Discworld MUD

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-22 12:14am

Are any of you on it playing it? I just restarted it after and abortive begining sometime ago when somebody from here mentioned it...

I play as Skadi. Look me up.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-11-22 01:07am

Echo... played for a while, stopped, and just recently started to pick it up again...

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-22 11:10am

I might pick it up again today, haven't been playing for a couple months.

Just hope my characters haven't been deleted. One of them had tons of collector cards but had to leave them all at the bottom of the Ankh

along with a ton of blorped rocks. Well at least he didn't drown.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-11-22 12:47pm

Slartibartfast wrote:I might pick it up again today, haven't been playing for a couple months.

Just hope my characters haven't been deleted. One of them had tons of collector cards but had to leave them all at the bottom of the Ankh along with a ton of blorped rocks. Well at least he didn't drown.

Rocks....? Trust me, then it was good to lose them.

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-22 01:12pm

The rocks, sure, but the cards, non.

Now I can blorp pebbles, tried to blorp a cheap necklace and died

My only complaint is that it's too easy to die instantly. Wouldn't be a problem but lives are limited.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-23 09:44pm

So do you guys want to hook up? what are y'all's char names?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-24 12:23pm

Look me up later, I *might* be online

Cornell is a wizard
Holt is a barbarian
Pilof is a thief

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-24 03:27pm

I'll keep my eyes open

when I finger holt by the way it tells me noone by that name has ever visted discworld..

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-24 04:30pm

well, anyways I have some questions. I just started another character (Merglen) and I want to keep him an adventurer. Is there a way to do the cheap advance thing like in the guild or is it all taskmastering? is there a support group for adventurers?

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-11-24 04:36pm

Jaded Masses wrote:well, anyways I have some questions. I just started another character (Merglen) and I want to keep him an adventurer. Is there a way to do the cheap advance thing like in the guild or is it all taskmastering? is there a support group for adventurers?

Talk to Boot (just ask) or Toli (Mention Echo when you talk to him) if they're still around, they'll probably be willing to help you. Otherwise just 'who teachers' and talk to one of them (I'd recomend Sined, but NEVER mention Echo to him, sort of a mistaken mis-understanding there.) Or if you want to waste EXP and lend me some, talk to me (Echo.)

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-24 04:41pm

Holt seems to have been delete for inactivity (it's a surprise the others weren't, maybe a couple weeks more and they'd be gone too... not that I haven't been considering starting 'em over

)

"Adventurer" is just a fancy word for "you're on your own". There's no advantage to being an adventurer, it basically means you stay in the basics, you get no special commands other than those available to ALL guilds, and you can only learn by TMing or by asking others to teach you (which is like 10x more xp-expensive than learning from a guild, and is not recommended unless you've exceeded your guild's max amount, which is about 300 points for primary skills). Or teaching yourself, which is the same but even more expensive.

There's no drawback at all for being in a guild, except maybe for thieves cus they have to check in periodically with their guild... and assassins cause they eventually have to become player-killers.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-24 06:59pm

Yeah, but thats why I was thinking I would do it.... I'm extremely green though so maybe I'll make him a priest....

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-24 09:50pm

God fucking damn it, my 1st character (skadi) just drowned in the god damned ankh, and I lost all of my stuff. FUCK FUCK FUCK! spose I'' make the other character a warrior...

Pcm979 · Post by **Pcm979** » 2004-11-24 09:53pm

Drowned in the Ankh? What, was he made of neutronium?

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-24 10:03pm

hell even after I droped all my stuff he sank to the bottem...

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-24 10:51pm

what happens when you are taken to jail?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-25 10:27am

I think you just wait.

Straha · Post by **Straha** » 2004-11-25 09:30pm

Slartibartfast wrote:I think you just wait.

Or have someone pick you out... it's really not that bad... Except if you've killed about 20 officers, as I did once before being caught, then you get about 2 hours of real-time lock-up that gets carried over between log-outs.

Got a bunch of Rod TMs though, so it wasn't THAT bad...

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-27 07:07pm

Okay next question, what are blorples and how do you use them?

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-28 01:29pm

Jaded Masses wrote:Okay next question, what are blorples and how do you use them?

If you're a wizard, there are two "blorping" spells you can learn: blorp rock and blorp jewelry (pretty much). The first one is relatively easy and has no dangerous effects, and "marks" a rock (the higher the skill, the smaller the rock you can blorp) so you can use it to create a portal to the place you blorped - the rock is consumed when you create the portal. The second spell is dangerous, needs a metric assload of skill to use, and is the same but with a ring, or necklace, etc. It can be used to create a portal multiple times, the jewelry gets damaged, the more expensive jewelry can be used a lot more times but it's even more dangerous when you blorp it. You can of course fix it in a jeweler so in fact it's got unlimited uses, in rare cases you can lose the jewelry, but it usually involves using very cheap ones (like copper) and using it till it breaks completely.

If you're not a wizard, you can buy blorped jewelry (for about 50 dollars a piece) and buy scrolls to cast portal on them.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-28 01:36pm

I bought a blorbed rock, can I buy a scroll to use on it? what magic skills do you need to do it?

wautd · Post by **wautd** » 2004-11-28 01:50pm

Its still on my to-do list. If I could get it worked at work I was probably already playing

Slartibartfast · Post by **Slartibartfast** » 2004-11-28 01:57pm

Jaded Masses wrote:I bought a blorbed rock, can I buy a scroll to use on it? what magic skills do you need to do it?

Don't know where you can buy scrolls, you should try player-run shops.

http://homepage.ntlworld.com/c.mcmahon4 ... ortals.htm

*shrug* I think this is normally reserved for high-level non-wizards who can spend lots of money or time TMing wizard skills.

I recommend you stick to old-fashioned walking. Or take the carriages, they're surprisingly useful.

Jaded Masses · Post by **Jaded Masses** » 2004-11-28 02:10pm

okay then, thanks.