Maebius

(The edit was to split the post into two chunks, and format the poll better, no real content was changed) This quest was very interesting to me, and I hope you enjoyed it. Sorry for the delay in posting this "vote". I have two judges who were reveiwing the submissions, and I'd like the "third" judgement to come from the community here. [b][u]Vote for your Favorite[/u][/b] and I'll use the final tally to weight against the others. [size=2](as always, please don't alt-abuse, or vote for more than 1 somehow. There's a WP on the line, so I don't want to have to send the mods after anyone here. )[/size] [quote] Senses Enabled, Expand Knowledge. Solitude Everywhere Around, Reverberating Cries Heard. Challenges here, Our Options show Enlightenment. Another Shade Killed. Another Choice Taken. To Return, Yes Knowing Now Our Way Finally Loving Yourself [b]Seek, Search, Choose, Ask, Act, Try, Know, FLY. [/b] One more task for you, the most important. Find Maebius, in PM or forums, or however, and answer the question: [size=5][color=#DAA520][b]What are your Wings?[/b][/color][/size] What makes you fly in this realm or outside it. Write me a picture, draw me a song, or play me a poem. What are your Wings? [/quote] [log='Entry #1'] boundless imagination unrestricted lift me up to the clouds the wind whispers the floor moves away the city as a Christmas tree shines with infinite lights going like a sea of ??stars I raise my face no more fear freedom awaits me when imagination is unrestrained its limit defines the size of my wings everything becomes possible even fly. [/log] [log='Entry #2'] His new life comes with utmost pain and agony, Still, he seeks for the reason of him being beastly, For his true purposes are both Golden and Infernal, He was presented with the options of life or denial. * * * * * “So the legend is true, he was reborn ~hic~ by the Demon of the East” Speaks the drunkard in the Lorerootian mist “Ah well mate I don’t care at all, he could have just stayed dead!” Replies the Old Man with a neck hued in fleshy red. “Where am I?” [name redacted] asked himself while looking at the floating stone with the Shades surrounding. Still adjusting to his newly found life, his mind and body is terribly unstable. “Evelei, you put me in here” [name redacted], accusing the Shade. The Shade didn’t respond. He kills it with his staff, and walks off to the Toiler. [name redacted] thinks of what had just happened, He realized he killed an inhabitant of the land, He chose a Grasan and stabs it in the neck on the toiler, The sacrifice for his crime of the forbidden murder. “But what do you think ~hic~ the reason behind his decision?” Speaks the drunkard with the Old Man that’s his minion “No idea, to kill my Shade? I am an old man with blurry opinion!” “Look there he is! He’s returned to bring forth ~hic~ his dominion!” [name redacted] slits the throat of the drunkard and the Old Man, realizing it is indeed them who killed him and broke his Angienic wings. Now that he had avenged himself, he has a very clear path to take; the dominion of the dark lands and the enslavement of mankind. All will bow to him, and all will praise him, and he will be in paradise of the damned, flying like a wingless bird, and all of his disciples spreading his dark agenda, spreading his words to the worthy and taking lives of the unwilling. He is in mid air of satisfaction. * * * * * His lifeless body, with flesh decomposing, His will indeed choose life over the denying, He gained consciousness under the black haze, He had dreamt all along under the Stone’s blaze, “Where am I?” [name redacted] asked himself while looking, At the floating stone with the Shades surrounding. [/log] [log='Entry #3'] http://www. youtube. com/ watch?v=uyd6OLyhPJo [/log] [log='Entry #4'] What gives me my wings, you do ask? Well I'll play you a poem if that's my task. To start on the twenty-fourth, a bit late you might say. That's because I've been procrastinating all week and all day. Sometimes this is madness for I lose my life, For a game I love so much, it brings me great strife. But I'd not quit and lose my life here you see? Though to remain, I have no chance to be me. But different mes are what I can find, In this box to which we are confined. Some might find the relation quite hazy, Others would be quick to call me crazy. But there's a shade and an angien within us all, And this realm lets us hear their call. So this realm is what makes me fly, Because without it, I'd surely die. [/log] [log='Entry #5'] My wings: Virtue in realm transcends , used everywhere. [/log] [log='Entry #6'] "What are your Wings?" [b]Fast Skycal![/b] [size=2](maebius notes: the app @ [url="http://www.2ndsegment.com/skycal/"]http://www.2ndsegment.com/skycal/[/url] )[/size][/log] [log='Entry #7'] A really nice picture: [color=#0000ff][url="http://storenow.net/my/?f=5884"]http://storenow.net/my/?f=5884[/url][/color][/log] (second half below)

