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Hmm down south... well we could allways do that, even if it was just for a few hours, Portsmouth? Lets see what other people reply first! Come on People!! wakey wakey!!

Well i am not being funny. But that IS amazing. 163 thousand times??? i thought my 24 were impressive. If you do not receive a reward for this i will be dissapointed. Oh and cutler, thanks for the addition of the real sages keep into the astral plane, i have never been there before, awesome stuff (though may not have been so awesome, if i havent been playing for 250 days without getting there if you know what i mean) EDIT :YAY!!! i got into the hollow den!! Awesommmmmmmmeeeeeee!

Missed the vote: its over now *enter expletive here* Well you should know who i would have voted for, Love you all!! (except granos)

[quote name='Totenkopf' date='14 December 2009 - 11:03 AM' timestamp='1260788633' post='49858'] ok, so what is the guy saying, that knowledge is created through questions? Q: What is he selling? A: His book, and implicitly his "new" gimmick, which is just a fancy way of brainstorming/mindmapping/whatever. Possibly "innovation" services/trainings for corporations, especially if he manages to create enough interest to get published anywhere good like the Harvard Business Review. That's what marketers do, mate. 2 years down the line he'll be selling another "system" and doing the whole "CEO training circuit" again. There, I created some knowledge myself! Though it's prolly "known" already. Then again maybe the big ol' corporate world made me too cynical later edit - FFS, he even has a powerpoint presentation! [/quote] lol i had Exactly the same thought, WTF is this ALL about, i mean WHY bother and then i saw the book and all that, very clever of him i must say. But did you not feel you gained anything from reading it?(the one i enjoyed the most was the one entitled Sphere as it is interesting to Picture how we all work together, much like we are doing in MD) (plus, in a way, Isnt MD a way to "make" money, on a real base level, it wouldnt be able to exist without it. But is that really a problem? as long as both parties are happy... dont answer this i dont wanna go off topic!)

Memories - how interesting! Now a memory i have is one that may possibly be shared with others. But to me alone it is important. It started when i arrived in the MDA archives empty room on the east of the building. Kieth Moon, Pample, Inno, Kouros are the people i remember to be here, but there were possibly more (how embarresing if there were!) I remember being greeted in a very friendly way by Inno, and will allways remember the pleasant conversations we all enjoyed, of everything and nothing. I particulary remember this as it was the first time i met Kouros. It will allways be special to me, and gives that place in MD a special meaning to me, everytime i have been there since, the memories just come flooding back x Maybe it was the friendship i felt there, the happiness in a room which appears bleak and empty, maybe it was meeting like-minded people, maybe it was the excitement of falling in love.. *blushes* i dont know. But i do know that i hold it dear and one that i wanted to talk about. I have had a few other memories, ones i wish to forget, and other ones since that to me are just as important, But i know this is the One memory, i would like to keep if i was to lose all others x

[quote name='awiiya' date='14 December 2009 - 03:16 AM' timestamp='1260760616' post='49813'] Also, I'm not sure why the author of the website is spending so much time diagramming and attempting to put into words and equations "knowledge." Not that I think it's a total waste of time, but surely this time could be better spent creating said knowledge? Awi [/quote] sooo funny you know that Reading the pages last night, it made me think about MD. The whole medium, and the tools which have been created allowing us to ask questions, and all congregate together to be able to do so. I could read through it all and pick out many points where i see similaritys between what is talked about things which musta have been taken into account in the creation of MD, but im not going to because it would be boring, for me and for you thanks for your replys its really interesting for me to see x

well...there is no wind right? hmm musta been that Golem i been seeing around..i wonder if He could of done it!! it looks like a stage now

Whilst researching about memories, and how we remember/percieve things all seperately i came accross an interesting website. Makes me think about MD and its purpose and how it works. For me. http://www.anti-knowledge.com/index.html (more files in the headings are much more interesting) Please Read and nod an agreement or whatever, i cannot expect you to actually comment on it as its mostly WAY over my head. Very interesting and readable format though, thats why i thought it would be useful (i would say that this post is directed to MUR but i also know others may find it interesting, just a different way to imagine and explain things you probalby already know, but dont know you do )

44 page view...im sure SOME of you are english!!! leave a comment if you dont wanna come at least!! i feel embarresed now and a little bit like a loner! its OK, ill get a I LOVE MD t-shirt printed and walk around london by myself!

please let me have this topic open while i compile some thoughts.

