I will be running a quest approximately around 5pm central USA time.
Meet on Bal Harbor. All welcome, but I’d advise newbies don’t join. (under level 21)
Drachma, EXP, Gold… gluck! :)~
-Tox
Immortals of SlothMUD III
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[ DaHealAh ] Tox QUEST STARTS VERY SOON…
[ Immortal ] Ziva —
[pri sec ter qua] Players
[ Assassin ] Restive DS
[ Arch-Lich ] Zero ..
[ Assassin ] Virus [[[CSK]]] need immortal help with buying stat.
[ Hierarch ] Assirian {Greedy} teach rdead
[ Overlord ] Agemo – Vote for Slothmud!
[ Grand Druid ] Stryx [DoW]
[ Arch-Lich ] Aston [Legends]
[ Overlord ] Bazilus the Crazy Python {Greedy}
[ Wizard ] Truth {Greedy} little teapot
[ Overlord ] Strider {GAIDIN} Had a great time at Nationals
[ Assassin ] Cizin wtb/wtt a purple stinger [[[CSK]]]
[ Hierarch ] Madmax
[ Overlord ] Sa [Legends]
[ Villain ] Ferrum {Greedy} teach nothing just now
[ Juggernaut ] Yasik watching anime, DND.
[ Magus ] Norks the Untitled
[ Champion ] Rovena ____
[ Enchanter ] Kull Island school coin Dragonsworn
[ Brigand ] Stab ** [Legends]
[ Prelate ] Xamak [Legends]
[ Burglar ] Inra .
[ Troubadour ] Kanae [Legends]
[ Skinwalker ] Dubbs * wea u at Kroldor/Ewari?! [[[CSK]]]
[ Ranger ] Crunchy [Legends] needs master strike, flesh golem sbs
[ Ranger ] Josiah <PIRATE> is in his new house!
[40w 40o 40c 37d] Rerabbiter :)
[40m 40w 40c 25d] Strauss [Legends] mfly mwater slow haste icestorm sandstorm grease
[40d 40c 31m 20w] Wingnut of the Trees.
[40t 40o 31c 15m] Concept feast,succor,mwb,massinv,windrun,closingweave,chronosinc(1)
[40w 35b 25n 22c] Morn reign_confus|wall_sleep|passage|rina|condemnation
[34t 25m 15w 10c] Hounds wtb ivroy hiltted dagger
[30t 22m 20c 12n] Jueltr ‘magic rope’ ‘slow’ ‘minvis’
[29t 20w 20c 13m] Eryl is raising money for a tbolt
[20w 20c 20t 20m] Millen Light of Realization
[20d 20n 20o 13b] Unmace the Unfathomable
[20w 20m 12c 5t] Xerox the copier
[20t 19m 10w 6c] Apb >.
[20c 18w 9m 3t] Minga the drunkard
[19m 11c 8w 4t] Vooder the Untitled
[ 8w 4c 0o 1m] Tigga the Untitled
[ 4c 2o 0m 0b] Renix the Untitled
[ 4n 1d 0w 0m] Solanum the Untitled
[ 2n 0w 0c 0t] Rumaheim the Untitled
[ 2w 0m 0d 0o] Ottical the Untitled
There are 47 visible players.
Highest total since last bootup: 47.
And before the end:
Josiah is leading ‘Josiah’s Fearless Adventurers’ on Niebelung:
(Wa:4.07) Josiah
(Wa:5.40) Strider
(Wa:5.40) Sa
(Wa:5.40) Bazilus
(Wa:5.40) Agemo
(Wa:4.30) Rovena
(Wa:4.33) Yasik
(Wa:3.37) Rerabbiter
(Wa:1.35) Morn
(Ba:4.23) Kanae
(Th:4.23) Inra
(Th:5.40) Virus
(Th:4.36) Ferrum
(Th:5.40) Restive
(Th:2.31) Concept
(Cl:5.40) Assirian
(Ma:5.40) Truth
(Ma:4.31) Norks
(Ma:4.29) Kull
(Dr:2.31) Wingnut
(Th:0.30) Jueltr
(Dr:4.21) Dubbs
(Ne:5.40) Aston
(Dr:5.40) Stryx
(Ma:3.25) Strauss
We had quite a few leave durring that time. Expect more quests in the future. Thank you all who joined.
-Tox
I, personally, enjoyed the massacra.
What else a good quest needs anyway?! 8)
This was a rare and unusual quest with lots of eq. It won’t happen for quite some time, but I felt is was overdue.
