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Creation Date: Fri Aug  2 08:37:25 2002
Channel Name:  bovine

(note - most recent messages are displayed at the bottom)
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 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: Your blood freezes as you hear A
female wyvren's death cry! A female wyvren is DEAD!

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: the job didnt advance

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Tarzan: maybe go back and talk to the job 
giver

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Jasondo: thought you point was gonna be
draak killed it with a fish. :P

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: hahaha thaqt was jsut a pasting fail

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: although

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: right

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: I blame Draak

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Jasondo: with one thrust of a fish, the
wyvren was slane. :P, one for the recordbooks

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: looks like two mobs by the same name
strikes again

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Jasondo: that right there is why rule 5.7
exists. just saying. they can smight you with a fish, at will.

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: ah so there was another female wyvren

 (5 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: this one worked for my job: A female
wyvren is DEAD!You remove a part of A female wyvren to present to Dame
Gerna Dragonscaler.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: I changed one of them into a mother
wyvren

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: ty

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Lilia: my job was the mother one

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: what do hardpoints do on ships?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: mount equipment

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: ah nod

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: and for what do we need weaponry?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: nothing currently as far as I can
tell.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: t

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: ty *

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: how do i get a certain ports
coordinates

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: i could not get coords to come up
while on a ship. nav willl show you nearby ports. guess you just need
to know what direction to go to get close enough for it to show there
would be my guess

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: anyone know commands to see list of
hulls and sails? and no weapons yet right?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: i got to see hulls and sails a few
days ago. but last night coould not remeber the exact command to show
them

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: ship buy <thing> list should be the
general format

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak@alter draak: Hold 1 :  average
foodstuffs , bought for 161 gold

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak@alter draak: You receive 215 gold
coins, and the crew unloads Hold 1 from average foodstuffs, leaving it
empty. You made a profit of 54 gold coins.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Jasondo: I used to wonder if, stuffs, was
correct grammar. lol.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: i want exceptional foodstuffs
though

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Jasondo: kind of like moneys. I've heard
that one used as well

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak@alter draak: got to catch your own

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Jasondo: got got to catch 'em all! :P.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: ship buy <thing> list should be the
general format

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: oops

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Virgo: * shoves plug back in

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Shermanator: anyone know if you can get
boarded while docked?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Shermanator: if the percentage one would
encounter boarders weas lowered. can we tripple it? love seing them and
watching them die at my feet

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Shermanator: anyone know if you can get
boarded while moving?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: you can get boarded while moving, you
cannot get boarded while docked

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: so I think I'm going to try to enable
fishing from ships, that seems like a pretty logical activity one could
engage in to pass the time

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Neufi: fine idea :)

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Dentin: I'm going to try to have incentive
to do something useful at some point today

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Dentin: :)

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: make me a sandwich?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Dentin: no acceptable delivery mechanism :(

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: oh, why has my ship equipment
vanished.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: thats gonna be expensive to
replace :(

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: if I buy another one will the next
reboot eat it? Should I wait?

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Buzzbegone: I'm not a  dev but I probably
would. They'll probably squish a few bugs. It's how things tend to work
in  digital life.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: thanks for the info.

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Buzzbegone: np! hope it works out for ya

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Buzzbegone: ah ha! and there's your reboot.
:D

 (4 days ago)     [bovine] Dentin:
http://xirr.com/~soda/misc/aa-xmas-2010/

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Dex: that was odd, couldnt abort cast spam

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: Your score is: Skull: 0 / 0, Flame:
3 / 5, Grove: 0 / 7, Blade: 12 / 7

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: no idea how this card game thing
works

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: Your score is: Skull: 14 / 5, Flame:
17 / 8, Grove: 12 / 5, Blade: 15 / 8

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: that seemed to be pretty good
though, lol

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: help tarot gives the rules

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: ah, fun

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: how fun would it be to have a
physical deck like that though!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: could be cool

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: and maps easily enough to regular
playing cards too I imagine, just throw in some more jokers

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: wow. never heard of the clan
falconhand

