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Matanza: his interview, his zombie costume; Ringbearers: batty<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
\n _____________________________________________________\n\/ Contents - Cry of Despair, Issue 101, November 2005 \\_______________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\n   From the Editor                    \n     Editor's Note                 - by Genge\n     Christmas Quest               - by Genge\n\n   Fun and Entertainment         - Sub-Editor: Babui\n     Title Submissions\n     Cry of Despair Quest          - by Alysira\n\n   News From Around The Realms   - Sub-Editor: Aslan\n     Nations' News\n       Quendi                      - via Romani\n\n   PKill                         - Sub-Editor: Vortok\n     PKill News                    - by Vortok\n     Current PK Events             - by Vortok\n     Interview with Jess           - by Vortok\n\n   General Knowledge             - Sub-Editor: Genge\n     Druids                        - by Genge\n\n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n _______________________\n\/ Editor's Note - Genge \\_____________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\n Turnout for CoD quests has been... lackluster, pretty much since the paper was\ncreated. I've been trying to figure out a way to boost turnout. I mean, we're\ngiving things to you for minimal effort - you'd think it'd be easy to \/give\/\nthings away. So, please, mudmail me with suggestions or ideas on what YOU would\nlike to see offered in a CoD quest. Prizes, types of quests, difficulties - any\ninput would be appreciated. In the meantime, I've setup a little holiday quest \nfor Christmas\/Solstice\/Kwanzaa\/Chanukah\/Emperor's Birthday\/etcetera. (Page ??)\n In CoD news, we're hiring. Pay rates are 25m for a feature, 15m for a unique\narticle, 10m for a standard article, and 5m for generic articles submitted \nbecause you needed heal money and\/or are desperately lonely and need attention.\nYou might get bonuses for making my life easier by fixing the spelling before\nsubmitting articles as well. If you'd like to join, find a CoD member - \nc locate fountain-pen works - or contact myself or Alysira.\n Please pardon Babui and Aslan's absence this month, they've been a bit busy.\n (Does anyone actually read the headers?)\n\n(End)                   \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n _________________________\n\/ Christmas Quest - Genge \\___________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\n So, I promised a quest earlier. Here's the gig:\n - Write a Christmas shopping list with what you would get for at least ten\n   (10) immortals, guild\/order\/clan\/council leaders, or any combination \n    thereof. What would they want? Why would they want it?\n - Bonus points for using in game items instead of real things.\n - Feel free to have more than ten people listed, we'll just pick the best\n   ten for judging.\n - The number of prizes this month are determined by the number of people\n   who enter the contest. If 10 or less people enter, there is only one up\n   for grabs, but every additional 10 people adds another one. Don't use your\n   alts, or I'll sic Kate on you. (20 people = 2, 30 = 3, etc)\n - The prizes this month are pkill avatars. If you ever wanted to try PK, \n   and are using fear of being whacked twenty times while leveling as an\n   excuse, consider your excuse gone. Yes, they've got decent stats\/hp.\n - All entries due by November 30th, so the prizes can be awarded in time\n   for you to regift them for Christmas.\n\n(End)          \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n ________________________\n\/ Funny Titles - Alysira \\____________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\nAvatar          Sereqoi.          (,_    ,_,    _,)        (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Lisara.           \/|\\`-._( )_.-'\/|\\        (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Meraman.         \/ | \\`'-\/ \\-'`\/ | \\       (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Xaquanthas.     \/  |_.'-.\\ \/.-'._|  \\      (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Maddyn.        \/_.-'      \"      `-._\\     (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Mivok.         (,_    ,_,    _,)     THE BATS!! (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Venkman.       \/|\\`-._( )_.-'\/|\\     THE BATS!! (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Eladar.       \/ | \\`'-\/ \\-'`\/ | \\    THEY HURTS. (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Kuros.       \/  |_.'-.\\ \/.-'._|  \\   MY EYES!! (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Rosvo.      \/_.-'      \"      `-._\\  TOO MANY!! (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Poromenos IS BATMAN! (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Nataliea.     (,_    ,_,    _,) (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Wrenyce.      \/|\\`-._( )_.-'\/|\\ (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Jazmin.      \/ | \\`'-\/ \\-'`\/ | \\ (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Wreniliath. \/  |_.'-.\\ \/.-'._|  \\ (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Wrenners.  \/_.-'      \"      `-._\\   (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Wren...OMFG IT'S A SWARM!!!!! (Ringbearers) [The Symposium]\nAvatar          Wesdarn.     .         (,_    ,_,    _,)         (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Franziz.     .         \/|\\`-._( )_.-'\/|\\         (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Baruch.      .        \/ | \\`'-\/ \\-'`\/ | \\        (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Chandler.    .       \/  |_.'-.\\ \/.-'._|  \\       (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Daconil.     .      \/_.-'      \"      `-._\\      (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Vorid.       .   HOLY CRAP THERE ARE MORE BATS   (Ringbearers)\nAvatar          Excane:   >o<  >o<    >o< <--(more frickin' bats) (Ringbearers)\n\n\n-----------------------------------[ IMMORTALS ]------------------------------\n \nAcolyte         Gonnil?\nSavior          Cappadocius? (Deity of Inconnu) [Head of The Symposium]\nDestroyer       Kali? (Inconnu) [Council of Elders]\nDemi Goddesss   Alysira? (Deity of Catarrh) [Head of Herald Assembly]\n(Berserker)     Kinux Talier? [Tribal Lord] [The Symposium]\n5 players.\n\n(End)  \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n ___________________________\n\/ Funny Titles - Mossweaver \\_________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\nFoxarius: Pet me if you dare!\nDievo possesses Women and Forces them to make Movies.\nSycoraxe.59:  Remember... LOVE PUPPIES AND ALIENS!!!!! \nVivienne Ducroix - A vivacious vixen vexed very vibrant vital voting vermin\nvigorously\nZacchaeus gives in to lust.\nTeddios is on the fourth level of the internet!\nPalsham flips your arse head over heels, baby.\nMobine Dick, The Great White One\nClotho will punch you in your hymen.\nHolly Boudicca-Umbramnia lost her mind, but it\u2019s backed up on disk somewhere.\nFerratii Fyremusik, has a ball-n-chain, we call her Kyla.\nAnnale Firestorm boogies because she can.\nArdor wears a shirt that says 'pwnstar'.\nCarnak Mac Morna, Arms Master of Arms Masters, General of Generals, Greatest\n       Dork To Ever Live.\nChester:  Limes ain't got nothing on me.\nQanilkine, the world's most violent travel agent.\nArical d'Anconia: Once and for all, I am NOT Lilcal.\nKawoura d'Mortem, Tell me where the pretty girls are, those demigods, with\n\ttheir 9-inch nails and little fascist panties trapped inside the \n\theart of every nice girl.\nHaderach jihhhhaaaaaaaaaaaaddddddd alalalalalala.\nMoloko:  Inquire for rates.\nLyron the Keeper of the Forsaken Crayon Sharpener.\nKarston is config -hope\nBotan the collector of other people's things.\nMatanza plays with dead birds.\nGauther: points to HELP DISCLAIMER and gestures wildly.\nSnorg designated tribal whiner.