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[SCROLL SCROLL_GUEST] Welcome Guest Traveller you have entered Final Aegis! A Guest account has been opened for you Your life in this world is transient at best. Consult with metasquares@metasquares.com for a permenant account. [SCROLL SCROLL_NEWBIE] Welcome Traveller you have entered ! Our guardian watches over and protects us all. Please try to remain in the cities during your stay. It is dangerous in the wilds. Be carefull ! [TIP 1] Did you know that GMs can use the .ALLMOVE command to make all dynamic items movable for them? To turn this off again, simply use the .ALLMOVE command again. [TIP 2] As a GM use .XMOVABLE 1 to make item movable by everyone or .XMOVABLE 2 to make it movable by no one except GMs. [TIP 3] War is unhealthy for children and other living things. [BOOK b_sphere] PAGES=3 TITLE=First Book of Sphere AUTHOR=Menace [BOOK b_sphere 1] In the beginning there was GrayWorld. It was good. [BOOK b_sphere 2] Then there was TUS. But it was not the Ultimate. [BOOK b_sphere 3] Let there be Sphere! [BOOK b_hitchhiker] PAGES=3 TITLE=Hitchhikers Guide to SPHERE AUTHOR=Menace [BOOK b_hitchhiker 1] Don't Panic //8 lines per page proportional font [BOOK b_hitchhiker 2] See Page 1 [BOOK b_hitchhiker 3] This is page 3 and the end of this book. //Random Speech ? [BOOK 2] DEFNAME=b_tennyson PAGES=16 TITLE=Charge of the Light Brigade AUTHOR=Tennyson [BOOK b_tennyson 1] Half a league, half a league, Half a leage onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. [BOOK b_tennyson 2] "Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns!" he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. [BOOK b_tennyson 3] "Forward, the Light Brigade!" Was there a man dismay'd? Not tho' the soldier knew Someone had blunder'd: [BOOK b_tennyson 4] Theirs not to make reply, Theirs not to reason why, Theirs but to do and die: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. [BOOK b_tennyson 5] Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon in front of them Volley'd and thunder'd: [BOOK b_tennyson 6] Storm'd at with shot and shell Boldly they rode and well, [BOOK b_tennyson 7] Into the jaws of Death, Into the mouth of Hell Rode the six hundred. [BOOK b_tennyson 8] Flash'd all their sabers bare, Flash'd as they turn'd in air Sab'ring the gunners there, Charging an army while [BOOK b_tennyson 9] All the world wonder'd: Plunged in the battery smoke [BOOK b_tennyson 10] Right thro' the line they broke; Cossack and Russian Reel'd from the saber stroke [BOOK b_tennyson 11] Shatter'd and sunder'd. Then they rode back, but not Not the six hundred. [BOOK b_tennyson 12] Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon behind them Volley'd and thunder'd: [BOOK b_tennyson 13] Storm'd at with shot and shell, While horse and hero fell, They that had fought so well [BOOK b_tennyson 14] Came through the jaws of death Back from the mouth of hell, All that was left of them -- Left of six hundred. [BOOK b_tennyson 15] When can their glory fade? Oh, the wild charge they made! All the world wonder'd. [BOOK b_tennyson 16] Honor the charge they made! Honor the Light Brigade -- Noble six hundred! [BOOK 3] DEFNAME=b_ArrowSong PAGES=1 TITLE=The Arrow and the Song AUTHOR=Longfellow [BOOK b_ArrowSong 1] I shot an arrow into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For, so swiftly it flew, the sight Could not follow in its flight. [BOOK b_ArrowSong 2] I breathed a song into the air, It fell to earth, I knew not where; For who has sight so keen and strong, That it can follow the flight of song? [BOOK b_ArrowSong 3] Long, long afterward, in an oak I found the arrow, still unbroke; And the song, from beginning to end, I found again in the heart of a friend. [BOOK 4] //Ben Franklin's Mr. Meant-To DEFNAME=b_MrMeantTo PAGES=2 TITLE=Mr. Meant-To AUTHOR=Ben Franklin [BOOK b_MrMeantTo 1] Mr. Meant-To has a comrade, And his name is Didn't-Do; Have you ever chanced to meet them? Did they ever call on you? [BOOK b_MrMeantTo 2] These two fellows live together In the house of Never-Win, And I'm told that it is haunted By the ghost of Might-Have-Been. [BOOK 5] //Longfellow's The Village Blacksmith (partial -- too long to include the whole thing) DEFNAME=b_VillageBlack [BOOK b_VillageBlack 1] Under a spreading chestnut tree The village smithy stands; The smith, a mighty man is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong as iron bands. His hair is crisp, and black, and long, His face is like the tan; His brow is wet with honest sweat, He earns whate'er he can, And looks the whole world in the face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out, from morn till night, You can hear his bellows blow; You can hear him swing his heavy sledge, With measured beat and slow, Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. And children comming home from school Look in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks the fly Like chaff from a threshing floor. [BOOK 6] //Emerson's Great Men Not gold, but only man can make A people great and strong; Men who, for truth and honor's sake, Stand fast and suffer long. Brave men who work while others sleep, Who dare while others fly -- They build a nation's pillars deep And lift them to