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Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.tiny
Subject: endofislandia
Date: 13 Oct 92 07:11:20 GMT
Organization: University of Pennsylvania

Santa says "Merry Christmas!"
Guru looks for Gadget and Toast!
Kei waves...."Hi!!!"
Boccob smiles.
BlackJack waves.
Mercy shouts, "To all the Tinkers, past and present!"
Storm has connected.
' nods
Tugrik Tells guru downstairs... and looks to taryn...?
Erych thinks >/ This is sad.. \<
BlackJack says "To the Tinkers!"
RichardPenner grins
WhiteUnicorn can't hold a glass to any of the wonderful people who have made
Islandia what it is. No; really, he can't hold a glass.
Mercy says "'Ya, Storm!"
Edsel says "Hear hear!"
The Upper Deck
The upper deck surrounds the house like thingy that goes on top of an Ark. A
door leads to the banquet hall. Aside from that, the plain deck is just brass
railing and some benches to sit on.
It is raining cats and dogs! (well, not really cats, they are all inside
waiting to sail.)
Contents:
buzzy
KittenKai-Sung
Kei
Edsel
Nymph
Moira
Kumiko
Kallen
Thalen
Irielle
Finrod
Daydreamer
Azure
Alainea
Koro
WhiteUnicorn
Sarek
'
Mishael
Taldin
Taryn
BlackJack
Guru
Dave
Wolf
Firefoot
Tugrik
Rat
Mercy
Tarrant
LongThorn
_Nomia
Ranma-kun
Silliness
Storm
Kyosuke
Boccob
Lynx
RichardPenner
Ariela
Kathleen
chupchup
Richter
Tif
Andro
Garrett
Zoro
Rosminah
Godai
Hawkeye
Sarek says "To the tinkers!"
Tarrant hugs Nymph.
Boccob says "Here! Here!"
Boccob smiles.
Storm smilez a furry smile to Mercy.
buzzy says "tu dire bien des choses chez toi"
KittenKai-Sung to.. all of you. Everyone.
Mercy holds a glass for WhiteUnicorn!
Azure says "Yes! To the tinkers!"
Nymph hugs Tarrant
Storm n0dz!
KittenKai-Sung loves you alll.
Koro looks for Gadget and Toast too...
Erych can't hold one either
> Seagulls circle overhead, their glistening white wings clean against the blue
skies. They creel and wing off into the far distance, fading into the clouds.
WhiteUnicorn bleats yay-ishly!
Finrod says "To the tinkers."
Mercy hops around. "We're *off!*"
Taldin says "To Chaos.//wjerever ot ot ,ay be now!"
Guru raises his glass.
Lynx hugs everyone!
RichardPenner is glad that everyone is here, even Tatewaki!
Sarek hugs Nymph goodbye....
Cinnibar has arrived.
Kathleen pours an entire bottle of champange over WhiteUnicorn's head, dousing
him thoroughly.
WhiteUnicorn drinks out the glass and gets momentarily tipsy.
Bruce has arrived.
WhiteUnicorn eeps!
Cinnibar flexes his whiskers in greeting
' nods to Bruce
Elias-lan has arrived.
You see a tiny creature with a teeny tail. It vaguely resembles an apostrophe.
Carrying:
Tiny bow from Amelia
Bruce hugs Nymph!
Kathleen hugs Lynx!
Koro raises his bottomless glass of cherry coke.
Mercy hugs everyone, too! Drags everyone into a snugglepile, if appropriate!
Boccob nods to Cinnibar and Bruce, and Elias-lan.
Storm ooohs., Brycie-baby's here.
Kumiko chuckles.
Nymph hugs Bruce too
Tugrik walks up, taryn in tow, to White Unicorn, Erych, Talding... to see if he
fits in the 'corn crowd with them.
Edsel smilse at Elias-lan
Mishael hugs Lynx 'n' Taldin 'n' Cinnibar...
Tarrant says "To the original TinyMUD...to TinyHELL, I and II...to Chaos...and
to Islandia, the latest of the great MUDs to die."
Mercy says "'Ya, Bruce!"
chupchup hugs everyone tearily.
Elias-lan says "Hi Mymph."
WhiteUnicorn shakes like a puppydog, spraying you all over with drops of
champagne!
Guru notes that Gadget probably built her own boat.
Nymph says "hi eliath"
Taldin tackles Lynx!
Edsel says "Hear hear!"
> The Ark drives on toward the rainbow gateway. The sound of the engines
becomes a steady thrumming sound.
