Sunday, April 29, 2007

The Case of the Missing Vidster

Apparently, vid's been kidnapped.

He appeared some time last night after dissapearing when he jumped down the Shaft with Janine. He ran through the hood with Montgomery and K'Tania in it, yelling "WE'RE OUT OF TIME!" and "WE NEED TO GET OUT!" freaking out and such.
He ran through the hood like a maniac, and scrambled up to the Bookroom, and he swiped his hand across the Gahreesen Book, and the two explorers followed him through it.
He continued to run like a madman straight to the Locker Room, where he linked to the balcony.

They followed him there, and he somehow managed to leap straight over the side of the balcony, and as he plummeted through the air, he just pretty much vanished.
Nobody know what's happened to him, nobody know where he went, and they don't know what's going on now.

Andy Legate said he linked in and saw a strange explorer with a white DRC Hat and his KI didn't register his name. As he turned awkwardly away, the figure started following him, and he Relto'd out.
Besides that, yeah, nothing new. besides ALL that. I recorded most of the meeting to discuss it hopefully, but I had to come up, and I'm gonna add this before I head off to run errands.

People have been saying he's "hoaxing" us, or a Bahro chased him, just showing itself to vid, the DRC are thinking vid got to close, I think I suggested the funny DRC-hatted guy chasing him in a Maintainer Suit with invisible capabilities. Hmm. Oh, yeah, and the Shaft being the Rabbit Hole from Alice in Wonderland.

"Stop saying that, cream puffs are good!" - Valdez, after I'd said vid had been chased away by cream puffs and they were nasty. Several times.

Saturday, April 28, 2007

Parties and Owies

D'ni Party's Bevin was booming last night, I almost forgot about it, but I was there, I was koo'!

Can't say much more about, sorry there's such a small mention of such an awesome event, but that's about all I can say.
besides that, I spent some more time in the Descent, got a few awesome falling KI Images. One of looking up from mid-air, and one a happily close picture of the bottom of the Shaft. I'm rather proud of them, and they're on the Imager now. Though'll most likely be gone by the time anyone looks.
But I also found out theres a possible shortcut to the Shaft below, its dangerous and almost never works, but eh.
Basically, you go to the opposite side of the Shaft from the mid-chamber, and you walk slowly backwards toward the ledge, you'll fall, but don't panic, just jump, or breastroke your way forward to the air when your mid-way between the mid-chamber and the bottom.
If you do it wrong, you'll slam painfully off the wall and flip into the air with almost NO time to get to panic-link.

I haven't made it, but I found it out by accidentally jumping forward in mid-air, and I latched onto a nearby wall.

Plus, I put some short KI-sized stories on the UO Imager called "It's a Long way Down" and "An Interesting Experience." About falling down the Shaft and walking through a Bahro as it links in to place the Bahro Stone.
And that's jus' 'bout it, ya'll! Spent some time in UO, and I'm blogging this before I head up for possibly the day, I dunno. I may actually have some free time.

Still haven't got the Descent Album up..

But I DID read Watson's notes, sounds like he either took the Journey or commited suicide.

"Well, it'll make us look slimmer!" - imara, referring to BrettM's mention of the Day of Darkness, where we all dress in black to celebrate the DRC and Yeesha leaving us in the dark.

Thursday, April 26, 2007

ADM02 Rally Highlights

This is kinda dumb, but Montgomery made up a log recorded on his KI and posted it in the Assembly of Guilds, and I found it today, and I think its pretty cool and a bit dramatic, even, so here goes..

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(04/24 02:14:10) Sydney Austin: If we make enuff noise the drc might ocme

(04/24 02:18:14) Sydney Austin: Cheer for answeres

(04/24 02:21:01) Prof. Matt Ovesen: She is looking out for her own hide, not the animals.

(04/24 02:23:00) Sydney Austin: They are not saying everything they know abot the negilahn animals.

(04/24 02:23:45) Sydney Austin: We demand answers!!!!!

(04/24 02:24:08) Prof. Matt Ovesen: They are hiding something that would hurt them--The DRC.

(04/24 02:24:23) Prof. Matt Ovesen: They have the forensic test results.
(04/24 02:25:27) Prof. Matt Ovesen: The forensic tests they did on the animal remains.

(04/24 02:26:01) Sydney Austin: Has everyone sent a message to cate's KI
(04/24 02:26:14) Sydney Austin: Demanding answers

(04/24 02:27:08) Prof. Matt Ovesen: We want answers NOW!

(04/24 02:29:28) Sydney Austin: Time to demand

(04/24 02:30:30) Prof. Matt Ovesen: When an organization is hiding something, asking politely gets you nothing.

