Yoshi

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dont buy anything from the commander who has destroyed our once beautiful tribunal lands!
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Some things must be torn down, to be built up greater.

[quote name='eigger' timestamp='1290946945' post='73551']
i have remains for sale
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On which of your alts?

Well, now that it's officially November 23rd in my time zone, I want to say thanks to everybody; please rate, comment and subscribe, and keep a look-out for new videos every week! No, but srsly, thanks everyone.

Just thought I'd say; interesting that the only time Lifeline speaks up is when his butt is on the burner, no? Anyways...
[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
RJ steps down on his own will and isnt stoned/demoted/kicked or anything. the players in the recent drach lair incident had no reason to mistrust him. he was a former rpc, still had access to the drach lair and is still the master of the cave (only he got access not even the golemus king can enter). RJ himself invited all of us into the drach lair so we had good reason to trust in his word and believe him.
("Part of his [b]rpc abilites[/b] will be withdrawn together with his [b]status[/b]" its a little unclear but status with a clear mention of rpc before can in my opinion only mean rpc status things get removed but not his role as master of the drach cave)
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So, you're basically saying that you went along with it simply because you trust RJ? Blind faith doesn't pay off very well, as I recall.

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
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it merely says it is closed with RJ still having access to it. it NEVER says anywhere that the location is offlimits or illegal to enter. since i know i will have to be real clear on this: open is the opposite of closed. so closed means that u cant open it. and indeed yes nobody can open it but RJ can walk inside (he has access) and several people can teleport others inside. it got closed when RJ lost his ability to open it for others. so closed refers only to nobody being able to open the lair and not that the location is offlimits or forbidden to enter.
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So, you expect Mur to word every sentence perfectly, even though he's not a native English speaker?

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
now here 33 drachorns were illegally purchased and the only punishment they got was that their illegal drachorns were sacrificed. RJ stayed drachorn master and still kept his access to the lair = he is the master of the cave, he owns it.
please compare to the recent case: nobody was able to recruit a single drachorn in the cave so no real harm was done and everything else like unjustified access ect was exactly the same as the situation before but never even mentioned back then. but now players got high punishment unlike the ones from the previous incident who completely abused the situation and recruited up to 11 drachorns per person illegally and got away with no punishment at all (expect the illegal drachs being sacrificed)
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Sorry, but access to a location doesn't mean you own it.
As for the comparison; They are two seperate issues in two different time periods. Back then, draches were still rather rare, seeing as there was no CTC, and so the problem was the creatures. This time around, the problem is the location itself. As you said yourself, not even yrth has access to drach lair, that makes it quite special, so not just anyone should get in.

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
and finally in the rules and restrictions it never says anything about locations being offlimit forbidden not even anything slighty close to that. but it does say the following:

[b]"You are free to do anything in the game that is tehnicaly allowed. If you consider that you discovered some sort of exploit or a bug, report it to a moderator. "[/b]

that is official game rule and it tells me of no restriction but even the contrary that i can do pretty much whatever i want.
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The restrictions page is for general rules, it's not going to have specifics like "Don't go in the drach cave". You should know this. You should also know that just because you CAN do things, doesn't mean you won't get punished. For example, yourself, Lifeline, can jail any of your citizens at any time for absolutely any reason, if you choose to. That isn't addressed in the rules page, is it?

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
the forum has 67,072 posts and mur has 1,355 posts. its not realistic for any person to read every single one and memorize it perfectly so even if somewhere on the forum it was explicitly said that the drach cave is forbidden to be entered or offlimits then it matters little because players simply dont see it, never did, or cant remember. actually i believe i checked all forum and here is the only thing i could find about drach cave from mur: "drach cave is closed explicitly, regardless if you have access to it or not." again it says CLOSED not forbidden to enter, offlimits, ect. but i wont explain the meaning of the word closed and its implication again.
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As I gather, BigC and MasterB both had enough knowledge to know to leave the drach cave, and both of them have been absent for quite a while, whereas you, Lifeline, have been here in MD. How do you explain that?

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
so to summarize this whole thing: heavy punishment was delivered to people who had no chance at all of knowing better. on top of that did the only player able to enter the cave and master of the drach lair personally invite them all. he is a trustworthy former rpc.
i believe the punishment is out of place because players involved simply didnt know it was against the rules and in fact NOWHERE in MD does it ever mention that it is against the rules.
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Again, BigC and MasterB knew, according to Mur and you.