\nAshia's name is wrong, it should be Ashdorkia.\nSubai proud member of Lesbians Against Bush.\nOthagyle found Jesus with my bong.\nAkamedes: Love one another as I love your mother.\nQaulorn Calonderiel, Tourette's Syndrome saved my life.\nTenabren didn't even get a reach-around.\nRanstlin thinks Zargon's title is stupid.\nMoneo LifeWind is the Panty Master (Captain Foulness)\n\n(End) \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n ___________________________________________________\n\/ Cry of Despair Quest: October's Results - Alysira \\_________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\nWell, since only two people entered last months quest, I guess they're the\nwinners. Congratulations to:\n\n                           Matanza and Khaimran!\n\nPlease see me for your prizes of glory, gold, and equipment, as was\npromised! As Genge has said, please let us know what you want in terms of\nquests (read HELP CRY2).\n\nAnd now for the answers to the quiz...\n\n1. Who was the Editor of the Times of Despair?\na. Adonia\n2. In what year did the Cry of Despair begin?\na. 1999\n3. Which issue was Elisabet's last issue as Immortal Sponsor?\na. Issue 72\n4. Which issue was Kuah's last issue as Editor?\na. Issue 50\n\n\nMatanza - Costume: Zombie  (In support of Genge's class idea)\n \n      Unholy Symbol of the Damned\n     (Humming) Matanza's Unholy Eternal Pledge\n     (Humming) Matanza's Unholy Eternal Pledge\n   Collar of Abyssal Servitude\n   Collar of Abyssal Servitude\n       blood soaked bandages\n       lice infested cap\n       loosely fitting trousers\n       chains of imprisonment\n      Gloom's beckonings\n       tattoo of a malevolent, grinning skull\n    writhing mass of maggots\n   skins of the dead\n  cuff of maggots\n  cuff of maggots\n       Voices of the Damned\n       bloody eyepatch\n\nThere is no shield, weapon, or hold, because zombies don't have the mental\ncapacity to use fingers to manipulate objects.\n \nLight, Rings, Necks, Hands, and Ears are all there to \"control\" the zombie\nwith.  Everything else is as close to \"typical\" zombie attire as I could find.\n \n--------\n\nAnd what was Khaimran's costume?\nNude, except for...\n\n       (Humming) the Blindfold of Clarity\n \nCan you picture anything scarier?     - Khaimran\n\n--------\nPlease enjoy this month's quest!\n\n(End)  \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n __________________________________________________\n\/ Cry of Despair Quest: November's Quest - Alysira \\__________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\nThis month, since you Americans are celebrating Thanksgiving or whatever,\nyour quest is to design a Thanksgiving meal using in-game food stuffs!\n\nJust write on a note the list of food, and MUDmail it to me by the 29th\nof November. The two most creative and delicious sounding lists will be\nselected as the winners. You don't have to use traditional Thanksgiving\nfoods, use your imagination!\n\nThe prize is glory, so everyone enter! Good luck and enjoy!\n-Alysira\n\n(End) \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n ______________________\n\/ Quendi News - Romani \\______________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\nCurrent Events:\n \nShareed Marius Dracos steps down as Nations First,  leaving a note of thanks\nto all who have supported him in the past.  Heru Dracos will now be managing\nthe Dolen Sinta book shop in Arborlon.  Bodileir Caliver has taken position\nnow as Nations First.  We wish them both luck and happiness in their new\nventures.\n \nAran Gildeth Dracos has gone missing and suspected to have been kidnapped by\nthe drow.  Also, Lunasahd  Gwain Sen'Viant, a prominent citizen of our fair\ncity has gone missing as well.  It is unknown if the two disappearances are\nrelated and many rumors are circulating though nothing has been confirmed.  \nSearches have been organized as well but so far, they have turned up nothing.\n\nThere was an attack upon the shores of Irrybis by the Sea Elves which damaged\na section of the shoreline and part of the Ellcrys.  