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: Skull: 5 / 12, Flame: 10 / 12,
Grove: 10 / 17, Blade: 5 / 12

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Ryland: Woe!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: would be great to have a list of the
various bonuses

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: but slowly working them out!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: gamble tarot

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: should give a list of the cards,
suits, ranks and weal/woe

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: just look for times you get a single
card of a suit of a particular rank, and you'll know what the weal/woe
score is

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: okay, working on making fishing
usable from ships, need a brain break for a while

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: tea time!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: ooh looking forward to that

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Asclepius: ooh yeah pass the time while lazy
crew putting their feet up to recover

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: is it safe to get dredges back
again?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: gamble tarot only shows the card
names, not how much they add to the score

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: you can work that one out easily
shryth

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: I am

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: it's fun

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: safe to get dredges? is it unsafe?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: xoria and I lost our ship eq

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: I never got a report

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: apologies. I will send a mail or
report shortly

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: no problem found it

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: there was a missing space in the save
to file routine

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: sorry I cannot pin down when it
happened, I left the ship alone for 2 days.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: ok, watson, holmes has got it

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: eureka or whatever

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: okies! sorry to add to your queue
right before brain break.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: was the requency of boarders turned
down a bit? just curious

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: no I mean I literally solved the
issue

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: it was not changed, Sport, no

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: like lightning!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: hmm. did vikings a few days before
reboot. had a lot. now seems like only 1 per half hour  or so. thanks

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: missing space in the savefile
routine, so it was being printed directly next to the number next to
it, which would hork up the load routine

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: oopsie

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: there is a cooldown time between
encounters where you can't get one

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: ah. cool to know. and thanksa ton 

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: if you have more people on a ship,
do you get more encounters?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: we had a little group going and we
got what seemed like a lot.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: in theory, yes

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: ah. we had a group then. just solo
now. might explain a  lot then

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: hmm, Fool's Star seems to give +7 if
I'm calculating things correctly. And the crone seems to be +5. But I
got 14 weal for Skull, and the two others are just bringers of woe

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: it was fun.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: do you get a weal point just for
having a card in that suit?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: the crone is cosmic rank, just like
fool's star

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: ah, right

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: common bringer of weal and woe seems
to be +2 to both

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: the lore for the tarot is alter aeon
specific, so the Crone is Schylne, the Mother is Byung and the Maiden
is Islaine

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: fun!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: is it a reskin of an actual card
game?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: or... maybe rather, did you pull
inspiration from one?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: no

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: makes it even better then ^^

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: i pulled inspiration for the imagery
from actual tarot cards, but that's about it. I made up the rules

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: original rules and motives.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: nod

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: would be easy enough to transfer to
regular playing cards though. I like that

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: library read 7809

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: hah, nice!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Sport: ooh. nice read

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: "Many other cards bear symbolism
dervied from various spells and religions, as well as historical
figures and events. How many do you recognize?"

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: Common=2, Noble=3, Royal=5,
Cosmic=7?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: hah! The Grove's royals are neat

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Shryth: and a bit of a Ralnoth theme for
Blades

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Dentin: pass 1 on my personal website
complete!

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Grimmvein: any idea if we should expect
another reboot today?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Khonshu: always expect the unexpected

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Grimmvein: I do, but never the expected,
that's my blind spot

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Rocky: and above all, don't panic

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Grimmvein: ...no

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Funk: don't expect the reboot, aim to force
it

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Grimmvein: This is all super helpful life
advice, but I guess I'll just have to cross my streams and hope for the
best

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Funk: that's right, total protonic reversal

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: thats exactly the phrase I give my
hairdresser.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: they never let me down.

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Lokar: my advice is "If it's the weekend
expect reboots, possibly multiple if bugs are encountered" and plan
accordingly 

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Khonshu: which phrasing

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Grimmvein: Egg's always down for crusty
nuggets of wisdom, so probably all of them

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Lokar: just don't use expensive minions use
cheap ones if you're worried about losing them

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Kitsune: Crusty Nuggets? Isn't he the
villain in that one children's novel with the kids solving crime?

 (3 days ago)     [bovine] Grimmvein: Nothing above a purple today
then.