(04/24 02:30:41) Sydney Austin: I gave cate a chance to come before the protest started
(04/24 02:30:47) Sydney Austin: To give us the answers
(04/24 02:30:55) Sydney Austin: And she didn't show
(04/24 02:31:02) Sydney Austin: So its time to demand

(04/24 02:31:06) Prof. Matt Ovesen: By not showing up, Cate is proving that she has something to hide!

(04/24 02:32:06) Prof. Matt Ovesen: She will not bow down to cowardly, quiescent explorers.

(04/24 02:34:42) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Why hasn't Sharper been back to add to his journal?
(04/24 02:35:06) Sydney Austin: Maybe sharper knows too much

(04/24 02:37:04) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Those who don't care for animals don't care for other humans either.

(04/24 02:38:25) sil_oh_wet: If the DRC does not represent tonight - what does that tells us?
(04/24 02:38:46) Prof. Matt Ovesen: It tells us they are hiding something.
(04/24 02:39:00) Prof. Matt Ovesen: It only takes ten minutes to come here.

(04/24 02:39:30) Sydney Austin: Send a rep in if she is afaid to face us

(04/24 02:43:57) Sydney Austin: The DRC must think we are stupid!!!

(04/24 02:45:48) Montgomery: Rils saw ONE shredded animal. And the cause is still unknown. Why do you assume otherwise?
(04/24 02:46:23) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Exactly Montgomery! Why are they hiding the cause??
(04/24 02:46:36) Sydney Austin: We want cate
(04/24 02:46:42) Sydney Austin: We want answers
(04/24 02:46:55) Sydney Austin: We want answers
(04/24 02:47:12) Sydney Austin: We want answers!!
(04/24 02:47:32) Sydney Austin: we demand the hidden information
(04/24 02:47:43) Sydney Austin: We demand the hidden information
(04/24 02:46:46) Montgomery: Professor, what on Earth makes you tink they know the cause?
(04/24 02:47:04) Prof. Matt Ovesen: They know the forensic results.
(04/24 02:47:19) Prof. Matt Ovesen: It is obvious they are hiding something.
(04/24 02:47:55) Montgomery: How do you know they have any "forensic results?"
(04/24 02:48:17) Thanakar: Montgomery, Rils said he took tissue samples
(04/24 02:49:13) Montgomery: Then why not simply ask RIls? Why all of the drama?
(04/24 02:49:37) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Rils knows nothing.

(04/24 02:49:26) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Who are they to hide the information?
(04/24 02:49:46) Montgomery: Who are you to presume they have information and not disclosing it?
(04/24 02:50:11) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Why don't they tell us they have no information? They are hiding something.
(04/24 02:50:21) Prof. Matt Ovesen: It would only take ten minutes.
(04/24 02:51:20) Montgomery: Did it ever occur to you, Professor, that they saimply have no answers to give?

(04/24 02:50:18) Mister Cloak: keeping information from people is a right, I believe that the DRC have the right to withold information, especially if that information is incomplete
(04/24 02:50:52) Keren: Who are they to decide when we are ready to hear the truth?
(04/24 02:51:03) Mister Cloak: and who are you?
(04/24 02:51:22) Mister Cloak: why should they jump at your beck and call everytime that you want to know something?
(04/24 02:51:25) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Why do you not care about the animals, Cloak?
(04/24 02:51:58) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Why are you helping the DRC to hide, Cloak?

(04/24 02:55:07) Prof. Matt Ovesen: If they aren't hiding anything, then why don't they tell us something??
(04/24 02:56:04) Montgomery: LOL! Professor! If they aren't hiding anything , then they have nothing to tell you! Did you skip logic class?

(04/24 02:58:45) Prof. Matt Ovesen: I prefer to call them the Restoration Delusionists, ha, ha!

(04/24 02:59:19) Sydney Austin: I gave them a chance before the protest to start the facts
(04/24 02:59:42) Sydney Austin: But cate ignored my ki message a message directly for nick white to here
(04/24 02:59:46) Sydney Austin: *her
(04/24 03:00:00) Sydney Austin: So all we have left is to protest and demand

