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The requisite pklog to keep the masses happy.
Shriek grabs some spores from a leather pouch and hurls them at you!
** HP: 117/202 SP: 89/202
** Shriek is in very good shape.
> Brutal arrives.
** HP: 105/202 SP: 89/202
** Shriek is in very good shape.
Shriek slashed you in the chest.
Shriek hiccups.
** HP: 105/202 SP: 64/202
** Shriek is in very good shape.
Your falcon flies from your arm and starts pecking and clawing
at Shriek's eyes!
> > > Asmira leaves west.
> > > Shriek grabs some spores from a leather pouch and hurls them at you!
** HP: 101/202 SP: 64/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
> You slashed Shriek in the chest.
** HP: 92/202 SP: 64/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
Shriek slashed you.
** HP: 92/202 SP: 39/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
Your falcon flies toward Shriek, but misses her totally!
> > > Hump-backed bridge <w e>.
Your hunting falcon.
A stick.
A leather purse.
An old caravan is standing here. Its door is ajar.
A road goes south from here.
It looks possible to climb down to the river.
> ** HP: 78/202 SP: 39/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
Shriek slashed you in the chest.
Village green <w e n s>.
Your hunting falcon.
Brutal the Master of Flowers (GoingHome).
Mhoram Simyarin (good).
Shriek the high druid (good).
Golgol the lesser warrior of Khorne (neutral).
Tirips Minar-im-Simyar (good).
A dusty statue of Scratches.
A dead oak tree.
A lane leads south from here.
> > > Shriek grabs some spores from a leather pouch and hurls them at you!
** HP: 51/202 SP: 39/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
> > > ** HP: 46/202 SP: 39/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
Shriek slashed you.
** HP: 46/202 SP: 14/202
** Shriek is in fair shape.
Your falcon rips and tears at Shriek's chest.
> > > ** HP: 66/202 SP: 14/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
** HP: 66/202 SP: 34/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
The water tastes very refreshing.
> ** HP: 86/202 SP: 34/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
** HP: 86/202 SP: 54/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
The water tastes very refreshing.
> ** HP: 106/202 SP: 54/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
** HP: 106/202 SP: 74/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
The water tastes very refreshing.
> Shriek grabs some spores from a leather pouch and hurls them at you!
** HP: 92/202 SP: 74/202
** Shriek is in fairly poor shape.
> > > You slashed Shriek across the face.
Shriek missed you.
** HP: 92/202 SP: 49/202
** Shriek is in poor shape.
Your falcon sinks its claws into Shriek's shoulder and
bites chunks of meat from her neck!
> > [-Assembly-] Rindolfin: I've lost my invisible medal.
> Feline arrives.
> > > Feline leaves east.
> > > You slashed Shriek.
Shriek missed you.
** HP: 92/202 SP: 24/202
** Shriek is in very weak shape.
Your falcon tears Shriek's throat to shreds!
Shriek died.
Your falcon rips and tears at Shriek's chest.
Shriek missed you.
some mist blows north.
Golgol puts a gloves of guidance, 7054 coins and a ring of san in a backpack.
Golgol takes 7054 coins from a backpack.
Tirips laughs.
What?
> ** HP: 112/202 SP: 24/202
** HP: 112/202 SP: 44/202
The water tastes very refreshing.
> ** HP: 132/202 SP: 44/202
** HP: 132/202 SP: 64/202
The water tastes very refreshing.
> Betty arrives.
Asmira arrives.
Asmira leaves south.
You gulp down the potion and you feel ill.
** HP: 104/202 SP: 64/20
** HP: 104/202 SP: 37/20
> Your falcon can't seem to find Shriek here.
> Your falcon can't seem to find Shriek here.
> Your falcon can't seem to find Shriek here.
> Your falcon can't seem to find Shriek here.
> Shriek arrives.
You slashed Shriek.
** HP: 105/202 SP: 38/20
** Shriek is in deplorable shape.
Shriek takes a Sword of Infinity, a small shield, a backpack, a bottle and
platemail from a corpse of Shriek.
Mhoram gleefully devours the corpse.
You hmm.
> > > [-Assembly-] Rindolfin: I cant Withdraw object.
> Shriek died.
You killed Shriek.
Arandil arrives with his falcon.
Your falcon can't seem to find Shriek here.
