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Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 21:50:04 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: From the MUN I'd just like to say..... I would like to say each and every one of you have done a fabulous job in the Inn.. Whether it be RPG, or Hack protection, or just plain helping newcomers. In the chaos that has happened in the last few weeks, I've seen a new determination, a hightened pride, each and every one of the Mun's rising to a new level in some form or another. I've seen you all band together in different forms and I'd like to thank each and every one of you. You have reafirmed my love for RPG and the BDI. It takes a special kind of person to latch onto a certain idea and claim it to thier heart. And you have all done that beyond any expectations I have ever had. Once again, I'd like to say, I love each of you.. you are all such spirited souls. And no one but in our realm could understand the strength that each of us hold. Thank you for your support and extreme imaginations. It is which our world is born, and thrives off of. **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 16:50:20 -0500 (CDT) From: Kathy Stracener <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Ummm... wolfie... she wasn;t talking about just doing it... iw was a suggestion for the writers them selves... Suzanna > I think, as one of the aforementioned authors, that we'd better >either 1) forget the idea... I know that I didn't intend to write for >anyone's enjoyment but mine and the subscribers to this list... > >or 2) at least get permission from the authors of their respective >stories before including their works in a compilation. > >Wolfie`s Mun Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 19:03:03 -0400 (EDT) From: RangerBlue <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Lady WrynBlue and I have been writing for a bit now, and both are published. I state this only that you may know, when an author writes to a string as this, or a web page not his/her own, under the copywrite laws the author surrenders all rights to the creative work. We found this out the hard way I am afraid. In truth a compliation can be done of the collected works of the string, but unless one of the highest moral fiber, the compiler would own the work and if any monies came from it, is not required under law to disbruse any of it to the actual writers. There is a web page, who's name eludes me now, for the Library of Congress that has all this information in it. If one write for grins and relaxation, then a fine thing and the string an excellent place. If one writes for more serious intent, like groceries perhaps, then one must be careful. I know this sounds of an old wet blanket, but it only takes one person stealing the creative output of another for gain, to ruin things for all. Blue Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 17:53:38 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] Subject: Test This is a test to see if i am getting emails to the mailing list. Just a test..no response necessary. ****************** -Sun`zen(aka. Jul`Kair, aka.Sun`Dragn, aka. Sunaj) Champion of BattleFest '96 ....Long Live the BlkDragon*Inn in all its Glory. -starcry(aka. Stefhan, the mun) -Grumble(dwarf..."Hey what you looking at you Walking Talking Tree!!!") Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 20:01:33 -0500 (CDT) From: Kathy Stracener <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Test >This is a test to see if i am getting emails to the mailing list. > >Just a test..no response necessary. Welcome back Sun`zen! I replied anyway dammit! ,,,;''';,,,;''';,,,;''';,,,;'''Suzanna''';,,,;''';,,,;''';,,,;''';,,, Mun of Tarma, Caerlyn, Lillanth, Dayna, Tiraniza, and Whynonna Complete and utter pain in the arse and bound to tick someone off at sometime "Grrrrrrrr......." Date: Fri, 26 Jul 1996 23:14:12 -0600 From: [email protected] (OneStab) Subject: Re: From the MUN > > >I'd just like to say..... > > >I would like to say each and every one of you have done a fabulous job in >the Inn.. ::Thinks that cheezy presidential speech in Independence Day would have been much better had Angel's mun written it... wink:: Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 02:50:29 -0400 (EDT) From: [email protected] Subject: Re: From the MUN At 11:14 PM 7/26/96 -0600, you wrote: >>I'd just like to say..... >> >>I would like to say each and every one of you have done a fabulous job in >>the Inn.. > >::Thinks that cheezy presidential speech in Independence Day would have been >much better had Angel's mun written it... wink:: > :::Vote AngelSin for Next President!!!!!!::::: ******************** -Sun`zen(aka. Jul`Kair, aka.Sun`Dragn, aka. Sunaj) Champion of BattleFest '96 ....Long Live the BlkDragon*Inn in all its Glory. -starcry(aka. Stefhan, the mun) -Grumble(dwarf..."Hey what you looking at you Walking Talking Tree!!!") Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 00:41:21 -0700 (PDT) From: Syl <[email protected]> Subject: Re: From the MUN >> >:::Vote AngelSin for Next President!!!!!!::::: Lord have mercy what have I done??? Now there are TWO Stephen's to bug us on BOTH lists!!! /me smacks herself repeatedly for getting Sun`zen to sign on to earthlink!!!!!~So many characters running through my mind...so little time to play them all. Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 04:15:50 -0500 From: Rue <[email protected]> Subject: Re: From the MUN OneStab wrote: > > ::Thinks that cheezy presidential speech in Independence Day would have been > much better had Angel's mun written it... wink:: HEY! I LIKED that cheesy Independence Day speech!! It was totally cool! *aside* ...and it made me and my mom cry... <G> -- Rue http://www.io.com/~jimmie/kirsy/home.html Keep Sailor Moon alive!! SOS(Support our Sailors)!! http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/sos/ "I've come here for a purpose," he said to her. "I'm looking for someone. A little girl. Her age would be seven, maybe eight gates. She is called Rue." Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 10:44:43 -0500 From: Leonard Foley <[email protected]> Subject: Re: From the MUN At 04:15 AM 7/27/96 -0500, you wrote: > > >OneStab wrote: >> >> ::Thinks that cheezy presidential speech in Independence Day would have been >> much better had Angel's mun written it... wink:: > > HEY! I LIKED that cheesy Independence Day speech!! It was >totally cool! *aside* ...and it made me and my mom cry... <G> >-- >Rue >Hey vote for me, and we'll all wear panties and wonder bras! Vote Fitz fot Pantie President!!! Fitz, Vhertebre, Crimson "Ya missed a spot on the toilet dear" "What?! Come here ya redneck!!!" > > Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 13:27:45 -0400 From: [email protected] (Dave Soltys) Subject: Um.. A test of sorts Well this is just a test... Been havin' problems like several others with the mailing list.. (As well as doubts after recieving that overwhelming view of bloodshed caused by all those previous post. I guess I gotta get caught up and start posting what started before but was never really finished.) DreamShade (aka DreamShde) Player of Shadow and Light Dreamweaver of the North ((Oh and the mun is Dave, Royal Pain in the Rear to his friends.)) "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower." -William Blake "Reality is what you make of it." - Unknown "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." -Some wise old sage Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 06:26:44 -0500 From: Jimmie Bragdon <[email protected]> Subject: Dust and Visions Waking from his miserable rest, Spectre looks out the mouth of the shallow cave he found. Mopping the sweat from his face, he puts his shirt back on. Sleeping during the hottest hours of the day when the sun was at its highest, beating down mercilessly on the sands of the desert, he hunts for more signs of Narisa or the Queen. He has slept little, a few hours each day, covering the most ground at night, when the now accursed sun was not there to beat down on him, burning his skin and eyes, and draining the water and energy from his body. He squints out across the waste, figuring it is still several hours to sunset. He found a camp the third night out, a few tents and a fire, and a matching campsite within a mile. From the debris left behind, it was not a standard military camp, too few people and a bad setup to boot. There were several sets of tracks between the two campsites, so they must have been with the same group. Judging what he thought the distance was, that camp would be just about a days travel from Drache, or close to that. They must have stopped here the first night out, or the first few..close enough for someone to get to the castle and the inn to see what was going on. This cave had been a blessing, shallow though it is, its better than what he has had to make do with. Usually its his cloak set in a mock tent on his sword and a stick or two he found, to keep the sun off him while he slept. The sun was merciless though, and his smooth olive skin is burnt and peeling where exposed, because of this, he stayed almost fully covered, as his normal dress. He'd take sweating over baking any day. Water was hard to find, until the rains hit, slowing the travel even more, turning the sand into a thick, messy terrain. The rains had stopped now, and he knew he was nearing the Asyri borders, if not already inside them. "They must be in this Xandur's posession now, when I get to thier city, this will help quite a bit." He holds up the symbol of an Asyri spy, "I must remember to thank that traitor Trigon for this." He straps his sword to his belt once again, and leaves the cave, finally standing to his full height again. He heads off, further into Asyri lands the sun pounding down on him. As the day wears on, and the waterskin starts to run dry, more and more frequently the heat waves of the sun torment him doubly, beating on him and searing his skin, as well as reflecting up, to look like pools of water, taunting him. After a while, the heat waves coiming up off the sands seem to have patterns in them. He finally stops, staring at a scene in the heat waves that does not pass in a second...its shifts and writhes in the rippling waves, Odamu's face, Narisa crying, Xandur and Angelsin glaring, a battle, a casket, a pyramid, dragons...the hallucination is broken when a gust of wind blows the sand up into a mini cyclone in front of him for a few seconds. He shakes his head, "The sun must be getting to me." He trudges along deeper into the Asyri lands. ========================================================== // Jimmie Bragdon | [email protected] | /\ \\ \\ User Administrator | www.io.com/~jimmie | / \ // // Illuminati Online | | / () \ \\ \\ ============================================= / \ // /________\ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 14:43:40 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: UNSUBSCRIBING. KEEP THIS EMAIL FOR FUTURE REFERANCE! As I've said before on this list..and at least now the welcome msg has it on it..YOU need to unsubscribe to the list..I am not at work and cannot do it from home.. INSTRUCTIONS ON UNSUBSCRIBING PLEASE KEEP THIS EMAIL FOR FUTURE REFERANCE!!!! Send email to [email protected] in the BODY of the email type Unsubscribe BlackDragon That's it.. thanks> > >This whole system is pretty cool but I just cant keep up. I like to read >all of the stories but I really have nothing to add nor do I have the >time to search though all of this mail every week. Please kill me. >Thanks. > **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 15:08:42 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: Hell and it's mistress.... ::Dellila heading back south curses:: "Damnit! I should have known they'd go the other way!" She turns and screams to the one guard riding behind her. "And what in the nine hells happened to everyone?! Where is Xandur?! Why are WE the only one's seemingly searching for those two damn females?!" ::The guard says nothing..the sweat pouring off his brow he shrugs at Dellila:: **Two hours later** "Stupid idiot!!" Dellila stares down at the guard laying in the sand.. he had fallen some 10 minutes before from his horse and the horse had run off. The guard now dead, not able to withstand the heat stares up at Dellila with his glazed eyes. "I will find them myself" ::She digs her heels into the horse and rides on.. heading towards a large mountain. **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 12:39:26 -0400 From: Dave Crampton <[email protected]> Subject: Cursed Blessings chapter 3 - Angelique >Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 01:57:35 -0400 >X-Sender: [email protected] (Unverified) >To: crampto3 >From: Adam Pigeon <[email protected]> >Subject: Cursed Blessings chapter 3 - Angelique > >Book 3 in the Deth Trilogy >by Adam Pigeon, Mun of the Many and Defender of The Sig! >This story has been given a voluntary rating of PG-13. May not be suitable >for children > >"A million lies to sell yourself is all you ever had" -Garbage "Stupid Girl" >"Cause what you see you might not get" -Beastie Boys "Sabotage" > > Angelique pulls herself up off the floor, and groans as her bones still work at >knitting themselves back together. She shoves the body of the drained hotel >clerk aside, >disgusted with herself at having to take the blood of somebody so obviously >low-born. >She looks around the room, she sees her own blood staining the wall behind >her. Deth is >nowhere to be seen. How had he figured out who she was? She pulls herself >into the >shower to clean herself off and try to remember what happened... > > Angelique knew that Deth went to the Redfang Bar a lot, so it made perfect >sense >to wait for him there. The large bartender, Ragnarok, tried to hit on her >several times but >she would have none of it. The poor man was obviously not worth the effort. >Finally >after an hour Deth walks in. She stands and greets him > "I was beginning to think that this place was abandoned," Angelique says, >"Hi, my >name's Angelique Fergueson, and you are...?" > "Thomas... Thomas Sanders," Deth says. Angelique knows he's lying but plays >along with it anyway. > "So Tommy," she says casually, "are you a regular here? Is this place always so >empty?" > "I come here once in a while, and it's usually pretty quiet. Have you seen the >bartender around? I need to talk to him." > "You mean that Ragnarok guy?" she asks. Deth nods. "He had to step out back a >minute, he had to pick up a delivery. He said he would be back really >soon." She swirls >her drink around in the bottom of her glass and smiles up at Deth, her >cherry red lips >standing out on her pale skin. > Angelique feels Deth's mind probing hers and she masks her thoughts just >the way >Karma Burn taught her, and she smiles as she sees him relax. "So, are you >from this area >or just passing through?" > "Oh, I've lived on the other side of the city for a few years now. I was >visiting a >friend and took a different way home, I saw this place and, I really don't >know why, but I >stopped." Angelique lies, the most plausible story she can think up. > "Maybe it was fate." Deth gives one of his charming rebel grins. "Fate was >kind >enough to bring you here to allow me the great pleasure.. no.. privilege of >meeting such a >beautiful woman." > "Why don't we go someplace else, somewhere a little more... active?" she >says as >she gives a sharp seductive smile. > "I think that sounds like a good thing to me," he replies, returning her >smile. >"Here, it's pretty cold out," he says as he puts his leather jacket over her >shoulders. "And >let me pick up that drink for you." Deth grabs a piece of paper and quickly >writes on it. > "Thank you very much, Tommy," she says softly as they walk out, dangerously >close to one another. > They went out dancing at some techno-industrial club. All in all it was, >surprisingly, a rather fun night. A shame to have to kill him. Dinner, >dancing, but never >the right opportunity to strike until late, when he finally took her to a >motel. Angelique >was sickened at the cheapness of the place, but was able to hold it to >herself, for the sake >of the mission. Things moved quickly from there. He had her out of her >dress in an >instant. He must have seen the widow's tattoo. She had managed to rake her >claws down >his back and inject some venom but not enough. Deth telekineticly threw her >into the >wall, she could feel her bones shattering before she fell into blissful >unconsciousness. > When she woke up all there was around her was pain. She could feel the >need for >more blood screaming in her mind. A red haze clouded her vision. She felt >a hand go to >her throat checking for a pulse and, finding none, go into a string of >obscenities. >Consumed by need, she grabbed the mans arm and dragged his throat to her >mouth and >drained him completely. > > She steps out of the shower and picks up her dress from where it had been left >hours ago. She steps outside into the cool night air and contemplates on >what to do next. >Should she go back to Tokyo, admit her defeat to Karma Burn? Try to find >Deth again >and kill him? She looks to the sky and sees light begin to invade the >night. She hurries >back inside and shuts herself up. With the mamnager dead she will be safe >for the night at >least. Then she can make her decision. > >-To be continued in Chapter 4- OVERKILL!!! > /\ |-\ /\ |\ /| |--\ | /--\ |---- /--\ |\ | > / \ | \ / \ | \/ | | | | | | | | | \ | > /----\ | | /----\ | | |--/ | | ___ |-- | | | \| > / \ | / / \ | | | | | | | | | | | >/ \ |_/ / \ | | | | \__/ |---- \__/ | | > >-The Mun of the Many and Defender of the Sig! > >http://www.msu.edu/user/pigeonad/ > >send all replys to [email protected] cuz I ain't on the list > > > > -- Dave Crampton AKA Dark Vampyre "The Blood is the Life" - Dracula "Blood is like wine..." - Bush "I don't know how to be bad at being bad." - The Vampire Lestat "Call me what you will....." - Metallica "That's just one of my names...." - Bush Dave's too cool Web Page - http://www.msu.edu/user/crampto3/ The #RedFang Bar's Web Page - http://www.msu.edu/user/crampto3/RedFang/ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 10:52:05 -0700 (PDT) From: IRCrackhead <[email protected]> Subject: *grrrr* Amazingly enough, as soon as i check my mail, my mailbox exploded (im blaming Jimmie and his firecrackers) and i lost all my mail from the previous night from both mail list, ops and reg....if anyone thinks i actually missed anything, please forward me the mail =/ and i saw Dave had another Stalker story up, so