the original form of the drachorn!"
 
 
As a note for the sake of records, the ID of the drachorn used in this mutation is 828505. Should the story of it's birth ever be forgotten, it can now be rediscovered.

He always had faith in us, he just didn't realize it.

He always had faith in us, he just didn't realize it.

My new and improved, although smaller, castle. It has a guard dog, a flag, and a roof of stars (which glow in the dark). Unfortunately, I couldn't get a good picture of the inside due to the lighting needed to make the flag readable.