Congratulations to Scath for being the winner of the week one of May RP rewards. He’ll be rewarded 10 RPP for showing exceptional RPP for the first week of May. There are still 3 more weeks to win your own set of 10 RPP

Our sister MUD, Cities of M’dhoria is closing its doors this Sunday. We’ve already had an influx of some of their players hop on, and you guys are certainly welcome.

A few things I did want to note however:

1. Signing on Advent starts you out with a clean slate OOC. Any old grudges, drama, etc from CoM are not welcome nor will they be tolerated here. We’ve already experienced some “Well this person did this to me on CoM so I’m going to go after their character on Advent” type drama, and none of the staff here have any time or desire to deal with it. Anything like this that disrupts the gameplay and the players from having fun on Advent will result in immediate irreversible denial. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but we really want people to enjoy themselves on Advent without worrying about CoM’s past.

2. We are a perma-death MUD, which I know you guys aren’t used to. We’ve instituted two things to help ease the blow of losing a character, however. The first one is our RPP (Roleplay Point) system. Since we have accounts (and you should definitely create an account) any RPP you earn is added to your account, to distribute freely among all of your alts. If one dies, you can use your RPP on your account to upgrade a new one fairly significantly.

The second is experienced players getting added skill points during character creation. For every 10 RPP you have ever earned on your account (another reason to have an account), you get 1 skill point to give your character a skill when creating your new alt. You will receive these points with ever new alt you make, they aren’t a “one time use” type of deal.

That’s two solid ways to not start out with a complete weak new character. And it all spans around the quality of your roleplay and how much RPP you earn

3. We are still in alpha testing. We hope to open up for beta later this year, where we will actually be advertising for players (we’ve done no advertising yet), but right now our main focus is development. There is still some fantastic RP going on, and we encourage people to roleplay their little hearts out as well as keep an eye out for bugs and consistency. But so long as people understand that it’s alpha testing, and our main focus will -not- be on the roleplay until Beta.

That’s all I can think of at the moment Happy Hunting!

Cedric has posted a lot of updates in game which you can view by reading help updates.

We’ve also brought up some new builders and will be holding another contest here shortly which I will announce in the next week or so.

For those that didn’t read in game, I am also picking one player a week for the month of May who shows some exceptional RP effort and rewarding them 10 RPP.

As mentioned on the MUD, I will be handing out extra RPP for people who have good detailed motivations for their character, or motivations at all

I really want players to utilize this function as it helps the staff with insight on your character so we can sway RP appropriately for your characters background.

Some players start off creating a character on a whim with no real background in mind for them (I’m one of these players). Others will spend countless hours perfecting every minute detail about their character, becoming overly critical of the progress as the character develops. But in a game influenced by outside influences such as other players and staff, nothing always stays as planned.
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I made a last minute bet with the players tonight when the Superbowl started that any players online at the end or doing significant RP during the Superbowl would get 5 RPP if the Giant’s won. 6 players were awarded the extra 5 RPP tonight, you lucky bastards.

We will be running an easter egg hunt in March, so now is a good time to get familiar with the areas

We’ve decided to purchase zMapper for our builders to use when mapping out their areas, as well as getting the last of the maps needed for existing areas created.

We put up a map of the n00b University, courtesy of Varick, and will be working on the rest gradually.

This program will making fleshing out of areas much faster, and will benefit players by making the building process not so tedious and more organized, meaning areas will be put in at a faster rate.

I’ve noticed a pattern lately, that I’ve also seen on other MUDs with different playerbases. Player A creates a character and becomes fairly well-known in-game and out, and decides it is time to create another character. When they do, Player A immediately starts sending tells and comments to people to check out their new alt, or make posts on the MUD’s forum regarding their new alt in a semi-blatant fashion.

While we understand the need to socialize with your friends, and though it is not a rule or regulation, we strongly recommend that people not be so open about new characters that they create. Everyone is systematically branded in the game as playing a certain way, or always creating a certain type of roleplay.

By practicing ALT secrecy, you allow yourself to broaden your roleplay. It’s easier to step out of your normal comfort zone and really try something new without falling into old habits. Not to mention it allows you to shake off all the stress and responsibility of your previous alt and have some alone time with your own thoughts and goals with your new character.

It’s also a safeguard against people who might paint you as a player they don’t like, and may help prevent bias IC and OOC with your new alt.

Again this is only strongly recommended, but we see people falling into the rut of wanting to show off their alts already during alpha testing.

Just to do a minor contest for the holidays, we’re going to see if players can come up with a song relating to the game, but to the tune of a popular Christmas Carol. It can be any carol you wish, and it can be about any topic you want (About Bronagh, about the Centaurs, about someone already dead, etc). It can be funny, sad, inspiring, etc.

Reward: 8 RPP
Time: Finished by 11:59pm on New Years Day (Jan 1st)
Submit to: this thread on the forum
Length: Just the full length of a popular carol, otherwise no limit

Judging will be done by the players via a forum poll

I’m asked frequently how characters are supposed to follow a religion. I suppose my IRL deep-seeded interest in world religions gives me an advantage over most when it comes to various customs and methods in which worship is practiced. I often forget that people aren’t used to these types of things.

So I’ve decided to provide a list of Do’s and Don’ts for religious worship on Advent.
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We have created a 12-month calendar based on Advent of the Mists In-Character calendar system. You can view and purchase the calendar and any other products we create by viewing our Advent shop on Zazzle.

Don’t forget tonight at 8pm we’ll be holding another trivia night Whoever answers a question first gets an RPP. Great way to get some extra RPP!

We have finally finished reading all of the great story entries for the story contest. We decided that the story written by Muirios is the winner! Close runners up were Ruya, and then Saragoss (but we are not providing runners up prizes for this contest).

We will be adding Muirios’ story to the library in Thelasia this week. Great job all!