bell porter
emote is sizzling with magic.
Nine new potions discovered tonight.  The only POSSIBLY useful one being
"haste".  That's 168,000 xp and 58,500 gold just for my potion discoveries
TONIGHT!  Let me know if you need a haste potion.
(Of course I actually made 300k xp, because I had to go kill stuff for organs,
and I actually only made 32000 gold, because I had to buy a bunch of
minerals.)

Read my Potion Making Guide.  Its in news guilds.alchemists #48/#49

Got my five potions again today, and again they were pretty crappy.  Soul
Hold, Location Memory, Fire Walking, Clairvoyance, and Desecrate Ground. 
sigh.

Three more potions today.  Already starting to remember how you get "hooked"
on this.  It takes 52 potions to get 1M xp.  But then when you get to 73
potions you are at 2M.  3M only takes 90 potions, 4M is 104 potions, 5M is 116
potions . . .etc.  if you get ALL the potions, that 14M of xp.  Money goes
slower, of course, and right now its costing me money to buy minerals, but I'm
already making more on the potions than the minerals are costing me though. 
With my race and boons, I'm actually able to solo kill all the organs I need,
which is a nice change from last time I was an alch.  

exp Tonight I reinced back to my very favorite original guild (for this, my
second character): Alchemist.  I made four potions tonight.  Venom Strike,
Mental Watch, Guardian Angel, and Battlecry.  Here's what happened when I
tested my BattleCry potion on "a jumpy rabbit".   heheh...made a potion of
"battlecry"..."throw battlecry at rabbit"...Wow!  You feel physically
empowered...your body gains unbelievable reflexes!  You save the rest of the
potion.  You see everything in pink for a moment.  Your tongue swells.  you
fell like you could faint any minute.  You size up your opponent and, with a
ferocious growl, you CHARGE, slicing three ragged wounds in your opponent's
chest before it is even aware of your attack!  Jumpy rabbit is TERRIFIED and
unable to fight back!  Jumpy rabbit stops existing in this reality. Jumpy
rabbit is DEAD, R.I.P.  You feel like your normal self again. exp exp exp exp
exp exp

Ice Dragon Disaster: A Cautionary Tale (by Porter)      ||    This afternoon I
decided to go get myself a Circlet of Flame.  So, I grab three tanks, and a
psi, and head to Apollo's.  I was very concerned that one of the tanks was too
small, but after trying for quite a while, I couldn't find another and took
him anyway.  Mistake #2.  (Mistake #1 comes in a minute).  We start making
runs on the Ice Dragon, and every run the Too Small tank almost dies.  OK,
let's be honest, every other run he almost dies, and every fourth run he DOES
die.  As a party leader/tarm, this is a horrible position to be in.  When a
tank drops uncon, if you stay to cast deaths door and save him, you are
risking the remainder of your party to do so.  If you don't, the tanks wonder
what the point of having a tarmalen is.  Important Point #1: Discuss the
Deaths Door thing with your party BEFORE the situation comes up.  Do they ALL
want to risk death to help save one? or do you agree in advance that if there
are others badly injured, you let the tank die.   Here comes Mistake #1.  I
bought a Slimy Cloak today.  Its a very nice piece of +spr equipment, but it
has a bad side-effect.  About every 30 minutes or so, it poisons the wearer. 
I thought that would be no big deal, because as a Druid, I have "lessen
poison" and as a Tarmalen I have "remove poison".  It gives you a warning
BEFORE it poisons you, so I cast "lessen poison", get poisoned for very few hp
(usually only 25) then remove the poison from myself.  OK, we'll come back to
Mistake #1, let's handle Mistake #3.  Mistake #3: Don't do major partying when
there are potential real world conflicts.  My eleven-year-old daughter was
cooking herself lunch as we made a run on the Ice Dragon.  Her Kraft Macaroni
& Cheese boils over, which scares her and starts making a mess in the kitchen.
 I run us out of combat, but party gets pretty mad as a Not In Good Shape
dragon gets left to sit while I clean up the mess on the stove.   Now, back to
Mistake #1.  I'm in the middle of healing for a pretty ma jor party, when my
cloak lets me know its about to poison me.  I cast lessen poison on myself,
and do another Major Party Heal.  The dragon is in Bad Shape.  The cloak
poisons me.  WHILE POISONED ONE DOES NOT REGEN HP/SP!  I don't have enough sp
to remove the poison from myself!  Mistake #4:  Don't call people into a
dangerous situation without discussing the risks.  I shout out on Tarmalen
channel: Relocate Remove Poison on Porter!  *INSTANTLY* my dear Tarm brothers
and sisters respond.  (Without saying so) and I have four or five tarm there
in a heart-beat to remove my poison.  Unfortunately, one of my party members
has the Racism Bane and begins to attack them.  Being defenseless tarm, they
flee in random directions.  Some into the Ice Dragon, who kills them, and
others into the Draconian Captain, who kills them.  Meanwhile, I die from my
poison, leaving someone else as party leader.  They flee us to try to save the
Tarmalens, and we lose a tank (who was badly wounded from the dragon) to the
Draconian Captain, which promotes a Psi to row one, who also dies.    So . . .
. to recap:   #1: Don't wear a Slimy Cloak in Combat.  #2: Don't allow a
too-small tank into your party.  #3: Don't party serious monsters while
real-world potential conflicts on your time are nearby.  #4: Consider risks
before calling for help.  and #5: Discuss Deaths Door / Rescue situations
BEFORE combat with your party.  I hope my bad experience can be helpful to you
all.  (( We DID kill the dragon, a smallish one, only 302k, and we DID open
the chest, and use the Dragon Lance to open the secret room, which gave 27k
bonus xp to us for discovering it, but sadly, someone had already done the
Circlet of Flame that boot, so we didn't get it.)) NEXT TIME, this party will
go Much Much Smoother.  Really!

