Alright, this may go absolutely nowhere, but it struck me as a thought at work.

What if we had varying competitions?
Like Forage an item...
Teleport here...
Hit this in less then this many swings..
Sneak past this without being seen...

(I need to leave work right now, so sorry these ideas arent exactly awesome)


Player of Gilart

You gesture.
A bright blue-white Moongate opens in the water before you. The water begins to rush through the gate, and you feel yourself being pulled along with it!
After a few seconds of struggle, you find yourself pulled through!

Yeah, that is a bad mental image. Heh. I will try to come up with some solid ideas and a structure that will not limit people out, but has a Moonie focus to it.


Player of Gilart

You gesture.
A bright blue-white Moongate opens in the water before you. The water begins to rush through the gate, and you feel yourself being pulled along with it!
After a few seconds of struggle, you find yourself pulled through!

Pssh. Teleport is for newbs. The real trick is to drop a beam, do the swimming portion... and lag behind, then watergate them, jump up, and gate to the finish line.


-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.
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Nothing beats a 100+ MM with a broom! mwahahaha


Player of Pormithius

Or you have each participant give one beacon to the judging team who hands them to a group acting as anchors. The group then goes to an undisclosed location. Then start the race. If you get a message to the group to raise your beacon, they will. Once.

Oh, and since we are just utility mages, there is a deader for each participant waiting at the group. Participants have to arrange to get the deader back to the starting line. Of course, since anyone with more than 800 in PM can gate to just about anywhere immediately, they are forced to be judges (another aspect of utilitiness). Oh, one more thing, about the deaders, they are not really dead - just barbs waiting to be MB'd and dragged. If you want to handicap it for various mages of various abilities, each participant has to MB a barb of the same circle.

Wulfcat

I feel it's amusing that we say "Track and Field" and immediately define that as "All of Kermoria".

Moon Magery is good.


-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.
http://www.rangerrawb.com/wiki/index.php/User:Diarik
http://www.livejournal.com/users/pensive-spirit/

<coughs> A 100+ MM with a broom can still make it from Hib to the Temple of the Northern Wind within a minute or three from anywhere.


Player of Pormithius

>> How do those brooms work?

There's a long handle type thing and they have these little bristles on one end that push dirt around.

(sorry, couldn't help it)


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Moon mage Daellid

I'm seeing a niche for Eluned's Scry.


-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.
http://www.rangerrawb.com/wiki/index.php/User:Diarik
http://www.livejournal.com/users/pensive-spirit/

Hmm, I am having a hard time thinking of things we could do.. but a thought crossed my mind. What if lets say, we made it so its a big of an egg hunt. There is things the contestants must retrieve and will be given vague locations. Each object will have a barrier to overcome.. whether it be a natural barrier, a critter or a guardian that is a character. The best times in retrieval in skill ranges will be winners..


Player of Gilart

You gesture.
A bright blue-white Moongate opens in the water before you. The water begins to rush through the gate, and you feel yourself being pulled along with it!
After a few seconds of struggle, you find yourself pulled through!

Hmm, didnt mean to make it sound like a GM thing. ie. Lets say that we have three items (red arrows for example), one is placed on a cliff that takes X amount to climb (natural barrier) the next item is in Fends in a high spawn room (critter barrier), and the last could be in an item in a room with a character whos job is to stop you short of killing you. The character would only know the general location such as it is in the Fends hunting ground, and what items to look for not knowing which barrier he would be addressing though he might surmise that in Fends the Fendryads would be the critter barrier.


Player of Gilart

You gesture.
A bright blue-white Moongate opens in the water before you. The water begins to rush through the gate, and you feel yourself being pulled along with it!
After a few seconds of struggle, you find yourself pulled through!

>> Hmm, didnt mean to make it sound like a GM thing. ie. <snipped>

Gotcha. For some reason I was imagining something much stranger and more difficult to set up.


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Moon mage Daellid

It could be something simple, like a player holding arrows (maybe mark them with an empowerment enchantment so they can be distinguished from regular arrows.) Find the player, navigate to them, get the arrow. The player names could be known, so find people could find them with locate. At least some of the people should be indoors where moonbeams can't be shifted. Maybe put some of the people on boats, so you have to get to them during the brief period the boat is docked.

I'd supply the people holding the arrows with unbend sigils. =P But I'm feeling nasty today.


-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.
http://www.rangerrawb.com/wiki/index.php/User:Diarik
http://www.livejournal.com/users/pensive-spirit/

Been a while since I rogued a gate.. wonder if the critters could still hit me..


Player of Gilart
Despite your best efforts, skinning the gargoyle just isn't going to happen this time. Maybe helping little old Halfling widows across a busy Crossing street is more your line of work?

I survived a rogue gate this week. I had contingency up. I got stunned by the first hit from the shadowspawn and got an extremely lucky contingency pulse. I came out of the stun outside an autopuff. I even happened to hav enough of the right coin in my pocket to pay the autopuff without getting a debt.

Wow! Talk about luck! Someone up there loves you!


Sometimes the key to happiness is not assuming it is locked in the first place- Ziggy

A journey of a thousand SMILES begins with a single step- Ziggy

<< Yeah, I had that happen to me recently as well. I love contingency!

Dang. I can feel Armifer fixing this even as we type.

It decreases the number of self-caused Moon Mage deaths. Clearly, this is a bug.


-- Holy Scholar Diarik Erasto, Arcane Researcher, in search of spiritweaving.
http://www.rangerrawb.com/wiki/index.php/User:Diarik
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