BULLETIN 15th December 2007
Welcome to Asylum's Solstice celebration. Old Man Winter will be running
about handing out goodies to mortals he runs across all through this
holiday season through January 6th, 2008.
Come enjoy and join in this tradition holiday, done the Asylum way.
%+YBULLETIN 1st November 2007
And the winners are...
Dream Contest
1)Shrek
2)Talerous
3)Fuzzy
DeathShout Contest
1)Fuzzy
2)Jinxter
3)Talerous
An honourable mention goes to Goby.
BULLETIN 31st October 2007
Tantalus writes: Ooooooh sppoooooky Halloweeeeeen!
Anyway, I find it rather spooky that the server that Asylum runs on has been up
running without reboot for three and a half years! Quite incredible when you consider
the specs (info technical). And the game running on this server has been up and
running without a crash for 6 months! It's amazing how stable we are when Herbert
and Marvin aren't doing any coding ;-P
BULLETIN 18th October 2007
Haven't sent in your entry for the Dream and DeathShout contest? There are
still a few days left until the October 22nd deadline. The winners will be
announced October 31st during our Day of the Dead celebrations which will run
from October 22nd through November 5, 2007.
A new map (map south)has been added to reflect the general area of the new
lands to the, Arsendia.
It is always with some sadness when other interests and pursuits claim one
of our powers, and so with regret we announce that Gonk will be stepping down
as Messiah. Many of you may not know him well yet many of you have seen
his handiwork as he took on the huge job of updating zones. We hope you all
join us in wishing Gonk well with his other pursuits.
BULLETIN 2nd October 2007
For the annual Dreams and Deathshout Contest you may enter as many times
as you like. The winner will be annouced as a part of our Day of the Dead
celebration on October 31st 2007.
BULLETIN 19 September 2007
As the Harvest Festival approaches, the equinox paves the way for shorter
nights and the Day of the Dead celebration right around the corner it is
time to put down the sword and pit pen against pen in Asylum's annual Dreams and
Deathshout contest. The contest will run from September 20th to
October 22nd, 2007.
Contest Rules:
*All entry submissions for both the DeathShout Showdown and Dream
Writing Contest must be submitted to ![[email graphic]](../../addressimg.php?addx=dreams)
no later than
Monday, October 22nd.
*Make sure to include "Dreams/Deathshouts" in the subject line of the email.
Submissions will not accept submissions without the appropriate subject line
or entries made via mudmail.
Contest Spoils:
As always the winner of the Dream Writing Contest will win the ability
to wield the legendary DreamSword and don the fabled DreamShield.
One unique item will be customized for each of the three winners of the Dream
Writing Contest.
The Deathhead is an item shrouded in mystery. Hidden secrets lie within
this toothy-grinned skull and this too can be yours. Gloating about your
kills definitely earns a reputation but only the winner of the
DeathShout Showdown will reap the spoils of the deathhead... which
can be customized to fit the only the nastiest of souls.
Address all questions about the contests to Lumina.
BULLETIN 12th June 2007
WE ARE 104 UK POUNDS (APPROX 200 USD) SHORT FOR OUR HOSTING CHARGE
DUE ON JULY 1st.
PLEASE DONATE GENEROUSLY
BULLETIN 31st May 2007
It is at the time of year again where the Asylum MUD Organisation requires
funds by July 1st so that we can continue to provide our service. We are
unlike many other MUDs on the Net in that we require a dedicated server for
our main game and use a vast amount of resources to enable our facilities to
interact with our WEB server in the United States. As a consequence, having
such a dedicated service on the Net costs money and we achieve this through
one of the UK's best ISP's, Internet for Business.
The Friends of Asylum plan was set up to ensure that we continue to be on the
Net year after year, so that you will always have a place to 'call home' and
to ensure that we have minimal downtime. Friends of Asylum (denoted by the
[Friend] suffix in the 'who' listing') are players who have contributed to the
running of Asylum in some way. These contributions may take the form of a
combination of financial or hardware donations, on-time in an administration
capacity or contributions through quests, zones or code. At the moment, we
desperately require financial aid.
So, why become a Friend of Asylum?
We like to offer something in return to those people who make the effort to
donate to the running of the game. Therefore we continue to ensure that
Friends have certain unique privileges. We must stress that these privileges
do not offer an advantage in playing the game. They can however make playing
Asylum more fun and offer the chance for Friends to receive advance warning of
new features and test new concepts if they so wish. We have been revising
Friends features lately to ensure that Friends really do have something worth
having!
Check out Friends privileges by reading: info friendpriv.
We need your HELP.
How do I become a Friend?
To become a Friend, the simplest way is to make a financial contribution.
Please see the information file: info friendinfo for more details of how
to do this by making a 'donation'. Every penny and cent is ploughed back into
making our service possible.
If you spend a lot of time on Asylum, wouldn't it be good to give
something back to ensure many more years of game play and to have more
fun at the same time?
BULLETIN 23rd April 2007
Congratulations to the winners of the 2007 Arnie awards!
Favourite Mobile Most Hated Mobile
------------------ -----------------
Genie The GrimReaper
Favourite Quest Favourite Quest Author
------------------ ----------------------
Siege Deep
Nicest Mortal Most Helpful Immortal
---------------- ---------------------
Fuzzy Sofa
Most Dedicated Player Runner of the Year
------------------------ ------------------
Sofa Goatwarrior
Power of the Year Fastest Wiz Time
-------------------- ----------------
Shi Beeeeh
Most Quest Records
---------------------
Goatwarrior
Also, our explorers have been very busy these past few months and have
discovered a whole new continent named Arsendia to the south of the mainland.
Look to the south of Troy and the Town by the quarry to see how to
reach it to do some exploring of your own.
BULLETIN 15th April 2007
Voting for the ARNIES has now officially closed and the results will be
announced next Sunday, April 22nd, starting at 8pm game time. If you would
like to be a presenter for the ARNIES, please contact Shi and let her
know which category you would like to present.
And please join us for our huge Birthday Bash! It runs from April 15th to
April 23rd.
BULLETIN 12th April 2007
Voting for the Arnies will end Saturday, April 14th. If you haven't
voted, be sure to go to www.asylum-mud.org and click on the Arnies link.
