[CF-Devel] town portal (RE: CVS commit: maps/city/misc)

Joris Bontje jbontje at suespammers.org
Fri Mar 1 04:03:08 CST 2002


On Fri, Mar 01, 2002 at 01:31:51AM -0700, Tim Rightnour wrote:
>
     
     
     >
     
      On 01-Mar-02 David Hurst wrote:
     
     >
     
      > Is it just me.. or does the name 'Protector of void' sound particularly 
     
     >
     
      > silly? I thought the Void was nothingness, why would you bother 
     
     >
     
      > protecting it, and if you did, it wouldn't be a void anymore would it? 
     
     >
     
      > come to think of it, if you got sent to the void.. well that's a 
     
     >
     
      > contradiction because when you get there, it isn't the void anymore ;)
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      It was just a cool name for the room we sent people who got unlucky with the
     
     >
     
      portal spell
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      [nice story]
     
     >
     
     
     >
     
      There was an interesting side effect though of this.  The "we've done it all"
     
     >
     
      type players who were bored, would spend all day portalling around town trying
     
     >
     
      to get sucked into the void so they could kill the beast.  It could only be
     
     >
     
      killed by decapitation, so they wore the head it dropped like a prize.  (very
     
     >
     
      few ever killed it, because it would usually get the first blow in with a 300HP
     
     >
     
      backstab).  It was considered to be one of the ultimate challenges on the mud.
     
     
If the monster can be killed, but you cant leave the room, what happens?
Won't you be locked there forever?

Joris Bontje / mids
-- 
Gpg Key: Id=0xF19326A9 / 
     
     http://mids.student.utwente.nl/~mids/jbontje.pub
     
     
Key fingerprint = 730D 9B3A F406 F28A 957D 6397 31E8 6D4C F193 26A9
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 240 bytes
Desc: not available
Url : 
     
     http://shadowknight.real-time.com/pipermail/crossfire/attachments/20020301/6a97e208/attachment.pgp
     
     
    


More information about the crossfire mailing list