can someone make sure i sget a copy of that one? thanks... StEvE o/~ Can you imagine for a second doing anything you ever wanted to? Well thats just what i do, so hooray for me, and fluff you! o/~ Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 15:13:52 -0400 (EDT) From: Brian May <[email protected]> Subject: I need out cc: BlackDragon <[email protected]> This whole system is pretty cool but I just cant keep up. I like to read all of the stories but I really have nothing to add nor do I have the time to search though all of this mail every week. Please kill me. Thanks. ============================================================================== _____ _ | |_ _| o/. \ | | | o/. / | | | o/.f/ | _ | | o/. e| | | \_/ / o/. n| | \___/ o/. d| | _ | e| | / \ \ r/ | / \ ==== | / O \ |||| | / ___ \ |||| | | | | | |||| | |_| |_| |||| | ____ |||| | / __ \ |||| | / / \_\ |||| | | | ___ |||| | | | |_ | |||| | \ \__/ / |||| | \____/ |||| | ____ |||| | / __ \ |||| | / /__\_\ |||| | \____ \ |||| | _ \ \ o |||| | |\___/ / / | |||| | \____/ / | |||| | _______ / | |||| | |__ __| / | |||| _ | | | | \ |||| | \ | | | | \___/|||| | \ | | | | |||| / \ | | | | ||||\___/ _ | | |_| \ _|||| / | | | _ \ / ||||____/ | | | / \ \ / |||| / | | / \ \ / |||| / / | / O \ | || (||||) / / | / ___ \ | |o |||| / / | | | | | / | |||| | | | |_| |_| / | |||| | | | _ _ / || (||||) \ \ | | \ | | / |o (||||) /\ \ | | \ | | | | |||| _ \ \ | | \ \ | | | \ _LLLL_ /|0| \ \ | | |\ \| | | (======)\ _ \ \ | | | \ | \ \ |0| | \ | |_| \__| \ | o / | | ____ \ \__/ | | / __ \ \ / | / / \_\ \ / | | | ___ \_________________/ | | | |_ | 0 | \ \__/ / | \____/ | | =================================================== Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:14:57 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: Sands...Clear.... ((Sun's post)) > > Sun woke from the nightmare dreams that plagued him since he recieved the >gift of punishment from Chryss...thanks to Kaejo...as he wiped the cold >sweat from his brow, his mind slowly clearly from the cobwebs of pain that >had just finish torturing his mind for several hours earlier. Sun, stands >upright, stretches...as the Pyramid alerts him to the fact that Simon's >minions have all fled the desert and have returned to Simon's castle...Sun >ponders this news, but shrugs it off...turning his attention, quickly to >Karsha, whose standing before, dressed in desert clothning, high sand boots, >soft cloth pants, and tunic, bracers on her forearms, and her dried black >hair hanging low down her back, and deep hazel eyes...she grins at seeing >Sun move towards her. > > "Morning, Protector-Sun..sleep well??", as she asks. "Nay..troubled from >nightmares stronger than before...must of be what Chryss had done...i must >send her a thank you note...Remind of this Pyramid." <"Yes, Protector"> >"Well, Karsha..i see you have dressed nicely..and are you ready to be our >guests?", he mentions slyly. "Sure, why not Protector-Sun..it will be nice", >as a grin moves across her lips. "Call me Sun..please...but remember no >mention of me too our guests in any manner, understand?" "Yes, Sun." >"Good..now..Pyramid, transport Karsha to the nearest corridor to where our >guests are." ::Karsha fades from the Inner chambers...and then reappears >just outside the Door to the room where Angel and Narisa are:::: > >********************** > > The door slowly opens, as the light fliters into the room, sending shadows >running for cover...Karhsa moves slowly, each step carefully placed, her >eyes peering into the room, as her body is half in and half out of the >doorway...she quickly spots Narisa still lying on the bed...as hands quickly >catch her tunic, and her legs are sweep out from under her in a blinding >moment...she falls to the floor, with a *oof!*...as she looks up, rubbing >her arse slightly...she notices a lovely looking woman, standing tall above >her. > > "Hey!...why you do that?!" Angel looks with questioning eyes down at the >female at her feet, quickly noticing the sytle of clothing of the that for >the Desert. "Who are you?", Angel asks quickly, paying little attention to >the statement/question made by the female. "Who am I...more important is, >who are you..to invade the Sanctuary of this Place!...but if you need to >know, I am called Karsha, Leader of the Desert Dwellers." Angel takes a step >back..as she makes the connection that this Karsha must be Asyri by her >tongue. "What is this place, Karsha?" Karsha, slowly stands, resting her >hand firmly unto the wall for additional support...as she turns to look this >female squarely in the eye.."This place is a Sanctuary..that is all you need >to know!...now what are you doing here, and what are your names....or shall >I send for the Guardians of this place?" Angel takes a deep breath...and >slowly lets it out, as she looks to Narisa, whose still sitting in the bed >unsure of what or how to react to this...<Angel gives Karsha the story..not >the full story> > > ::Nearly an Hour Later:: > > Karsha, nods slowly to AngelSin, and Narisa.."I am sorry to have been so >rude to you Queen of Arangoth, but I didnt understand...Please allow me to >show you around the Pyramid of Rose...Perhaps then my ppl may be able to >send word to your King...to come recover you from here." > >******************* > > >-Sun`zen(aka. Jul`Kair, aka.Sun`Dragn, aka. Sunaj) >Champion of BattleFest '96 >....Long Live the BlkDragon*Inn in all its Glory. >-starcry(aka. Stefhan, the mun) >-Grumble(dwarf..."Hey what you looking at you Walking Talking Tree!!!") > > > **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 23:20:59 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: Returning home?................... ::The two clones make thier way out of the sandstorm..and head straight for arangoth.. **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Sun, 28 Jul 1996 21:38:59 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bryan Hoag (EE)" <[email protected]> Subject: Preparations... *Phoenix castle buzzes with activity, as Viskaya, in the throne room, reels trying to make sense of it all, only to be supported by FireIce...* "Dinnae trouble yeself, M'lady Viskaya, Sit yeself down afore ye get hurt..." *FireIce gently helps Viskaya into the large Phoenecian throne, soft, but empty without Simon's presence...* *Mystify, nearby, watches the activities in the castle with amazement, all over, artwork, decoraations and loose items either being collected and packed, or sliding away into hidden chambers...* *Titanus carefullt oversees the work, as Inferno, Dante, ArrowWing, and Hades glide into the throne room from their missions.... ArrowWing steps forward..* "Word has been sent, Titanus, Simon is on his way..." *Titanus nods slowly...* "I take it, ArrowWing, he was not pleased with his decision?" *Inferno steps forward, growling...* "All the work we've Done for Arangoth, for THis? THis is Completely Uncalled for!" *Dante nods in agreement...* "Last nights events clearly show we are no longer wanted here..." *A voice from the throne room door interrupts them coldly..* "Ahh, So the great God Simon has decided to pack up and Leave Arangoth in Peace? Such a pity... I was realy hoping he could stay..." *Dante whirls around, recognizing the voice....* "Interesting words coming from you, Kaejo... You, one of the two who helped Lead Simon here, just so you could Banish him?" *Kaejo sneers* "Leading him here was a Mistake, There is no question that their Highnesses will thank us for having sent him away..." *Dante and Inferno slowly step towards Kaejo, Dante's mouth boiling with fire, Inferno's wings sending flames high into the air, both their eyes glowing deep red in Anger...* *Dante growls..* "If Anyone should be Banished, It should be You Kaejo, Filthy Traitor..." *From high above the Throne Room...* "THAT'S ENOUGH!" *All look up to see Simon descending into the throne room, returned from the Asyri desert, empty-handed...* "Dante, Inferno, You two have work to do..." *Dante interjects* "But, my Lord.." *Simon snaps...* "Kaejo is Not worth the effort." *Dante and Inferno nod, mainly in obedience of Simon, and head off to prepare the castle for departure...* "Kaejo, I invite you to leave, Now..." *With a gesture, Simon teleports Kaejo to the Inn...* *Simon then turns to Fireice...* "I know I said I was leaving earlier, I apologize for my Stubbornness, my friend..." *To Titanus..* "Is everything ready?" *Titanus nods..* "We simply need you to give the word to depart..." *Simon turns back to Fireice.... "Fireice, my friend, I ask a favor, please guide us to someplace new?" *Simon strides to the throne, and slips Viskaya comfortably in his lap....* "Don't worry, love, our friends will follow us soon enough." *Simon turns back to Fireice for instructions...* *In the Desert, 2 females remain huddled in barely-protective shelter from the unrelenting sandstorm...* ((Yes, it's true, I'm pulling up stakes from the BDI and heading elsewhere.. My apologies to my friends who regret my passing, and for the rest, well, I'm sure you won't miss me. Andie, I do apologize, but certain Unreconciled problems in RP politics have caused me to make this decision... I do respect you as a friend, but, unless certain problems cease, I cannot find the #BlkDragon*Inn a place for me to go anymore... I've learned it's better to leave and avoid confrontation, than to remain and let an Unsolvable problem persist. FareWell... Simon Horus Phoenix, Titanus, Lord Anubis Thunderman, Inferno, Dante, Hades, ArrowWing, leareth, and many others who will not see the BDI... And, of course, Simon, the Mun... Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 03:27:57 -0400 From: [email protected] (Dave Soltys) Subject: A Darkened Corridor... ((Um... for those who missed a few post earilier Farlow is an associate of DreamShades)) A flame dances a whirling dervish upon the torch casting death to the many shadows hiding within the void of darkness engulfing it. A small gnomish figure, rather unusually pale, and just under 4ft carrying large sunken hazal eyes gazes up at the torch holding it high above to cast light unto the dark void. Farlow turns his gaze to the fine stone workmanship of the small, but comfortable passage. He holds the torch upon his forward gaze lighting up the large handcrafted wooden door whose surface is riddled with a neverending web of intersecting lines creating some mystical pattern of protection. Farlow reaches for the small latch upon the door and raps a complex pattern of rhythm. He steps back as the intricate weave of runic markings on the door flair to life in a brilliant violet haze and the door swings forth to let passage. Farlow steps into yet another void beyond bringing the torchlight to bear on the darkness. He steps into a small stone chamber with the same fine workmanship and brings the torch to bare on the raised stone floor before him letting the flame illuminate the intricate inlay of dark amber and rose colored gems encircling the many scratch marks riddled within. Farlow holds the torch up and places it in a holder to illuminate the room bringing the large circular runic pattern into view on the raised floor. Farlow reaches within his fur coat and pulls a small golden disc out. Pressing upon the disc, it flips open to reveal a complex mesh of mechanics and rotating dials of the stars, sun, planets, etc. "Tis be 'bout time for him... Now whe'" Farlow jumps back as the flame upon the torch dies to a furious upstart of wind. The circle of gems glows before him with a faint rhythem of a heartbeat, and tiny whirlwinds of dust pick up as a faint inrush of air seeps into the circle. Farlow watches a blinding flash of silvery thread stream forth within the circle as a small, stout small eyed, large nosed dwarf emerges literally though the threaded crack. Farlow smiles. "Tis be time yea come... Na ya 'bout 1 an' a three thirds past due." Farlow looks down at his handheld mechanical wonder. The weather-roughened dwarf smirks with his leathery dark skin. "I be held... 'a 'eld up 'ere by all this bloom'n junk he has me bringin'" The dwarf steps back into the circle passing through a flash of a silvery thread, and returns struggling with a large oak chest. He sets the chest down upon the floor. The dwarf speaks, "See 'ere... tis only one of six... he be a 'recken crazy havin' me bring all this stuff... but gotta do what the boss want... " The dwarf smiles and tosses a few coins from his pocket... "... but he ay pay me well..." Farlow smiles.. "Well, yea know how Sir Rhaellon is..." Farlow steps forward and struggles lifting the lid of the chest..."Yee Gads!! the man has flipped his lid... his whole optical trinket collection." Farlow gazes on the tightly packed mess of prisms, lenses, mirrors, highly carved gems and crystals. Farlow continues.. "My guess is he plans to set up permenant shop here. But my guess is where to put it all. He ain't even found a good enough place yet." The dwarf shifts in his large boots... "Thee fella' say'd to put it in the abandoned room in the west wing of yea ole cas'le above." Farlow stares. "And when does he plan to tell his royal friends of his uninvited use of storage space let alone this damn year old project he has already started literally rig't under there noses." The dwarf smirks and shrugs... "Aye just get pay'd to deliver and to stay to help with the shafts if need be..." Farlow scratches his head and shrugs... "Ohhhh, well... like he give me enough already to worry 'bout... 'k take thee stuff and stack it here and than come with me... we are behind and need all the 'elp we can get." Farlow turns to the torch in its holder illuminated under the bright glow of the gem circle and lights the flame. He takes the torch and begins to head back into the darkened corridor. The dwarf turns suddenly and shouts... "Yea...umm... WAIT RIGHT T'ERE!" Farlow turns with an annoyed smirk...."Nooowwww... what?!" The dwarf steps back within to the circle again as he passes through the silverly threaded crack. The dwarf steps back and carrying a small bundle of large, oversized scrolls. "'ERE... he said he had a few last minute changes that 'ould mean everything... or somethin' like tat.." The dwarf hands the bundle of scrolls to Farlow as he fumbles with the torch almost burning his hair. "YEE GADS!!!.... what in the...." Farlow set the torch back in its holder and drops all the scrolls but one which extends several feet in length overbearing his little arms. He throws it a partways open in the light of the torch revealing curves upon curves and lines upon lines, an infinate mess of cirsscrossing patterns. Farlow looks over the scroll examing the finely detailed blueprints to some enourmous undertaking of many pasages and chambers seeming to be an infinate mess of some unknown grand design. Farlow pipes out a high squeell..."Eeek!!... Thee 'ole of the northern first 'alf... that'll take weeks to redue... he is insane... and with the shortage of time and labor now... he better have another 500 pieces for each of thee overworked clansman..." The dwarf stands there wondering what in the heck is going on, and goes on to continue bringing chest after chest through the enigmatic gateway from elsewhere. Farlow stomps out of the chamber and into the darkness carrying his torch high and the bundle of scrolls under his other arm groaning and cursing in gnomish gibberish. "Yee Gads... the dwarvin clan gonna be a haten' me a'now... the whole... he be insane... another 6 miles of passage... FOR WHAT!!... damn plan... when will he start usen' all those talents on helpin' us... damn waste 'em playin' with his shadowy tricks and partin' up at that damn bar... Master of Shado' and Li... Blaaa... " DreamShade (aka DreamShde) Player of Shadow and Light Dreamweaver of the North ((Oh and the mun is Dave, Royal Pain in the Rear to his friends.)) "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower." -William Blake "Reality is what you make of it." - Unknown "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." -Some wise old sage Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 04:10:08 -0500 (CDT) From: Lady of the Roses <[email protected]> cc: BlackDragon <[email protected]> Subject: Death of a Friend *a Messenger runs in and hands a letter to Dulcina* To Whom it may concern: This letter is to inform you that Lady Alisha Relluem, Widow of Jyhad, mother of Niam Crysalin Emerald, Lady of the Roses, Cleric of Maelkki, Lady-in-waiting to Her majesty Queen Angelsin. Is dead due to blood loss. Bite marks were found on her neck and wrists. Thank You signed anonymous note from the mun: if ya all care to wanna know what happened find out ic *grins* i can't tell ya. steve would kill me if i did ic anyway so you're gonna have to live with it ;) anyway i'm getting my computer taken away the person who let me borrow it needs it back, angel and i are seeing about getting me a new one but i don't know whats gonna happen. so i'm gone if i do come back it'll be as niam she needs a mun anyway if not then well i guess its goodbye ......if ya wanna talk to the mun several ppl including angelsin has my #. i think most of my friends do if not then ask unless your some crazed loony no names given of course steve anyway we will see what happens in the future but for now its goodbye luv yas Melanie LadyLisha's mun ps this is my last night on irc so i won't see all the sappy e-mail you are all gonna send cause you just miss me so much sarcasm till the end catch ya on the flip side ps steve ya still owe me a tatt :P~ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 16:51:31 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary YOUR ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 **HUGGLES THE STUFFINGS OUTTA ADAm~~%&&&&** a cool experience. >Everyone should go sometime in their life. >-Adam >-- **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 18:18:39 -0700 From: Adam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary I like the idea, and would be glad to contribute anything I have. BTW all, I'm back fronm the Olympics. 'Twas really a cool experience. Everyone should go sometime in their life. -Adam -- "Have you talked to God recently?" "Yes, and she's black." "Do or do not, there is no try." "From Chaos comes order." "Live hard, die young, leave a good-looking corpse." Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:23:07 -0400 From: "Kerrinne Lynne Kl'ramordan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary >> Anyways, the bomb killed two people: a mother, and a Turkish camera man >> who had a heart-attack while running to the scene, so the bomb didn't >> actually kill him, it helped cause his death. >> -Adam I was supposed to be there that night...but my sister and I were too tired after watching track and field and went home. Thank God for that, huh? It was scary, but I'm going out there this Saturday...::smirks::...just let some jerk stop me. I'll come back from the dead and haunt them. ::giggles:: ~Kerri's nutty mun Life is what you make it...so make it good. =) Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:43:24 -0700 From: Adam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Queen of Arangoth wrote: > > YOUR ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 > > **HUGGLES THE STUFFINGS OUTTA ADAm~~%&&&&** Well, I hope I'm alive. If not, I think I have a small problem. Does this being alive thing have anything to do with the bomb that went off in the Olympic Park? BTW, did anyone recieve the letter I sent to the list from the AT&T center. It would have been under a completly different address than mine, one provided by AT&T for trying out the internet through their service. Anyways, the bomb killed two people: a mother, and a Turkish camera man who had a heart-attack while running to the scene, so the bomb didn't actually kill him, it helped cause his death. -Adam -- "Have you talked to God recently?" "Yes, and she's black." "Do or do not, there is no try." "From Chaos comes order." "Live hard, die young, leave a good-looking corpse." Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 20:54:41 -0700 From: Adam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Adam wrote: > > Queen of Arangoth wrote: > > > > YOUR ALIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!1 > > > > **HUGGLES THE STUFFINGS OUTTA ADAm~~%&&&&** > > Well, I hope I'm alive. If not, I think I have a small problem. Does > this being alive thing have anything to do with the bomb that went off in > the Olympic Park? > BTW, did anyone recieve the letter I sent to the list from the AT&T > center. It would have been under a completly different address than > mine, one provided by AT&T for trying out the internet through their > service. > Anyways, the bomb killed two people: a mother, and a Turkish camera man > who had a heart-attack while running to the scene, so the bomb didn't > actually kill him, it helped cause his death. > -Adam > 111 people were hospitilized tho, and htat's a scary thought in itself. -Adam > "Have you talked to God recently?" > "Yes, and she's black." > > "Do or do not, there is no try." > > "From Chaos comes order." > > "Live hard, die young, leave a good-looking corpse." -- "Have you talked to God recently?" "Yes, and she's black." "Do or do not, there is no try." "From Chaos comes order." "Live hard, die young, leave a good-looking corpse." Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:38:25 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bryan Hoag (EE)" <[email protected]> Subject: Departure.... *Under the guidance of Fireice, Simon sets several crystals into place on what seems to be a control board before his throne... A low rumble is then heard throughout the castle..* *Outside* *THe Massive Phoenix Castle spreads its huge crystalline wings, and slowly rises into the Arangoth sky, the sunlight refeacting and reflecting off its surfaces in a dazzling light display.. The golden column on which it sat becomes a long trailing plumage of pure flame, and the Abyssal moat that once surrounded the castle slowly shrinks, returning to the smooth meadow it was before Simon's arrival... Higher and Higher, the castle rises, then, with an earth-shaking runble, the castle flies over the Inn and Castle black, a faint glint in the Castle's underbelly appearing briefly.. A message cylinder dropping into the castle courtyard addressed to AngelSin and BlkDragon..: ::My Friends, It pains me to have to leave in this manner, but, I can no longer withstand nor tolerate the unending insubordination I am faced with, not only by many citizens of Arangoth, but by many of its Lords of Political Power as well.... I always have been, and always will be your friend. Things have changed, Both of you have greatly changed since we first parted, and, since our re-uniting, I have changed as well... Not all changes seem to have been for the better, I daresay, and I need time away to deal with them... You know where to find me..... Simon Horus Phoenix.:: *The castle casts it's shadow briefly over the Pyramid of the Rose on its way from the realm.... All over Asyr and Arangoth, a change can be felt in its peoples, a separation of sorts.. In Castle Black, BlkDragon himself suddenly feels an emptiness where a memory and a closeness once resided... In the Pyramid of the Rose, No amount of Magical shielding, nor act of resurrection can keep AngelSin from feeling something in her disappear.. Many others share this sudden loss, as if something once given has been taken again....* ((And for those who don't give a Darn, My departure is the only gift I grant.)) SimnFenix Date: Mon, 29 Jul 1996 22:14:10 -0700 From: Adam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Kerrinne Lynne Kl'ramordan wrote: > > >> Anyways, the bomb killed two people: a mother, and a Turkish camera man > >> who had a heart-attack while running to the scene, so the bomb didn't > >> actually kill him, it helped cause his death. > >> -Adam > > I was supposed to be there that night...but my sister and I were too tired > after watching track and field and went home. Thank God for that, huh? It > was scary, but I'm going out there this Saturday...::smirks::...just let > some jerk stop me. I'll come back from the dead and haunt them. ::giggles:: > > ~Kerri's nutty mun > Life is what you make it...so make it good. =) I was at Track&Feild that day also. Just out of curiosity, did you see me? I was on the field level, in the handicapped section sitting next to my parents, my father whom was in an electric cart-type thingy since he had polio and it's the only way he can get around. I was weraing glasses, I have sorta curly/wavy brown hair down almost to my shoulders. Ummm........ I don't have a clue what I was wearing....... Anyways, did you see me? -Adam -- "Have you talked to God recently?" "Yes, and she's black." "Do or do not, there is no try." "From Chaos comes order." "Live hard, die young, leave a good-looking corpse." Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 00:07:12 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: A commentary >I was supposed to be there that night...but my sister and I were too tired >after watching track and field and went home. Thank God for that, huh? It >was scary, but I'm going out there this Saturday...::smirks::...just let >some jerk stop me. I'll come back from the dead and haunt them. ::giggles:: > >~Kerri's nutty mun >Life is what you make it...so make it good. =) Kerri!! That's amazing!!! My mun wasn't there either.....Is that a coinky-dink or what? ::giggles beneath her breath:: Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 03:15:35 -0400 From: "Kerrinne Lynne Kl'ramordan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary > >I was at Track&Feild that day also. Just out of curiosity, did you see >me? I was on the field level, in the handicapped section sitting next to >my parents, my father whom was in an electric cart-type thingy since he >had polio and it's the only way he can get around. I was weraing >glasses, I have sorta curly/wavy brown hair down almost to my shoulders. > Ummm........ I don't have a clue what I was wearing....... Anyways, did >you see me? I'm sorry Adam...I was up on the fourth level..and everyone on ground level looked like ants. hehe. Had I realized you would have been there...I would have looked for you. =) ::throws some ?????'s and !!!!!'s at Aliastra and her mun and giggles with her:: <w> You nut....go to bed... ~Kerri's nutty mun Life's what you make it...so make it good. Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 05:11:13 -0500 From: Rue <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Adam wrote: > > "From Chaos comes order." > Is that from the Recluce books? It sounds like something from them... -- Rue http://www.io.com/~jimmie/kirsy/home.html Keep Sailor Moon alive!! SOS(Support our Sailors)!! http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/sos/ "Oh? *gasp* It's a burgler...! ALRIGHT!!" Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 09:02:19 -0400 From: Roy Saba <[email protected]> Subject: A silent return This is just to inform you all, That I have indeed returned from my journies, and hope to see you you all soon in the inn. Shadrak MacAllister Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:44:27 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. First off I didn't say anyone couldn't RPG Damnit.. I'm getting real tierd of this shit. I sent out an email to let people KNOW what I was talking about, since I have emailed the same damn request over and over and over again and alot of people dind't seem to understand. > I have heard it said by a few who endorse the "closed story lines" (in >order to defend their arguments about closing the SLs on the mail list), >that the written story lines are not the same as role playing. Angel, I >think we are all well aware at this time how to RP. Just as you get tired >of "This whole magic crap and God pc is screwing with the storyline.." I >too get tired of the assumptions that many of us are "God pcs wanting to >screw with storylines". NOR did I say ALL god pc's wanted to screw up the storyline.. I did not generalize..i simply stated the FACTS. Those of who have come jumping into the story etc.. happen to have been God PC's or magicians. > I understand your position that you don't want your SL to be messed up >but hey that's what life is about and thats what RPing is about too, good >RPing anyway....We don't live in a bubble and neither do our PCs. That's >what makes RPing interesting and exciting, not knowing what lurks around >the corner from our actions or who will respond to our actions. IN the email I sent there was an example I wrote..I KNOW people will interact with the story I don't care..but when it comes to MUN vs PC knowlege there I do care.. it takes creative RPG to get around Mun knowlege. But when you bring it to the Inn, I, for one, am not in the Inn to >be a captive audience member. There are no captive member's... there are at least 10 different plots going on in the Inn at once..I don't pay attention to all of them..I can't..I made the Inn so I could roleplay in..I don't see anything wrong with asking someone to please respect my roleplaying and not jump in with something that could ultimatly not only change the plot but possibly end it when I'm not ready for it to end. I am there to RP...I *will* react to things >that I find apropirate, just as the mun would react to something if she saw >it, when she goes out ('cept she doesn't see as much action when she goes >out :-) ) When you are in the Inn, SLs are up for grabs to venture into >as one sees fit. > Tell you what, if someone less experienced than yourself with RPing >does something really lame, msg him/her and tell them that their "magic >crap and God pc is screwing with the storyline". Treat each individual PC >individually. But please, don't lump all the rest of us into the reject >pile. I HAVE done that and it obviously doesn't work..the reason I put this list up is so that we could discuss stuff about the inn and stories..and that's what I'm doing. >I think the US and THEM attitude that I have witnessed in several >people over the This-is-closed,-damn-it saga is alienating alot of people >and beginning to annoy many more. It does wonders for a few egos, but over >all, it is *not* something that will benefit the inn. As I've stated before..it's got little to do with Roleplaying and NOTHING to do with US and THEM but more with respect of another's ideas and imagination.. take it for what you want though..for I see many people cannot understand I'm making a simple request and are taking it the wrong way and getting mad about it. **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:15:26 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Storylines and how they work.. It has come to my attention that once again a plot has been sorta messed up.. As far as the whole Angel/Narisa/Dellila/Sun/Spectre/Blkdragon etc story goes let me give you a hand on how this works We have it set to CLOSED story line..that means if you want to post something to it..you need to email the PEOPLE in the story with your addition to see if it's ok..they will post it for you if it works IN THE INN: LIVE ROLEPLAYING MSG the people involved in the storyline FIRST before you start roleplaying..ask them if it's ok if your character does this or that.. This whole magic crap and God pc is screwing with the storyline.. Dellila has powers..she's baaaaaaad...she cannot just be defeated by anyone Angel has little powers at this point, she's pregnant and the spell from dellila is still covering her and narisa blocking ANY magical interference Narisa is human..no powers...(least none seen yet) Spectre has powers..I don't know them all but he's just not another warrior Sun'zen.. he has alot of powers..ESPECIALLY in his pyramid.. it's a very powerful force..you can't just walk into it..And you cannot probe his mind like that and have the answers to the WHOLE story.. not unless he ok's it BLKDRAGON has lots of magic and is very strong..he's a big mean and very pissed off dragon The moral of this story?? AGAIN differinciate MUN knowledge and PC knowledge.. you may be magic, you may be able to read minds, you may be able to see visions, you may be able to leap a friggin building in a single bound but REMEMBER you are NOT dealing with just average characters and you are not the most powerful mage/wizard/whatever there is... use some imagination in RPG..We don't want a quick ending to this story..we want creativity and good stories to end it.. This is a very interesting plot goin on..Angel and Narisa that are back in the Inn are the clones..they are IDENTICAL to the real ones except for thier personalities that have been switched..and of course the SOULS that cannot be duplicated..you can notice that something isn't right..but in reality..would you right away jump to the conclusion that "THIS IS A CLONE?!" no..you wouldn't... If you want to RP in this just msg one of us..throw and idea past us and we will let you know if it works...it's what we do with eachother and it's what works and doesn't piss people off.. Thanks all..**huggles and shit** **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:34:46 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary OFFICIALLY OVER YEs this subject is over..btw sylv..that was a great idea! I never replyed to it sorry.. :) >:::waiting for AngelSin to declare this string null and void...since it no longer has the slightest resemblance to my commentary on storylines and possible books :( > >~Syl~So many characters running through my mind...so little time to play them all. > > > **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 12:39:48 -0700 (PDT) From: Syl <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary At 05:11 AM 7/30/96 -0500, you wrote: > > :::waiting for AngelSin to declare this string null and void...since it no longer has the slightest resemblance to my commentary on storylines and possible books :( ~Syl~So many characters running through my mind...so little time to play them all. Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 16:26:05 -0400 (EDT) From: "Hudson's Petting Zoo" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Actually, there was an exchange in Blazing Saddles... Howard Johnson: You know, Nietzsche (sp??) says 'out of chaos comes order.' Samuel Johnson: Aw, blow it out your ass, Howard. InsanEric On Tue, 30 Jul 1996, Rue wrote: > Adam wrote: > > > > "From Chaos comes order." > Is that from the Recluce books? It sounds like something from > them... ---- Eric Hudson [email protected] [email protected] - ICACCS Big Mac, Felafel, and a side of fries. -James Taylor, "Slap Leather," 1991 ---- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 19:19:39 -0400 (EDT) From: "Potts Cest' Evalion" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. At 12:15 PM 7/30/96 -0700, Queen of Arangoth wrote: > > >It has come to my attention that once again a plot has been sorta messed up.. Just my thought...but if you play the SL in the Inn, you are satisfying your vorueristic needs to have ppl watch your SL. If it's done in front of me...I'm gonna Role-play my character in turn. If it's Potts...hes gonna sit back...glare a couple of times and chuckle. However, if it's Talis, and he sees something that is offensive, he's gonna get involved, with or without anyones permission. If somethings happening that offends my character, my PCs wouldn't be coming up to yours and say..."Excuse me, do you mind if I join in the fun" He's gonna jump in kicken some butt. If you don't want ppl to get involved in SL's, or you want them to ask your permission first, they should be done in private, not in the Inn. If it's in the Inn, then anyone has the oppurtunity, and the right, to enter into *any* SL. The mun behind the Evil Talis Wyrmsbane Warden of Loreil Protector of all that is Good http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4708 It's not just a web page, it's my own little hunk of Net Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 16:32:21 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. I absolutly disagree potts...to get involved is ONE thing..but to use MUN knowlege to screw up a plot is another... that is what I'm talking about..if I have a character that's in the inn and is killing everyone, of course all would jump in..What I'm talking about is the knowlege that one gets via this list and using it in the inn... for example A new character comes into the inn named broomhilda. on the list it is announced by her mun that she is a wicked witch that is coming to kill dulcina. Everyone reads that post...getting into the story..then Joeblow sees broomhilda enter the inn and jumps up and attacks her stating that he can read her mind and knows she is there to attack dulcina. get it? >Just my thought...but if you play the SL in the Inn, you are satisfying your >vorueristic needs to have ppl watch your SL. If it's done in front of >me...I'm gonna Role-play my character in turn. If it's Potts...hes gonna >sit back...glare a couple of times and chuckle. However, if it's Talis, and >he sees something that is offensive, he's gonna get involved, with or >without anyones permission. If somethings happening that offends my >character, my PCs wouldn't be coming up to yours and say..."Excuse me, do >you mind if I join in the fun" He's gonna jump in kicken some butt. > >If you don't want ppl to get involved in SL's, or you want them to ask your >permission first, they should be done in private, not in the Inn. If it's >in the Inn, then anyone has the oppurtunity, and the right, to enter into >*any* SL. > >The mun behind the Evil > >Talis Wyrmsbane >Warden of Loreil >Protector of all that is Good >http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/4708 > It's not just a web page, it's my own little hunk of Net > > > **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:06:11 -0400 From: [email protected] (Dave Soltys) Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. ((Hmmm... thinks he should finally put his 1 and 1/2 sense in on this mailing list since he has said little before.)) Concerning Pott's suggestion, it is understandable that when a storyline enters into a live public roleplay that outside characters would interact since it would be an open situation as in real life (ANd I feel its the spirit of the freeform environment of BDI and the old RDI...)), but also as Angel says it would be rude for someone to just say approach the clones of Angel and Narsissa and find that they ARE clones and stab them to death or somethin'. I really hate when ppl play omniscient and figure they know everything. It really does take the fun out of roleplays (And makes ya crave the dice and level grap of the very structured TSR system.) When I usually have god like characters for whatever reason, they usually never appear in actual live rps much and seem to appear only in BIG plots. (Usually some mentor type...) I try to play around those situations where it would ruin roleplay fun and so try to play the character as little as live as possible, but at times a plot might need some demigod type character to fill it out, etc (Add to the mystery of the RPG). Well thats my 1 and 1/2 cents on this for now... DreamShade (aka DreamShde) Player of Shadow and Light Dreamweaver of the North ((Oh and the mun is Dave, Royal Pain in the Rear to his friends.)) "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower." -William Blake "Reality is what you make of it." - Unknown "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." -Some wise old sage Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:14:07 -0500 From: Mickey <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. At 07:19 PM 7/30/96 -0400, you wrote: > > >At 12:15 PM 7/30/96 -0700, Queen of Arangoth wrote: >> >> >>It has come to my attention that once again a plot has been sorta messed up.. > > >Just my thought...but if you play the SL in the Inn, you are satisfying your >vorueristic needs to have ppl watch your SL. If it's done in front of >me...I'm gonna Role-play my character in turn. If it's Potts...hes gonna >sit back...glare a couple of times and chuckle. However, if it's Talis, and >he sees something that is offensive, he's gonna get involved, with or >without anyones permission. If somethings happening that offends my >character, my PCs wouldn't be coming up to yours and say..."Excuse me, do >you mind if I join in the fun" He's gonna jump in kicken some butt. Blah....I don't have anything to say about alla that up there.. > >If you don't want ppl to get involved in SL's, or you want them to ask your >permission first, they should be done in private, not in the Inn. If it's >in the Inn, then anyone has the oppurtunity, and the right, to enter into >*any* SL. > Now THIS....I have a STRONG opinion on!.....I agree wholeheartedly, if it's private, keep it that way! Don't go prancing around a ***PUBLIC*** place and say "((Don't interfere))", lest you incur my wrath ::cackles insanely:: Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 18:49:55 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Angel, I have spoken my peace to a couple of people without going through the mail list, but since it keeps rearing it's ugly head here on the mail list, I feel it time to say a few words in public. I have heard it said by a few who endorse the "closed story lines" (in order to defend their arguments about closing the SLs on the mail list), that the written story lines are not the same as role playing. Angel, I think we are all well aware at this time how to RP. Just as you get tired of "This whole magic crap and God pc is screwing with the storyline.." I too get tired of the assumptions that many of us are "God pcs wanting to screw with storylines". I understand your position that you don't want your SL to be messed up but hey that's what life is about and thats what RPing is about too, good RPing anyway....We don't live in a bubble and neither do our PCs. That's what makes RPing interesting and exciting, not knowing what lurks around the corner from our actions or who will respond to our actions. I agree with Talis' mun, if you want to keep it closed circuit and just write to an audience within the mail list, then that's one thing, and I can choose to simply not read the stories if I don't want to be a 'puter potato. But when you bring it to the Inn, I, for one, am not in the Inn to be a captive audience member. I am there to RP...I *will* react to things that I find apropirate, just as the mun would react to something if she saw it, when she goes out ('cept she doesn't see as much action when she goes out :-) ) When you are in the Inn, SLs are up for grabs to venture into as one sees fit. Tell you what, if someone less experienced than yourself with RPing does something really lame, msg him/her and tell them that their "magic crap and God pc is screwing with the storyline". Treat each individual PC individually. But please, don't lump all the rest of us into the reject pile. I think the US and THEM attitude that I have witnessed in several people over the This-is-closed,-damn-it saga is alienating alot of people and beginning to annoy many more. It does wonders for a few egos, but over all, it is *not* something that will benefit the inn. Aliastra Gaia Archrelar Amon Co-Commander ~Brotherhood of Light Elder Council Member ~Mysts of Avalon ~*~ Live is too short to do everything...and too long to do nothing ~*~ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:11:16 -0400 (EDT) From: "Hudson's Petting Zoo" <[email protected]> Subject: For Windows '95 users (fwd) Here's another good one.. InsanEric ---- Eric Hudson [email protected] [email protected] - ICACCS Big Mac, Felafel, and a side of fries. -James Taylor, "Slap Leather," 1991 ---- ---------- Forwarded message ---------- Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 14:50:47 -0500 Subject: For Windows '95 users A joke, culled from the pages of "Playboy," September 1996, issue: Shortly after Bill Gates was killed in a freak accident, he found himself being sized up by Saint Peter. "Bill, this is a tough call. You've made great technological advancements with Microsoft, but you've also given us Windows '95. I think I'm going to let you choose between heaven and hell." "That sounds fair," Gates replied. "Can I have a look at hell first?" Saint Peter showed his guest a wonderland of sunny beaches, beautiful women, sumptuous food and an ideal climate. "If this is hell," Gates exclaimed, "I want to see heaven." Saint Peter led the way through the billowy clouds filled with angels playing golden harps."Hmm," Gates pondered. "This is nice, but I think I prefer hell." Two weeks later, Saint Peter went to hell to check on the billionaire. He found him shackled to a wall, surrounded by shooting flames and tormenting demons. "Saint Peter!" Gates cried. "This is awful! This is nothing like the hell I visited. What happened to that other place, the one with the beaches, the beautiful women and the delicious food?' "Oh, that," Saint Peter replied. "That was just a demo." Well, at least I laughed. Alan Girton Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 20:22:00 -0600 (MDT) From: Stef <[email protected]> Subject: Gates...Bill Gates ((This is a JPG sent in MIME format...this picture cracks me up ;D)) Attachment Converted: C:\earthlnk\eudora\Download\BILLGATE.JPG ^ ^ 0 ( / \ / \ o O O ( ___ ___ O o ( > \_ _/ < c~ ~ (@) (@) ( (__ > \_/ < __ ) ( "We're all mad here..."--Cheshire Cat ) |\ _""_/\_""___/| ( \ |_|_|_|_|_|/ ( \ _|_|_|_|/ ( ______________________________ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's friggin' "As The World Turns" meets Captain Kangaroo ;) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:34:34 -0400 (EDT) From: "Bryan Hoag (EE)" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Having deleted the message for sake pf space, the current line of letters should say a Lot about why Simon and his Cohorts have withdrawn from Arangoth entirely.. The IC vs. OOC arguements, Interference, the "God PC" Complaints.. (A problem I was working on.), and, I must admit Kaejo's protest towards being asked not to interfere... These and many other matters have made Arangoth a battleground Not for PC's, but for Clashing personalities and Ideals....There always have been and always will be ppl who do not initially understand that some permission should be asked before joining a plot. Yes, in RL, people would jump in to help something out, but, In RL, these people would Not be jumping in with knowledge of everything.. ((Andie's PC vs. Mun knowledge.)) Threatening people who ask others not to interfere shows not only a lack of respect, but a lack of integrity and maturity as well... ((Kaejo's wrath.)) If we really want to help things go smoothly, a little patience, an the ability to say "Time out, let me explain something" is highly helpful.. ((A quality Sun`Zen has shown me on many an occasion...)) Come on, People, take a few steps back, have a drink, and relax a bit.. We're all in one big play, and we have to follow a script whether we like it or not, whether we know the answers or not. Bryan, Simon's Mundane, and DM of the Phoenecian Empire Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:05:13 -0600 (MDT) From: Stef <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work..and I'm gone Cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] ~To all friends and acquaintances of the Black Dragon Inn~ (which is a darn lot of people) ;)... This is going to be difficult for me to write this...I'm not one to usually be front-line yelling about all the injustices of the world and how things "should" or "shouldn't" be (except in my own world :) )...I now face my fear of speaking my mind (which those of you who know me best know I can do quite proficiently when my dander's up), possibly against some of those who I have known in the RP world for quite awhile now....but things have just gotten to a point on here where I can no longer enjoy being around the inn..or around some of you. First of all, before I start getting brutally honest here, I will above all commend Andie on the wonderful job she did organizing this inn together. I met Andie on AOL well over a year ago and we both share the knowledge of how repressive those insufferable twits who call themselves "RDI's" can be...well..*most* of them..I happen to know a couple who are pretty nice. ;) So the concept of an inn...a community..on here was great and I know she's worked her ass off and pulled out some hair getting stuff straight and dealing with the daily BS that goes on here. It was wonderful knowing I had a place to roleplay other than AOL with some new and familiar faces...and it wouldn't be draining my bank account from month to month. Andie...you've got it set up...quit stressing yourself out over it and enjoy what you and everyone has helped create..and screw the hackers. Anyways as time goes by, especially after I returned to online after me and my husband's move this summer, a few things have *definitely* changed on here. Maybe it's not for me to be the active voice in invoking change on here...maybe it's not my place--I certainly am left feeling that way sometimes....but I *do* know what makes me leave my computer each night laughing to myself or feeling touched by a particular story I read...just basically overall feeling good. And I definitely knows what makes me feel like shit. Unfortunately, of late...I've been feeling plenty of the latter. I think a large part of it is me..maybe I am burnt out from RPing online...maybe I just need to go in a new direction with it. But I know alot of it also has to do with the things I watch, hear, and read on here as well. So I will just address a couple of things that i've seen, offer my humble point of view, make my peace and go. First of all...storylines. Man...talk about your double-edged sword. On one hand..no one likes some pc just walking in, waving their magic wand, and making all the ills of the world (or SL) right again. I mean..what's the fun in that? Where's the sturggle? The interaction? If the real world were such an easy place...I think it'd be pretty damned boring. Bryan..I am not naming you to pick on you...but since you have been the focus of this issue lately, I'll address you although I know there are *several* others out there who play similar pc's whether they want to admit it or not. Bryan...I had the pleasure of Rping with you before on AOL..and folks..despite whatever he has done or not done on here..he was a *great* character on AOL. I mean...as RedJasmyne, we played great together for a brief period of time then we drifted our own ways as many pc's tend to do. I must admit...you've changed somewhat since you've been on here..and I don't know why. Everyone visualizes their character being 'perfect'...whether in skill, power, looks, alignment,..hell..even inperfectedness. There's nothing wrong with making your pc the best that it can be...but there is a fine line between acheiving that and frankly being an overbearing god-like pc that might as well have created the world, invented the cure for cancer, and thought up sliced bread all in one day. Bryan...before you get all huffy about this, I also want to add...on the other hand...as a roleplaying community, it is ideal for everyone to help you maintain that balance..after all..that is one of our functions to each other..check and balance (i.e. "Hey...I really like your idea of kidnapping LordJoeBlow and turning him into a lizard for insulting your travestite were/vamp-sweetie" or "Listen...I think stomping your foot on the ground and blowing a trumpet out of your ass, causing the whole kingdom of Asyr to collapse, and saving the Queen."the end" is a tad too unrealistic..even for RP"). Honesty is the key people...if you can't take the contructive criticism..it's time to move on..and on the flipside..if you cannot offer *constructive* criticism (as opposed to totally flaming someone)..then you need a new pasttime. Bryan, I personally apologize if I have caused any hard feelings with you...good luck whereever you may go. On the other hand... making storylines "exclusive"...I'm afraid I both disagree and agree on various points. I have to side more with Potts...if something is being played in a public inn, as far as I'm concerned...it's open game to any and all pc's in that room. In my opinion...if you absolutely don't want someone wandering over and asking "Milady...may I be of assistance"..it's alot more time-saving just to go to a private room with your players than to msg every single person that tries to add their little part...or worse yet..ignoring them or being openly rude as I have often seen done. Do you know how it feels to be ignored? I sure do....I'm not expecting to be named "Female PC PLayer" of the year..but I feel I can do a pretty reasonable job of Rping. Which leads me to Pott's other point...it *is* pretty redundant and silly to play any pc in a public room such as the inn if you cannot naturally react to what is going on in the room...especially if there *is* 10 or so SL's going on all at once. What are we...individuals in little plastic bubbles with no contact with each other? Cardboard figurines propped in chairs and along the bar as part of the scenery for a few [players? To me...that is not roleplaying..that is merely having to stand on the sidelines and watch the play and make smalltalk with other sideliners who also so very much want to be in the script. A good roleplayed story utilizes strengths and weaknesses of many characters...not a couple of people who play multiple pc's just to fill out a single story. The "god" factor aside, there is little to no risk in having different mixes of pc's with different muns...it adds more flavor to the story and enriches it...and it is always exciting to see the twists and turns a story takes as a result of a collaboration of minds. :) To me it seems pretty hypocritical of some people to say "Please ask permission before jumping into this story" but to be guilty of doing the same thing themselves. I cannot speak for Darren...but I certainly will speak for myself. When we started the Asyr storyline, thanks to the generosity of two very talented writers, I've tried to keep the story open...it was very exciting to play...then it somewhere along the way got too systemized and "exclusive". I never did once say to someone "You can't play because you didn't ask us first"...the only thing I have done recently is request on behalf of the writers that the SL be ended as they had requested. I personally didn't mind other groups jumping into the Asyr SL as long as it maintained its integrity and I guess basically I am trusting enough to assume they will..so I think in terms of that, please try not to be so harsh on others who show an interest...beleive me..it's the sincerest form of flattery next to being imitated...it means you are playing a story well and attracting potential interest. When you kill the interest, you eventually kill the atmosphere you are trying to create. Okay...last gripe...ops. I don't want a part of them anymore..screw 'em. First of all...I don't even know why the hell I have them. Obviously I do not actively use them (mostly out of fear for being yelled at for doing so)..and even if I wanted to..I don't know how. Suzanna has been about the only person who has truly made any kind of effort to educate me on the intricities of bots and such (thanks Suz ;) ). The other night I was so pissed..I just snapped off my computer and left the room (which is rare for me to just do that to my modem and walk away). There was some jerk named Tsar trying a takeover (which he succeeded in the arena for awhile) and I was all ready to do whatever I could do to help. If being ordered "Just get out of the arena" then being totally ignored is the function of an op...then I *willingly* thumb my nose at the whole nonsense and toss it. I was not questioning those in question to be a smartass...I truly just wanted to understand..there might've been a future time and similar situation...I merely just wanted to learn how to work in such a situation. I just thought maybe I deserved a little more respect than that. Oh well...it's done with..kindly deop me thank you very much. *sigh* There..I feel a little better. Please keep in mind..this is not a flame...not a standard "air my gripe" letter...this is my goodbye..with my reasons and feelings behind it. I don't care if you understand it or not, but if you do, it is much appreciated. I have to do this...I am tired of the arrogant attitudes that are dividing us, I have been fighting with with someone whom I love dearly as a close friend..over what? Stupid ic stuff that somehow overlaps into OOC conversation. Ooh yucky..I recommend that you don't go there...it just plain hurts. I just wanted to state to this person again (and you know who you are ::winks a periwinkle eye::) that I am truly sorry for anything harsh or mean I uttered in the heat of argument...the words I often most regret, both saying and hearing, are the ones that take the longest to heal. I am not planning on leaving the IRC...fortunately I have had the good fortune to know a few of the muns behind the pc's who I like immensely. However...I am leaving the BDI as I know it and I am unsubscribing from the lists (so those of you want to respond, send it privately..I certainly won't be reading your praises and nastygrams on this list). I am pursuing an on-line DM'd campaign with a good friend in September...I may look into email RPG...and very definitely am in the process of joining SCA and doing the real thing (for those of you wondering...SCA is not like ska...it's a medieval roleplaying/reenactment kind of group with all the costumes, trades, festivities, and weapons...fun stuff). I thank those of you who I had the pleasure knowing IC as Tir`Aimee, Laeral, Rhiannonn, or Jasmyne...and those of you that never gave me the chance, I'm not even gonna justify it with a "screw you"...it just simply doesn't matter to me anymore. Best wishes and all that rot, Stephanie aka Stef (p.s.) For the two or three of you in suspense of my posted story...Rhiannonn did indeed escape and gave birth to OneStab's son...Thierry. Did she sacrifice it to the demons of the dark forces as she darkly hinted at...or provide a safe and secret keeping for it? Your hint.....Siobhanne helped deliver the child...and the child is alive and well. Ciao! >:) ^ ^ 0 ( / \ / \ o O O ( ___ ___ O o ( > \_ _/ < c~ ~ (@) (@) ( (__ > \_/ < __ ) ( "We're all mad here..."