[size="4"][b](i didnt EVEN know this section in the archives existed, my brains hurting thinking about everything ive missed out of, but more to do with how much its going to pain me to read it all )[/b][/size] [size="2"] (QUOTE FROM MURS POST) Lightnings Spirit of Energy, hear my call, Slay my enemy, slay them all! No matter how short, no matter how tall, Hit them all with your lightning ball! Hit them all and make them fall, Spirit of Energy, hear my call! Lightnings of Wind, Water and Fire, Shock my foe, fullfil my desire My vengeance for him is bitter and dire, Slay the killer, the thief and the liar! Send him to inocent, Angel's quire, Send him to work in Demon's empire! LVL 1 Lightnings are natural phenomenae, electrical discharges, that manage to find their way to the ground, following a tiny, positive charged flash that heads directly at the target. The length of a lightning bolt is much shorter than it's believed, and the discharge is devastating. LVL 2 Lightnings, generated either by man or nature, must have knowledge of their target at all time. A bolt musn't be seen as having a certain shape for that slows it down drastically. And a link between the source and the target is compulsory. The bolt acts like a magnet and the target acts like a piece of metal, much more biger and heavier than the magnet. Thus, the target atracts the lightning giving it more energy than before. The energy of the bolt comes from the source, the target and the enviroment, which is used to accelerate the action. LVL 3 Wind Lightnings are cold fast and have an impaling effect. They can have more edges, with a slicing effect over the target. Mainly, they travel very fast over large distances and they hit their targets, even if they have no definite outline. But they greatly lack precision. LVL 4 Water Lightnings are more powerful, but they don't a posses a very clear piercing effect over the target. The effect though is long lasting and harder to obtain. It is like water would be in the same time and place liquid and ice and it would pour into the target, afterwhich it would swiftly freeze. Though it's a complicated process, it must be done fast . LVL 5 Fire Lightnings have an effect on impact, just like the burn on a hand is felt strongest only after the hand is removed from the boiling water. The bolts can affect both the outside of a target, blocking links to the outside and suffocating it, and through the inside, even exorcising its soul under maximum effciency. Fire Lightnings are slower than Wind Lightnings and manage to keep a tight contact with the source, making them dangerous to generate. As a warning, fire can warm the target by giving it energy. A bolt isn't a fire ball, not having to burn everything with its force, but by a very fast and violent discharge, after which it doesn't dissipate into the scenery. LVL 6 - Master The effect of any of the lightning bolts, isn't felt with them. Until the effect is passed, a detachment faced to the begining moment and a impersonal view over matter are required. In various ocasions an object such as a scepter, a wand or a staff is most helpful in creating a one way link concerning the impersonal view. As a side-effect the violence of the reaction leaves its mark over the surrounding environment and over the imediate actions, creating an unpredictable aftermath. LVL 7 - Secret The time in which a bolt is generated is imerative. If it is too long, the bolt risks to become an incontrolable discharge of energy, which is nocive for the one generating it. An advanced way of dealing with this is to create certain time breaches, so short in their nature that they can not be measured in our time. Thus, using these extra fast breaches, something can be created in an unperceivable time. By concentrating the action in such a short time, the efficiency of the effect can become a devastating weapon. These short time breaches permanently exist in the past, can not be anticipated and can not be perceived into the present. Now ...take the principles and divide them as skill points to each level, one princile type per level, what principle will it be, what things will it affect ...some more entertaining for your brain have fun[/size] [b]ok am going to try to find what MY principle choices and reasons for these will be. Using only one principle per level as asked about.[/b]

(what is th story so far?)

well... i know all the europeans are drunkards but i dont really fancy getting drunk and making a fool outta myself, or falling over a paving slab and hitting me face...lol Well its easiest for me to ask if anyone wants to meet in London, i know one person who lives there from MD, and one who lives in birmingham, i live in south east (near Reading, well actually No where near, but Bracknell? anyone heard of it?) and it wouldnt be so bad for me to travel to london. (pample just been over soooo wish we could have arranged something so that she could be here too!! anyway...) Location suggestion : London Event suggestion : Sega world, then maybe Ripleys believe it or not building. Ive never been there but it looks really funny and quirky. Date suggestion : in new year, after christmas kafuffle, any kind of days ok? Weekends are good for me to travel to london. Saturday is the best for me. Whos interested in meeting?? we dont have to do it publically like, i mean on here, this is just advertising! hmm who can i think of ATM umm Z and Ailith, you wanna meeeeeeet right?? im very easy going and just like to do something for a laugh, just be nice to meet up for a day out soo easy going i "shouldnt" be trusted to arrange such a thing Picnic!! ok maybe not