This morning I added several pieces of equipment in an attempt to raise my
tickrate.  Partied for a pair of Dirty Leggings, and bought a Slimy Cloak and
Necklace of the Petrified Heart.  Sold a couple of my old slots plus some
spare gear, so ended up about 75k down after all the transactions completed. 
(Still 250k in the bank though.)  I did a bunch of "Heal All" and donating sp
to the Druid Pool to see what my new tick rate and range is.  Fully dressed,
my tick rate ranges from +106 to +125 with an average of +113.  I've got two
close term objectives for equipment still.  I need to lead a party to get
another purple glove from Soy, and lead a party to get a Circlet of Flame. 
Then I think I'll be done with equipment for a while.  (My naked tick, by the
way, is from +78 to +90.)

well, tonight i ran a party for about 3 hours.  This party has killed 128
monsters (avg exp/mon 8807).  It was actually two parties, but i let my xp run
over both.  I only got one new room tonight.  My new "show experience" is now
32M, and I made 40k selling equipments tonight.

cast cure serious wounds at luca good night tonight.  Made 43065 xp and found
46 new rooms.  My party that I lead killed 155 monsters with a 9296 xp
average.  I'm happy with that.  We did all the green belt ninjas and black
belt ninjas in hell's dojo.  Killed the undead dog on that level (twice) and
then killed the massive samurai and the 8-foot tall rat through the gateway to
the east of the blackbelts.  Good explore there.  (The biggest black belt
ninja, by the way, was 70k tonight).  Biggest kill in that area that we did
was 90k.  After that party left except for me, and I grabbed more tanks and
friend Coolguy to blast, and we did Cold Queen, Wendigo Warrior, and then
TRIED to do the Ship's Captain in Sunderland.  OUCH!  HE HITS HARD!  Then we
ran King Arthur quest, and now going to bed.  I paid the party for sac items,
and am going to make 5 offerings before bed at the racial shrine. 

This morning I made a quick run to Toxic area.  Morik came and killed a
blocker for me and we got 18 new rooms for 100k experience.  I was very glad
to be behind a tank!  One room had two soldiers who we thought at first were
"physical resist" because they stayed excellent a long time and blocked the
exit!  There is one other agressive in this part (Toxic's dungeon) that we
saw:  A Neon Knight, who had a Neon Sword with him.  Need to kill him sometime
today.  8-)  I think there is more past him maybe.   New show experience:
31.2M

I finally remembered how to get to Wendigo Warrior.  We killed "the Cold
Queen" (67,812 xp) and "Ulmat-Sumtra, the Wendigo Warrior" (79,915).  Not bad
for a four man.  Golieth and Rutaliator tanked, I healed, and Thematic
(civilmage) blasted for us.