--Cheshire Cat ) |\ _""_/\_""___/| ( \ |_|_|_|_|_|/ ( \ _|_|_|_|/ ( ______________________________ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's friggin' "As The World Turns" meets Captain Kangaroo ;) Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 21:52:16 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. >First off I didn't say anyone couldn't RPG Damnit.. I'm getting real tierd >of this shit. ::blinks:: I dont recall anyone saying otherwise >I sent out an email to let people KNOW what I was talking >about, since I have emailed the same damn request over and over and over >again and alot of people dind't seem to understand. >NOR did I say ALL god pc's wanted to screw up the storyline.. I did not >generalize..i simply stated the FACTS. Those of who have come jumping into >the story etc.. happen to have been God PC's or magicians. I havent seen anyone jump into a closed SL. However, I repeat, if you have seen this happen, msg them or talk to them privately about your dislikes with them joining in on your SL. Personally, I find closed SLs to be steril and uninteresting but thats my own personal feeling >> I understand your position that you don't want your SL to be messed up >>but hey that's what life is about and thats what RPing is about too, good >>RPing anyway....We don't live in a bubble and neither do our PCs. That's >>what makes RPing interesting and exciting, not knowing what lurks around >>the corner from our actions or who will respond to our actions. >IN the email I sent there was an example I wrote..I KNOW people will >interact with the story I don't care..but when it comes to MUN vs PC >knowlege there I do care.. it takes creative RPG to get around Mun knowlege. > I agree with you here Angel, and a good RPer will only RP off of what they know to be true from what's in front of them at the time, not from what their mun knows. However, keep in mind that a PC could have also seen your strengths and weaknesses in the past and be legitimately playing off of that knowledge, not the muns knowledge. *Treat each individual PC individually*. As for interrupting a SL, if left to their own devises, the good RPers will only interrupt when the SL calls to them to be a part of it (without being told when to/when not to jump in), and will not intend to ruin your SL....and the lamers won't listen to you when you request that they not ruin the SL anyway. ::shrugs:: So just ignore them. If their responses are that bad, no one with any RPing skill is gonna pay attention to them anyway. >>I think the US and THEM attitude that I have witnessed in several >>people over the This-is-closed,-damn-it saga is alienating alot of people >>and beginning to annoy many more. It does wonders for a few egos, but over >>all, it is *not* something that will benefit the inn. >As I've stated before..it's got little to do with Roleplaying and NOTHING to >do with US and THEM but more with respect of another's ideas and >imagination.. take it for what you want though..for I see many people cannot >understand I'm making a simple request and are taking it the wrong way and >getting mad about it. This entire paragraph is where we are mainly in disagreement. It has EVERYTHING to do with roleplaying and the segregationist attitude that has been displayed is taking its toll on the mail list and the patrons of the Inn. Several people have left the mail list because of this very reason. No hard feelings intended here. Mun just couldn't keep mum any longer. :-) Aliastra Gaia Archrelar Amon Co-Commander ~Brotherhood of Light Elder Council Member ~Mysts of Avalon ~*~ Life is too short to do everything...and too long to do nothing ~*~ Date: Tue, 30 Jul 1996 22:47:11 -0700 From: Adam <[email protected]> Subject: Re: A commentary Actually, think of it as a basic Chaos theory summed up. -Adam -- "Have you talked to God recently?" "Yes, and she's black." "Do or do not, there is no try." "From Chaos comes order." "Live hard, die young, leave a good-looking corpse." Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:37:21 -0400 From: [email protected] (Dave Soltys) Subject: The Northern Plains (A dilema)... ((Within the walls of Dream's Northern Towering IceCovered Retreat)) The light cascaded through a stainglassed masterpiece catching fine particles of dust in its multicolored hues filtering into a quite elaborate room shelved with many books, housing an array of optical lenses,prisms, and finely cut crystals hanging about, and showcasing a wonderful masterpiece in its center. Upon a small raised marble gold-laden pedistal, a large apparatus of the heavens, finely detailed with many colored orbs and firy gemlike stars, crawled in an ever-changing revolving complexity of mechanical and metallic precision. The astronomical mechanical wonder of the heavens slowly laying out the courses of countless stars and planets with a large golden orb centered upon which everything was affixed and whose base rested within a small ebony glossy box which creaked and ticked with hidden mechanical secrets. A long slender, elvin hand moved with grace holding a fine feathered quill marking symbols of a dead and ancient mathimatical art upon a fine parchment. The elvin hand paused splattering ink across the neat markingss as a slender, high-cheek boned pale face of elvin form yet seemingly alien with its overbearing large marine blue eyes gazed up around the room which look very tired and frustrated with large bags under his eyes. DreamShade stared for awhile in a fuming frustration of inner conflict (who seldom revealed his true nature to any at all, hiding behind a many face and story (in the inn of course), only to feel safe within his residence) as his tired gaze stared starkly at the revolving mechanical wonder. He stuttered and grumbled staring back at the ink blot.. "WHY!? Tis its been so long an yet I can nay figure it out... WHY! WHY? WHY!" DreamShade turned back to his desk pulling forth a small flat iron strongbox lay next to his scrolls. Opening the box, a red felt interior snuggly held a large round carved stone disc which held a weaving and twisting spiral and crossing of many lines. A pattern perfectly carved in the dark, smoke colored marblelike stone with a nature that seemed to change with each glance; a fractalized infinitety of a weaving curve keeping a many secrets. "I WILL HAVE THEE YET!! YEILD TO ME.... TIS ONLY TO FIGURE WHEN!!" cursed and grumbled the slender elvin figure as he slowly traced the weaving line of the pattern until he could follow nomore. Dream looked on again in a frustrated, lost gaze. "BAA!!"... Suddenly, Dream slammed the ironbox closed and stood abruptly to face the mechanical wonder within the center of the room. "Now... tis lets see again..." ...turning to the markings on his scrolls and than back to the heavenly clockwork... "Ahh!... " ...a sleepy gaze twinkled... "Mayhaps thee alignment be than of 2 cycles of the moon and a three..." ...moved his slender elvin fingers tracing paths in the air within the model heaven... "than thee red mystery should cross the path and enter unto the gaze of the lion.... TIS a Seven heavenly alignment!" ...eyes alighted with inspiration. "Now to see!" Dream placed his hand within the black base to twist at a few hidden levers and dials as the mechanical wonder swirled round and round until.... *CLANK, CRACK, AND SNAP*... Dream's heavens collapsed before him as the moon collided with the red orb and cracked the whole of the apparatus... "EEE! AI! ACK!" shouted Dream who gabbered on in ancient curses. Standing for a silent pause with some stark blank stare at the machine with eyes now alight with an inner blue fire, he fumed from within. With a quick jolt and heave, he grabbed the mechanical contraption knocking the pedistal to the floor with a loud crash and crack and ran full-force toward the stained window. Blinding white light gave way as Dream tossed the contraption through the colored glass. Staring down out unto the white, bleak snowy ice-strewn shoreline far below, he hollared out, "BAA! NAY YEE INFERNAL CHEAP HANDIWORK!! DAMN GNOMES NAY CAN MODEL WHAT YEE DON'T UNDERSTAND!!..... OHHHH WHY!!!??... NOW TO WAIT FOR ANOTHER... AND TO WHAT END!!??" Dream turned to the cracked pedistol with an insane stare, and started pounding into it fuming within of many restless hours... "Tis nay what I get for so much work?! Why?! To give my life away in here... many months from thee realm and friends... and little contact... to fume and ponder over the PAST!!!" Suddenly, he turned back to the window and ran forth to raise a fist to the frozen ice-covered plain stretching to infinety as his eyes locked on the small emcampment afar among a low stretch of rocky hills and strange stone remains. "YEE ARE NAY GOING TO BEAT ME SO!! I WILL LEARN THY SECRETS STILL!! TO DIG AND DIG UNTIL I FIND... I KNOW WHY I AM HERE... TWAS FATE SET ME TO UNLOCK THY HIDDEN PAST!!...AND YOU WILL YEILD TO ME YET!?... I WILL HAVE WHAT ONLY I HERE IN STORY AND LEGEND!!" Frustrated with a great mental imbalance, he fell forth onto the window sill spilling tears of sleepless insanity upon the stone surface freezing to the cold wind without. Just than, a loud, mumbled gibberish of language rang though the room from beyond a doorway... "Sir Rhaellon Sir Rhael... " ((OOC, the past post and the next one or two will be a intro to some plotseeds I am trying to throw 'bout... Probably composed of more than one story in all... it will be open to alot of ideas... I have quite alot of stuff written on my sputtering imagination and just throwing up alittle... Will take any inquiry via email... right now though I will just feed this story alittle because I am looking at Angel's plot and waiting to see where that goes...)) DreamShade (aka DreamShde) Player of Shadow and Light Dreamweaver of the North ((Oh and the mun is Dave, Royal Pain in the Rear to his friends.)) "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower." -William Blake "Reality is what you make of it." - Unknown "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." -Some wise old sage Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:14:23 -0500 From: Rue <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Dave Soltys wrote: > Concerning Pott's suggestion, it is understandable that when a > storyline enters into a live public roleplay that outside characters would > interact since it would be an open situation as in real life (ANd I feel its > the spirit of the freeform environment of BDI and the old RDI...)), but also > as Angel says it would be rude for someone to just say approach the clones > of Angel and Narsissa and find that they ARE clones and stab them to death > or somethin'. This is quite annoying... I have seen this way too many times, and this has happened to me plenty of times... I often try to shift the plot I'm workin' on and use the events to my advantage... That's something I have learned to do. I always plan out the general idea (ISEA!) of the plot before I start it... But i never realize how it's going to end until I'm ready to end it. The ideas are just so vague, that I HAVE to use the events in the inn for the details. Such as with the Negaverse plot. All I started with was Zoisite. A character. I had nothing for her to do. So I directed her for the 7 crystals. But how could I relate them to the inn? How could I let people know about them? And she gained an intrested in Lysira because of the crystals in Lysira's hair (i know it's lame, but it works. And I was only there for 'bout 3 weeks.). I believe that this is not only the first time I met Sira, but that was the beginning of a major plot of mine. With the current plot. I am currently writing a book right now, and this plot is helping me do so. The original plan was for Aylaishia to be the antagonist. But after a bit of shifting, and some inspirations, Isea came into being, and Aylaishia was shifted to one of the protagonists. Tonight for example... I had to make sudden changes, rewriting a lot of it, since the fact that Aylaishia's past has been revealed to half of the inn and I didn't plan on that until another time. And the spell on Arianeira has been broken (I think), which I didn't plan on happening either. > I really hate when ppl play omniscient and figure they know > everything. It really does take the fun out of roleplays (And makes ya crave > the dice and level grap of the very structured TSR system.) When I usually > have god like characters for whatever reason, they usually never appear in > actual live rps much and seem to appear only in BIG plots. (Usually some > mentor type...) I try to play around those situations where it would ruin > roleplay fun and so try to play the character as little as live as possible, > but at times a plot might need some demigod type character to fill it out, > etc (Add to the mystery of the RPG). > That's what Aylaishia is right now. I try to avoid fights with her, and I only talk, which I enjoy a WHOLE lot with this character, because I enjoy speaking with puzzles. To this time, I can count only 2 major fights that Ayla has gotten into... Ayla vs. Deth, and Ayla vs Arianeira. And I talked to the muns and we had planned out the endings of the fights. What I tried to do, was tried to get as many people as I possibly could involved into my plot. Now I have people siding with Rue, with Ayla and with Isea. To my point. I like for RPGs to have a lot of people. When I went to the Battle Games camp out, we played a game of Rifts, and a game of AD&D. Both games had about 8, 10, 11 people in 'em... And they were SO much fun because of all of the variety in 'em! I mean, in the Rifts game we had all of these generic characters... But then a giant blue guy and a giant canary... I don't know what they are, but those were the names we called 'em. If you leave it like that, you leave out the variety... I finally got annoying to me that the only people in my Negaverse plot were Jimmie, Adam, Kevin (Mal), and I, so I started gettin' sick of it. *shrug* -- Rue http://www.io.com/~jimmie/kirsy/home.html Keep Sailor Moon alive!! SOS(Support our Sailors)!! http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/sos/ "I've come here for a purpose," he said to her. "I'm looking for someone. A little girl. Her age would be seven, maybe eight gates. She is called Rue." Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 01:16:08 -0600 From: [email protected] (OneStab) Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. My few comments. Unfortunately, I feel somewhat responsible for the "exclusionary" RP problem. The Asyri/Arangoth line was never intended to be "closed." Though somehow that idea was conveyed. Nevertheless, I did write the first "you need permission to play" letter. In this case, it was simply because *I* was under oath to protect a copywrite. This permission only applied to Asyri characters. Anyone and everyone was welcome to kick Xandur in the teeth when he came to the inn. :) I am utterly opposed to the direction the "exclusions" have taken. Potts is precisely correct, if you do not wish others involved in the line, for heaven's sake, do NOT go into the inn and play the line. Live RP is supposed to be filled with other's involvement, their characters changing and evolving lines as they develop. Otherwise, you are RPing a script. Scripts are better written here on the list. Live RP writes the script.. real time. I hear time and again how God PC's are loathed for their intervention. It is true, there are players that game on a "sitcom schedule" (ie. all problems must be stated and solved in 22 mins, leaving 8 for words from your sponsor.) However, there are ways to RP around intrusions, and, if a player in particular annoys you... that little ignore feature works great. For the record, I will not engage again in any situation that requires membership restriction in any way. Many thought me overbearing and controlling in the Asyr line. In fact, I was simply protecting the wonderful authors that allowed me to bring their story to live RP with Xandur. This responsibility I did not take lightly. The authors took a big risk bringing the line to live RP. I tried to make the line as open as possible while maintaining my word to them. Several intruiging offshoots did develop.. for those who felt "excluded" I am sorry you felt so, but those feelings are not soundly based. The line was stated as open for all current character participation on several occasions. Only new Asyri characters required an okay. That asside, I re-iterate my contempt for playing a closed line in the inn. This is billed as an Free Form Gaming area... If characters are not allowed (or need permission) to react to events happening in the inn where they are.. Your line does not belong in the Inn but a PR or the boards. If you cannot RP around interventions, perhaps your own ability (not those around you) needs honing. One last word to those wishing to intervene in any line. While it is indeed a free form area, common courtesy demands you ask before acting in a way that may alter another's line significantly. Offering aid and support IC is fine... just jumping in and saving the day is bad form. Expect to be ignored when performing a "hero from the phone booth" role. Someone went to alot of trouble to write a line starring their character(s), not yours. If the authors are decent, they have opened the door for extras and even other stars to alter the course of events.. But no one spends creativity creating IC puzzles so you can solve them with a "Ronco Hydrogen Bomb and Potato Peeler" wave of the wrist. With Respect, Darren Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:22:19 -0500 From: Rue <[email protected]> Subject: Dulcy's pic! this is on the ftp site, but since Stef's attachment with this pic worked so well... I thought it would be better on here... The gif is about 100K. This is a picture I sketched of our dear Dulcina for my Fundamentals of Drawing class. I do not know the grade, but it's one of a set of four. The original picture was a profile of Rue. Then I had to morph it into other faces. So I got Isea, Dulcina, and Taeylea all from that one picture. Enjoy! Attachment Converted: C:\earthlnk\eudora\Download\Dulcy.GIF From ???@??? Tue Jul 30 19:57:28 1996 Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:49:37 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. I have listen and read ever single post on this subject from other players...and i noticed that as far as i could tell, Angel's post mentioned nothing about who can and can not RP. My only comment on all of this is, this: Mun knowledge is that Mun knowledge. And PC knowledge is PC knowledge. If you can not tell the difference then i suggest you step back, and relearn everything about RP. Fore it makes no since to set up a storyline, rather it is closed or not in the mailing, only to have some PC meet you in the Inn, and automatically know everything about the stroyline, even though that particular PC has had no involvement in the SL in the mailing list. That is plain and simply wrong. Jumping into a SL, i think is fine in the Inn, since that is where the main plots of many SL's are finished, but not all in one session, nor in under 2 hours either. Point of example: {and i hate to bring this up} Moonbeam used MUN knowledge or what is called GOD PC powers, and immediately linked Sun`zen to Angelsin and Narisa, who have just returned from escaping from Dellila, trekking across the desert, and finally coming home...Moon, jumped Sun the moment he walked into the Inn, and challenged him to tell why is soul or whatever is linked into AngelSin and Narisa....and then tell him she wants the full truth of why these two are fakes, and why he's involved in them...and then she comes across like a Damned God threatening to RIP his mind asunder to gain the truth, and there is nothing he can do???, come on, that is pure BS...and I <Sun`zen> RPed the entire scene as if she was a loon, and he hadnt the foggest idea what she was talking about...and he bidded her good day and left....Well what did Miss GOD MoonBeam do, she turns around and Kidnaps Isis <who didnt want to become involved with the SL> and drags her off out of the Inn...trying to force Sun`zen to come and rescue her, so MoonBeam can RIP his mind asunder, and gain the truth as to why there is a fake Angelsin and Narisa, and where the real ones are.....That entire scene with that is nothing but PURE BULLSHIT!!!! and I am sorry if some of you disagree with my feelings on these...but i can not see a on how Moon can immediately know by just recently meeting Angel and Narisa that they are fakes...fine she can look at their souls...but what does a soul look like...well as i explained to Angel about the clones...they acted differently, Angel acts like Narisa, and Narisa acts like Angel...each is identical in every way to both the real ones, including all memories, up to the point just before seeing the Pyramid...they remember falling asleep and then waking up in a sandstorm that lasted for several days, which they treked thru and finally made it back to Arangoth....I am just really pissed off that almost in one entire Day a PC automatically knows everything, links Sun`zen too it all, and then turns around, and runs his name thru the mud to ever single PC in the Inn that they can see....heck there are PC's in the Inn that have never meet Sun personally, and already what to cause him pain because of Moon's actions. I am sorry if i have hurt anyones feelings by what i said, how i said it, but that is how i feel...and I will state this...Sun`zen has never used Mun knowledged about anyone in the Inn...i RP him true to his alignment, lifestyle, and his abilities, and if anyone has a problem with that, tough shit! Because if i have to go thru another totally BS shitty scene like i did today...i am gone...of course several of u will throw a party, but i dont really care. ****Also, i am tired of being an OP in a channel were i am told what to do, and when i do something i thought the OP was supposed too do..i get balled out...i am sorry...i will not name names, that is pure nonesense to do...Angel, Jimmie, Sylvia, Mickey, RUe, i thank you for the ability to be OP...but I formerely request that that Title be removed as soon as possible...i am tired of it..Thanx**** Signed: -Sun`zen(aka. Jul`Kair, aka.Sun`Dragn, aka. Sunaj) Champion of BattleFest '96 ....Long Live the BlkDragon*Inn in all its Glory. -starcry(aka. Stefhan, the mun) -Grumble(dwarf..."Hey what you looking at you Walking Talking Tree!!!") Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 05:58:22 -0400 From: "Kerrinne Lynne Kl'ramordan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Well....::blinks after reading all her mail:: I must say that there are some valid points. But I'd like it to be known (because I don't think it's just me) that I have basically ceased to RP on the internet (AKA Arangoth). I find the closed story-line thing...the mun's getting upset over a piece of e-mail, and being ignored less than fun. That's part of the reason why I started RPing...was to have fun. I will most likely be continuing my RPing on AOL for the most part. I have less problems there than I ever could here. I know that if I, personally, came across this place called RhyDin I would think it snubish and very much leaning to the "socially elite" and probably move one. So, since my characters were made taking different aspects of me...I figure they'd probably do the same. Now, as for mun knowledge and all that crud....well....I have about seven characters right now...and half are in light guilds...half are in dark guilds...and it's funny how my pc's never know any info about the other unless found out by another source. But alas, the opportunity to prove myself (which I *shouldn't* have to do) to be a "good" Role-Player (whatever that means) was never given here. I think the only reason I remain on this list is due to the fact that several of my friends and ppl who I *love* to RP with are on it. They accept me and my characters without having to prove myself...and are NOT afraid to let me get involved in their SL's. ::feels better now that she's said what she wanted...but wonders how it sounds at 6 in the morning...ugh:: ~The Nutty Mun~ Kerrinne/Keelia/Korrina/Lixand/Etc... "Life is what you make it...so make it good." http://www.avana.net/pages/personal/karrinne/ ~The House of Ivory Home Page~ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:22:54 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] (Sara) Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. ::steps up to the plate, a bat in one hand and two pennys in the other:: ::clears her throat:: Ok Folks. Here it is, my two cents. ::digs her feet into the dust, then smacks the bat against her foot several times, and hefts the stick against her shoulder:: First! I am new to RPing on the Net. ( I was on AOL for several years ) I came because several very close friends with amazing imaginations were here and asked that I join them. It has taken quite a while to adjust to the differences between AOL and the Net. They are by no means bad differences, but they are differences none the less. I've struggled with establishing my characters. I've been accused of being a "God PC" I've had a character in the Inn insult "ME" OOC through his character. I've tryed to follow the "rules" as I knew them. I've been corrected by Ops. Which is fine with me, as a newcomer... I've WANTED to know how things work here. Angel has been more than gracious answering my questions OOC through the mail and I appreciate that. But, as a newcomer to the BDI, I am discouraged with what I've seen. Both in this list, and in the Inn itself. I've never considered myself a fabulous RPer. I make mistakes. My characters make mistakes. That's how we grow. That's how we learn. As an old Rhydin-ite, I did my best to help the "newbies." Without children, the race dies. So many talented people are out there, and if they are not taught when they are curious.... we will loose them. That seems such a shame, when our world can be enriched by those who bring new and intersting perspectives to things. I suppose what I'm saying is..... have some heart for those who are new and old alike. RPing should be enjoyable. This is our play time. This is our heart. Don't let those who have brought so much joy to you, leave in anger. And don't let those who are new, get discouraged with the possibilities that they can't ever play with the "big kids." ::tosses one of the pennys in the air and swings:: Second! Storylines... Storylines..... open? closed? Geez! What a mess. The argument goes back and forth, coming full circle and then beginning again. I offer no solutions. I'm not sure there *is* a solution. However... ::flips the last penny over in her hand:: perhaps a little respect for each other would go a long way. I realize by saying that, a few of you will feel insulted and rally to aid each other in bashing me. But, I *have* seen you care for each other. I've read every letter in my mail box for the last few weeks. I know there is a close knit group here and you are all very stubborn in your own ways. That's as it should be. All I'm saying is we should respect each other and what we chose to do with our characters. If you want to close your storyline so that you can write to your hearts content and have more control over what happens... So be it. If you wish to leave your story open and let others toss their hats into the ring..... So be it. "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" ::tosses the last penny in the air and swings away:: Sara ~ The Mun/Mom~ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:01:06 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Thank you Sylv..that's all I was trying to say and explain..at least now I know someone got it and I was maybe making sense :) **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:03:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Syl <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. :::peeks in and then steps in slowly, not sure what she has to say is going to make anyone angry or what, but decides to say it nonetheless::::: I have read all 20+ letters this morning regarding storylines and plots in the inn and on this list. I would like to say that some of you are reacting without seeing Angel's point I think. Her point, and Sun`zen's....and just about anyone else's on this list and in the inn is and should be...when there is a storyline going on...it was created to achieve something. If you want to become involved in a story on the list...what is wrong with sending your contribution to the person who sent out the original story first? then they can add it to theirs or not without the story going in a direction they never intended for it to go in the first place. As far as the roleplay in the inn...it is wonderful when others jump into the plots and have fun with it...BUT (you knew that was coming didn't you?) stories on the list tell EVERYTHING...and in the INN sometimes you should not be able to know the everything that was told on the list. Confused? let me explain...using Angel's example o! ! nce more. :::Brunhilde enters the inn and sits quietly in a corner watching Dulcina:::: (now you have read on the mailing list the beginning of this story how Brunhilde makes plans to kill Dulcina) ::SirJoeBlow looks at Brunhilde and screams, "You are under arrest for plotting the murder of our good Dulcina!"::: Excuse me...but where did SirJoeBlow see Brunhilde do anything but walk into the inn and sit quietly watching Dulcina work? Do you understand and see the point that I am making? RPing and reacting to what goes on in the inn is and should be slightly different from what you have read and know from the story on the mailing list. OK carry on...now that I have completely confuzzled everyone but myself I am done :) ENJOY your day :) please drive through. ~Syl~So many characters running through my mind...so little time to play them all. Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 11:13:03 -0700 From: Andie <[email protected]> Subject: Some humor [Editor: removed joke about AOL that triggered the wiki's spam filter] Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:23:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Galliard <[email protected]> Cc: BlackDragon <[email protected]> Subject: Storylines, blah, blah, blah Hi, y'all! Not to be redundant here, but wasn't this whole closed-SL argument thing what I mentioned almost two weeks ago? (Re: A complaint from Not-Steve) I happen to notice that some of the people who jumped my case then are now arguing the exact same points I did then. [Sarcasm Mode on] Boy do *I* feel vindicated! [Sarcasm Mode off] Anyway, since I stated my views on this two weeks ago, I'll not do it here again. Just to let you know, Wolfie`/Brenlyn will not be appearing in the inn for quite some time... Consider him off to renew his ties with Gaia and search for more garou. Julie, I'm sorry to place our story with Nallie on hold, but I can't seem to find much joy in being in the inn recently. Maybe someday I'll be back. Maybe not. If anyone wants to respond to me personally, I can be reached at any of the three email addies listed below. I Haven't decided whether or not to unsubscribe to the list yet, so write me, not the list if you wish to respond. I'll enjoy getting mail that is directed to me personally for a change, as well. I get precious little of that these days. Sincerely, Chad Hastings, aka Galliard Shameless Plug: Read my X-men Fan Fiction Story entitled "Bones of Contention" at http:/gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~hawk/fanfic.html email addies: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:25:23 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re:Storylines and Sara ~the Mun/Mom~ > > >Sara ~ The Mun/Mom~ ::looks around in horror and wonders if Ana's mun is going to send her to bed early tonight...or worse yet, force her to stay up to watch reruns of The Three Stooges. Realizing that Sara is not *her* mun, she smirks:: So, Sara, got any good Stooges videos you want to show to Ana? Karen ~*~ Life is too short to do everything...and too long to do nothing ~*~ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:21:48 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] (Sara) Subject: Re:Storylines and Sara ~the Mun/Mom~ >> >>Sara ~ The Mun/Mom~ > >::looks around in horror and wonders if Ana's mun is going to send her to >bed early tonight...or worse yet, force her to stay up to watch reruns of >The Three Stooges. Realizing that Sara is not *her* mun, she smirks:: So, >Sara, got any good Stooges videos you want to show to Ana? > > > > > Karen > > > ~*~ Life is too short to do everything...and too long to do nothing ~*~ Hmmmmmm???? Why did I *know* you would respond to this? ::points down the hallway:: Go to your room young lady! ::slips her a "Stooges Do Dallas" video and grins:: I'll bring the popcorn! Oh Lynn? You can come too. ::winks:: From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: The Torture begins... Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 22:03:39 ((Rated R)) ::Angel moans as she tries to open her eyes...as she does she tries to focus through the blur that is before her. Several minutes later she manages to focus and notices she's no longer in the cell. She tries to lift her hand to touch the soreness that covers the right side of her face but can't. She looks down to see she is tied to a wooden pallat, standing straight up. "What in the nine hells?" she whispers ::He watches her from accross the room. His beady eyes soaking up the target in front of him. 