Beltane Things, MUD Things, Bronco Things
Last Saturday my Grove had its Beltane High Rite, honoring Brigid and Lugh, with Tailtiue as the Gatekeeper. It was a good ritual honoring the courage to be creative, but I wasn’t as absorbed in it this time until I started the faint heartbeat of the drum. Then I started getting into the rhythm of the ritual.
I honored the ancestor’s, which I seem to do and enjoy a lot these days. I tried to honor them in all the ways they started the paths for us to be creative, with ancestor’s of the land, blood, and our minds. Hopefully I did it justice 
Caryn made her own omen deck of famous quotes for the ritual, and I couldn’t have pulled a more accurate one for me. In fact, Caryn said she specifically thought of me when she made that card. The weird thing is I didn’t take it from the top, I decided last minute to pull from the middle, and still got the card that best suited me:
“When you discover your mission, you will feel its demand. It will fill you with enthusiasm and a burning desire to get to work on it.”
W. Clement Stone
Things on the MUD have exploded with players, I’d say we’ve gotten at least 10-15 new players in the last week due to Cities of M’dhoria announcing it was closing its doors on Sunday. One or two players had a hard time adjusting from CoM to Advent due to the major differences in skill system etc, but I downloaded a Camtasia torrent and put up a quick YouTube video on our skill system for them and they seem to be adjusting.
I keep getting compliments on how helpful I am too, but that’s kinda what staffers are supposed to do. I just happen to be one of the ones that’s always visible.
Since everyone is still in their new stage, and our newbie channel access doesn’t go away till after 10 hours of play, we’ve learned yet again why we don’t want to have a global chat channel. People complained when we got rid of the beta chat channel because it was too damn spammy. Now that we’re running into the same problem till these guys get more time on the MUD, I don’t care what people say, it’s crazy spammy to have a Global chat. MUD’s must be crazy to have these things. It’s like being in an oldschool AOL chatroom and trying to chat and roleplay at the same time. Oi!
Some sweet new spells that my coder has been adding are things like, fleshcrafting, bonecrafting, blood pet (he’s working on the necromancy school right now). And I’m about to get some builders together and start putting together a large underground undead area with zombies and all kinds of gross little things. It’s a lot of fun.
I now have safety goggles and a grinder. Now I will give my bronco a deep tissue massage to buff up its rust and stuff as soon as all this rain subsides for a bit.
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