BULLETIN 31st March 2007
The nominations are in!
Favourite Mobile Most Hated Mobile
------------------- --------------------
BloodyBones Banthul
Faery Groovy
Genie Haggis
The Old Man Vulture
Puff Seamas
Favourite Quest Favourite Quest Author
------------------ -------------------------
Mirage Marvin
Darkelf Shi
Siege Herbert
Phoenix Alhana
Venture Deep
Nicest Mortal Most Helpful Immortal
---------------- -------------------------
Fuzzy Dale
Kirjava Faraday
Varus Goatwarrior
Xlia Sofa
Tiberius Tiberius
Most Dedicated Player Runner of the Year
------------------------ ----------------------
Dale Faraday
Faraday Goatwarrior
Goatwarrior Iskra
Sofa Sofa
Iskra Tiberius
Power of the Year Fastest Wiz Time
-------------------- -------------------
Gemmell (taken from statistics)
Goby
Lumina
Shi
Tomyris
Final voting will start the 1st and run through the 14th, on the webpage
(www.asylum-mud.org ) The winners will be announced during the Birthday
Celebration April 22nd, 8pm gametime.
BULLETIN 29th March 2007
Voting for Phase I of Arnies will end tomorrow. The nominees will be announced
and voting for Phase II will begin on April 1st and will run through the 14th.
BULLETIN 22nd March 2007
Hard to believe but it's that time again. Time to vote for your favourite
player for our eighth annual Arnie awards. Once again this year there will
be two Phases to voting, the first will be a nomination phase, which will take
place March 23rd through the 30. The second will be the final voting on
the top five nominees, which will take place April 1st through the 14th.
The winners will be announced during the Birthday celebration on April 22nd.
Voting will take place on the homepage ( www.asylum-mud.org ), click on the
link to Arnie voting. You will only be allowed to vote once for each category,
but this is your chance to be heard and support Asylum and all of its players!
Remember to Vote!
BULLETIN 16th December 2006
Asylum's winter holiday of Solstice will begin at midnight and run through
Jan. 3rd, 2007. If you are very good, perhaps Old Man Winter will give you a
present. Come join the celebration.
There is a memorial to Deep found on Asylum's homepage (www.asylum-mud.org)
Click on the link Deep's Memory Book which you can sign and leave your
thoughts, memories or tributes. Entries made in the Memory book will be
available for viewing the next day.
BULLETIN 31st October 2006
Happy Hallowe'en
Congratulations to the winners of the Dreams and Deathshout contests.
Dreams Deathshout
1st Place - Faraday 1st Place - Jargon
2nd Place - Fuzzy 2nd Place - Fuzzy
3rd Place - Kirjava 3rd Place - Terminator
BULLETIN 24th October 2006
Welcome to Asylum's annual celebration of Día de los Muertos. It will start
at midnight tonight and run through November 5th. We will be announcing the
winners to the Dream and Deathshout contests at 8pm (mudtime) on Tuesday,
October 31st, 2006. We hope you all have a howling good time.
BULLETIN 08th October 2006
DYNAMIC WIZROOMS
The wiz zone has been replaced by Dynamic Wizrooms
This allows players to change their room descriptions themselves,
rather than wait, possibly weeks, for a reboot.
The home zone has been extended to include the Wizard Bar.
See INFO WIZROOM and HELP WIZROOM
THE GAUNTLET
The Best Times for The Gauntlet will now be reset monthly.
DEATH PENALTY
The maximum score loss on death has been increased to 500,000.
DREAMS/DEATHSHOUTS CONTESTS
You have until the end of tomorrow to submit your entries.
BULLETIN 21st September 2006
Harvest celebration is almost upon us and will kick off our annual fall
and winter holidays. Harvest will run from Sept 22nd through Sept. 28th
followed by Day of the Dead at the end of October, then of course, Solstice at
the end of the year.
Don't forget the Dreams and Deathshout contests. There will be some unique
equipment not found anywhere on the mud that can be yours to use for a year-
if you win. To win though you must submit so send those new dreams and
deathshouts to .
BULLETIN 8th September 2006
What is this we hear? You think YOU can write better dreams and deathshouts
than what we have now?
Well here's your chance.
Send your best dreams and deathshouts to by Monday,
October 9th. Please send entries for deathshouts and dreams in separate e-mails
with the subject either Dreams or Deathshouts respectively. The winners will
be announced during the Day of the Dead festivities on Tuesday, October 31st.
There will be some nice prizes for the winner of the deathshout contest and for
the winner and runners-up of dreams contest - which will be announced at a
later date.
BULLETIN 21st August 2006
www.asylum-mud.org should be working as it was before the upgrade
started. Let someone know if you find something that you think was
working before (either a power online or webmaster email account.
BULLETIN 20th August 2006
www.asylum-mud.org has partially been restored to service. The
updates of files from the live system are not working yet. The
relay and java client should be restored however.
BULLETIN 19th August 2006
www.asylum-mud.org is down temporarily due to technical difficulties.
This includes the java client and relay. When we have an estimated
time to repair, we will let you know.
BULLETIN 8th August 2006
Please join us in congratulating Goby for his promotion to
Celestial.
BULLETIN 2nd August 2006
We recently discovered a loophole that allowed players to bypass large
parts of some quests and complete them in an insanely short time. Quest
records were never intended to reflect how good a player is at exploiting
loopholes, but rather how fast one could complete all the key elements in
the fastest time.
Since we have no way of knowing who might have used this loophole to gain a
quest record and in order to be fair to those who have truly kept in the
spirit of what a quest record is supposed to reflect we have decided to level
the playing field and reset all quest records.
BULLETIN 14th July 2006
Friends of Asylum - THANK YOU!!!
We have now raised enough donations to pay for the hosting of our server
for another year. Thank you to all our "Friends of Asylum" and Powers who
contributed. Asylum would not be on the Net without you! Of course, this
doesn't mean that we are not requiring more donations! Our fund raising
for 2007/2008 starts now for our hosting charge which is renewable on
July 1st 2007.