Tonight was pretty cool for me.  I decided to try to go after some bigger
equipment.  Seaside shared a map with me that told where I could find Adrehel
for "Staff of Elements" and also where the "Circlet of Flame" was.  We put
together a 3 tank + 1 blaster party (with me healing) and killed Aradhiel the
High Druid for 233,444 xp (and a new high party kill for me!)  Then a bit
later, we put together another party and killed "the ice dragon, freezing the
world" for 381,059 (an even higher new party kill for me!)  Unfortunately we
kinda sorta screwed up the quest because we forgot to get the Dragon lance
first (directions are on Dryad's site on Apollo page) and so by the time we
got the lance, the ice dragon had reset himself.

Explore count: 6795/14443 (E%: 47).             Total of 30,123,750 experience
spent on character.           Oh, and my new vest is NOT +spr.  Its +5 WIS. 
(shrug)

Very happy news tonight.  Good party gave many rooms and good xp, but most
importantly got me a Holy Vest of Yak (+spr torso slot).  We killed Tormax,
the head of all clerics for 175,253 xp.  Patris, Apopapopyy, and Keno tanked
it.  Coolguy did the PAF PAF PAF, I healed, and Aloysha barded.  I'd never
partied with a bard before.  Very cool.

worked on my Location Memory list today, and had a very good chat about
"Tarmalen" spells/skills and good levels for them all.  My total value is only
29.8M, but I think I might spend my next 11M xp just improving skills and
spells.  Anyway, here's my location list:   Remembered locations (31): akira,
ancient_tower, astacia, atlantis, brantis, brimshire, catfolk, crabbeach,
druids, duck, firefox, fraggles, great_central_desert, hillgiants, jurkajeff,
lanzia, lonelymtn, nav, ninjas, nocilis_valley, outpost, ramona, redtides,
soy, spring.tarm, stagira, sunderland, tarackia, tundra, unholy_cathedral and
urviles You can remember a total of 38 locations.

Today my show experience should top the 29M mark.  Had a couple good explore
parties that yielded 72 rooms for the day.  Right now I'm working on getting
mastery of medicine and mastery of assistance to 80% each to improve my
healing and my unpaining respectively.  Just for kicks I figured out my most
expensive skills and spells earlier.  in order:  1) Mastery of Medicine (1.2M
so far), 2) Major heal (1.1M so far), 3) Minor heal (1.03M so far), 4) Cure
critical wounds (1.03M so far), 5) Cast generic (870k) 6) Unpain (870k) 7)
Cast heal (870k) 8) Resurrect (781k) 9) Raise dead (752k) 10) Remove poison
(669k).  11-18 are:  Cure serious wounds, Unstun, True Heal, Quick Chant,
Mastery of Assistance, Heal All, Location Memory, and Remove Scar. bell porter
emote is sizzling with magic. It looks like I'll need to add 3M xp to my
Mastery of Medicine and mastery of assistance to reach my current goal.  Darn
this "bell porter emote is sizzling with magic" crap!

bell porter emote is sizzling with magic. Good party tonight.  Started out
3-man with just me and Tixe and Mankind.  We decided to go for a Evil Priest
that we'd never killed in Zebells.  So we decided to all invite blasters.  We
got too many and ended up with Coolguy (priest) Enandor (mage) and Teddy (also
priest) and me (healer) in the back.  So we brought one more tank (Reima) and
decided to go nuts.  We killed that evil priest (was only 30k) the Demon (with
the ball of protection) and then the Snow Dog too!  (109,168 xp, but his lava
storm killed Enandor).  Ran several more areas, and after I went and spent my
xp.  New Show Experience is:  27,893,960.  Its been a good week!

bell porter emote is sizzling with magic. today i got level 54 and took my 3rd
nav level.  Lead a party through urviles, mithil stonedown, revelstone, with
kills up to 98k for urvile loremaster.  Good party, but my ZMud kept kicking
me off line.  Sigh.  Got me killed twice by confusion after being ld.  HATE
that.  But party all lived and xp was decent.

bell porter emote is sizzling with magic. well today was looking good.  i
started with 130k xp, and decided to lock in my next 400k level block.  party
went ok.  doing nice and safe stuff.  did taiga, rendburg, caves of oranc,
zebells, and things were looking good.  i needed like 45k to get my level, and
was going to finish it off in mantis cornfields.  Only my party, which had
earned 855k in 3 hours, got highjacked by "little boy's big brother" as soon
as we went into room.  I (party leader) got meteor stormed and died.  Whole
party wipe, except one member who was selling loot for us at the time.  Sigh. 
I took a body, lost 95k or so, and quit, much depressed.  Did sac two items
for luck though, and made nice money.  (Party made about 45k cash).  Hopefully
tomorrow will be better.  Ended the day after 3 hour party only 110k higher
than i started.  (244k towards my 400k block.)

