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As you may know, I have been super busy the last year and its primarily because I have been arranging my wedding! Well this Saturday is the day  
I'm planning to make a guest book of MD'ers wishes so if you wanted to leave me a message send it on the google form:
https://docs.google.com/forms/d/e/1FAIpQLSdZPPhiOkxAt19Nxbvgl-xmzj1WduUeSIfiKYSSuG868Ts0Bw/viewform?usp=sf_link
It was streamed and I can link you to it if you message me!
Anyway, hope you are all doing well!
Chew

Ill take the gold instead of plushies, thanks also for the quest.

I must apologise to those who were anticipating another 3-0 sweep, as I was only able to manage a 2-1 in my favour against redneck. He fought admirably!

Knator ID: 883460
Barren Soul ID: 883461
Dark Archer ID: 883462
And a sneak peak at some of the stats I gained along the way

 

Knator ID: 883460
Barren Soul ID: 883461
Dark Archer ID: 883462
And a sneak peak at some of the stats I gained along the way

 

I received a message from Chew for this subject, we may need to tune the rules a bit.

I will let you know.

Regarding the menu strip along the bottom of the page, two things "bug" me.
1) Why does it suddenly pop up 3x size after you use the text box in the right panel to do a "give" operation?  Using it then is the last thing you want to do, but is the first thing you HAVE to do because it obscures the scene.
2) It would be so much more useful if on the first line it showed all the usable objects with pictures, a line feed, then everything else with pictures.
3) Not a bug - it would enhance the value of this menu if you could click on a non-usable item and trigger the "give to..." box.

The Roguelike Celebration is an online conference celebrating roguelikes and similar games, with talks given both my game creators and players. Last year's conference was held in an interactive online space styled after a MUD. It was designed for the conference but open-sourced for similar events: https://github.com/lazerwalker/azure-mud.
Sharing here for two reasons:
Current MD players might enjoy attending the event (will take place October 16th & 17th). Seems like something that would appeal to a lot of you, and you might come back with some ideas to add to MagicDuel. They currently have a call for proposals open for new talks. If there's an aspect of MagicDuel you find particularly intriguing, you should consider submitting a proposal by June 25. Speakers are paid, and you might even attract a few new players to MagicDuel. You can also talks from last year here: https://roguelike.club/event2020.html
If you're thinking about submitting a talk proposal, consider sharing it here for feedback from your fellow MagicDuel adventurers. Also feel free to throw out some ideas for talks you think might fit the CFP but aren't something you personally feel qualified to talk about; maybe someone else will pick up the torch.

I could be wrong, but I want to say last I heard it was a year or so that stale old pms just go poof. I'd double check with Chewie though.

A request, Mur, for confirmation that the achievement were working as intended:

I am able to claim the 90 day achievement, as presently, my active consecutive days were greater than this number.
@redneck, despite having attained over 200 consecutive active days, cannot unlock of these achievements, as his present consecutive active days number but 7.

I assume that this were working as thou didst intend, in much the same way that the Full Glow achievement should check the present attainment, rather than a state of a character at any prior point (assuming linear time).

I will gladly provide 1 Sharptear and 1 Lorerootian Archer as a gift to thee this Murmas.

Do let me know when I should grant these to thee.

Touching words.
Nothing is meant to last forever, that includes also you, me, anyone, not just "a game". From my perspective, i see MD as a place where people come, learn, evolve, get frustrated, revives their curiosity, they make friends, etc.. its a place, disguised as a journey. At some point in life, every such place you encounter teaches you a lesson, then you leave with what you learned. You go on, and the place opens its gates for an other one and so on. 
People always wished to expect from MD an end, while it has no end. Just think of the concepts..i started coding it when i didn't knew how to code, i put in it things i discovered through my life, and so did many. Such a "place" has no way of reaching an end, its not designed to do that. All i hoped was that over the years i build enough of MD that people _passing through_ it will find sufficient for their journey, not to trap them inside and promise them a conclusion that is not their. Each one finds its own way through, the difference is made by what they gather during this journey, in their mind, soul and life experience.
 