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
from the announcements after the punishment: "Lifeline Kingship penalty
An official character, especially a king, commits a big crime if he sets such a negative example of ignorance towards announcements and rules. Cave was closed, officially, and announced, long ago. "
i am sorry but neither in the announcements nor in the rules does it say its a crime, offlimits, forbidden to enter, ect as i just prooved above. [b]ACTUALLY IT EVEN SAYS THE CONTRARY IN THE RULES. "YOU ARE FREE TO DO ANYTHING IN THE GAME THAT IS TEHNICALY ALLOWED".[/b] (just a short remark before this is held against me because of possible abuse or whatever: i have the chase spell since almost 2 years i could have chased into the drach lair and recruit drachs several times, i could have even went to angien shrine before it was open. but i never did because it made sense to me that u can recruit crits there that arent supposed to be bought easly.) and once again only the word CLOSED is used even in the forum post from mur. heck every damn shop tells me its closed after the workingshift is over but there are still people inside shopping who get to pay and purchase everything.
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Lots of repeating yourself here, but your RL metaphor is kinda silly. Say the shop closes at 9PM. People might be around for another fifteen minutes at the most, then the shop empties. The way I see it, you came into the shop at 2 in the morning with someone who had keys and started having a dance competition (or whatever else you'd prefer to think of it as; basically something unrelated to the store itself).

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
PLUS: i have another very good reason and PROOF why this punishment and whole incident has nothing to do with breaking rules, announcements, written laws or even offending anything that was ever mentioned to me or other people. i will not post that openly on forums but once i know who to contact with this i will send it to that/those person/s. i will ask if i am allowed to post that proof here because then the ultimate proof will be served.
what this case is about is a "law" that probably even the MDStaff (in case that staff even exists) never heard before.
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Again, "law that nobody knows about" is known by two players who recently returned from absences, we can assume the general public would know as well.

[quote name='Lifeline' timestamp='1290478779' post='72837']
ALSO very important: Seigheart never entered the drach cave and i didnt teleport him! but if i understand the announcement correct he was pardoned anyway. and i cant speak for smartalekrj i believed him when he told me he is allowed to invite as many people inside as he wants. i dont know if he lied or not but RJ if u didnt know it was against the rules please speak up here and explain ur situation.
if this trial is decided against me i will go down fighting for what i believe is right and just. these will then be my last moments as the first king of marind bell and seeker of knowledge lifeline. may my death hopefully at least accomplish that laws/rules get publically and officially posted so that they are well know and nobody else suffers my fate.
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If this trial goes against you, I will see you go down and laugh as your inactivity and seeming disinterest in the realm around you finally catches up to you.
On public rules: Rhaegar vs. Firs fiasco was all based on rules that weren't ever written, Rhaegar went to jail anyways.
Fenrir vs. dst: Where in MD does it say you can't slander someone? I mean, I'm even doing it a bit in this post. Fenrir went to jail anyways.

Would also like to add that ignorance of the rules doesn't exempt you from them.

Uhhh... what they said *points*

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I would like to see some real proof...that we live in the Same city
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*sighs* I swore I wouldn't get into this cause frankly I don't even care whether you are or not. Thing is, Fenrir told me where he lived, and it was in Ontario Canada, and was like 30-45 minutes or something away from me, heading North/Northeast. You told me where you lived once, and it was again, 30-45 minutes going in the same direction. Not exactly sure if your the same person, or if it's just an insane coincidence that both of you live near each other, and have near personalities. Again, I really couldn't care less.

[quote name='Vicarious' timestamp='1290181726' post='72575']
I would like to see some real proof...that we live in the Same city
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*sighs* I swore I wouldn't get into this cause frankly I don't even care whether you are or not. Thing is, Fenrir told me where he lived, and it was in Ontario Canada, and was like 30-45 minutes or something away from me, heading North/Northeast. You told me where you lived once, and it was again, 30-45 minutes going in the same direction. Not exactly sure if your the same person, or if it's just an insane coincidence that both of you live near each other, and have near personalities. Again, I really couldn't care less.

