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Where once his musings were made public, where his lighter side shined and he could feel himself smile without guilt, only scattered shreds of information and memories are left to be found now. Perhaps too many deaf ears found his voice, or his throat could not speak strongly enough, at least not for as long as he tried. Perhaps it was he who was left behind, when he left others behind him. Here lie only remnants, but perhaps... something still lingers... For Your Perusal....
. ! Last Updated:February 24th, 2005Page Started: sometime in late December of 2000 This Web Site is Classified: All but Abandoned What happened on Recent Updates: Don't get too excited, I just updated some links. Note to Visitors: This page (Home, Index) of the site is the streamlined, revised content of the site. It will be a bit longer before I get rid of the remaining unnecessary pages and their links, so you will see framed links to areas of this page that are no longer intended viewing. Feel free to view them anyway, but they're mostly just trash now (All Things Spooky, Who is Nevrek?, Weakest Links, et cetera). A lot of the pages linked below had a bar of framed links for site navigation, but the stuff that 'matters' is linked directly from This page. Invitation to Contribute: The section "The Big Book of Bad Alterations" will still be updated infreuqently. Submissions of Bad Alterations can be sent to me. If you like The Spider's Web, feel free to link to it. I would be glad to do a link exchange, under a Link Exchange area of my Weakest Links page. No web rings! Exquisite Features!
The Servant's Handbook - A basic guide for Servants of His Lordship Luukos.
Pseudo-Logs!The First Documented Elanthian Alien Abduction - All you wanted to do was get to the Abandoned Inn...Speedy the Magic Snail of Zul Logoth - Apparently there's more to this snail than meets the eye. Elanthian Elementary School - Sometimes it's necessary to toss out everyone's character histories in order to put them all in the same kindergarten setting. Genuine Logs! Real, but still Fun!Specially Prepared Geek - Juspera has a late night snack for ten thousand coins.Fire At Will! - He swears it was an accident. Nevrek and the Vishmiir: Part One - The first, personal encounter Nevrek has with the Vishmiir in his quest to understand them. Are they his allies in Balance? Nevrek and the Vishmiir: Part Two - The brief second installment of Nevrek's work during the Chill of the Vishmiir. Nevrek and the Vishmiir: Part Three - Blades Clanners has something to say, and it starts with the forbidden name "Vishmiir" ...what could possibly come of that? SCREECH! CIRCLE! VULTURE! - My priest is told he's a vulture, and the heavy hand of ignorance leaves a slap print on his previously pristine profile.
The Reference SectionHere one can find various items (as I acquire/create them) to assist you during your stay in Elanthia and other useful things, like guides. You will not find travel scripts here, because I feel everyone needs to know how to get to where they're going before they automate their travel. You will find what I'll refer (currently) to as Quick Reference Scripts. These are scripts that, basically, echo an amount of information so you can reference it quickly and easily. To get a better idea, check the below.
Nevrek: THE Choice for Mayor - Find out why Nevrek would have been a gooooood Mayor. The Detection Crystal of the Abandoned Inn - How to read the pretty lights and sounds. The QRS of Dwarven Grunts - A Quick and Easy-to-Follow list of Dwarf Grunts. The QRS of Lock Qualities - A Quick and Easy-to-Follow list of Lock Qualities and Difficulties. The QRS of General Herbs - When you're beaten and bloody, you don't have time to hunt for that Herb Guide! Also applies to Healing Tinctures in the Elven Nations! The QRS of Ma Leaftoe's Wares - You've had the daylights beaten out of you and now you want to freeze to death while searching for your Ice Mule herb guide? Ha! This is what you seek! The QRS of Pinefar's Healing Teas and Potions - Bleeding to death, blinded and beaten in secluded Pinefar can be your one-way-ticket to pushing up daisies if you take too long looking for your Pinefar Tea guide! Come hither! The QRS of Terasian Healing Ales - Isn't it bad enough being on Teras? Why stand around, battered to a pulp, looking for your Ale guide? Look here! Linkage SectionBeware - many of these links' destinations have apparently died, but they are retained here in memory and in the spirit they were originally included. (Sites that are apparently down/discarded are marked with asterisks.)
The Kingdom of Loathing - Where I currently get my text-based gaming jollies.
Random
You show Cheslica your offering plate hoping to give a hint. You smile. Cheslica smirks. Cheslica raises an eyebrow in your direction. You say, "Afternoon, miss." Volstock just arrived. (....In Pursuit of Detrich, after having just lifted 75 coins from the poor beggar sylvan.) Volstock smiles at you. Volstock just opened a large sack. Volstock removes a brilliant fire pearl from in his large sack. Cheslica says, "Good Afternoon young Sylvankind." Volstock just closed a large sack. Volstock offers you a brilliant fire pearl. Type ACCEPT to accept the offer or DECLINE to decline it. The offer will expire in 30 seconds. Volstock winks at you. Volstock smiles at you. You exclaim, "Oh, that's very kind, sir!" You accept Volstock's offer and are now holding a brilliant fire pearl. Volstock says, "No more crying little one." Volstock smiles at you. You say, "May the rain of a thousand sparrows smile upon your noble brow." You bow to Volstock. Volstock ponders. Cheslica smiles at Volstock. Cheslica ponders. You put a brilliant fire pearl in your heavy backpack. You close a heavy backpack. Volstock asks, "Did you just pray for a thousand sparrow to urinate on me ?" Cheslica grins. You say, "I am not permitted to comment upon this topic further." You clear your throat. You say, "If you'll excuse me, I must make my rounds." You rub the offering plate to a shine, knowing you will make more money with it polished. (Detrich wriggles his way eastward.)
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Here's an old post. Sometimes me funny.
Category Strategies, Tactics, and Hunting (3) I invite everyone to ponder the following: Know that store The GAP? Imagine a bunch of zombies shopping around for the latest trends, while their skeletal girlfriends talk about Death being the only diet that let them eat all the brains they wanted without putting on a single pound. -=Nevrek, player of=- Perhaps another old post? I was rolling new characters at some point...
Whilst rolling a new character, I was lost for a name. What I did was look to the randomly generated names for inspiration. Well, I wasn't really .. Inspired.
I found the following list of words as commonly recurring elements in names:
Yikes, huh? Some truly horrible names I saw while rolling my character: Forceror, Deathdarky, Redlust, Goldbetbig, Flavocum, Stealfat, Those, Freaknenoid, Ghostforoath, Unlove, Oftlove, Dwarnazi, Wormburfoot, Sticker and so on and so forth. Well, Sticker isn't so bad, if it's a halfling that fights with a skewer..but.. I'm assuming the Random Name Generation takes bits and pieces from names of actual characters in the game, or all names in the system. I fully realize they are Random, and that words will simply Happen in a random system. Sort of like the popular Chimpanzees with Typewriters will, eventually, type out a Shakespearian work. Improbable, but possible. Thing is, I saw those words, each, at least three times. That's how they made the list, they had to appear at least three times. I spent about three hours at the computer thinking up this name, looking at the boards and eating breakfast while watching BlankMan on Comedy Central. I'm pretty sure I pulled in under 100 sets of 4 names each during that time period, excluding the many moments of inattention to the game. If I am correct on the elements and means of name creation, I wish to recommend that certain words, like those above, be Squelched/Removed from being viable name segments. It's somewhat distressing that I saw Blood, Death and Dark so often in the generated names. "Foot" isn't as bad, admittedly, for use in Halfling last names, but I'd recommend, still, against its appearing in suggested random names. -=Nevrek, player of=-
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An open journal lies on a table, but, old as it is, has never been touched with ink and quill.