Fyrd Argentus

@Grido - Yes, digits represent 1 through 10. I think it would tremendously confuse people to try to reverse. Most of my creatures start with a 6, and as pointed out, the oldest creatures may only have 5 digits. More slots is an unavoidable advantage. I don't think favoring older creatures would be a good thing.... And calling a 1 an ace would exempt it from being in a straight.... @Nex - Once a "killer" card is found, I expect the victims to post that fact here, and future battles with that person reference that card as an "exclusion". But, if you think you can beat that card, you offer to play without the exclusions, and see what the opponent will bet. In all cases, you don't want to reveal your best cards until you have to. It's sort of like playing "chicken". Regarding suits - my original treatment is as if there is only 1 suit so every hand would be a flush. Not consistent. Okay, then... CHANGE: straights are straights, not straight-flushes. (this does undervalue straights vs. true odds, but what the heck... let's follow poker rules here.)

I have never heard of Ace low in poker (gin-rummy yes, but not poker). But in this game, a 0 digit is a 10 and only a ten. Besides, we don't want the straight to be too easy, or it shouldn't beat 4 of a kind. I still worry if that's the case.

Word of advice - you do NOT want to join an alliance at MP3, there are serious issues. Talk to me if you need more detail.

In cards, a straight-flush is a run of numbers with the same suit (e.g., 3 thru 7 of hearts). I have not calculated the odds for CID Poker, so if this catches on, and we learn more, we might have to redefine the hands and call it just a regular straight (with value less than 4-of-a-kind). Examples: ID 680921 would not be a straight-flush. Rearranged it would be 1-2-6-8-9-10 which is NOT a run of 5 numbers. This would just be "10 high". Zero is strictly a 10, and does not come before 1. With 650234 you could make a straight-flush, that being 2-3-4-5-6 and discard the 10.

I have found that - surprise, surprise - people are very possessive, personal, and fussy, about their papers. My one project to help somebody with their papers was a most unsatisfying (for both of us) waste of time. This needs to remain a secondary service offered, as it would be doomed as a primary function. We can (and should) encourage, promote, copy-edit -- but the creation probably has to come from the heart of the owner to be successful. That is the essence of role-play. Capturing events (Lay of the GGG, Kyphis's work with Mya's murder) has been much more DO-ABLE.

Creature-ID Poker This is a gambling game where you challenge other players to come up with winning poker hands from their creature ID's. To play: 1. Identify yourself in your public log as a CID Poker player. 2. Find another player you think you might beat. 3. Challenge them, and get agreement on terms -- What stakes? ("For honor", 1 SC, a bird, whatever) -- Exclusions (Known champions, for instance) 4. The Play: -- Challenger reveals a "hand" of 5 digits from one creature ID first. -- Defender concedes or reveals a better "hand". -- Challenger may reveal an even better "hand" and so forth until one party concedes. 5. Loser pays off the winner with agreed wage -- Be prepared to prove you have the ID you claim if challenged -- Fraud is punishable per game rules -- Cheaters also risk public humiliation and a bad rep that will haunt them forever. 6. The hands, from best to worst are: -- 5 of a kind -- 4 of a kind -- Full House (three of one kind, two of another) [b]-- Straight (run of 5)[/b] <--- CHANGE! -- 3 of a kind -- Two Pair -- Pair -- Highest Card (note 0 represents a "10" and is high). 7. Reputation – I fully expect it to get around who has winning combinations. These should be posted in this thread, so that they may be excluded either explicitly, or by saying "nothing already posted".

http://www.ellisisland.org/shipping/FormatTripPass.asp?sship=Weser&BN=P00357-9&lineshipid=969&shipid=966 Passenger list, arriving at Ellis Island (NY) 1893. Three Marduccis travelling together. Edit when I realized Aelis beat me to it: Filameno is mentioned in the list found by Aelis, but this link gives two small children traveling with her.

Lost Path Treasure Quest - Genesis story - from Ailith's Festival. All of my instruments are made from the remains of people that were important in my life, for better or worse. Anyway, I have been using my music to explore the spirit realm here in MD, and I have contacted many spirits, which you may have been hearing about in the Lost Path quest. This is the story of the only one I have fully connected with. I had a vision of some sort of plant beneath a wheel. I searched under the windmill,the wheel on the fenths press, And finally found it beneath the wheel of the wishing well. I touched this pathetic little plant and it spoke to me. Apparently, this poor soul was once a guard but got in trouble for smuggling smoking materials to the other guards I wonder if it was nightshade, but he claimed it was just to help them relax He was bannished from the main guard and set to guard the princess's treasures And ended up incarnated as a plant for his trouble He has since repented his ways, and wished to abandon his duties He asked me to take the treasure off his hands He said that the stone by my foot was magically transformed And that all I needed was the password. And that he would give it to mee if I showed I could calm down without the weed. So, I relaxed, and gradually got all my AP back But he said that wasn't enough I had to go deeper So I thought a while, and went into deeper meditation on all the magical lands I knew of (i.e. accessed free credits) And gained extra ap At which point he told me I would always be my own person, never over-mastered by the addictive weed. And told me the incantation was encrypted on teh bottom of the bucket in the well. So I went to the well, thought "bottom of the bucket" and low and behold I saw the words "Cigar Network Calm" Now, I struggled with that riddle for a long time I contacted other spirits, and was overwhelmed So I started the Lost Path Treasure quest to get help But weeks have gone by Finally, I solved this one on my own. I knew I was looking for a gem or something and noticed If you break it down in syllables You get a GAR-NET in the middle. So I had "Ci garnet work calm" "Ci" phonetically becomes "See" So the incantation was "See Garnet work-calm" All my archive research led me to understand the translation issue calm - trnaquil - peace That was it! "work-peace" becomes "Workpiece" So I used the incantation on the rock "See garnet workpiece" and it worked! The rock transformed itself into a garnet, and I had found one of the treasures. So that is the story of the first (or thirteenth) task of the quest. This one is done, but I still need everybody's help on the rest. So, please, help on the quest. Thank you.