> Your falcon can't seem to find Shriek here.
Congratulations to the skilled knights.
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Lonewolf tells you: If you could be any one admin, which would it be, and why?
[Simyarin] Forgrim tells you: you know I cant tell you that
[Simyarin] Iver tells you: hmm
[Simyarin] Iver tells you: let me thing for a sec
Agbane tells you: huh????? Admin???
Reada replies to you: i dont know...
[Simyarin] Narya tells you: I don't know the differences between them.
Taren tells you: me!
[-Druids-] Earendil tells you: hah! the guy that came in to inventory our
network asked me "How do you spell library?"
Phire replies to you: no idea...
Padreic replies to you: Uhhh, I think you are asking the wrong person.....
[-Druids-] Shriek tells you: heh, who do you think I would be Brom, cause then I
can fusk with anyone I want to =)
Shumira tells you: Huh? Do I know you?
Gabe reaches out a hand and playfully bops you on the head.
Amadan replies to you: the dead one
Tender tells you: I wanna be like you, you're so cool.
Arturos tells you: I can't really say... been gone a while.
Ajax tells you: Brom cause he has a cool area.
[Simyarin] Forgrim tells you: wrong reply but works nicly;)
Slimer tells you: Slimer the wizard of course
Snuskis tells you: Leowon, because he is GH of the coolest guild (vampires).
Oh, and he's the nicest one too.
Zalagadonka tells you: Hmm?
[Simyarin] Narya tells you: So any, or none; it makes no difference to me.
Taunter tells you: I have no urge to be any kind of admin- I don't work hard
enough.
Evil tells you: Dwinbar, because he is so snugly.
Deathwish tells you: have no idea
Jeckyll tells you: you talking about the office, or the person behind the
office?
Nobody tells you: I just want to be nobody.
Tender replies to you:
Valkyrie tells you: Banshee, because then I would be in charge of the quests
and I'd make them even harder!
Memnoch tells you: YOu meal like you:) YOu rock gilthy:) and Ofc id be you...
Daemion tells you: i dunno actually
Nunspa tells you: i have no idea i am to new
[Simyarin] Narya tells you: Is this one of those NannyMud Times things?
Gaia tells you: Any lvl 30 or 33. Defenitely the best position on the Mud.
Moomin tells you: why, of course, I would be _you_...
Hostile tells you: hmm dont know...
Pabby tells you: why not Lonewolf? You seems to be everyone´s friend..
Lysander tells you: Slater, because of his titles. (He's ex-admin. Does that
count?)
Agbane tells you: Whaddya mean????
[Simyarin] Speedy tells you: I just lost 2 characters last night, and Brom
wouldnt even help me, so I wouldnt be an Admin to save my life, lost
300K in gold because of his lack of careing...
Guthwulf tells you: Dwinbar. A very nice fellow
[Simyarin] Vulcan tells you: x
Stalker replies to you: hmm, tough q! i dont want to be a admin, i think
Pain tells you: Huh?
Zarathos tells you: dwinbar ofc.. why? cuz he got a such sexy body!... he
really turns me on and I use to fantasy about him
Jeckyll tells you: I'd be Beldin, for reasons as yet unexplainable.
Taunter tells you: plus, Then I might have to move back to Sweden. I was just
starting to get used to American pizza again
Tomsawyer tells you: whoever has made the most quest esteem
[Simyarin] Vulcan tells you: multi-tell?
Gaia tells you: Lars could work as well.
Letharion replies to you: ahem.. I dunno, Taren, he can code, and he can do it
good too...
Stalker tells you: why?
Shumira tells you: what was that about?
Memnoch tells you: cause your the best bug hunter .../used:) ON the whole mud:)
Ender tells you: what do youu exactly mean?
Realitybyts tells you: hehe, very dangerous question
Lys tells you: Banshee, ofc
To fix the quests I hate in a more logical way.
(Also cause I admire Banshee. She works hard.)
Realitybyts tells you: I like quests, prolly Banshee
Agbane tells you: What?? It is its own password??? What is?
Memnoch tells you: why you ask that:?
Shanta tells you: Dumb question deserves dumb answers. BB of course. Why? Well,
isn't that obvious.
Ender tells you: do read me? was that question misstargeted?