Although we have managed to reduce our hosting charge by 30% we plan to
purchase a new server. Take a look at info technical and you can
understand why (!) so we need all the help we can get.
MORE FRIENDS PRIVILEGES COMING SOON INCLUDING DYNAMIC WIZROOMS (!)
See info friendpriv for more.
Contact a power for more information on how to become a Friend.
BULLETIN 9th July 2006
Please join us in congratulating Goby on his promotion to Prophet.
BULLETIN 21st June 2006
Ken would like to announce that:
- he has a new, working, stopwatch
- The Gauntlet best times can be seen, from anywhere, using INFO GAUNTLET
BULLETIN 20th June 2006
The Gauntlet
Ken would like to apologise about the recent unavailability of The Gauntlet.
His stopwatch has been giving some very strange readings. It may be a while
before he gets a new one. In the meantime, The Gauntlet will be open,
but any times achieved will be removed from the boards when the new
stopwatch arrives.
BULLETIN 20th June 2006
Welcome to Solstice
To celebrate the start of summer, two new areas have been added. Gauntlet,
a combat challenge area, is located next to the bank in Osterland and will
give players an opportunity to test their combat skills and compare them to
others in their band. Undead is a quest written by Xei, coded by Marvin
and converted and enhanced for Asylum by Shi. The name should be a huge clue
where to look for the entrance to this new quest. Happy running and a happy
start of the summer!
BULLETIN 5th June 2006
As often happens, things come in threes and it is with regret that once again
we announce the retirement of one of our Celestials, Swineherd. We hope
that you will join us in thanking him for his contributions and to wish him
the best of luck.
BULLETIN 16th May 2006
Once again it is with regret that we announce the retirement of one of our
Celestials. Angelo has been on the team for a very long time and we hope
that you will join us in thanking him for his contributions to Asylum and wish
him the best of luck.
BULLETIN 14th May 2006
It's always with a touch of sadness when we have to announce a retirement of
a power, especially one that has been on the team and has worked with us for
a long time. I hope you all enjoy us in thanking Jinxter for his long time
work for Asylum and wish him all the best.
BULLETIN 12th May 2006
NEW PLAYER RANKINGS
See info ranking for a list of the top 100 players on Asylum MUD.
More enhancements to this system soon (including fine-tuning of the top
secret algorithm) and inclusion in score.
BULLETIN 11th May 2006
Asylum is looking to provide a free voice communications server
(http://www.goteamspeak.com) for use by Asylum players. This will require users
to install a client on their PC and connect up to the server and communicate
through voice via headphones and microphone. This would be an optional way to
communicate in addition to typed commands.
Please let us know your opinions on this idea either by posting on the
Sanctuary Bulletin Board or email to powers
BULLETIN 3rd May 2006
It is at the time of year again where the Asylum MUD Organisation requires
funds by July 1st so that we can continue to provide our service. We are
unlike many other MUDs on the Net in that we require a dedicated server for
our main game and use a vast amount of resources to enable our facilities to
interact with our WEB server in the United States. As a consequence, having
such a dedicated service on the Net costs money.
Can you believe that our server has been up and running for 751 days non-stop?
This year we plan to build a new server to continue to run our game and investigate
other options such as voice communications servers also.
The Friends of Asylum plan was set up to ensure that we continue to be on the
Net year after year, so that you will always have a place to 'call home' and
to ensure that we have minimal downtime. Friends of Asylum (denoted by the
[Friend] suffix in the 'who' listing') are players who have contributed to the
running of Asylum in some way. These contributions may take the form of a
combination of financial or hardware donations, on-time in an administration
capacity or contributions through quests, zones or code. At the moment, we
desperately require financial aid.
So, why become a Friend of Asylum?
We like to offer something in return to those people who make the effort to
donate to the running of the game. Therefore we continue to ensure that
Friends have certain unique privileges. We must stress that these privileges
do not offer an advantage in playing the game. They can however make playing
Asylum more fun and offer the chance for Friends to receive advance warning of
new features and test new concepts if they so wish. We have been revising
Friends features lately to ensure that Friends really do have something worth
having!
Check out Friends privileges by reading: info friendpriv.
We need your HELP.
How do I become a Friend?
To become a Friend, the simplest way is to make a financial contribution.
Please see the information file: info friendinfo for more details of how
to do this by making a 'donation'. Every penny and cent is ploughed back into
making our service possible.
If you spend a lot of time on Asylum, wouldn't it be good to give
something back to ensure many more years of game play and to have more
fun at the same time?
BULLETIN 16th April
Tomorrow we will celebrate Asylum's eleventh birthday. The celebration will
run through April 23rd and culminate with the seventh annual ARNIES awards.
We hope you will all join us in the week long celebration. If anyone would
like to be a presenter for the ARNIE awards, please mudmail Shi with your
top three choices for categories.
25th March BULLETIN
The nominations are in!
Favourite Mobile Most Hated Mobile
------------------- --------------------
OldMan Banthul
Faery Groovy
Genie GrimReaper
Rotty Rotty
Puff Seamas
Favourite Quest Favourite Quest Author
------------------ -------------------------
Venture Deep
Phoenix Herbert
Siege Lichen
Spiritstone Shi
Apocalypse Tantalus
Nicest Mortal Most Helpful Immortal
---------------- -------------------------
Aeon Goby
Eliminator Faraday
Eagle Somg
Goby Xtc
Xtc Wildfire
Most Dedicated Player Runner of the Year
------------------------ ----------------------
Xtc Bling
Bling Dale
Somg Faraday
Faraday Xtc
Dale Iskra
Power of the Year Fastest Wiz Time
-------------------- -------------------
Tomyris (taken from statistics)
Gemmell
Swineherd
Shi
Wynne
Final voting will start the March 27th and run through the April 9th, on the
webpage (www.asylum-mud.org ) The winners will be announced during the
Birthday Celebration in April.
Bulletin 17th March 2006
Hard to believe but it's that time again. Time to vote for your favourite
player for our seventh annual Arnie awards. Once again this year there will
be two Phases to voting, the first will be a nomination phase, which will take
place March 17th through the 25th. The second will be the final voting on
the top five nominees, which will take place March 27th through April 9th.