I am the only one truly trapped in here, and as long as i live, Md will live with me, opening its gates to whoever is attracted by its mysteries.
 
Wish you well, I hope it was a fruitfull journey, and as long as you don't self-destruct your account, it will always be here for you if you miss it.

Hello my friends. 

This is what most people would call a goodbye, but not me, for I do not believe in absolute decisions.

I know this post is quite out of the blue. I have been meaning to get to it for quite some time but kept doubting whether I should actually do this.

For me, MD is no more. 

I say this because MD was never magicduel.com for me.
It was my friends, my family, my sparring, my land, my quests, my drama. And for a long while now, every single one of those things has ceased to exist.

I cannot count the number of beautiful memories I have spent with you all. I want them to stay beautiful memories rather than become tarnished by the current state of the realm. 
Not that this is anyone's fault. Chewett, Mur and countless others have worked tirelessly to give us the experience we have loved all these years.
I just think that this concept, this idea, this story that is called MD... was never meant to last forever. It just isn't built to be sustainable. Like every little project within it, this entire project as a whole is meant to be left incomplete and eventually abandoned among a long list of other never-ending tasks. Every inch of this website that is called magicduel.com is screaming every day to free itself and end its pain. I have now decided to play my part in that, because I wish you remember it and you all in the best way possible.
I hope one day, many many years from now, my kid browses the net trying to figure out what game they should treat themselves with on their 16th birthday, as their father once did. And they come upon a familiar face called magicduel. And by that time it's an insane next level 'game' that we all hoped it would be. They would show me what its like and I would pretend I had never heard of it and tell them to enjoy. I would then cry that whole night in silence in a mixture of sadness and happiness.

Thank you, all of you. Every single one. Those who are closest to me, the ones I spent my best memories with and had the dearest of conversations with - I hope you read this and know who you are.
Thank you for creating the world's most beautiful prison. Its now time to set myself free.
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"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain".
Hello everyone, one last time. 
Yours forever, 
DD

Fiju, we don't need or want an account of your timein jail,it is not there to have fun in, but for punishment for doing wrong, if you dont think that what you did is wrong (breaking some of the rules of the game), i personally think you have something wrong with you.

I do not care about what you want in there, nor shall you get it.

Topic is closed.

I can join the Seats of Six.

going to have to do some personal updating...some RP... maybe, finding other responsible oddballs,

and I'll read up on what 'Tribunal' is.

July's Word Puzzle has been delayed, as I have been and will be intermittently out of town for the next week.
I hope to post it when I return. I apologize for the delay in releasing what I know you all wait on with baited breath.

In order to benefit from the lecture coin, i wish to moderate any such initiative. This means: i should be informed of who the teacher is, who the student(s) are/is, so i can ask them if you really gave your best, and reward you your lecture coin for the hour you donated to this cause.  I reserve the right to deny any coin rewarding for such activity that i feel it might be scam or undeserved.
 
Also, in other words, if you have something valuable to share and find interested people, i will sponsor 1 coin per hour, up to 100 coins total. After this, coins should be put back in circulation by time exchange of similar sort.

Over the years, in MD, many people learned things that eventually changed their life.
In 15 years of MagicDuel, this is probably the most valuable thing thing one could obtain, along with lifetime friends.
I want to revive this "MD spirit" 
So...what is this about? Let me try to explain it
People can be divided in two categories, and all people belong to both  so how is this ? Each one of us has questions but also answers. In your line of work, you might be paid with 100Eur/hour or 2Eur/hour, its still an hour of your life. There are many young people that might spend years of their life searching for something they love to do, or discover that something in the most unexpected place. Myself, i teached things i knew to md people, sometimes "pro-bono" other times because i needed them to do things, but either way, in the end, they learned something new.
 
