Greetings traveler,

Happy New Year and welcome to the fourteenth edition of the alcarin.com newsletter.
There is an archive of the previous newsletters in the Townhall and the columns are added to the Town Square, so you can always read it again.
I've been working on the new vocabularies for the citizens of Dunékàr this month. The old flash movie had standard citizens, a town crier and a guard. The new one has that and a wizard, a paladin, merchants and a gnome. The crier and the guard's vocabularies have been greatly improved and enlarged to. Go check them out at the town screen (the central page of the site; right after you've clicked through the index page). Again, there where no submissions this month. Hopefully there will be some in the coming month.
As for this month's newsletter: due to a lack of time there will be no Close Up this month, but still, enjoy reading.

This letter's content:
1. What's New
2. Coming Up Soon
3. Column: Men with a Mission

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WHAT'S NEW:

28/12/2001 - added new Paladin and Wizard vocabularies (town screen)

27/12/2001 - added new Gnome vocabulary (town screen), moved form mailer to alcarin server

26/12/2001 - added new Citizen and Guard vocabularies (town screen)

20/12/2001 - started chapter 3 of the webnovel "Goiren and the Blackened Blades"

19/12/2001 - uploaded improved version of "Raven's Dawn" artwork

11/12/2001 - new poem in the Temple: "On a cold winter night"

Visit http://www.alcarin.com/townhall/updates.htm for the latest updates.

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COMING UP:

Most citizens have different vocabularies now. Only the Merchants still need a new one (they've still got the default citizen vocabulary). That will be changed very soon. Furthermore I plan to work on a day/night script in order to have day and night differences in vocabulary and pictures of the town screen. Maybe I'll implement in on the rest of the site to in the introduction paragraphs of each section (Temple, School, Barracks, etc.). I don't know when those things will show any results and if they will ever. Depends on if the results will be good. In the future I may work on a colored version of the town screen. Another thing I will be working on is a new poll. The current one, "What's your favorite monster?", is about two months old and has clearly been won by the red dragon. I also plan to work on a colored version of the "Raven's Dawn" Project artwork. If there's enough time I will also work on geography pages for the Elfstone Campaign Setting with descriptions of the towns countries, etc. I hope there will be some more submissions this month. Some of my friends thought about working on a review of the Lord of the Rings movie. We'll see.

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COLUMN: MEN WITH A MISSION
A column by Wouter vd Zandschulp; wouter@alcarin.com

"Letter to Mr. Jones"

Dear Mr. Jones,

We, the neighbourhood-comity, feel that we have to inform you about our concerns. It seems to us that you should know how we feel.

Some of our children were once engaged in healthy youth activities, such as soccer, playing games, watching TV, going out, drinking too much, while occasionally demolishing public property and kicking total stranger in the stomach for looking weird.
You can imagine that we all lead happy lives, with our healthy children running around in their healthy environment.

We do not want to shout names or so, since we have forgotten the name of your kid, but since our children hang out there he has introduced them to something unhealthy. Considering it taking place at your home, we should let you know it worries us a great deal. One day, our children came home with dice. Instead of causing mayhem in the neighbourhood, they are writing! Writing on paper! Reading English books!
After a closer study, we found out this all was about using their imagination! About thinking and strategy! THERE IS A GAME TAKING PLACE IN OUR CHILDRENS HEAD! AAAAAHHHH!

We are and are absolutely devastated. Our children are thinking! And even worse, they like it. They are not using the old old-fashioned dice, no, they use dices that go up to 20! It is impossible! It's evil!

We can't forbid them to go to your place. That's very terrible. Just because we do not understand the game, we can't come up with arguments why it's wrong.
Let's not forget the first two rules of parenthood our comity has agreed upon:
1. Everything we don't understand is evil.
2. If our children do not put something on fire, they're up to something worse that that.

I think our point is made. We hope you will stop this madness, Mr. Jones. What else can you do? Just let them go on with this? Wake up, Mr. Jones!

So you should consider this a serious warning. If you fail to stop this, we will come to your house. We will take our +2 magical weapons and practise our fireball-spells. If you do not stop them from role-playing we will blast your house and slay you, like we did with that dragon last year.

So you are warned, Mr. Jones,

Best wishes,

The neighbourhood-comity

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Well, that's it for this month's newsletter. I hope you enjoyed it.
Lord Gildor
"May the stars guide you on your journeys"
http://www.alcarin.com

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