The 3nd edition of the mud newsletter (put together by SUZY) is
now local
here!
Here is a listing of the Top 100 Living personae as of about 11.30 1st January 1999 (excluding Wizzes). This was Wdi's
suggestion BTW - see him at number 89.
Top 100 (also sorted by letter)
Here are a couple of pictures done by Helen Griffin of Alice with the Cheshire Cat and the poor guards painting the roses, as well as a sketch of an area of Mud2 of mine.
The 2nd edition of the mud newsletter (put together by SUZY) is
now local
here!
It is quite a bit larger than the last one so I hope it doesn't load
too awkwardly.
Enjoy the read!
----* CAT
The newsletter (put together by SUZY) is
here!
It's a big document, and it's great! I mean, theres some stuff I
wrote in there(G).
I've added a message board to the site, to make it a little more interactive.
Visit the Mud2 message board: Mud2 Message Board
Last Sunday night (4th October) Nighthawk and Softy (as Bigsofty) held a concert. Nighthawk played the guitar. (!) and Softy sang along to old faves such as Bohemian Rhapsody, and the Verve... (Favourites? bloody grebos. Bring on Stardust, Lovestation an Faithless.....) In attendence were myself (Snypster), Karya, Leprechaun, Nighthawk, Bigsofty, Cerberus, Fizzy, an a couple of others. I think. The party was as ever livened up by me handing out free drugs, and spiking everybody's cups of tea. Everyone ended up acting completely stoned. Good Party!
Softy says that he'll hold another in 3 weeks or so... around the 28th, I think.
Another thing that took place on Sunday was a Sorc war, organised by
Turrican.
the results were:
(sorry Aerobie, I can't remember who ya were... ya were a mage... I remeber
that.. it began with S..... Oh well.. someone should remember...)
Unfortunately Turrican left before the end, so not only did he miss the
result, he couldn't give out any prizes...
(Like he was anyway................)"
Turrican became a Wizard yesterday. This is the first one we've had
since Lestat. Can anyone remember that far back? Since Turrican said
he had made 700,000 points in 11 days (He managed it without ever appearing on the top ten players list) no-one was especially
surprised at his arrival except for Turrican himself. Anyone witnessing
the vast levels of paranoia exhibited by Turrican will know what I mean:)
I'm happy to report he has entirely recovered from it now...ah the
complete cure that making wiz has on stressed mages...remarkable. It must
be the better quality of air that wizzes breathe, or maybe the
sudden immunity from death?
The ending of the mage curfew must mean that the wizzes will be
joined by 3 or 4 more very shortly. I look forward to seeing you (shudder).
Has anyone else remarked on the Faeries that occasionally flitter
, and dance through the treetops of the Land. Their sheer class
and beauty and 'normally' peaceful nature make them a sight not to
be missed! Have you ever thought to yourself about where these
delicate creatures come from, and what hidden treasure might be found
there?
Why I H8 people who say M8.
I h8 people who say m8
If you met a girl called k8
and you'd never get to meet
Because saying m8
at any r8
Let us all initi8
----* Cat
The bash last Thursday looked like heading for great success.
The player-killers were eliminated early on (Thwomp & Antman the mage) by
the necromancesses Oblivion and Uniliche and with the last half hour to
go there was a pitiful number of mobiles left to slay.
Then for some reason Wdi seemed to try and sabotage the bash. Firstly he
burned away the cord, thus discouraging the spider from emerging, and
secondly he tried to kill Uniliche, one of the anti-pks mentioned above. Very odd, anyway
the bash failed with only the spider remaining to kill.
The total number of people in houses fell away as they suffered from turmoil
recently. Bops fell into the hands of Wdi, who promptly ejected 10 or so
of the members (on the basis that they might be spies) and then resigned himself,
leaving the house in the hands of Vella. Bops later merged with Tusc which
leaves the leader of Bops now as Rhye (I think).
