Greetings traveler,

Welcome to the thirty-ninth 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.
The site has been reasonably busy this month. I've been working on a few new spells for use in the Elfstone MUD. I may add those to the Archives as well. Furthermore, I've been working on a new chapter for the Landlord RPG. It isn't finished yet, though. The forums have become really busy as well over the past months and a lot of my time went to that as well. The Dunékàr Online RPG is running smoothly and a new User Online Campaign, "The Dark Maiden", a free form pirate rpg, has been initiated as well.
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:

14/01/2003 - new riddle in the Wyvern Inn

13/01/2003 - new link in The Gate

10/01/2003 - added user comment to "The theft of the Holy Horse"

06/01/2003 - added user comment to "The theft of the Holy Horse"

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

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COMING UP:

We are still trying to get the MUD working again or to find another, preferably free, MUD host. We're working on the spells, but progress is slow. I'm working on a new chapter for the Landlord RPG. I think it will be finished this month and it will probably be followed by several new information tables.
Because virtualavenue is no longer supporting free accounts and I was not willing to pay for another payed account, my site there got shut down. I used it to serve a picture based counter for alcarin. With that counter no longer working, I'll have to remove image tags from just about every page on alcarin, which is a lot of work. That will be the major project in the coming month. Furthermore, I've got some for new spells for the MUD and I may convert and add those to the RPG Archives section of the site. I might also continue work on a new D&D mission, titled "The Crypt". It is a small dungeon for level 7 to 9 characters. Hopefully, there will be some more submissions as well.

For up to date news on these major projects and other major developments on alcarin.com, see the Announcements forum at http://www.alcarin.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=9

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

"Brave warriors in modern society"

"What did just happen?" did the brave Elven warrior ask the sturdy looking Dwarf.
"We just went to a strange plane dimension portal, that's what happened!" the Dwarf replied grumpily.
They looked around. It was a madhouse they saw. Loads of humans looking nowhere but to some sort of box in front of them, moving their fingers rapidly on buttons beyond them.
"Are they modrons?" the Dwarf whispered.
The Elf looked very surprised.
"We came here out of utterly emptiness and no-one even noticed. That thing in front of them is absorbing them totally. It must be some sort of hypnotizing device."
It was a weird place; that was sure. There was a window, but no one to look out of it. Strange, sort of iron objects where outside, some of them moving very fast.
"I do not like this dimension one bit," the Dwarf said.
"Let's save those absorbed humans," the Elf said.
"Let them be. Humans always have been way too obsessive about everything. They now probably have invented something they find so cool that they without noticing have lost their lives to. What do you expect? They're humans. They would not thank you for helping them now. Leave them be."
The Elf all of a sudden threw a sword and sliced a computer open.
"What? Was I talking to air? You fool, you don't even know if they can exist without it anymore!"
The person after the computer seemed to get out of shock. He moved slowly and robot-like towards the hall, ignoring the Elf and the Dwarf and all others, who did not even look up. He moved toward a red device, picked part of it up and held this part to his mouth.
"Computer maintenance needed" he spoke robot-like and then stood waiting there.
"O dear... we must get away from here... quick!" the Dwarf muttered.
"Is there a way to communicate with those humans?" the Elf thought. "Maybe we could help them then."
He walked towards a girl.
"Hello," he spoke.
She did not reply.
"Hello," he said again.
She actually turned around.
"If you want to talk, use a computer and a messenger service, will you, like normal people" she said irritated.
"They communicate through these devices," the Elf told the Dwarf.
"And those aren't all that fit for people of my length, are they?" the Dwarf complained immediately.
A person walked towards the broken computer. He looked at the damage and tried fixing it.
"Hello... can you learn us how to use one of those?" the Elf asked him, still not bothering about the Dwarf not agreeing.
"We have courses for that. Just sign in for them," the man actually replied without messenger. "I will talk in this old-fashioned state since you obviously can't use a computer yet."
"You understand" the Elf sighed happily. "You understand what it's like when you cannot use one of them."
"Yup. Those poor people that much behind, those weak must we looked after for. We know our responsibility for that very well. You can sign in for the course."
"Where can I do that?"
"Well, on the Internet of course."
"And where is the Internet located?"
"On those computers."
The Elf ran away and grabbed the Dwarf and jumped into the dimension portal. After this, a sign was placed aside the dimension portal: "DO NOT GO IN! VERY DANGEROUS!"

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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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