Cities Game

00:59 / 12.01.06

there's nowhere safer than the ocean to avoid hat theft

A few words, Quantum: "You gain a Survey Vessel (in a bottle)"

Yarrr, prepare to be boarded an yer hat a'keelhauled. Once I work off that 400 AP deficit that is.

02:49 / 12.01.06

I hear you on the anticlimactic sea life, Quantum - just slew a 30,000 hp shark - bastard ate a golden bullet and 3 glass swords before he went belly up, and I receive. A wand of anger. Ah well. The gulls around the Isle more than make up for it. And the Satanic Gardens are quite nice.

toksik - I flew over the isle's mountains with daedalus wings, so when I land again, sometime tomorrow, I'll 'port you over. And fists are always welcome on the Isle of Fright. Though I don't think Vindaloo monsters take them yet.

Tuna Ghost will work for dope

02:55 / 12.01.06

Though I suppose I really shouldn't complain - I did also net something like 50,000 experience points per glass sword hit.

03:08 / 12.01.06

Thank you for the summons, Charlie. I'm cutting my bloody swath and getting gold to boot.

Quantum - terribly nonplussed
(prev. Quantum of Solace)

11:35 / 12.01.06

GASP! *hushed tones* ninja island!... cube you Pirate scum, try taking the hat now...

15:43 / 12.01.06

Rassum frassum - only completed two quests... go to play a heller lot more to catch up to the guys with all the cool stuff...

18:27 / 12.01.06

toksik - 'dave' doesn't seem to work, nor does Dave or sir dave. Strange.

Oh, and Tuna Ghost - glad you're fitting right in over here.

Life Critic

00:22 / 13.01.06

i was possibly still in the monastery at the time.
i am now out of there.

00:40 / 13.01.06

Those boats take a lot of AP to sail, don't they? Good thing I've got plenty of Magic Powder [ker-snort] A MAN IS COMING FOR YOU, HAT NINJA BOY!

The Timaximus, The!

05:15 / 17.01.06

Uh oh, it's been linked to from MetaFilter. And now I can't get the page to load. This is a bad thing, no?

C.Elseware

19:37 / 17.01.06

350 active players last time I looked. Today there are just over 800.

21:58 / 17.01.06

Only 350 active players? I am surprised... mainly because I was out with some friends with no southampton/barbelith the other week and they were all talking about cities...

C.Elseware

12:36 / 18.01.06

It seems to attract a certain class of person...

Quantum - terribly nonplussed
(prev. Quantum of Solace)

19:32 / 20.01.06

Is it true contracting Malaria and then curing it increases your Max AP?

Quantum - terribly nonplussed
(prev. Quantum of Solace)

19:20 / 24.01.06

"Whooooosh!
You lose a Space Rocket
You lose 100 measures of Black Powder"

Try getting my hat now, puny Earthlings! Meet me at the Trading Satellite if you want to trade Power Crystals for anything.

20:57 / 28.01.06

Is it true contracting Malaria and then curing it increases your Max AP?

Yes! Or rather, it increased my max AP but I was only on 100 to start with...

02:27 / 29.01.06

what are you on now vincennes? Have donated blood and am nowon a snark hunt....

11:15 / 29.01.06

I'm on 120 now, which is nice. You need to have done the waking up at 4am quest to give blood, don't you?

12:10 / 29.01.06

No, all you have to have done is been initiated into all four elements... - haven't done the getting up at 4 am thing yet... we shall see how my obsession with this game progresses

By the by - have you fought a duel yet? fancy meeting up for one?

15:57 / 29.01.06

No, no duel yet so that sounds good!

Who Is Grumpy-Pants, Anyway?
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16:50 / 29.01.06

This is so great. I'm really awful at it, I keep getting lost and dying and running out of APs, but it's just pure fun. Urban Dead is undead to me.

C.Elseware

15:55 / 30.01.06

Any idea for a barbelith related quest, monster or area?

Doing the Knowledge?

But I guess that might be too much like the Air initiation quest...

22:42 / 30.01.06

Anyone try a mushroom meal yet? The badgers in the Thieves Forest drop them. I'm currently tripping my head off. In the game. All the person and monster boxes get lovely psychedelic colors, and the descriptions ('The Giant,' 'Pirates,' etc) changes every time you move. I just had a conversation with someone who looked like a flock of bees (HI. DO YOU LIKE ALL THE PRETTY COLORS TOO?). Great stuff.

Quantum - terribly nonplussed
(prev. Quantum of Solace)

15:28 / 31.01.06

Any idea for a barbelith related quest, monster or area?

A new zone like Kansas or cloudland called 'The Palantirweb', accessed via a special item 'Broad Band' (I'm thinking Four Non-Blondes) which you can get from Wizards/party island/hell. When in the Palantirweb you can visit virtual places, including Barblith, a monolith made of Barbie dolls where people bicker for fun. Then you can add other famous net location puns as you think of them.

Who Is Grumpy-Pants, Anyway?
(prev. Who Invited Grumpy-Pants?)

19:20 / 31.01.06

What about a headshop? People could check their head, find out where it's at, etc.
OK, that's crap. I'm thinking, I really am...

23:15 / 31.01.06

I wanted a pirate hat, but with a big red 'B' on it instead of a skull and crossbones. But I can't think of any advantages such an item could confer, other than being a hat and making the wearer happy.

03:51 / 01.02.06

With effects like that, do you really need any more benefits? Happiness is pretty great, in and of itself.

00:12 / 03.02.06

So, would that be a Happy Birthday in order, elseware?
Great game, btw.
If only I hadn't had to do the markets-Brighthelm-caverns run THREE TIMES in the past week.

06:18 / 03.02.06

Happy Birthday, Elsewhere!

Anyone else find a Barbelith Talisman yet? I'm gonna find out where this takes me.

06:24 / 03.02.06

"Your map does not cover this area."

Yeah, no kidding. Oh my God. I'm standing on various threads - I can see "Hamas Victory," "Magical Space and Cultural Signifiers," "Buying Art," and sundry other threads from where I'm standing. I have a link to the thread I'm standing on. This is hilarious.

What, no Haus or Flyboy to fight? Or even better - Mr. Quimper666! Shit! 35,000 hit points, attacks with random flights of bullshit. "23 Skidoo! I am teh magiquian, recapitulating your neural pathways into my reality tunnel at my wim! HAHRHAHRHARAHER!" You take 3,468 points of damage. You die (consider that a mercy). You'd have to find the Mythic Button of Don't-Feed-the-Troll and press it in his vicinity.

Life Critic

07:50 / 03.02.06

oooh!
summon dave, if you are willing and able.
i wanna see this.
will i need a talisman to get back out?
i dont have one yet, see.

11:47 / 03.02.06

Aligned stones have the same function as talismans...