The land has been blessed this weekend with a new arch-wiz, Foddy, possibly
known to some of you already
A piece written by Antman the mage (before he died)
"Why did I
start PK'ing???? Well I had gone on holiday for two weeks and when I
came back the whole way I played failed badly. By the time I had got
the kit everything had been done in the way of getting treasure. I
had also been getting bored of doing the same thing every reset and
then loosing it to a silly death or a flee not that I did them that
often (G). So I decided to start PK'ing. On my first day at PK'ing I
killed this Warlock I had never seen before later to find out it was
another of Topcoats personas. After that I realised it would be
impossible to kill without killing my friends. So I thought what the
hell I will just kill everyone. I have been PK'ing for one week now
and I am totally loving it. There are so many things to do and you
are always trying to think of how to kill someone easily. Since
becoming a PK I have started to treat it as a game again and so
consequently I do not worry as much in battle and hopefully could cope
with loosing any of my characters. I think I will do quite well as I
have had so much practice fighting PK's who attack me and have
sometimes even done a little PK'ing under a different name (G). Well
you should be hearing more from me as I have been having a few new
ideas on how to kill people and I think one or two will almost
definitely work.
From Antman
In fact Wdi seems to know almost as little as me. He says:
Flick Writes:
Flick
There are now 9 Houses in the land, ranging from the mighty BOPS (Brotherhood Of PlayerS) with
over 50 members to the defunct MINE with just 1. BOPS has over 50% of the
membership, though since a fair few players have availed themselves of
the opportunity to join 3 times this is misleading. As was predicted the
largest Houses emphasise peaceful co-operation for mutual benefit. They also
have a tendency to become cliquey. This is a general remark, and I certainly
don't mean that they turn away new members (far from it), merely that those
members who derive the most benefit from their House are those who put most
effort into running them.
The (numerous) killing Houses have withered away after initial quick growth.
This isn't too suprising as a House that permits internal conflict lacks a
point, yet killers tend to be people who don't like to restrict their
field of available targets.
The most interesting development has been the militancy of BOPS in particular
in arranging aggressive self-defence against killers. Bands of hunters can
be gathered together and organised much more efficiently than in the past. This
has definately cramped the style of lone killers, none of whom have the skill
to cope with mass assaults by 5 or 6 in a lynch mob.
Despite numerous successes, the founder of BOPS, BOGGY the mage, was
assassinated by someone last week. Boggy told me that he
made a mistake with his Flee string and died before he could rectify it.
This must have been on one of the rare occasions when BOGGY was unable to
call upon other members of BOPS to act as Bodyguards for him, an understandable,
though frowned upon practice. (See DEFN BODYGUARD).
WDI the warlock as the senior Captain of BOPS took over as the new leader. I
was interested to see that BOGGY has not resumed the leadership of BOPS, nor has
he appeared as one of the Captains. This led to speculation that WDI had in fact
staged a coup within BOPS, though his friends have denied it. All power corrupts(G).
The House does not seem to have suffered in the short term, though it has
suffered a couple of breakaways this week. BOPS has become a victim of its
own success, since the number of members make it very difficult to sleep or
to concentrate on fighting when everyone is chatting away. I wonder if the
Captains will introduce rules to cope with this, or whether BOPS has reached
its natural size limit and become more stable.
As I entered the Land as a freshly made warlock, I sensed an unease amongst
the mobiles. Quickly consulting the WHO list I noticed a persona unknown to
me: Zedd the warlock. I surmised he must be the source of evil that was
disturbing the creatures and set about a plan to remove him from the Land,
permanently.
Straight away I cast a spell of invisibility to cloak my presence.
Searching after some useful implement to do the warlock in, I came across
the blade. Suitable enough: it was already covered in blood from a previous
sacrifice. I would clearly require sustenance during the fight and
attempted to locate some refreshing wafers. Making the appropriate magical
gestures, I found that Zedd had as many as were available at that time. An
image of a cardboard box appeared in my mind's eye, containing six wafers!
It seemed likely this would be a tough battle but one, with a bit of
cunning, worth fighting.
