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Foreword

Just wanted to say, for gods sakes trade with me. I dunno, thought it needed said. You can see a fairly comprehensive list of my wares and wishes on the Trading Post page. Which, coincidentally, I reorganized. ;)

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Space Admiral

Not a Cities career so much as a way of life, I have recently come to the conclusion that I am not, in fact, a space cadet. If the run-of-the-mill space cadet can forget a purse or wallet, or forget somebody else's name, then I must clearly be the director/administrator of the Space Academy.
Qualifications:

  • I've had need to check forms to remember my name.
  • I often purchase an item, get my card back, and forget to grab what I purchased; forgetting, in short, the goal of the mission.
  • I forgot that earth creatures are death to air characters.

Therefore, I am a space admiral, director/administrator of the Space Academy.

Bögnør Bash

It was greatly complicated by various measures on the part of the 'king and Great Lords, but on the whole it went better than I ever expected.

S. Mackie's Foundation for the Advancement of the Sciences

Generally speaking, science for the sake of Cities is done voluntarily, with no thought of reward and even some consideration of danger. I am not an enterprising soul, choosing regularly to wait for others to determine the merits or flaws of a course of action before I stumble over them. However, I recognize the brave and creative spirit that produces our greatest advances is an altruistic one, a spirit which speaks of the noblest essence of mankind.
As such, when science is advanced and the lot of our people is bettered by a small amount of knowledge, I endeavour to recognize this by offering a gift in thanks and congratulations. While the spirit of science is altruistic, I believe that very spirit of altruism should itself be rewarded when possible.
Perhaps it's the cynic, the closet capitalist in me. At the end of the day, I see nobility as rare and shining, and know that a little reward here and there may not encourage the behaviour but may brighten a day or make it easier to continue such behaviour later, and believe that money speaks louder than words. Our knowledge is limited by our willingness to take risks and our community spirit in making our discoveries clear on the wiki.
While I don't mind folk soliciting rewards for discoveries or risks taken to clarify the rules of the world we live in, it is more in the spirit of the thing to nominate somebody else for a token of my esteem. If you know somebody who has discovered something tragic or wondrous, or even just tested and documented a rules clarification on the wiki which required some small risk, please feel free to palantir macksting with a notice of this and I'll seriously consider what sort of reward or finder's fee should be gifted to the recipient. 22:35, 21 July 2008 (BST)

Introductions

In Character

Sign: Worm

Purveyor of

  • Elemental weaponry, including Onyx and Flaming swords
  • ...even with bound spirits if you so need
  • Puzzle boxen
  • Items from distant shores
  • Freely distributed helpful items for the n00b in all of us
  • Tarot cards
  • Finished glassware
  • Lighting tools of myriad form and manner
  • Cucumber sandwich stuffs
  • Herbs and potions
  • Wild and unnatural drinks and spirits
  • Lots of rivets at a competitive price
  • Figs, currently
  • Reading Glasses
  • Free martial arts training, or for a competitive price, the books

Current projects include

  • Constantly monitoring the Knightly Order of Tubthumping page for cries from the CoD (Community of the Disadvantaged).
  • Setting up a Shop with every tarot card for purchase and sale, an Air Ship, a Caravel, a Ball Mill, black powder, the makings thereof, Ball Mills, and Cloaks of Invisibility. All likewise for sale and purchase. I think I'll call it, "With a Full Deck." Am reconsidering, seeing as how a Shaman has certain capabilities which demand, if not a high price, at least a price.
  • Taking care of pets
  • Crafting pizzas. Lots of them. Dear god lots of them.


Inventory visible here.

Out of Character

  • Nameless 5'8" 188lb. autism-spectrum telephone interviewer (that is to say, I do telephone survey), amateur dungeon master and video game collector. Sits around failing to do chores in Oregon's Willamette Valley, dealing with annual summer stress events and developing carpal tunnel syndrome. Reads a lot of science fiction (skiffy, you'll hear him say) and occasionally rereads it. Avid webcomic reader. His Yahoo! ID is, of course, macksting.