(04/24 03:04:02) Prof. Matt Ovesen: All the evidence points to the DRC hiding something.
(04/24 03:04:33) Montgomery: Professor -- WHAT EVIDENCE? You keep pulling that out of thin air.
(04/24 03:04:39) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Yes, we want facts. And the DRC is withholding facts.
(04/24 03:05:00) Prof. Matt Ovesen: You haven't been listening, Mongomery.
(04/24 03:05:07) Montgomery: You don't know the DRC is witholding facts. You're maiking that up.
(04/24 03:05:22) Prof. Matt Ovesen: All the evidence points to it.
(04/24 03:05:29) Ethan Hunt: If they aren't witholding facts, where are they. Where are the DRC and the facts?
(04/24 03:05:33) Montgomery: WHAT EVIDENCE?
(04/24 03:05:34) Thanakar: someone has told the ADM something montgomery, they aren't making this up i'm afraid
(04/24 03:05:46) Porsha: do you have proof that they are not withholding information from us Monty?
(04/24 03:06:04) Ethan Hunt: There silence is all the evidence that is needed.
(04/24 03:06:05) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Montgomery, I don't KNOW that you are against the ADM, but all the evidence points to it.
(04/24 03:06:08) Montgomery: You can't prove a negative. Yawn.
(04/24 03:06:18) Ethan Hunt: Sure you can.
(04/24 03:06:29) Ethan Hunt: That is an obtuse argument Monty.
(04/24 03:06:47) Prof. Matt Ovesen: He's grasping at straws.
(04/24 03:06:51) Montgomery: Oh, I've made that clear [that I'm against the DRC]. No mystery there. But what evidence can you give me that the DRC HAVE facts, and not sharing them?
(04/24 03:07:23) Ethan Hunt: The very fact that they are silent. If there were no facts to hide, they would tell us.
(04/24 03:07:24) Prof. Matt Ovesen: The evidence points to it.
(04/24 03:07:52) Thanakar: has noone ever heard of a confidential source?
(04/24 03:07:57) Sydney Austin: I have a reliable sorce monty that came to us stating the DRC is not saying everything about eh Negilahn Creatures
(04/24 03:08:44) Montgomery: Oh. Confidential source. I have a bunch of those. I have evidence that Cate is really Sharper's daughter. Now. Prove I'm wrong. I'll wait.
(04/24 03:09:10) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Give us your evidence, Monty. We've presented ours.
(04/24 03:09:25) Montgomery: Not to me.
(04/24 03:09:37) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Because your mind is closed.
(04/24 03:09:57) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Your mind is almost as closed as the DRC's mouth.
(04/24 03:09:58) Montgomery: My mind is open to any evidence you have. I have asked for it repeatedly.
(04/24 03:10:23) Ethan Hunt: And we have told you repeatedly that their silence is all the evidence necessary.
(04/24 03:10:29) Prof. Matt Ovesen: We are not going to convince you, Monty, so you might as well go do something else.
(04/24 03:11:36) Sydney Austin: I have facts and logs and records all can be proved down the rode if need be
(04/24 03:11:52) Sydney Austin: So get off my butt
(04/24 03:12:01) Sydney Austin: And let the protest continue
(04/24 03:12:22) Prof. Matt Ovesen: You'll never understand, Monty.
(04/24 03:12:35) sil_oh_wet: If you dont believe without proof - proof wont make you believe either
(04/24 03:12:47) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Because you don't want to understand.
(04/24 03:13:10) Montgomery: My dear Professor. It's not a question of understanding. You keep pushing opinions as "evidence." I'm not buying. Show me the money.
(04/24 03:13:33) Prof. Matt Ovesen: Here's a quarter Monty. Happy?
(04/24 03:13:34) Sydney Austin: A lot of people are here, they all believe the drc has info they are hidng from us they know, they feel it, and they smell it!!!!!!
(04/24 03:13:45) Prof. Matt Ovesen flips a quarter to Montgomery.

Sydney VS Cate

Well, it ain't an ADM Meeting or a Raid-on-Sydney, but its an all-out debate between Ethan hunt, Sydney Austin, and Cate "Lexie" Alexander.

Basically, she told us Sharper's coming back from the surface, most likely with a report and more entries in his public Journal. Plsu, she told us that they did not place the Bahro Stone to Descent. So, it was either Watson himself or the Bahro.

I'd personally prefer Watson, cause its about time he starts showing his rumpus, cause all we got is a hologram so far.

The debate continued into The Meeting Place Bevin and Anti-DRC Movement's Bevin, and I got a full log of the second one, but she Relto'd out as soon as I stepped in on the first one. So, that's the basics of all events I know about today, haven't checked the Cavern Today, so I dunno.

"I'm not sure you can protect people from throwing themselves off of cliffs." - Kolian, referring to Sydney saying that the Ages were too dangerous and people could fall and die easily, such as Descent.

Wednesday, April 25, 2007

Descent of the Painful Fallings

No idea what that means.

