The “Nestor’s Bright Idea” spell amuses me to no end, because my best friend’s cousin-in-law from New Jersey was named Nestor; he used to come up, with the rest of the New Jersey family, to visit my friend’s family in upstate New York for a week every summer. He was definitely a city boy and he was frightened to death of the woods we lived in… and he was 30. Once I was visiting, and witnessed Nestor’s Bright Idea. Everyone was toasting marshmallows in what used to be the fireplace of the building that was on the property a hundred years ago, but long since burned down. We were telling ghost stories and joking with the incredibly gullible Nestor. We all ganged up and got him to believe that there was a species of monkey that lived in the trees. Nestor’s Bright Idea was to carry a large spotlight - the huge portable type that you carry in your trunk and clip to your hood so you can do car maintenance in the dark - into the woods and keep it shining straight up into the trees while he took a leak so the monkeys would be scared away by the light and wouldn’t come to the tree where he was pissing. He came back screeching and absolutely crawling with gigantic moths and other insects that were attracted by the light and not at all intimidated by people…
Yeah, but it’s so… elaborate. I mean, there are hundreds of posts in there talking about trading items, what class/race is best, who’s the top player, all this stuff… and none of it is real!
On another note – bouv, are you a PQ player? I checked up on my guys when I got in this evening and saw that in between Piebald and Cooze (I started two at the same time as an experiment) was a PQ character named Bouv, the Low Elf Mu-Fu Monk.
So, you’re at about rank 50-something thousand when you start, but it’s a pretty quick curve up to the 20-grands. But my top guy (WLight the Crested Dwarf Puma Burgular[sic]) is 26262 at level 15, while Piebald and Cooze are 29937 and 29939 at level 7 and 6 respectively. So it looks like it’s gonna be a long haul to the top.
the massive ascendant curve from level 1 - level 2 and on is because a lot of people sign up, and then, when they realize the game is just some sliding progress bars, they stop, often within five minutes. if someone has spent enough time with it to get up a level, then they probably see it as funny and non-taxing, and so has desired to let it run. so, it has a “keep playing the game” halflife that lengthens with duration.
and the forums… well how CAN you explain the forums? it’s people having fun making fun of online gamers while at the same time confusing the jeck out of the eternally ostrasized “N3wbs”.
anyway…
does anyone have a good motto? share!
also, i found that systray icon app, so you can powerlevel all the easier.
[sub](aside to white lightning; level counts first as to your placement. sometimes, you have to Brag [ctrl-B] to force it to update. also, if you just leveled, it can take up to an hour for your character to be shuffled to it’s correct standing in the rankings.)[/sub]
the massive ascendant curve from level 1 - level 2 and on is because a lot of people sign up, and then, when they realize the game is just some sliding progress bars, they stop, often within five minutes. if someone has spent enough time with it to get up a level, then they probably see it as funny and non-taxing, and so has desired to let it run. so, it has a “keep playing the game” halflife that lengthens with duration.
and the forums… well how CAN you explain the forums? it’s people having fun making fun of online gamers while at the same time confusing the jeck out of the eternally ostrasized “N3wbs”.
anyway…
does anyone have a good motto? share!
also, i found that systray icon app, so you can powerlevel all the easier.
the massive ascendant curve from level 1 - level 2 and on is because a lot of people sign up, and then, when they realize the game is just some sliding progress bars, they stop, often within five minutes. if someone has spent enough time with it to get up a level, then they probably see it as funny and non-taxing, and so has desired to let it run. so, it has a “keep playing the game” halflife that lengthens with duration.
and the forums… well how CAN you explain the forums? it’s people having fun making fun of online gamers while at the same time confusing the jeck out of the eternally ostrasized “N3wbs”.
anyway…
does anyone have a good motto? share!
also, i found that systray icon app, so you can powerlevel all the easier.
slow servers are evil, i tell you!
EEEEEEEEVIIIIIIIIILLL!!!
I killed a cheese elemental! I got a cheese elemental curd for my trouble 
Woo! I just bought some +10 Fine Gilded Kevlar Greaves! I’d like to see those…
Level 34 and counting…
eh. i prefer the “+ 17 steely vorpal halberd of anal rape” myself.
sounds unpleasnt.
Yes, I am that bouv. I downloaded the program and started it right up! I love it! I’m currently a 29[sup]th[/sup] level Low-Elf Mu-Fu Monk!I’m in the middle of Act III and have a level 15 slime puch! Yeah!
That’s hilarious, we must have started it at just the same time. I keep seeing you on the list when I check up on Cooze’s status.
This was a pretty busy weekend for me and I didn’t get to spend a lot of time at the computer.
Thus, Vazzensnare had the whole thing to himself and could get to level 21 effortlessly.
I just discovered something - you can have multiple games running at once. Lessee, how many clock cycles does my CPU have?
Keltang, the Enchanted Motorcycle Bastard Lunatic has been doing pretty well this first hour… I’m on level 2 with 3 spells, but I’m getting desperate for a new weapon to eliminate these unfathomable minons of evil!!
I can’t believe I’m stuck with a sharp stick… 
Heh heh… Just got me a Claw Hammer…
What ticks me off is that I’ve had to fetch this damn carrot twice now!! I wish the person who requested it in the first place didn’t screw-up whatever it was that he going to do with it.
:eek: unpleasant mental pictures… :eek:
Fear my Dung Elf Inner Mason, PerfectMaster ! He’s level 22 and so Uber he can call Cecil himself a newb! oh ho! he just learned the spell *Spectral Oyster * … one could only image the havok he will spill onto the killing fields…
er…
pancakes.
Oh, piffle upon all of you peasants.
My ErkBelch is now at Level 35 and working on Act IV.
And, just to maximize your envy, be advised that he captured both of the following in one quest:
**The Austere Sceptre of Practicality, and
The Ostentatious Albatross of Efficiency**.
He is nothing if not Useful and Effective!
Look, look and despair, all of you.
This is fun, but what am I supposed to do with a kobold penis???
MAN! I wish it had a text output of all the items you collect. But I tell you what, if I had a gold piece for every crayfish antennae I collected… oh, wait, I do!
Check this out! I am friggin’ dying over here.
Best…game…ever. 
DAMN IT. I just noticed that my character sold a girl scout cookie… does anyone know, did I kill a girl scout?!
MWAHAHAHA