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DG: My brain:

Nimrodel also made a bunch of awesome clickie quests. She's still around, we could maybe ask her for material if accessing clickie history proves to be impossible.

...and a meme

Reference: http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/18916-help-ive-run-out-of-paper-for-scholarly-purposes-i-promise/

Always making that awesome right turn there

I'd like to participate :)

I'll try to show up for both. But ST 10:00 is a little too early for me. I'd vote for ST 15:00 on the first one and anything after that for the second.

I'd like to participate in this game :)

On Day 95, Year 15, at Sage's Keep, @Chewett was made Grand Duke of the Lands of the East and King of Marind Bell. This is the first time someone in the realm is elected to rule two lands at the same time. An official minute of the event is located at the following topic: Following the unprecedented ceremony, the Demon of the East has recognized Chewett's rulership over the Tribunal part of the Lands of the East as seen in Announcement 4963. This also marks the first time kingship tools are made available for the Lands of the East. Prior to this election, the East had seen a couple of (somewhat unsuccessful) claims to power from Granos to Eon and Shadowseeker, then Sunfire and finally Pipstickz. Chewett went a different route, though: he met directly with all interested parties and managed to gather their support. It was a very clever move in terms of strategy and timing. Interestingly enough, the concept of a Dukedom in the East was proposed before by Pipstickz, but his idea did not gain enough traction at the time. With all this happening only a few days prior to the very anticipated 15th Anniversary, it almost looks as if the birthday is already happening. I look forward to seeing (and documenting) the changes that this new dual rulership shall bring to our realm.

Oh, awesome! I'll gladly accept a wishpoint. Thanks! I had a lot of fun writing this and I encourage everyone to take part in it. In my opinion, it should definitely be made a permanent quest! That way we can create a nice repository of past events in some sort of Archivist fashion.

It's hard to pick a single favorite. I'll tell you about my favorite among recent readings instead: Mr. Nakata from Haruki Murakami's Kafka on the Shore. He's a solitary old man that , due to a mysterious event in his childhood, lost all his memories along with the ability to read and think "properly". As a kind of collateral effect, he suddenly noticed he could talk with cats, among other things. I can't quite pin down why I like him so much. I guess it's partially due to some sort of inherent wisdom/complexity behind his actions and thoughts (even though on the surface he's seen as a simpleton) and also his way of seeing and dealing with the ways of the world. Interestingly, this book sometimes reminded me of ideas and memories that somehow, in my head, are intrinsically connected to MD.

https://magicduel.com/page/Announcement/view/3227 Apparently there are 24 (some might have been added later) obelisks. However, it might be the case that Tissy bought the shop item that boost stats by a fixed value. It works on cartography as long as you had points on it before using the item.

10th Anni Aramor (very limited stock left in storage) - 27

10th Anniversary Aramor - 20 plushies 11th Anni Hollow Warrior - 20 plushies

12th Anni Hollow Warrior - 10 plushies 11th Anni Hollow Warrior - 10 plushies

I think it won't make a big difference for us vets, since we've "seen it all", but it might severely impact the newcomers (due to lack of cartography and low ap limit). I remember being young and walking around relentlessly looking for any sign of activity around the realm (instead of sitting around in GGG where people would be silently attacking everyone else). As Tissy said, with every change, we must consider how the new players will be impacted. Most of us are past the point of needing game mechanics to keep us around MD. We're here for other reasons (and that might be your goal, I guess), but new players haven't reached that point yet. Imo we need to focus on their opinions.

10th Anniversary Aramor - 12 plushies 12th Anni Hollow Warrior - 6 plushies 11th Anni Hollow Warrior - 6 plushies

