jjhardy
Displaced Tuluki
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Feb 5, 2013 23:00:19 GMT -5
Post by jjhardy on Feb 5, 2013 23:00:19 GMT -5
Let's get some going
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Feb 5, 2013 23:11:55 GMT -5
Post by succulentgroin on Feb 5, 2013 23:11:55 GMT -5
Dont know if anyone can tell me but, any idea why we cant get to the nilaz temple anymore?
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Feb 5, 2013 23:12:58 GMT -5
Post by jimmyhoffa on Feb 5, 2013 23:12:58 GMT -5
Dont know if anyone can tell me but, any idea why we cant get to the nilaz temple anymore? Lot of cool areas closed off lot of cool code erased tis a shame mate
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delerak
GDB Superstar
PK'ed by jcarter
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto Von Bismarck
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Post by delerak on Feb 6, 2013 1:20:06 GMT -5
I have the secret history of the world somewhere. It was written by one of the early staffers 92-93. It's basically just darksun verbatim though so not too many secrets really if you read DS campaign stuff.
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delerak
GDB Superstar
PK'ed by jcarter
"When you want to fool the world, tell the truth." - Otto Von Bismarck
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Post by delerak on Feb 6, 2013 1:21:55 GMT -5
There's a castle that halaster built for his 'magicker' pack that ran with plainsman. Not sure what the background on it was but one of the guys told me all about it. Pretty interesting and just salt in the wound at that time because I disliked halaster so much for his antics.
It was supposedly far north of the grey forest or some shit.
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bmj2
Clueless newb
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Post by bmj2 on Feb 6, 2013 8:00:39 GMT -5
Further north than the castle/tower over the cliff with the defiler NPC?
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Feb 6, 2013 14:24:04 GMT -5
Post by jcarter on Feb 6, 2013 14:24:04 GMT -5
There's a castle that halaster built for his 'magicker' pack that ran with plainsman. Not sure what the background on it was but one of the guys told me all about it. Pretty interesting and just salt in the wound at that time because I disliked halaster so much for his antics. It was supposedly far north of the grey forest or some shit. I think I know what you're talking about. Before the Tuluk flooding and all that jazz I checked it out with a Drovian. It's north of Tuluk and way far to the west in a valley that has gith iirc and NPC vines that attack. When I last saw it, it was full of Tuluki guard NPCs stationed there. How do those countless number of guards receive supplies such as water and food inside a haunted castle surrounded by deadly vegetation and gith, with no obviously clear path?
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dunebum
Clueless newb
Smells like beer and sweat
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Feb 6, 2013 16:59:25 GMT -5
Post by dunebum on Feb 6, 2013 16:59:25 GMT -5
they made it like that so people would explore it and die tragically. let's see - I think using "keyword ." in every room is an amazing way of finding hidden containers, buildings, and unseen items. in the tablelands, there is a cave with an arch in it. this arch reminds me a lot of a stargate, in that it has ten runes you can press in combinations of four, which opens a portal to another random area of the game. entering it takes half your health, and I couldn't seem to make heads or tails of what combos made portals to a fixed spot. sometimes using the same combo would take you to a different place. use at your own risk. if you summon an elemental with the 'gate' spell, you can order it to contact someone, and then psi a message to them. it's great fun to fuck with people this way, and it isn't all that harmful
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dunebum
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Feb 6, 2013 17:00:32 GMT -5
Post by dunebum on Feb 6, 2013 17:00:32 GMT -5
edit: one word. kizn. that is all.
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bmj2
Clueless newb
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Feb 6, 2013 19:15:57 GMT -5
Post by bmj2 on Feb 6, 2013 19:15:57 GMT -5
what is kizn?
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Feb 6, 2013 20:52:03 GMT -5
Post by armqwerty on Feb 6, 2013 20:52:03 GMT -5
You look down at a hulking, bloated kryl. She towers over thirty cords above the ground, glistening leathered wings wrapped around her thorax. Her abdomen, swollen and engorged, rests comfortably on the ground, the dark chitin of her shell pulsing as she respirates. A broad plate arches backwards from her upper jaw, extending well above her head to form a protective shield. She has no eyes and her mouth is comprised of a jagged conglomeration of spines, each lathered with a thick, shimmering liquid. A hulking, bloated kryl is in excellent condition.
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Feb 7, 2013 12:02:58 GMT -5
Post by jcarter on Feb 7, 2013 12:02:58 GMT -5
Can someone here tell me wtf the deal is with kryl? Like did someone just get stoned out of their mind and watch the Alien quadrilogy on blu-ray and say hey, this MUD really needs an eyeless hive-minded acid-blooded animal that uses living hosts to birth its young?
Delerak can you put up those secret history of the world docs or just C&P them into a new thread that I can sticky?
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dunebum
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Feb 7, 2013 12:07:03 GMT -5
Post by dunebum on Feb 7, 2013 12:07:03 GMT -5
something like that, I'm imagining. it's rather ridiculous for something like that to exist in the dark sun universe, so maybe they needed something that made zalanthas different? to avoid being sued over intellectual property? third reach which affects everything in a room rather than a single target. unknown on how it is obtained, other than learning from another player.
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Feb 7, 2013 12:10:02 GMT -5
Post by jcarter on Feb 7, 2013 12:10:02 GMT -5
You look down at a hulking, bloated kryl. She towers over thirty cords above the ground, glistening leathered wings wrapped around her thorax. Her abdomen, swollen and engorged, rests comfortably on the ground, the dark chitin of her shell pulsing as she respirates. A broad plate arches backwards from her upper jaw, extending well above her head to form a protective shield. She has no eyes and her mouth is comprised of a jagged conglomeration of spines, each lathered with a thick, shimmering liquid. A hulking, bloated kryl is in excellent condition. ahahaha, google image search for 'alien queen' and this turns up. +
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bmj2
Clueless newb
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Feb 7, 2013 12:16:29 GMT -5
Post by bmj2 on Feb 7, 2013 12:16:29 GMT -5
something like that, I'm imagining. it's rather ridiculous for something like that to exist in the dark sun universe, so maybe they needed something that made zalanthas different? to avoid being sued over intellectual property? third reach which affects everything in a room rather than a single target. unknown on how it is obtained, other than learning from another player. Ah, ok, thats why its familiar. We used to mess around with that as staff. I've never seen a player with it though. Except characters given it for plot devices. More for secrets, there are several fully coded/landscaped elemental planes with lots of stuff. Not sure how many of them are accessed (some of them are accessible through the Gith-rune arch), as I got confused on alot of room mechanics, but they are definitely interesting. Especially Ruk and Vivadu. Another, its mentioned in the Map Excel that is going around, but Whirans/Sorcs can use the "words" on the statues scattered around the grasslands/salt flats to teleport to those locations. And as a brief aside, alot of this information, and more, is available in-game (many players say that alot of the secrets are locked out of to general player knowledge, which is NOT true). A good majority of the information is written in player-written books, or staff-written and given to player books, some of which are in the library in Allanak. The first time I saw extensive use of the Gith-arch was with a dwarven scribe who had at least 12 of the portal combinations written down in a book that detailed much of the Elemental planes, etc.
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