The NannyMUD Times issue 1996 September.

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|               The NEW NannyMUD Times, Second issue. 960901

|Page  2: Editorial.
|Page  3: Interview with a Mym.
|Page  4: Your monthly Mud Horoscope
|Page  5: Confession of a bug abuser.
|Page  6: The Future - Rumours from an archwiz.
|Page  7: The unofficial Nannymud PK guide.
|Page  8: A secret peek into the Wizline.
|Page  9: Ask Madame D.
|Page 10: Aunt O's gossip column.
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 Editorial.

 Ok. Here is the second issue of The NannyMUD Times.
 After all the trouble with getting the paper started (the paper was ready
 in June, but the paperboy didnt get out to sell the papers until the the
 middle of August.) the routines of making this paper is now set. In the
 future, a new issue of this paper will be at your local paperboy the 1st
 of each month. Making a monthly paper will allow us to have more material
 in the paper, but with the risc of the texts might be a little bit old
 when it reaches you.

 I know there where troubles with the last issue, conserning linewraps and
 messy layout. In this issue i removed all the sideborders, and just keept
 the header and footer. All pages have a limit of 79chars wide page. I hope
 this will solve any linewrap problems. If you encounter any problem with
 the paper, please mail me.

 I want to take the oportunity to invite you all to the mudparty held in
 Orebro late Septeber or early October. The plans are not 100% yet, but i
 know that 20 people have declared that they will come. If you have any
 questions about this, please ask Oriole since she is the organizer of the
 mudparty. Get there, it will be loads of fun.

 I think i must explain that I am not the writer of all the pages in this
 paper. I am the responsible editor, but i do not write all pages. The pages
 i have written for this issue is: This page, the horoscope, the wizline
 capture and i am involved in the interview.

 Finally a huge THANK YOU! must go out to the persons helping me out in the
 work of making a living paper on NannyMUD. All of you who have given
 feedback on the paper, contributed with gossips and questions, contributed
 with columns and all of you who read the paper.
 I send out some personal thank you's to (in random order):
 Ryner, Brom, Hans, Nyoni, Mym, Gorgar, Leowon, Rohan, Beldin, Cathbad,
 Silencer, Roland, some anonymous contributers who know who they are and
 all the Orebro players.

 /Le'Clerk - Main editor.                                               
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 lick.me@plea.se  (yes, this IS my email adress)                       
 Jonas Sjoberg                                                         
 Pl 1412                                                               
 694 00  Hallsberg                                                     
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INTERVIEW WITH A MYM!
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Interviewers: Leclerk and Nyoni.

Mym:
Realname:            B.C Williams
Age:                 23
Born:                1974 February the 21th.
Starsign:            Pisces
Lives:               King of prussia, Pennsylvania, USA
Seconds:             Leather, Karnage, Hatemonger, Krrrnngngk
First time on Nanny: February 1994
Total time on Nanny: 52 days.