Completely Forgot how you get TS's, wow i'm smooth. sorry and someone wrap up this topic

sorry rex

I clearly just want to argue, that's why I'm bringing personal aspects into the conversation; oh wait, that's you.

Well the point was those rules are clearly stated, whereas the one that was made up was in a post i never read. Therefore was unaware of it not being allowed. I dont like argueing with brick walls. So either learn to make sense, or learn to understand what you read. Your choice. You are clearly just looking for a reason to argue. Whether you make sense or not... And that is shown several times throughout this topic.

This seems as though it will degenerate into a pointless forum war that may end the same way GGG did, so I will say this: Everybody has a right to an opinion, but at the end of the day, it's easier for dst to enforce hers than it is for Seigheart to uphold his, so while all of you are here shouting at each other, dst will most likely be hunting GGG defenses.

As for the Seigheart-Fenrir comparison, again dst has the right to an opinion, just as you all do, and she has expressed it. It is clearly a personal issue between them and has nothing to do with the topic that most people choose to follow for this thread. (Technically it is fine, seeing as it is in the [b]topic[/b] post, but it can be ignored.)

As you know, I am the Mushroom Worshiping Crazy Lady that chases after Z with a net in hand and... yeah anyway.

I was thinking after having a wonderful conversation thingy with Burnsy, that:
There should be a Mushroom Cult!!

I already worship my mushroom... I just need other believers to make it official. We were thinking of just having Mushroom ceremonies/sacrifices to Shroomy and overall causing Mushroom havoc against the Nightshade users and Bob lovers of which have deserted Shroomy!
Maybe someday when we are strong... we can shed the blood of the Tomato Cult...

As always, I want people's ideas on such an idea before really going forth with it. So.. please tell me whatcha think.


Please note that this is unofficial and is completely something to do for fun.

Instead of creating a guild that is occupied only with water, why not have freelancers whom that besides taking care to collect and purify water also engage in making beverages such as soda and other alcohol?

And the drinks could be as consumable items. Having one manufacturer responsible for each land, so that each one would have the opportunity to produce its own and different beverages, with the characteristics of that land, made with properties of its own environment.

And the different lands could exchange their consumables with each other, regulated by international laws of trade or just like is made with the Sunny Bedroom keys.

Of course, everything combined with the water related matters as well, like purifing and handling.

Age of the Santas?

GG = 20 credits

Age of the Santas?

GG = 20 credits

Ok, my thoughts on this: Since the MP4-MP5 storymode is not even fully completed yet, just have to wait. Once it is completed, either the 4% stat bonus will come, or that text will be edited out. Either way, it's up to Mur. I wouldn't bother waiting until storymode is finished either. If your ready to move up, do it.

I'm only a day or two in, so for whatever that or this is worth:

I have a habit of playing a game for a couple hours and abandoning it - came here because the banner said "different," and it seems to be (and my interest has lasted more than two hours )

Throwing in classes and all the rest of the RPG Standard Operating Procedure would be, well, standard. I have no clue what, if anything, the choice of magic principles does in gameplay, but I am intrigued by the very vagueness - very different from the same old "mage/sorcerer/cleric, fire/ice/illusion school, raise int/dex/wis, etc. stuff, which are old hat and predictable. If you want marketability, maybe it would help, I am of the opinion that most people want what they already know, see: tv and radio programming (at least everywhere I've lived), but it would seem to remove a part of the niche appeal (and could you pick up a sizable chunk of the people who want something closer to the same old thing with graphics consisting of charcoal drawings? I honestly don't know, but it strikes me as unlikely)

I haven't figured out any of the puzzles yet, but I'm probably not the one to ask, I've never been too good at questing.

And I like the asterisks - I just used them expecting them to show up as I typed them, after (charactername:) Seems pretty standard on message boards and chat. Was pleasantly surprised at the function. *nods in approval*

Emotes are distinct from actions? Guess I don't know the scene that well.

Is there an explanation of controls/gameplay/non-spoiler concepts somewhere other than those two in-game pages? Pretty sure those answer the creature healing question Novice asked; at the moment I'm wondering what the "bind vitality" listed on my rituals means. Oh, is that the defense value I set for the ritual when I bound it? Guess I'll check on that next combat round.