Sarek falls into the snugglepile!
Wolf dives into the snugglepile!
Storm screams 'Nymphie-poo!!!!!'
Elias-lan Nods to all.
Edsel cuddles Lynx
Mercy wanders over to the 'corn crowd, even though he doesn't fit in, quite!
Lynx tackles Taldin back and snuggles everyone!
Edsel dives!
Koro notes that Gadget and Toast aren't connected.
Lynx even snuggles Bruce for good 'ol times sake.
Irielle smiles at h er dear brother Lynx "to the treehouse, and the waramth and
adventures we've had therein"
Kumiko says "The latest, perhaps, Tarrant?"
buzzy says "TinyHORNS still lives, 128.83.135.9 4201"
Cinnibar snugs all in sight!
Mercy shouts, "THROUGH THE GATE! LET US BE OFF!"
Sarek thinks Guru has a point. :-)
Thalen listens.
WhiteUnicorn nuzzles his Unicorn family. It's been a long time since they were
all together!
Erych notes that Shaterri, Centaur, Berios, and others in High Field need a
ride..
Elias-lan dives into the snuggles
BlackJack says "Ta da...."
Tarrant says "The Stargate!"
Nymph says "every year we shoudl have NIGHT OF THE LIVING MUDS.. all the dead
muds coming back to life"
Kumiko shouts "5 minutes."
Daydreamer leans forward, watching the Rainbow expand to fill the sky.
Erych nuzzles back...
Hawkeye has disconnected.
Hawkeye has connected.
Koro has connected.
Storm waits for the end..
Boccob :says in a little girl's voice "Daddy? Is this the end?"
Koro wanders after Mercy, and gestures for Alainea to join him. They can fit in
with each other.
Thalen pokes Kitten. Time to start singing again.
Taryn says "tell them to come here!!"
Kallen sighs.
Daydreamer says "To Islandia, the last great MUD!"
Alainea i sits in a corner.
BlackJack says "Sail ho!"
Moira grins at Nymph. "No way in hell (pardon the pun) can uokmax run 3 big
muds."
Irielle typos too. "I guess it's fitting" she laughs remembering her first
weeks without a delete key.
WhiteUnicorn thinks Mercyfits in WayFine!
Finrod says "To the good times in the treehouse, 3rd most famous place in Mud
History."
Kumiko likes that, Nymph.
Mishael says "Goodbye, Islandia...I'll miss you........<choke>"
Cinnibar wishes his son was here....and the others who are missing...
Dave dances on the railing!
Edsel smiles at Elias-lan
Guru notes that if Gadget built a boat, Toast is with her.
Mercy tantaras! excitedly.
Azure looks out, and watches as the Ark passes his orbital mailbox.
chupchup whispers "dick york and dick sargent" to nymph.
Bruce grins at snuggles Lynx. "I might come to CrossRoads, you know. If you
think you we can get along."
Tarrant grins. "Islandia...my home for half a year."
Sarek notices some 2001 effects in the distance....
Storm watches the MUD grind to a halt.
Boccob coughs, and regains his normal voice.
Kallen will miss this place. Bad.
Daydreamer says "To the Town Square Meteor Crater!"
buzzy waves goodbye to everyone !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BlackJack says "Later, y'all...."
WhiteUnicorn goes and nuzzles each and every one of you in turn happily,
pausing to nicker something to Lynx about Lynx being right in doing this second
ending, and then pausing again to give special attention to a special doe-eyed
girl.
Edsel laughs
Guru smiles. He is sure his friends are all fine.
Mercy ignores all his other connections. Fortunately, most of the people he's
talking to there are here anyway.
> The rainbow approaches. A half-circle of inky night looms tall over the Ark.
Bruce ^at^and
Sarek heads down the stairs.
Sarek has left.
Tugrik whispers "am i invited to stand with the Unicorns?"
Storm takes this opportunity to sit and look ugly.
Alainea feels ill.
BlackJack says "Bye."
Guru eeps! But where is Speedy!
Mercy grabs Kallen out of nowhere. "Ha, thought you could miss this, eh?"
Storm gets uglier and uglier by the moment.
Taryn says "...tugrik?"
Edsel oh nos at the lag...
Guru hopes she is safe!
Lynx 'gryns at Irielle and gives her a special snuggly hug.
Edsel hug LT
Nymph wonders is this just painful netlag or a premature seizure
Koro ARGHs!!! He will _not_ have this happen to him again!
WhiteUnicorn oohs at the view outside the Ark!