Mym says: I play from smith kline and beecham in king of prussia- a drug
          company in the states...
say King of prussia?
Mym says: king of prussia, pensylvania- it sounds alot more interesting
          that it actually is-it has a large mall and business district-
          but that is about all- though philadelphia is cool
Mym says: I started play nanny 2 or 3 years ago when i first came here upon
          an internship and I was looking for ways to become less productive
Mym smirks.
Mym says: originally I was introduced to MUDs by a friend of mine who played
          Igor- another mud in NY i think
Mym says: anyway- I originally wanted to play the Igor mud- but I was too new
          to the internet to realize I had to type "open" before the numercial
          address- I had nanny's alphabetical address so because I was stupid-
          I basically got stuck here by accident
say but which was it? 2 or 3 years ago?
Mym says: erm... lets say 2 years and 6 months...
say was Mym your first character?
Mym says: Yes- I was not a great typist and still tend to be a lousy speller
          sometimes because I try to type so fast... so "mym" seemed ideal
Mym says: taken from "Wielding a Red Sword" by Piers Anthony- about a mute
          berserker who assumes the office of Mars, god of War
say and you only play from work?
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Mym says: I started playing from work and learned to play from school once I
          returned from my internship- I attend Drexel University in
          Philadelphia.. I am a biology major
Mym says: I would play from home- but I live in the burbs and mist internet
          services I have looked at just plain suck
Mym says: besides.. when I MUD at work- its like I get paid for it
Mym grins evilly.
Mym says: and you thought big government was the stumbling block for business
          problems...
Leclerk says: you dont get in trouble if you mud at work?
Mym says: as long as I don't get caught and get my work done- my boss likes the
          job I do- I got a raise and even promise of a perminent position
say how many days at work did it take you to wiz?
Mym says: well- I was never keen on wizzing.. I enjoyed being mortal and
          obnoxious
Mym says: I just recently wizzed about 5 months agoi
say then what prompted you to wiz?
Mym says: I guess it was the lack of effect that I was making on the game...
Mym says: I kept trying to organize people here into a force of opinion to
          effect the game
Mym says: too many different styles and opinions on thinking and some people
          here just don't think at all
*Press return for more or q to end. >
Leclerk says: what will make you start playing a mortal again, seriously
          playing, i mean?
Mym says: I will play mortal again when the Damned Guild reopens... it has no
          equal...
Mym says: I also enjoy creating things too- part of my nature
Mym says: I have yet to open an area- but am still learning...
Mym says: hopefully soon...
Leclerk says: do you have a project of something you want to accomplish on
              nannymud.. a area? a quest?
Mym says: I am making a house that is long overdue to be open... my sponser
          Brom has been more than patient with me and I am extremely lucky to
          have talked him into it- I still have mail that we flamed back and
          forth to each other from earlier days of me and him not getting along
          most impolitely if you know what I mean...
Mym says: its not as if I have been sitting chatting on the wizline all the
          time- I actually do code quite a bit- I just code randomly and have
          promised to finally finish a project I start
Leclerk says: do you have some special ideas for that house?.. something you
          can reveal in advance?
Mym nods solemnly.
Mym says: sure- lets just say that I enjoy testing boundries when it comes to
          items... some items in the house are borderline bs and interesting in
          the very least- nothing disgusted me more than cardboard areas with
          shit detail and monsters
Leclerk agrees with Mym.
Mym says: I have many ideas- but my nature is rather chaotic...
say how did you get involved so much with computers and internet if you're a
    biology major?
Mym says: like I said- I was looking for ways to goof off
Mym grins evilly.
Mym says: I really don't know that much and without brom's help I still be
          sitting here drooling over the standard documents
Mym says: but- and keep this a secret- I am not really stupid- I actually can
          be quite bright sometimes
Mym grins evilly.
Mym says: but that tends to ruin my image
Leclerk says: where you a 'bright boy' in school or just a 'normal guy' ?
Mym says: well actually- I was in an accelerated program...
Mym says: many honors classes
Mym says: I never studied- just did enough to get by- I graduated with a B
          average and fragements of sanity
Mym says: for those in sweden I guess you could call me a good student-
          definately above average
Mym says: but I don't enjoy applying myself too much- I guess I
          am inheritantly lazy
say what do you want to be when you grow up?
Mym snickers.
Mym says: sane and employed... ideally with a job that I do not despise- I love
          the sciences especially biology- I am one year from my bachelor's
          degree and plan to get a job here at the company I am interning with
          and mooch off of their tuition re-embursement program- get a masters
          or most likely a MBA
Mym says: tell you one thing- I have been waiting tables for a number of years
          and I am desperate to get out of it-
Mym snickers.
Mym says: some people just should not be allowed out of their house
Mym hmms.
Mym says: my first job was when I was 14 working at a dog kennel scraping up
          shit for $3.50 an hour
You chuckle.
Mym says: now _that_ job sucked
Leclerk says: others?
Mym says: worked at restraunts a bit... a hotel {that I got fired from} summer
          camps
Leclerk says: did you do something special to get fired?
Mym cackles gleefully.
Mym says: I assaulted a vending machine
Mym says: I used to be a little unstable- much more mellow now
Mym says: anyway- you know how sometimes you stick your money in the little
          slot and it gets stuck?
Mym says: well- my boss came around the corner and found me hammering a rather
          large screwdriver into the coin slot with something resembling a
          small sledgehammer that I found in the janitor's closet..
Mym says: actually in high school I was very stress out..
Mym says: this all stems from being picked on when i was younger I guess...
Mym says: I was never horribly popular and was _constantly_ getting pushed
          around...
Mym says: I never fought back though.. I was always overburdened by fear...
Mym says: the hate and anger and humiliation kept building up until one day- I
          snapped
Mym says: I can't remember when and where- but for some reason I entertained
          the idea of having a duel personality and would wish that sometimes
          it would come out and defend me or stand up for me- it was most
          pathetic
Mym grins evilly.
Mym says: when I began not to give a shit anymore is when I got into trouble
say and you say you've changed your ways?
Mym says: ended up throwing a student teacher across a table when he was
          picking on me- I got grabbed and held down before I could go after
          him with a chair that I had picked up
Mym says: I guess you could call it a cocoon state...
Mym says: I finally emerged stable and had myself intact... and now I don't
          take crap from anyone- I still have a temper- but am much more mellow
Mym says: I am not exactly proud of what I have done- but I think that I could
          have turned out alot worse
Mym says: the MUD is just for fun- to get really cranked up over
          something that pisses you off here seems silly
say what kind of a job do you expect to have with a degree in biology?
          are you going to specialize in it more?
Mym says: I plan to use the sciences as a springboard into administration with
          an MBA... use the techincal background perhaps in sales or potential
          executive management
Mym says: I have high hopes
Leclerk says: what does MBA mean?
Mym says: uh Masters in Business Administration I think
say so what you really want to do is business?
Mym says: only problem is that I might have to cut my pony-tail to get that
          vice-president's position.. heh
Mym says: my drives are not that strong or specific- I will be happy with
          anything related to the sciences that is fruitful- i am not money
          hungary- but I don't want to be stuck being a lab rat forever
Mym says: I mean- I am working with radioactive isotopes. its only a matter of
          time before I start glowing the the dark..
say hmm. do you have any passions?
Mym says: I enjoy creative writing, poetry and other literary endeavors
Mym says: I am a computer game nut too I guess... bot my sony playstation and I
          plug in for hours when I get started with it
Mym says: and yes- BTW I do work in a research lab that involves the
          sacrifice of animals0 I don't exactly enjoy abusing animals-
          but it is a job-so please don't send me mail bombs
Mym says: I feel sort of hellish when doing it and am sure my karma sucks- but
          for the moment I am kind of stuck doing it... all part of the
          sciences I guess
say what kind of literature do you enjoy most? do you write?
Mym says: I do write
Mym says: I enjoy fantasy literature mostly- things that are fantastical and
          unbelieveable compared to the drabness of life sometimes
Mym says: HUGE Elric of Melnibone fan
Mym says: terry brooks is good too- piers anthony a few others
say what's your favorite thing about mudding?
Mym says: the fact that even though it is a game- it is more unpredictable
          interactive and real than any computer game could hope to become
*Press return for more or q to end. >
Mym says: yes- its just text and mebbe hard on the eyes
Mym says: but its _real_ and random and as close to a real life fantasy as yo
          can get- also you don't need to meet the really scary people here
Mym snickers.
say if you were running Nanny, what would you change?
Mym says: I am sure some people would not care to meet me any times soon
Mym hmms.
Mym says: good question...
Mym says: while nanny is well managed- I am afraid of the faceless admin-
          things happen around here sometimes without warning or explanation- I
          find it unsettling... and I wish I were more free to create things-
          nanny fails in that for mortals there will always be a limit of level
          19... a person who knows what they are doing and has played before
          can do this in a relatively short time- I know they are against
          superplayers and I agree with most of their reasons- but nanny seems
          to be a finite realm in this sense...
Mym says: but nanny is my home on the ridiculous internet world- I landed here
          completely by accident and don't really want to leave- and I don't
          really want to play anywhere else- so this is it- only one Mym- thank
          god
Mym says: btw- like I said "Mym" was the name of a berserker- one who goes
          insane in combat -often associated with their rage building at the
          taste of blood- I found it an ironic way of making fun of me earlier
          more undisciplained years
say what makes you different from everyone else at nanny?
Mym says: what makes me different?
Mym hmms.
Mym says: many people play 2nds here... many people play many guilds
Mym says: while I do the same- it hardly compares to the Damned Guild
Mym says: the Damned are more than just a group of idiots running around
          slaying monsters- we are a group of elite {not in how we play the
          game- but how we think}
Mym says: we are a sort of family- that transcended beyond the game- there will
          always be damned around- regardless of their being a guild...
Mym says: it is a way of life- and I am not some MUD junkie here who will not
          give up on a guild- but it is true- ask people who know