Sign: Aquarius

Engaged to and living with Sheyona. You'd probably like her.

Has been a Temple ov thee Lemur fan since discovering the then-topical Project E.U.N.U.C.H., which still happens to be one of his favorite site features.

  • Owns his own soul.
  • Has aggressively undercut on the soul market.
  • Has rained the single worst available curse down upon another god's realm. ... It's not really worth it, but it's fun to do once.
  • Has a Ham license.
  • Has ordered instant monkeys.
  • Cheats at Dead White Males.

Owns ~100 NES games, and occasionally still plays them.

Miscellany

Favorite weapon

  • In the game: Grey Swan Deer
  • In the real world: .357 magnum revolver or a zweihander sword.
  • In reality: I feel guilty for hurting a flea and freak out when people squash spiders. War statistics make me feel ill. Maybe a bardiche or halberd.

Favorite guilty pleasures

  • Killing off another duelist with a Golden Gun.
  • Creating technowizard devices that break Rifts games. Giant Powered Armor? 3D Invisibility Holoimager? Barragemeteor Jihad Cannons?*
  • Enjoying my insomnia.


Places I've Been 

(09:55:56 PM) ancev: Vertical Bling: 155S
(09:55:57 PM) ancev: Horizontal Bling: 3055E
(09:56:04 PM) ancev: there?s the forbidden guild
(09:56:15 PM) ancev: we can dig our way till it too

A Few Other Favorite Things

  • "The Long Watch" by Robert Heinlein. Can be found in The Green Hills of Earth, The Past Through Tomorrow, and a few other similar publications.
  • "The Seventh Sleeper" by Kate Reidel
  • Ben Folds Five

Secret Shame

  • Crying over Final Fantasy VII: Never cared much for Aeris, but Cloud makes me weepy.

Curious obsessions

Character Drug Abuse

Has reached a state of perfect caffienation.

Has consumed 1 dose of Magic Powder. Has subsequently done stuff immediately. Not recommended!

Has consumed a fair amount of dragon's blood. Does not recommend this. (25 at this count.) Effects largely beneficial, but increasingly harmful.

Has consumed 25 grams of spice. It became necessary to use 12 at once, as some little bastitch had dropped 159 tribbles on me. Thankfully, they didn't eat anything, and between that, a disintegrated coat, and an extra pelt, I had enough to make four coats. On the other occasion, it was purely a matter of wanting to get things done in a day; nothing important at all, really.

Acquisitions

Arguably, the K.O.T. Keep. I'm always astounded at its very existence.

9 Catanas. I've named a few (Pierre, Calisto, and Mistopheles) but, for the most part, I'm just a crazy cat lady. Currently keeping them as a crafting item.

A Hoe ov Destruction and a Spade ov Chaos.

A Seal Fur Coat, matching Stole, and a Proper Scarf. All set for pimp, winter, and class change! (Granted I'm fond of Bognor, but I feel no need to become a Smith.)
Addendum: Two Proper Scarves. I intend to wear one when sufficiently northerly.


October 6th, 2006

An official from the Council of Great Lords appears, hands you a package, and then disappears again.
You gain a Grey Swan Deer.

Beware a bored Elseware. It's a silver catana that will not align; neither sticky nor unbreakable.
Unique. And mine.
Amusingly enough, it has a special message whenever it's used. Not sure what to make of that.

Mwahahaha! No longer unique! PotatoEngineer 02:45, 17 August 2007 (BST)
Very much the case. I've no bloody idea how it happened, but it's awesome. S. Mackie 06:56, 17 August 2007 (BST)

09:28, 5 April 2007 (BST)

Furious Bow! At last!


08:12, 6 April 2007 (BST)

Daily Mail.

22:13, 15 July 2007 (BST)

16 Vodka Martinis! I don't even know how much AP went into the planting, foraging, and crafting of these things, but I'm set for a while.

19:51, 16 September 2007 (BST)

You gain a Red Pill. You gain a Pair of Snowshoes.