The winners will be announced during the Birthday celebration on April 23rd.
Voting will take place on the homepage ( www.asylum-mud.org ), click on the
link to Arnie voting. You will only be allowed to vote once for each category,
but this is your chance to be heard and support Asylum and all of its players!
Remember to Vote!
Bulletin 18th January 2006
Some shortcuts in the RedemptionII quest have been eliminated.
The Quest Record has been reset.
Bulletin 8th January 2006
Due to popular demand, there will be a tournament at 8pm MUD Time, see
INFO TOURNAMENT for further details.
Any questions should be directed at Swineherd who is hosting the show.
BULLETIN 19th December 2005
Solstice is coming. December 20th through January 2nd. Father Winter
is checking his bag. Come join the celebration.
BULLETIN 25th October 2005
Welcome to the Asylum's celebration of Dia de los Muertos. It will
run from October 25th to November 5th. The headless horseman waits to greet
you.
BULLETIN 24th September 2005
Please join us in congratulating Wynne on her promotion to Celestial.
BULLETIN 17th August 2005
It's HARVEST MOON time. Come join in our fall festival which will run
until midnight on September 24th!
BULLETIN 10th August 2005
Friends of Asylum - THANK YOU!!!
We have now raised enough donations to pay for the hosting of our server
for another year. Thank you to all our "Friends of Asylum" and Powers who
contributed. Asylum would not be on the Net without you! Of course, this
doesn't mean that we are not requiring more donations! Our fund raising
for 2006/2007 starts now for our hosting charge which is renewable on
July 1st 2006.
Contact a power for more information on how to become a Friend.
BULLETIN 23rd July 2005
Please join us in welcoming and congratulating Wynne on her promotion to
Prophet.
BULLETIN 6th June 2005
It is at the time of year again where the Asylum MUD Organisation requires
funds by July 1st so that we can continue to provide our service. We are
unlike many other MUDs on the Net in that we require a dedicated server for
our main game and use a vast amount of resources to enable our facilities to
interact with our WEB server in the United States. As a consequence, having
such a dedicated service on the Net costs money and we achieve this through
one of the UK's best ISP's, Internet for Business.
The Friends of Asylum plan was set up to ensure that we continue to be on the
Net year after year, so that you will always have a place to 'call home' and
to ensure that we have minimal downtime. Friends of Asylum (denoted by the
[Friend] suffix in the 'who' listing') are players who have contributed to the
running of Asylum in some way. These contributions may take the form of a
combination of financial or hardware donations, on-time in an administration
capacity or contributions through quests, zones or code. At the moment, we
desperately require financial aid.
So, why become a Friend of Asylum?
We like to offer something in return to those people who make the effort to
donate to the running of the game. Therefore we continue to ensure that
Friends have certain unique privileges. We must stress that these privileges
do not offer an advantage in playing the game. They can however make playing
Asylum more fun and offer the chance for Friends to receive advance warning of
new features and test new concepts if they so wish. We have been revising
Friends features lately to ensure that Friends really do have something worth
having!
Check out Friends privileges by reading: info friendpriv.
We need your HELP.
How do I become a Friend?
To become a Friend, the simplest way is to make a financial contribution.
Please see the information file: info friendinfo for more details of how
to do this by making a 'donation'. Every penny and cent is ploughed back into
making our service possible.
If you spend a lot of time on Asylum, wouldn't it be good to give
something back to ensure many more years of game play and to have more
fun at the same time?
BULLETIN 16th May 2005
The newsletter was mailed out today. If you have not received your copy,
contact a power and we will get another copy to you. We will also post
it on the website and forum very shortly.
Infection update
The curious ailment has been identified as spillikins (see info spillikins).
Some of Asylum's finest medical minds (and Herbert) are studying the disease
and it is expected that, for immortals at least, the strength sapping and
contagious aspects may soon be a thing of the past.
BULLETIN 13th May 2005
Feeling peaky at all? Apparently there is some kind of bug (of the illness
variety) abroad in the lands of Asylum. Hopefully it will all be over with
just a few isolated incidents. More information to follow.
'Peaky' means nothing to you? try http://www.askoxford.com/concise_oed/peaky
BULLETIN 9th May 2005
If you wish to receive a copy of the newest Asylum newsletter, please make
sure your email ongame is updated and correct by Sunday.
BULLETIN 8th May 2005
Do you ever miss "*** BYou have new mail" messages while running, or idle?
Add #m to your prompt to be reminded whenever you have new mail.
See HELP PROMPT
The default prompt now includes #x and #m.
BULLETIN 17 April 2005
Congratulations to this year's ARNIE winners:
Favourite Mobile: Most Hated Mobile:
Governor Marley The Grim Reaper
Favourite Quest: Favourite Quest Author:
Siege Deep
Most Dedicated Player: Most Helpful Immortal:
Tomyris Tomyris
Nicest Mortal: Power Of The Year:
Tomyris Shi
Runner Of The Year: Fastest Wiz Time:
Tomyris HolyCow
Most Quest Records:
Obsidian
Please join us in congratulating Tomyris on her promotion to Celestial.
BULLETIN 10 April 2005
PhaseII of the voting is now over and the winners will be announced at the
ARNIE Ceremony held at 8pm on Sunday, April 17th. If you'd like to be one
of the presenters during the ARNIE Ceremony, please contact Shi. And don't
forget to join us for Asylum's birthday party which will run from April 14th
through April 18th, celebrating our tenth year.
Also there will be a tournament at 8pm, later on today.
BULLETIN 27 March 2005
And the nominees are:
Favourite Mobile: Most Hated Mobile:
Bloody Bones Banthul
The Faery The Grim Reaper
Governor Marley Seamas
Puff The Chigger
The Old Man The Yeti
Favourite Quest: Favourite Quest Author:
Ice Fortress Deep
Siege Gemmell
SkullaggII Herbert
SpiritStone LiChen
Venture Shi
Most Dedicated Player: Most Helpful Immortal:
Dale CoolVenom
Obsidian Goby
Somg Malachy
Tomyris Somg
Zinza Tomyris
Nicest Mortal: Power Of The Year:
Faraday Gemmell
Malachy Jinxter
Sprout Shi
Tomyris Swineherd
Zinza Tantalus
Runner Of The Year:
CoolVenom
Obsidian
Sprout
Tomyris
Zinza
Final voting will take place March 27th through April 9th with the winners
being annouced Sunday, April 17th, 2005, during our tenth annual birthday
celebration. To vote, go to www.asylum-mud.org and click on the Arnie
voting link.