Our mages have been\nworking non stop to repair the damages since the spell that was causing the\ndamage was taken down.  Accordingly, an investigation into the events on the\nshore is underway.  The Rangers advise that citizens not eat any of the edible\nvegetation in that area for at least a few more months, for safeties sake.\n\nArrests:\n\nAn elf by the name of Rann Fanka was taken into custody.  Anyone with\ninformation about this man is asked to come forward.   One woman, a Raivanna\nDossini, claims she feels that Heru Fanka is being held unjustly and is\nconducting an investigation of her own.  Just what her involvement with Heru\nFanka is, is unknown.\n \nToo Much Elverquisst?\n\nTwo elves by the name of Drundle and Kembel reported that they had seen\ncreatures that looked like lizards down in the forest near the shore on the\nfar side of the Ellcrys yesterday.  This sighting is unconfirmed however and\nthe two elves in question have been known to been rather intoxicated on\nseveral occasions and known too, for wild tales.   Their story warrants\nquestion especially since they say the lizards were wearing tutus and having\nsome sort of festival.  I leave it to the readers to decide the truth of their\nwords.\n\n(End)  \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n ___________________________\n\/ November PK News - Vortok \\_________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\nPKC has been restructured by Rhadamanthus, and the results\ncan be viewed by typing HELP PKC.  \n\nIdeas Awaiting PKC Vote:\n-Silenced deadlies still warcry\n-Illusions of the Coryphee layerable with death cloak\n\nIdeas Awaiting CoE Vote:\n - High gold value pk items reduced to lower repair costs\n - Reinstall Myriad of Arenas\n - Clan EQ influx of 1 set per month\n - Shove\/Drag gives adrenaline\n - Proposed renames for Excordis clan eq\n - Clan light stats from 2dr\/20hp to 1dr\/50hp\n - Intra-clan pdeaths not counting against you (kills don't) \n - Reduced lag for Backstrike\n - Argument to affects command (\"aff sanc\" shows sanc only) \n - Make Brakky Banners usable again in PK\n - 2str, -1Lck change to clan eq stats\n\nIdeas that have vanished:\n - Removing or adjusting poison weapons\n - Adjusting charge for barbs in PVP\n - Reduce Barbarian suscept magic to 10% for deadlies\n - Adding AC to PK EQ\n\nPassed CoE, Awaiting Code:\n - True sight potions sold in town\n - COPPER ECONEMY ADDED TO PK\n - PK GEO, also being reviewed by PKC, again...\n\nUpdated 24 Oct 2005 @ 5:44pm by Vortok\n\n(End)  \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n ____________________________\n\/ Current PK Events - Vortok \\________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\nGeneral:\n - PK player base up slightly, still low.\n - Artifacts: Brad (Exc\/Fer), Marcus(Cat)\n - See PKC Update section for news on PKC voting\n - PK Geo on hold, awaiting new PKC review\n - *HOT* Ranger's are being made like crazy as PK Mob runs go\n   through the roof.  Cleave + Storage capacity make them a\n   new found favorite amongst the PK runners.  <3 Nick \n\nCatarrh:\n - Jess takes over clan as Lunas, then Tamakair, then Espadas\n - Clotho joins as a 24, now levels as he gains pk exp.\n\nExcordis:\n - Exc presence fades from the masses last month\n\nFeralis:\n - Fer suffers from withdrawal and becomes alcoholics (leader note)\n\nMaleficae:\n - Dre goes to bootcamp, Brad leads as Leader and #2...\n\nUpdated 24 Oct 2005 @ 6:02pm by Vortok\n\n(End)    \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n __________________________\n\/ Interview: Jess - Vortok \\__________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\nInterview: Jason (Vortok) & Jess (Matanza, Leader of Catarrh)\n\nYou wonder 'How long have you led Catarrh?'\nMatanza says 'About a month I think.  Since Art and Daniel got\nleadership spots in Arcanes.'\nYou wonder 'Is this your first time leading an org?'\nMatanza shakes his head.\nMatanza says 'I've led in countless clans, never any peaceful\norganizations though.'