say i am Smile
say tell me what made (makes) the damned different
Mym says: Damned in my mind are this: we have honor and loyalty to ourselves
          and our brethren- nothing is more sacred and honorable than that
          relationship... dying inthe game means nothing- indeed when bored wel
          kill each other sometimes for sport- we hold ourselves above all with
          pride and dignity and power that transcends the grave- if you fuck
          with one of us- don't turn around because more than a dozen will be
          right behind you...
Leclerk says: do you actually belive that or do you just think it sound cool?
Mym says: for example- and maybe this is cheesy- if a Damned in rl was in
          trouble- and realistically accessable- I would help however I could
say isn't that the same loyalty that should exist in any good guild?
guild/gang loyalty
Mym says: the fact that we are outcasts and bastards binds us closer to each
          other...
Mym shrugs.
say outcasts and bastards?
Mym says: sometimes its hard to tell the difference between the game and rl on
          this point
Mym says: everyone in rl has certain tastes and opnions...
Mym says: everyone has a dark side that they entertain when they are alone and
          wandering the corridors of their mind...
Mym says: the damned- while we may all have different backgrounds and beliefs-
          all share the indulgence of our evil sides...
Mym says: surely you have known temptation or enjoyed an evil thought or two?
say i'm the interviewer here
Mym grins evilly.
Mym says: maybe I am a bit kooky- and I get alittle long-winded when I talk
          about damned- but I guess that the dark side of my personality freed
          me from the prison of a life of fear and humilation...
Mym says: lets say that I exercise my dark side through the damned- to keep it
          awake and sharp should I ever need its carelessness and strength
          again
Mym says: I don't attack people on the street here- I am 6 ft tall now and 180
          lbs with very little fat to me- I am sort of like a jack the pumpkin
          king with large hands and don't look very threatening- but I can take
          care of myself
say ok, unless you want to talk more about the damned, tell me what makes you
    the same as the other people that play nanny.
Mym says: I still see myself mudding in ten years and still here on nanny- as
          an elder damned bitching about the old days...
Mym says: well- I hate quests
Mym cackles gleefully.
Mym says: I kept this in mind when I started designing this house...
Mym says: hopefully I can make it into a quest- but the catch is this
Mym says: you don't explore the house for treasure or to kill monsters
Mym says: or to solve puzzles or mind wrenching crap like that
say then what's it for?
Mym says: I am making the house "breakable"- you basically go in- and have to
          break everything in this poor guy's house for qp.. a few wizards who
          have seen a room or two love it! they run in and break shit just to
          releve stress sometimes- hopefull its therputic effects will be
          availible to mortals before this century is out
Mym smiles impishly.
say that brings me to my next question, what, ultimately, do you think
    mudding in general is _for_
say stress releif? meeting people? world peace? wasting time?
Mym says: I think mudding is a distraction from rl when you get tired of
          dealing with shit
Mym says: its also fun to lose yourself for awhile
Mym says: and- I love the irony of getting paid while I goof off at work
Mym says: if I disappear from the game any time its probably cause I got caught
          and am not doing my work
Mym says: but I am not _that_ dumb
Mym says: almost- but not quite
Mym says: I do my work and do it well- I am a professional with high integrity
          and spend my free time at work mudding while I eat my lunch
Mym says: sometimes lunch runs over a bit- but I make up the hours and stay to
          get my work done
Mym says: like today for example
Mym says: I still have to play with some rat bones before I got home
say is the character you play on nanny alot like your rl character?
*Press return for more or q to end. >
Mym says: its hard not to be yourself sometimes when you are here- but I swear
          that I am not nearly as obnoxious in person as I can be here
          sometimes
Mym says: Mym I guess is alot like me- and my 2nd Leather is alot like the
          darker part of me...
Leclerk says: when your home from work at your weekends what do you do then?
Mym says: I work at a restraunt on the weekends- school is expensive...
Leclerk says: but like.. at your sparetime.. when your not working,mudding
              what do you do?
Mym says: I have a lovely gf...
Mym says: she is a rare breed and very loving tho she makes me crazy sometimes
Mym says: I guess that hold true for most relationship
Mym says: she is a rather large hobby of mine
Leclerk says: you been seeing her for long?
Mym says: 3 years...

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Mym says: for some reason I could never get into those really quick 1 night
          stand sort of deals...
Mym says: I pledged a fraternity for a short time while at school- but dumped
          it after a few female friends of mine got practically raped and
          treated like meat- its not my style- women have more to offer than
          sexual gratification and are not pieces of meat...
Leclerk says: you have any homepage?
*Press return for more or q to end. >
Mym says: no- I just got netscape- I barely understand what a homepage is...
Leclerk says: if you could choose five persons from nannymud to meet in rl..
              what five persons would that be?
Mym says: in no particular order... Brom, Beldin, Jr, Barbarella, and Nymph
Leclerk says: while you where a mortal, did you ever abuse any unknown bug
              that you might want to share?
Mym says: while I will go on the record saying "bugs are bad" Wink
Mym says: there was one or two good ones
Mym says: my favorite bug was when the bailiff went insane and started taking
          {-amount} from people- effectively _giving_ them money- I quit and
          re-entered an number of times and made quite a bit of cash that day
Leclerk says: Ok, i say a name, and you tell me what you come to think of?
Mym says: sure- word association
Leclerk says: Radagim:
Mym says: Dark Lord... worship, remember, and respect
Leclerk says: Avis:
Mym says: leper guild? what's that? Wink
Leclerk says: Celeborn:
Mym says: that guy who made lots of ascii art who got pissed when mortals
          shafted his area
Leclerk says: Mordor:
Mym says: scriptweasel ( no really- he's okay)
*Press return for more or q to end. >
Leclerk says: Mats:
Mym says: Master Coder and patient God
Leclerk says: Brom:
Mym says: A hard and fair teacher- infinite patience and alittle
          technobabblish
Leclerk says: Viper:
Mym says: some dumbshit who thinks the entire game cares if he logs off
Leclerk says: Pain:
Mym says: a mainstay for nanny's insanity recklessness and bad rock music
          preferences
You say: did you sum yourself up in two sentences for me?
Mym says: "There is a fine line between genius and insanity- I enjoy exploring
          both."
Mym says: I would best describe myself as a chameleon- adaptable to any
          environment, under any circumstance, amongst any group of people; I
          will grow and strengthen and survive.
Mym says: they are quote from my own personal internal bible
Mym says: on sale now.. "The Book of Mym"


Mym wanted us to include a poem he wrote:


                Embracing Death

        With heavy heart and soul unsaved
        I went to stroll through quiet grave
        A cemetary I did seek
        To ponder thoughts I dar'd not speak

        I neared the gates- worn frail by time
        And shrunk from their demonic rhyme
        The hinges laughed in squealing glee
        "These are the dead- come look- come see..."

