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by Gromsharulaz
Fri Jan 02, 2004 10:35 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Nintendo
Replies: 27
Views: 4916

Actually.. You need to enforce copyrights, or you lose them. You may have concepts, characters, world-designs, logos etc that you want to use. I think you're confusing copyright and trademark, you can't lose your copyright, it's yours by law until the specified term expires, which is now an insanel...
by Gromsharulaz
Fri Dec 19, 2003 6:52 am
Forum: General Discussion Archive
Topic: Do you wish to download and Install viruses and adware?
Replies: 18
Views: 3794

I'm with everyone else, stop using IE and you won't see so much annoyance. But if you insist on using the Redmond virus magnet - you need to disable the install on demand crap, so go into the security tab and play around with disabling the active-x stuff, specifically the download active-x settings ...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Aug 26, 2003 9:07 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Who was your first character on Sojourn?
Replies: 64
Views: 18495

Tatya, grey elf ranger. <snip> Talk about a lifetime ago... Damn that name rings a bell :) first character was Falstar an elven sorc. After what seemed like ages I managed to make 20, got off the island, promptly died, lost my level and never left again. *rummages around in the Zmud folder* Ah here...
by Gromsharulaz
Thu Feb 13, 2003 7:30 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Linux Distros
Replies: 6
Views: 1823

I've messed about with RH, Mandrake and Suse but never really liked 'em. The current distro of choice is Gentoo, linux with a BSD ports style of package management.

- Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Insane Derro of the Underdark.
by Gromsharulaz
Fri Jul 26, 2002 2:30 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Combat stats?
Replies: 1
Views: 739

Go up and hit the search button and type in combat stats, there you go.

Gromsharulaz Darkmace, The Insane "I'm lazy and don't feel like making links for you" Derro of the Underdark

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by Gromsharulaz
Tue Jul 09, 2002 4:54 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Oldest player of "sojourn"
Replies: 57
Views: 8643

Geezers! All of you....

*grin* What's next, "when I was your age we had to whittle our D20's out of wood" comments. ;)

- Gromsharulaz Darkmace, The Insane "eeek I'm turning 29 this weekend" Derro of the Underdark

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by Gromsharulaz
Thu Jun 06, 2002 6:05 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: The journey...
Replies: 10
Views: 1186

No more married Grom's, I forbid it. :P

Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Insane "version 0.0000000...01 married Grom" Derro of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Sat Feb 23, 2002 5:30 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Tip: How to run past an aggro mob with zMud (buffering)
Replies: 4
Views: 1373

*ponders* Zmud slow... Methinks you need to tweak the settings a 'lil bit - zmud buffers lines of text before displaying it to your screen - you can change that amount in your general preferences. Additionally, if you have a lot of triggers loaded that will slow things as well, try shutting some of ...
by Gromsharulaz
Sat Jan 05, 2002 5:58 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Questionable Conduct
Replies: 54
Views: 10596

*laugh* squid bags! way way back I found out that the squid merchant in Ix was damn easy to kill when I accidently quaked in his room and aggro'd him. So I got myself a spanky illithid bag. I had 3 at one time, one I paid for two I slaughtered for. Later I traded off one of them for some spanky eq. ...
by Gromsharulaz
Sat Dec 22, 2001 4:47 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Special Christmas?
Replies: 54
Views: 8507

*MOAN* Okay so this is just not fair - I have to be at a computerless house for Christmas! I was around for the first Chaos Christmas and remember having way too much fun. A group of bored and invis evils is a thing to be feared. Grom summon goodie, troll bash goodie, ogre slash goodie... ;) Gromsha...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Dec 19, 2001 5:09 am
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: How much of a bot are you?
Replies: 27
Views: 2776

<>l A GromBot stands here looking automated. < 565h/564H > <> Okay so I'm not that bad, the triggers I have that send output to the mud consist of: a bunch of stands for bash, dragons, quake, trip, etc, eat/drink triggers, weapon fumble, auto enter/exit ships (hate looking away for a second and find...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Dec 18, 2001 3:40 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Duergar
Replies: 3
Views: 665

Bah! Damned whelps, don't be thinkin I want yer smelly corpse litterin me streets! Make yerself useful, an' pick on the blasted toads, they're gettin to be bothersome. That or run yer smelly hide over to the tentaclefaces and raid their slave pens. Damned slimey buggers stole me pet goblin when I le...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Dec 18, 2001 3:29 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Someone hand over the zMUD 4.62 autoroller please!
Replies: 1
Views: 775