\nYou say 'What are some of the previous positions you've held with\nclan leaderships'\nMatanza says 'I was Number 1 and Leader of the failure of a clan\nHighlanders, number 2 of Daemonite, I think I was 2 in Merida for a\nshort time before those clans got nuked, led Ophanim, led Scorn, led\nExcordis, Maleficae, and now Catarrh.'\nYou say 'Ah, I was in Merida back in the day, and Illuminati'\nMatanza says 'Illuminati ruled'\nMatanza says 'Mostly because Jordan and I owned it up on our 15s'\nYou say 'I made an 18, when 18s were used, remember that?'\nMatanza says 'vaguely, people hated 18s because they could jump 15s\nbut couldn't be jumped by 24s'\nMatanza says '18s spawned the level 20 Paladins, who COULD be jumped,\nand it caused a lot of grief'\nYou wonder 'What brought you into pk and how long have you been\ninvolved?'\nMatanza seems to get a laugh from something saying, \"heh heh heh\".\nMatanza says 'I found this mud about 9 years ago, and made a pkiller\nas my first character.. Figured killing other players would be better\nthan whatever the alternative was.'\nMatanza says 'At first I didn't like the game, but I went back due to\nboredom a couple weeks later and actually got through pre-auth, and\nthen sort of got addicted'\nMatanza says 'I'd get to level 5, and then I would be killed by some\nrandom level 9, looted\/buried, and be stuck with no idea of what to\ndo next, so I'd make a new character'\nMatanza says 'This went on for about a year, every day making a new\ncharacter (sometimes two if it was a weekend), and every day getting\nburied and looted'\nMatanza says 'I joined Brujah for a short time with a mage I actually\ngot to 21, but when he got kicked out for no av, I changed to \npeaceful so I could actually get one of these level 50 characters.'\nMatanza says 'That was when I leveled Trinda, who only lasted as a\npeaceful for a few months before I turned her.. After the vtm clans\nwere nuked, I played lowbie in Illuminati for a while, until James\ntook over Merida'\nMatanza says 'At which point I turned my peaceful thief deadly and\nbegan avpk, been here ever since (except for the times when I quit\nthe mud)'\nMatanza says 'I think I've been involved in avpk for about 5 years? \nMaybe more, time sort of stopped counting after 2'\nYou wonder 'What made you take the challenge of becoming a clan\nleader?'\nMatanza says 'sorry i got distracted, my 4 year old niece just got\n3rd place in a mario kart race'\nMatanza says 'she usually drives backwards or something'\nYou laugh.\nMatanza says 'Catarrh I logged on one day to find out I was leader,\nI didn't particularly want to lead, but whatever I've accepted it'\nMatanza says 'The first time..'\nMatanza says 'I'd pkilled for a while, I had leveled up a real thief\nand a few other characters.  I'm not exactly sure what made me want\nto lead, but it was just something I thought I'd enjoy.  I got that\nchance when Highlanders was created'\nMatanza says 'Over time, the novelty wore off and it became more of a\nresponsibility thing.  When new clans came, I was already an\nestablished leader and there simply weren't enough qualified people\nto take control of clans'\nMatanza says 'With this current set of clans (minus Feralis plus\nVodikem) I wasn't actually a leader out of the gates'\nMatanza says 'I ended up taking over Excordis shortly before\nArtifacts came in through tactics I'm not particularly proud of, poor\npoor mike :('\nYou wonder 'What has been your greatest challenge since you have\ntaken the position?'\nMatanza says 'I'm one of the few leaders who doesn't turn a blind eye\nto spies.  I think the greatest challenge for me is identifying and\noutcasting spy characters.'\nMatanza says 'I've tried keeping a manual roster in the past, but\nwhen you take over leadership and the clan has 250 members, it's kind\nof hard to figure it out'\nYou wonder 'What is your take on newbs in clans?  Does your clan\ninduct newbs?  If so, how many are you currently training?'