Gemstone Circlejerk

[WRoss]

DAE remember hunting rats when 3,000 people were on-line and lagging out? LOL, SO OLD>

[Stanley Burrell]

Oh snap. Trap door parties and naked runs through the woods.

[JackWhisper]

I remember the rage in Landing during hunting groups.

People standing on the trapdoor saying JUMP, and yelling at people, seriously e-raging, over a 1-2 second delay, when nobody knew it didn't matter. They thought instantaneous simultaneous jumping was the only way to drop it.

[Thondalar]

I remember when people didn't remember anything.

[elcidcannon]

fun times on the hobgoblin boulder

[Fallen]

Giant script run groups to and from Landing to Icemule.

[JackWhisper]

Giant script run groups to and from Landing to Icemule.

The invention of Sahra's Bus Company.

When Sahra actually played. And had like 6 alts. And all the names started with S!

[WRoss]

(/jerk)

You are missing the point! This is a meta joke about what you are doing. God you suck

(jerk)

[Taernath]

I remember dropping red crystals in TSC and running the fuck away.

I remember licking my sword.

I remember basing my first character off Drizzt Do'Urden.

[JackWhisper]

God the sword licking that gave you a head minor. People who used OHB used to laugh at us OHE users.

I remember getting your tongue stuck to the ice in mule.

[Latrinsorm]

I remember when I was the first person to level up in GemStone -2. Back then it cost $300/hour to play and the sprite quest teleported you into OTF, plus 312 hadn't been implemented yet so Kaedra would fog to you and then just cry. I got to level 1 by throwing away shaalk-hilted mithril claidhmores (which were dropped by thyrils in those days) and as a reward the GMs retired my character as an NPC, although because of character limits in NPC strings they had to change his name from Universal Surveillance Thrak to Raging Thrak.

Those were the days.

[Ashliana]

Anybody remember joining an enormous group of people fighting wraiths on the upper floors of the Abandoned Inn, and the room would be absolutely full of junk since the packrats didn't exist, yet? Or the old pennant chases, with people everywhere, and everybody wasn't scripting.

[Androidpk]

Anybody remember joining an enormous group of people fighting wraiths on the upper floors of the Abandoned Inn, and the room would be absolutely full of junk since the packrats didn't exist, yet? Or the old pennant chases, with people everywhere, and everybody wasn't scripting.

I didn't go there much but I remember the hunting party for ghoul masters in the graveyard. Good times.

[everan]

I didn't go there much but I remember the hunting party for ghoul masters in the graveyard. Good times.

My best memories were tree spirit parties, some old empath (20 trainings maybe?) would bind everything and we'd all get our hits in. There was this warrior named Korum or something like that with some fancy krodera full plate who would help us beat everything up.

[Wrathbringer]

Anybody remember joining an enormous group of people fighting wraiths on the upper floors of the Abandoned Inn, and the room would be absolutely full of junk since the packrats didn't exist, yet? Or the old pennant chases, with people everywhere, and everybody wasn't scripting.

I remember that. When I came back a decade later, I took a noob to ai attic to hunt wraiths but none ever spawned. Then I was like, "Hmm, it looks like they remodeled up here..." Then someone told me they'd moved them. The noob probably thought I was retarded. He was right, but still.

[Nathala Crane]

I remember troops of militant empaths loudly catfighting over people's wounds in TSC at all hours of the day. :P

I remember when you could usually find a few people hanging around Taskmaster Klidel in the Warrior's Guild looking to do reps or help out with others. There'd usually be a community set of heavy training plate or two laying on the ground.

[Lulfas]

Anybody remember joining an enormous group of people fighting wraiths on the upper floors of the Abandoned Inn, and the room would be absolutely full of junk since the packrats didn't exist, yet? Or the old pennant chases, with people everywhere, and everybody wasn't scripting.

My first "script" I ever made was travelling from the middle of the 3 rooms to the pawnshop, and then one back. I'd gather up all the armor on the ground and sell it repeatedly while unfrying. It was surprising how much silver I made that way.