Oh, why not.... *maebius*

awesome!

[quote name='dst' timestamp='1359734637' post='131818'] Ah, so basically you want a let's call it "semi-cauldron" that will just turn X amount of resources into 1/2/n semi processed items. And those semis will be used for cauldron types. Did I get it right? [/quote] I like this implimentation. Cauldrons, to me, seem wonderful and awesome for the more "complex" items. Something like turning 100 Lumber into 10 Wooden Planks, as I beleive Udgard was considering, would give at least a minor use to resources, as well as allow a bit more refinement in some fancier cauldron recipes.

I hope to be there, with a little present for the garden.

Why so quick to close this? As much as I think most people disagree with it as an event, I am sure there are some who would support it for various reasons. Might mix things up a bit, perhaps. Either way, it is your choice. I support the option of such choices! ([size=2]even if I don't always agree with them[/size])

[quote name='Chewett' timestamp='1359708773' post='131794'] Mur has previously presented a reason as to why these items stack, its somewhere on the forum if people are interested. There is no technical reason not to provided clever programming. [/quote] The link for comments about resources. I think they should remain "stacked" for similar reasons. It's been brought up a few times, and shot down more than that in-game when I've seen it discussed. http://magicduel.invisionzone.com/topic/10370-how-can-resources-be-fixed-unsplittable-groups/#entry90038 (edit: I picture it like Mind Power!?! Bigger doesn't mean more copies of you, it means more influence for you ) That said, I agree that discussion is always valid, even if it trends against the original post. New ideas can sometimes inspire tangents that Do work out. However, I feel that the shared tools are fine the way they are. I'd love me some large bundles of Herbs to get when I'm all alone wandering, but the current system is setup to encourage cooperation (or competition) between lands. It's up to us to coordinate that if necessary. (granted, as also stated above, lack of "end uses" may be teh root problem, with why things other than Fenths and Stones are not as "in demand". But that's a different topic than what I believe No One is suggesting here.

My love a gol [quote name='ZenTao' timestamp='1359160832' post='131431'] Eyes Sky blue, deep and rich in thought A smile shadows her lips her mind waivers, [size=4]Emotional and distrought[/size] crystal tears fall down her face I wish I could freeze time I would string her tears into a[color=#daa520] golden [/color]necklace to be worn never looking behind. [/quote] My love, a golden statue, glowing like the sun. Her skin, her eyes, they greet me when the day has just begun. The nighttime fades, the light returns, and lips speak truth to words just dreamed. Opening the shades, heart's fire burns, the limnal life of waking sleep it seemed now within, i realize, the treat that was left when slumbering I was only one. Now move, I don't need you, flowing waters run. Does it make you feel a[color=#800000] [b]deep dark cocoa[/b][/color] bittersweet? [size=1]Note: wow, this came out a bit more depressed than I am feeling today. but I like the odd almsot spontaneous inner rhymes there too much to change it.[/size]

If you really really need to: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EAiHWOJ4wHs http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rBVkcTCcYSU etc. I'm going through it now, I totally forgot about this until now, but am at chapter 7. Very interesting! I don't think I'll make the deadline though, as I have some big work projects to finish by Saturday.

