/ \ _ ) (( )) ( (@) /|\ ))_(( /|\ _ |-|`\ / | \ (/\|/\) / | \ (@) | | ------------/--|-voV---\`|'/--Vov-|--\--------------|-| |-| '^` (o o) '^` | | | | `\Y/' |-| |-| The Monthly Imagica Ezine - Issue nr 2 | | | | (IMAGIZINE 17-05-1999) |-| |_|_____________________________________________________| | (@) l /\ / ( ( \ /\ l `\|-| l / V \ \ V \ l (@) l/ _) )_ \I `\ /' ` A monthly magazine concerning the MUD Imagica. This is an interactive magazine so your input is very much appreciated. If you want something in the Imagizine, then mail me (Cestus) at Cestus at email.jimagica.net so that I can put it in. .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ News ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' G'day, and welcome to the second edition of the Imagizine. Another fun-filled-action-packed-edition. Although there are just, a few more subscriptions then the last one, I am still hopefull that more and more mudders wil subscribe to this Magazine. Your help is most welcome, to spread the word. In this months issue we have set up a little competition, between all the different areas inside Imagica. All you have to do is follow the instructions below (it is pretty self-explanatory) and send it to me. I will then make a big list of which zones have won the coolest zone award. These results will be printed in the next issue, so keep an eye out for that, and of course vote for what you think is the coolest zone. As most of you might, have noticed we now have our very own Mortal Combat Arena in the mud :), more about that below. -- Your Editor, Cestus .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ The Arena ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' Hear ye, hear ye, the arenas in Imagica are finally in place! Maybe you already noticed some strange rumours going around the Imagica world. People gossip about 'challenging' and 'arena channels' but what does it all mean ? Well, I will explain how the Arenas work and what you can do with them. The arena commands : - Nochallenge: With this command you can toggle your availibility for challenges from other players. You can only be challenged if the score command says so. - Noarena: With the arena system there came also a new channel. The arena channel. On this channel you can see who challenges who in what arena, and what other players bet on the challenger/challengee. With this command you can toggle the arena channel on and off. - Arenas: To see which arenas are installed in Imagica you can use this command. It displays all available arenas and who challenged who in what arena. - Challenge: This command makes you challenge a player in a designated arena. This only works if the person you challenge is open to challenges. Everyone can challenge everyone. It's up to the one who gets challenged too see if there is even a remote possibility to win the fight. The syntax is : challenge - Accept, Decline and Revoke: Once you are challenged you can either accept or decline the challenge. If you accept, you and your challenger will be transferred to the arena and a die will be rolled to see who may start the fight. If the cha- lenger decides he/she does not want to fight anymore, he/she can use the revoke the challenge with 'revoke'. Fighting in the arena : Once a fight has been started, it will be to the bitter end. In the future there will be specific arenas in which no magic is allowed. For now the arena permits magic except 'portal', 'recall', 'summon', and 'teleport'. If one of the fighters dies, both will be transferred to the 'chill-out' room where they can quietly regenerate. No actual corpse will be created so the looser does not loose exp, equipment or money. Spectating : Now you all wonder, 'How can we see what goes on during the fight !?'. Well you can travel to the arena tribunes just NE of Teldar. You can sit down there and you will see everything that happens in the arena. You can cheer your favorite fighter, or just have some popcorn and chat with the other spectators. 'Let's make lots of money': From the moment a challenge is made it is possible to bet some money on the fight. Please note however that no money is created with factors or anything like that. This means that all wagered money goes in one pot and will be dis- tributed over the winners. I.e. if 2 people bet the same amount on the same fighter and that fighter wins, they will receive back what they bet in the first place. If, however, a third player made a bet on the other guy/gal, they will receive their wager plus half the money the third person put up. It is permitted for the fighters to join the betting, they may even bet on their selves. The commands : - Bet: This command with no arguments will show you what bets have been made. With an amount and a player it will make you bet the given amount on the given player. If you had a bet already, it will be adjusted to the new setting. - Fold: If it all becomes too much for you, you can fold from the bet. Now you can measure your strength to others. Please note that in the future more arenas will come with different rules. Your Implementor, Aragorn .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ The coolest / best area ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' Hi all, We were wondering what all of you thought was the best / coolest zone, so in order to figure out what you think I made a little form which you can fill out. Below, is a list of the zones which are competing for the coolest zone award. Simply fill out the following form ranking the top 5 coolest zones. Copy and Paste it and mail it to Cestus at email.jimagica.net ,then in the next Imagizine the complete list of best zones will be shown. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Name: Theses are the best zones Ranking from 1 - 5 (1 being the coolest): Zone 1 : Zone 2 : Zone 3 : Zone 4 : Zone 5 : ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please fil it out and send it to Cestus at email.jimagica.net (I will not process any forms you send in after the 10th on June) -------- Full list of all Zones competing -------- - The mortal arena's - City of Teldar - The High Tower Of Magic - Kirkwood Forest - Cave Complex, levels 1-2 - Cave Complex, level 3 - The Desert of Death - The City of Thalos - The domain of King Greymung - Howling Rock - Haon-Dor (Light) - Haon-Dor, Dark Forest - Arachnos - The Farm and the mushroom field - The roads around lake - The roads around lake - The FanGorn mountains and roads - The roads around mountain - The Ban-weary valley - The Large Woods - Rome - King's Castle - Newbie Zone - The Tree of Life - Ancalador/Necromancers' Guild - Black woods - Barallake - The Flying Dutchman - Collasha - Dead Forest - Statue of Notoarm - Maze of Noconbac - the Prison - Newbie Zone of Tiff-Tiwell - Hig Heron - Nivrim, the city of trade. - The Watch Tower - Monastery - The forevergreen - Valley of Death - The High Setherial Mountain .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Clans ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' Hi all, Last Imagizine I said I was gonna explain more about each clan, so here goes: The first clan I will start with is THD (The Heavenly Disorder). This clan's main purpose is to rid the world of all the holy beings, may it be a priest, a monk, or anything holy opressing the normal people. The Heavenly Disorder has decided that all this opression must end. All classes are allowed aside from those filthy holy paladins, and all races except for those stupid trolls are excepted. The main power behind the clan is fire, and the unholyness. Benifits of the clan are: You'll get a clan item, a clan chat, a weekly Clan magazine (by E-mail) to keep you up to date about new members, promotions and such, you'll grow horns at high clan level. And now for the lesser parts, the drawbacks: You have to sell your soul to Cestus (Well, actually you sell your soul to the clan), you have to serve higher clan levels (Do their biddings), you are not allowed to help other people (from other clans or people that have no clan) anymore, unless it is of great benifit to you and the clan. -- Cestus .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Potions ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' Some of you might have gotten a potion in your hands, it might have been labeled, it might have not. It might have some weird pink color, or strange bubbles in it, you'll never know what it does, unless...... you have made it yourself. Brewing your own potions is a skill some player posess. The brewing of potion takes highly skilled alchemist and other people who practise the same kind of skills. But you can do it yourself, as long as you are proficient in brewing. If that is the case then you can make all the potions you want for yourself, all it takes is the knowlegde of brewing and a empty bottle (to put what you have brewed in). And tada..you can brew a potion of healing... So go out there and brew you heart out :) -- Cestus .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ The free comment Area ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' This is YOUR area, anything that you want to let others now you can put here. Just mail Cestus (Cestus at email.jimagica.net) and I will put your message in this Area. ---- Submitted by: Pater "And it will be a time of great strife, when the two moons eclipse each other. Because then Evil shall arise from it's grave and will hunt the mortals once again." Think again, buddy, because this is where we step in! Yes, we are the Defenders Of Justice! Our purpose: to vanquish evil and protect the innocent. We shall take care that Imagica will never be overrun by this evil. For Evil may come to this world, they will never be able to touch the purest of soul. We are the chosen ones. We shall stop this threat while we still can, but we will never succumb to Evil. The clan is looking for pure souls, those willing to dedicate their life to defend justice and do good. And in return we will open the Tomb of the Sacred Ones, to equip our crusaders with the most necessary items to fight evil. Items, such as the Sword of Justice and the Holy Light, can only be used by the sacred ones. The evil ones will perish while trying. If you are willing to dedicate your life to defend justice and protect the innocent, you are welcome to join our clan. But beware, the wolf in sheepskin will be easily detected and our wrath will come upon those who are daring to do evil against us. If you are looking for more information, check our homepage at http://www.xs4all.nl/~mellow/ -- Pater Noster, clan- representative of the Defenders Of Justice .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Quotes ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' The area will be used to put all your quotes on. To enter a quote please mail Cestus (Cestus at email.jimagica.net), and I will put your quote in. ---- Submitted by: Cestus If you don't like the world as it is - change your attitude. .