Menhir

This is it from my point of view ... Azthor you nailed it and saved my precious time. Your answer is leading to a deeper talk about the topic without the possibillity to reach a commonly accepted end ... with this in mind leading again into the "getting lost" stage. DD it is a very good question for an endless and time consuming philosophical discussion if you have the will to spend precious time.

I would love to do that ... (including trees).

I vote Yes ... the given powers should not make the protector more powerful but those who recieve from him ... "giving" as a humble service for those in need.

The permanent death idea would be something someone would face after a VERY LONG TIME (in real playtime) and mostly this would turn out to be a step chosen by the player because the "rebirth" challenges to should not be difficult as hell. Everyone should be able to get back to the "real" realm. At least with the help of others. People like to quit MD and I thought how would it look & fell like to have "graves" at the graveyard (clickies) with some inscriptions of those who decided to leave permanently with one last experience. They could die and stay like this and still leave a mark on a gravestone with a short story of themselfs or a note. That was the deeper idea. So perma death should not be forced on someone who wants to get back to the realm of Magic Duel. I like lashtals idea of the land for the dead ... would sort of fit into all those ideas.

We played a boardgame and had some very good red wine. I prepared a special dal makhani and we ate until we were all satisfied. After 12:00 we watched from the balcony the amazing fireworks close to our place for about 35 min. And finally we spend the first hour of the year with talks about our aims and thoughts of the new year. If I would have the time to search for pictures I could use the opposite of DD pictures. I wish all of you a strong year 2015.

I thought about this seriously 2 years ago and in the end had an idea which would be something totally different. Thinking through it for some time made me realize it would need a huge efford to discuss and coding to be realized. So I didn`t went public with it. Now might be the best time to at least share it. The following represent the frame of the idea. Once you´re attacked by an assassin or deadly sick or poisened you would be moved by the "game" into an inbetween state of "not living and not dead yet". My idea was to mirror the realm of MD with certain locations to be more accessible than others. On the visual side the art should be altered in some way, blurry or similar as if you look through a thin curtain. Chat with the living should be limited but still possible and again in some locations easier than in others and in certain scenes not possible. This 1st state should be limited by time (some days or weeks) and you should be able to prevent the actual state of death by solving a chain of quests and challenges (e.g. could be fighting with an set of predefined creatures combined with a story or quest). If one is not able to complete the challenges with a certain percentage of success the move to stage 2 (death) should be started. In this 24 hours (real playtime!) scenes should be changing to an unclear vision with even less possible actions ingame. Once arrived in stage 2 (death) communication with the living should be limited to a minimum (maybe only to certain characters who are able to talk with those on the other side). But the scenes should be clear again. A different setting of actions should be possible here but all concentrated to work on a "rebirth". Interaction with other "dead" people should be really powerful and shorten the time one needs to go back to the "reality" of the realm. To define the challenges in the stage of death could be a very pleasant community creation process. Most important from my point of view are the following ideas: - the stage of death should be filled with interesting possiblities but at the same time always filled the fear of the side effects of being dead being dead could mean: - draining of skills (loosing them slowing with percentage per hour real playtime) - loosing the importance of a role (until vanishing completely) - loosing items, resources (but only after a long time) - and perma death after a very long time

Watch and listen https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U6MZvK02vX0 especially 2:47-2:50

It is obvious that MD is a community driven platform. After being here and observing how the people of this community are behaving, one has to ask himself if he or she wants to deal with this community at all. If at all one has to decide how this will look like. The positive in this is, everyone is free to stay or leave, sadly we have no choice in RL. The big learning experience of the last 4 years in this realm for me, was to deal with this. I´m glad I did stay and change myself without trying to change the community. I wish everyone else to find his/her way in here and outside of this virtual realm. I wish all of you the best and a good start into the new year.

Maybe someone finds the time to look into this, it might be a good solution to get the project into the best form & order. http://www.basecamp.com/ They use it in the company my wife is working in.

I´m at home connected with LAN cable and as far as I know Firestarter is living far away from my place ... I just tried it again today and have the same result.

Sorry I forgot to write that I´m at home ... so it was obviously for me that there must be something "wrong" ... Correct Tal and that´s why I was thinking of a bug. I never had this issue before ...

Date: 26.11.2014 I just made some fights passing throught Howling Gates. When I attacked Fire Starter (idle at this time) the following message appeared. I tried a second time and it appeared again. http://imgur.com/o9bhZdB

Activity: daily for several hours ... 7 days a week ... I gather water, herbs & memorystones ... of course fenths and rainwater if available I do train my creatures ... some days like there is no tomorrow but often I have no time for it I do like intense talks if I´m in the mood with a backpack full of time ... Role: Garden keeper

For me this is one of the main aspects MD is lacking most and I´m very excited to see that you take it into consideration to truely change basic things in MD. Thank you all the best with this ton of work ahead of you.

I am grateful for the possibilities I had and have ... I am grateful that at some point in my life I woke up ... I am grateful for the chance to go through this life experience from the position I was born in ... I am grateful to be able to grow and evolve with awareness combined with lost of fun and inner peace ... I am grateful that 90% of my time I can life like I want and be who I am I am grateful for "my" life

I like most of your thoughts a lot.