Just thought I'd throw my thoughts in for you guys. I just found this game today and have just gotten to the first 24 hour meditation period. So figured I'd give you guys my opinions. I actually think that the extended breaks(meditations) from the game are a good idea ( but if you don't like them I do like the options to lower the time away for lower bonuses). The time away allows for players to go explore and do other things so as to not get burned out or go through the main story to quickly.

Any way so far I'm really liking the game. I do like how the community doesn't tell people everything and allows us to discover things on our own. I like the art work and the writing is extremely well done. I've been reading as much as I can and am no where near understanding most of what Im reading on the forums lol but I'll get it. Any way the reason I mention that is it seems to be a well done background etc. to this world and I'm excited to jump in! To early to say much more but after a couple more days I'll check back in

Oh like a previous poster the one thing that did cause some confusion was the principles. I understand that it doesn't have much use but you are increasing them quite a few times and I still had no idea what I was choosing other than the info from them (I liked the descriptions) One question though I have 3 principles but now those are the only options when one gets leveled up just want to make sure that you cn't limit yourself like that this early in the game without knowing what's going on.

note: regarding uour comments to the deleted posts. i read them both. Show of force 3 will be mqde public next.


The Mirror

Thoughts too shattered to rhyme
to find their path in such short time
I'll tell them in my own rhythm
in a poetry without its poem

Excuse the clues i left behind
The riddles that i missed to bind 
These are things one of a kind
That only some will seek to find


So here it goes..


Once upon no time...
There was a guardian of time, not a being of some sort, or a monster in a fort, nor a wonder chest but an object at its best.
This guardian that i tell, was just a mirror on no wall. It was so perfect that it had, only itself and all its pride, nothing to fear nor flaws to hide.
 
So I was saying..
it mirrored all and trapped their imperfections, gave them back just empty reflections. It swallowed all that passed in front, be it object life or be it void, like a dark sun that has died, it gave them back just empty light, nothing escaped whatever they tried.
This perfect mirror trapped it all, nothing around to see anymore. It was alone and lost, like a body without its ghost, no reflections left to tell if anything was left at all. No time has passed since then at all, since time was guarded most of all.
The things it trapped tried to escape. They tried to show the mirror feelings, reason, beauty, but the mirror had no ears, no fears to fear, nor eyes to look, at the reflections that it took. 

A giant eye to see it all, and so it did, it saw it all. It stood alone, alone and blind, trying to remember what was there once to find. It slowly turned into terrible horror, the idea that there might actually be not even the mirror. It looked around but there was nothing. just pure perfection without expression.


It might have gone a second or a million years untill it happend, no history to write if no time to bend, to start or to end, but at some moment the mirror decided it had no purpose since it blinded. It gave up existing, forgot about the trapped time she was guarding and in all her sadness and furry became to doubt, it lost faith in its own mirrorish clarity, it became blurry. Time was waiting, its what it does. It found a tiny fraction of itself, so small that it couldn't even be considered time at all. It sent it out on a mission, to cause havok and destruction, to cause a crack, an imperfection, and so it did at times suggestion. 

When the mirror realised its first flaw, it had the proof was waiting for, to give it up, to end it all. More longer moments followed soon, time released its many faces, shattered all in an infinity of pieces. Time was cruel and did not forget, the "time" it lost in its imprisonment. It took the mirror shards so far away, that some forgot what they once were, time escaped, ran fast, very angry and still runs faster day by day. 

Within its dieing moments, the mirror saw the reflections in each of its shards. Like lonely lost eyes of what was once a great power, they filled the world they once devoured.  With their now flawed and shattered view, they took a humble look of what was for them now new.  It started for the first time to see itlself, not in whole, but in puzzles of it all. 

The mirrors wish was now fulfilled, to see the things it only dreamed, to see the reflection of its own face, at least small views of its power, infinity and grace. It now was sure she actually existed. It took to die to see it was alive, It took a flaw for perfection to arrive. It took to lose its purpose, no more prisoner, to achieve something new, we call it now freedom in our view. It lost however something  dear, replaced oneness with a fear. Scattered and lost, forever doomed by the curse time cast, it fears to forget, each and every piece that still reflect. So each eye keeps looking, searching, trying, digging deep in reality to see and remember what it means to BE.    