Edsel says goodbye to everyone in the midst of a freeze (*sigh*) She hugs
everyone to make sure nobody's left out... (besides she likes hugging)
Erych bids farewell to this, his first TinyMUD ever...
Firefoot hopes to catch up befre it dies.
Godai waves to all! It's been virtually real!
Storm sits here looking uglier anduglier.
Taldin says "Thalen! Hello1!"
BlackJack says "Bye!"
Mercy grins happily!
Boccob looks at Chup funily.
Elias-lan smiles at Edsel
KittenKai-Sung starts singing.
Nymph says "phew"
Kei wipes a tear from her eyes.
Kathleen says "To Islandia, where male users can run around as women and win
contests!"
Mercy shouts, for someone who couldn't be here, "Yerf!"
Bruce kix chup
You whisper "You ARE one...get over here.." to Tugrik.
Nymph belately grins to chupchup
WhiteUnicorn nods to Tugrik encouragingly.
Elias-lan says "Goodbye all." With a tear in his eye. It's been great."
Dave sings "Should old acquaintance be forgot..."
Boccob kicks the Server, but not to hard.......
> A soft voice whispers, "These are the voyages of the Starship Islandia Ark...
On a continuing mission to seek out new life and new civilization... To boldly
go where no one has gone before!"
Walrusoid has arrived.
Storm gets out of his 'ugly' mode and strts hugging all his friends good bye..
Zoro sings a good-bye song
Hawkeye tries not to look at Storm.
Godai kisses Kei before it's all over. *Mmmmm!*
Bruce says "Nymph! FOr old times sake!"
Boccob smiles.
Irielle says "Walrusoid!!"
KittenKai-Sung repeats a toast. "To everybody. To everybody who made this what
it was.
Firefoot huggles everyone one last time.
Nymph sings "and never brought to mind"
Elias-lan plays his flute mournfully.
BlackJack waves.
Tarrant smiles. "The end of an era, and the beginning of a new one!"
Bruce puts his arms around Nymph and kisses her passionately. He runs his
fingers through her hair and down her back to caress and massage her buttocks
lightly with his hands, squeezing them softly and pulling her up to him to
deepen their kiss.
Your message has been sent.
Dave sings "and never brought to mind..."
Irielle runs uto hug hug Walrusoid gladly
Walrusoid waves to everyone, for old times sake.
BlackJack says "To Islandia!"
Boccob nods to Tarrant.
Thalen hugs Lynx.
Koro hugs Alainea.
> The Rainbow Gate is almost upon the Ark. Without hesitation, it continues
forward at maximum speed. Glitters of multi-colored energies sparkle into life.
Cepia has arrived.
Azure sniffles quietly. He'll miss Islandia.
Tarrant hugs everybody!
Cinnibar drinks to that!
Lynx hugs Thalen back!
Finrod says "To all the good building here."
WhiteUnicorn pokes Bruce merrily.
Walrusoid waves to Irielle.
chupchup sighs
Kallen huggles everyone. Irielle, Richter, Garrett, Tif, Lynx, Kumiko,
everyone.
Moira says "how trite. :)"
Sarek has arrived.
Mishael hugs everyone tightly.
Walrusoid gives Irielle a hug back.
BlackJack waves.
Thalen says "Kyrie Elesion!"
Storm looks into everyone's eyes. to our memories. to everyone.
Kallen tickles Moira.
RichardPenner greets Cepia with a friendly snarl of teeth.
Firefoot says "to all the bad building here! :)"
Nymph thanks the heavens above that bruce's macro might die too
Boccob bows to Cepia.
chupchup hugs everyone, filling with tears.
Mercy shouts, "To the ark!"
WhiteUnicorn wonders how much time is left?
Elias-lan says "TO US ALL, WHILE WE EXIST SO DOES ISLANDIA *CRASH*"
Taldin holds up an Islandia penny he found outside the ark.. "I think I got the
lasr one!
Erych just stands, watching...silly flood.
Kumiko huggles Kallen for getting her into this.
BlackJack says "Later, y'all."
Bruce grins at Nymph
Irielle says "to typos....to mav'd whispers...."
Tarrant says "To the good building! The bad building! The whole great THING!"
Rat just plain sighs.
Mizue has arrived.
Lynx toasts! To integrity, to kindness, and to joy!
Mercy shouts, "To the glorious ark!"
Dave says "Viva Islandia!"
Alainea
Alainea hugs Koro.

Going Down - Bye!