10 sc each for the imps.

Congrats, I am Bored. Just to clarify - each player can also find that same treasure. Consider it your own personal psychic copy of the true item which is floating somewhere in the spirit world..... These are not "items" in the MD game sense.... This inventory you can only see in the Magic Mirror....

Um, I'm on day 164 and beat No One's random defense more often than not. I like to think I'm doing okay. But why were you asking?

7 sc each for the imps

Fyrd Argentus wanders by, puffing on his bagpipes. Fyrd Argentus: I'm getting better at this. Fyrd Argentus: You should have TWO minutes at the top of each hour now. Fyrd Argentus: And of course it's odd, but blame the spirits, not me! Fyrd Argentus: Visions are fragile things... Fyrd Argentus: I'm putting all the hints I can find in the notes in MDA.... Fyrd Argentus: Do look those over carefully.

Two weeks, and nobody has completed even a single task yet. Some added incentives: Rewards for pickle points have been posted on my [Q] doc and include shop critters and gold coins. You can get pickle points for many things, including each task in this quest. Also, the FIRST person to actually complete a task within this quest will win silver. This bonus prize starts now at 1 sc, and will be increased gradually until somebody claims it.

Okay Cutler, you're better at getting inside Mur's head and second guessing him than I am. + rep for the humor. I still maintain there is no image at a point, it is a singularity. Get the picture?

Mur did not see fit to reply to me so I will post.... as a PhD Physical Chemist who has taught classes in quantum mechanics at Stanford University, I don't need the internet, and can tell you the answer to this well-known, textbook problem -- no "image" at a mathematical point, but rather an electromagnetic wave function at that point in space that follows the blackbody spectrum, which is dependant only on temperature. The only assumption here is that since he described a "hollow sphere" this must be of macroscopic scale - and that is not much of an assumption since a smaller sphere would have had atomic fine structure and not be well modeled as a continuous sphere. Yes, radio waves can be of macroscopic scale, but you don't "see" them.

Shock. Coins are used to buy creatures. How can this distinction be made?

Wolfs is the ONLY person I have EVER put on my ignore list. Enough said.

Please close this. I have no plans to proceed.

Please close this. Thanks.

This is one experiment history HAS done for us. Reincarnation is an eastern philosophy that leads to balance and stability in large communities, as opposed to the western philosophy of constant striving and growth in a pioneering spirit towards a goal. Cyclic vs. linear. More interesting question to me is, what does it mean to "slow down"? After watching a wife take 5 years to die of liver disease and losing a son to psychiatric issues in the following years, I have "slowed down" a lot -- but it is a curious mixture of SELECTIVITY and fatigue that I am still trying to understand. I have more patience for some things, less for others. There is a big difference between "not caring any more" and "doing things thoroughly and carefully".

My experience is that the multi-window screen is happening more and more often. It is happening in places it didn't used to, like ritual selection window, hitting the "charge!" button, etc. Watching the task bar it looks like there are about three phases that the loading goes through, saying "done", then one more thing, then "done" etc. As the complexity of the windows increases, they will take longer to load, and this problem will occur more. The ultimate solution is to rearrange the code sequence so that the LAST thing to load is what enables us to click on the window. Clicks that happen prior to the "all clear" signal should be ignored, not trigger safeties.

Half full, half empty, or as the engineers would say -- the glass is the wrong size. This is about expectations. If your expectations don't fit what is in the game, change them! MD is a unique game in that the players create the game as they go along. If you're not happy with what is going on, remember that you have the power to shape it -- just like in real life. I don't know any other computer game where players can create games within games (quests) for other players.

Well clearly I should not proceed in advance of the changes that Mur indicates are coming. My view was a "mundane" class of items quite distinct from things special enough to be in official inventory. True, we can list things we carry in our papers. This would just be a little more "justification" or "structure" to role-playing for people who wanted it. It is so sweet to be able to say, "I just happen to have here...." I never thought to include any actions other than getting and losing items (maybe trading them). And I'm talking mundane stuff that would NOT be worth even a silver.... So anyway, never mind, I will work on something else.

I am imagining creating functions that store "MundaneItemKey"."XXX" where XXX is basically anything we want. This could even be created off input by the players -- walk up the Willow's Shop, tell the clerk you want a "widget" and you get the key for that (probably need to review requests to stock new items in the store -- that's better). A person's role-playing would be defined/focussed by their choices. Coders could require certain mundane items to complete quests.... "rope", "bucket" etc. Lot of book-keeping of course. Magic Mirror to show you what you have, and storage functions of all keys that have been defined. Some sort of total encumberance limit (like MP level squared). All this so it is counted and retreivable. BUT - I read about cleaning up storage, and the worries about server capacity and such. This could become a storage hog. I'm looking for discussion - would such a project be a good thing, or not?