\nMatanza says 'My personal take is it's better to spread newbies\naround to all the clans than to put them all in one (Vodikem).'\nMatanza says 'I wanted to induct Trappannix, but didn't because at\nthe time, Catarrh had numbers in every pk, and I didn't want to\nfurther unbalance that'\nMatanza says 'Currently I don't think we house any pkill newbies,\nnot extreme newbies anyway'\nMatanza says 'That Diabolos guy plays like a newbie, but in truth he\njust sucks'\nYou roll on the floor laughing hysterically.\nMatanza winks suggestively.\nYou wonder 'What is your opinion on the current state of pkill?'\nMatanza says 'I could go on for hours about what is wrong with pkill\nright now.  Instead I will simply say I believe we have been going in\nthe wrong direction for a few years now.  I will elaborate.'\nMatanza says 'The biggest issue hasn't been getting new pkillers,\nit's been keeping the older pkillers.  I myself just returned after 8\nmonths of not playing, people are leaving all the time.'\nMatanza says 'With all the changes to pkill, we've always been\nthinking \"this will bring in new people\", but in truth it won't.\nPeople aren't going to pkill if they aren't into fighting players,\nit's not a matter of \"it looks too hard\"'\nMatanza says 'It's a matter of \"that is not my style of gameplay\".\nNo matter how much you sugarcoat it, the base action is still combat\nagainst other players.'\nMatanza says 'PKC should have been focusing on changes to bring back\nold pkillers, while at the same time making it easier on new pkillers\nMatanza says 'I also think the state of the MUD in general affects\nthe state of pkill'\nMatanza says 'For every 100 new players the MUD gets, pkill will get\n1-2'\nMatanza says 'If the MUD isn't growing, pkill has no way to grow'\nMatanza says 'With all the recent voting craze, we've already seen\nseveral new pkillers, people who are brand new to the MUD and have\nmade pkillers because that's more their style (sort of like when I\nwas a newbie)'\nYou wonder 'What are you and\/or your clan doing to promote pk, if\nanything at all?'\nMatanza says 'Besides not looting newbies or ghetto, the best you can\nreally do to help a newbie is give him links, directions, or advice\nover wartalk.'\nYou wonder 'What are your goals for Catarrh?'\nMatanza says 'I don't really lead with goals.  I'd like to get\nArtifacts back into the clan (we currently hold none), but I don't\nknow if I'd call that a \"goal\"'\nMatanza exclaims 'Oh, wait!  I do have a goal!'\nMatanza says 'I have been trying to convince Ceirana to give the\nCatarrh shop the sinful chocolate cake.'\nMatanza says 'I am responsible for Excordis getting cookies\n(thanks Moonbeam), but so far I have had no luck with the cake for\nCatarrh'\nYou say 'I'll be sure she reads this article'\nYou say 'I can get her to put these in your shop forever...'\nYou get a slice of Vortok's birthday cake from a tattered backpack.\nYou give a slice of Vortok's birthday cake to Matanza.\nYou say 'only a cool clan will sell Vortok cakes'\nMatanza utters the words, 'oculogzqgruhz'.\nTwisting veins of venoms issue from Matanza's fingertips.\nMatanza gives you a slice of Vortok's birthday cake.\nYou say 'only a cool clan will sell Vortok cakes'\nYou look around suspiciously, then scarf down a slice of Vortok's \nbirthday cake.\nYou choke and gag.\nYou say 'Ok, some controversial questions coming up.  These questions\nare simply your opinion, not that of your clan, or pk in general, and\nthe readers will see this comment.'\nYou shiver and suffer.\nYou wonder 'In your opinion, what is the weakest clan, and why do you\nfeel this is the case?'\nMatanza says 'It's a difficult thing to answer.. Initially one might\nsay Excordis, due to their large number of members with low damage\nroll.  But then you realize that they're out there every day\nfighting, trying to get better.'\nMatanza says 'Then you look at Maleficae, where they have some pretty\nbuff leaders, but they are not nearly as active as Excordis.'\nMatanza says 'it's kind of a tossup, really'\nYou shiver and suffer.