        Ignoring song from maddened gate
        I pushed inside to meet dark fate
        The mist was thick; heavy and low-
        And danced about like ghostly snow

        I sought nothing- yet all the while
        I searched the tombs with careful guile
        I did not know, nor could I see
        That a winged spectre hunted me

        The moon was high on Hallow's night
        when first I spied the raven's flight
        And so I knelt in field of stone
        in earth that held gardens of bone

        "An evil omen" mumbled I
        and shrank in haste from satan's spy
        And though I hid amongst the dead
        I had been caught in midnight's web

        The raven perched on shrunken tree
        and cawed in spite and laughed at me
        It's eyes were dark- it's cloak was coal
        It's cry a song of death's cold soul

        And then he leapt to ashen earth
        and sang again with shadowed mirth
        He flexed his foot and raked the ground
        as if to test the grave's dull sound

        And raven watched with loving eye
        as death's soul answered fearful cry

        She rose in grace- a midnight sun
        and life and death did breathe as one

        She shed the earth like serpant's skin
        And rose a goddess- pale and thin
        Her eyes were black as darkest night
        her hair- a crown that stole all light

        Beautiful death had woke from sleep
        to harvest life- her crop to reap
        I met her gaze and drowned in it
        a loving tomb- a deadly pit

        I fled from death upon poor feet
        in truth I hoped my soul to keep
        but though I ran with demon's speed
        I could not lose my dark heart's need

        I reached the squealing gate at last
        the way was clear- yet else held fast
        I fought my flesh and tried to run
        but heart was caught- the hunt was done


        With eerie wails and wrenching crys
        I fought her gaze- her piercing eyes
        In final breathes I knew the cost
        my love was found- my life was lost

                                        B.C. Williams

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 Your monthly NannyMUD horoscope.

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ARIES (Mar 21 - Apr 20) Over the past month or so you have made a series of
bold choices, all of which ought, in time, to lead to a fairly major change
in your situation. You may however, now be feeling a little confused. There
have not been as many 'instant results' as you expected to see. Do you need
to do even more? Almost certainly, you do not! You have successfully ignited
the fuse that leads directly to a substantial supply of explosive material.
That fuse however, is somewhat longer than you initially imagined. A certain
process needs a little more time in order to get itself properly under way.
The sky above your sign is deceptively quiet. Just have faith in what you
have begun - and wait patiently for a few more days. .

Your lucky monster this month: Nellie's cat
Monster to beware this month:  Juggernaut
Your lucky number this month:  12
Your lucky day of this month:  the 24th

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TAURUS (Apr 21 - May 21) You have recently taken a big risk. Being a
cautious Taurean, you have done all within your power to reduce the danger
of things going wrong. Nonetheless, you have been obliged to gamble on an
unknown factor. Be careful this month. You must not let your intense desire
for re-assurance create some imaginary sign of progress. If you see a
stepping stone that looks good, examine it closely. Request a second,
unbiased opinion before putting too much weight on it. But as long as you do
remain wary, Mercury will eventually provide some form of encouraging news
that no amount of suspicious, critical investigation can devalue. .

Your lucky monster this month: Pixie
Monster to beware this month:  Knatul
Your lucky number this month:  3
Your lucky day of this month:  the 14th

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GEMINI (May 22 - June 22) Geminis are suspicious of 'easy answers'. Few
situations, in your experience, ever turn out to be as simple, when you
really get to grips with them, as they seem when viewed from a distance.
This is one reason why you tend to ask so many awkward questions. "Yes but,
what if..." is your catchphrase. You are right to be so argumentative. Far
too many of the plans that go badly adrift in this world do so because
someone, somewhere has oversimplified something. Be that as it may, you
should trust the 'obvious answer' you are beginning to see this month.
Uranus is about to provide you with a skeleton key which is capable of
unlocking several doors in quick succession. .

Your lucky monster this month: Harry
Monster to beware this month:  Kobayashi
Your lucky number this month:  6
Your lucky day of this month:  the 4th

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CANCER (Jun 23 - Jul 23) Venus and Mars remain in your sign this month,
offering you about as clear an omen as you could wish for, of imminent
success. You won't however, get what you need and deserve if you place an
artificial limit on what you allow yourself to aspire to. Why do you feel it
is unreasonable to hope for Y, ask for X or aim for Z? Are you being level
headedly 'realistic' or just deeply and unduly pessimistic? Draw up a
contingency plan by all means but do not put this into practice until you
have at least made a real, concerted effort to pursue your secret ideal. The
planets are effectively urging you now, to think the biggest, boldest and
most beautiful thoughts you dare. .

Your lucky monster this month: Bailiff
Monster to beware this month:  Merlin's Dragon
Your lucky number this month:  5
Your lucky day of this month:  the 17th

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LEO (Jul 24 - Aug 23) Jupiter's imminent link to your ruler suggests you
should put some champagne in your fridge to chill. Prepare for a celebration
- but do not pop the cork quite yet. There's just the slight matter, before
you reach your winning post, of an inescapable need to run a difficult,
demanding race. Later this month, you will need every last ounce of
concentration in order to do this. You will begin to suspect that 'all is
lost' or that you have bitten off more than you can chew. Saturn's influence
will make you feel vulnerable - even beleaguered by problems... to say
nothing of physically and mentally exhausted. But your best will prove good
enough. There WILL in the end, be every reason to bring out that bottle! .