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Algorithm: Necromancer question here- do
skeletal mages do damage frequently? I'm looking at my output bu tnot
seeing any damage dealing from my zap skeletal mage, but that could be
because it is gagged from mushz...

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Rubi: iirc their attacks are special attacks
that can get gagged by lots of stuff so it is easy to miss. they should
be attacking often enough though. idr what it says though, something
like "mage throws a bolt of <element>" or something

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Algorithm: I just checked spam stuff, it's
possible that gfighting was gagging it... we'll see. thanks

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Rubi: i remember them getting gagged very
easily so might be it, yeah

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Algorithm: think I'm just going to have to
assume that mushz is gagging it

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: so i just upped my bone blade spell
frmo 81% to 100 for experimental reasons

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: the resulting bone blade seems to
be exactly the same: same dieroll and same stats

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: possibly its timer is greater but i
cant see this

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Almaric: so, is it supposed to be this way?
I was under the impression that being better at the skill/spell would
increase something at least, e.g. the hp on it or possibly its hitroll

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Draak: due to how the spell code works, the
only guaranteed improvement with spell knowledge is reduced failure
rate. Anything else has to be added

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Deadinator: I can't get any of the "ship
buy" things working. Just says the buy what string when I try both the
abbreviated and long forms.

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Deadinator: Got it. Forgot the cargo bit

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Deadinator: How can I get the crew to rest?

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: leave them alone for a little
while.

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Eggweard: I tried to spend a little time in
each port doing some shopping to give them downtime

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Deadinator: I'm out in the middle of nowhere
on the way to West Maj.

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Deadinator: Oh seems sleeping works maybe?

 (2 days ago)     [bovine] Deadinator: I really like the mob enounters
though. Makes travel that much more enjoyable.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Algorithm: ahh duh the spam filter was group
cast... not sure how I missed that

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Algorithm: Do scrolls containing the spell
lift curse give output for attempting to banish a curse even if it
doesn't succeed?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Simo: my understanding is lift curse when it
fails, lowers the level of said curse.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Algorithm: yes

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Algorithm: but my question is if i am using
a scroll to lift the curse, will output show when it doesn't
immediately remove the curse?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: once again it depends what spam
filters you have on or not. It should send a string if it fails yes.
but  mush has filters and game have filters that could hide it.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Algorithm: possibly, I think it's more
likely i was doing the quest wrong... maybe I wasn't supposed ot use
the scroll on lugar

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Algorithm: unfortunately I won't find out on
this char because I eventually just killed the mob and did the othe
other side of the ques tI forgot existed

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Rocky: is forging supposed to make rings and
neck pieces that weigh the same as the ingot or bar you started with?
or should I report a bug

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Lokar: I didn't experience the same thing as
rocky, I made a torc out a of block and it capped out at weight 3

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Silverclaw: how come this bow indicates
darts but uses crossbow bolts? n i got it off a drow too. darkelf lore
says they use darts too

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Silverclaw: A tiny hand crossbow, Level: 29,
Comp: TIMBER, WOOD, Type: WEAPON, Weight: 2 ANTI_GOOD , Speed: very
slow, 11 wield strength Ranged attacks: bolts, HITROLL by 12, DEX by 1,
Quality: WELL CRAFTED

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Kitsune: maybe because it's tiny?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Kitsune: what does the long desc say?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Silverclaw: expensive lever action crossbow
strapped to forarm

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Kitsune: wait, how does it indicate darts?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Silverclaw: the labels sets darts poisoned

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Kitsune: no idea then

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Silverclaw: yeah. im not quite sure darkelfs
use darts for these but the size....

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Draak: alright, ironing out the wrinkles
with on board fishing, coming along pretty well

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Draak: I need a break, though

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Gent: cake break!

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: is there any, any at all, means of
figuring out if your corpse is gone without spending 50 credits anyway?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: type credit buy res, it's at the
bottom

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: (You don't currently have any corpses
to resurrect from.)