the sky. [BOOK 7] //Ernest Chackleton's Men Wanted for Hazardous Journey (from a newspaper ad in 1900) Men wanted for hazardous journey. Small wages, bitter cold, long months of complete darkness, constant danger, safe return doubtful. Honor and recognition in case of success. [BOOK 8] //Anonymous (Pre 1658) There was a lady loved a swine There was a lady loved a swine. Honey, quoth she, Pig-hog, wilt thou be mine? Hoogh, quoth he. I'll build thee a silver sty, Honey, quoth she, And in it thou shalt lie. Hoogh, quoth he. Pinned with a silver pin, Honey, quote she, That thou may go out and in. Hoogh, quoth he. Wilt hou have me now, honey? quoth she. Speak or my heartwill break. Hoogh, quoth he. [BOOK 9] //Francis Petrarch, 1300's Great is my Envy of You Great is my envy of you, earth, in your greed Folding her in invisible embrace, Denying me the look of the sweet face Where I found peace from all my strife at need! Great is my envy of heaven which can lead And lock within itself in avarice That spirit from its lovely biding-place And leave so many others here to bleed! [BOOK 10] //Selected from Machiavelli's The Prince Everybody knows how laudable it is in a prince to keep his faith and to be an honest man, not a trickster. Nevertheless, the experience of our times shows that the princes who have done great things are the ones who have taken little account of their promises and who have known how to addle the brains of men with craft. In the end they have conquered those who have put their reliance on good faith. [BOOK 11] //Selected from Ayn Rand's The Voice of Reason If the good, the virtuous, the morally ideal is suffering and self-sacrifice -- then, by that standard, capitalism had to be damned as evil. Capitalism does not tell men to suffer, but to pursue enjoyment and achievement, here, on Earth -- capitalism does not tell men to serve and sacrifice, but to produce and profit... and above all, capitalism does not permist anyone to expect or demand, to give or to take the unearned. [BOOK 12] //Selected from Ayn Rand's Atlas Shrugged You are not free to escape from your nature, from the fact that reason is your means of survival -- so that you, who are a human being, the question "to be or not to be' is the question 'to think or not to think." [BOOK 13] //Selected from Dante Alighieri's The Divine Comedy: Inferno, Canto I. Midway in our life's journey, I went astray from the straight road and woke to find myself alone in a dark wood. How shall I say what a wood that was! I never saw so drear, so rank, so arduous a wilderness! Its very memory gives a shape to fear. Death could scarce be more bitter than that place! But since it came to good, I will recount all that I found revealed there by God's grace... [BOOK 14] DEFNAME=b_TalkToWisp PAGES=9 TITLE=Talking to Wisps AUTHOR=Yorick of Moonglow [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 1] This volume was sponsored by donations from Lord Blackthorn, ever a supporter of understanding the other sentient races of Britannia. [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 2] Wisps are the most intelligent of the nonhuman races inhabiting Britannia. 'Tis claimed by the great sages that someday we shall be [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 3] able to converse with them openly in our native tongue--indeed, we must hope that wisps learn our language, for it is not possible for humans to [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 4] pronounce wispish! The wispish language seems to only contain one vowel, the letter Y. However, the letters W, C, M, and L seem to be treated [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 5] grammatically as vowels, and in addition every letter is followed by what sounds to the human ear like a glottal stop. It is possible that the glottal stop is [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 6] considered a vowel as well. Wisps do make use of what sound to us like pitch and emphasis shifts similar to exclamations and [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 7] questions. The average word in wispish seems to consist of three phonemes and three glottal stops, plus possibly a pitch shift. It often sounds like a [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 8] fire burning or crackling. Some have speculated that what we are analyzing is in fact nothing more than the very air crackling near the wisp's glow, and not [BOOK b_TalkToWisp 9] language, but this is of course unlikely... [BOOK 15] DEFNAME=b_OrcGrammar PAGES=23 TITLE=A Grammar of Orcish AUTHOR=Yorick of Yew [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 1] This volume, and others in the series, are sponsored by donations from Lord Blachthrone, always a supporter of understanding the other sentient races [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 2] of Britannia - The Orcish tongue may fall unpleasingly 'pon the ear, yet it has within it a complex grammar oft [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 3] misunderstood by those who merely hear the few broken words of English our orcish brothers manage without education. These are the basic [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 4] rules of orcish: Orcish has five tenses: present, past, future imperfect, present interjectional, and prehensile. Examples: gugroflu, gugrofloog, gugrobo, [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 5] gugroglu!, gugrogug. All transitive verbs in the prehensile tense end in "ug." Examples: urgleighug, biggugdaghgug, curdakalmug. [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 6] All present interjectional conjugations start with the letter G unless the contain the third declensive accent of the letter U. Examples: [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 7] ghothudunglug, but not azhbuugub. The past tense can only refer to events since the last meal, but the prehensile tense can refer to any event within [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 8] reach. The present tense is conjugated like the future imperfect tense, when the interrogative mode is used by pitching the sound a quarter-tone [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 9] higher. Orcish hath no concept of person, as in first person, third person, I, we, etc. Orcish grammar relies upon the three cardinal rules of [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 10] accretion, prefixing, and agglutination, in addition to pitch. In the former, phonemes combine into larger words which may contain full phrasal significance In the [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 11] second, prefixing specific phonetic sounds changes the subject of the sentence into object, interrogative, addressed individual, or dinner. [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 12] Agglutination occurs whenever four of the same letter are present in a word, in which case, any two of them may be removed or slurred. Pitch changes the [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 13] phoneme value of individual syllables, thus completely altering what a word may mean. The classic example is "Aktgluthugrot bigglogubuu [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 14] dargilgaglug lublublub" which can mean "You are such a pretty girl," "My mother ate your primroses," or "Jellyfish nose paints alms potato," depending on pitch. [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 15] Orcish poetry often relies upon repeating the same phrase in multiple pitches, even changing pitch midword. None of this great art is translatable. [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 16] The orcish language uses the following vowels: ab, ad, ag, akt, at, augh, auh, azh, e, i, o, oo, u, uu. The vowel sound a is not recognized as a vowel and does not exist in [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 17] their alphabet. The orcish alphabet is best learned using the classic rhyme repeated at 23 different pitches: Lugnog ghu blat suggaroglug, [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 18] Gaghbuu dakdar ab highugbo, Gothnogbuim ad gilgubbugbuilug Bilgeaugh thurggulg. Translation of the [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 19] first pitch: Eat food, the first letter is ab, Kill people, next letter is ad, I forget the rest But augh is in there somewhere! [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 20] What follows is a complete phonetic library of the orcish language: ab, ad, ag, akt, alm, at, augh, auh, azh, ba, ba, bag, bar, baz, [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 21] bid, bilge, bo, bog, bog, brui, bu, buad, bug, bug, buil, buim, bum, buo, buor, buu, ca, car, clog, cro, cuk, cur, da, dagh, dagh, dak, dar, deak, der, dil, dit, dor, dre, dri, [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 22] dru, du, dud, duf, dug, dug, duh, dun, eag, eg, egg, eichel, ek, ep, ewk, faugh, fid, flu, fog, foo, foz, fruk, fu, fub, fud, fun, fup, fur, gaa, gag, gagh, gan, [BOOK b_OrcGrammar 23] gar, gh, gha, ghat, ghed, ghig, gho, ghu, gig, gil, gka, glu, glu, glug, gna, gno, gnu, gol, gom, goth, grunt, grut, gu, gub, gub, gug, gug, gugh, guk, guk, [BOOK 16] DEFNAME=b_XMassCarol PAGES=2 TITLE=A Christmas Carole AUTHOR=Unknown [BOOK b_XMassCarol 1] "Slashing through the Orcs With a good two-handed blade Over corpses we go And through the gore we wade Mace on helmet rings Making bodies fly What fun to sing our SLAYING song And watch these suckers die! [BOOK b_XMassCarol 2] Chorus: Oh, ring their bells with swords and spells Don't let 'em get away! We're brave and bold for fame and gold We'll make a lot today! Oh, ring their bells with swords and spells Don't let 'em get away! We'll hack and slash and blast and trash And blow these dudes away! [BOOK b_Tornado] // Add NPC scripts here. PAGES=1 TITLE=Tornado AUTHOR=Menace [BOOK b_Tornado 1] T=.5; ANIM c; SOUND 14; ANIM c; SOUND 15; ANIM c; SOUND 16; ANIM c; SOUND 16; [CRYSTALBALL] // Random messages turned up by a crystal ball. 4 Help I'm trapped in a crystal ball ! What did you expect to see? It is clear as crystal Check out the goblins caves. [EMAILMSG EMAIL_NONUSEWARN] Date: From: <> Subject: Account non-use warning. To: This is an automated email from to We need to warn you that your account has not been used since . Since we are a free test server our policy is to delete accounts that have not been used in roughly 60 days. 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