BULLETIN 14th March 2005
Hard to believe but it's that time again. Time to vote for your favourite
player for our sixth annual Arnie awards. Once again this year there will be
two Phases to voting, the first will be a nomination phase, which will take
place March 13th through the 26th. The second will be the final voting on
the top five nominees, which will take place March 27th through April 9th.
The winners will be announced during the Birthday celebration on April 17th.
Voting will take place on the homepage ( www.asylum-mud.org ), click on the
link to Arnie voting. You will only be allowed to vote once for each category,
but this is your chance to be heard and support Asylum and all of its players!
Remember to Vote!
BULLETIN 11th March 2005
Finally (!)....
.... please join us in congratulating Tomyris on her promotion to Prophet.
BULLETIN 25th February 2005
The real life beast has claimed another of our celestials. Please join us in
thanking MrMoose for his contribution to the power team and wishing him
much success and a little less busy life so he can rejoin the team.
BULLETIN 7th January 2005
New features have been added to our adminstration commands for controlling
Friends donation expiry times. If you are a Friend you may find some automated
mudmails which thank you for your past donation and thank you for your current
one! For some players this has been necessary to correctly configure an
automated expiry setting.
BULLETIN 19th December 2004
Once again it it time for Asylum to hold the winter celebration of
Solstice. It will run beginning midnight of December 21st, to midnight
January 3rd. Come join the celebration!
BULLETIN 15th NOVEMBER 2004
MAKE A DONATION TO ASYLUM MUD !!!
Maintaining the Asylum service is not free and we would not be on the Net if
it were not for the loyal donations from Friends of Asylum. This year, why not
give something back by making a donation and becoming a Friend of Asylum.
Donating is easy and can be done safely through paypal.
Enter into the festive spirit and put something back into this free service!
See info friendinfo for information about how you can donate to Asylum MUD!
BULLETIN 4th November 2004
There will be a tournament Sunday, November 7th at 8pm GMT.
BULLETIN 3rd November 2004
One of our Celestials is retiring. Please join us in thanking Dante
for his contributions and wishing him the best of luck and success.
BULLETIN 22nd October 2004
There will be a tournament on Sunday 24th October at 8pm GMT. Any
questions about the tournament should be directed at Swineherd.
There will be a 5k bonus just for participating, and a 10k prize for each
player you manage to kill!
After the tournie, join us for our annual Day of the Dead celebration which
will run through midnight on November 3rd.
BULLETIN 13th October 2004
For all you people who love the feeling of killing your fellow runners,
there will be a tournament on Sunday 17th October at 8pm GMT. Any
questions about the tournament should be directed at Swineherd. Remember,
for the victor there are points and prestige. There can be only one!
BULLETIN 8th October 2004
Due to a very busy real life, one of our Celestials has decided to step
down. Please join us in thanking Lumina for his contributions and we wish
him great success.
BULLETIN 29th September 2004
Lock your doors and guard your daughters, Swineherd has once again been
promoted to Celestial. Please join us in congratulating him on his return.
BULLETIN 20st September 2004
In keeping with such Asylum holidays such as Day of the Dead and
Solstice, we have decided to greet the advent of fall with a Harvest
Moon celebration. It will run midnight on the 22nd of September to
midnight on the 26 of September. Deathrooms will not eat your
equipment nor kick you off, and there will be a few other surprises for
players. We hope you will all come and join in the celebration.
NEW QUESTS 2nd September 2004
There are two new quests to baffle you courtesy of Skuanjaz, SkullaggI
and SkullaggII. Specials coded by Herbert (oh-oh). Enjoy!
NOTE oops I fogot to do the available, in progress, unavailable, done stuff.
So until I get it done the quest will only appear as available or done I think.
=o) Herbert (super coder)
BULLETIN 1st September 2004
Freelancers, feeling a little left out? Of not having band headquarters?
Now you do. Look west of Shady Clearing and be sure to talk all who
are there. You'll find them most informative.
BULLETIN 19 August 2004
Hesitant to cross the Deep Blue Sea? Scared of storms? A new feature
has been added to help the timid who might like to explore Osterland. Look
to the jetty in Aberton for a mage called Ymris for some enlightenment
and help.
BULLETIN 27th July 2004
Thanks to Anemone, something new has been added. Look to the Gates of
Troy, and enjoy.
BULLETIN 27th May 2004
The Compare command is no longer a spell and may be used by players of
any level!
BULLETIN 27th May 2004
It is with much regret that we have to announce that real life has again
claimed two of our Celestials. Due to a loss of internet access,
Swineherd will be taking a sabbatical and, hopefully, once he gets everything
sorted, he will be returning. In addition, after two years of service, Lothar
has decided to step down in preparation for a real life move in a few weeks
time. Please join us in thanking them both for their service and wishing them
the best of luck and success.
BULLETIN 26th May 2004
It is at the time of year again where the Asylum MUD Organisation requires
funds by July 1st so that we can continue to provide our service. We are
unlike many other MUDs on the Net in that we require a dedicated server for
our main game and use a vast amount of resources to enable our facilities to
interact with our WEB server in the United States. As a consequence, having
such a dedicated service on the Net costs money and we achieve this through
one of the UK's best ISP's, Internet for Business.
The Friends of Asylum plan was set up to ensure that we continue to be on the
Net year after year, so that you will always have a place to 'call home' and
to ensure that we have minimal downtime. Friends of Asylum (denoted by the
[Friend] suffix in the 'who' listing') are players who have contributed to the
running of Asylum in some way. These contributions may take the form of a
combination of financial or hardware donations, on-time in an administration
capacity or contributions through quests, zones or code. At the moment, we
desperately require financial aid.
So, why become a Friend of Asylum?
