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Re: Memorable quotes

(Market): Dominius says, "Seeking someone who makes beverages and coat of arms!"

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Occasional raindrops fall on your head as the drizzle continues.

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(Market): You say, "Looking for a drunk person with heraldry."

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An eerily verdant pall lingers across the city, tinting the night sky's horizon.

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With sharp, crackling tones, Dominius tells you, "Thanks."

4300h, 6050m, 16600e, 22675w ex-

You tell Dominius, "That's a better market right there."

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With sharp, crackling tones, Dominius tells you, "Lol."

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Landon's voice quietly thrums in your mind as he tells you, "ThaT's *hic* meEEEEE."

Kierra

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I found one of my old biology tests that had a bonus question at the back asking the students to come up with a poem about the unit topic. I remember walking out of the testing room and my classmate asking me what the hell I was scribbling so furiously, and I told her I'd show her when we got the tests back. I thought I'd share it!

MUTATIONS!

One little change in a nucleotide;

Could harm your beautiful looks, so have pride!

If you are lucky, a silent mutation;

Won't change a thing (you may note with elation).

If, with misfortune, a deletion is had;

And damn all your luck -- this one is bad!

A frame shift could happen. Your proteins are wrong!

An amino that matters is suddenly gone!

The rest of the chain is disrupted as well.

The whole polypeptide has all gone to hell.

Perhaps just a missense will swap out a note;

Of this copious song that your genes know by rote.

Perhaps it won't matter so much in this case;

If the protein is similar with this new base.

How delightful it is we have mismatch repair!

But time is like nonsense muta -- [I'll stop there]

Mayapple

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When Opportunity Comes Snapping

In typical writer fashion, I only decided to write this like the night before the deadline and submitted it literally a half hour before the Reckoning quiz, so it's probably still very rough. Nevertheless, I felt I should at least make an attempt at submission, since I already had an idea of what to write. It's been a long time since I've written a story, and it felt good to write in my own style, rather than someone else's.

As usual, perhaps inspired by real events. Enjoy!

https://pastebin.com/i2FtK1pu

Jurixe

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Re: We Picrew Our Characters

Picrew is my guilty pleasure.

Tahquil

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Recent Change to Seafaring and Automatic Drydocking.

On May 16th 2022, the following change was implemented:

- The two year timer on automatic drydocking (in manmade harbours) or accelerated decay of ships (in natural harbours) will no longer reset upon leaving and re-entering a harbour. Resetting this timer will require either docking at a different harbour, or spending twenty minutes at sea before re-docking at the same harbour. HELP SINKING has been updated accordingly.

For a long time now, players have been begging for a removal of the arbitrary harbour limits. I say arbitrary, because in no universe does it make sense that Zanzibaar, the largest island in the world, and the most central to seafaring, would only have 20 ship berths, while remote little islands like Prin have 30+. These numbers were always completely made up, and never reflected anything realistic in the context of Achaea.

The automatic drydock change is an extremely harsh penalization for any player who either personally owns or is responsible for a large fleet of ships. It is a heavy burden on maritime aides for every city. Having to shuffle ships around constantly to avoid decay and drydock is nothing but a tax of pure tedium, and a punishment for being too invested in the seafaring system. It makes no allowances for people getting busy in real life and not having a lot of time to spend in-game. It strongly discourages people from owning a lot of ships, which reduces the effectiveness of seafaring as a gold sink.

Why punish the players who love the system the most, to preserve an aspect of the system (harbour limits) that almost every player universally loves the least? There have been a ton of great ideas to address the problem of harbour bottlenecks, particularly from Kaiu. Why not consider some of those? Or better yet, just get rid of the arbitrary limit completely?

Edit: This probably should have gone into the "Golden Dais of Creation" section, but I don't see any way to move or delete/repost. Sorry. I don't use the forums much.

Mercer

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Re: Player Pics

Xae said:

So thiiis is definitely a thing. @Kenway is pretty cool.

Bitch, I will fucking cut you.

Silas

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Re: Player Pics

I've been dead - returned from the dead.

Shadrac

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Re: Unintended Consequences of Renown

There is still a very important incentive to bash for gold - its unbound.

I see no issues in presenting alternative methods for players to earn bound credits to outfit themselves with basic artefacts and class skills. Unbound currency will always be more valuable, especially in the current market climate. Hunting has not lost any of its value.

Taryius

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Limb - A Simple Mudlet Limb Counter.

Hi all,

This is a limb counter for Mudlet. I've written this to be easy to install, easy to maintain, and easy for users to combine with existing systems.

Download and README: https://github.com/27theo/limb. Setup is described here.

This should run out of the box!

It comes with triggers to capture limb damage from the new lines ("you perceive that you have dealt"...) gated under a queue run message for anti-illusion*. It handles salves and the 3 minute decay in a straight-forward fashion.

Hits are stored in the limb namespace, under limb["Name"].hits.limb, (e.g. limb.Romaen.hits["right leg"] or limb["Romaen"].hits.head), in a percentage format.

The package comes with a primitive limb prompt - head, torso, left arm, right arm, left leg, right leg. You can change the order in the limb prompt script.

^ Result of a prompt trigger running cecho(limb.prompt())

I've not got an "isPrepped" function, but those of you who want to automate using one can likely make one yourselves! I opted out from this because I wanted to keep this elementary.

I'll keep the release and brief documentation updated on my GitHub.

If you find bugs, or I've missed out some crucial element of a limb counter (totally could have done this) please comment here or find me on discord or in game, with an OOC message.

Cheers,

Romaen.

*See the note in the README on my GitHub.

Romaen

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Re: What Happened To You Today?

You have won 2000 Bound Credit(s) on your bet: 2 tickets on The Flying Lunchman wins the race!

Ozmatiah

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