Gweedo tells you: I'd be Cohen
Shumira tells you: You're drinking aren't you... heehee
[Simyarin] Iver tells you: dwinbar, becouse he is probably the only admin you
can get any kind of help from
Ender tells you: dont know current hierarchy but: Cathbad, Charmangle,
Moonchild, Gatelord
[Simyarin] Iver tells you: + he is very gosig
Elysia tells you: Mats. Because he's got ultimate power, and can dest you if
you really annoy him, and not have to explain his actions
Lonewolfjr tells you: can you help me? i died and can't find the wc 60 sword
you gave me.
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"Portia, listen to this in the 'Dear Ariadne' column: 'Dear Ariadne, is
it against the law, or the teaching of the Church, for a man to marry his
widow's sister?' Is that possible?"
"Land sakes, Pierrepont, you should know the answer to that one. If you
want a puzzle to solve, try placing a common mathematical symbol between
the numbers two and three so that you have a number that is larger than
two but less than three."
Prize: 500 coins. Requires answer to the Dear Ariadne question and solution
to second puzzle.
This was attempted by several. Most were able to correctly answer the
first part, in that if you're dead (and hence have a widow), you can't
really marry anyone.
The second part was a bit trickier.
2/3 or 3/2 are not between 2 and 3, as they are .666 and 1.50 in decimal
format. 2 sqrt(3) is approximately 3.464. The answer was to put a decimal
point between them, hence the answer 2.3.
Rain won the prize for this, and Cathbad earned an honorable mention.
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The above is a chessboard. Put a queen on one of the corner squares
marked above with an 'x', and see if you can move it through all nine
squares in the upper left-hand corner of the board in just four moves.
During any one move the queen can traverse as many squares as you want it
to but may move in one direction only.
Prize: 1000 coins.
The solution was to move three squares to the right, then diagonally
down and to the left, back up to the corner, then diagonally down and
to the right, thus covering the nine specified squares.
Rrr won the prize for this, and Sexcrime earned an honorable mention.
One day, while out bike-riding, Mr. Neederwaller chanced to meet a very
old friend.
"It's been years since I last saw you," he said.
"I know," replied his friend, "since we last met in Burma I've married --
to someone you never knew that I worked with in Rangoon. This is our
little girl."
"And a very pretty one at that," replied Mr. Neederwaller. "What might
your name be?"
"Thank you, sir. My name is the same as my mother's."
"Well, you certainly look like an Eleanor. That was always one of my
favorite names," answered Mr. Neederwaller.
How did Mr. Neederwaller know that the young girl's name was Eleanor?
Prize: 1000 coins.
The answer is that his old friend is named Eleanor. She married a man
Mr. Neederwaller had never met when he was in Burma.
Maugetar won the prize, and Sugarspit, Jay, Zaltec, and Rrr earned
honorable mentions.
Grandpa Townsend used to tell this story. It seems that at one of his
birthday parties there were ten family members present besides numerous
other gueses. There were two grandfathers present, two grandmothers,
three fathers, three mothers, three daughters, three sons, two
mothers-in-law, two fathers-in-law, one son-in-law, one daughter-in-law,
two brothers, and two sisters.
Can you figure out what family members were present at grandpa's party to
account for so many family ties?
Prize: 2500 coins.
The people present were two brothers and two sisters, their mother and
father, and both their mother's and father's parents -- the children's
two grandfathers and two grandmothers. Ten family members in all.
Sexcrime won the prize, and Rrr earned an honorable mention.
Back in the 18th century, some folks considered a deck of cards an evil
waste of time. A deck of cards has many similarities to a calendar. In
fact, there are at least seven ways in which a deck of cards bears a
striking resemblance to a calendar. I'll bet that you can't think of more
than five of them.
Prize: 2500 coins.
(1) There are 52 playing cards and 52 weeks in a year.
(2) There are 13 cards in each suit and 13 weeks in each season.
(3) There are 4 suits and 4 seasons.
(4) There are 12 face cards and 12 months in the year.
(5) The red cards stand for day and the black cards, night.
(6) If you total up the value of all the cards, counting jacks as 11,
queens as 12, and kings as 13, the sum will be 364. Add 1 to this
for the joker and you have the number of days in a year.
(7) The number of letters in the names of the cards (ace, two, three,
four, five, six, seven, eight, nine, ten, jack, queen, king)
equals 52, the number of weeks in a year.
No one successfully answered this.