Oh, and to be part of the jerk. I remember hunting lesser shades in a group.

[MotleyCrew]

Tree spirit parties.

When reaching Lord or Lady commanded instant respect.

Hawking your wares by yelling outside the bank.

[Androidpk]

Lord Commandant's ultimate warrior guide.

[Gelston]

Dinosaurs playing.

[Taernath]

Lord Commandant's ultimate warrior guide.

I hated how he kept calling redux 'reflux'.

[Neovik1]

Tree spirit parties.

When reaching Lord or Lady commanded instant respect.

Hawking your wares by yelling outside the bank.

It meant I could abuse the thump command.

[MotleyCrew]

It meant I could abuse the thump command.

Haha...yeah...good times good times.

[Gelston]

I miss being able to drop shit out of the treehouse and hit people in TSC.

[Androidpk]

I hated how he kept calling redux 'reflux'.

Acid reflux

[tyrant-201]

Pepperidge Farm remembers

[mgoddess]

Tree Spirit parties.

The Boot.

Hoarding crystal amulets for the boot.

Getting through the boot, and not having the silver needed to give to the guard at the bridge. *facepalm*

[Androidpk]

Tree Spirit parties.

The Boot.

Hoarding crystal amulets for the boot.

Getting through the boot, and not having the silver needed to give to the guard at the bridge. *facepalm*

Then not having another crystal to get back to the landing to get coins for the guard...

[elcidcannon]

When reaching Lord or Lady commanded instant respect.

I still keep my Lord title just out of nostalgia for the awe factor.

[mgoddess]

Tree Spirit parties.

The Boot.

Hoarding crystal amulets for the boot.

Getting through the boot, and not having the silver needed to give to the guard at the bridge. *facepalm*
Then not having another crystal to get back to the landing to get coins for the guard...
YES!!

[Gelston]

I still keep my Lord title just out of nostalgia for the awe factor.

http://36.media.tumblr.com/f61a30331079c8b3e72f8474e899ce5a/tumblr_nd6v4cdqbD1rlo1q2o1_1280.jpg

[Lemonkyst]

Thanks for the memories!
Of a zillion GemStone memories the one I can still "feel" was the anxiety/panic we felt one night when a friend and I died out in the graveyard and all our things dropped and we were moments away from decay. FULL showed only 24 people on. Then Krisenfest? (sp) and Roxanne showed up and saved us, and the birth of a cool friendship.

My other best early memory was of Galyden, an awesome GemStoner that died in 2006 in Iraq. We were really young and hanging out in Frith's Inn at the front desk. Some well known old empath was on the ground lamenting her wounds with her legend lover standing over her. I convinced Galyden that kneeling and licking her would help. After deeply kissing her he was instantly slain. I know childish and weird... but it was a memory we reminded each other about for years.

[Candor]

Or the old pennant chases, with people everywhere, and everybody wasn't scripting.

Yes, I remember.

As time went on I noticed that there was always someone I could never get in the first hit, and then another, and then another. The scripting disease had started.

[Public-Enemy]

Making iron for the blacksmith for leet exp and silver! "search for oil".....

[MesaPaen]

Waiting on line for deeds. Waiting forever, on a ridiculously long line, for deeds.

[JackWhisper]

The Icemule temple deed line. Holy shit. That was so annoying.

[Fallen]

Same thing with talking to Thrak. Very annoying.

[Taernath]

Same thing with talking to Thrak. Very annoying.

There's no such thing as bad free XP.

[Fallen]

There's no such thing as bad free XP.

Tell that to the filthy scripters!

[GuildRat]

Zepath's Den and having huge maps tacked to my wall.

[Viekn]

Waiting on line for deeds. Waiting forever, on a ridiculously long line, for deeds.

Not only that, but waiting for a table to come open at Thrak or Wayside!

[GuildRat]

Not only that, but waiting for a table to come open at Thrak or Wayside!

Frith's FTW

[Fallen]

Having to stake out a room for hunting rather than wandering around as everywhere was saturated with people.

[JackWhisper]

Having to stake out a room for hunting rather than wandering around as everywhere was saturated with people.

Ahh the novelty of "CHASE" arguments.

[Fallen]

Ahh the novelty of "CHASE" arguments.

Ugh. Just...ugh.

[Taernath]

Frith's FTW

Plus Silvergate and Pauper's, I think. Abandoned Inn has had tables for a while now, too, if you don't mind the walk.

[everan]

I had a guy drag me into danjirland trying to make me die and decay and he ended up getting killed instead.

[elcidcannon]

Ahh the novelty of "CHASE" arguments.

I wonder how many people died in duels/fights after a chase argument.

[Taernath]

I wonder how many people died in duels/fights after a chase argument.

At least one.

http://www.cmnservicesgroup.com/playerscorner/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000026.html

[JackWhisper]

At least one.

http://www.cmnservicesgroup.com/playerscorner/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000026.html

BREAKAGE!

[Taernath]

BREAKAGE!

That was a real circus.

"We are 100% going to be releasing breakage in the coming months, there's nothing you can do about it."

"Uh, it's on hold."

Also that log is almost 14 years old.

http://www.transitioning.org/wp-content/uploads/2010/06/depressed-man.jpg

[Apotheosis]

- getting that 1st drake falchion
- finally being able to heal all types of scars
- making iron in the mine, loading up them slabs and countin' all the silvers
- hoarding crystal amulets to drop in the boot to go to RR

[Seizer]

At least one.

http://www.cmnservicesgroup.com/playerscorner/ubb/Forum32/HTML/000026.html

Ahh memories thanks for chuckle material.

My fond memories are of awful names like Sailormoon, Sailormars, etc..
Hunting spectral fisherman, saving a box and putting tridents in it to take to pawnshop.
Open sneaking on IMT trail to avoid slipping on ice.
Hunting wraiths at Wolves Den.
Waiting for a flipping acorn for Imaera, I think, Voln tree growing task.
And of course suicide by tree house leap.

[mgoddess]

People being polite and lining up to use the town locksmith, instead of just running in, getting the locksmith to pop the box(es) in their hands, and running out, without a single peep or action towards anyone else there.

Yes, I realize it's probably all scripted and b.s., but still. It annoys me.

[Viekn]

People being polite and lining up to use the town locksmith, instead of just running in, getting the locksmith to pop the box(es) in their hands, and running out, without a single peep or action towards anyone else there.

Yes, I realize it's probably all scripted and b.s., but still. It annoys me.

I see both sides of this coin. In a perfect world, someone not wanting to deal with this would be better served by visiting a rogue in their respective town so they don't have to deal with people doing this at the town locksmith. But it's probably the unfortunate circumstance that there just aren't enough rogues around to make this possible all of the time. On the flip side though, I for one find it very tedious to type out everything that goes on at the locksmith, so I will usually script that. But I do feel like an ass doing it when someone else is there (assuming they're not also doing it). I'll usually pause it at that point and either just do it manually or wait for the person to leave before unpausing the script.

[Taernath]

People being polite and lining up to use the town locksmith, instead of just running in, getting the locksmith to pop the box(es) in their hands, and running out, without a single peep or action towards anyone else there.

Yes, I realize it's probably all scripted and b.s., but still. It annoys me.

What's the issue? Screen scroll? If you're worried about losing your box you don't have to put it on the counter any more and I think some permutation of PAY lets you pay the correct amount without having to hunt for it in the scroll.

[SHAFT]

Walk in with box in hand, ring bell, pay, open box. Easy.

[Candor]

It's the idiots in the gem shop that bug me. The ones who script and sell a huge sack of gems ONE STUPID GEM AT A TIME.

Admittedly the problem has been decreasing. I would like to think that's because of the BIND spells I used to invoke and cast on a couple of the worst offenders, but probably not...