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Adverts ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' This area is used for adverts. Anyone can send in their own advert, just mail Cestus (Cestus at email.jimagica.net) and I will put your advert in. (This of course has to concern Imagica). ---- Submitted by: Mender The White Setherial is in need of a new mortal clan leader to maintain the reputation of the clan. I am looking for a enthousiastic mortal, who is at least level 40. He / She has to be able to forfill all the tasks required to be a leader at TWS. The leader has to do the following tasks, requit new members for the clan, make sure that all the members are following the TWS policy and of course the leader has to have the potential (intelligence), to deal with possible problems inside or outside the clan. -- Mender The White Setherial Repres. ---- Submitted by: Lee Hi all, As you know, the TRB-clan has her own webiste, it recently received a new 'look' and some updates. The only this missing is a logo for the clan. Unfortunatly I don't have the time to design one my self (has to receive approval, and then be edited again, you know the works). So, i'd like to invite all who are interested in designing to think of a suiting logo for the Raging Berserkers. mail all idea's, scetches and logo's to: marjolein_duran@Hotmail.com The general e-mail adress from the clan is: imagicatrb@Hotmail.com The site can be found at: http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Gazebo/9848 -- greetings from Lee .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Policy ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' For everyone that hasn't read the Imagica policy! READ IT! You can read our policy at either the Homepage www.jimagica.net or by typing "policy" when you are playing. If you play Imagica you are obligated to behave by the simple rules that are stated in the policy. All the "rules" are made to keep playing Imagica fun. -- You friendly neighborhood Gaffer, Cestus .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Problems ? ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' If you are having any kinds of problems (troubles) with another person playing Imagica. (Harassing, speaking foul language, etc) then please contact me (Cestus) via mud-mail or E-Mail so that we can take the appropiate actions against that person. Remember, all players are actual real life people behind a computer, so treat them as you would like to be treated yourself. E-Mail addresses can be found below (In the Imagica Info). .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Unsubscribing ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' To unsubscribe yourself from this magazine, thus you don't want to receive this magazine anymore then. Just mail to listserv at email.jimagica.net with "signoff mortals" in the body and you will automatically be removed. This means however that you will also be removed from the mortal mailinglist. .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Old issues ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' For all people that have missed/lost old issues, and want ro read them. All the old issues as well as the current issue can be found on the Imagica homepage at www.jimagica.net .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Imagica Info ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' Imagica Homepage - https://jimagica.net Mud Address - jimagica.net (port:4000 or 119) />_________________________________ [########[]_________________________________> \> E-Mail Aragorn (Producer) - Aragorn at email.jimagica.net E-Mail Hero (Producer) - Hero at email.jimagica.net E-Mail Mender (Co-prod) - Mender at email.jimagica.net E-Mail Venice (Co-prod) - Venice at email.jimagica.net E-Mail Radagast (Director) - Radagast at email.jimagica.net E-Mail Random (Director) - Random at email.jimagica.net E-Mail Cestus (Gaffer) - Cestus at email.jimagica.net />_________________________________ [########[]_________________________________> \> Gods: Aragorn - God of Balance Hero - God of Balance Mender - God of Life Venice - God of Death Radagast - God of Elements Random - God of Darkness and Light Cestus - God of War />_________________________________ [########[]_________________________________> \> Clan Homepages: the Daggers Of Destiny (DOD) http://www.si.hhs.nl/~v962931/ The White Setherial (TWS) http://www.euronet.nl/~mender/clan WARlock clan (WAR) http://www.fictional.net/warlock/war.htm Army of Darkness and Death (ADD) http://www.si.hhs.nl/~v962789/clan.htm The Heavenly Disorder (THD) http://www.nai.nu/thd Defenders Of Justice (DOJ) http://www.xs4all.nl/~mellow The Raging Bersekers (TRB) http://www.geocities.com/Wellesley/Gazebo/9848 The Soul Reavers (TSR) - Doesn't have one (yet) />_________________________________ [########[]_________________________________> \> Clan E-Mail contacts: the Daggers Of Destiny (DOD) - Radagast at email.jimagica.net The White Setherial (TWS) - Mender at email.jimagica.net WARlock clan (WAR) - Venice at email.jimagica.net Army of Darkness and Death (ADD) - Vriens@Casema.net The Heavenly Disorder (THD) - Cestus at email.jimagica.net Defenders Of Justice (DOJ) - Cldoj@Hotmail.com The Raging Bersekers (TRB) - Imagicatrb@Hotmail.com The Soul Reavers (TSR) - Tsr_clan@Yahoo.com .-----------------------------------------------------------------. / .-. .-. \ | / \ / \ | | |\_. | ~~ Credits ~~ | /| | |\| | /| |\ | |/| | `---' | | `---' | | |-----------------------------------------------------| | \ | | / \ / \ / `---' `---' Editor: Cestus, the God of War Thanx to (for their input): Mender, Lee, Pater, Aragorn _ _ ,/ \, _________{( })_________ /.-------./\\ //\.-------.\ //@@@@@@@//@@\\ ) ( //@@\\@@@@@@@\\ //@@@@@@@//@@@@>>/ \<<@@@@\\@@@@@@@\\ //O@O@O@O//@O@O// \\O@O@\\O@O@O@O\\ //OOOOOOOO//OOOO|| \ / ||OOOO\\OOOOOOOO\\ //O%O%O%O%//O%O%O%\\ ))(( //%O%O%O\\%O%O%O%O\\ ||%%%%%%%%//' `%%%%\\ // \\ //%%%%' `\\%%%%%%%|| ((%%%%%%%(( %%%%%\\ (( )) //%%%%% ))%%%%%%)) \:::' `::\\ `:::::\\ \)~~(/ //:::::' //::' `:::/ )' `;)' (` ` \\ `<@ @>' / / ' ') `(;' `( ( \`\ )^^( / / ) _ ) \\oo/ ( (@) \ `' / _ |-|\__________________\__^__<________oOo__________ (@) | | VVV \|-| |-| Have FUN playing Imagica ! |-| |_|\_____________________________________________ | | (@) / ,/ \_____/ \\ ~\/~ `\|-| ~ ___//^~ \____/\\ (@) <<< \ __ <____/|| ~ < \ <___/|| || <___// \ \/__// ~----~