Welcome to issue fifteen of the Electronic Campfire. Highlights this month
are the results of the Monster Island additions poll and some good messages.
I'll be reorganizing the archive site and putting the latest issue of EFire
at the top of the list too. I'm apologizing in advance in case the next
issue (or any for that matter) are disrupted. Real Life is once again
intruding and I'm in the process of looking for a house with my significant
other. Expect major upheaval when (and if) I ever find somewhere that
doesn't need completely rebuilding!
Finally, although I'm pretty sure you're all sick and tired of hearing it,
the MI Bulletin Board has once again been given a clean bill of health by
the Pipex Support bods. I have by now no doubt that some of you will be
unable to post. Just give it a quick try with only your name and email
address (plus message!) when you get chance.
Oh well, on with the issue...
MI General
Aaron Fuegi's WWW page for MI
http://www.bu.edu/~aarondf/monster_www/
ABM - Monster Island
http://www.abacuswave.com/pbmweb/mi.html
Electronic Campfire Archives
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abb21/efire.htm
Message In A Bottle
http://www.geocities.com/Area51/Cavern/6771/
Monster Island - UK
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~erebus/mi_top.htm
Monster Island Bulletin Board
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abb21/bulletin_board.shtml
PBM Homepage
http://www.pbm.com/~lindahl/pbm.html
PBMNET The World of Internet Gaming
http://www.gamenet.demon.co.uk/
The Crossroads to Monster Island
http://users.aol.com/casbahcarl/MIhome.html
The Sunken Hollow
http://www.abdn.ac.uk/~t01bpa/index.htm#I4
TIGHTBEAM The PBM Universe
http://www.tightbeam.com/
Yahoo! Play by Mail Games
http://www.yahoo.co.uk/Recreation/Games/Play_by_Mail_Games/
MI Groups
Blood Alliance
http://users.skynet.be/sky67777/blood.htm
Eternal Void
http://dialspace.dial.pipex.com/town/parade/abb21/ev_home.shtml
Island Rangers
http://members.tripod.com/~Cricky/rangers.htm
Shadow Cult
http://www.compulink.co.uk/~erebus/ShadowCult.htm
Shroud's Own
http://members.aol.com/BierMensch/ShroudsOwn.html
The Dark Souls
http://members.aol.com/Ross81/Dark_Souls.html
The Shadow Guardians
http://ddi.digital.net/~rroff/SG.html
White Knights of Kabuki
http://members.tripod.com/~Nubes/index.html
MI Monsters
Cricky main page
http://members.tripod.com/~Cricky/index.htm
HMG's Travels in Zargnoth
http://www.thenet.co.uk/~discworld/zargnoth.html
Nazgul, member of Blood Alliance
http://users.skynet.be/sky67777/index.htm
Rumata's MI Page
http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc2934/monster/monster.htm
Skizlum Skallaglamm in Zargnoth
http://www.geocities.com/TimesSquare/Alley/6864/
Tony Austin's PBM Page
http://ourworld.compuserve.com/homepages/austin/pbm.htm
And so, on with the messages...
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From: CasbahCarl@aol.com[SMTP:CasbahCarl@aol.com]
Sent: 11 July 1997 17:12
To: efire@dial.pipex.com
Subject: KJC Newsletter/Programming Requests
Greg,
Great newsletter as usual. Two things: would it be possible for you to
snail-mail me the KJC MI newsletter? I'm assuming it's not digitized. If it's
emailable, by all means please email me a copy. If it needs to be
snail-mailed, please let me know what the cost will be and I'll reimburse you
fully for all your expenses.
The second thing, is that in the U.S. side, we're putting together a list of
programming changes or additions. The U.S. gamemaster has said KJC will be
giving strong consideration to whatever we put together. We'd like to get
ideas and other input from the European players, so would you be so kind to
pass on this message? Please ask them to send any ideas to Steve Abbott
(AbbottSM@aol.com).
Thanks! :)
Chuck
Sol-Rac Orim, Rogue Warrior (#1323)
"Stay out of the path of this marauding swine"
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THE FLYING PIGS OF HELL
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Fort's Infested? Call the Porkin' Men Today!
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From: mark wingad[SMTP:discworld@thenet.co.uk]
Sent: 14 July 1997 15:30
To: greg D
Subject: ecamp
HI All
Well Zoingot blurb obtained by traveling at least 2 stations down the line.
You`ll stop for a rest at a station and exit the carraige and meet the Zoingot
Driver. Thus getting the blurb ;) They`re a wired race that i do know...
But the travel will cost you. in oc`s and act points.
Cheers
Mark
Amiga 4000 User. 18 meg ram, 960 meg hd storage, scsi card with
CD-Rom, 4 meg gfx card, 3x Serial ports, 2x parrell ports,
33.6k modem, colour inkjet, digi & sampler and dreaming of
winning the lottery and NOT buying a IBM/PC.
