Maebius

I am dressing up as a pinata and my son is a dwarven barbarian with a big foam hammer. We plan on going Trick-or-Treating a bit, then sitting on my porch lettign kids Smack the pinata for their candy which I will throw/drop at them. :P Then, on a more sombre note, I will take my hammock tent into the cool dark woods, sleep out away from the bustle of the city, and meditate on my place in the world, while remembering my Ancestors fondly.

I just was cleaning my desk out and found your envelope from last year! (yes, I still have the card too. :P )

Yep, no link to vote for Yours, TTL. I'd love to support your efforts, though, as they merit.

Happy birthday! :D

I will keep my bid as posted. No worries.

Happy Happy Birthday!

...and my axe! ;) (welcome newcomer to the Main Land itself, One of us! one of us! Huzzah!)

ok, might as well bid on TS, since the Eggs are a hot commodity. :P 15. Tormented Soul (ID: 538209) 5 silver - Maebius

19+4 Silver coins for the Angien pair, because reasons. :P (that's 23 silver total for both)

and on the flipside, creating something, and offering it life, by saving it from a short existence, is good, right? Or is it like the old Chinese 'curse' that essentially reads: "May you get everything you wish for" ?

I've said it before and I'll say it again. Happy Happy Birthday! :D

There are so many good points here, I can only add a brief summary of my own personal experience. Your mileage may Will vary, of course. I joined MD in a similar fashion. Maebius was mostly Me, Nate. I have the Hat, physically on my head when I played quite a lot. Yes, I filtered that through the lens of MagicDuel's realm and specific flavor, but I generally kept me as 'me' as if I were there in that place surrounded by folks and angien discussions and sundry. Then, a while later, I wanted to try things in a different light. I created a Character of Gort Hedera, who had a sorta personality, (but was STILL really just a part of me I wanted to play with under the veil of internet-anonymity!) and had a lot of fun with it. I didn't really keep her identity a secret if people asked, but also tried to keep that character completely removed from Me. It was a mask I put on, and toyed with, when the mood struck. Both characters (and the other minor very unplayed alts I have) were other experiments to test out a way of thinking, or viewing the world. Both Maebius and Gort had value for their own unique reasons. I have far too many alts, some to map out Story-mode paths, some to try a different personality play-acting, etc. Different playstyle=different character. Most didn't work out beyond MP4, so sleep eternally now. My suggestion, whenever I hear folks say something along the lines of "But I want to keep playing, yet I don't want to play XYZ" is to ask why you can't do both? It's not exactly an either-or world here, it can be a both/and. You may be judged by others, but really, the only REAL judge of whether it works or not is yourself. Nothing wrong with trying. :) Edit to add: in your specific case, I don't see why Change can't change. you say it may "require you to RP a complete 360" (which is a full circle back to where you started, fyi.) If it required a 180 degree flip-flop, well, there's always Mirror-symbolism. Balance, and whatnot. Cyclicity? Imagination? Nothing prevents that. Heck. Maebius even went rogue and killed people, which surprised a few folks. I got at least two "that's so out of character, what the heck?!" messages, but that was still "me", right?

Interesting descriptions on this. I myself prefer something akin to Amber & Intrigue. Not so much "energy" in the literal sense, but Potential Energy. Exergy is a great word! Remember also that your "Experience" is also termed Heat, and was meant to be a core concept of MD. That stored heat is also Stuff, but not in the same sense as I think "energy/willpower" describes. It is experience, and potential. Quanta of learning, or something I don't have words for, beyond "MD Heat". :) Ann. 1765 - [2011-03-25 00:21:59 - Stage 10] But then, while we are talking about Liquid Dust, how would Heat relate also to the Heat Veins under all scenes, that 'flow' towards the GoE and down under it? ;) Heat veins, you ask? => Ann. 2038 - [2011-09-30 04:22:37 - Stage 11]

Confirmed as reported. Initial solving of the mechanical artifact gives this error. Refreshing lets my ears bleed appropriately. :P http://storenow.net/my/?f=794b496bb3962c80345c30e1c5716b3c

confirmed, the arrow is there, and new folks 'may' stuck until next regen, but the Viscosity was only 1+36 when I visited, so not too "sticky" at all. I expected it, but new folks, maybe get frustrated for 10 minutes.. :)

I would implement an old recipe idea I had, for Gort's woven grass bracelets. ;) Sorta like candies/pickles, but they don't expire. for fun RP. Yes, yes, it's a personal item, but meant to be shared. If we talk about a Truly shared item, a Page from the Book in Sage's Keep. (yes, I also know it's not a normal clickable there) Abilities: use it to recover one cast of a personally known spell, up to your max. Cooldown until item reset. For those times you really REALLY need one more cast of something, unexpectedly. Balance is kept by not recharging it beyond max, and having longer cooldown. Plus, its your spell anyway, so is more a reminder of the Thought, in scroll-ish form. Spells of every shape and size, and would lead to someone's demise, potentially. :P

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Yep, what the subject says.

As soon as I find the SD card reader thingy (since my laptop doesnt' have a SD slot to just pop in) I will pull the original images off the camera and edit them. I'd been using other 'clipart' stock photos to get the hang of the tools, to make things easier once I got the actual project done. Sort of "Learn the process" in a sense, which is why I described the original post as I did. ... but your offer to sketch things is still appreciated!!! and in-mind for the near future. Hopefulyl I'll get the place cleaned up this weekend, and locate the cables. :rolleyes:

Sorry No One, I think you may have misunderstood. I did not mean to say that "questing will cure Viscosity". I was using it as an example of how a tool/action can temporarily 'solve' the problem. The fact it is temporary is due to the players, but Viscosity is part of the Land/Realm. I don't want to change it at all. To use my Gravity analogy again, it's part of the world. Building a jet aeroplane or balloon doesn't change Gravity, it lets us bypass it temporarily. Likewise, questing may bypass Viscosity issue for a time. Just as basic "random walking around" does. However, Your idea seems to fundamentally change how Viscosity 'works' by collapsing paths and "Folding the Cube", the way I am reading it, and I would disagree with that. I would like Pro-Con, but Rikstar said pretty much exactly what I would have. Pro: dynamic is interesting, and would encourage interaction to "unlock" scenes. It's something New, until the new factor fades. Con: I want all scenes open except a few that are locked by Story/Key (GG lab, Angien Shrine, Oak Tower, etc etc) and this effectively locks "regular" scenes that I may want to visit. Plus, no reason to travel if the realm shrinks even further. So will be a self-supporting collapse.