We like to offer something in return to those people who make the effort to
donate to the running of the game. Therefore we continue to ensure that
Friends have certain unique privileges. We must stress that these privileges
do not offer an advantage in playing the game. They can however make playing
Asylum more fun and offer the chance for Friends to receive advance warning of
new features and test new concepts if they so wish. We have been revising
Friends features lately to ensure that Friends really do have something worth
having!
Check out Friends privileges by reading: info friendpriv.
We need your HELP.
How do I become a Friend?
To become a Friend, the simplest way is to make a financial contribution.
Please see the information file: info friendinfo for more details of how
to do this by making a 'donation'. Every penny and cent is ploughed back into
making our service possible.
If you spend a lot of time on Asylum, wouldn't it be good to give
something back to ensure many more years of game play and to have more
fun at the same time?
BULLETIN 20 April 2004
Please join us in congratulating MrMoose on his promotion to Prophet.
Please also join us in congratulating Gemmell on receiving the coveted and,
until now, unknown Coder's Cup accompanied by promotion to High God.
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BULLETIN 19 April 2004
We are sorry to annouce that once again due to real life one of our
Messiahs, Gandor, is stepping down. We on the powers team thank him for his
many wonderful contributions and hope that you all join us in wish him much
success.
BULLETIN 18 April 2004
ARNIES WINNERS
___________ _______________________________________
/ \ \| \
|:::\:::,,.. .,:::\
|::::\:::,,.. Asylum ARNIE Annual Awards ,,:::\
\::::\:::,,,,,, Sponsored by ..,:::\
\:::,,,... The Thieves' Guild of Deira .,,:::\
|:::,,,,. ,,:::|
/:::,,... Year 2004 Award Winners for ..,,:::/
/:::,,.. 'The Age of Plenty' ..,,:::/
/:::,,.. ..,,:::/
|:::,,.. Favourite Mobile - Old Man ..,,:::|
\:::,,.. Most Hated Mobile - Grim Reaper ..,,:::\
\:::,,.. Favourite Quest - Venture ..,,:::\
\:::,,.. Favourite Quest Author - Herbert ..,,:::\
\:::,,.. Nicest Mortal - Tomyris .,,:::\
\:::,,. Most Helpful Immortal .,,:::\
\:::,,. (Non-Power) - MrMoose .,,:::\
_____\::::.. Most Dedicated Player - MrMoose .::::\
/::::::\::::.. Fastest Wiz Time - MiniMoose ..::::\
|::::::::|:::.. Power of the Year - Shi ..::::|
|::::::::|:::.. Runner of the Year - MrMoose ..::::|
|::::::::|::::.. Holder of the Most ..::::|
\:::::::/::::.. Quest Records - MrMoose ..::::/
\:::::/::::,... ::::/
\:::/::::,....... ..,::::/
\_/_____________________________________/|___________/
BULLETIN 15 April 2004
The website is now receiving updated files from the live server. Who's On
is also working now.
BULLETIN 13 April 2004
Asylum's Birthday!
April 17th is Asylum's birthday. It will be nine years since
Tantalus and Herbert first opened Asylum to the public.
It is customary to celebrate by making running just that little bit easier:
1) Mortals' basic damage is doubled.
2) Deathrooms do not kick you off the game.
3) Dying only costs you 3 percent of your score with a cap at 150k.
To make sure that most time zones get a chance to join in, Asylum
will be in birthday mode from midnight on Wednesday the 14th until
midnight on Monday 19th. Times are mudtime (which is BST...that's GMT + 1).
The ceremony to announce the winners of this year's ARNIES will
be held on Sunday April 18th at 8pm mudtime.
Make sure you log in to join in the fun.
BULLETIN 08 April 2004
NEW FEATURE FOR FRIENDS OF ASYLUM!!!
Friends of Asylum now have unlimited idle time for their characters.
If no in-game/non-wiz objects are held, friends can idle indefinitely in
the Wizard or Sanctuary zones.
See info friendpriv for information on Friend privileges!
See info friendinfo for information on how to become a Friend!
BULLETIN 26 March 2004
And the nominees are:
Favourite Mobile: Most Hated Mobile:
Dan Welter Grim Reaper
Faery Dan Welter
Old Man (Helper.Healer2) Dodger
Morwen Banthul
Bloody Bones Prideth
Favourite Quest: Favourite Quest Author:
Venture Deep
Siege Herbert
Raiders Shi
SilverKing LiChen
Masquerade Jinxter
Most Dedicated Player: Most Helpful Immortal:
MrMoose Somg
Xano Riggwelter
Bleach Valeve
Timbob MrMoose
Dale Timbob
Nicest Mortal: Power Of The Year:
Latin Gemmell
Xano Herbert
Tomyris Shi
Amonte Lumina
Sprout Jinxter
Runner Of The Year:
TimBob
MrMoose
Dale
Riggwelter
Tomyris
Final voting will take place March 26th through April 2nd with the winners
being annouced Sunday, April 18th, 2004, during our ninth annual birthday
celebration. To vote, go to www.asylum-mud.org and click on the Arnie
voting link.
BULLETIN 25 March 2004
The replacement webforum is up and running. Go to the website and register.
As a policy issue, on-game personas will be honoured. If you take someone's
name it will be repossessed when requested.
Go to www.asylum-mud.org and click on forum link.
BULLETIN 13 March 2004
It's ARNIE time! Well almost. It is time for everyone to go and vote for their
favourite player for the Arnie awards. Nomination voting will take place from
March 15 - March 22, with final voting taking place March 26 - April 2. Go
to www.asylum-mud.org and click on the Arnie voting link but remember only one
vote per category counts.
The winners of each category will be announced during Asylum's birthday
celebration in April.
BULLETIN 12 March 2004
Apologies for our recent short downtime. This was required to upgrade the
security of our net connection. Our server has also shifted subnets so we now
have a new IP address. This should take a few hours to proliferate around the
Internet. Our port, 6715, is the same.
194.105.176.13
Unfortunately, in-game MAIL and DESCRIPTIONS after March 1st have been purged as
as part of this upgrade. Our apologies if you are affected.
Our live file-to-web update service will be restored over the weekend.
