Crisis of Identity

So while I was not-so-patiently waiting for my coworker to log on I decided to wiki mudding. After skipping over the redneck version of the word, I stumbled across this curious little excerpt:

"Dr. Sherry Turkle, Ph.D. of Sociology of Science at MIT, developed a theory in her book "Life on the Screen" that the constant use (and in many cases, overuse) of MUDs allows users to develop different personalities in their environments. She uses examples, which date back to the text-based MUDs of the mid-1990s, showing college students who simultaneously live different lives through characters in separate MUDs, up to three at a time, all while doing schoolwork. The students claimed that it was a way to "shut off" their own lives for a while and become part of another reality. Turkle claims that this could present a psychological problem of identity for today's youths."

So if you're having a problem knowing who your real self is ... try turning your computer off. If the person you were five seconds ago is the person you are now, I believe the sanctity of your primary personality is in tact.

Millions of dollars of knowledge, all in one "bite-sized" nugget of info. You're welcome!

Piranha Attack!

Today I learned the exciting art of running a bot. What is a bot you say? Well in the context of this mud it's a method to do repetitive tasks over and over and over again without actually having to type in all of the commands. Basically you go in and identify all the commands you'll want to do in a sequence. Then you push them all onto a stack. Then you pop them off one by one until you reach the bottom of the stack. Then you push them all back onto the stack and start over!! I know, exciting right? Hopefully I'll be maxed soon and all this will be far behind me.

"You killed the fish"

My First Day on RoD

So my very first day on Realms of the Dragon has gone rather well. I joined the drow race and xp'ed in the newbie area until I had the following skills at 5:

• Fighting
• Magic
• Covert
• General
• Vitality

I then put stat points in the following attributes:

• Constitution (+4)
  
• Strength (+1)

After that I left the drow guild and joined up with the Sorcerors, where I immediately received the following spells:

• detect magic
• shocking grasp
• light
• lightning missile
• air steel
• plasma blast
• arcane bolts
• darkness

I have no idea what these spells do, but so far so fun :)