As Zedd had attained sufficient experience to reach warlock I imagined he
would be constantly on guard against an ambush. I decided to protect myself
from the possibility of him detecting my presence by concealing myself in a
location that I knew to be proof against mortal magic. On my journey there
I cast further spells and noticed he was in the cottage's coal bunker, no
doubt fighting the evil rats.
Suddenly, he had gone! Or so I thought. I checked again, this time using
the 'where' spell. Hehe, he too had turned invisible and was now heading
towards the goblins' lairs. My plan to conceal my presence must have
failed, as he now cloaked himself from me! Thinking there was no point in
delaying the inevitable, I rushed towards the Cave, ready to pounce. He
was in the goblin guard room, a place I would have no problem reaching
through the hollowed-out passage behind the portcullis.
Suddenly, in the distance, I heard a bell toll! Checking the obituary list
I saw that Zedd had been finished by a goblin guard. What a waste: I had
been denied the thrill of the fight! However, wanting to make the best of a
bad situation, I realised that the guard that had finished off Zedd would
itself be worth a pile of points. I checked whether Zedd had snaffled his
wafers in the moments before his death; he hadn't. There were still five
remaining in a cardboard box in the guard room. I rushed down the roughly
hewn steps and into the place of Zedd's passing, quickly grabbing the box
of refreshments before a goblin guard could reach it.
Looking up from the floor, I noticed a evil-looking goblin guard advancing
on me angrily. As he only numbered one, I believed I would face no trouble
dispatching the fellow to his death. After the first hit against me, I
sensed something did not seem right. I valued my goblin opponent's worth,
and rather than the usual 24 points, found him to be worth well over 2,500!
This must be the fiend who stole my warlock prize! Not only that, but he
was armed with the longsword and seemed to be making some use of a
CENSORED! During the ensuing fight I munched my way through 5
decent wafers, and wielded my blade, all to little avail. As I swallowed
the last little biscuit, my stamina rose to over 90 points, but after one
blow from the longsword I was down to 57, after a further blow from the
goblin I was on 27 stamina, and decided to flee for my life.
As I fled out, I felt a final blow to the back of head, and my existence
seize up. I realised that my greed to make the most of Zedd's death had led
to my own, as I was faced with the words 'Not updating persona'.
25th August 1998 Wireplay News
Turrican makes wiz at last!
Faeries
21st August 1998 Wireplay News
A poem
M8
they think its gr8 to say m8
but I say w8!
over a g8
and asked her on a d8
and dreamed of f8
but then you were l8
and called her m8
that wouldn't be too gr8
who wants to m8 with a m8
her m8ter and p8ter (possibly a good thing)
is a grossly annoying tr8
and people who say it
deserve terrible f8s
2, 4, 6, 8,
we don't appreci8!
remember to b8
people who say m8
and bang them on the p8
and ask them what they 8.
with united h8
an end to the
terrible
horrible
annoyingly
sickning
tr8
of saying M8.
17th August 1998 Wireplay News
Two bash failures in a row now
Houses lose their lustre
Foddy the arch-wizard
Antman explains why he loves to pk
5th August 1998 Wireplay News
WDI denies slaying Boggy Shock
Flick Slays Karya
'By the way, I wish someone would tell ME why Boggy hasn't been promoted yet -
he hasn't even re-joined.'
Just a little thing.
I think it was friday night (I'm not too sure)....but I came into the land with
about 40 mins of the reset to go. There were 2 warlocks in the land at this
time, Karya was one and Achilles was the other. They were both kitted up but had left a few of the wafers
lying about the place. I got these pretty fast and worked out that they were
planing to stay together to stop me attacking them. In one fast move I nipped
in and stole the box which Karya was holding her wafers in. After this I
attacked both of them in the graveyard causing the death of Karya and just
missing out on the death of Achilles (he fled on 3 stam).
4th August 1998 Wireplay News
Houses change the face of the land for the better?
[Two reviews of Mud2]
[Previous News/Articles]
4th May 1998 Wireplay News
Check out the reviews from the link above.
How Greed got the better of Tobias!