BULLETIN 01 March 2004
Angelo has complied Asylum's first newletter of the year and it is ready to
go out. If you wish to recieve it make sure your ongame email address is
current via the email command.
BULLETIN 19 December 2003
Once again it's time for Asylum's winter Solstice celebration which
will run from from midnight December 20th, to midnight January 4th. Please
come join the celebration.
BULLETIN 23 October 2003
It is that time of year again when ghosts, goblins and lost souls freely roam
through the land. Come join us for our annual Day of the Dead celebrations,
that will run from midnight on the 25th, to midnight on November 8th.
BULLETIN 13 October 2003
Upgrade to Relate Command (Friend of Asylum only)
* Now alerts the 'master' character to whom other characters are related
when a related character receives an mudmail. This is useful if one of your
related characters is sent a mudmail and is not logged on.
The master character must be "Friend" flagged.
BULLETIN 23 September 2003
The newsletter has now been sent to all players who supplied an email address. Our
email database has been purged. Please ensure your email address is always up to
date to continue to receive future newsletters.
BULLETIN 17 September 2003
Newsletter
The in-game email list has been cleared in preparation for the issue of
Asylum's 5th newsletter. This is currently being compiled by Riggwelter.
If you wish to receive a copy of this newsletter (due for issue next week)
please supply your email address via the email command.
BULLETIN 20 August 2003
The data that comes from the live game is back.
the forum will be back shortly
BULLETIN 20 August 2003
The Java Webclient is working again.
The Website is coming back together, slowly but surely.
the statistics from the live game are not up yet
(news, info files, etc)
some of the scripts are not working (like the forum)
More later
Marvin...
BULLETIN 19 August 2003
Portless login is working again.
telnet www.asylum-mud.org will connect you to the mud
The Java connection and the rest of the website are still being
repaired.
More later as it becomes available
Marvin...
BULLETIN 18 August 2003
The Asylum webserver is down due to a total system failure.
The relay should be available again tomorrow and more information will
be available here when the webserver is returned to partial and full
function.
Marvin...
BULLETIN 1st August 2003
Join us for a Tournament Sunday, August 3rd at 8pm game time.
Angelo and Swineherd have graciously volunteered to sponsor the event!
Thank them in advance!
See info tournament for more information.
BULLETIN 2nd July 2003
Friends of Asylum - THANK YOU!!!
We have now raised enough donations to pay for the hosting of our server
for another year. Thank you to all our "Friends of Asylum" and Powers who
contributed. Asylum would not be on the Net without you! Of course, this
doesn't mean that we are not requiring more donations! Our fund raising
for 2003/2004 starts now!
Contact a power for more informaiton on how to become a Friend.
BULLETIN 2nd June 2003
It is at the time of year again where the Asylum MUD Organisation requires
funds by July 1st so that we can continue to provide our service. We are
unlike many other MUDs on the Net in that we require a dedicated server for
our main game and use a vast amount of resources to enable our facilities to
interact with our WEB server in the United States. As a consequence, having
such a dedicated service on the Net costs money and we achieve this through
one of the UK's best ISP's, Internet for Business.
The Friends of Asylum plan was set up to ensure that we continue to be on the
Net year after year, so that you will always have a place to 'call home' and
to ensure that we have minimal downtime. Friends of Asylum (denoted by the
[Friend] suffix in the 'who' listing') are players who have contributed to the
running of Asylum in some way. These contributions may take the form of a
combination of financial or hardware donations, on-time in an administration
capacity or contributions through quests, zones or code. At the moment, we
desperately require financial aid.
So, why become a Friend of Asylum?
We like to offer something in return to those people who make the effort to
donate to the running of the game. Therefore we continue to ensure that
Friends have certain unique privileges. We must stress that these privileges
do not offer an advantage in playing the game. They can however make playing
Asylum more fun and offer the chance for Friends to receive advance warning of
new features and test new concepts if they so wish. We have been revising
Friends features lately to ensure that Friends really do have something worth
having! These include:
* Friends can view mail from the login menu. We are also working on
providing Friends with a @Asylum-mud.org service from one of
our servers in the States.
* Friends can view the 'codechanges' file which shows an up to date listing of
what were changes made to our source code (a behind the scenes look at
what coders do).
* Friends can set and retain their setins while defrobbed.
* Friends have a special comms line and a special message board for test site
announcements.
* The 'relate' command for multiple characters will have some additional features
which will only be available to Friends.
We need your HELP.
How do I become a Friend?
To become a Friend, the simplest way is to make a financial contribution.
Please see the information file: info friendinfo for more details of how
to do this by making a 'donation'. Every penny and cent is ploughed back into
making our service possible.
If you spend a lot of time on Asylum, wouldn't it be good to give
something back to ensure many more years of game play and to have more
fun at the same time?
BULLETIN 23rd May 2003
Join us for a Tournament Sunday, May 25th at 8pm game time.
Angelo and Swineherd have graciously volunteered to sponsor the event!
Thank them in advance!
See info tournament for more information.
BULLETIN 1st May 2003
Asylum is pleased to announce the addition of three new quests!
They are Demon, Graveyard and Mithril.
Please see the appropriate QINFO files for more information.
As a result Wizard level points requirements have been adjusted.
BULLETIN 27th April 2003
Join us for a Tournament Sunday, May 4th at 8pm game time.
Angelo and Swineherd have graciously volunteered to sponsor the event!
Thank them in advance!
See info tournament for more information.
BULLETIN 25th April 2003
RETIREMENT
Once again the upheaval of real life has claimed one of our powers, and we are
sorry to annouce that Flyer has stepped down from his position of Messiah. We
wish him every success in the future and hope to see him online here as much as
his time permits.
BULLETIN 22nd April 2003
RAIDWINS have now been reset to 0.
BULLETIN 18th April 2003
ARNIES LOG
If you missed the ARNIES ceremony, or if you want to re-live the experience,
a log is now available:
From Asylum: INFO ARNIES2003
On the Web: &_http://www.asylum-mud.org/info/arnies2003.html
QUEST RECORDS
Quest records have now been reset.
NOTE: new quest records cannot be set during birthday celebrations.
