The meaning of our gifts from my perspective

[Skal the Bear]

Well, there has to be a reason why OSI chose these particular gifts for the
holidays. Here are some of my guesses:

Wand of fireworks: A reminder of last Christmas.

Black dye tubs: The hot fad of 1998. Perhaps the most heavily traded and
sought out item among k3wLiOs and even some roleplayers. Without this
option, the black dye tub might have been Britannia's equivalent of this
year's Furby or Tickle-Me-Elmo's of the past.

Tree deeds: A nifty way of giving us a little extra for our newly patched
houses that now have all sort of other craftables.

Spyglass: The equivalent of fruitcake. Would be really cool if ya didn't
need a spreadsheet to figure out what it all means.

New hairstyles: A response to the recent fashion police movement? (Hi, Kerry
Jane).

Ranger armor: A tribute to the newly formed lootless rangers of various
shards? The irony here is that in offering this as a gift to them, it in
turn becomes loot. Not that all rangers are lootless anyway, from what I
hear. :)

Ticket exchange in general and the scene around the banks: A gentle reminder
from OSI of how bad lag was LAST year.

It's too bad there was nothing symbolic of the rep patch within the choices.
Maybe a 'Dread Lord for a Day' ticket? I'd suggest a 'one free kill without
stat loss' coupon, but they get those everyday.

Okay, one final thought: Magnus, your work is cut out for you. Top 10 gift
ideas rejected by the DevTeam, maybe?

- Skal

[Zaphkiel]

>From: "Skal the Bear"

>Okay, one final thought: Magnus, your work is cut out for you. Top 10 gift
>ideas rejected by the DevTeam, maybe?
>
>- Skal

I'm not Magnus, but I can't resist this one.

10. Guard for a Day. you get to wear the cool uni, teleport all
over, and spout nifty sayings while insta-killing for 24 hours.
9. Plastic Throne Covers. To keep your throne clean.
8. NAKED ELF WENCHES
7. Missle toe
6. FraNk-N-CenTs
5. Peace on Brittania, good will towards men
4. Leather jackets with your guild name on the back
3. New midi files
2. Paintball wands. (Dude! yer PINK! WTF??)
1. A copy of this:

Once, when there was a famine, a rich baker sent for twenty of the poorest
children in the town and said to them, "In this basket there is a loaf for each
of you. Take it, and come back to me every day till God sends us better times."

The hungry children gathered eagerly about the basket, and quarreled for the
bread, because each wished to have the largest loaf. At last they went away
without even thanking the good man.

But Gretchen, a poorly dressed little girl, did not quarrel or struggle with
the rest, but remained standing modestly a pace away. When the ill-behaved
children had left, she took the smallest loaf, which alone was left in the
basket, kissed the man's hand, and went home.

The next day the children were as ill-behaved as before, and poor, timid
Gretchen received a loaf scarcely half the size of the one she got the first
day. When she came home, and her mother cut the loaf open, many new, shining
pieces of silver fell out of it.

The mother was very much alarmed, and said, "Take the money back to the good
man at once, for it must have got in the dough by accident. Go quickly,
Gretchen, go quickly!"

But when the little girl gave the rich man her mother's message, he said, "No,
no, my child, it was no mistake. I had the silver pieces put into the smallest
loaf to reward you. Always be contented, peaceable; and grateful as you arc
now. Go home, now, and tell your mother that the money is your
own.

Merry Christmas

--Zaphkiel

[hobb...@my-dejanews.com]

In article <19981223231604...@ng-fi1.aol.com>,

zaph...@aol.com (Zaphkiel) wrote:
> 2. Paintball wands. (Dude! yer PINK! WTF??)

I want one!! :) That would be so cool, after all to dye is cheap and it might
make some of those PK black robe killers stay away "I'm warning you! one step
and your yellow"

. . . But you missed the bit where she met A$sKik3R on the way home who Corp
Por'ed her, took all her silver ate her bread, took the key of her house and
then proceeded to empty her house of all it's belongings before she could say
OooWWwOOwwOOO.

Sii
Expert Thief
Pacific Shard.

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[Glaeken]

My personal preference would have been for the ticket to tell you to go to a
certain city and seek out a certain NPC by name. Then when we found him/her, and
say something about ticket to it, we would get our menu. Seems like that way all
these extra NPCs would finally mean something, and maybe lag wouldn't have been
atrocious around some of the banks.

Glaeken of LS

Skal the Bear wrote:

[Randy Knight]

However, doing it this way, we all were able to meet 5 people we normally
would not have in a situation where we had to interact in some way besides
exchanging the traditional Corp Pors

Glaeken <jba...@swbell.net> wrote in message
news:36828238...@swbell.net...

[Timinithis]

Well, you're right. It was heavey Xbow bolts for me, and I was on the
recieveing end. Thanks to all the wonderful PKs on sonoma I have
elected to not pay UO $10/month and Im quitting my trial early.

You guys can have it.

On Fri, 25 Dec 1998 17:45:49 -0600, "Randy Knight" <i...@home.com>
wrote: