Fyrd Argentus

[size=5][font=georgia,serif][color=#4B0082]Fyrd Argentus is now verily a broken down old man. After abusing too much pickle juice and standing out in the hail at GoE for too long, his stats are now 7 out of 9 negative and his nearly impressive vitality is exhausted three times over just walking across Marind Bell. His loss-win differential matches his active days - both over a thousand. His pursuit of lost spirits has made him become one. You may see the remains of his confused and dazed spirit (Fyrd Alyzer) running around compulsively haunting, or should I say Fyrd-alyzing, a whole new crop of clickies. He won't even recognize himself though.... Do not fear -- all of Fyrd's quests remain active, and all prizes will be awarded -- eventually. Just don't try to contact Fyrd by in-game PM -- stick with the forum please if you want attention. Fang Archbane retains temporary custody of the famous Pickle Jar and we trust he will continue to pass out pickles to those in need. [p.s. why won't my return key register any more?][/color][/font][/size]

I loaned Fang my pickle jar because he is using (at least some of) them to help new visitors to the realm and I felt guilty that I was not keeping up with demand. He ought to be able to make about 6 a day the hours he logs, where I'm making 1. I'm at 47 pickles held (yes, prizes continue), but should have been up around 75. Zzzzzzz. I'm also behind on answering PM's. It is an act of faith, appreciation for his efforts, and hopefully in the best interest of the realm. When the day comes when I ask for it back, he will have the chance to show his appreciation for my trust. Signed, the one and only Pickle Meister. p.s. Once he caps out - which could be in less than a week - he'll have to burn 'em to make 'em, so I don't consider that an abuse. It's part of the job -- especially if he burns them to go rescue people. p.p.s. - Thank you all for your concern.

See my market post about my archer collection....? It's still available.

The point, I believe, is that you're really supposed to take the role of ONE character and stick with it, baggage and history and all. If you do a reset, or do experiments, or take another role for any reason, etc. you must keep the roles absolutely isolated from one another. You're not supposed to use any sort of unintended aspects of the computer system, ie stepping outside the game, to influence the game. That said, there are a billion fuzzy grey situations that arise, and many people push the limits and find new ways to raise questions. If you find a new one, you'll become notorious, but not necessarily automatically banned. Depends more on how you handle it (report it or try to exploit it) more than the fact of your discovery. Help fix a loophole and you may get rewarded. Put me on the list as helpful if pedantic, boring and thinks he's funny.

My back enterance access is working fine, yet it is offered to me again in the shop.

[quote name='Chewett' timestamp='1358446216' post='130832'] I would like the ability to summon people to Angiens Shrine. It would have 4 casts (unable to be put onto a stone). Only able to cast on one person. The caster must be standing at angiens shrine for the spell to work. This is because we now have access yet we cannot yet easily bring players so that we can talk to members there. All adjustments to the spell are welcome, since it is a powerful summoning spell i have detailed the numerous limitations in an attempt to balance the item. I would ask players to vote for this idea so that we may all learn more about, and recruit some angiens to be our fighters. [/quote] How about a "trace" item you hand to somebody, then later they "use" it and they teleport to your current location, you get back the item. Wouldn't be all that different from a temporary "jump to leader" so not earth-breaking in terms of play-balance, but very useful.

Sorry, not really interested in coins or credits. And this is not an auction, not a fire sale.

Yeah, that's what they are called, Anniversary Aramors.

These tired old bones are weary of the fight. So I'm entertaining offers on my tired old (read: experienced) army, to a good leader that will protect the realm, etc. etc. You know the mantra. On the block: A set of 4 imps, moderately tokened, all claw II. A 2011 Imp, no tokens A 2012 Imp, no tokens On the block to MB citizens only: A set of 3 Angiens, moderately tokened, all claw I A set of 2 heretics and 2 bloodpacts, moderately tokened, all claw II What do I want? I'll enter negotiations for weird and rare creatures (yes morphs, lord no on the drachs! You can't housebreak them!) Mainly, I want the raw materials to finish my musical instruments: -- Feathers -- Animal Hair that can stand in for Unicorn -- Precious Metal that can stand in for Mithril (possibly when alloyed with silver coin) -- Leather that can stand in for Medusa/Water Demon hide This is not an auction - I will listen to offers that help me reach my goals. I have coin to sweeten the pot - they don't much interest me.

Selfish wishes only? 1. A tablet of paper that lets me spawn very specific items - documents - which have written on them whatever I put. Why? I could have SOOOO much fun with it. Documents should also have a specified number of "uses" (reads) before they are destroyed. Ideal if the writer specifies that number. Possibly a title line freely read. (the "document" could also describe itself as being an oragami figure....) 2. The other 3 out of 4 of my magical musical instruments. Why? It resolves inconsistencies in my back story, by which I made these instruments in another dimension, brought them here and play them, but only 1 of 4 has a "physical" existance as of yet (for lack of raw materials) and so 3 are just RP. Bugs me. Frustrating. [Edit: of course I might still be able to get these raw materials through normal means -- see my most recent posting in the central market...]

I would put more tools into the hands of players, ultimately delegating all powers including bug fix and coding and everything the secret council does, and new scene creating and everyting. Turn it loose. Kings and Queens with real power. Anarchy and thrills galore. And people feeling empowered instead of under the thumb of a bureacratic authority that is overwhelmed to the point of non-action except on trivial but emotional things.... Put in place mechanisms to make codable items, and code them. Spell creation. New clickie creation. No more rules except those set by the PLAYERS with power to enforce their will. Allow social groups of players to decide things. Give players the power to approve avys, and so on and so on. And any function that does not get used within a certain time frame is up for grabs by an active player. No more rules about alts. Just make it possible for players to see who is pulling the strings. Then let go. Keep the game moving, alive, empowering, and fun! How many people have left this game because they felt hopeless in the face of injustice, expecting Mur or the Council to act as a potent judiciary? Down with such arbitrary authority -- power to the players!