BULLETIN 17th April 2003
___________ _______________________________________
/\ \| \
|:::\:::,,.. .,:::\
|::::\:::,,.. Asylum ARNIE Annual Awards ,,:::\
\::::\:::,,,,,, Sponsored by ..,:::\
\:::,,,...The Dimwell St Merchants Collective.,,:::\
|:::,,,,. ,,:::|
/:::,,... Year 2003 Award Winners for ..,,:::/
/:::,,.. 'The Age of Plenty' ..,,:::/
/:::,,.. ..,,:::/
|:::,,.. Favourite Mobile - ..,,:::|
|:::,,.. Gentic Experriment ..,,:::|
\:::,,.. Most Hated Mobile - Grim Reaper ..,,:::\
\:::,,.. Favourite Quest - Siege ..,,:::\
\:::,,.. Favourite Quest Author - Herbert ..,,:::\
\:::,,.. Nicest Mortal - Arwen .,,:::\
\:::,,. Most Helpful Immortal - Shi .,,:::\
\:::,,. Most Helpful Immortal .,,:::\
\:::,,. (Non-Power) - ArchAngel .,,:::\
_____\::::.. Most Dedicated Player - Dale .::::\
/::::::\::::.. Fastest Wiz Time - Sandman ..::::\
|::::::::|:::.. Power of the Year - Shi ..::::|
|::::::::|:::.. Runner of the Year - Dale ..::::|
|::::::::|::::.. Holder of the Most ..::::|
\:::::::/::::.. Quest Records - Dale ..::::/
\:::::/::::,... ::::/
\:::/::::,....... ..,::::/
\_/_____________________________________/|___________/
BULLETIN 14th April 2003
If you're able to attend the Annual ARNIE Awards this coming Thursday evening
at 9pm and would like to present an Award, please MUDmail Angelo, stating
which award you would like to present. Please only put yourself forward to
present an award if you're absolutely sure you'll be able to attend!
ARNIE nominees may present an award, though obviously not for the category
they've been nominated for...
Asylum's Birthday!
Keen readers of info bday and old hands at Asylum will know it is our
birthday on 17th April. It will be eight years since Tantalus and Herbert
first opened Asylum to the public.
It is customary to celebrate by making running just that little bit easier:
1) Mortals' basic damage is doubled.
2) Deathrooms do not kick you off the game.
3) Dying only costs you 3 percent of your score with a cap at 150k.
To make sure that most time zones get a chance to join in, Asylum
will be in birthday mode from midnight on Wednesday the 16th until
midnight on Monday 21st. Times are mudtime (which is BST...that's GMT + 1).
The ceremony to announce the winners of this year's Arnies will be held on
April 17th at 9pm mudtime.
Make sure you log in to join in the fun.
27th March BULLETIN
The nominations are in!
Favourite Mobile Most Hated Mobile
------------------- --------------------
Bloody Bones Seamas
Dan Welter Banthul
Gentic Experriment Haggis
Jupiter Grim Reaper
Morwen Dan Welter
Favourite Quest Favourite Quest Author
------------------ -------------------------
Venture Herbert
IceFortress LiChen
Siege Shi
Apocalypse Deep
Earthgod Jinxter
Nicest Mortal Most Helpful Immortal(nonpower)
---------------- -------------------------
PoorJonny ArchAngel
Arwen BigHungryJoe
George Jargon
Jargon Aardvark
Wynne Anemone
Most Dedicated Player Runner of the Year
------------------------ ----------------------
Dale Dale
TimBob George
George MrMoose
MrMoose BigHungryJoe
Moses Bungle
Power of the Year Fastest Wiz Time
-------------------- -------------------
Shi (taken from stats)
Gemmell
Swineherd
Roper
Lumina
And a new category will be added this year:
Quest Record Holder--which will be taken from stats.
Final voting will start the 28th and run through April 4th, on the webpage
(www.asylum-mud.org ) The winners will be announced during the Birthday
Celebration in April.
BULLETIN 13th March
REBOOT
The game was rebooted today to introduce a number of bug fixes and to continue
the process of zone upgrading. Recent upgrades include Sewer, given a damn good
flushing by Swineherd, and Warkeep and Wall, given a thorough rub down and
polish by Gonk.
BULLETIN 12th March
Hard to believe but it's that time again. Time to vote for you favourite player
for our fourth annual Arnie awards. Once again this year there will be two
Phases to voting, the first will be a nomination phase, which will take place
from March 15th through to the 21st. The second will be the final voting on
the top five nominees, which will take place from March 29th through to April
4th. The winners will be announced during the Birthday celebration in April.
Voting will take place on the homepage ( www.asylum-mud.org ), click on the
link to Arnie voting. You will only be allowed to vote once for each category,
but this is your chance to be heard and support Asylum and all of its players!
Remember to Vote!
BULLETIN 2nd March
The following is a paid advertisement from Xrn, Inc.
Tired of being on the outside looking in while your cooler friends
discuss spells and skills you've never even heard of? Now is your
chance to show them all up! Hints on how to acquire these valuable
tools are now available for HALF THE PREVIOUS PRICE! And many,
many more hints have just been added! Visit Xrn the Scholar at the
waterfall near the Shady Clearing.
BULLETIN 28th February
New player survey results updated. See info survey for details.
Although the breakdown is similar, comparison with previous statistics shows
how many new players we have gained through each method.
BULLETIN 21st February 2003
A new feature has been added. See info buyback for more.
BULLETIN 19th February 2003
Message from Messrs. Quilp, Lochnar and Snithe:
This is to inform you that our premises are now open, and
are located at The Alley off Dimwell Street, Sanctuary.
Our shops offer a wide range of merchandise suitable for
the discerning adventurer.
As an incentive to become familiar with the goods we offer,
the 200th customer of each of our three shops will be given
their choice of any 4 objects from any of the shops.
We hope that you will come and visit us soon.
BULLETIN 18th February 2003
Combat messages have been upgraded to take the type of weapon into account.
OrcholdII and Haunt zones have been given a new lick of paint courtesy of
Swineherd.
BULLETIN 8th February 2003
Please join us in congratulating Swineherd and Lothar in their promotion to
Celestial.