Josiah got Ruby Sceptre 5d5 1 marg +3 hit
Astone undead crown from jorraine
virus pclaw
volc guards rerabbiter
bazilus gator tail
rovena titanium ring
jueltor bloody gloves
agemo ring of renewal
yasik ring of the survivor
kanae silk pants
dubbs silk pants
momm etched marble circle
morn diamond encrusted platemail
assirian fangs of an ancient dracolich
aston jorraine’s crown
wingnut cloak of thorns
stryx page from properties of infernite
strider rune carved loop of green adamantite
truth rune carved loop of green adamantite
norks clown sleeves
concept shadow pauldrons
inra shadow paldrons
ferrum rerolled his newbie, he only got playable stats.. sorry.
-Tox
Sorry I couldn’t hang around for it. Hopefully next time!
nice stuff,make more of these quests:) very enjoyable
I’m glad you all liked it. I will try to run more quests more often and at different times. I will also be trying to find different ways to run quests.
Next quest will be monday 10 AM central.
-Tox
Next quest will be monday 10 AM central. -Tox[/quote:265ux7ar]
Bah. I’ll be picking up my pen and starting a 2 hour midterm exam on Consolidated and Not-For-Profit Entities at precisely that time (11am EST).
Many have asked about eq given out for this quest, so I thought long and hard over it and decided on the following…
This is mostly a “part two” to the quest to accomodate those in different time zones.
Anyone can join.
Everyone who joins has a chance to roll for quest eq unless you got quest eq in last quest.
If you got anything in last quest you will not get anything in this quest except drachma-honor-gold.
Tox
Some hours ago Tox run quest:
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘I don’t believe it, Asmodeus has returned’
Truth quests– ‘didnt we kill him good last time?’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘It appears the devil wasn’t killed’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘From what I gathered, mortal weapons cannot kill him’
Truth quests– ‘but there should be the way to kill him properly?’
Cizin quests– ‘How can we help you my King ?’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘It appears I made a mistake last time’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘The scrolls we obtained before..’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘They were meant for a greater purpose’
Truth quests– ‘greater purpose?’
Savvy quests– ‘pray tell dear King what is this greater purpose?’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘Now that the scrolls are gone, I have sent out my knights’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘in an attempt to find another way to kill the devil’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘seek out the seer in the gypsies’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘she might know a way to defeat the devil’
moving to gypsey
The gypsy seer says ‘oh my!’
Sa says ‘i believe u have something for us seer.’
The gypsy seer says ‘What brings such an army to my home?’
Sa says ‘we wanna kill that asmodeus’
Brady says ‘in service of the king’
The gypsy seer says ‘I don’t have anything for the likes of you! Begone, leave me in peace!’
Sa says ‘heard u knew how’
The gypsy seer says ‘Oh, so DeGrance wants something from me!’
Concept says ’listen up, I’ll stab you if you dont tell us what we need to know!’
Someone massacres Concept to small fragments with his hit.
…some fight… +)
Someone disengages himself from Concept!
Truth says ‘so, you know of a way?’
The gypsy seer says ‘Watch your tongue, boy!’
Truth says ‘please, tell us how to kill demon’
Savvy says ‘can you help us with weapons, o Great Seer?’
The gypsy seer says ‘Perhaps I will, if you do for me first.’
The gypsy seer says ‘There is a great eye I could use’
The gypsy seer says ‘A monster, a beast in the deep’
Sa says ‘where could this be found?’
The gypsy seer says ‘I could use it’s corpse as a spell component.’
The gypsy seer says ‘Go, and bring me this eye of the deep’s corpse.’
We found eye of the deep in UD2 for seer.
Kill em and come back to seer with corpse.
The gypsy seer says ‘hello’
The gypsy seer says ‘Yes there is a way’
Sa says ‘what would that way be?’
The gypsy seer says ’to defeat the sly one, Asmodeus’
Sa says ‘what do we need to murder asmodeus once and for all?’
Brady says ‘are there further instructions?’
The gypsy seer says ‘Asmodeus has recreated the scrolls’
Truth says ‘how we do it?’
The gypsy seer says ‘I don’t know how he has done it’
Truth says ‘so you saying first we should collect scrolls?’
The gypsy seer says ‘I hear he has given them to guardians’
The gypsy seer says ‘as he attempted to last time’
The gypsy seer says ‘One moment please’
seems she very old and got tired from us :)
The gypsy seer says ‘Find these scrolls, and bring them to me’
The gypsy seer says ‘go go!’
Seer told us found 8 Scrolls of Ruby and Golds
First was on Vouhx
2 at Uhhhl
3 at Lucifer
4 at Bara
After this all alive epics looks empty and we start check usual mobs for scrolls.
I located one on the overlord. We checked and take one more scroll.
Brady found next on Krakken.
Truth found one ot Lolth and one on Demogorgon.
Got some dr from Lolth.
we come back to seer
The gypsy seer says ‘do you have the scrolls?’