AWesome a quest!? am i too high a level to enter x

Thanks ever so much for your reply, it makes some sence to me, im so pleased that someone has taken the time to reply. im going to play devils advocate and argue with ya though Time in MD does the wind blow, do the seas move, where are all these animals, such as knators which hunt around loreroot and the wilderwilds that nest about Marind. When you get on the boat at Angiens ferry, does the boat move? i can understand what you are saying, your right, when the lands of the east entrance was "discovered" there was no "portal" there, and with care the plants grew into the portal. Please can you give me all the other examples You know of events being changed by US. The trees you plant, will they grow? The only thing i have seen "moving" in MD is when bob the tree blooms. Are we to imagine time, that is a hard thing to do, There is a reason why the windmill doesnt move, but why does the waterfall in Golemus not flow? Or does it? I beieve we are presented with "snapshots" from a timeline in MD, this can explain WHY the boat "moves" in the ferry. One snapshot before, and one memory snapshot after. Dont get me wrong, these memories, like you say arnt "fixed" but then what is to say the changes that we can make werent meant to happen, or already have done in MD's tineline. Its just we can access all the possible timeframe possibilities. If ANYONE knows of other time the physical world we live in has been "changed" by us, please tell me

ooo how interesting? Do you know anything about MDs sun (or does it have two?) please talk about it, i wanted to find bootes but he never logged on when i heard he talked of such things! Why is it allways sunny! and um what is this about a time when everything went dark for a night? is that rumour true??

RP in MD By the time you have written it, it is done, it is written into the history of the "world" for 6 hours and into the active memories of everyone who enters and reads about that location. If this is done cleverly, people can influence others, express their views, or simply interact socially. All characters present, crafted into a history, a single event or snapshot that is to be remembered. By creating different characters, we can interact socaily in ways which we might not in real life. This is the way we can create good social memories, ones which are enjoyed and may be taken with us wherever we go. For example, Mur and his feeling about his Knator Commander. This RP world is seperate from others that you might experience. And everyone brings things to it, brings with them something unique. Whether everyone likes it or not this IS a RP game, and has been constructed so that we can exist in a world that is different from our own. Otherwise we might as well all be sitting in blank white all day. Making this world work 1. by creating a character - someone or something which others can either physically or mentally imagine, be this in actions(speech) or by thought (personal profile like) 2. maintaining this character in an effective way. its more effective to arrive in the same way every day then to not bother arriving at all. Be kind to people and not expect them to read your profile, but RP in a way which gives hints and clues without forcing them to look. 3.Acting realisticly - *picks up a boulder and smashes MD to bits* weve all seen it. *picks up a shovel and whacks it around his face until he dies* . do actions which might be able to be done quickly, such as flicking a pebble at someone, or stealing in for a kiss (not to be confused with windy unevadable Smooch fest ) otherwise give them to chance to react *throws a flaming rock at Z's face* is 10 times better then *smashes the flaming rock into z's face causing his brain to explode* You dont know if the other character doesnt want to get hit! BE POLITE! thats all everyone wants. 4.characters which are human - i know everything about you because i read your profile and therefore i know you. not realistic, just plain stupid, thats whyyyy i think sometimes people (and me whos very guilty) write WAY too much on it. whats the point in writing all thats stuff if it doesnt correlate to how you behave or people can even see a slight resemblance (ok bored now )

MD - our present By the time anything happens, it is done. It becomes past. Present is a collection of pasts when you sit and think about things. A second in time lost, never to be returned but never truely forgotten. Every second has its purpose, part of the day, year, and life of an entity. Present is a chance to write your past, create you past, and your history. Only in that moment can you say you truely exist, and it is in that moment which your past matters. and can be catergarized as a moment in time. Millions and millions of picture snapshots in only a few years of a humans life. Why are some of the "snapshots" remembered, why do you remember them? Do we actively remember all of our past somewhere, every second, every thought, to be used when it is needed? These hidden "memories" must occur without us knowing it, you might not actually "think" oh i wont touch that iron because it may be hot, this could be what people call "commen sence" and what makes wise people Wise. Snapshots of things which "stick out" in your past, memories. Maybe Md's snapshots, the world in MD we live in, (the 2d pictures!) are the bits which stick out in M'Ds past/life. Windows to its inner being and "secrets", one of the only ways to access information about what it means. Understanding the world we live in and its purpose. (how much MD is starting to parralel RL is kinda freaky...) Its is the only thing we can actually and phisically judge it by. (i think they are awsome for me for imagination purposes, a stimulous for differing attitudes and examples of behaviour which we may latch ourselves onto as RP characters. i mean think about all the TYPE of people you could be, even within strict "alliance" backgrounds and ideals. Thats why it is so interesting when different alliances and lands(snapshots) are created. i mean can you imagine. if MD was white, everything was white. BORRRINGGG i woudnt be able to make a character out of nowhere and role-play it, it would have NO purpose unless we were able to create a "world", a fantasy guideline for how all of our characters should interact (gamesmaster ) and well Mur you are the ultimate gamesmaster and have Good help from people who help "guide" the game, a lot of the dedicated veterens who i get on with.) But what can these snapshots tell us, these 2d pictures of MD, why do they exist? why are they chosen to be Remembered? I dont know. But it works.

