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04-21-2004, 01:18 AM

O Luthien Tinuviel!
More fair than mortal tongue can tell!

Surely thy father has taught ye the ?
Wherein is sung:
For surely here lies the answer to your problem! A world too beloved hath only superficial beauty; true beauty is born amidst strife and nurtured by sorrow. Thus I see that you struggle over hard to make your MUD too favorable an environment. Have ye made leveling super-easy? Or enabled pcolor tokens everywhere? Then no wonder! Such things appeal momentarily to weak players, but nothing binds them to your mud.

But fill your MUD with treachery, difficulty, frustration, corruption and scandal, and place thyself above the mortals, as a Goddess who pays little heed to their pathetic complaints and suggestions, and lo: slowly you will grow, but those who come will stay, being bound to the MUD forever.

(This post will make little sense to those who haven't read the Silmarillion, from which Luthien apparently took her name.)

04-21-2004, 01:18 AM	#2
erdos Posts: n/a	O Luthien Tinuviel! More fair than mortal tongue can tell! Surely thy father has taught ye the ? Wherein is sung: For surely here lies the answer to your problem! A world too beloved hath only superficial beauty; true beauty is born amidst strife and nurtured by sorrow. Thus I see that you struggle over hard to make your MUD too favorable an environment. Have ye made leveling super-easy? Or enabled pcolor tokens everywhere? Then no wonder! Such things appeal momentarily to weak players, but nothing binds them to your mud. But fill your MUD with treachery, difficulty, frustration, corruption and scandal, and place thyself above the mortals, as a Goddess who pays little heed to their pathetic complaints and suggestions, and lo: slowly you will grow, but those who come will stay, being bound to the MUD forever. (This post will make little sense to those who haven't read the Silmarillion, from which Luthien apparently took her name.)