Your lucky monster this month: Ogre
Monster to beware this month:  Zuboff
Your lucky number this month:  8
Your lucky day of this month:  the 20th

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VIRGO (Aug 24 - Sep 23) Though Mercury is about to depart your sign, the
planet that traditionally governs your sign will now move on to the part of
your chart which symbolises security; financial and material. In the process
of doing so, it will form harmonious links to Pluto, Venus and Uranus -
enabling you to set in motion a series of profitable processes. You'll
become, if not significantly better off, at least a lot less worried about
the possibility of becoming poorer. Though the Full Moon on Wednesday takes
place in your opposite sign - implying tension within a close relationship;
any temporary drama or discord will lead to a much needed, permanent
improvement in the quality of an important emotional bond. .

Your lucky monster this month: Sprite
Monster to beware this month:  Terminator
Your lucky number this month:  2
Your lucky day of this month:  the 13th

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LIBRA (Sep 24 - Oct 23) Do you feel as if something is taking a long time to
get going? Are you trying to establish a sense of momentum in an area where
all seems frustratingly static? Are you beginning to wonder if you will ever
see progress or whether the whole thing has been an over optimistic idea?
You will not, this month, receive complete confirmation that your plan is
good. You will however, see an encouraging sign that suggests as much.
Accept this with gratitude. You have spent a long time driving down a
particular road without any real way of knowing where it is leading to. Why
on earth should you stop and make a U turn now that it is beginning to tell
you that you are, at least, heading in the right general direction?

Your lucky monster this month: Madame X
Monster to beware this month:  Ant Queen
Your lucky number this month:  9
Your lucky day of this month:  the 30th

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SCORPIO (Oct 24 - Nov 22) Obnoxious though car exhaust fumes may be, they
smell very sweet to someone who has been stranded, by the side of a
deserted road, for several hours. They signal the imminent arrival of a
vehicle - and thus, at least, the chance of a ride. Look closely enough at
the 'wrong end' of anything in life and you will see something to turn up
your nose at. All factories, engines, systems (and, of course, people) have
their less than desirable 'by- products'. Under the influence of this
month's Full Moon, you have a choice. Focus on what's not so great about a
certain situation and become depressed by it... or look at what's brilliant
about it - and accept the side effect as a necessary, natural consequence.

Your lucky monster this month: St. Peter
Monster to beware this month:  Yogul
Your lucky number this month:  7
Your lucky day of this month:  the 18th

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SAGITTARIUS (Nov 23 - Dec 21) You can have the finest car in the land, with
the snazziest engine and the shiniest paintwork. You can also be the world's
best driver. Nonetheless, if your aim is to get from A to B, one thing is
always going to count for more than style, speed or skill. You must have the
ability to read a map and, indeed, you must have a map to read! The question
this month, is where do you want to go? Answer this satisfactorily and,
whether you perceive yourself to be travelling by Rolls Royce or roller
skate, you will at least know for sure what kind of route you want to take.
Jupiter's harmonious link to the Sun will then ensure that you find the best
possible option. .

Your lucky monster this month: Jennifer
Monster to beware this month:  Anubis
Your lucky number this month:  3
Your lucky day of this month:  the 27th

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CAPRICORN (Dec 22 - Jan 20) THE Sun's antagonistic link to your ruler should
be seen, this month, as a clear sign that you need to take it easy. This
however, will probably be about the last thing you feel inclined to do. Like
small children, reluctant to go to bed no matter how late it gets, we all
tend to concede tiredness when we feel just a little weary but to vigorously
deny weakness when we are on the verge of exhaustion. "I'm fine. I can
cope." will be your constantly repeated claim. Indeed you are fine and
indeed you can cope... but only if you pace yourself sensibly, remember you
are not indispensable and trust that you don't have to control everything
and everyone, all the time. .

Your lucky monster this month: Kobold
Monster to beware this month:  Beast of Nurgle
Your lucky number this month:  11
Your lucky day of this month:  the 4th

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AQUARIUS (Jan 21 - Feb 19) Stocks and shares are not the only things in this
world that can go up as well as down. Social trends change suddenly too.
Items, colours, tastes, beliefs... even individual people can be 'flavour of
the month' one moment, 'yesterday's news' the next. In a universe riddled
with uncertainty, you can either ride the roller coaster or reduce the risk
by clinging to the one thing that will never alter, no matter how
drastically or dramatically your circumstances do. The most important thing
you have in this whole wide world is your personal integrity. Trust, honour
and follow that this month and, Mercury insists, you'll make a choice no
future upheaval can ever threaten. .

Your lucky monster this month: Servant
Monster to beware this month:  Hurshag
Your lucky number this month:  9
Your lucky day of this month:  the 15th

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PISCES (Feb 20 - Mar 20) THIS month's Full Moon in Pisces puts you at the
centre of the celestial action. You'll feel, soon enough, as if the eyes of
the whole world are on you. You will not necessarily enjoy this. You may
well become conscious of imperfections within your own personality that are
being cruelly and unfairly exposed. You'll feel obliged to try your best
yet, at the same time, doubtful that your best is going to prove anywhere
near good enough. It will seem, emotionally (perhaps also financially) as
if far too much is being expected of, even demanded from you. All will be
stressful till the middle of this month, when you see clear proof that all
is going to be, not just OK, but absolutely fine.

Your lucky monster this month: Hulk
Monster to beware this month:  Spider Queen
Your lucky number this month:  4
Your lucky day of this month:  the 23th


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Confessions from a bug abuser  - A column written by Emperor Hans the dark
=============================

First of all, I would like to say that I don't advocate bug abusing. Also,
I'm not claiming to have found, or even used, all of the bugs I'm going to
talk about, I'm merely telling a good story. But all these bugs actually
existed in Nanny, a long long time ago. They have been fixed, of course,
and those caught exploiting them have been dealth with properly. And I am
by no means blaming the responsible wizards, since where there is code,
there are bugs.


o Judicators staff

This is not a very famous bug, but it still is a funny one. With Judicators
staff, you could cast a spell, I think it was some kind of fireball, for a
SP cost. However, the staff never checked if the player ran out of SP, and
I found a player running around killing monsters easily with -30000 SP....
*Press return for more or q to end. >
[Explorers] Izis leaves on an expedition to RL.


o The Knights berserk bug

This must be one of the best ones... The knights had the ability to berserk,
which meant that they could hit everyone in the room several times. Which
is fine. but then one day, a berserking knight lost his link, and when he
came back, he saw that the monsters were all dead..... The berserk was still
going while he was linkdead! So.... off to Merlins dragon, berserk, and
CTRL-] Come back half an hour later and voila, you had a nice kill on your
hands. Of course, being linkdead, you didn't take any damage.....


o Damneds freeze bug

Damned guild could hypnotize their opponents, so they wouldn't hit back for
a while. But when a lagged damnie accidentally cast two (successful) freeze-
spells on a monster in a row, and realized the monster didn't hit back, the
day was made. And the damnies had the ability to kill monsters easily for a
very long time...


o The earring refill bug

With Broms earring, you can 'refill' your SP by eating HP. In the good old
days, a slight oversight resulted in the unexpected feature that if you did
'refill -100' you would HEAL 100 HP, and there was no limit to this either.