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From: Martin Rasmussen Lie[SMTP:malie@sn.no]
Sent: 16 July 1997 02:59
To: Electronic Campfire
Subject: Re: Electronic Campfire #14
Howdy fellow adventurers! Shame on Daydream Productions!!! :(
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>From: Tony Austin[SMTP:tony-austin@rocketmail.com]
>Sent: 13 June 1997 03:03
>To: abb21@dial.pipex.com
>Subject: IRC vs. AOL
>
>Sounds nice but not EVRY cyber-monster has access to IRC. I am
>connected by college and in theory am only allowed to access the WWW.
>Java is disabled. I get access to email by the web and most other
>services (ftp etc.) through email. I access the newsgroups through a
>bug in the firewall. The firewall will not allow me to use any program
>except a web browser through a proxy server. I don't know if there are
>other people who access the net like me but I'd suggest a better place
>to hold an online chat would be a HTML chat page. such as
>http://ss002.infi.net:89/betachat2/login
>this way all webbers can access it.
Well, I see your problem. But I hate web chat pages. I've tried it once,
and I think it sucks. Just my opinion, though. I'm too used to IRC, by now,
I suppose. Anyways, there are some IRC clients, like mIRC, for example that
supports IRC'ing through a firewall. So it should in theory be possible for
everyone to access IRC, with the right software. :)
You can get the newest verson of mIRC at http://www.mirc.co.uk/get.html
Can you do regular file downloads, btw? Just http, or ftp too, if so?
If you have any further problems connecting to an IRC network, please
contact me at <malie@sn.no>, and I'll try to solve it...
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Thanx very much for enlightening me on the Monster Companion mapper of
yours, Rasmus. :) Great help!
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>From: mark wingad[SMTP:discworld@thenet.co.uk]
>
>HI All
>Well I`m going to set up a IRC channel on the following IRC serevr:
>
>Server name: dragon.dal.net Port: 6667 channel: #Monster Island
Umm... Not to complain, but an IRC channel cannot have spaces in the
name... I suppose I'll find it pretty fast anyways, though, at least with a
/list. I suggest #MonsterIsland
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Jim Wuerch, if you're listening: Please write a new version of the Monster
Mapper. T'would be like a legend reborn. :) As you've been away from the
game quite a while, I suppose you're not totally updated. I'll gladly give
you any info you need, if it's in my power. :)
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Fearless Fred, and other Kabuki Monsters that are part of a Group: Where
you all hiding??? Are all Kabuki Groups too badly run? Can't they get an ad
in the MIAB before every other Group has submitted one? Maybe they're all
inactive... *sigh* It seems Monster Island is entering an age of Darkness.
Come out of yer shelters, ya proud and few Kabuki followers, lest ya want
the Shadow to cunsume yer resting souls.
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xxx Pureblade A K A Martin Rasmussen Lie
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From: Paul Radford[SMTP:paul.radford@nottingham.ac.uk]
Sent: 16 July 1997 17:54
To: Electronic Campfire
Cc: ngarb@globalnet.co.uk; sauron@innotts.co.uk; paul.radford@nottingham.ac.uk; mikeflavin@innotts.co.uk; Bryan Ash; Kragg
Subject: Re: Electronic Campfire #14
From: Shagpile Karpit
To: All
KAOS is here! The KINDRED AGENTS OF SHROUD are an official, active new
edition to the Shroud worshipping groups on the Island.
Hopefully, you should soon be hearing more about us......
We don't have a web page yet, but soon, hopefully.
KAOS can be contacted through:
Paul Radford
104A Trent Blvd
West Bridgford
Nottingham
NG2 5BL
or paul.radford@nottingham.ac.uk
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Paul "Lynx" Radford | paul.radford@nottingham.ac.uk
Department Of Immunology | CCG: Galactic Empires, Mythos.
Queens Medical Centre | MI (UK): Lynx, Disciple of Shroud & SSS member
Nottingham, England | : Shagpile Karpit, KAOS Member
(+44) 0115 9249924 ext 43494 | BITS (UK): Tournament Referee & Representative
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BITS Referee's : "We are never outgunned"
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From: sauron@innotts.co.uk[SMTP:sauron@innotts.co.uk]
Sent: 17 July 1997 06:42
To: Paul Radford
Cc: Electronic Campfire; ngarb@globalnet.co.uk; mikeflavin@innotts.co.uk; Bryan Ash; Kragg
Subject: Re: Electronic Campfire #14
Paul Radford wrote:
>
> From: Shagpile Karpit
>
> To: All
>
> KAOS is here! The KINDRED AGENTS OF SHROUD are an official, active new
> edition to the Shroud worshipping groups on the Island.
Oh.........great.........
> Hopefully, you should soon be hearing more about us......
Oh.........great.........
> We don't have a web page yet, but soon, hopefully.
Oh.........great.........
> KAOS can be contacted through:
>
> Paul Radford
> 104A Trent Blvd
> West Bridgford
> Nottingham
> NG2 5BL
>
> or paul.radford@nottingham.ac.uk
Oh.........'triffic.......
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> Paul "Lynx" Radford | paul.radford@nottingham.ac.uk
> Department Of Immunology | CCG: Galactic Empires, Mythos.