\nYou wonder 'In your opinion, what is the strongest clan, and why do\nyou feel this is the case?'\nMatanza says 'Again it LOOKS like an obvious choice, say Feralis\nbecause Marcus has the DR'\nYou wonder 'but?'\nMatanza says 'But when you get Brad and Chas on fighting with Mal, or\nyou get David, Art, and me fighting with Catarrh, and everything\nchanges'\nYou nod solemnly.\nYou feel less sick.\nYou wonder 'What are your opinions about the productivity of the\ncurrent PKC?'\nMatanza says 'I think PKC has a lot of members who shouldn't be on\nPKC.  People who post stupid ideas that seem to lack any coherent\nthought.  After the other day with Kinux, it made me wonder why some\nof these people are representing pkill.'\nYou say 'I asked that same question that night.'\nYou say 'I'm still wondering why nothing has been done about it.'\nMatanza says 'I can't speak for the current PKC completely, as I'm\nnot a member,'\nMatanza says 'But when I was leading, if we had an idea that we could\nput through, we did it.  Jordan and I decided to come up with clan eq\nstats\/names, we sat in the PKC room for four hours and did it.'\nMatanza says 'When Artifacts were taking too long, we mudmailed\nBlodkai and got them in within 24 hours (Ophanim\/Scorn era)'\nMatanza says 'I just don't see that kind of initiative being taken by\nPKC members these days'\nYou say to Matanza, 'I'm still wondering why you aren't on PKC?'\nMatanza says 'I've been asked'\nMatanza wonders 'The primary reason is exactly what I just stated..\nThe current members are a joke.  How many of the members of PKC right\nnow are actively involved in more than just voting on notes?'\nMatanza says 'While I don't disagree that there have been issues in\nthe past with TS, it comes down to the individual member's\ncontributions.  I feel TS needs a deadly voice to say things like\n\"two handed will break pk\" or \"charge will break pk\"'\nMatanza says 'Despite the fact that both two handed and Barbarians \nskipped TS, they were projects done exclusively by immortals, it is\nan example.'\nYou say 'those are things we can always undo on the pk side'\nMatanza says 'Yeah, but that requires code changes.  If someone is\nthere at the ground level saying \"this idea should not be denied, but\nshould be changed so it doesn't unbalance pkill\", then we're cutting\ndown on OVERALL code time.'\nMatanza says 'Back to the topic of bringing in more players to the\nMUD in general, if I'm working with TS on general mud issues, then\nI'm helping make the MUD a better place, not just pkill.'\nYou wonder 'On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate immortal support\nto the PK community, and why?'\nMatanza says 'That question needs to be preceded with how would I\nrate the immortal respect BY the PK community, because that leads\ninto the answer.'\nMatanza says 'I do know that getting immortals to turn deadly is not an\neasy task. The general arguments about channel laws all go into the \nlack of respect a lot of pkillers give immortals'\nMatanza says 'And then they [pkillers] turn around and bitch about why\nwe haven't seen code changes in months.'\nMatanza says 'Conran and Kinux recently worked one night and got our\ntruesight potions working, simply because they were asked to on\nwartalk and had some spare time.'\nMatanza says 'I think current immortal support of pkill is extremely\nlow, but I think it's because of things like PKC having poor\nrepresentation, and the general state of wartalk.'\nYou wonder 'i have company over, so i need to run, that was the last\nquestion anyone... is there anything else at all you would like to\nsee added to this interview?'\nMatanza says 'CAKE FOR CATARRH'\nYou say 'note for Ceirana :p'\nYou say 'ok, thanks for the time Jess.'\nMatanza twirls in a graceful pirouette.