Schnorrer's Blessings on my Union

Video Wedding Present (Out of Order)

A MOTHER****ING TANK! 

You slay the Jason.
You gain 75 Gold Pieces.
You gain a Sharp Sword.
You gain a 5 Iron.
You gain a 8 Iron.
You gain a Bottle of Whisky.
You gain a 4 Iron.
You gain a 6 Iron.
You gain a 3 Iron.
You gain a 7 Iron.
You gain a Mug of Ale.
You gain a Small Map.
You gain a 2 Iron.
You gain a 9 Iron.
You gain a Putter.
You gain a Tank.
You gain 11 Shells.

07:29, 1 November 2007 (GMT)

My first Djinn, at that

You attack the Ivory Djinn.
You cause 5000 points of damage, and receive 25000 experience.
You lose a Glass Sword.
Your glass sword shatters!
You slay the Ivory Djinn.
You add the trophy to your case!
You gain a Pouch of Magic Herb.
You gain a Magic Carpet.
You gain a Magic Emerald.

06:11, 19 December 2007 (GMT)

A Horsie!

Date/Time Mated Dam Colour Alignment Sire Colour Alignment Date/Time Foaled Name Gender Colour Alignment
2007/09/28 19:31 Muffin PC Horsie Crazy Horse PC Horsie 2007/10/27 06:21 Mercer Male PC Horsie

Pwny #20331

Deals

Prospect: JPV

20k per gram of spice, and agreed to be held to that within reason. 00:24, 11 March 2008 (GMT)

Prospect: Sert

Bag (S. Mackie's Bag of Holden) Unique item #33560

Prospect: Stien

A Talisman to Sniffleheim

Prospect: Corellis

In exchange for my (slightly flawed but very useful) lev. 2 spellbook, I'm requesting he eventually enchant me a new spare High Mass.

Debts

stevie

something decent for a machete

I recommend a coconut. 09:24, 3 June 2007 (BST)

Corellis

Just noting that Horsie (Muffin) and Goldfish (Bubbles) belong to Corellis.

Jaycopayco

1 Anorak

Christmas List

Syagrius
Ravensdance (for advancing science)
greg
Stelio
Bubba (gave me a lance)
Minor contenders
Beata
ScurvyPirate

Useful Notes

Hard Knocks

Lev 15 attained

Hunting Djinn

You gain a Dose of Magic Powder. You gain a Magic Carpet. You gain a Magic Opal.

S. Mackie's Buying Prices for Healing Spells

Principles for Rough Draft:

30 GP per AP
3*mana in AP to cast from spellbooks
Efficiency of spell as percentage
Spell Mana AP Saved HP per AP Buying Price
Wellbeing 1 3 100 90 GP
Vitality 3 9 66 180 GP
Recovery 8 24 50 360 GP
First Aid 2 6 50 90 GP
Second Aid 6 18 33 180 GP
Third Aid 16 480 25 120 GP
Minor Healing 3 9 33 90 GP
Major Healing 9 27 22 180 GP

Spellbook name suggestions

Liber Paginorum Fulvarum (The Book of Yellow Pages) - Darktab
Canon, vespers, etc. - roomies
Cataclysmic Catechism - me

Gabbly Chat!

http://www.gabbly.com/cities.totl.net/cgi-bin/game
In retrospect, while theoretically cool, this has proven useless.

Naughty and Nice Lists

These lists are by no means comprehensive. If you're not on either list, bear in mind that it has nothing to do with whether or not you've displeased me; it's not personal. These lists exist because I have a very, very poor memory and exist solely for my own benefit precisely because I can't remember everybody I like or dislike, and why or why not.