> Queens Medical Centre | MI (UK): Lynx, Disciple of Shroud & SSS member
> Nottingham, England | : Shagpile Karpit, KAOS Member
> (+44) 0115 9249924 ext 43494 | BITS (UK): Tournament Referee & Representative
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> BITS Referee's : "We are never outgunned"
> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Oh..........super.........
Oh..........you've finished...........marvellous............
Cheers,
Me.
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From: William Clinton Kida[SMTP:beowulf@cedar-rapids.net]
Sent: 22 July 1997 21:27
To: abb21@dial.pipex.com
Subject: Electric Campfire
Hi,
This is to let everyone know that a new Monster Island Mapper is almost
finished. I've been working on it on and off for the past year.
Mapper Stats: (completed so far)
*Ability to add your own bitmaps for terrain, and features. Although, it
does come with its own bitmaps, you'll be ready when new terrains are
created.
*Selectable visibility of square information. Trails, creatures, sightings,
plants.
*Works with existing (Jim Weurch style) database. It does add a few more
tables, however. No need to re-populate your database.
*Windows 95.
*Tactical and Strategic view. Tactical view appears like a MI turn, with
square coordinates relative to a particular monster. Strategic view is the
entire Monster Island shown in a single window.
Working on the following:
*Plot/display monster moves/turns.
*Send plotted turn via email.
*Ability to jump around the Tactical view based on location of mouse click
in Strategic view.
*Find nearest creature/plant/sighting and display shortest path to it.
*Track enemy/friendly monster sightings.
*Anything else you can think of.
Cheers,
William Clinton Kida
Heoroweard,Hrunting,Beowulf
beowulf@cedar-rapids.net
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From: Rasmus R. Jensen[SMTP:rrj@vip.cybercity.dk]
Sent: 3 August 1997 22:04
To: Electronic Campfire
Subject: New toy for email monsters
I've created a turncard editor which will allow you to enter and edit your
turncards and automatically calculates the action points spent on orders.
The resulting turncard can be pasted into your mail program and sent to KJC.
The editor is for Windows 95 and NT only. The program can be downloaded from
http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc2934/monster/ in the MIC95 section.
Try it out and let me know what you think.
Rasmus / Rumata
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Rasmus R. Jensen (rrj@vip.cybercity.dk)
'If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you'
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From: Greg McDougall[SMTP:abb21@dial.pipex.com]
Sent: 7 August 1997 20:02
To: 'Electronic Campfire Mailbox'
Subject: MI Poll Results
From: AbbottSM@aol.com
To: englism@peak.org
Subject: Re: MI poll question
Mark,
Here is the posting from AOL with the results...
Here are the Top Ten Improvements to Monster Island that people want, based
on the votes that I received. There were six responses, including my own,
so if you don't like the results and you didn't vote, keep your mouth shut.
I kept voting open until this morning before doing the final tally. If two
weeks aren't enough time to decide what you would like to see, don't come
crying to me.
Ranking: 1 to 10, with 1 being the top requested change. There were actually
more items requested than were on this top ten list, but listing everything
people voted for would be ridiculous. BTW, if people were wondering how I
did the ratings, every ranking was worth a certain number of points, which
were added up to get the value placed on the particular item. For example,
if an item got a 2, 5 and 8 vote their point total was 18. I had hoped that
this would eliminate ties, but it didn't. Oh well.
.10 - Add new dark places.
.9 - Allow monster versus monster wrestling.
.7 (tie) - Add Blurb List Order
.7 (tie) - Put more blurbs into the game.
.6 - Add Black Voodoo to the game.
.3 (3 way tie) - Activate unusable items or get rid of them (Iron Steins, Sunka Death Masks, Bows, King Ock Mushroom Groves, etc.)
.3 (3 way tie) - Make gold rings work only part of the time
.3 (3 way tie) - Make hidey holes work only part of the time
.2 - Add Weather
.1 - Add Demigods to the game
There were also votes for the various attack orders (Attack Group, Attack
on Sight, etc), Spell master, etc. I will forward the entire list of ideas
to Keith for him to review and send to KJC. After that we'll just have to
wait and see.
Steve
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From: Rasmus R. Jensen[SMTP:rrj@vip.cybercity.dk]
Sent: 9 August 1997 08:48
To: Electronic Campfire
Subject: Monster Island Companion - new and old versions
A number of people have asked why the blurb editor wasn't included in the
package and why the convert program didn't work properly and so on. I think
the problems have arisen because people were downloading the programs from
http://www.diku.dk/students/zorglub/ instead of my new and improved site at
http://users.cybercity.dk/~ccc2934/monster/.
I don't think the diku-version of small.zip has been updated for years, but
the cybercity version has.
Rasmus
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Rasmus R. Jensen (rrj@vip.cybercity.dk)
'If at first you don't succeed, skydiving is not for you'
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Well, that's it for another one. The mailing list keeps getting bigger and
with it the newsletter. You may have noticed that I've cut the editorial
down but this has allowed me to speed up the 'putting together' of the
newletter.
Finally, I had the following bounces last issue. Anyone got a newer address?
Neil.Slater@Almac.co.uk
Stay Lucky,
Thelma Twofang,
Lvl. 10 Disciple of Shroud and Eternal Void Member
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