lashtal

I'd like to try it too! lashtal p.s. welcome back Indyra :-)

[size=5]The Fusioneers are looking to gather a large quantity of Timeless and Syntropic dust. [/size] [size=5]Please contact any of us if you're willing to sell, trade... or donate! [/size] [size=5][font="Arial"]Thank you.[/font][/size] [size=4][font="Arial"](currently we are also offering each Heat stone for 2 memory stones, under the condition you return us the resulting Timeless dust)[/font][/size]

Since Yrthilian's position is somehow border-line, since the decision to jail Azull was taken accordingly to the "land leaders", since neither Yrth nor the "land leaders" spoke with Kiley (who is the Fusioneers leader)... I'd ask the "land leaders" to state clearly: - who they are; - why should other Golemians acknowledge their leadership (are they elected, chosen by the king, self-declared?); - how do they relate with the king and the guild leaders; and most of all: how would they explain this lack of diplomacy towards the Fusioneers leader.

what happened to this auction?

Adventuring Award: Brulant (he's very involved both in quests and testing stuffs) Best Beautification: Shape Shifter (for the artworks) Best Spell Caster: Azull (just envious for his 'lockinchaos' ^ ^) Champion Fighter: Eon Elite Evil Villain of the Year: Tipu (because he never forgets self-irony) Fossil of the year: Chewett The Golden Protector: Amoran K Kol (she was a protector when I discovered MD, 6 months ago, and she is still now) Helper of the Year: Shemhazaj!!! Most Addicted: Eon Outstanding Service to MD: BFH Lightning Pre-eminent Role Player: Zleiphneir Prime Quest: Phantom Orchid (mostly for dream quest act 1) Rookie of the year: Maebius!!! Top Techie: Fyrd Argentus (his puzzles are all around the realms)

neither for me... Keep voting!!!

1000 points for Shemhazaj!

@Quas: All the details can be discussed, assuming safety margins and so on. All the numbers posted were just as an example. What I'd like to know is whether this idea could work or not. lashtal

Good morning everybody, currently we have 4 "stable" MP6: *Burns*, Amoran K Kol, *Shemhazaj* and Azull (correct me if I'm missing someone). Both Shemhazaj and Azull would need more adepts/worshippers (or at least not to lose too many) to let them stay on MP6. Besides, we have 3 people willing to be "MP6 for a day" to upgrade creatures and so on (Manda, Lone Wolf, Pipstickz). The question is: is there a way to allow the "stable" Protectors to continue to be so, giving also the possibility to those who are willing to upgrade creatures to do it? I think one way can be found, but I need both your feedback and an estimation on how many active adepts/worshippers can be found in the realms. An indicative number could be found simply counting how many adepts each of the above Protectors currently have. That would represent our community potential. Assuming the sum of all the adepts reaches at least 150, we could allow 1 temporary MP6 at a time (also limiting the risk for the stable ones to fall), just by scheduling the advancements. Let's say, for example: Manda has to be pushed to MP6 (since I think he was the first one to ask it), hence he needs 30 adepts. *Burns* realizes he has 40 adepts, while he need only 30. He can contact 10 of them (I would suggest the most active ones) and ask them to shift to Manda. Amoran, Shem and Azull could do the same, until Manda reaches the required amount of adepts. Once Manda has done with his business, he can contact his adepts and make them shift to the new one (Pip? Lone Wolf?), so that gradually everybody who needs to be a temporary MP6 can deal with it. A calendar can be kept, simply stating who's the next to help (also considering how much the wanna-be-MP6 is close to MP5 cap). Also, a (5?) safety margin can be introduced, if *Burns* thinks he is not sure enough having just 30 adepts he can keep 35, and tell other 5 to shift to the temporary one. This is just my idea to manage it, let me know what you think about it. lashtal

I confirm normal Grasans lvl 2 work as they should. I didn't try with Pimps. lashtal

39 toxic plants -> 3sc

I have now 4 Grasans lvl 2, named correctly as Exfoliating Grasan, Constipated Grasan, Leaking Grasan, Farting Grasan. I have also some Wiiya... Now, how to feed / inflate them and make them produce their resources? (I'm not sure about this, have I just to wait for the Wiiya to consume or have I to "use" it for them? How?)

I confirm having the same problem, also with Safari.

I like the idea!

[b]25 Timeless dust 5sc[/b] [b]35 Toxic plants 5sc[/b]

Good luck with everything, I hope the wind may blow you back from time to time.

