Today we shall embark on a journey - It might take a while to read it, but
time is all we have, a sour man once said. So strap on your wristwatches and
get ready to be...sour, or by all means, put on your sarcasm goggles!

Right, chronicles should have some kind of subject, obviously it would have to
be nerdy, and about BatMUD so I will go ahead and just call it "Regarding the
principle of things, stuff that is, was, and will be. The law of Murphy,
un-progress, the passing and wasting of time." Now that's done, lets get on
with it.

After a while, two weeks I seem to recall, finally Valentina was killable,
long expected and wet dreams of caster-eq came true, rumors of magical wands
and other artifacts were spread across the realm. Having had the same spr for
quite a few years, one could opt to put some time, and effort in, bring some
friends, enjoy the amount of HARD work put into the code, and slay it 5 times
to get all the eq from it. Spregen went through the roof, mad exp, hot
strippers and unbalanced game soon to follow. All was peaceful in the realm.
But wait, the Law of un-progress strikes down upon the poor mortals, and a
sudden time-space- continuum rift sucked me and my spregen back to 2005, we
shall call this the event of: - Downtune improved spr boon. But fear not, I
enjoyed the game while progressing nowhere, I just spent some time.

I had other projects aswell, so I wasn't too upset! Making those few points of
wisdom to my prot-swap, that would be great! I spend some time trying to fix
that, I needed to acquire some items like a burgle crown, and a moonlight
ring. After what seemed like two weeks, I was done! Prots lasting 1000
seconds, mad exp, strippers and unbalanced game to follow. I was laughing at
the newbies whose prots only lasted 999 seconds, a cruel HAR HAR. Spend some
more effort and time, and be at a 1000 seconds, like a real hardcore player, I
would say! It's a damn shame I never got to do nine wish scrolls into a wis
set, it would be more fitting, because by now you realize what will happen
next, don't you? Your pal the Law of un-progress strikes down upon the poor
mortals, and a sudden time-space-continuum rift sucked me and my conjuprots
back to 2005, we shall call this the event of: - Fiddle with prot/stat formula
to help nubus(!?=!==!). But fear not, I enjoyed the game while progressing
nowhere, I just spent some time.

So there I was, with my crazy wands and wisdom bursting out of my asshole, a
force to be recognized, a real Timespender! Now it was time to make those last
few experience points that I so, oh so much, needed. I put on my robe and
wizards hat, found two friends to play with! Two fellow timespenders, what a
glorious party we were, minmaxed to the top, four thousand rebirths combined,
invokes hailing, consider screaming A LOT on every mob, tears of joy, mad exp,
strippers and an unbalanced game to soon to follow. All was peaceful in the
realm. But wait, the Law of un-progress strikes down upon the poor mortals,
and a sudden time-space-continuum rift sucked me and my exprate back to 2005,
we shall call this the event of:- Remove bonus exp. But fear not, I enjoyed
the game while progressing nowhere, I just spent some time.

Having tried every possible mean of time-spending, and progress-searching, I
turn to a couple of wizards and ask if they need any help with writing descs,
and to my great surprise an archwizard requires my humble aid! Since I have
nothing but time, I start writing descs like a bat out of hell, but then it
all comes crashing down upon me, could it be that I am...WASTING time? This
archwizard in particular wants to do an event...which is based on the most
stupid and hated event throughout the realm, a spinoff of CLONES. What the
fuck am I doing, I'm helping in the creation of something hideous!
FRANKENSTEIN! But then, I realize, we'll if I could spend some time, and
following the concept, other players might also lose time dying to clones,
haha, COME CLARITY, the circle is complete, release the clones, destruction to
follow. Time and time, again. But fear not, I think they will enjoy the game
while progressing nowhere.

Hail to all timespenders, carry on, keep on coding, tuning, playing, being and
lastly, may time be with you

Good stuff, I actually read all of it
But pray do tell us more about timespending and non-progress.
I'm stumped. What is considered orthodox timespending and
how does the law on non-progress work? Is it effective from
the get-go or when everything has been said and one?