This contest idea is courtesy of Kairax.

For the month of June, we will be holding another story writing contest. The theme for this contest will be to create a myth about your God of choice. Examples would be: a cautionary tale about what happens when you cross that God, an inspirational story about that God helping out their followers, etc. Think of it as a tale that would past passed down through the ages.

Stats

Minimum Word Count: 300
Reward: 15 RPP
Deadline: June 30th 2008 at Midnight EST
Submit to: imm [a] adventmud.org with “[Advent of the Mists] God Myth” as the subject.

All acceptable stories will also be inserted into the Thelasia library in-game. If you have any questions about any of the Gods, feel free to send us a note in-game and one of us will answer when we get a chance.

Note: We do not appreciate sore losers

Our last week of May winner of the 10 RPP reward is Lyuvann! He has shown exceptional RP effort, and is one of our newest adopted players!

Feel free to congratulate him and all of our winners for May’s reward contest:

Scath
Thorn
Lilette
Lyuvann

One of our newer players, Lilette, is the winner for the 3rd week of May RPP Reward. Feel free to congratulate her She has earned 10 RPP for showing some fantastic roleplay, especially for someone so new to the MUD.

Please don’t login to Advent and ask us to help you set up your own MUD. We’re working on -our- MUD and honestly have no interest or time to help you with yours.

Also, we do not hire staff from strangers that happen to login to the MUD for the very first time. To review our policy, please read How to Become a Staff Member.

We will also not tolerate any OOC or IC real-life discriminatory behavior. This MUD is for the mature dedicated role-player. Power Gamers and players just looking to disrupt game play by consistent perverted actions and behavior need not login. As one of our players found out this evening, the latter will be site-banned.

Originally posted by Siramus on the Advent forums:

“I figured some people might want to know what some of the future things in store for Advent’s code will be. This is in no particular order.
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Feel free to congratulate Thorn for earning the 2nd week of May RPP reward. We still have 2 more weeks worth of RPP rewards to give out! Another winner will be announced this week!

I had the website server upgraded today, which has knocked some pages under “World” and “Players” with dead links. I will be fixing these later today.

Congratulations to Scath for being the winner of the week one of May RP rewards. He’ll be rewarded 10 RPP for showing exceptional RPP for the first week of May. There are still 3 more weeks to win your own set of 10 RPP

Our sister MUD, Cities of M’dhoria is closing its doors this Sunday. We’ve already had an influx of some of their players hop on, and you guys are certainly welcome.

A few things I did want to note however:

1. Signing on Advent starts you out with a clean slate OOC. Any old grudges, drama, etc from CoM are not welcome nor will they be tolerated here. We’ve already experienced some “Well this person did this to me on CoM so I’m going to go after their character on Advent” type drama, and none of the staff here have any time or desire to deal with it. Anything like this that disrupts the gameplay and the players from having fun on Advent will result in immediate irreversible denial. Sorry if that sounds harsh, but we really want people to enjoy themselves on Advent without worrying about CoM’s past.

2. We are a perma-death MUD, which I know you guys aren’t used to. We’ve instituted two things to help ease the blow of losing a character, however. The first one is our RPP (Roleplay Point) system. Since we have accounts (and you should definitely create an account) any RPP you earn is added to your account, to distribute freely among all of your alts. If one dies, you can use your RPP on your account to upgrade a new one fairly significantly.

The second is experienced players getting added skill points during character creation. For every 10 RPP you have ever earned on your account (another reason to have an account), you get 1 skill point to give your character a skill when creating your new alt. You will receive these points with every new alt you make, they aren’t a “one time use” type of deal.

That’s two solid ways to not start out with a completely weak new character. And it all spans around the quality of your roleplay and how much RPP you earn

3. We are still in alpha testing. We hope to open up for beta later this year, where we will actually be advertising for players (we’ve done no advertising yet), but right now our main focus is development. There is still some fantastic RP going on, and we encourage people to roleplay their little hearts out as well as keep an eye out for bugs and consistency. But so long as people understand that it’s alpha testing, and our main focus will -not- be on the roleplay until Beta.

That’s all I can think of at the moment Happy Hunting!

Cedric has posted a lot of updates in game which you can view by reading help updates.

We’ve also brought up some new builders and will be holding another contest here shortly which I will announce in the next week or so.

For those that didn’t read in game, I am also picking one player a week for the month of May who shows some exceptional RP effort and rewarding them 10 RPP.

As mentioned on the MUD, I will be handing out extra RPP for people who have good detailed motivations for their character, or motivations at all

I really want players to utilize this function as it helps the staff with insight on your character so we can sway RP appropriately for your characters background.

Some players start off creating a character on a whim with no real background in mind for them (I’m one of these players). Others will spend countless hours perfecting every minute detail about their character, becoming overly critical of the progress as the character develops. But in a game influenced by outside influences such as other players and staff, nothing always stays as planned.
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I made a last minute bet with the players tonight when the Superbowl started that any players online at the end or doing significant RP during the Superbowl would get 5 RPP if the Giant’s won. 6 players were awarded the extra 5 RPP tonight, you lucky bastards.

We will be running an easter egg hunt in March, so now is a good time to get familiar with the areas