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Massively Multiplayer Online games – our first step into the Metaverse.
In thinking about how Wiki technology could be extended to make MUDs (text-only Multi-User Dungeon — these were the MMORPGs of the 80s and 90s), I got wondering if the MUD in which I spent the most time, PernMUSH, was still around… And what do you know, it’s still up. Anne McCaffrey writes romance novels. … Read more
I’ve started work on tailoring again. Making my appearance clothes in the Nest got the juices running, and I was in Lavastorm farming rares for my defiler (who just made 40) anyway… so what the heck… I leveled to tier 6, and after a night of harvesting which got me about four hundred roots and … Read more
The sky over the Commonlands was the color of galvanized aluminum… Appearance armor: Pristine Melodic Xegonite with Nightchord hat. Much of this weekend and the last one was spent catching up to the guild on the Swords of Destiny quest. I made a mistake with the Claymore quest; I didn’t focus on it at the … Read more
The Butcherblock shuttles with the ship to Kunark waiting offshore They don’t have boats in Everquest any more. I guess it’s faster to zip around the world via the Plane of Knowledge, or the translocator gnomes now. Back in the first couple of years of Everquest, you went from place to place in boats. I … Read more
I didn’t really want to wear a bathrobe everywhere. What I wanted were some clothes that said — hey! I’m a bard! Let’s have a sing-a-long! I needed some clothes nobody else would wear… and they had to look distinctive. I found a couple pieces of various trash sets — ‘woven engraved’ (all lower case) … Read more