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A new guild, part 1.                                                     
   There is a rumour that Nanny will once again have a guild based on the
   power of undeath. The dreaded moment draws near when there will once   
   again be possible to be a player - and an undead at the same time. No   
   definite date is set, of course; the lack of specific knowledge         
   increases the tension.                                                 
                                                                           
                                                                           
A new guild, part 2.                                                     
   Another rumour has ut that there will be another dark guild available   
   within the near future, a guild where the members care much for blood   
   and not much else.                                                     
                                                                           
                                                                           
A new guild, part 3.                                                     
   There appear to be rather large changes coming up on an already open   
   guild, where the members love their trees. It appears this love will be
   deepened and intensified, making the autumn a season of change and     
   challenge.                                                             
                                                                           
                                                                           
A new guild, part 4.                                                     
   It is possible that a new and un-heard of guild will see the light of   
   dawn this fall; a guild that will be for the best of the NannyMUD       
   players. The details are still not open to the public.                 
                                                                           
                                                                           
A new help system                                                         
   A weak but persistant rumour has it that there will be a new and better
   help system along the lines of VMS and GNUPLOT. It will be interactive
   and present the help in a structured way.                               

                                                                           
                                                                           
   It appears with all those goodies comming up, the autumn will be anything
   but dull. It is also expected that as the autumn semester comes into   
   full swing all over the world, there will be a stream of new players on
   NannyMUD. There will be opportunities for lots of new experiences.     

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How to PK - The unofficial Nannymud PK guide.
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This guide is splitted up into 3 parts.

Part 1 - Introduction to PK.
Part 2 - A study of PK techniques.
Part 3 - Usefull hints from various PK'ers to get you started.

This is part 1. The other parts will be published in following issues of
The Nannymud Times.



Part 1 - Introduction to PK.


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- Why PK? -
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* Why on earth should i become a PK?

Well first, you would never know what PK is like if you never tried it ok?
Why NOT pk? I mean, the game offers the possibility to form partys, you
use that possibility dont you? The game also offers the possibility to
become a PK, why not use that possibility too?

I must admit, to play the game to solve quests and kill monsters is one
thing. Questing is trying to find clues that lead to a solve of the quest.
Killing monsters is trying to gain more money than you spend. Both these
are very slow gameplays and at anytime you can leave the keyboard and do
something else. But if you are PK'ing, you would not leave your keyboard
and run away to the toilet without making sure you are 100% safe. And if
you are PK you are not 100% safe until you have left the game. You always
have to be on focus, you have to make really fast decisions, you have
to combine all your knowledge and use it in the best possible way.

If you want to meet the smartest monsters on nannymud and also the hardest
monsters on nannymud you should not go around and look for monsters like
pet or knatul you should look around for monsters like Ooops, Snuttegumma,
Tremere and Wimp. There is your challenge, everyone can kill pet. Its
harder to kill Ooops, i can tell you.

Now imagine that you become a pk'er, and imagine that you are fighting
Ooops and also imagine that you actually kill him. I dont think you could
possibly imagine the feeling you get from killing another player. But if
you try to imagine how it might be like, to know that you have killed the
best PK'er on nannymud. Then you might understand one of the thrills of PK.

PK is speed, its action, its thrill!


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- Things to consider before going PK. -
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* Things that might be good to know before removing the angel.

It is prefered if you know of atleast 3 BS weapons, and know about some
of the special items around. Wand of lightning, mirror shield and such
special items. You dont need to know about them all, since you will
definitely learn it the hard way no matter what.

It is a MUST that you know of as many healing places as possible, since
healing is always needed when loosing hitpoints, and someone once told
me that you are most likely to if you are into PK. Try to find heal
places that doesnt make you intoxicated, satiated or not thirsty, such
places are always better to use since you have a wider choise of other
heal places after using such healing. I dont think i need to say that
healing that takes time to use is almost useless. The most usefull healing
is ofcourse the portable one, if you carry such healing, try to hide that
healing away from your inventory. If your opponent sees the healing, then
the suprice element is all gone.

You need to be able to learn from everything you see and experience while
playerkilling. The worst playerkiller is the one who falls for the same
stunt over and over again. If a opponent use a technique on you, learn to
master it yourself and your bodycount will rise. Same, if you notice that
something you do is totally disasterous for you, if it almost kills you
everytime you do it. Try to find new ways of doing it. Kinda basic actually.

PK does cost money, it might take you some time until your killings gives
you more money than it cost. It might never do, you need to find ways to
gain money with your PK'er, otherwize you have to use a other non PK char
to support your PK with money.

You do need to have good knowledge about the PK'ers around, who is a PK and
who is not. Who is your enemy and who is not. If you dont, you will
experience a lot of jumpings and getting stabbed in your back.

You need to have knowledge of all the diffrent guilds and what their powers
are and what their weaknesses are, since most opponents will use their
guildpowers against you, you have to be prepared. This does not mean that
you need a highlevel char in every guild, but that you have knowledge of
their powers. That kind of information is really easy to find out by asking
others.

SPEED! This is a huge must in PK, if you think you are a slow writer. Dont
even think about removing your angel. You have to be able to type every
command without messing it up. One single typo and you are dead.


* Things that you do not need before you remove your angel.


You do not need to have 100% knowledge of every room, every npc in the
game. Nor do you need to know about all weapons and special items in the
game. The more you know, the better. BUT you cant know it all, you will
learn more and more while your at it.

You dont need to have 100 friends all over the game to help you out while
you are out on hunt. You got to trust yourself and noone else, its your own
skill that will increase if you use it, if you use others skill you will
never be able to PK on your own and therefore you are bound to become a
noname PK'er.

20 days on the mud. The time you have been playing have nothing to do with
good PK'er. You might be a really great partyplayer or a really good quest-
solver, you might still suck at PK. PK and normal mudplay is two totally
diffrent things.

