Greetings traveler,

Welcome to the fifty sixth 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.
A quiet month on Alcarin, for as far as updates are concerned. I've been busy finishing up my studies and taking off for a holiday after that, so not much has been done. The only update I've been able to sneak in at the last moment is a new spell: "Conjure Herd", for Dungeons & Dragons. The spell does as its name says: it conjures a herd of animals that can hamper people trying to move through an area and can even be ordered to push people away. It still needs some work though, and I expect to release a revised version soon. The coming month promises (and has already seen) much more updates. In this month's column, Wouter continues the legend of the "Knight of the Goat", as told by the infamous bard Jonathan (from "The Jonathan Saga").
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:

31/07/2005 - new spell in the School: "Conjure Herd"

06/07/2005 - updated Forums to latest version

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

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COMING UP:

Alcarin is undergoing a major restructuring and redesign operation at the moment. This will be the main point of activity during the coming months. Among the things being worked on is the creation of more "intuitive" sections to order the content. The amount of sections will be about the same, but division will be reorganized and new names will be given. Furthermore, the index page and navigation will be changed, the Town picture will be replaced, and the section index pages (with the lists of material available) will get tables showing additional info on the material (e.g. the list of custom monsters will also list the monster type, difficulty, and game system). The site's artistic corner (stories, poetry, artwork) is going to be officially opened to user submissions. As I've mentionned before in the mailinglist, I especially hope to increase the amount of artwork available and I'm going to make decent thumbnail galleries for that as well.
Besides the work on the restructuring/redesign, I'm also working on making new, more centralized and better advertised user submission forms, creating new custom D&D material, new poetry, working on new mods for the computer RPG Elderscrolls III: Morrowind, and a few other minor things.

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

"Challenge of the goat"

"And so, on his way the Knight of the Goat went. Lot's of people looked at him. Like they had never seen a knight ride a goat before! All terrible narrow-minded people who thought something odd about this, he was sure. But he believed his willpower would triumph over this.
That afternoon it was terribly busy at the local marketplace. Knight Patrick, his former kid-next-door, was giving away autographs. As the only real knight from their little town, he was quite famous. All kinds of Knight Patrick merchandise was sold. Frederick saw him. His teeth had about the same shine on them as his armor had. Even his horse seemed to shine a little.
"What is your plan? Shine your enemy 'till he is blinded?" Frederick called out before he knew it.
Everyone looked at him, surprised. None of them thought about saying something to their local hero which was other then extremely nice and gentle.
Patrick smiled at him.
"If it isn't the poor goatboy" he said.
He saw Fredericks poor clothes and goat.
"This sure is... ridiculous..."
He had trouble not laughing aloud. So he decided to just go ahead and do laugh aloud.
"Ha ha ha ha!"
Frederick looked at him, furious that he laughed at his poor appearance.
"I challenge you" he said.
"That would be a much to sad show" Patrick said and turned his horse around again.
"I AM THE KNIGHT OF THE GOAT - FIGHTER FOR JUSTICE FOR ALL BORN WITH LESS CHANCES!" Frederick called out.
"If you don't want my autograph, please GO" Patrick said. "I have to promote some stuff, save some princesses, slay some dragons, you know... busybusybusy..."
"Lend me a lance like you have and I will take you on in a honest fight..."
Patrick sighed and granted his wish. A moment later they were running towards each other. Frederick got thrown right of the goat by the lance. He got up and wanted to take on Patrick again, but saw his goat running home again.
He had failed quite badly. Not a good way to start. Only good ideals do not mean you will win yet. Only courage isn't enough either. He needed more practice to make perfect."

Jonathan stopped writing because he heard an explosion.
"WHAT ARE YOU UP TO NOW, FOMBEL!" he called out.
He sighed an knew his party would drag him into another adventure soon, probably. Something like fleeing the locals because the gnome in the party blew something up. He looked at his writing and smiled. The Knight of the Goat had a long way to go, but would become a legend. And he had to admit, the adventures of the party and little Fombel's enthusiasm helped him create this legend. He would write the rest of his adventures next time being.

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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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