[Fallen]

For someone who hates violations of scripting policy you sure do love violating the unprovoked CvC policy.

[Candor]

For someone who hates violations of scripting policy you sure do love violating the unprovoked CvC policy.

You fill my screen with upteen lines of scrolling, and that tends to piss me off. And yeah, I have spent some time in the stocks over it. But I don't kill characters, and I don't fill someone's screen with useless garbage. Some of you on this board can't say the same thing.

In any case, if you're going to script, can you at least learn how to sell a sack of gems all at once? Is that really too much to ask?

[Taernath]

I don't fill someone's screen with useless garbage

Well...

[Candor]

Well...

Go ahead libbie, I'm waiting...

[Tgo01]

In any case, if you're going to script, can you at least learn how to sell a sack of gems all at once? Is that really too much to ask?

Yes. Giving notes takes like .5% of value or something! Tell GMs to cut that shit out.

[Taernath]

Go ahead libbie, I'm waiting...

I'm not sure why you're turning this into a political thing, or why you think I'm liberal, but ok. Thanks for proving my point.



In any case, if you're going to script, can you at least learn how to sell a sack of gems all at once? Is that really too much to ask?

Also if you're getting annoyed by this it's because you're forcing yourself to be. It takes a second to type 'sell %container' and leave, why are you hanging around watching people sell gems individually?

[waywardgs]

What are people afraid the screen scroll will cause them to miss in the oh-so-thrilling gemshop? Some key piece of a storyline? Some critter sneaking up on them? A stellar bit of roleplay?

[Gelston]

What are people afraid the screen scroll will cause them to miss in the oh-so-thrilling gemshop? Some key piece of a storyline? Some critter sneaking up on them? A stellar bit of roleplay?

Stop filling my screen up with useless garbage.

[JackWhisper]

What are people afraid the screen scroll will cause them to miss in the oh-so-thrilling gemshop? Some key piece of a storyline? Some critter sneaking up on them? A stellar bit of roleplay?

If we are being scrolled, we won't be able to immediately enjoy the hilarity of the next raspberries all be disappear incident.

[mgoddess]

What's the issue? Screen scroll? If you're worried about losing your box you don't have to put it on the counter any more and I think some permutation of PAY lets you pay the correct amount without having to hunt for it in the scroll.


Walk in with box in hand, ring bell, pay, open box. Easy.
Yeah, screen scroll.

I still do things by hand, I don't script the easy stuff. So, I walk in, and I have a bunch of boxes... I'm in the middle of doing the box-in-hand-ring-bell thing, and someone walks in and scripts their thousand boxes, and all of a sudden I can't tell if I actually paid to have my box open or not, so I get frustrated when I go to open one of my boxes, and it isn't picked, and then I ring the bell again, and the message that I have to pay the locksmith gets lost in the scroll, and it's just really damned frustrating.

Maybe I just need to roll up and play a rogue instead of a cleric so I can say a big fuck you to scripters who have no common courtesy anymore.

[Gelston]

Yeah, screen scroll.

I still do things by hand, I don't script the easy stuff. So, I walk in, and I have a bunch of boxes... I'm in the middle of doing the box-in-hand-ring-bell thing, and someone walks in and scripts their thousand boxes, and all of a sudden I can't tell if I actually paid to have my box open or not, so I get frustrated when I go to open one of my boxes, and it isn't picked, and then I ring the bell again, and the message that I have to pay the locksmith gets lost in the scroll, and it's just really damned frustrating.

Maybe I just need to roll up and play a rogue instead of a cleric so I can say a big fuck you to scripters who have no common courtesy anymore.

You could always squelch the line.

[waywardgs]

You could always squelch the line.

As an american, it's her god-given right to bitch about things that are easily fixable.

[mgoddess]

You could always squelch the line.

Huh... I figured if I squelched the line, I wouldn't see my own, but now that I think about it, it's slightly different messaging for self and others. I may try that. Thanks!

[Gelston]

As an american, it's her god-given right to bitch about things that are easily fixed.