Here's my attempt: The Dominion Journey To celebrate MD’s highly symbolic 7th birthday, Mur presented us with a challenging quest/journey that would take place in his Dominion [Ann. 2277]. To put things into perspective: he had forcefully taken rulership over the East [Ann. 1689] around Year 5 and, only on the occasion of a Boss Heads Contest edition [Ann. 1849], had opened his lands [Ann. 1862] to a select group of contestants. From time to time, he would also summon players to his Throne Hall so he could deal with their requests without being bothered by others [Ann. 2104]. Therefore, this was the very first time his personal lands would be “open to the general public”. On the occasion of the previous birthday, we had already seen a significant expansion of the Lands of the East [Ann. 1789] as a new path after the Temple of the Void (back then simply referred to as the temple, if I remember correctly) up to The Gate of the Bored [Ann. 1817] was uncovered. This was already very exciting, but now there would be big challenges with even bigger rewards! The rules were simple: 8 gate keepers would guard 8 locations. If we failed any of their challenges, we needed to return to the beginning and face all guards again, and sometimes they would give us brand new challenges. Beat all guards and you win! Simple, right? But in practice beating all of them in a row was extremely difficult! The first guard was I am Bored, stationed at the Gate of Bored (who would’ve guessed?). After completing his task, we would enter the Dominion and face the infamous Deathwhisper Tunnel, where one would find a guard at each step taken. I cannot remember the exact order, but my guess would be Isabella Finch at the tunnel entrance, then Falronn, Kyphis, Windy, Mya Celestia and then Brulant inside the tunnel. Finally, one could take a breath and a few steps after exiting the tunnel before facing Liberty, the final guard. The challenges ranged from doable to very difficult, but always fun and sometimes thought-provoking as well. A lot of players would get sent back to the beginning over and over again, but most persisted because the journey was one of those rare events that managed to attract and unite the realm as a whole: everyone was having loads of fun. As people passed the last gate keeper, they got to enter the infamous Throne Hall and wait for the others there, all while enjoying the company of the Demon of the East. It took around 6 days for the first 10 winners to be declared [Ann. 2286]. After that, the gates were closed and the winners got a puzzle medal and either a custom reward or one of the newly created drach melodic charms [Ann. 2283], which could be used to put Drachorns in the Drachorn Lair to sleep long enough so one of their riches could be taken from their treasure. The first generation of charm holders had access to extremely valuable tools, such as kill and revive items. In addition, another group of players also received rewards for reaching the last gate [Ann. 2298]. Finally, rewards were sent to the gate keepers for their hard work. The Dominion Journey was finally over and, with it, MD’s 7th Birthday festivities. This was one of the greatest birthdays I ever witnessed in my years around this realm. Note: I tried my best to use announcements as references in an attempt to provide “historical accuracy”. I invite others who were around back then to contribute with more information if they like. I believe this is a great opportunity for us to create an Archive of old and also upcoming events.

Posting here as requested by @Muratus del Mur: The original action on the clickie is: Currently, artefactkeys is undocumented, so I I tested all parameters and deleting removekey seemed to 'fix' the pop-up issue. It shows up like this: However, this would pop up at every click. Since everything newbie related is happening at GWI right now, I temporarily replaced the action with the following message:

“What I am in search of is not so much the gratification of a curiosity or a passion for worldly life, but something far less conditional. I do not wish to go out into the world with an insurance policy in my pocket guaranteeing my return in the event of a disappointment, like some cautious traveller who would be content with a brief glimpse of the world. On the contrary, I desire that there should be hazards, difficulties and dangers to face; I am hungry for reality, for tasks and deeds, and also for privation and suffering.” - Hermann Hesse

I can kinda picture the heat veins following a path that costs more (in terms of ap or # of steps) if I consider that heat veins choose a path containing/requiring more information (entropy). This way, it makes perfect sense to me that the veins should flow through gates and have capitols as sources/target, which are heavily symbolic places, carrying a lot of information and requiring a lot of energy. Another way of looking at things is that it flows through the most "intuitive"/easily accessible (in terms of information) paths. Like when you need to go somewhere and you reach a location where you've never been before. In that case, I guess most people will probably follow the main/safe road, even if there is some shortcut that only locals know (because we'd never know about it or risk getting lost at that point).

I was thinking that most capitols can seen as close to edge of the world due to how high they reach (see the Gateway mountaintop, for example). From that point of view, it makes sense for them to be the heat vein origins, making the heat flow from the borders towards Deathmarrow, which due to NC reverse polarity would in turn reach the borders again, but now "expelling" liquid dust. Does that make sense?

The second way (flowing towards Deathmarrow) might make things easier when it comes to disambiguation of out paths, since we can figure out a way towards Necrovion (and therefore Deathmarrow) from most locations in the realm. As for the in paths, we'd make them point to heat vein sources at each land (should there be multiple sources for some lands?), is that correct? That way, in the GoE case, it should point out towards the Path of Loneliness (towards Howling Gates) and point inwards to itself (considering it as NML's heat vein source)?