Nice list

  • Heyus2 - When he was bored and had a mountain of AP, he carved paths through the underground to all major locations. Keen. I also believe I recall there being other reasons, but see above.
  • Syagrius - The world owes him much. Besides that, he's an excellent Tubthumper.
  • Sertularian - Citizen, scientist, geneticist, Tubthumper, all around dude.
  • greg - I don't even recall who this is. See why I need the list?
  • Stelio - Absent for a while now. I remember for certain he's a good fellow, with many actions to favor him. I owe him a coconut.
  • Bubba - Gave me a lance, also pretty darn cool. I probably owe him a game of Gate 88.
  • PotatoEngineer - Don't know where to start. I vouch for him.
  • Ravensdance - Scientist, and a nice guy. Edit: Like, seriously. Give him kudos.
  • Rhapsodie - for SCIENCE! Also a good-natured person.
  • Corellis - Allowed me to borrow his mare indefinitely.
  • Ade - Donations to SCIENCE! Good-natured, no complaints and rather awesome.
  • Shan, who is Ade.
  • Jayco/Payco - Gave me my Familiar, my Anorak, and my records (indirectly.) Good guy.
  • Stien - Tiltowait publicly says he's a Good Chap. I figure I'd make a note of that. It involved glyphs; free? Anyway.
  • Beata/Shupeti - Can only vouch for him as a person. Not really clear on how he behaves in-game, though he seems sociable and decent in that venue.

Observed List

For those of y'all who I have observed doing things which worry me.

  • hbookbinder, a fellow Oregonian. Good natured on the whole, but capable of "skullduggery." While I've benefited, it does make me leery of doing business with him.

Do Not Associate list

  • Merchant - Used newly priced bags to clean out a PC's stall; sold bad merchandise in the form of a Furious Bow. Also thinks this behavior still entitles him to martyrdom. Probably an adolescent; best ignored.
  • Gasoline - Accomplice in the PC jacking.

My Notepad

Mostly copy/pastable symbols I'm too lazy to learn to render regularly

♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫

Just what it looks like

Bögnør Bash

I usually copy it further up, but a notepad's a notepad.

Ruthven's Office

Glyphs Glyphs Glyphs
Arsenic Magnesium Air
Sulphur Tin Water
Fire Copper Lead

Field Nexus

Four adjacent fields at 97E 15N
Also,
http://www.glendale.org.uk/cities/map?x=62&y=99

Rantings and Updates

Seems to be life's beta tester. He will soon begin keeping track of the bugs and errors of life itself, and will investigate who to send these to; the system could use some fixin'.

* Barrage-Meteor Jihad Cannons?! What was I thinking?!

Poetry 

Destiny is not a sword
Nor bound by spell and spoken word.
It isn't pride, though pride it give,
but more it is of how you live.
We wizard folk to no man bow!
We've thrown our rank and shingle down
And though we serve with loyalty,
Still better men we know we be!

You sing 'Tenex, renouncing his edges'
You sing 'Decided to use only sledges.'
You sing 'It served him quite well,'
You sing 'When aided by spells,'
You sing 'But sure t'was a bitch to trim hedges'

o I knew the Race was o'er and done just ten AP from shore,
Still I whipped my rented horse and soldiered on
For though I'd lost already, and the worst was yet to come before,
I'd set out well provisioned and would not rest 'til it was done.
I watched a fellow mariner who set out less prepared.
His end was not a pretty sight to see
His airship tore to ribbons, and he tumbled from the air
I watched him flail helplessly, but had no time to grieve
T'was 40 minutes out when I first heard the mighty fest,
K. Dragon, first of sailors, bested foe and friend!
I yet had Crill and Coral left to go 'er I could rest,
but I swore this day that I would reach the end.
The Coral was Olympus, and the Pegasus my steed,
Better gadflies than mere mussels sure there be,
It could not throw me down, though it did take from me my speed,
And Oz, a better obstruction, did serve to torment me.
As yet I still have not begun my battle with the Crill,
And further on I'll fly through bitter snows
'Tis not terrain or weather which will finally test my will,
But probably the drugs, because AP is running low.
So fly me on to glory, "Half done! Keep heading South!"
I course across the golden road as my clock reads five,
The battle's lost already, and I'm foaming at the mouth,
But flying on Red Bull and Spice, I feel so damn alive!
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