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A secret peek into the most hidden secret in Nannymud:
What does the wizards talk about on the wizline?

I thought that i make a small log of a piece of the wizline to show our
readers without the possibility to read it what it can look like.
Note: All wizards participating in the discussion where asked i could
publish their words in the paper. Also, this discussion is maby not a good
example of what the wizline mostly looks like, but its one part of it. Cool

Short prestory: Silencer wrote a note on the knights chatboard, that he
didnt want notes about sports (soccer, icehockey or olympics) on that board,
because it is not very mudrelated. Roland logs on and notice this, and gets
very upset about it. Theres the start of this 'quarrel'.

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Roland shouts: Silencer is a giant twink!
Wiz Silencer raises an eyebrow at Roland.
Wiz Roland: removing notes from a chatboard cos they deal with sports, what a
    fucking pathetic whining twink you are...you make
    solanthus/bonnetane/augustus seem sane....get a clue/life
Wiz Silencer goes 'ah'.
Wiz Silencer: not your business, kid
Wiz Leclerk: heh.. actually, i can agree with you to some extent Roland...
Wiz Beldin: shrug, it's a chatboard, who cares about it?
Wiz Roland: nod, twinks like silencer are easy to spot
Wiz Silencer: if you want to read that stuff , get your own board
Wiz Roland: why do you care if knights discuss soccer on their chatboard?
    trying to reduce knight membership by being the dick that you are?
Wiz Silencer snickers.
Wiz Beldin: what this Modern Boardsystem needs is a way to move an entire
    thread to another board.
Wiz Beldin: And that's all I'll say on it.  Mortal.
Wiz Roland: no, what this world needs is a rl rm *.twink
Wiz Silencer: can't do that, not even on the board rohan is coding
Wiz Beldin nods solemnly at Silencer.
Wiz Beldin: I think I'll port citadel to lpmud.
Wiz Beldin snickers.
Wiz Silencer: it would only delete you, roland
Wiz Roland: ya, so what are the allowed chat topics sposed to be?
Wiz Beldin left the game.
Wiz Pain pats Silencer and Roland on the head.
Wiz You listen to Silencer and Roland.
Wiz Roland: how about a 'silencer is a fucking twink' thread?
Wiz Silencer laughs at you.
Wiz Silencer: go ahead
Wiz Silencer: i won't even remove that
Wiz Roland: or 'gee, i wish celeborn didnt put idiots in charge of what was a
    fun guild' thread
Wiz Silencer: i won't stop you, cause you're too moronic to come up with any
    decent arguments
Wiz Roland: come up with a decent argument to autocratically dictate what
    players can discuss on a fucking chatboard, you heap of dung
Wiz Pain drools on Silencer.
Wiz Pain drools on you.
Wiz Pain stares at himself.
Wiz Silencer: 1) i can do anything i like there, 2) it's not mud-related
Wiz Schlek puts a bib in Pain.
Wiz Pain thanks Schlek.
Wiz Roland: all those notes did is spam me, i didnt read em, but what the
    fuck gives youthe right to be a fucking fascist?
Wiz Schlek: that should help with keeping your clothes dry Smile
Wiz Roland: aha, you must be short and have a napoleon complex
Wiz Pain: He's an Admin wannabe
Wiz Silencer: you don't even know the concept of fascism
Wiz Roland: no, hes an asshole
Wiz Silencer cackles gleefully.
Wiz Pain: What's the difference? Wink
Wiz Schlek nods solemnly at Pain.
Wiz Roland: one of the tenets of fascism is thought control, which is what
    you want to do
Wiz Roland: you fucking idiot
Wiz Silencer: all you can do is curse, shows what a lowlife you are
Wiz Silencer: intelligence absolutely 0
Wiz Roland: listen goatfucker, i curse cos you deserve it
Wiz Roland: that, and fuckwits like you cant or wont listen to reason anyuway
Wiz Silencer: it's not your business anyway, get off it
Wiz Roland: i just made it my fucking business you fucking dutch son of a
    cheap whore
Wiz Leclerk: heh.. silencer if i was to prove myself of not beening a
    fascist.. i would not use the word 'lowlife' to describe your fellow
    humans.. Cool
Wiz Silencer: with you nobody can reason, talking to wall makes more sense
Wiz Silencer: can't find any other word to describe him
Wiz Pain laughs at you.
Wiz Roland: he cant help it, hes hung like a mouse and pissed off at the
    world
Wiz Silencer laughs.
Wiz Roland: any stupid fuck who tries to censor the speech of others needs a
    battery acid enema
Wiz Silencer: like i said, get your own board, stop reading ours
Wiz Roland: thats not an argument, molester of sheep
Wiz Silencer: the "I'm Roland and i think i know it all" board
Wiz Roland: neither is 'i can do whatever i want' tho im sure you use that to
    explain your habit of inserting vegetables up your ass
Wiz Silencer: note 1 "how to be rude"
Wiz Roland: cmon, one argument for censorship that doesnt just refer back to
    your being a totalitarian cum guzzling fool
Wiz Silencer: roland, your nothing but a joke
Wiz Roland: thats not an argument either....
Wiz Silencer: like i said, it's not mud-related
Wiz Roland: inbred donkey licker
Wiz Pain: thats not an argument, roland.
Wiz Roland: its a fucking chatboard!
Wiz Roland: does everything on this mud have to be mud related??
Wiz Pain: By very definition anything on the mud is mud related.
Wiz Silencer: i'll log this and post it on the board Smile
Wiz Silencer: that'll make a nice topic
Wiz Schlek: if so pain then if i ask you to come over its mud-related??
Wiz Pain: Yesz.
Wiz Schlek: bah

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Well, this continues over and over for another 10 screens. Now, isnt that a
nice priveilige to be a wizard and be able to chat on the wizline. Cool

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Madame D's question column.
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Q: Oh wisest and most esteemed Madame D, I once encountered a player who had
   the most uncomfortable symptoms of mud-syphilis. How is this contracted?
   Is it curable? And how may one avoid such an affliction?
   A rather high level druid.

A: Dear A rather high level druid. MUD-STDs you can get in a few ways.
   Either an evil wiz can give it to you,or you get it in different sexual
   encounters during your mudlife. It can be cured at the NannyMUD
   apothecary's small shop, where you also can buy other useful stuff. If
   you don't want STDs, just avoid mudsex.