The effort seems to be flagging. Or maybe I'm just getting old and tired. Thanks for all the verbal support, but we need some energy behind actions. Shall we try to make the items? Find somebody who can code? Set up a formal petition? Or go on ignoring death as a force in the realm?

I ran up and down the tunnel, and the viscosity stayed at +40. Looks like a bug to me. It is behaving as expected in MB. I am UG citizen, and have enough loyalty the viscosity doesn't affect me....

You also get spells when you become a protector (MP6) or LHO. Oh, and one more thing - part of the game is figuring out the rules. And then they change - which is also part of the game. Take it as a (fun) challenge, and remember that the hardcoded documentation is very, very obsolete -- not to be trusted.

Dark, something like that ought to get posted. I could suggest a number places. Then you just need to reply with a link when it comes up... Merlin, most of us are happy to answer questions -- when you can find us. Just remember half the game is exploring for yourself. Well, not half, but.....

[quote name='Rasiel' timestamp='1352388294' post='125249'] I know it's hard but just because someone is mean to you doesn't mean you should act the same to them, I understand when someone is being rude to you you have a very strong impulse to be rude right back, but that only continues the viscous cycle and ends up making topics that started out with some sort of point into mindless attack threads. the recent example would be Fang's thread. I believe a lot of the people here are at least 18+ ,now i could be wrong but, i think we can all be a little more mature when it comes to this. If you have a problem don't post it in that thread send them a PM and try to work it calmly, you could even invite a third neutral party to help things run smoothly. [/quote] And it's all the worse because with a medium like the internet, the first instance of "rudeness" is as often as not a convolution of bad or hasty typing, no body language or inflection, and sometimes language translations (how many dialects of "english" can you distinguish?) Plus people reacting with different sets of context - not having seen all the OTHER relevant forum posts.... I try really, really hard to avoid this (the benefit of long years of painful learning) and still have been flamed a half-dozen times....

[color="#cccccc"]Ann. 2419 - [2012-11-06 22:39:34 - Stage 11][/color] In light of recent, and not so recent, events we decided to make something clear - no current position, role based or otherwise, is above death and we shall not be making it otherwise unless this drastically changes. Odd.... I hope I am just being paranoid in regards my effort to balance the tactical "death" events that are occuring with increasingly greater frequency and annoyance to those involved. I presume this is a reference to the "death" of a game role - organization - such as the Kings, drachlair guardians, rpc's, treasure keepers, existence of certain alliances, and so forth. Anybody have a different read on this? Oh, I see now what happened to Fang.... (TK's) [url="http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13158-you-can-all-thank-eon-for-the-delays-d/page__pid__124968#entry124968"]http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/13158-you-can-all-thank-eon-for-the-delays-d/page__pid__124968#entry124968[/url] This clarifies the announcement a lot - and makes my work more urgent.

You should just try asking me for spicy pickles..... I hope you plan to use them, not horde them..... there is a limit to how many can exist.

All fixed and working well. Thank you!

Other spells are NOT case sensitive -- I just tested give vitality. Locate is not case sensitive to trigger it - but the changed case seems to mess up the string matches.

Okay, more info. If you ask for somebody who doesn't exist you get: ---------------------------------- Locating [b]xyzplayer[/b] ... [b]Unable to trace xyzplayer, your skill in this spell might be insufficient or the target is nowhere to be found.[/b] -------------------------------------------- Notice that the spell words do not show up in the above note. The spell does work for me now -- but I find it is [u][i]case sensitive in the spell words [/i][/u]but NOT case sensitive to the player name, and when it chokes on case sensitivity of the spell words is when it repeats back the spell words. Specifically "Send a firefly after Voulgranth" works as advertised, but "send a firefly after Voulgranth" generates: --------------------------------------- Locating [b]send a firefly after Voulgranth[/b] ... [b]Unable to trace send a firefly after Voulgranth, your skill in this spell might be insufficient or the target is nowhere to be found.[/b] [b]---------------------------------------[/b] So the bug is triggered by the shift in case, and the mode of the bug has to do with string matching including the erroneous words.

spell words are "Send a firefly after" player is "Esmaralda" This did used to work, and it does trigger the little side box for a report, so it knows it's supposed to do a locate spell. I've rebooted my computer but not purged cookies -- I figured if it gets this far, it's not a problem with my cookies.

Fyrd Argentus continues to be unable to cast the locate spell. Someone seems to have reset my spell words since I first posted on the forum about this issue. Reciting the words got chat, of course. [Oh - they also gave me 48 casts to bug test, I guess. Thanks!] I set up the words again, checked who was around not idle, and tried again like 5 minutes ago..... I got: [font=Times New Roman]Locating [b]send a firefly after Esmaralda[/b] ... [b]Unable to trace send a firefly after Esmaralda, your skill in this spell might be insufficient or the target is nowhere to be found.[/b] [/font] [font=Times New Roman][This is a copy of note sent to bugs e-mail, per suggestion of crash-test-dummy][/font]

Okay, I was first searching for blitzmole, a new MP3, who it turned out was trapped in GG and eventually teleported out. I understand teleportation can mess things up. Uncertain. To test the spell, I then tried it on magistra, then Magistra, who was sitting right there orange in Wind's Sanctuary - and doesn't move around a lot. So I burned 3 casts. Is it WORKING for anybody else, before I test more?

I'm looking at the person, spelling it right, the result is it says finding this person is beyond my skill to find. I tried person A with unknown place, person B I could see using all lower case, person B again with the right capitalizations. I've recently rebooted, and not been on through the top of an hour yet. Something's broken.