I dont have a story, but i decided to write a poem instead [center][u]Loreroot[/u] Vast land of knowledge wisdom and power Shielded by guards of vine, root and flower. Full of raw life wild energy surrounds us The spirit within is the spirit around us Oh mother creator some believe you to be the one who can help us The One Spirit Tree But this forest is alive and this forest is dead and as the forests heart beats ill think of this instead Syntropy breeds entropy and balance, life and death these things are inevitable and not just for mortals Deep in your branches, nestled in roots above in the treetops and under our boots when we craft the wood to make our spears in the heart of our enemys and the cause of our fear in the seeds that we sow in the arrow and bow theres one thing that i ask of you, one thing you can show All around us the secrets you hide of how you work and how you provide how we can all live in a seemingly perfect way so that we learn and grow, be together and play[/center]

List of categories; Best Back Story Innocence Best Debater Peace Best Fighter The Lost Warrior/ errm unknown Entity (as MP4 they wiped the floor with me) Best LHO *MasterB* Best Personal Papers Ladytwin Best PL Entry i dont know. But Sagewoman, has many very funny PL entrys Best Protector Pamplemousse TEAM CITRUS!! - dont know how you had time to keep sooo many people so happy Best Quest (Please specify quest....) Cutler (Astral Plane) Best Quester dst Best Role Player Granos / Ailith / Zliephnier - i go Z, because of consistentcy during my year here. Best Spell Caster Granos - nice RP mixed with spell casting lol Best Techie dont know Best Villain Granos - hate you Most Addicted Ailith - allways there when you need her to be, or has been for me this year Most Influential Peace Outstanding Service to MagicDuel Ailith - for being available to help out anyone with any problems, finding effective solutions, and giving a lot of time for people Rookie of the Year (between 20 and 100 AD at time of nomination and awarding) Rhah de la Rey (if not he should definitly win the Smelliest Boots award) Veteran of the Year (must be on active vets list, only winnable once) Dont quite know

Everyone Loves Wishpoints. Its what sets characters apart, and one of the main ways that this game is Different from others. Something Hard yet possible to achieve by doing things other then point and click. I like the amount of wishpoints being kept low, as it makes you feel VERY happy when you get one, and makes a great reward for hardwork. I voted for None, shouldnt be given out for age and something else, i guess because i dont believe they should be given out. I agree with fenrir, that they could be special WP or maybe even a different name, and do a small selection of the things available to do, maybe be another factor in buying Advanced Wishpoint selections, like the 4 needed for clickables. Say they could be called Golden Mark's or somthing, and say for umm changing name location, you would need activity days "golden marks" as well as spent/unspent WP. They could be used like fenrir said, to make some options available, and others.. like Dream Joker and special things that are transferable not available that way. Also i like what Yoshi said, but instead of making One WP available after the shop is open, 60 days, have a one time special WP bonus, after another 40 days(100 in total), something the character can work towards after making the shop available. So when they realise what the WP are for, they could at least have 40 days, to search and gain one the normal way, by questing or debugging or whatever. And also take time to make the right decision and Know whats the best for them, instead of wasting it on something stooopid as soon as the shops open and regreting it. i think that like you guys said, New people might Need something to feel happy about at the start of the game, but im not taken in by that, i dont think that they will appreciate what it means to have one, if they can just get it by playing umm only "half of the game" and Not looking to play it in a creative, scientific, or something deeper kind of way, which i believe is what the game values itself on and makes it unique, holding a kind of mystery and intruigue which spell binds us and keeps us hooked. la la la so yeh um, KEEP wishpoints low petition group hiring now