\n\n(End) \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/\n\n\n\n _______________________\n\/ Class: Druids - Genge \\_____________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\\\n\n Druids are RoD's Jack-of-all-trades. They do everything pretty well, but \ndon't do anything clearly the best. They get good hp, a plethora of skills,\nand two alpha attacks. They can tank, hit, heal, and spell up - they're just\nnot usually the best at any of those things. Still, they're nice to have\naround - particularly if you're too lazy to log alts to take care of various\ntasks. If you want to save some time reading what's below: they essentially\nget every single spell and skill except portal and midas touch. \n\nSUPPORT:\n\n  - Boannaich Nadur: 15% resist cold\/elec\/fire\n  - Dance of Vines: 10% resist cold\/fire\/elec, stacks with Boannaich\n  - Depuinsean: 10% Resist poison\n  - Dion: Protect\n  - Sgorr Craiceann: 10% resist blunt, -wis*2 ac\n  - Sylvan Mist: -wis ac to group\n  - Sylvan Shell: -wis ac\n\nTACTICAL:\n\n  - Ceangail Nadur: Curse\n  - Dall Loisg: Blind\n  - Dorn Nadur: Decent alpha attack, blunt damtype, wis based\n  - Ice Storm: Primary room attack\n  - Puinsean: Poison\n  - Wisteria: -4 dex, -100 max moves\n\nUTILITIES:\n\n  - Abrar Beathach: Summons an owl. Requires a rabbit carcass.\n  - Asgaidh Nadur: Remove curse\n  - Ceoban: Passdoor\n  - Ciall: Scry \n  - Create Food: Creates a magic mushroom\n  - Create Spring: Creates a mystical spring\n  - Faic Puinsean: Detect Poison \n  - Firinn Faic: Truesight\n  - Fireshield: Stock fireshield\n  - Fly: Stock fly spell\n  - Hide: Stock hide skill\n  - Iceshield: Stock iceshield\n  - Invis: Stock invis spell\n  - Ioc Dall: Cure blind \n  - Ioc Puinsean: Cure posion \n  - Luths Nadur: +2 str\n  - Nadur Ciall: Detect invis\/hidden\/magic\n  - Nadur Dion: Sanctuary \n  - Oaken Consecration: Bless, dependant on wis {5 - 8}\n  - Organic Infusion: Wisdom based magic weapon enchantment\n  - Mass Invis: Invis, for entire group\n  - Refresh: Restores move points\n  - Scan: Stock scan\n  - Shockshield: Stock shockshield\n  - Slainte: Wis based healing \n  - Sleep: Stock sleep spell.\n  - Sneak: Stock Sneak\n  - Track: Stock track\n  - Word of Recall: Stock recall spell.\n\nDruids' combat skills break down as follows:\n - Bludgeons:     95\n - Pugilism:      90\n - Talonous:      70\n - Enhanced Dam:  80\n - Second attack: 95\n - Third attack:  90\n - Fourth attack: 65\n - Rescue:        95\n - Parry:         95\n - Parry:         95\n - Disarm:        95\n - Two handed:    25 \n\n So, what do you _really_ use a druid for? Well, mostly they're used as tanks\nfor mobs that deal mostly elemental damge - note the 95 dodge\/parry and heavy\nelemental resists. Admittedly, they do drop more potions than vampires, but on\nsome mobs the hp saved by the resists makes up for it. They can also hit while\ntanking if you time things correctly. Fire breath has only 4 beats of lag, as \nspiral, so if you breathe right after you quaff your hp up you can do extra\ndamage with no noticable impact on your tanking ability. They're also capable\nof curing the blindness of group members whose truesight runs, and respelling\neshields if a stave breaks. They have the highest rescue adept rate in the game\nas well, making them quite accurate in their attempts to save people.\n Because they have so many skills, druids are also very good for exploring. \nThey have both scry and scan, track, several skills to make markers, etc. - and\nthey can take care of any ailments that might happen along the way, and survive\nif they run into an unexpected mobile. They actually have even more skills, but\nI didn't list them all because I'm sure you get the picture.\n Do you really need a druid? Probably not. They're good if you're lazy, but if\nyou're lazy it's unlikely you'd bother leveling one. Still, if you need a main\nwith a detect spell - and the ability to avoid illegal pkills, they're a good\nchoice because it'll save logging alts for common tasks down the line.\n\n(End) \n_______________________________________________________________________________\n|_____________________________________________________________________________\/<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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