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Welcome, intrepid traveler, to my site, wherein I have assembled diverse facts, accounts, and legends regarding our most miraculous land, Mirkwood. As a young, poetic friend of mine once penned, I have traveled much through realms of gold. The fruits of my long, scholarly labors are here for your edification and, I hope, delight, for delightful our realm is, though fraught with dark dangers and perilous lands. My entire life I have devoted to solving the enigma cloaked within a riddle that is Elacia, only to have become convinced that a land of such contradiction, of such murderous beauty and jubilant death, can never be fully comprehended, save in the minds of the gods. Be that as it may, I humbly offer that which I have learned, in the hopes that others may share the fascination that has so enthralled me.
-- Professor Arronax
Author of Death and Delight: My Travels through Elacia
General: Fun with VT100 Codes Saturday, June 11 @ 00:04:37 EDT by Estranged (370 reads)
So I after playing World of Warcraft for a while, I began to think of possible ways I could rip off the User Interface. Having a full featured UI is really really nice, and the limitations of a text interface can be really hard to deal with sometimes as a developer. So I was thinking back to the old days of terminals and such, and recalled that there was a technology for putting text on screen in a certain place, not just one line after another: VT100 terminal emulation. Anyhow, after some tinkering this is what I came up with:
You have your HP / Mana / Move bars at the top, along with the mob you're fighting, and your tank's health if you have a tank. I put the room exits up there also. The room / area info only show up if you are an immortal, otherwise that line is a large XP progress bar.
The unfortunate news is that not very many MUD clients support the VT100 emulation standard. Almost every dumb terminal / telnet client does, but so far only zMud seems to work. If you have a client you want to test with grab me in game.
News: Halloween! Thursday, October 14 @ 01:25:45 EDT by Estranged (896 reads)
Mirkwood is dead! Long live MirkBlood! That's right, its halloween time on MirkBlood again. The shopkeepers are all in the spirit of the season, and straaaange things are happening around the world! Come revel in the season!
Update: Defuse, Arena mobs, reboot! Friday, May 28 @ 12:35:20 EDT by Estranged (786 reads)
we rebooted this morning to bring in a couple o new things and a bunch of changes.
The two big things are that there's a defuse command for bombs now (help defuse)
and arena champions can use the spells/skills of all members of the group now.
Minor changes:
- mobs can no longer use tribe skills
- Holy shield duration shows up in examine
- remort history uses the right gender now
- Holy word doesnt suck so much (no xp loss, better spell chances)
- the main motd comes before imm motd and tribe motd now
Update: More on Player Homes, Thursday, April 08 @ 18:20:15 EDT by Estranged (837 reads)
Cadacus found a bug for us early this morning, and as a result the mud rebooted and brought in a bunch of new stuff. I've found and fixed the bug, so yay! New stuffs:
* You can no longer yell, where, or jump inside the player home area
* Tribes have the string editor for tmotd now: tmotd write
* Corrected pricing oddness with home containers
* Minor other bug fixes.
Update: Copyover, Ident, Storage containers for homes Monday, April 05 @ 15:52:07 EDT by Estranged (616 reads)
We had an unexpected reboot this morning. So a bunch of changes were brought in a little ahead of schedule. Briefly, we're no longer dependent on ident, we have a hotboot feature 'copyover' working, and players can buy storage containers for their personal homes now. Misc other small thing were changed also. Read my latest journal posts for more details.
Update: Player Homes Officialy In! Friday, April 02 @ 13:52:06 EST by Estranged (841 reads)
It's official! After years of bugging the imms for personal player homes, we've finally relented and added them! See Help Homes on the mud. As part of homes coming in, we've also incorporated usable furniture items from rom2.4. So look for stuff you can sit, stand, sleep on etc. Some of the items you can purchase for your homes have this ability. Other than that, more bug fixes, and we added a '.p' option in the string editor to preview the string you're working on in color.
Update: Willy Wonka Area added! Friday, March 12 @ 10:21:01 EST by Estranged (1156 reads)
Lews writes "Professor Arronax: New book in my library!
To: all
This small letter serves the purpose of informing you all of a new
addition to my library. Feel free to stop by and open a book now
and then. Reading frees the mind and enlightens the soul.
This work was written by Roald Dahl (1916-1990), and later made
into a wonderful movie staring Gene Wilder as the eccentric Willy Wonka.
I hope you enjoy this work as much as I have for many many years.
Professor Arronax"
News: Top Mud Sites.com Sunday, March 07 @ 01:22:28 EST by Estranged (1339 reads)
We've revived our listing at TopMudSites.com. So go vote for us here, or click on the banner on the lower left! You can vote for us once every 12 hours. So vote often! No cheating or they'll boot us though.
LOTR ties for most Oscars Ever! Monday, March 01 @ 01:42:32 EST by Estranged (1008 reads)
jellybean writes "LOTR RTOK sweeps oscars! They tie with Titanic and Ben Hur for most oscars ever! Woo! Read about it here! And don't forget to check back tommorrow for fashion police! (Because I know that's so important to all of you:P)"