Well, Descent was released today, and the spiral down is murder, sometimes literally. I have no clue if anyone's made it down yet, I only checked it out for a little bit, but Watson's been in the chamber on the top.
Off the radar, I dunno, but it seems he's about, or was, he left his Journal, and I dunno how far he'd plan to stray from it.
I thought at first the spiral led into nowhere, hence "Descent," but when I fell and hit several pillars and ledges painfully, and finally managed to flip out my Relto Book and panic-link, it turns out there's a little palace-sort thign down there.

I'm gonna try tomorrow, though.

Didn't get to spend much time down there, but I got into my Descent Phot Album, though I haven't actually started it yet, the phots are just on file. There's a barred door to the corridor, an unoperational KI Dispenser, and an empty Nexus Pillar. Whoo.
Spent alittle time in shrimpy's Relto, and some in Uo earlier, no SWN today, vid din't show up and the Descent was too much of a distraction.

Nothing much else to say, so AaAaAay!

"Hello down there." - Crystal, when I walked around the first stone spiral to the ledge below her.

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

Kadish or Camahn?

Ah, not a super bunch to say or anything, there was another Anti-DRC Movement Meeting yesterday, which was Monday, so no big SWN finale. Which I missed last week, by the way.
Nick DID show up about an hour before, I came in at the end, ofcourse, and scared him off, whoo.

There was an annoying guy who stole my "hypnotic purple hair" schtick, plus he was rude, among many things. Dunno who he was, didn't recognize, I think he was using a megaphone from the Classroom rooftop or the Hood Balcony.

Ah, and today there was an interesting bit from Dakro's Kadish, we started talking about whether the skeleton was Kadish or the last person who Kadish murdered (Either Camahn or Carahn, not fluent in D'ni.) or his own.
It was his age and his vault, so I dunno. Plus Dakro, Rivenorth, and tuxarc locked me out of the Vault and I had to figure out the puzzle on the panel all over again.

I locked them out eventually anyway.

BUT, because of that, they back-tracked to Dakro's Relto and used his Future Vault link since the Book in the Vault took them to individual Ages.
But it turns out that, since we could message to eachother on Age players and the KI rgeistered us in the same place.

So the Vault and Future Vault are in DIFFERENT parts of Kadish Tolesa!

"Argh, I tried to turn on the TV with the phone!" - Dakro, over the Neighbour Channel, a bit before the ADM Meeting

Saturday, April 21, 2007

Tetsonot Terror

Well, Tetsonot's out, and its not anything like I thought it'd be. It's a creepy Pod where it takes forever to find the light switch, and there's just flickering red emergency lights.

And that's BEFORE you find the light switch.

Then there's just a whole bunch of flashing red emergency lights on in the entire Pod, and you find out there's an ankle-deep pool of murky water thats glowing an eerie red. The lights just keep on flashing too, I got a few pictures for my album, and screwed outta there.
I mean, I had to get Calu to help me find the light switch, and it even took him awhile. Than said the best way was climbing on top of the Nexus Book Pillar and jumping forward, but that was very hard with only three or four, dim, flashing lights above me.

Depressing and morbid, 'nuff said. I even wrote a quick KI thingy about it, put it on the Imager, yu can see it below.

And no, even though the DRC put it in the Museum two days ago, i am not late, just haven't been able to get on much, and I had an interesting conversation with a galadriel, basically warning us about terrorists who were jealous of the spoilers on the UO Forums.

She's the one with the missiles and phaser.

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Sunday, April 15, 2007

Zero Dinero

Yeah, I don't know what Zero Dinero means either.

But Laxman says that the final few markers showed up all on their own, so now we can get into the Cathedral and calibrate the Great Zero. It's about bloody time, I think.
So, I finished up my red marker set, and I'm in the race, got to my fifth mission so far, I missed out last night because of a surprise visit to the surface.

And I had trouble linking back down, dunno why.

I actually don't have much to say, besides that I did finish up my Great Zero photo album, though there's another spot left for when the Rezeero is all calibrated.

Let the games begin!

"Well, think, they haven't put any WD40 on them for hundreds of years!" - Anansi, referring to the old and sticky Doors to the Cathedral

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Too Many To Name

Well, I've been really lazy on updating this and everything. Well, first, there was vid's Great Portal Party where we went from Pod to Pod, Negilahn, Dereno, and Payiferen, just to wait for the portal.
If anyone ever went in, we'd all agreed to meet back at Uru Obsession's Bevin anyway.

Plus, there was the Kadish Dance Party, which was fun, if rather small, I missed last years, but I know that it had been on the Light Puzzle, and they had light-switchers. This year's was on the Tile Puzzle, and vid was supposed to switch the light, but I ended up doing it a bit, and I take a very melancholy video of it all, plus there's a special spot in the Photo Album, ofcourse. Also, just so the future generations remember, it was hosted by John Pogue.

