From: mohrc@jacobs.CS.ORST.EDU
Newsgroups: rec.games.mud.admin,rec.games.mud.diku,rec.games.mud.misc,rec.games.mud
Subject: Perilous Realms
Date: 21 Aug 92 03:48:55 GMT
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Organization: Computer Science Outreach Services - Oregon State University



                          PERILOUS REALMS

                         (a Diku based Mud)

 Is still accepting applications for Gods, Creators and Play
 testors. If your applying for a God position you must tell me 
 what experience you have with Dikus and why you want to be a
 god. No one will be given a level over 2004 to start with. Play
 testors are easy almost everyone who asks for the address will be
 allowed to play test. 
 One thing, you must have or be willing/able to get an account on
 Oregon computer system that has inet (the reason being we are
 only allowing connections from oregon at this time, this will change
 sometime during the fall term).
 I can help  anyone that wants to get an account, get one here on a 
 public access system, they are not free but are the best price i have 
 seen for an internet account (they are a FLAT rate no hourly charges).
 This account is usable for almost anything (about the only thing you
 cant do is run a mud on it).


 Ok now on with why should I want to play this mud.

 - 2010 levels the first 100 are very easy to get, this makes for some
   interesting characters.
 - a Dual alignment system, a "true" alignment and a "current" alignment
   your current align will slowly change your true align.
 - Special powers/abilities for some class's that are in what YOU choose
   as what you want your alignment to be (to recieve the powers), this is
   related to god worship(still in work).
 - online world creation and zone creation. mobs and items are almost
   ready to be put online also.
 - What has to be the BEST prompt system i have seen it is possible to prompt
   almost anything you want,in color if you wish and if you can support vt100
   you can make your promt however you wish such as a bar at the top or bottom
   or both (these would not scroll) and lots of other formats.
 - items such as books that are readable and you can turn the pages on.
 - totally rewritten from the ground up skill/spell system spells are nolonger
   exactly the same for each class nor are skills.
 - totally rewritten from the ground up save system it is very different from
   any diku save i have seen. It is now possible to save and come back exactly
   as you saved, you can rent pets (maybe,we may remove this) strings save, its
   much easyer for us to do maintanence on save files and we can add more flags
   or fields without having to delete the player files(yes we really can for all
   you nonbelivers because we have done it ;] ) this is a very unique save.
 - more extra ablities for items, special process's for items
 - many new class's(14 total) (some are: avenger, barbarian, ninja, illusionist)
 - many new skills to go with those class's
 - new spells we have around 200 now and are working on about 100 more.
 - lots of new commands some other muds have some they dont.
 - some things under construction:
 Clans/God worship which will grant extra powers and abilitys, limited player
 construction (your construction will be based on certain skills and on how much
 you can afford (real cost) in materials), 300+ more spells in the works as i 
 type this, more classes as soon as people let us know what is wanted, new 
 skills (such as appraise), languages (it will now not be possible to understand
 players, signs, room descs etc that are in a language you dont know), a new 
 improved AC/attack system is in the works (the old one sucks IMO) and many many
 more things to come.

 We are still under test mode so strange things may happen but we dont
 expect to be deleting the player files anymore. We have some dedicated
 players who are doing a good job of testing and it seems very stable.
 We are adding new things daily though.
 The official public nontest mode opening will be sometime in the fall.

 If your interested please E-Mail mohrc@jacobs.cs.orst.edu with a subject
 line of MUD. I will ignore all posts to here requesting information. 

 Sorry for such a long post.

 -Deth The Boss of Perilous Realms.
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