today lead a party in the area that Tumi calls "ancient_tower".  Got 37 new
rooms and had a nice time.  We never did get to the "Tower", but did some nice
kills in the graveyard.  one party member with a 73% E% even got 11 rooms!

today i lead a party to explore Astacia.  "This party has killed 32 monsters
(avg exp//mon: 68,833)   We died a bunch, but i got a ton of rooms

what a great explore party from Reima today!  3 hours 43 minutes gained me
702074 xp and 206 new rooms!  Thanks Reima! My new "Show Experience" value =
25.467M xp!

I started playing again September 18th, with 13M of xp to spend in my fresh
reinc.  Tonight I hit 23M, so I made 10M in 2 months and 3 days.  Tonight I
lead a party into Hell's Dojo that went pretty well.  Personally made 240k
tonight, but most of that was E%...picked up 45 new rooms!  Still its a good
place to lead a party.  We killed 59 monsters with a 5643xp average in just
over an hour.  Tanks were Predator, Nyghtshade, and Glory, with Valdec in the
back as Psi.

great party with Biubau tonight for Exploring.  Made 156 new rooms tonight! 
Including one area i'd been trying to find the way in for some time.  He
discovered in 20 minutes after I have tried for more than 2 hours!

Tanta, Kari, and Hymn and I did a pretty decent party tonight.  We made 722414
in 1 hour 41 minutes.  I lead the party in Taiga and Sunderland.  Also, before
that, I got 66 new rooms myself in Dunamor area, and earlier in the day got 72
new rooms in Apeland and one other area.

My current obsession is figuring out level quest 53.  This is the quest where
we help the shaman.  I know that we need to build a magic drum, and I know how
to open the "portal".  I still haven't managed to build the darn drum though,
which I know is needed to get into "dreamworld" where there are possibly 30
new rooms or more for us to explore.  If you haven't any hints or want to help
me party a couple 200k monsters, let me know.

Explore count: 4453/14229 (E% 31).  Total experience: 18,845,656.    Went
adventuring last night with a great party lead by Gilead, which ended up
earning me 660,000 xp!  Wow!  Thanks, G!  My slow sp-regen (+90 with
equipment) was at times a problem.  Several people suggested I go ahead with
nav guild just for the sp-regen that it adds.  After that party, my friend Ji
put together a party to try LQ 46.  That was good xp as well, although I had
to leave before the quest was complete (it was 2:45 AM and I have to get up at
5:30 AM for work.)

Today got my E% up to 30% (4281/14228) by joining a seemingly suicidal party
to explore the Amazon area (in the mist).  All three tanks died three times as
they foolishly attacked following monsters ten times their size.  I suggested
against it, warned against it, and then said, what the hell, I'll come for the
E%.  Amazingly, I didn't die as well, but still I have to confess it here,
because a healer feels badly when all his tanks die (and "i told you so" just
doesn't sound right coming from a tarm.)

important safety note: don't party with Braxx until he gets out of suicidal
reincer mode.  

Last night went exploring down east coast of the world.  Checked out Goddess
Garden (and died there to a room of "strong guards" with 106k on!)  Tried to
check out "Ice Castle" (word of recalled from there vs. Frost Giant Maiden). 
Was not getting anywhere on explores because of monsters.  (Pirate Cave,
couldn't kill entrance -- Jurkajeff's tower, couldn't kill entrance -- Norse
village, couldn't kill entrance). Then joined into three man party with
apopapopyy and samil.  We found a good tune in jurkajeff's and wiped the area
about three times.  Then samil left and apopapopyy and I took the boat to
Island of Lanzia.  Things there were really pretty much too big to kill
(monsters casting harm etc.)  But got some good explore.  Total rooms for the
night was 120 for me.

tell last blog add

Savok is the party KING!  Had a nice 2-man in Taiga where I made 100k xp, but
then I joined with Savok as part of a three tank party.  Look at the session
summary!  Time: 4 hours 45 mins. Experience gained: 557856.  Gold +11701.  New
areas: 58.  New high party kill: Goerrean the Oriental fighter, 149630 exp
(party of 4).