Let's see..

Ah, right, just yesterday there was Spoken Word Night #48 and the Anti-DRC Movement, yes, on the same night!
The ADM was a total bore, though, and we ended up raiding the stage by runing up and practicing the new dance. But, if anything, I can atleast admire the fact that they kept on talking, if pausing, after we did that.

And today, as we speak, even, Overdrive is having a little talk with Chloe, one of the heads of the ADM, so, see ya later!

"Cookies that GLOW!!" - Dalken Starbyen, referring to the PortStones in Payiferen

Friday, April 6, 2007

Yif and Yap

Payiferen is out, whoooo! Or I like to call it "Yif," you know, cause its Payiferen? C'mon, we have Neg and Reno, why not Yif? You know you love it too, foo on you!
It actually came out yesterday, and I did know yesterday, I just went down for a few minutes last night to check it out since I was so tired. But what WAS awesome is we have a new dance, which will probably be in my album sometime soon. I'm just now going down to snapshot everything and all.
The dance is really cool, and I'm gonna try to bring a CD with "I Don't Wanna Be a Chicken" on it, cause honestly, that's what it reminds me of SO much?

If you've seen it, it really is cool though, and the way everyone's doing it, you stick your tongue out every once in awhile, though I haven't got the hang of when yet. Just going about, oh well, this was just a quick little post to make up for yesterday before I go on my Payiferen phot expedition!

Harohs!

"I have released a curse on the Uru Live community." - John Bray, after seeing everyone's reaction when he told them about the new dance.

Wednesday, April 4, 2007

Spoken Word Night #47

Well, Spoken Word Night was great. The main event was "Round Robin" as vid called it, I've never called it that, and right before I was gonna say TWADNR finala called it something else. "Pass it around," or something, I honestly can't remember.
TWADNR was Predatory Instincts, I've decided it'll be six parts, with Predatory Instincts and Return of Frankenlax. I also kinda regret, cause I was thinking about it, all the puking and under-excretions was a bit immature and digusting. I think the parody of Rils talking about Nick puking took me down that path.

There was also a topic thats actually has been there for a while, or atleast has been well posted-upon, about the Guide of Guardians which, doesn't sound like much at first. But they're an almost exact copy of the Guild of Maintainers, INCLUDING the uniform.
Plus there are a bunch of other posts and stuff that I've read or not read but are too lazy to include very single thing here.

Plus, somebody played vort's music from his videos all the time, and affirmative is funny!

"So, everyone was eating jelly beans and they jumped into the lake after the flaming beachball?" - Thend (I think.), remarking about Bunny's turn on the Round Robin

Tuesday, April 3, 2007

Maintaining Wierdiosity

Well, today was pretty uneventful, but I'm bored, so..

Well, I finished my Maintainer's Eder Gira, still need to add the rest of the Maintainers to his Buddy List. And they're thinking of renaming the Guide of Maintainers to Maintainer's Auxilliary or something like that for official DRC reasons.
Visited with shrimpy and Justin briefly after doing Gira, did a boring report and Image about a bug at the top of the Gira waterfall where it glows when you're at the edge.

It's kinda cool, actually..

Still haven't got a Ki Image for Monty to crop out at the Group Phto, might wanna hurry up for that. And I still feel awkward trouncing around ANY Bevin as a Maintainer.
But oh well, I've gotta head up for the night, mrrm.

"You like blowing your mic, don't you?" - shrimpy, in Uru Obsession's Bevin

Monday, April 2, 2007

April Fools and Maintainer Dudes

esterday was April Fools, and Cavern Today pulled a nice joke about Jack Bauer coming down to the Cavern to stop a terrorist Kadish Tolesa..

Veeeeeeeeery interesting..

I played Marco Polo in Eder Gira, and Hide n' Seek in Gahreesen with shrimpy, ian, Jeffrey Lewis, and Valdez. And I noticed my Nexus is starting to register all Gahreesens as Garrison, which is wierd.
But, yesterday I applied for the Guide of Maintainers, the modern one, anyway. They had Kadish, Upper City, and Lower City left. But I wasn't picky.
And Skellington might've got Kadish, can't remember.

Anyway, today, I got approved, haven't got assigned an Age yet, but I'm (Pretty sure it's unoffically? Montgomery's working on approving it with D'net.) a Maintainer!
Black hardhat, black leather jacket, black jeans, and blah, a bit depressing. But it's only until the DRC releases the Maintainer Suits.

Oh well, that's it.

"Engberg reiterates that the library's opening was not his idea. Sharper knocks him out cold." - A quote from yesterday's Cavern Today.