Capitalize that a you commie bastard.

[waywardgs]

Capitalize that a you commie bastard.


As an american, it's her God-given right to bitch about things that are easily fixable.

there we go.

[Gelston]

there we go.

I noticed America being disparaged before God. :(

[Taernath]

Yeah, screen scroll.

I still do things by hand, I don't script the easy stuff. So, I walk in, and I have a bunch of boxes... I'm in the middle of doing the box-in-hand-ring-bell thing, and someone walks in and scripts their thousand boxes, and all of a sudden I can't tell if I actually paid to have my box open or not, so I get frustrated when I go to open one of my boxes, and it isn't picked, and then I ring the bell again, and the message that I have to pay the locksmith gets lost in the scroll, and it's just really damned frustrating.

Maybe I just need to roll up and play a rogue instead of a cleric so I can say a big fuck you to scripters who have no common courtesy anymore.

Sounds like an 'if you can't beat them join them' situation.

[Kalishar]

You fill my screen with upteen lines of scrolling, and that tends to piss me off. And yeah, I have spent some time in the stocks over it. But I don't kill characters, and I don't fill someone's screen with useless garbage. Some of you on this board can't say the same thing.

In any case, if you're going to script, can you at least learn how to sell a sack of gems all at once? Is that really too much to ask?

I sell all my gems one by one by hand but very quickly. Fuck you for not acknowledging that I am roleplaying with the Gemcutter and asking his opinion on every single gem I have one by one.

[Warriorbird]

I sell all my gems one by one by hand but very quickly. Fuck you for not acknowledging that I am roleplaying with the Gemcutter and asking his opinion on every single gem I have one by one.

This is hero talk.

[Candor]

I sell all my gems one by one by hand but very quickly. Fuck you for not acknowledging that I am roleplaying with the Gemcutter and asking his opinion on every single gem I have one by one.

If you're actually rping and not scripting, I am fine with it.

[waywardgs]

If you're actually rping and not scripting, I am fine with it.

Candor is also upset with the following:

Cell phones. 1910 candlestick phones or nothing!
Electric cars: If it's not producing black smoke, how do you know you're going somewhere?
Indoor plumbing: Shit outside in the cold like a man, you goddamn babies.
Milk from the store: Milk is supposed to be brought to your doorstep by a guy in a white cap! Arrgh!

[Tgo01]

If you're actually rping and not scripting, I am fine with it.

What if I'm RPing someone who works his ass off at annoying the shit out of people in the gemshop?

In fact, I think I'll add that to the beginning of my selling script.



GameObj.pcs.each { |pc|
fput "whisper ooc #{pc} Don't mind the screen scroll, I'm just roleplaying someone who loves to piss others off. Ciao!"
}

[Candor]

Candor is also upset with the following:

Cell phones. 1910 candlestick phones or nothing!
Electric cars: If it's not producing black smoke, how do you know you're going somewhere?
Indoor plumbing: Shit outside in the cold like a man, you goddamn babies.
Milk from the store: Milk is supposed to be brought to your doorstep by a guy in a white cap! Arrgh!

If you honestly think I am the only one who gets annoyed at scripters who create tons of useless scroll, then you need to change your drugs.

[Parkbandit]

If you honestly think I am the only one who gets annoyed at scripters who create tons of useless scroll, then you need to change your drugs.

Useless? If you have a bag full of gems, don't you keep the 1000+ silver value ones for deeds and the 3000+ silver value ones for prisms?

You need a new hobby if you're getting upset at people selling gems in a gemshop. Besides.. if you don't use a script for that and don't like selling individual gems, aren't you just:

rem backpack
sell backpack
out

How fucking long does that take you to type out?

[Fallen]

I still say they should simply mute the scroll in the room itself. Problem motherfucking solved.

[Candor]

Useless? If you have a bag full of gems, don't you keep the 1000+ silver value ones for deeds and the 3000+ silver value ones for prisms?