Bah! Go register :P

Gromsharulaz Darkmace, The Insane "Zuggslave" Derro of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Dec 11, 2001 7:01 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Triggers/Alias for an Effective Healer
Replies: 13
Views: 1966

*chuckle* So where does Grom fit in... I have a trigger that assigns the last person who rep'd to the variable @target, a trigger to assign whoever is tanking for me to @tank and an alias to assign a target1 and target2. The rest is taken care of by macro keys: F1 - glance @targ1 F2 - fheal @targ1 F...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Dec 05, 2001 4:46 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: jail
Replies: 22
Views: 1937

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Glorishan: I'm not sure if it's a concidence, or a mindset, but save Cherzra, the evils appear to be missing the point. </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> *laugh* My vote goes to mindset...
by Gromsharulaz
Fri Nov 23, 2001 2:57 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Weapon Switcher
Replies: 10
Views: 1456

Since we clerics and the silly mage types don't need insane configurations of weapons here's the weapon switching alias that's been on Grom for years. It works for any weapon you want to wield and know a unique keyword for. #alias {wld} {rem @weapon; get %1 @bag; wield %1; put @weapon @bag; #var wea...
by Gromsharulaz
Mon Oct 15, 2001 6:58 pm
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Observation on being evil
Replies: 22
Views: 2619

*moan* Blame work and a truly evil commute, otherwise there'd be a friendly neighborhood Grommy around to amuse you at the fountain and be dragged to certain death when commanded... famous last commandments: grom go tag the demon and word grom get back in there and die! enter with a full on ... grom...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Sep 11, 2001 2:54 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: So how many characters you running now?
Replies: 26
Views: 3962

One lvl 40 Gromsharulaz who is waiting for me to have some darn free time. Let me tell you a 2 hour commute to work sucks. Leave the house at 7am, get back at around 7pm. Leaving me with enough time to eat and then collapse to repeat said evil cycle. - Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Dust Collecting Derro of...
by Gromsharulaz
Mon Jul 16, 2001 12:54 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Question for Zmud 5.55
Replies: 3
Views: 972

Darn people never read before they ask... :P Alright you're forgiven in this case, it's not really labelled well. But check out the thread called dwarven insult generator. It's a random phrase generator, take a look at the code in there and work from that. As for the tick part, simple, turn on your ...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Jun 26, 2001 4:29 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: auto-mapper Zmud
Replies: 4
Views: 1189

In 6.16 (I think the 5.x versions as well) all you do is right click the room and click on properties. Then go to the appearance tab, you can set your colors from there.

- Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Insane Derro of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Thu Jun 21, 2001 5:24 pm
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: Friends Commands...
Replies: 4
Views: 895

Umm just a thought Thanti - why not do all of that client side? Using just about any of the mud clients you could have aliases to do it a minute or two. I'll admit it's spammier than if the mud handled it but really there's no need to waste the mud's drive space with lists of friends for every playe...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Jun 20, 2001 5:42 am
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: Familiar(s)
Replies: 16
Views: 2403

For those interested a rather lengthy discussion about familiars and conjurers in general went on a few months ago here: http://www.sojourn3.org/ubb/Forum2/HTML/000075.html - Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Insane Derro of the Underdark [This message has been edited by Gromsharulaz (edited 06-20-2001).] [Thi...
by Gromsharulaz
Sun May 27, 2001 8:51 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Looking for a logging trigger
Replies: 6
Views: 1261

Zmud 6.16 makes this simple and easy, not sure about older versions but just make an alias or trigger that uses: #log %time(y-m-d) You can change the way the date is displayed by moving what's in the brackets to suit your date preference, you can also use whatever punctuation you want between the le...
by Gromsharulaz
Sat May 26, 2001 7:01 am
Forum: S3 Gameplay Discussion Archive
Topic: Stone a cleric spell?
Replies: 2
Views: 773

If I remember correctly, spell knowledge is what lets you see the actual name of the spell being cast instead of 'fah' or the other such gibberish used in spells. So notching it on stone is normal.

Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Insane Derro of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Sat May 19, 2001 7:49 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Poll: What version of zMUD are you using?
Replies: 34
Views: 5740

6.16 here, it's still a little buggy on my machine but otherwise darn good. http://www.sojourn3.org/ubb/smile.gif And for you people prattling on about not paying, go register! It's cheap and you use it a heck a lot more than the silly game you went out and happily dropped $50 on. *snickers & ponder...
by Gromsharulaz
Sat Mar 24, 2001 6:24 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: colors and stuff
Replies: 6
Views: 1223

Izarek: Rather than use the color commands on every name that comes through you'd be better off seting up a trigger to substitute the line with a pretty colored one such as what Jegzed did up there. Try this for the command text instead: #SUB { %ansi(high, red)%1 sends %ansi(high, yellow)%2 %ansi(hi...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Mar 21, 2001 8:16 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Evils Unite!
Replies: 80
Views: 12120

Oh what do I want to be, hmmm how about a duergar cleric... was there ever any doubt. *chuckle* it's nice to see I'll have some company in GH as well. Just remember there is only one Darkmace dagnabbit. ;) Gromsharulaz Darkmace, The "often immitated but never duplicated" Derro of the Underdark P.S. ...
by Gromsharulaz
Fri Mar 16, 2001 9:54 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Could it be could it be a Sojourn info site?!?!
Replies: 20
Views: 4313

*chuckle* I'm glad I'm not the only one who never really liked those maps. The fact that they were direct shots of the Zmud mapper complete with squares and lines always bothered me. It just never really seemed to fit into the RP flavour of the old website. That and being the explorer I am - I have ...
by Gromsharulaz
Fri Mar 16, 2001 5:54 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Gmud Fubar?
Replies: 9
Views: 1857

*laugh* okay with all this mudding from a floppy talk I have to share. You haven't hit rock bottom yet... ;) Couple years back when my HD went splat I didn't have the cash to drop a new one in right away, so I resorted to a floppies. One floppy to boot to DOS, pulled out another floppy with a DOS ba...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Mar 14, 2001 6:19 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Executing DOS commands
Replies: 3
Views: 971

*mutters something about people not reading help files* The answer is yes and no, check out the help file on the #Launch command. With that you can run exe or bat files. The thing is it won't take place in the background it will pop up a window to do it. Set up your Dos prompt to start minimized and...
by Gromsharulaz
Thu Mar 08, 2001 2:08 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Examples of Canadians in Mudding Situations
Replies: 22
Views: 5643

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Roan: <B>5) you can't find any Aero bars, Coffee Crisps or Fudgee-Os. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Thanks! I think may now finally have the right argument I need to win the fia...
by Gromsharulaz
Thu Mar 08, 2001 1:36 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: My damn computer
Replies: 17
Views: 4026

Do not mock the caveman method of PC repair! Hehe I actually got my monitor working again like that. :P Apparently in my move, the damn thing got jostled too much and knocked things out of alignment. Well damned if I was going to bother opening the piece of crud up, just scooped it up and dropped th...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Mar 07, 2001 1:19 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Howdy All
Replies: 15
Views: 3220

Nogs, heh the day I posted that I got mail from him. Silly lurking ogres - you'd think they'd be easier to spot being all smelly and clumsy and stuff....

Gromsharulaz Darkmace, The "follow the slime trail to find the troll" Derro of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Mar 07, 2001 12:33 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Anyone remember me?
Replies: 27
Views: 5132

*rofl* Okay someone has been playing a troll too long... Look about halfway down this thread: <BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2"> Teristar Junior Member FROB! --You better come back, who else is going to have elementals doing all ou...
by Gromsharulaz
Wed Mar 07, 2001 12:14 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Who's played tabletop D&D before?
Replies: 20
Views: 4845

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Yayaril: <B>Are you free-basing gerbil hair or something? <snip> Me: Don't bother. Jazbaran is quite dead. Bambi has won the day. </B></font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> OMG, Sorry but th...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Mar 06, 2001 7:14 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Most comical Personal Death
Replies: 35
Views: 11839

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Miax: So you see everyone, even I have been deleted by Mystra once! (Then I married her) Cackle! </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Okay now that I've finished cleaning off my monitor an...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Mar 06, 2001 2:50 am
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: Conjurers!
Replies: 42
Views: 9617

Nods, I read your posts, I just personally don't think the solutions you proposed are harsh enough to prevent abuse. They were well thought out and do have the possibility of some pretty nasty things if you were alone and didn't have any help available to you. But, that is almost never going to happ...
by Gromsharulaz
Mon Mar 05, 2001 1:27 pm
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: idea to push around about recall
Replies: 19
Views: 2889

As Thalen said, use lag to deter abuse. If after you typed your recall / return / wifesayslogoffnow command (whatever they want to call it) you had to wait one or two real life minutes before it kicked in that would seriously cut down on its abusability. Add in some other things like locking out all...
by Gromsharulaz
Mon Mar 05, 2001 11:58 am
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: Conjurers!
Replies: 42
Views: 9617

<BLOCKQUOTE><font size="1" face="Verdana, Arial">quote:</font><HR><font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">Originally posted by Lyt: Save charisma for bards, because why would an elemental care what its master looked like? Are humanoids even attractive to them? </font><HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Okay I cringe eve...
by Gromsharulaz
Sun Mar 04, 2001 9:28 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Howdy All
Replies: 15
Views: 3220

Arghh! make it stop... Yer all coming out of the woodwork now.
*comforts his poor GPA as it cringes in the corner fearful of the beast that is Sojourn*

Heh, we are still missing one Uzzel though.