And so my story ends, almost..
What happend next? try to connect yourself the dots. They danced and danced two by two, just enough the first sees the other too. Paired together but still not united, they float in time, forever divided. Peaking at reflections to see others imperfections, to find their pair, they search their match with utmost despair. 

Its said that once a shard finds its partner, they both forget their initial purpose forever. You wonder why? Its very simple, just face two mirrors at eachother, to see the two already found, what other shards still look around. What could it be, two hide in two shards of infinity? 

It is there all, for them to see, to leave this world and find their own infinity. They will keep time away, find the greatness they once were, seeing all untill theire nothing there. They will do the same again, mirroring their past, recreate eternity untill one cracks. Time will escape, will run away, its a future action it already did, shards can't foresee this amazing deed. The two shards unite, becoming one, stepping the steps of the first one gone. 
Unavoidably they'll fall apart, shattered shards in a dead sun, launching time in its long run. Never ends and never will, time runs fast while shards stand still. They are always doomed to fail, plutting time back in its jail, shards can never be so fast to stop the future cause its past. 

Now I'll rest to think it all, rest my back to a strong wall. 
Yet..
There are some reasons still left to hunt, my feeling deep inside my heart...what if the mirror that once were was nothing else but too a pair.
 

Some say its us that shards are now, .. I say why not rocks, or socks or planks, or the multitude of plants, why not.. afterall their're all, just fractions of the whole.
They see it too, and share it all, 
rebuilding universe before the fall.
From smallest grain to biggest star
Everything still roots that far..


 
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The Empty Wall

I stand in front an empty wall
And wonder what would happen
To have there hanging all alone
The mirror that once shattered


An unborn world within a world
Cruel chaser of all imperfection
A chest of secrets never told
No shards of incomplete reflection 


I stay there staring at the void
And demons start to whisper
I close my eyes and lose my mind
As letters start to glitter


Its written there on empty wall
Where mirrors never see
These things now keep to crawl
Beyond the reasoning in me


I see whispers turn to shapes
To symbols never seen before
I see my image how it fades  
It is the price if you explore


To help my mind to stay on track
I'd give the mirror its own wall 
A place to hide its unseen back
Somewhere to hang so it won't fall


I'd take its time and let it go
To free the mirror of its burden
If it casts its entropy on me
My fate will become certain.


My dreams begin to end i see
But something feels not right
The demons I no longer see
Perhaps I won the fight..


I see a stranger staring shocked
I feel a wall behind my back
Unseen something keeps me locked
I can't believe I see a crack



Mur


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The story continues so does its relation to my character and md realm, but for now enjoy what it is.  




  

I, like Zleiph, do not understand the big fuss. So there are those of the community with many Alts. There are those of us who watch the Logs compulsively. Unless you have forgotten, there IS a WP Log. Any Alts abusing the WP days feature will be caught immediately, and prosecuted.

Simple.

We are the Guards of our community.

Ok, my thoughts on this: Since the MP4-MP5 storymode is not even fully completed yet, just have to wait. Once it is completed, either the 4% stat bonus will come, or that text will be edited out. Either way, it's up to Mur. I wouldn't bother waiting until storymode is finished either. If your ready to move up, do it.

Clearly I am missing what the fuss is about...what is the problem with alts having the abilities the wps grant you? So alts can cast spells and edit things...what is the issue with that? This should only be afforded to very few people should it?

Z

[i][color="#2e8b57"]This is not a contest where size matters, because it doesnt! Its what you do with it that counts!

This month is the month of Mo-vember, where guys around the world are growing moustaches to support Prostate Cancer Awareness.
This quest will require you to grow a 'stache and submit " before" pics to register.

At the end of the month, post a pic of what you have created with your stache and the winner will be duly reward with a WP

Post your before pic on this thread, and at the end of the month, post your after pic.

'staches will be judged on both length and creativity... so style em as you wish (hair gel and ribbons are also welcome)

Prizes will be awarded for second and third place.

Edited for spelling.
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Edited previous post, and bumping this cause I want others to enter, I mean come on, it's basically a free wishpoint

its not a Free wishpoint at all..

its been really fun and got me off my arse to do something i never would have done, and made me think about how much little things like this matter
really got me into the spirit of halloween