Still available? I'd offer 10 sc for a couple of them.

To me the "jump to PC" link would be good only on tranquillity days, not if it's permanent. Jump to a dedicated location within the land the player belong would be good as well. lashtal

Skeleton is the supporting structure of most of the living beings and can be divided into 2 main branches: endoskeleton (for vertebrates) and esoskeleton (for invertebrates). Endoskeleton is an internal support structure, it's made of bones (which are living tissues, constantly evolving trabecular structures that adapt to the weight and forces applied to them), and supported by ligaments, tendons, muscles and cartilage. Bones are constituted by 3 different kind of cells, one being responsible of bone birth and maturation, the second being responsible of their conservation, the last one being responsible for their consumption and replacement. Cyclicity obviously appear in this mechanism, as in the greatest part of the biological systems and functioning. Exoskeleton (sometimes called "carapace") is an external support structure, providing protection and enclosing of the soft tissues and organs. After death, the skeleton is the most enduring part of the human body and thus became somehow to represent Death itself. Skeleton images has been used throughout history to remind people of the transience of life and material luxury. In many cultures their images and representations is intended to avoid the viewer to live a frivolous life, as death is always potentially around the corner (Memento Mori). Mostly during the fifteenth century, the "memento mori" meditations transposed into art and architecture, producing several depicts of decayed corpses and deceased, together with shaped cadaver tombs and so on. One of the most, still nowadays, influential concept and image regarding this topic is the "danse macabre", a danse led by Death itself (depicted as a hooded Skeleton, holding a scythe and sometimes an hourglass) and carrying off rich and poor alike. When looking at skeletons as undead creatures, which means dead creatures "resurrected" or "reanimated" thru magic, one would notice an interesting aspects: since they've finished rotting, since they should have no more muscles or tendons, they should require more magic power to be animated since it also have to hold the bones together. Depending on settings, and on his magical powers, the typical newbie necromancer's questions, while trying to animate and raise an undead skeleton, would be: will I need to assemble the skeleton before I re-animate it (with all the orthopedics style bone-reductions and alignments), or will the bones simply fly and bind together to each other from a pile? Will each hit scramble the bones of my creature, or will the magic bindings provide the necessary strength to keep the bones united? [img]http://blueraytshirts.co.uk/images/Scary Skeleton.jpg[/img]

Ups sorry, I didn't realize of possible copyright problems, and I intended the "look on the forum for the subject and write a research of 500 words in max one hour" as: "be online, grab all you can find and post it, the quickest wins".

A pumpkin is a gourd-like squash of the genus Cucurbita and the family Cucurbitaceae (which also includes gourds). It commonly refers to cultivars of any one of the species Cucurbita pepo, Cucurbita mixta, Cucurbita maxima, and Cucurbita moschata, and is native to North America. They typically have a thick, orange or yellow shell, creased from the stem to the bottom, containing the seeds and pulp. In Australian English, the name 'pumpkin' generally refers to the broader category called winter squash in North America. Pumpkins are commonly carved into decorative lanterns called jack-o'-lanterns for the Halloween season in North America. Throughout Britain and Ireland, there is a long tradition of carving lanterns from vegetables, particularly the turnip, mangelwurzel, or swede. The turnip has traditionally been used in Ireland and Scotland at Halloween, but immigrants to North America used the native pumpkin, which are both readily available and much larger – making them easier to carve than turnips. Not until 1837, does jack-o'-lantern appear as a term for a carved vegetable lantern, and the carved pumpkin lantern association with Halloween is recorded in 1866. In the United States, the carved pumpkin was first associated with the harvest season in general, long before it became an emblem of Halloween. In 1900, an article on Thanksgiving entertaining recommended a lit jack-o'-lantern as part of the festivities that encourage kids and families to join together to make their own jack-o-lanterns. The story of the carved vegetable as a lantern comes in many variants and is similar to the story of Will-o'-the-wisp retold in different forms across England, Wales, Scotland and Ireland. An old Irish folk tale tells of Stingy Jack, a lazy yet shrewd farmer who uses a cross to trap the Devil. One story says that Jack tricked the Devil into climbing an apple tree, and once he was up there Jack quickly placed crosses around the trunk or carved a cross into the bark, so that the Devil couldn't get down. Another tale says that Jack put a key in the Devil's pocket while he was suspended upside-down. Another version of the story says that Jack was getting chased by some villagers from whom he had stolen, when he met the Devil, who claimed it was time for him to die. However, the thief stalled his death by tempting the Devil with a chance to bedevil the church-going villagers chasing him. Jack told the Devil to turn into a coin with which he would pay for the stolen goods (the Devil could take on any shape he wanted); later, when the coin/Devil disappeared, the Christian villagers would fight over who had stolen it. The Devil agreed to this plan. He turned himself into a silver coin and jumped into Jack's wallet, only to find himself next to a cross Jack had also picked up in the village. Jack had closed the wallet tight, and the cross stripped the Devil of his powers; and so he was trapped. In both folktales, Jack only lets the Devil go when he agrees never to take his soul. After a while the thief died, as all living things do. Of course, his life had been too sinful for Jack to go to heaven; however, the Devil had promised not to take his soul, and so he was barred from hell as well. Jack now had nowhere to go. He asked how he would see where to go, as he had no light, and the Devil mockingly tossed him an ember that would never burn out from the flames of hell. Jack carved out one of his turnips (which was his favorite food), put the ember inside it, and began endlessly wandering the Earth for a resting place. He became known as "Jack of the Lantern", or Jack-o'-Lantern. OOC: Pumpkins are also used in north India to build the sitar's main gourd (toomba)! [img]http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/thumb/a/aa/Pumpkins2009.jpg/200px-Pumpkins2009.jpg[/img]