Re-explored Taiga today with goal of making a map.  There are at least seventy
rooms there.  Really, seaside.  Word of recalled away from the Mean looking
Sabretooth tiger (who IS agressive AND follows) with 4 HP to go!  Then i got
two tanks my size, and we went back.  Killed the tiger.  TWICE!  (18k first
time, 13k second time.)  Pera and Tcol were my tanks.  There are so many cool
monsters there, and some good cash-stuffs too, so I think I'll go back often
in parties.  After Tcol left, Pera and I went to Sunderland.  So, today's
work:  163,472 xp, and 59 new rooms.  Not bad.

Today's first invention: An apparatus that makes Good Berries appear.  (seems
to be a random number.  Not sure yet if there is a limit.  Let me just say,
right now, I've got hella many good berries!)

ask me about my inventions.  Every gnome likes to invent things.  Yesterday i
made two useful inventions.  One causes Holy Water to be splashed on every one
in the room, with results similar to a Tarmalen who uses "Bless" on you.  The
other summons a small number of outerworld creatures for combat.  Wouldn't
that be useful to every alchemist here!?!!?!?

I can't resist.  I made a sacrifice at my Guild Shrine (got ability to eat
corpses as my blessing).  I felt like I should do something Gnome related, so
I dumped 80k experience into Gnome-only skill "tinkering".  (help skill
tinkering)

Not a good adventuring day.  Thought I'd check out Atlantis, and got about 18
rooms before I was killed by Rikia???  Then I went to a new area by Lizardman
shrine (see MY map www.askgar.com/batmud/porter.batmap.color.html ) got 12
more rooms when i got killed by Evil Slave Master.  After that partied behind
a tank.  Synteger did Katvil for me (55 rooms) and we did Horn Durath.  I'd
been there before, but Synteger knew a room I didn't know, and I got a cool
sword.  (Darktear (red glow)).  Total for session: 87 rooms.  186,206 xp
earned (and 67,424 lost from deaths)

area name = nanagich graveyard only got 8 new rooms there.

partying with vippy and coolguy...we went into a graveyard...if you do "search
tombstone" it says the letters are "pushable"...if you do "push a", "push b",
"push c" you see that all tombs have different letters you can push.  don't
know what to do next though...what does a,c,e,p,q,r,u,v spell?

Explored Taiga area tonight.  73 rooms for 140,000 xp!  Wow!  Great area. 
Only agressive monster I found was one of the sabretooth tigers.

heheh...I find E% in the strangest places.  The "Wharf" just northeast of the
newbie zoo had 38 rooms!  Who would have guessed!  Added 60k xp just wandering
around there.

Couple new areas must have got added.  My explore is now: 3601/14008 (25% E%).
 I was able to train my major heal some more too, though.  Up to 76% now. 
(Still trying to get to 80% for next Tarm level).

Partying with 3 tanks (Chorale, Blackstar, Izrabljeni) 3 blasters (Kalena,
Vijita, Coolguy) and a priest (Linzhou).  Did Saruman's tower for E% (Killed
Wormtongue two times for 60k each, Saruman is my new best party kill!

Tonight I helped my brother and a master carpenter friend of his work on my
mother's house.  My job was to "grout" the tile floor on the porch.  That
means to spread red (ok, terracotta) cement stuff over the tiles with a
trowel, and then wipe up the part that doesn't go in between.  I have hella
bad blisters on my hands from doing this.  Afterwards I am working on a report
in one window and healing for tank-friend Bippo and his friend Fangs.  We
killed Tom Bombadil's girlfriend, which is my new "highest party kill" (finger
porter), and then went to the vonHuber mansion and killed EVERYTHING.  (OK, a
LOT of things.)  Then Fangs and Bippo got invited to a better party that
already had the healing thing covered.  Which is good, because I should be
writing my report for the auditors on Spreadsheet Controls.  Its 12:23AM here.

Healed for a nice 3 tank party tonight (Val, Savok, Bippo). We explored a new
area (enter with "cavern") full of undead baddies.  I got a new "best kill"
during this party (finger porter) but only made about 100k xp in 75 mins. 
Then I went exploring afterwards.  Did a LITTLE bit of Horn Durath (word of
recall saved my tail again there), then a good bit of "Valley of Silence" and
"Paladin Stronghold" and "Wibble Village".  Tried the Nishapur maze in the
desert, but got sick of it.  Trained my Major Heal to 73%, so still 7% to go
for that level (plus 395k of true heal, plus the 400k to get my level to allow
me to HAVE a guild level).  115 new rooms tonight for 297,460 xp (including
party).