'Mistress will be please when i am thru' he thinks. He walks out of the shadowed corner of the room and approaches Angel. She looks up noticing him and he grins wickedly as her eyes widen. "Now pretty lady..I wants ya to scream reeeaal loud" ::Angel glares at him trying to wriggle her way free:: "Where is my sister?!" she demands. "I havn' gotten ta her yet missy, but don't worry. I'll take Gooood care of her" he smiles wide revealing his black and yellow teeth.. He holds in his hand a large black leather whip and snaps it on the wood next to angel's arm. She jumps slightly but doesn't take her eyes off him. She tilts her chin up as if daring him to do his task. ::In a quick stroke he lifts the whip above his head and brings it down with a thundering crack. It lashes accross Angel's chest ripping into her dress and burning into her skin. The blood trickles down the verticle wound and she bites her lip. ::He brings his arm up again and repeats the blow. He continues to strike her over and over, tearing her dress to shreds as the blood runs down her skin. The entire time she doesn't speak.. She just watches him with tears rolling down her cheeks, and hatred in her eyes:: **************************************************************************** ******************** In another part of the keep: ::Narisa lays weeping in a small room..She had walked around the room several times trying to find an escape but had failed. No windows, just a single door which would not open no matter how hard she tried. She drifts off into a shallow slumber. An hour later she jolts awake by the sound of the door opening. She jumps up and backs into the wall:: ::He grins as he walks in:: "Now now lil' miss..don't make this hard on me" "Leave me alone!" She cries "Where is Alysia! I want to know what you have done to my sister!" "I've taken good care o' yer sis' don't ye worry.. now it's time ta give ye yer punishment" ::he walks slowly to her unbuckling his buckle and pulling it from his waist.. he throws it to the side of the room. He then removes his shirt and throws it aside. "Wh...at are ye doing?! Stay away!" she tries to back away further. "Shut up ye little chit..yer gonna be real still or I'll slit yer throat right now" ::her eyes widen and tears fill her eyes. She pushes herself as far back into the wall as she can:: ::He is almost to her and he reaches out to grab her:: ::She closes her eyes real tight::"Our father who art in heaven......" **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:44:29 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Back in the damn desert.. ::Angel and Narisa begin to follow the girl around the pyramid when suddenly the lights in the pyramid flicker and they are suddenly spinning. A few minutes later they both are standing in the middle of the desert.. "What the...?" Angel looks around seeing they are out in the middle of the desert again..the sun blazing down on them. "What happened? Oh godz Alysia! It was a mirage!" Narisa starts to cry "If that's so Nar, why are we still in these clothes?" Angel points to Narisa's genie type outfit. ::Narisa stops crying: "oh..now what do we do?!" "Ye come with me!!" a voice bellows behind them. ::Angel and Narisa spin around to see one very ticked off Dellila sitting on top of a horse. ::Angel thinks:: Oh thanks pyramid people for dumping us here! ::Dellila waves her hands and Angel and Narisa are encased in a strange myst. Then suddenly they both are standing in a dark damn dungeon:: ::Dellia appears before them. Now dressed in solid black::"You won't escape me this time little chit's..Ye are in MY keep now and nothing can penetrate these walls...I have just found out that that idiot Xandur got himself killed..and the Asry lost the damn war. Ye two will pay for ruining my plans!!!" ::Inside Angel sighs with relief..and joy:: "What do ye plan on doing with us Dellila?" ::Dellila walks up closer to Angel and grins:: "Send ye both to hell bitch!" with that she punches Angel , catching her jaw with her fist and knocking her to the ground. Narisa screams and Dellila turns, she puts out her arms and narisa vanishes. "Narisa!" Angel yells trying to stand back up. "Silence!!" Dellila punches Angel again knocking her against the wall. Angel glares and throws a punch of her own connecting with Dellila's mouth and then drawing blood. They both continue the fight, each getting in punches , then Dellila holds up her hands and shoots a blast of energy at Angel. Angel flies against the wall and is instantly knocked out. ::Dellila seethes as she touches her bloody lip..the blood and wound vanishing as she does so:: "This will be most pleasurable making ye two suffer" ::With that she vanishes into another part of the keep:: **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ --------------------------------------- OTHER E-MAILS NOT FROM THE MAILING LIST --------------------------------------- Date: Fri, 5 Jul 1996 22:14:13 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected] From: "D'Arque Bishop" <[email protected]> Subject: The phone number lists. Brad, At the last session, Malinda made up copies of everyone's phone number and email address. However, Shawn immediately erased it off of her computer right after she printed them. This right here is the list, but it also includes homepages, where applicable. Jeff: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] data phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] email: [email protected] homepage: http://home.earthlink.net/~chronos Lars: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] Shawn: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] Alex: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] email: [email protected] Chris: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] Michael: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] Scott: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] secondary phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] email: [email protected] homepage: http://vampire.ecnet.com/~drkbish Malinda: home phone: [redacted by Hatshepsut] email: [email protected] I hope this helps you... --Scott ============================================================================ ===== "Do you see the smile in my words, sad and evil? Sad because I am utterly alone. Evil because I am dead and yet I live. Can you hear me? Listen. A dead man visits you." -- James O'Barr, The Crow D'Arque Bishop -- [email protected] http://vampire.ecnet.com/~drkbish "For a dark man shall come unto the House of God, and the darkness shall be upon him; yea, even within him." -- from Noctropolis: Night Vision ============================================================================ ===== Date: Mon, 15 Jul 1996 11:02:20 -0700 (PDT) To: [email protected] From: Malinda Brown <[email protected]> Subject: Roleplaying Brad we are trying to have a roleplaying session at my house tomorrow night, July 16,1996. I need you to call me voice or e-mail me on your status on whether or not you can come. Lars can't make it so Jeff will be playing his character, if someone else can't make it we'll have to rescheldule for next week sometime. ---------------------------------------- Siatum of the Eternal Flower..... "What did you call me? Siatum bitch???!!!" http://home.earthlink.net/~siatum/ -------------------------------------- Date: Thu, 25 Jul 1996 10:52:48 -0400 From: [email protected] To: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] (ldymirl), [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] cc: [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected], [email protected] Subject: Spires log
Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 03:04:28 -0400 To: [email protected] From: [email protected] (Dave Soltys) Subject: PLots and such... Just wondering if your open to joining in on some interesting plot filled storyline... IF ya have read the DreamShade post... I am finally starting to post what I have written in some txt files I thought up... Just asking if that Zalandros char who is Royal Astrologer or somethin could be involved maybe... As you might notice... The plot involves a quite a bit of it... Or soon will show in other post.. Well, just dropping a letter to get a response. Nice short story ya had there in past few post. Dave aka DreamShde, Farlow, Sunflamer,Darnaok, Mindwarp,etc DreamShade (aka DreamShde) Player of Shadow and Light Dreamweaver of the North ((Oh and the mun is Dave, Royal Pain in the Rear to his friends.)) "To see a world in a grain of sand, and a heaven in a wildflower." -William Blake "Reality is what you make of it." - Unknown "Beauty is in the eye of the beholder." -Some wise old sage Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:14:23 -0500 From: Rue <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Dave Soltys wrote: > Concerning Pott's suggestion, it is understandable that when a > storyline enters into a live public roleplay that outside characters would > interact since it would be an open situation as in real life (ANd I feel its > the spirit of the freeform environment of BDI and the old RDI...)), but also > as Angel says it would be rude for someone to just say approach the clones > of Angel and Narsissa and find that they ARE clones and stab them to death > or somethin'. This is quite annoying... I have seen this way too many times, and this has happened to me plenty of times... I often try to shift the plot I'm workin' on and use the events to my advantage... That's something I have learned to do. I always plan out the general idea (ISEA!) of the plot before I start it... But i never realize how it's going to end until I'm ready to end it. The ideas are just so vague, that I HAVE to use the events in the inn for the details. Such as with the Negaverse plot. All I started with was Zoisite. A character. I had nothing for her to do. So I directed her for the 7 crystals. But how could I relate them to the inn? How could I let people know about them? And she gained an intrested in Lysira because of the crystals in Lysira's hair (i know it's lame, but it works. And I was only there for 'bout 3 weeks.). I believe that this is not only the first time I met Sira, but that was the beginning of a major plot of mine. With the current plot. I am currently writing a book right now, and this plot is helping me do so. The original plan was for Aylaishia to be the antagonist. But after a bit of shifting, and some inspirations, Isea came into being, and Aylaishia was shifted to one of the protagonists. Tonight for example... I had to make sudden changes, rewriting a lot of it, since the fact that Aylaishia's past has been revealed to half of the inn and I didn't plan on that until another time. And the spell on Arianeira has been broken (I think), which I didn't plan on happening either. > I really hate when ppl play omniscient and figure they know > everything. It really does take the fun out of roleplays (And makes ya crave > the dice and level grap of the very structured TSR system.) When I usually > have god like characters for whatever reason, they usually never appear in > actual live rps much and seem to appear only in BIG plots. (Usually some > mentor type...) I try to play around those situations where it would ruin > roleplay fun and so try to play the character as little as live as possible, > but at times a plot might need some demigod type character to fill it out, > etc (Add to the mystery of the RPG). > That's what Aylaishia is right now. I try to avoid fights with her, and I only talk, which I enjoy a WHOLE lot with this character, because I enjoy speaking with puzzles. To this time, I can count only 2 major fights that Ayla has gotten into... Ayla vs. Deth, and Ayla vs Arianeira. And I talked to the muns and we had planned out the endings of the fights. What I tried to do, was tried to get as many people as I possibly could involved into my plot. Now I have people siding with Rue, with Ayla and with Isea. To my point. I like for RPGs to have a lot of people. When I went to the Battle Games camp out, we played a game of Rifts, and a game of AD&D. Both games had about 8, 10, 11 people in 'em... And they were SO much fun because of all of the variety in 'em! I mean, in the Rifts game we had all of these generic characters... But then a giant blue guy and a giant canary... I don't know what they are, but those were the names we called 'em. If you leave it like that, you leave out the variety... I finally got annoying to me that the only people in my Negaverse plot were Jimmie, Adam, Kevin (Mal), and I, so I started gettin' sick of it. *shrug* -- Rue http://www.io.com/~jimmie/kirsy/home.html Keep Sailor Moon alive!! SOS(Support our Sailors)!! http://looney.physics.sunysb.edu/~daffy/sos/ "I've come here for a purpose," he said to her. "I'm looking for someone. A little girl. Her age would be seven, maybe eight gates. She is called Rue." Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 01:16:08 -0600 From: [email protected] (OneStab) Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. My few comments. Unfortunately, I feel somewhat responsible for the "exclusionary" RP problem. The Asyri/Arangoth line was never intended to be "closed." Though somehow that idea was conveyed. Nevertheless, I did write the first "you need permission to play" letter. In this case, it was simply because *I* was under oath to protect a copywrite. This permission only applied to Asyri characters. Anyone and everyone was welcome to kick Xandur in the teeth when he came to the inn. :) I am utterly opposed to the direction the "exclusions" have taken. Potts is precisely correct, if you do not wish others involved in the line, for heaven's sake, do NOT go into the inn and play the line. Live RP is supposed to be filled with other's involvement, their characters changing and evolving lines as they develop. Otherwise, you are RPing a script. Scripts are better written here on the list. Live RP writes the script.. real time. I hear time and again how God PC's are loathed for their intervention. It is true, there are players that game on a "sitcom schedule" (ie. all problems must be stated and solved in 22 mins, leaving 8 for words from your sponsor.) However, there are ways to RP around intrusions, and, if a player in particular annoys you... that little ignore feature works great. For the record, I will not engage again in any situation that requires membership restriction in any way. Many thought me overbearing and controlling in the Asyr line. In fact, I was simply protecting the wonderful authors that allowed me to bring their story to live RP with Xandur. This responsibility I did not take lightly. The authors took a big risk bringing the line to live RP. I tried to make the line as open as possible while maintaining my word to them. Several intruiging offshoots did develop.. for those who felt "excluded" I am sorry you felt so, but those feelings are not soundly based. The line was stated as open for all current character participation on several occasions. Only new Asyri characters required an okay. That asside, I re-iterate my contempt for playing a closed line in the inn. This is billed as an Free Form Gaming area... If characters are not allowed (or need permission) to react to events happening in the inn where they are.. Your line does not belong in the Inn but a PR or the boards. If you cannot RP around interventions, perhaps your own ability (not those around you) needs honing. One last word to those wishing to intervene in any line. While it is indeed a free form area, common courtesy demands you ask before acting in a way that may alter another's line significantly. Offering aid and support IC is fine... just jumping in and saving the day is bad form. Expect to be ignored when performing a "hero from the phone booth" role. Someone went to alot of trouble to write a line starring their character(s), not yours. If the authors are decent, they have opened the door for extras and even other stars to alter the course of events.. But no one spends creativity creating IC puzzles so you can solve them with a "Ronco Hydrogen Bomb and Potato Peeler" wave of the wrist. With Respect, Darren Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 02:22:19 -0500 From: Rue <[email protected]> Subject: Dulcy's pic! this is on the ftp site, but since Stef's attachment with this pic worked so well... I thought it would be better on here... The gif is about 100K. This is a picture I sketched of our dear Dulcina for my Fundamentals of Drawing class. I do not know the grade, but it's one of a set of four. The original picture was a profile of Rue. Then I had to morph it into other faces. So I got Isea, Dulcina, and Taeylea all from that one picture. Enjoy! Attachment Converted: C:\earthlnk\eudora\Download\Dulcy.GIF Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 00:49:37 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. I have listen and read ever single post on this subject from other players...and i noticed that as far as i could tell, Angel's post mentioned nothing about who can and can not RP. My only comment on all of this is, this: Mun knowledge is that Mun knowledge. And PC knowledge is PC knowledge. If you can not tell the difference then i suggest you step back, and relearn everything about RP. Fore it makes no since to set up a storyline, rather it is closed or not in the mailing, only to have some PC meet you in the Inn, and automatically know everything about the stroyline, even though that particular PC has had no involvement in the SL in the mailing list. That is plain and simply wrong. Jumping into a SL, i think is fine in the Inn, since that is where the main plots of many SL's are finished, but not all in one session, nor in under 2 hours either. Point of example: {and i hate to bring this up} Moonbeam used MUN knowledge or what is called GOD PC powers, and immediately linked Sun`zen to Angelsin and Narisa, who have just returned from escaping from Dellila, trekking across the desert, and finally coming home...Moon, jumped Sun the moment he walked into the Inn, and challenged him to tell why is soul or whatever is linked into AngelSin and Narisa....and then tell him she wants the full truth of why these two are fakes, and why he's involved in them...and then she comes across like a Damned God threatening to RIP his mind asunder to gain the truth, and there is nothing he can do???, come on, that is pure BS...and I <Sun`zen> RPed the entire scene as if she was a loon, and he hadnt the foggest idea what she was talking about...and he bidded her good day and left....Well what did Miss GOD MoonBeam do, she turns around and Kidnaps Isis <who didnt want to become involved with the SL> and drags her off out of the Inn...trying to force Sun`zen to come and rescue her, so MoonBeam can RIP his mind asunder, and gain the truth as to why there is a fake Angelsin and Narisa, and where the real ones are.....That entire scene with that is nothing but PURE BULLSHIT!!!! and I am sorry if some of you disagree with my feelings on these...but i can not see a on how Moon can immediately know by just recently meeting Angel and Narisa that they are fakes...fine she can look at their souls...but what does a soul look like...well as i explained to Angel about the clones...they acted differently, Angel acts like Narisa, and Narisa acts like Angel...each is identical in every way to both the real ones, including all memories, up to the point just before seeing the Pyramid...they remember falling asleep and then waking up in a sandstorm that lasted for several days, which they treked thru and finally made it back to Arangoth....I am just really pissed off that almost in one entire Day a PC automatically knows everything, links Sun`zen too it all, and then turns around, and runs his name thru the mud to ever single PC in the Inn that they can see....heck there are PC's in the Inn that have never meet Sun personally, and already what to cause him pain because of Moon's actions. I am sorry if i have hurt anyones feelings by what i said, how i said it, but that is how i feel...and I will state this...Sun`zen has never used Mun knowledged about anyone in the Inn...i RP him true to his alignment, lifestyle, and his abilities, and if anyone has a problem with that, tough shit! Because if i have to go thru another totally BS shitty scene like i did today...i am gone...of course several of u will throw a party, but i dont really care. ****Also, i am tired of being an OP in a channel were i am told what to do, and when i do something i thought the OP was supposed too do..i get balled out...i am sorry...i will not name names, that is pure nonesense to do...Angel, Jimmie, Sylvia, Mickey, RUe, i thank you for the ability to be OP...but I formerely request that that Title be removed as soon as possible...i am tired of it..Thanx**** Signed: -Sun`zen(aka. Jul`Kair, aka.Sun`Dragn, aka. Sunaj) Champion of BattleFest '96 ....Long Live the BlkDragon*Inn in all its Glory. -starcry(aka. Stefhan, the mun) -Grumble(dwarf..."Hey what you looking at you Walking Talking Tree!!!") Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 05:58:22 -0400 From: "Kerrinne Lynne Kl'ramordan" <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Well....::blinks after reading all her mail:: I must say that there are some valid points. But I'd like it to be known (because I don't think it's just me) that I have basically ceased to RP on the internet (AKA Arangoth). I find the closed story-line thing...the mun's getting upset over a piece of e-mail, and being ignored less than fun. That's part of the reason why I started RPing...was to have fun. I will most likely be continuing my RPing on AOL for the most part. I have less problems there than I ever could here. I know that if I, personally, came across this place called RhyDin I would think it snubish and very much leaning to the "socially elite" and probably move one. So, since my characters were made taking different aspects of me...I figure they'd probably do the same. Now, as for mun knowledge and all that crud....well....I have about seven characters right now...and half are in light guilds...half are in dark guilds...and it's funny how my pc's never know any info about the other unless found out by another source. But alas, the opportunity to prove myself (which I *shouldn't* have to do) to be a "good" Role-Player (whatever that means) was never given here. I think the only reason I remain on this list is due to the fact that several of my friends and ppl who I *love* to RP with are on it. They accept me and my characters without having to prove myself...and are NOT afraid to let me get involved in their SL's. ::feels better now that she's said what she wanted...but wonders how it sounds at 6 in the morning...ugh:: ~The Nutty Mun~ Kerrinne/Keelia/Korrina/Lixand/Etc... "Life is what you make it...so make it good." http://www.avana.net/pages/personal/karrinne/ ~The House of Ivory Home Page~ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 09:22:54 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] (Sara) Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. ::steps up to the plate, a bat in one hand and two pennys in the other:: ::clears her throat:: Ok Folks. Here it is, my two cents. ::digs her feet into the dust, then smacks the bat against her foot several times, and hefts the stick against her shoulder:: First! I am new to RPing on the Net. ( I was on AOL for several years ) I came because several very close friends with amazing imaginations were here and asked that I join them. It has taken quite a while to adjust to the differences between AOL and the Net. They are by no means bad differences, but they are differences none the less. I've struggled with establishing my characters. I've been accused of being a "God PC" I've had a character in the Inn insult "ME" OOC through his character. I've tryed to follow the "rules" as I knew them. I've been corrected by Ops. Which is fine with me, as a newcomer... I've WANTED to know how things work here. Angel has been more than gracious answering my questions OOC through the mail and I appreciate that. But, as a newcomer to the BDI, I am discouraged with what I've seen. Both in this list, and in the Inn itself. I've never considered myself a fabulous RPer. I make mistakes. My characters make mistakes. That's how we grow. That's how we learn. As an old Rhydin-ite, I did my best to help the "newbies." Without children, the race dies. So many talented people are out there, and if they are not taught when they are curious.... we will loose them. That seems such a shame, when our world can be enriched by those who bring new and intersting perspectives to things. I suppose what I'm saying is..... have some heart for those who are new and old alike. RPing should be enjoyable. This is our play time. This is our heart. Don't let those who have brought so much joy to you, leave in anger. And don't let those who are new, get discouraged with the possibilities that they can't ever play with the "big kids." ::tosses one of the pennys in the air and swings:: Second! Storylines... Storylines..... open? closed? Geez! What a mess. The argument goes back and forth, coming full circle and then beginning again. I offer no solutions. I'm not sure there *is* a solution. However... ::flips the last penny over in her hand:: perhaps a little respect for each other would go a long way. I realize by saying that, a few of you will feel insulted and rally to aid each other in bashing me. But, I *have* seen you care for each other. I've read every letter in my mail box for the last few weeks. I know there is a close knit group here and you are all very stubborn in your own ways. That's as it should be. All I'm saying is we should respect each other and what we chose to do with our characters. If you want to close your storyline so that you can write to your hearts content and have more control over what happens... So be it. If you wish to leave your story open and let others toss their hats into the ring..... So be it. "Let he who is without sin, cast the first stone" ::tosses the last penny in the air and swings away:: Sara ~ The Mun/Mom~ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 10:01:06 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. Thank you Sylv..that's all I was trying to say and explain..at least now I know someone got it and I was maybe making sense :) **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. ((->/~ '.|||' -_| ~~-/ , . _|| -_ ~\ ~~---l__i__i__i--~~_/ _-~-__ ~) \--______________--~~ //.-~~~-~_--~- |-------~~~~~~~~ //.-~~~--\ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:03:12 -0400 (EDT) From: Syl <[email protected]> Subject: Re: Storylines and how they work.. :::peeks in and then steps in slowly, not sure what she has to say is going to make anyone angry or what, but decides to say it nonetheless::::: I have read all 20+ letters this morning regarding storylines and plots in the inn and on this list. I would like to say that some of you are reacting without seeing Angel's point I think. Her point, and Sun`zen's....and just about anyone else's on this list and in the inn is and should be...when there is a storyline going on...it was created to achieve something. If you want to become involved in a story on the list...what is wrong with sending your contribution to the person who sent out the original story first? then they can add it to theirs or not without the story going in a direction they never intended for it to go in the first place. As far as the roleplay in the inn...it is wonderful when others jump into the plots and have fun with it...BUT (you knew that was coming didn't you?) stories on the list tell EVERYTHING...and in the INN sometimes you should not be able to know the everything that was told on the list. Confused? let me explain...using Angel's example o! ! nce more. :::Brunhilde enters the inn and sits quietly in a corner watching Dulcina:::: (now you have read on the mailing list the beginning of this story how Brunhilde makes plans to kill Dulcina) ::SirJoeBlow looks at Brunhilde and screams, "You are under arrest for plotting the murder of our good Dulcina!"::: Excuse me...but where did SirJoeBlow see Brunhilde do anything but walk into the inn and sit quietly watching Dulcina work? Do you understand and see the point that I am making? RPing and reacting to what goes on in the inn is and should be slightly different from what you have read and know from the story on the mailing list. OK carry on...now that I have completely confuzzled everyone but myself I am done :) ENJOY your day :) please drive through. ~Syl~So many characters running through my mind...so little time to play them all. Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 11:13:03 -0700 From: Andie <[email protected]> Subject: Some humor [Editor: removed joke about AOL that triggered the wiki's spam filter] Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:23:51 -0400 (EDT) From: Galliard <[email protected]> Cc: BlackDragon <[email protected]> Subject: Storylines, blah, blah, blah Hi, y'all! Not to be redundant here, but wasn't this whole closed-SL argument thing what I mentioned almost two weeks ago? (Re: A complaint from Not-Steve) I happen to notice that some of the people who jumped my case then are now arguing the exact same points I did then. [Sarcasm Mode on] Boy do *I* feel vindicated! [Sarcasm Mode off] Anyway, since I stated my views on this two weeks ago, I'll not do it here again. Just to let you know, Wolfie`/Brenlyn will not be appearing in the inn for quite some time... Consider him off to renew his ties with Gaia and search for more garou. Julie, I'm sorry to place our story with Nallie on hold, but I can't seem to find much joy in being in the inn recently. Maybe someday I'll be back. Maybe not. If anyone wants to respond to me personally, I can be reached at any of the three email addies listed below. I Haven't decided whether or not to unsubscribe to the list yet, so write me, not the list if you wish to respond. I'll enjoy getting mail that is directed to me personally for a change, as well. I get precious little of that these days. Sincerely, Chad Hastings, aka Galliard Shameless Plug: Read my X-men Fan Fiction Story entitled "Bones of Contention" at http:/gwis2.circ.gwu.edu/~hawk/fanfic.html email addies: [email protected] [email protected] [email protected] Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 12:25:23 -0700 From: [email protected] Subject: Re:Storylines and Sara ~the Mun/Mom~ > > >Sara ~ The Mun/Mom~ ::looks around in horror and wonders if Ana's mun is going to send her to bed early tonight...or worse yet, force her to stay up to watch reruns of The Three Stooges. Realizing that Sara is not *her* mun, she smirks:: So, Sara, got any good Stooges videos you want to show to Ana? Karen ~*~ Life is too short to do everything...and too long to do nothing ~*~ Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 13:21:48 -0700 (PDT) From: [email protected] (Sara) Subject: Re:Storylines and Sara ~the Mun/Mom~ >> >>Sara ~ The Mun/Mom~ > >::looks around in horror and wonders if Ana's mun is going to send her to >bed early tonight...or worse yet, force her to stay up to watch reruns of >The Three Stooges. Realizing that Sara is not *her* mun, she smirks:: So, >Sara, got any good Stooges videos you want to show to Ana? > > > > > Karen > > > ~*~ Life is too short to do everything...and too long to do nothing ~*~ Hmmmmmm???? Why did I *know* you would respond to this? ::points down the hallway:: Go to your room young lady! ::slips her a "Stooges Do Dallas" video and grins:: I'll bring the popcorn! Oh Lynn? You can come too. ::winks:: Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 22:03:39 From: [email protected] (Queen of Arangoth) Subject: The Torture begins... ((Rated R)) ::Angel moans as she tries to open her eyes...as she does she tries to focus through the blur that is before her. Several minutes later she manages to focus and notices she's no longer in the cell. She tries to lift her hand to touch the soreness that covers the right side of her face but can't. She looks down to see she is tied to a wooden pallat, standing straight up. "What in the nine hells?" she whispers ::He watches her from accross the room. His beady eyes soaking up the target in front of him. 'Mistress will be please when i am thru' he thinks. He walks out of the shadowed corner of the room and approaches Angel. She looks up noticing him and he grins wickedly as her eyes widen. "Now pretty lady..I wants ya to scream reeeaal loud" ::Angel glares at him trying to wriggle her way free:: "Where is my sister?!" she demands. "I havn' gotten ta her yet missy, but don't worry. I'll take Gooood care of her" he smiles wide revealing his black and yellow teeth.. He holds in his hand a large black leather whip and snaps it on the wood next to angel's arm. She jumps slightly but doesn't take her eyes off him. She tilts her chin up as if daring him to do his task. ::In a quick stroke he lifts the whip above his head and brings it down with a thundering crack. It lashes accross Angel's chest ripping into her dress and burning into her skin. The blood trickles down the verticle wound and she bites her lip. ::He brings his arm up again and repeats the blow. He continues to strike her over and over, tearing her dress to shreds as the blood runs down her skin. The entire time she doesn't speak.. She just watches him with tears rolling down her cheeks, and hatred in her eyes:: **************************************************************************** ******************** In another part of the keep: ::Narisa lays weeping in a small room..She had walked around the room several times trying to find an escape but had failed. No windows, just a single door which would not open no matter how hard she tried. She drifts off into a shallow slumber. An hour later she jolts awake by the sound of the door opening. She jumps up and backs into the wall:: ::He grins as he walks in:: "Now now lil' miss..don't make this hard on me" "Leave me alone!" She cries "Where is Alysia! I want to know what you have done to my sister!" "I've taken good care o' yer sis' don't ye worry.. now it's time ta give ye yer punishment" ::he walks slowly to her unbuckling his buckle and pulling it from his waist.. he throws it to the side of the room. He then removes his shirt and throws it aside. "Wh...at are ye doing?! Stay away!" she tries to back away further. "Shut up ye little chit..yer gonna be real still or I'll slit yer throat right now" ::her eyes widen and tears fill her eyes. She pushes herself as far back into the wall as she can:: ::He is almost to her and he reaches out to grab her:: ::She closes her eyes real tight::"Our father who art in heaven......" **************************************************************************** ***************************** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin aka Alysia Draconoris Muthoris Vostanoth Queen of Arangoth May our souls be blessed and our land be rich with love, peace and prosperity ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://www.bnbcomp.net/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Irc Channel #BLKDRAGON*Inn It's no longer just roleplaying..it's a community with a life of it's own! Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 15:44:29 -0700 From: Queen of Arangoth <[email protected]> Subject: Back in the damn desert.. ::Angel and Narisa begin to follow the girl around the pyramid when suddenly the lights in the pyramid flicker and they are suddenly spinning. A few minutes later they both are standing in the middle of the desert.. "What the...?" Angel looks around seeing they are out in the middle of the desert again..the sun blazing down on them. "What happened? Oh godz Alysia! It was a mirage!" Narisa starts to cry "If that's so Nar, why are we still in these clothes?" Angel points to Narisa's genie type outfit. ::Narisa stops crying: "oh..now what do we do?!" "Ye come with me!!" a voice bellows behind them. ::Angel and Narisa spin around to see one very ticked off Dellila sitting on top of a horse. ::Angel thinks:: Oh thanks pyramid people for dumping us here! ::Dellila waves her hands and Angel and Narisa are encased in a strange myst. Then suddenly they both are standing in a dark damn dungeon:: ::Dellia appears before them. Now dressed in solid black::"You won't escape me this time little chit's..Ye are in MY keep now and nothing can penetrate these walls...I have just found out that that idiot Xandur got himself killed..and the Asry lost the damn war. Ye two will pay for ruining my plans!!!" ::Inside Angel sighs with relief..and joy:: "What do ye plan on doing with us Dellila?" ::Dellila walks up closer to Angel and grins:: "Send ye both to hell bitch!" with that she punches Angel , catching her jaw with her fist and knocking her to the ground. Narisa screams and Dellila turns, she puts out her arms and narisa vanishes. "Narisa!" Angel yells trying to stand back up. "Silence!!" Dellila punches Angel again knocking her against the wall. Angel glares and throws a punch of her own connecting with Dellila's mouth and then drawing blood. They both continue the fight, each getting in punches , then Dellila holds up her hands and shoots a blast of energy at Angel. Angel flies against the wall and is instantly knocked out. ::Dellila seethes as she touches her bloody lip..the blood and wound vanishing as she does so:: "This will be most pleasurable making ye two suffer" ::With that she vanishes into another part of the keep:: **************************************************************************** ******** Her Royal Majesty AngelSin Queen of Arangoth @---}---}--------- http://www.blkdragon.com/blkdra~1/blkhome.htm Official Web Site for the #BLKDRAGON*Inn!! __----~~~~~~~~~~~------___ . . ~~//====...... __--~ ~~ -. \_|// |||\\ ~~~~~~::::... /~ ___-==_ _-~o~ \/ ||| \\ _/~~- __---~~~.==~||\=_ -_--~/_-~|- |\\ \\ _/~ _-~~ .=~ | \\-_ '-~7 /- / || \ / .~ .~ | \\ -_ / /- / || \ / / ____ / | \\ ~-_/ /|- _/ .|| \ / |~~ ~~|--~~~~--_ \ ~==-/ | \~--===~~ .\ ' ~-| /| |-~\~~ __--~~ |-~~-_/ | | ~\_ _-~ /\ / \ \__ \/~ \__ _--~ _/ | .-~~____--~-/ ~~==. 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