What a topic ... I was waiting for this a long time seeing the chance in it to hear everyone´s opinion too. My opinion on the matter of favorism. 1. There is no true everywhere fully excepted definition of favorism ... to say it with a quote: "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody." (http://www.brainyquote.com/quotes/authors/b/bill_cosby.html) Everyone within MD who has done something (or is still doing) important knows what this means. There will be always an opposition. From my point of view there is no way around this and if one tries he/she will fail. So don´t even start to try (only if you would like to have the experience of this failure). 2. I cannot say that MD was better or not in the time you were active "rulling" the realm but one thing is for sure. As long as a community is not "equal" and I hope it will never be, there will always be the need of some leading characters. This could be a group of responsible people who are widely accepted and preferable acting without personal interest (the council of MD is supposed to have this role in our realm) or a single person. If both is missing someone (or a group) will eventually try to take this place and from my point of view thats purely natural, because a gap needs to be filled (look into nature its an "universal law"). I don´t know how to achieve this, it all depends on those again we call community. But again we are facing the same "problem" that the community will always be divided into opposing groups and the favorism comes into play sooner or later. You cannot escape. 3. I have no advise to give just my opinion which is again painted with the colour of my own wishful thinking. Not a single human being I have meet so far in my life was selfless acting without any desire or "ego interest". We cannot be equal (we would be machines) in thinking and feeling and I love it. I love all the friction and the possibilities of evolution which comes from it, if its used with knowledge and awareness. (Would be worth a seperate topic to discuss) So I would like to see the realm of Magic Duell moving forward, developing not in a particular direction but growing. From my point of view the worst thing in life is stagnation, which is for me the start of regression. I see MD in this state since a long time now. So far I cannot see the community as whole to be ready to act as one, with similar interests dealing with each other in a respectful, accepting way without losing the uniqueness of every single charcter. At the moment I would like to see a single person playing "god" without being a tyrant or dictator (someone who is working only for his/her own interest against everyone else). I wish all of you wonderful rest of the week and a perfect weekend. Enjoy Life.

Wish you both all the best and a day full of deep joy.

In my opinion this realm is not a computer game ... I don´t know if it was ever planned to be a social experiment but since I joined my strongest feeling always was that it is one. So I´m asking: How do you deal with uncomfortably situations in real life? From my point of view the following is happening since laws were invented (used/misused). Most human beings are always trying to stay in their comfort zone (scientific fact) so they choose the "good side" to be safe ... "Its always good to know that we are on the correct side of events, isn`t it?" Which creates the opportunity to shape the "correct" side in a way that those who are the ones in power of shaping are constantly favoured. This leds to a situation were most "followers" don´t act with full awareness (means breaking through the illusion they think is reality) ... no they just repetately react to events which were put in front of them by full intend. From my point of view that is the circle most people are in all the time. I´m not in favour with any party which has something to do with this "event", I´m just trying to see behind our own behaviour to find the needed clue to evolve. Most people are programmed in a way they cannot even accept thinking about, not to mention the act of truely changing themselfs. Most are too afraid to leave their comfort zone. If the idea of comming together in a realm to interact with others is a main part of this whole experience, then we should always try to find different ways of interacting (communication is one way). If we would like to have the perfect virtual world to be pleased and conforted all the time, then there are thousands of "games" out there which exactly are designed to do that 100% of the time. From my point of view the starting point of interacting with others which we think oppose us is to start always at our own self. The point here is honesty, which is the biggest stumbling block right in the beginning. We tend to point our fingers instead of bending it towards ourselfs and start with "What has this to do with me?". For me this is the hardest part especially in those cases when I´m 100% sure that I´m correct and had only the best intentions. To communicate honestly with each other without involving the manipulating ego is a hard stone to swallow. I see no other way to solve real issues, because I believe (it´s knowledge when I´m talking about my own experiences in life) it all starts there. Some might do this already. As far as I can say about myself ... I know the "facts" but from time to time I still fall into the trap my own ego is laying out. It´s a constant remembering, hard work and often unpleasant especially in those moments you try to find some peace and comfort. I wish all of you the best and please take none of those things I wrote in any way personal.

Same band another great message ... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=um0ANWWYlXo&index=9&list=PL9vh5zxKT6HXxyUbLdsu1T0tp-mbNgDwg Gojira - Esoteric Surgery You have the power to heal yourself All illness can be healed the cell regenerates disambiguated situation There is a secret code in the structure of the mind You have the power to heal yourself Flesh bodies mute and blinded roaming uncertain, lost infected misinformed Releasing a black enormous insect out from the chest archaic form disease Esoteric surgery a dissection of the soul Unsuspected precise power on the wounded astral body projected beam of light All illness can be healed the cell regenerates disambiguated situation There is a secret code in the structure of the mind You have the power to heal yourself Suspended floating in empty spaces Descending swift like a fire running down Obstruction disintegration life force overcoming all circumstances Release the pain

Inspiring song with great lyrics ... some might enjoy. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jW6Jjcoc8Ow&list=PL9vh5zxKT6HXxyUbLdsu1T0tp-mbNgDwg&index=3

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We will use the extra time we have to finish the renovation/restauration of one of our rooms, the future Kitchen. All the big work should be finished after this weekend ... looking back to months of daily work. I might post some pics if anyone is interested at all. Wish you all a pleasant time.

Its unique so far as I can say. Life is Feusal is cool but need tons of time which I lack atm.