One of my Tank Friends, Synteger, and I went on some nice explore today. 
Didn't get a lot of rooms, but had a good time.  He was happy that my healing
was so much better than it used to be.  We did a few secret rooms in Catfolk
Tree, and then went to the Volcano and fought our way up to Vulcan.  Sometime
later I'll have to fly the Pegasus to where Hera and Zeus are.  We didn't do
that this time.  This time we killed the Pegasus.  Guess I better go do some
"Heal Alls" to make up for that on my alignment.  Ouch!

Today I hooked up my JAZ drive to my Windows 2000 laptop, and started going
through OOOOLD disks looking for Batmud logs.  I found about 30 logs from
1997.  Includes - battle against Apocalypse - Explore of King Arthur area -
Explore of Amazon area - Explore of Alchemist's tower area.  Several big
parties (8 of us took out Apocalypse in 1997.  Got some COOL items.)          
                                                                              
           Anyway.  Very cool going through the logs and reading about parties
long gone by.  Wish I could get some parties up like that now!

Friends Ji and Tonto and I did some explore in Lor, after realizing that we
were too big for the newbie area of the Great Desert, and too small to get
past anything else there.  Lor was cool.  Found a secret area, and snuck
around there thanks to Ji's invisibility for us.  Then Tonto tried to tank an
"Experienced Warrior" to get us around the upstairs of the tower.  OK, that
didn't go so well. We eventually killed him, but only after about 25 in and
outs many with Tonto the Junior Tank having only 15-25 hp when we came out,
and sadly one doublekill death.  He was good for 10k and a key, but in the
next room there was ANOTHER blocker.  Sigh.  Had to go home.

trying lands of lor with a newbie party and it just ain't working.

after 30 minutes of rather useless exploring in stone circle, went to Rendburg
where I was quickly killed by a giant toad.  A nice ress from Kitania took me
to the neighborhood of the Dah'bec.  Starting there with 24 rooms.

got 40 rooms in Dah'bec.  Fought some hostile tigers and lions.  Left there
with 64 rooms and 89,753 xp.

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Got three rooms from Channelers guild and then went to Old Fort. Entering old
fort with 103,148 xp and 66 rooms.  Got 32 new rooms there.  xp at 143,493.  

---------- After that did ogre, skeleton, and lich shrines on way to Tarackia.
I'm at the coffee shop and my battery on my laptop is about to die, so I'll
pick up here in Tarackia later on. I'll need someone to kill two blocking guys
that are stopping me from entering more than 2 rooms of area.

Level Blues:   OK, next level in Tarmalen is the most expensive yet.  I need
level 45 of course first (this costs 453,311).  Then to take level 30 in
Tarmalen I must study "major heal" to 80% (1.038.939xp)  Then I must study
"true heal" to 65% (583.708xp).  Then I must study Guardian Angel to 44%
(19.515xp) and soul Hold to 44% (23.523xp).  **** TOTAL XP to get my level 30
= 2,118,996 xp! ***  That's about 2,000 rooms of exploring!  Wow!  I can't
wait!                                                              Also today
spent some time talking in Finnish to new friend from Imara.  He's the age
between my two children's ages.  8-).  He hates school = kuolu.

Decide to go ahead and get my level 29 in tarm tonight.  Wandered the Rune
Mage guild tower and then the Dark Forest and the Elf Village to add 200k xp
worth of explore.  Actually did a little combat in the elf village, scoring
some rare solo kills.  (Black rooster, 3 white chickens, zombie of white
chicken, and spotted dog.)  Someone had done Rudraprayag and Dark Castle and
just left everything lie around, so I did several trips selling to make about
8k in "found treasures".  Died half way to my goal, with 115k on. A "large
kodiak bear" caught me on an outerworld random attack.  STyxx was kind enough
to give me a new body, and invis me to explore the Dark Forest.  Nice area. 
Look for the sewer pipe and explore.  So anyway, New room count is 3285 (E%
24%) and I'm level 29 in Tarmalens now.  Tonight while I explored I watched
Demolition Man and Enter the Dragon on TNT.  Good movies both.  Good night!

minor exploring more tonight.  wimpy like crazy, but Word of Recall held. 
Tried Mountain Dwarfs, but didn't get too far, and tried Burning Village, but
couldn't find my way "in".  Added a total of 46 rooms tonight.  Enough to get
my next guild level.  Now I'm level 44, with 28 levels of Tarm.  I have to
study "True Heal" to 50% to get level 29 in Tarm, but I need 128k more xp for
that.  (About 115 rooms of exploring).  I'll try again tomorrow night.