[i][b]Frankenstein[/b][/i] is a failed monster experiment that produced something closely related to and influenced by the concept of Golem. His creator, Victor Frankenstein, was obsessed with studying outdated theories of science that focused on achieving natural wonders: he studied the works of Cornelius Agrippa, Paracelsus and Albert Magnus. At university, he excelled at chemistry and other sciences and, after studying galvanism, a phenomenon discovered in the 1790s, developed a secret technique to imbue inanimate bodies with life. While the exact details of the monster's construction are left ambiguous, Victor explains "I collected bones from charnel-houses and disturbed, with profane fingers, the tremendous secrets of the human frame." Another statement, "The dissecting-room and the slaughter-house furnished many of my materials", suggests that some elements of Frankenstein's creation may not be from human bodies. Frankenstein finds himself forced to make the creature much larger than a normal man — he estimates it to be about eight feet tall — because of the difficulty in replicating the minute parts of the human body. His creation, which he has hoped would be beautiful, is instead hideous to his eyes, with dull yellow eyes, and a withered, translucent, yellowish skin that barely conceals the muscular system and blood vessels. After bringing his creation to life, Victor is repulsed by his work: "I had desired it with an ardour that far exceeded moderation; but now that I had finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart." Victor flees, hoping to forget what he has created, and attempts to live a normal life. His abandonment leaves the monster confused, angry, and afraid. Part of Frankenstein's rejection of his creation is the fact that he does not give it a name, which gives it a lack of identity. Instead it is referred to by words such as "monster", "demon", "fiend", "wretch" and "it". When Frankenstein converses with the monster in Chapter 10, he addresses it as "vile insect", "abhorred monster", "fiend", "wretched devil" and "abhorred devil". Seeing its reflection in a pool, the monster realized that its physical appearance is hideous compared to the humans it watches. The monster compares itself to Lucifer from Milton's Paradise Lost, one of the books it has read. The difference between Frankenstein's monster and the Golem are mainly about the matter and energy used to bring it to life, but the consequences of the creation and the development of the stories are somehow akin. While Frankenstein's monster was made up of different materials, including corpse's portions, and animated thru electricity; Jewish Golem was built out of clay, and animated thru the name of God ('emeth' = 'truth'), scribbled on his forehead or under a pendant of his. To return him to a bunch of clay it was sufficient to erase the first 'e' from the word 'emeth', turning it to 'meth' (= 'death'). A noticeable aspect is that neither Frankenstein's creation nor the Golem were good or bad themselves... In Chapter 17 of Mary Shelley's novel, where the "monster" speaks to Victor Frankenstein he says: "My food is not that of man; I do not destroy the lamb and the kid to glut my appetite; acorns and berries afford me sufficient nourishment." Earlier in the story, through observing the De Lacey family, the monster has also become educated and self-aware. It had discovered a lost satchel of books and learned to read. Solitude, isolation, the lack of an identity, the repudiation of his creator were the main causes for the monster's demise. [img]http://i0006.photobucket.com/albums/0006/findstuff22/Best Images/Holiday/frankenstein2.jpg[/img] edit 12.19: I forgot the picture!

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