No. I don't lose many deeds these days, so I have about 8 diamonds and emeralds I keep in a separate pouch for the rare times I need one. I just sell everything else in one big swoop.

As for prisms, gimme a break. Wimps.

[Gelston]

If you honestly think I am the only one who gets annoyed at scripters who create tons of useless scroll, then you need to change your drugs.

The GAME creates the useless scroll. Not the scripters. Selling an entire bag gives you a note. With that note, you pay a fee. Selling individually toy do not get the fee. This has ben said before. If you hate it, sucks for you. Squelch it. Stop fucking whining.

[Androidpk]

There is a fee for depositing a note?

[Gelston]

There is a fee for depositing a note?

There is a fee for getting a note, which the gemshop deducts when it issues you it.

[Aluvius]

There is a fee for getting a note, which the gemshop deducts when it issues you it.

Huh. It never occurred to me that the usual note fee was being charged when a merchant generated a note. That stinks if so.

[Taernath]

Don't you also get like 1% less for a container than if you had just sold everything individually?

[Latrinsorm]

Don't you also get like 1% less for a container than if you had just sold everything individually?Yes but that fee is waived if you're holding a smooth stone in the other hand.

[waywardgs]

The obvious solution is for candor to pay everyone not to script the gemshop.

[Gan]

crystal amulets/boot to RR
when OTF turned Teras into a ghost town
PB's Park
Walking with the mob from IMT to OTF the night it opened
The night that the Landing burned (part of a gamewide quest I cant remember the name of)
Being disarmed then having my corpse looted by Shans in OTF
Red Crystals
Pickers blowing traps in the park
When the Inn was converted
Opening of Solehaven (Bathhouse!)
spending way more time in game than I should have...
getting to know some pretty cool peeps (and some asshats too)

[azim17]

From my first GS run through:

having a ranger named Sirtimothy
being called home immediately from school one day for ungodly Genie bills ending my good time 3 months after I started...($18 during prime/$6 during non prime? something like this)
wearing only azure stuff because i thought it was a cool word
being killed by someone after accidentally attacking them and erebor giving me a laen shield which I could have never ever afforded
a baby dragon holed up in one of the towers in the landing killing everyone for a while
a mechanical dragon that flew around and everyone inside had different jobs to do to keep it flying (I had no idea what I was doing)
hearing CoL was SO evil and knowing people who looked drained had a dark secret/sit in at the bathhouse to try and keep people from accessing the CoL area
Big names - FXG, Dagmar, Wisraith, Talon, Erebor, Strom, Phaedra, Lythe, Valeria, etc.

[Latrinsorm]

crystal amulets/boot to RR
when OTF turned Teras into a ghost town
PB's Park
Walking with the mob from IMT to OTF the night it opened
The night that the Landing burned (part of a gamewide quest I cant remember the name of)
Being disarmed then having my corpse looted by Shans in OTF
Red Crystals
Pickers blowing traps in the park
When the Inn was converted
Opening of Solehaven (Bathhouse!)
spending way more time in game than I should have...
getting to know some pretty cool peeps (and some asshats too)Look! Free to play is bringing back all the old timers! WB Gan :D

[Candor]

Ah, red crystals. They really need to bring those back :)

[Parkbandit]

crystal amulets/boot to RR
when OTF turned Teras into a ghost town
PB's Park
Walking with the mob from IMT to OTF the night it opened
The night that the Landing burned (part of a gamewide quest I cant remember the name of)
Being disarmed then having my corpse looted by Shans in OTF
Red Crystals
Pickers blowing traps in the park
When the Inn was converted
Opening of Solehaven (Bathhouse!)
spending way more time in game than I should have...
getting to know some pretty cool peeps (and some asshats too)

Very depressing.. coming back to the game to find maybe 1 person in the park and him being afk/poor.

Welcome back Gan.. it's been a while.

[Taernath]

*** Darkelvensorc just found a REAL GEM! ***

[Gan]

Whats up PB. It has been a while.

[Gan]

haha, Latrin, if I had the time...