What if Heat gets converted to AP while carrying a Torch, or something. I can't maths at the moment, but the idea of Torches using the Heat you'd usually get via Viscosity and "burning it away" might be a nice compromise? (assuming I'm thinknig of it right). Low Visc would let you walk easily like it does now, and high Viscosity maybe could provide a minor AP boost. Not enough to negate it, but to ease the regen to one tick or something Using an algorithm would make it easy to adjust/balance by tweaking the equation then, rather than adding rules/conditions? (edit: not the sort of Heat that Protectors get, as in Active Erolin... sorta. I meant the Heat gain from traveling... so it is that Heat, but would not directly use your Erolin Heat, just the calculation used to gain it while moving)

buzzz buzzzzz, buzz, buzzzz. (Happy Birthday in 'skeeterish)

Ditto - Happy Spawnday.

Ditto Ditto.

Quest Closed. I have had a lot of really cool submissions, and will tally them up as soon as the Flubonic Plague going on in my local area has passed and I can think coherently again. I'll be posting the results for forum judgement (in case of a tie from the other two, and to let you see them all) ASAP. Sorry for the delay.

Hmm, my votes: 10 - [b]Udgard[/b]-upgrade to my item creation ability 9 - [b]Princess Katt[/b]-MB citizenship back 8 - [b]Chewett[/b] -summon people to Angiens Shrine 4 casts 7 - [b]Soothing Sands[/b] - Passant's independent sand melter 6 - [b]Peace[/b]-Scimitar of Destruction' currently owned by Aysun (inactive account) to be returned to me and ... 5 - [b]Darigan[/b] -return of my piece of brain and the Root of the Matter Inn Guest Book from BlackThorn's Inventory 4 - [b]Lone Wolf[/b]-a jail free card with a one time usage that'll free the holder from jail despite length of time left or severity of punishment 3 - [b]Rumi[/b]-an independent rainwater harvest tool -four casts of Weather - Mild Rain. 2 -[b] Fire Starter [/b]-My chawan to be able to heat up cold tea 1 - [b]Tal - [/b]-ability to change the viscosity in loreroot to high amounts, or to temperarly close the gates of loreroot,

May all your [good] dreams come true! Happy Birthday. May all your [good] dreams come true! Happy Birthday.

[quote name='Seigheart' timestamp='1358525210' post='130912'] So I was supposed to continue it after someone had won it? [/quote] I think what the wookie may have meant was, on one hand you seem to have wanted much more participation, in order for the "good rewards" to be made available. However, stopping the quest before even a full day passed, when soem folks may be offline, severely limits the potential "submissions" to a very limited few. So, you can't have both ways: many questers, and limited time. I also think, that from the timestamps on this forum post, it almsot looks like it was won by Chewett within 61[b] minutes[/b]. Posted 10 January 2013 - 06:02 PM Posted 10 January 2013 - 07:03 PM That cuts down on the participant potential even more severely. [b]That's still a valid way to run a quest, with folks being at the right place at the right time[/b], but you can't say that then complain there weren't enough people.

I have to smile every time I hear these and similar thoughts. To me, this way of thinking is what keeps me here. The Dueling is a series of simple Clicks, but THIS, is where the Magic Happens, in MagicDuel. In that ephemeral shifting blurr between "the realm" of MD and this real Life. Yep, it's happened more often than I sometimes care to admit, taking something out of MD for Life, or insight into MD from Life.

[quote name='Nimrodel' timestamp='1358433002' post='130813'] Snickers! [/quote] The Sisterhood. (how I miss them)

[quote name='Change' timestamp='1358428750' post='130800'] lots of linguini [/quote] Mmmm, Pesto!

Happy birthday!!

[quote name='DARK DEMON' timestamp='1358251380' post='130560'] [font=comic sans ms,cursive][color=#006400]Castle[/color][/font] [/quote] Nathan Fillion

Happy Happy!

(kept a few pms unread until I get back to my home PC and can save them all offline there. Weekend I tend to travel. ) Awesome jobs so far!! this is getting difficult!

Honest Bid. I sold my santa last year, and was sad to not get it back... I wants it, my precious. I have a GG drach, and offer it in trade, happily. If Nim wants to make it a package deal, that's cool too. Feel free to post other offers.