Sa says ‘yea’
Adam says ‘yes’
Truth says ‘all 8 as requested’
The gypsy seer says ‘drop them pls’
The gypsy seer says ‘give me one moment’
You feel power rush through your body.
The gypsy seer says ‘Now go back to the Fractal Lair’
The gypsy seer says ‘And kill Asmodeus!’
The gypsy seer says ‘with the spell I placed upon you’
We move to new Dweb to Asmodeus, many lizards trying blocked a way.
Asmodeus was very fat, after some runs his lite was droped by our world Gods. +)
Finaly we punished him down with some reward: dr, hehe 0 exp and Rod of Asmodeus (5d5 +1maregen +3hit).
The gypsy seer quests– ‘Leave me be!’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘That seer, never was one for company’
King Lucius DeGrance II quests– ‘come to me, and I shall give rewards for your valiant deeds.’
We move to King for take our rewards.
Tox gives you the Rock of the Ages.
Tox gives The Ring of the Heavens to Stab.
Tox gives a pair of glowing blue-crystal arm bands to Nica.
Tox gives the Ruby Rod of Asmodeus to Savvy.
Tox gives sandy silk pants to Concept.
Tox gives shadow pauldrons to Flicka.
Tox gives a rune-carved loop of green adamantite to Lob.
Tox gives the greaves of the forsaken to Igorvas.
Tox gives shadow pauldrons to Suriv.
Tox gives a rune-carved loop of green adamantite to Brady.
Tox gives a pair of blood covered boots to Adam.
Tox gives the greaves of the forsaken to Mog.
Tox gives the greaves of the forsaken to Defi.
Tox gives shadow pauldrons to Sneaky.
Tox gives shadow pauldrons to Risk.
Tox gives crown of the undead king to Widow.
Tox gives The Full Moon Glyph to Cizin.
Tox gives The Full Moon Glyph to Sa. (Sa returns cp from first step of quest to Tox)
Tox gives blue steel shoulder guards to Zrm.
Tox gives a decanter of endless water to Mommy.
Tox gives titanium greaves to Volnaib.
So that all. Thx for fun Tox.
Bazilus The Crazy Python
Ohh forgot to say Ferrum got his godroll for lowbie. (17 17 18 16 16)
Bazilus the Crazy Pyhon
wow.. that’s a lot of impressive eq given out. nice.
I took those silk pants back from concept since he got something on the first quest and it was a part two to the first one for people who couldn’t join. I’m sorry for those who couldn’t come for both, but there’ll be more quests in the future.
Another thing I think needs mentioned is the reason why Sa was able to give his cp back and trade for something else. When he joined the first time, he came in late, so I told him he could have a small cp. When he tanked the second quest and was there for the whole thing, I felt he was jipped especially when he died so much… wow did he die :) So I took back the cp from the first quest and gave him a new prize.
I’ll be changing the way quest eq is given out from me in the future. Don’t even bother asking, I’m not going to say. But I’m planning to make it as fair as possible.
By the way, Bazilus.. that was amazing summary of the quest. Standing ovation to you.
-Tox
It was a good time and I would have been happy with just the drachma. I’m certainly not complaining but I’m of the opinion that quest eq should be given out based on merit. Just my two cents.
And by merit, I think he’s referring to the fact that when the quest became not ‘check epics for scrolls’, but ‘search all the big mobs on the entire mud for scrolls, and by the way immort is afk’, Brady was the one that came through and found the Krakken for us :)
Also notable was Ferret Truth, who risked (and encountered) certain death dancing with the demons and lizards in dweb to find scrolls on lolth and demo. Truth was also MVP of last week’s quest, but received no special reward for bravely and general usefulness.
Finally, though I was 2.tank and my ‘Sa is dead!’ trigger fired upwards of a dozen times, I rarely bit it. I was kept alive in large part by quick typing, potions, and the great healing skills of Suriv, who was consistently the fastest healer to notice that 2.tank was up for heals. I might vote for Suriv as MVP, except that (like everyone else), he always had mana when Sa died. On one of the few occasions that I did croak, it was discouraging to watch 5x40s pouring huge heals into the corpse of Sa while I sat at 200 hp.
If immorts and quest leaders don’t want to take the responsibility of choosing who is mvp and/or who is most deserving of reward, groups have been known to handle picking MVPs well in the past. Have each person in the group gjob three people, and let the top three fight/trade/random over the epic loot. My picks would have been truth brady and baz. When someone can be in the quest group and do nothing other than enter portal timely and random well, the system needs an upgrade.