The Dish sisters, Ima and Sucha, were all the rage when they came to
Hollywood back in the 1920s. The studio refused to reveal their ages, but
a playful press agent teased the reporters with this puzzle.
"Added together, their ages come to 44 years. Right now, Ima is twice as
old as Sucha when Ima was half as old as Sucha will be when Sucha is three
times as old as Ima was when Ima was three times as old as Sucha. From
that you should be able to tell me how old the women are."
Prize: 5000 coins.
The answer is that Ima is 27.5 and Sucha is 16.5.
When Sucha was 5.5, Ima was 16.5. When Sucha is three times that age,
she will be 49.5 years old. Half of this is 24.75, and when Ima was that
age, Sucha was 13.75. Thus, Ima's age is twice this, or 27.5.
Sexcrime won the prize, and Rrr and Bexar earned honorable mentions.
Bexar's proof would be posted here, but cut and paste was not friendly
for him.
The next room-hunt is to give the directions to the following room that
consist of the least number of steps. Same limitations as before.
(No teleportation, seven-league boots, other items or spells that enhance
movement.)
This is the bear-fighting arena's spectator stadium. There are a
few dusty chairs. From here you can see and hear anything that
goes on in the arena. There is currently no fight in progress.
There is one obvious exit: southeast.
Prize: 5000 coins.
Oriole won the prize with the solution of:
8e, ring bell, 2e, 2n, nw, for a total of 14 moves.
Sexcrime came in second with a solution of:
4e, 3n, 2d, w, 2d, 3s, w, enter pentacle, s, 2w, n, 3w, 2n, nw, for
a total of 27 moves.
Sax came in third with a solution of:
32e, 2n, nw, for a total of 35 moves.
> read page 7
You read page 7 in your newspaper.
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The following puzzles are the puzzles for October 1997. Please enter all
submissions by October 30th to ensure that you will be mentioned or
rewarded.
Herman Rumplemeir, our local butcher, has grown in stature and girth
since coming to work here some 20 years ago. Some interesting facts
concerning Herman are:
At age 20 his waist size was 92 cm and his weight was 77 kilos.
At age 30 his waist size was 96 cm and his weight was 82 kilos.
At age 35 his waist size was 104 cm and his weight was 93 kilos.
At age 40 his waist size is 114 cm. What does he weigh?
Prize: 1000 coins.
A------B
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D------C
Four bugs were positioned on top of a table in a square pattern. Each bug
was exactly ten inches away from the bug that it was facing. (The bugs are
facing so that if they were to start moving, they would move clockwise.)
If each bug started crawling simultaneously, and at a constant speed,
toward the bug that it faced (A to B, B to C, C to D, and D to A), what
distance had each bug traveled when they all met?
Prize: 1000 coins.
Many years ago, an elderly king, his son and daughter, weighing 195 pounds,
105 pounds, and 90 pounds, respectively, were kept prisoners at the top of
a high tower in Grimsley Castle. The only communication with the ground
below was a cord passing over a pulley with a basket at each end. When one
basket rested on the ground the other was opposite the window. Naturally,
if one basket were more heavily laden than the other, the heavier would
descend; but if the excess on either side were more than fifteen pounds,
the descent would be so rapid that none of the prisoners could control it.
The only thing available to help them in the tower was a cannonball,
weighing 75 pounds. Still, they managed to escape. How did they do it?
Prize: 2000 coins.
Hiding in a pub somewhere is that ne'er-do-well, Nicotine Ned. It seems that
Ned has fallen on bad times and cannot even afford to buy a decent pack of
cigarettes. He is forced to roll his own with the help of that famous
invention, the Rapide Cigarette Maker. For tobacco, he saves the butts of
previous smokes. He can make one cigarette from three butts. Tonight he has
saved ten butts, from which he expects to make five cigarettes. It sounds
impossible, but Ned has a plan. Can you smoke out his modus operandi?
Prize: 5000 coins.
The roomhunt has the same conditions as before - no movement enhancing
spells or items (e.g. teleport or seven-league-boots). The shortest path
to the room described below wins the prize.
You are on the top the mountain, among the clouds which rush quickly past.
You have a fantastic view of the valley.
There is one obvious exit: down.
A tall tower.
Prize: 5000 coins.
Mail all solutions to Lonewolf by October 30th.
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