- Grommie, Insane Derro and all round fat bastard of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Sun Mar 04, 2001 9:13 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Anyone remember me?
Replies: 27
Views: 5132

Heyas! Thought you'd dropped off the face of the planet or something. You darn well better be coming back, who else am I going to twink UD with :P

- Gromsharulaz Darkmace, Insane Derro of the Underdark.
by Gromsharulaz
Sun Mar 04, 2001 1:17 pm
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Evil Unite ...
Replies: 15
Views: 3332

Bah! Leave the little snakies on the island til they can get off on their own. Those portals need some nice beefing up to keep the drow out and the snakes in. Hrm level 25+ or put in a nice hp drain when you use them. ;) There was some thought that went into the turtle and his tickets, seems silly t...
by Gromsharulaz
Sun Mar 04, 2001 1:22 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: MudMaster
Replies: 3
Views: 1155

I've used it, mostly when installing Zmud isn't an option - aka college's computer lab. ;) Here's the official homepage: http://www.mud-master.com/index.html You'll find your help files there. The new version though got rid of console mode and went GUI. - Gromsharulaz, Insane Derro of the Underdark
by Gromsharulaz
Sat Mar 03, 2001 10:08 am
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: death
Replies: 79
Views: 15118

<font face="Verdana, Arial" size="2">If you are a newbie or an explorer, you will have a lower max_hp at any given level than any other equivilent character in the game.</font> How do you figure? If there was ever an explorer it was Grom. I've spent too much time poking my nose into places I should...
by Gromsharulaz
Mon Feb 26, 2001 9:31 pm
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: gagging
Replies: 7
Views: 2137

Alright silly peoples, first off zmud #gag yanks the entire line that contains the gagged text so there is no need for #gag * barely * using: #gag barely is more than enough. Secondly to avoid missing important lines like tells, gsay's and things beating on you, use #ungag to allow specific lines to...
by Gromsharulaz
Fri Feb 23, 2001 7:52 am
Forum: MUD Client Help
Topic: Zmud 4.62
Replies: 7
Views: 5442

*chuckles* And _that_ would be why I think everyone's version of choice is 4.62 :P Actually I think the popularity of 4.62 stems from the fact that it was really the last version before Zugg did some major code rewriting. With 5 and 6 he redid windowing, added in the database and plugin support, red...
by Gromsharulaz
Thu Feb 15, 2001 8:39 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: What's your single longest MUD session?
Replies: 41
Views: 9180

*chuckle* Okay after reading some of these I don't feel so bad. My longest time: ptesting snakies - as soon as I was given the go ahead I was racing around Hyssk and dying repeatedly for about about 40 hours straight. Though I also remember many sleepless nights spent on difficult CR's - "anyone els...
by Gromsharulaz
Thu Feb 15, 2001 1:51 am
Forum: S3 Ideas Archive
Topic: Small tweak to an awesome spell
Replies: 12
Views: 2699

*snort* You think Holy word was useless - try Unholy word. Good aligned critters generally hide in goodie towns, not zones. The only place in UD it had a use was for beating down deep gnomes. If you ask me clerics need more non-alignment based damage spells. The mud is primarily composed of evil cre...
by Gromsharulaz
Tue Feb 13, 2001 10:05 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Been asked before, but where's everyone at?
Replies: 85
Views: 17819

Still breathing in the wonderful stench of Hamilton, Ontario (that's in Canada for the geographically challenged). Ugh! I hate this godforsaken hole in the earth. Oh but I must say the steel mills look all purty in the evening with their billowing clouds of crud... *mutter* Gromsharulaz - Hacking De...
by Gromsharulaz
Sun Feb 11, 2001 3:35 am
Forum: S3 General Discussion Archive
Topic: Fun Toys
Replies: 23
Views: 2296

One more tip, all that is fine and good unless of course you are dealing with zones created by demented and evil area people. *cough*UnderdarkRiverRuins*cough* Strange mobs that don't respond, doors without keys... So here's a Grom tip - if after searching every room 20 times, talking to every mob, ...

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