I bet Kjar is up to the task of writing a contribution system for you guys. It could be attached to the group descriptor and used for quests or really any applicable time. The group leader could start it up with something like “gcontrib enable” then “gcontrib clear”. Then something like “gcontrib report” can report relative contribution since the last clear to the group. Assign contribution for healing (successful, not overhealing), damage dealt, damage taken (again actual, not overkill), debuffs applied, etc. The trick would be to allow (and regulate) additional bonus contribution points for those things in quests like finding the hidden mob/item/room or coming up with the winning strategy. But I think a group leader (or an immort member of the group) could run “gcontrib bonus
There ya go, fair and impartial (mostly) contribution tracking for quests and other group events.
Tower
Edit: By the way, this idea is totally ripped from Warhammer: Online. If they ripped it from somewhere else, I wouldn’t know. :)
So by that system I could get quest eq by sleeping during combat, healing the heck out of the tank during regen, and randomly wandering off to run stab xp when no one was looking.
Merit is quests is not about damage dealt or number of deaths. It’s about things that actually contribute. It’s the heal that keeps a tank alive when you aren’t “IN” for heals. It’s finding the quest mobs so the group doesn’t sit around and do nothing. It’s the roleplaying that convinces immorts to lend assistance to speed things up. It’s the person in the group that figures out that you’re looking for four red-epic-flag in mob inventory on SS before the questor is even done talking. It’s leading a bunch of noobs who pay less attention than a bh xp group and whine about rewards.
It’s the people who pay attention the whole quest and go above and beyond blasting a mob or spending their mana in the healo and then going afk for a drink. It’s definately not the warriors who auto assist and never think that their mana might keep the tank alive. It isn’t nine thieves who do nothing but stab target on follow, and don’t even try to take out swarms of splork mobs pouring into a room. Slothmud isn’t an MMO designed for eight year olds. We can figure out who contributed the most without some bogus formula.
So by that system I could get quest eq by sleeping during combat, healing the heck out of the tank during regen, and randomly wandering off to run stab xp when no one was looking.
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I haven’t been around for a while, but I didn’t realize that tanks required that much healing during regen (remember I said don’t count overheals), or that you could sleep during combat and do as much damage as if you weren’t.
Thank you for slamming/dismissing an idea before it ever had a chance to be fleshed out.
Clearly (by the looks of this thread) the current system(?) is working as intended.
Geez, just trying to help a guy out.
Sheng, i seen same posts many times here, if you realy want changes, go in immortal command and do it. My knowledge dont give me any chance to make immortal, i can play… I love play!
I dont want to say immortals do nothing. They working on Sloth and the big bow for that. But they can’t do everything. Someday, i hope…
And of the end, we all have real life…
Bazilus the Crazy Python
I think quest eq giveaways should just be eliminated entirely and quest rewards should just be drachma based. Instead of having an mvp, there could just be bonus drachma given for accomplishing certain tasks for the group during the quest.
I think quest eq giveaways should just be eliminated entirely and quest rewards should just be drachma based. Instead of having an mvp, there could just be bonus drachma given for accomplishing certain tasks for the group during the quest.[/quote:1qo9f2ob]
Got much dr, but i dont know what to buy, dont see any good stuff in elite shop. But quest items is good.
Bazilus the Crazy Python
Quest giveaways are cool but not two quests within a few days. Also quest eq is valuable and we don’t want to inflate everything by passing out 5 pieces every week.
Juggleblood wants drachma to cover everything except the eq in shops is getting outdated and some players have everything they need. There are small improvements they could make but most don’t want to spend for 5 mana when they can run xp.
Keep up the good work Brad.
Just in case there was confusion (baz) I wasn’t slamming on any immorts in my post. I was suggesting that we don’t need or want a mathmatical formula that calculates who the ‘best contributor’ is.
I’ve often thought about immorting, but I’m a little worried about it. There’s no secret that there was once some bad blood between Splork and myself – I was somewhat abusive and exceptionally mouthy, and he gave me a rediculously heavy punishment as a result. Now, I’m not sure if some of the high ups would appreciate me as an immort contributor.
Secondly, a lot of the fun I have on sloth is based on knowing how things work behind the scenes. You don’t spend hours in the arena testing how much damage strike does at different handdam/focus levels, or find out that average monk unarmed base damage is 11.2 unless you pay a ton of attention to that kind of thing.
Since I don’t have an immort, I can get away with things that would possibly be punishable if I was doing the exact same thing – but presumed to be using ‘immort info.’
I agree, my punishment may of been slightly overboard. At the time, I was simply fed up with with constant abuse by a few players. Our mud was changing monthly and our Immortal staff was adding projects and code at a record pace. Some of additions obviously had holes:)
Either way, the abuse for the most part stopped and players started reporting our mistakes. Some may still exist to this day but that is life.
No hard feelings here,
Splork
Tower, shoot me an email if you get a chance.
Sheng wrote: except that (like everyone else), he always had mana when Sa died.
….Hey I was saving my mana to heal you, who care about Sa :twisted:
stare…
cackle!