Minesweepers ran today.  Did around 25 "raise deads" to help the minesweepers.
 Several were quite generous and so I made about 14k gold in an hour.  (which
is good for a lowlevel tarm).  Came back this evening to try to do some
exploring.  Went to Castle Brantis.  Twice got sent home from there by Word of
Recall.  There were several undead zombies animated with psionic powers.  They
didn't much like strangers.  Only made 19 new rooms there.  I'll have to go
back invisibly with Ji and see if its better that way.

Tonight my friend Ji and I went exploring.  Exploring with him is cool, since
he can cast invis, and aggro monsters just ignore us.  I tried to do The Door
To the Past solo, and got banished by a Mirror Monster.  Then Ji and I hooked
up.  Played some pinball at Inn of the Four Winds.  (I had the high score.  He
beat me.) Then we explored the Undead Tunnels in the ruins north of the Inn,
explored Monty Python and the Holy Grail area (aka Arthur) up to the part
where we had blocking monsters, and then we did the chess board.  Of all
things, Ji gets killed by a random outerworld monster after all that on our
way back to city.  Bad Form that!  We each took a level before that happened
though, and he got a new body for his 80k, so that's all good.  I'm now level
44 with 22% E% (3105 rooms)

wow. mage guild in city is BIG today's room count now up to 142.  Gotta run.

spent about 30 minutes today trying to figure out how to get into the "Stone
Garden" area.  If you have any clues, let me know!  Other than that, did an
explore around the city for rooms I had missed.  Gosh there were a lot of them
in bat city!  Explored the "old church" and hospital and orphanage, and
visited every shop.  Still have the southeast quadrant of city to go, but
picked up 75 new areas.  2719 rooms now.  (E% = 19%)

Exploring.  Today I found my way into "batcity dungeons". (Friends can ask me
how -- its the "circle of stones" area).  There is "an important sign" that
warns that its a difficult area that only skilled adventurers should enter. 
But hey - E% is E% right?  found a "cube of power" hidden in one place.  There
were "large snakes" everywhere, but they weren't aggro.  Also a Crypt Golem
who blocks, but also not aggro.  Everywhere there were these plates above
archways that said "only the innocent may pass".  When I tried to pass anyway,
it zapped me HARD. (245 hp).  Found a statue and took its eyes.  (2 strange
rubies).  When I did that the snakes in that room went aggro on me and
**POOF** I word of recalled into home sweet home with 27 new rooms explored. 

well, after dying to a clone, and failing to get ANY ress business from the
80+ dead people, I finished up exploring Apollo's area.  I ended up advancing
a level (now 42) and advancing a guild level too.  I guess I better update my
description!  Someone just pointed out to me that it says I'm still reincing! 
 Reminder to self:  Finish mapping "Gulley Dwarves" caves.

Tonight went exploring with Seaside.  Did Circus and the Dark Castle.  Went
solo to Oasis and mapped the desert (yawn).  Now entering Apollo's book.  wish
me luck!

ok today was like boring trigger day.  I had to make an easier way to get into
my chests, so I wrote "unchest" and "rechest" zmud triggers.  Then I decided I
needed easier ways to get to "main places".  So, I wrote a whole bunch of
"go.start.finish" triggers, like "go.scross.ocp" and "go.ocp.scross". 
"go.ocp.diggas"  "go.diggas.diggers" "go.diggas.regen"  Trying to find ways to
get to and from regen rooms. bell porter bell porter

So this is my fourth day as a Tarmalen again after not playing in about two
years.     Right now I'm working on E%.  If you have any good E% areas for a
soloing newbie or a small healer with a level 40ish tank-friend let me know.
cast cure serious wounds at  new friend, Ji, and I were doing some explore
today.  (He's a small psi-mage combo) and were blessed to have a high level
Catfolk Tarmalen walking by.  (?Bunch?) offered to run Giant-killers with us. 
It went much easier with a level 70+ tank in the front.  A nice day.  160 new
rooms between Soy, Giant Killers, and a small part of the Cave under the
Volcano.