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: that's what force spends 50 credits

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: don't you have to specify 50?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: to make it happen

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: hmm, then my corpse is here somewhere

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: just type credit buy res nothing
else

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: case every mob for it... aaaargh
where is it?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: street sweeper

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: it's here, evidently, but wheeeeeere

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: sigh

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: I got you

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: street sweepers are stupid

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: thanks, Morph

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: so are people that drop their shit
all over the ground that force me to make streetsweepers a thing.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: rofl fair

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: no offense, Morph

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: none  taken,  I just have to do it
because nobody can sac thier shit.. like adding drop  $* sac $* is too
much.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: chase the mob, chase the mob, chase
the stupid mob...

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: I got it

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: OMG thaaank you, they just won't stay
still

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Ralts: just getting jumped atm

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: I joined

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: umm arn't you a thief?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: yes, fail fail and fail

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: now all sweepers are gone wtf

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: ... sobsobsob

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: I don't see your corpse anymore
either

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: nope, corpse gone, wtf wtf wtf

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: I really really just... aaaaaargh
give it back, somebody

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: thanks anyway, no thanks to whoever
deleted my corpse

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: probably nobody it probably jsut
tiemd out.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: the sweepers are all gone though too,
which suggests somebody else was slaying them

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: we were, but then the last one we
were chasing vanished

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: avoid Airam. Noted.

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: or just don't die there..  what
did you do  to die?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: got tangled in a stupid mob's stupid
curses, in recall, so couldn't escape or recall or flee

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: stupid super fail to end all fails

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Morpheus: what  attacked you in recall?

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: an old hag, after I tried stealing
gold, in thief set

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: then I got entangled so couldn't get
away, couldn't recall, couldn't do anything but die

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: trying to get the roots off me just
led to the mob curbstomping me

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: it was really a stupid me problem

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Dizzy: and I'm out. Back when I'm a less
sucky thief

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Xoria: switches alts. Anyway, avoiding
Airam's hags even in thiefset as Dizzy

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Xoria: as. Dizzy. screams I need a typist
change

 (1 day ago)      [bovine] Lilmike: anyone know if the seeming bug
where shipyards get cleared out of ships about a day or two after a
reboot has been reported to draak yet? I sent him a mudmail, just
checking though, since it really seems like a week after the ship
update,, and two days after the reboot they shouldn't all be fully
cleared out haha

 (17 hours ago)   [bovine] Ralts: is there a reason I'm still seeing
minion spam with minion spam set to no spam will be displayed?

 (17 hours ago)   [bovine] Dizzy: serious question: Why are the
December trees ominous?

 (16 hours ago)   [bovine] Deadinator: They're about to fall?

 (12 hours ago)   [bovine] Draak: as it happens, Lilmikem, I actually
booted in tools that let me see the global list of ships for sale last
boot. Had a feeling something was up

 (12 hours ago)   [bovine] Noryn: thanks

 (12 hours ago)   [bovine] Lokar: I mean have you seen how those trees
spread Dizzy? They are an invasive species that grow at an absolutely
alarming rate, the rate they grow at would probably be pretty
destructive too, that makes them fairly ominous to me!

 (12 hours ago)   [bovine] Dizzy: ... very true XD

 (11 hours ago)   [bovine] Draak@alter draak: okay, so the global ship
sale list was hiccuping, probably caused the crash last week, too. I
whipped up a stabilized version and the ability to reset the list
repeatedly so I could test it properly

 (11 hours ago)   [bovine] Dizzy: I'm imagining waves hiccuping here
rofl

 (11 hours ago)   [bovine] Draak@alter draak: you have an active
imagination

 (11 hours ago)   [bovine] Dizzy: sure do, it's much of why I'm a
writer RL

 (11 hours ago)   [bovine] Dizzy: thank you for squashing bugs in the
code, btw

 (11 hours ago)   [bovine] Dex: oof who killed my parrots

 (2 hours ago)    [bovine] Runner: Anybody know where we can buy new
ships?

 (4 minutes ago)  [bovine] Draak: Runner: there was some goofiness with
the ship list refreshing, I'll have it fixed next boot

 (4 minutes ago)  [bovine] Runner: nod, thanks