I wish to introduce a new value unit, lets call it "lecture coins". 
One lecture coin equals one hour of your life sharing knowledge from your line of work, regardless what your work is. You might be a good programmer, or a doctor (and yes we have several in md), or you might be simply a delivery guy thinking you have nothing valuable to share. One lecture coin equals one hours of your life, and in that hour you must share your knowledge from your field of work, as best as you can, as if your life depended on it.
The person "listening" and learning from you, will discover the tips and tricks of your particular line of work, and might love it, or might just expand his knowledge about it for other use, regardless, that person, the pupil, will pay you one lecture coin for that hour of your life. With that coin you can "buy" time from someone else, equal also one hour of their time, sharing detailed and valuable info from their own knowledge.
You might think...some peoples time values more than others, and thats true...but knowledge is knowledge, and if you are looking for it, its valuable, regardles how much it costs as monetary value its still an HOUR of someones life.
 
The rules are these:
For one full hour, you will try to answer any question, but  also provide unrequested info from your personal expertise, as if you would have to teach someone to do your job the next day. 
You will put all possible effort into this, during that hour, and that person will rate you at the end, telling if you provided info that was valuable, or not.
In exchange, you receive a lecture coin, that you will be able to use for same purpose yourself.
Also, you will have a "menu" presenting all possible knowledge fields you could cover, regardless how stupid or valuable they might be. You could be a SEO expert or lawyer, asking for 600$/hour, or a pizza guy that could share tips and tricks about how to do that job better, its equal value. Think that you might change lives forever, losing just an hour or two of your life, you might make someone a better person, or earn a lifetime friend.
 
I will be the first to donate time of my life to this. I will sponsor lecture coins to anyone that wishes to participate, and get people that want to listen to what they have to say, for one hour, and these lecture coins are payment i will accept for my own time, sharing information the best i can, from any field i might have something to say about.
As example, i will show you my menu, for anyone interested:
My current "Menu" is this:
 
- Learning programming in general
- Tips and tricks about webdevelopment and webdev tips and tricks accumlated over years, not easy to find online
- How to start to learn python (:D i am new to it too, but i will share an hour with you, guiding you through the best and most time saving info i can)
- Any question you could ask a webdeveloper with 20years experience paid with 50$/h, i will consider you paid me 50$ and act accordingly, but will do only knowlede sharing, not work in your place.
- neural networks, robotics, and anything related i might know
- a random choice of art related activity i will pick, that you could replicate
-  Anything else i might know and you know how to ask, to the best of my ability
- a mix of all of the above, trying to the best of my ability to find something that interests you personally. I will consider you pay me double my hourly rate, only if you are satisfied in the end, even if its all for free.
- psychological adice and personal experience share of how to overcome addictions (why not, i've become an expert from my own experience and from others)
- cooking lessons of my favorite food adapted to your resources
 
I will start sharing 3 hours of my life to either individuals, or groups, and expect other professionals out there to contribute the same way.
Do you want to participate and learn new stuff. Either participate as a student or as a teacher.
 
Thats it.. i hope this initiative resonates with you, because i think MD is about knowing people and learning from them, so if you are here, lets get organized
 
 
Overall i plan to put in motion 100 lecture coins, that will circulate in exchange of hours of your knowldge. 100 should be more than enough, but i will start with sponsoring you if you offer to share hours, or learn, and with hours of my time, each valuing one symbolic coin. 
These coins will be also given as items in your md inventory, and medals will come for those that gather most.
 
My time is very limited so i will select the people i wish to dedicate time to, but just ask...or offer.
 
Thats all.
 
 

I haven’t seen BSR ever since the jail tour. 

Yep thats a separate and much bigger issue. I need to spend lots more time on that so ignoring it for now.

Don't you say it....i am surprised....I can't even remember what was my name, i was having a hard time remembering the name of this game, i saw some people like Ailith, redneck....god.....its 10 years....this is soo unreal. I am shocked to the core, of ho much it remains, how much it changed...the cabin....I just remembered my nick while writing....i had a crush on the male protagonist of One Tree Hill....treehill....facepalm....XD

Aia....god this is so weird. Mur also...way too weird, then i was barely at college. Now i am doing masters, trying to get elected in my town....way to weird.