Q: Deepest bows for you, O noble Madame D. I, a puny Simyarin, want to know
   how many rooms there are in Nanny.
   Anonymous.

A: According to the NannyMUD homepages the mud has over 21000 locations.
   This changes constantly, though, as new ares are added and old ones
   removed.

Q: Is it true wiz's with XXL written on their zippers feel they have
   something to prove?
   Anynomous druid.

A: As the NannyMUD Times tries to be a politically independet paper we will
   not include any questions like this one. So you can stop sending in
   questions like:
   How fat is Leclerk?
   How stupid is Leclerk?
   How colour blind is Leclerk?

Q: Dear Madame D. I am a high level druid, and I want the answers on two
   questions I have.
   1) where can i get free healing(apart from monks)?
   2) how to earn money fast?(like about 100k coins in 5-6 hours)

A: 1) Abuse bugs you find. This will probably lead to demotion. Just look at
   Erebus and Azreile...
   2) Either kill many monsters very fast (recommended) or abuse bugs (see
   above).

Q: I am a Simyarin, and I and someone else have tried and tried to have mud
   intercourse, but always failed. What do we do wrong?

A: To be able to netsex you usually want an emote room. MUdsexing with the
   ordinary feelings might just get a little too limited. Emote rooms are
   places where mortal are able to use the emote command that is available
   to wizards. Emote rooms can be found at various places in the mud, the
   most known would probably the bridal suite.


Please keep sending in your questions to me, when you have a copy of the
NannyMUD Times just type 'ask_madame_d <question>'.

Hugs Madame D.

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Aunt O's gossip column.
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Demotions:
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I guess you already heard all about Augustus demotion, but when we peeked
around we found that he was only demoted for 2 weeks. But he got so upset
he decided to quit the game forever.

We also heard that Gurney was demoted for the same reason as Augustus,
he was teleporting players from areas to his workroom and then let them of
at the church. Next time you want a wizard demoted, just start doing a
quest then just talk with them and offer some 'services' in their workroom.
Then you just wait until the log reading Bive finds out about it, and the
wizard is no more.

We heard that Kerish got demoted too, he was using his Nannymud file
account as a ftpsite for his own files. Someone heard him mumble something
about "explode head" when he got demoted.

Someone told us that the wizard Meadow got punished when he walked around
and looked up values of diffrent monsters and told his fellow players.

We got the sad news that the once so creative young lady Nymph got punished
for the wizcheating she have been doing for the last 12 months. When
reviewed it shown that if she would have gotten a fair punishment it would
have been to get demoted to level -240. Her mudsex with administrators not
considered in calculation.


Banished players:
-----------------
Gorgar got banished from our world when he tried to play two players at
once. We heard that he was all disapointed for this banishment, even though
he confessed that he was multiplaying and that he know it was illegal. He
asked everyone in the mud to tell Brom that he is a nice guy and should be
given a second chance. Do we have to mention that he failed?

The both buddies Erebus and Azreile found a really nice way to get
unlimited portable healing. Well that sounds just great, too bad the Arches
*Press return for more or q to end. >
didnt agree.

We dont really know the reason for why Slutbunny got banished, but someone
told us that she didnt really live up to her name and then someone got
upset and decided to banish her. This is not verified though.


Gossip:
-------
We heard that Weasel abused a bug in Simyarin to reach the highest grade in
just one day, Taren changed the code but for some unknown reason Weasel did
not get punished. We dont know if Weasel is good at mudsex tho.

We got the sad news that Genesis the once so proud rank 21 Khorne was
playerkilled by a evil druid.

Neill got into a quarrel with the knights and decided to leave his cloak.

Someone told us:
"Remo is so stupid, he'll do anything you tell him"
Well, what are you complaining about then?

Someone told us:
"Lonewolf Isn't actually a real person, but simply a lake trout."
We are sad to break your illusion, but everyone that have seen him knows
that even though he looks really much like a lake trout, he is actually
a real person.


Marriages:
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Sambar     was married to Seldarine by Dwinbar    Thu Aug  1 20:45:30 1996
Casandra   was married to Satari    by Leclerk    Thu Aug  1 21:41:49 1996
Kherec     was married to Eleanor   by Titleist   Sat Aug  3 20:37:17 1996
Maroc      was married to Firebird  by Vulcan     Sat Aug  3 23:00:45 1996
Misery     was married to Seego     by Neill      Sun Aug  4 18:35:36 1996
Jane       was married to Tremere   by Gore       Wed Aug  7 15:57:40 1996
Jezebel    was married to Jequirity by Leowon     Sun Aug 11 03:27:33 1996
Spud       was married to Godiva    by Astrodeath Sun Aug 11 06:58:49 1996
Hyzenthlay was married to Grover    by Beldin     Thu Aug 15 09:23:15 1996
Malus      was married to Shiva     by Mordor     Sun Aug 18 11:59:05 1996
Beldin     was married to Slutbunny by Beldin     Mon Aug 19 01:26:15 1996
Isobel     was married to Isobel    by Isobel     Tue Aug 20 22:29:45 1996


GuildNews:
----------
Latest news on the upcoming new druid guild:
Cathbad, the guild head, says: "Testplaying showed a lot of weaknesses
in the new guild which will have to be ironed out
before it can function for all players."
The new guild will hopefully be up before the end of the year, but the old
guild is still up and running until the new one is ready.

The vampire guild will come up sometime this autumn, hopefully without
the bugs that were found during testplaying.
Leowon is looking for people willing to donate blood for a short but nice
mission. If anything happens he promises full compensation for the relatives.

We where asked by the main recoder of the damned guild, Beldin to present
this text to all our readers.
"As you may know, we are under recode.  Try to enter the old guildhall
to see information about it, and wait for a note on the Adventurers' Guild
about the opening. This is the only progress report we are willing to give."

We must add that it is not out of sarcasm that we want to mention that when
the recode started almost one year ago the coders told everyone that it
would take maximum 3 months to accomplish. We where told by someone to check
the WWW page for the damneds homepage, and what did we find? The page that
was written in April tells us that the testplay will start in 2 weeks.
Note, we are not trying to make fun out of the damned coders ability to
judge their own ability.


Remember to keep us updated with all the gossip. When you have a copy of
the paper, just type 'aunt_o_gossip <gossip>' to update us.

Best Wishes, Aunt O and friends.

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