March 2001 News


March 24, 2001    Festival of Trees-Arbor Day!

Arbor Day - It's finally here!

Tonight at 8pm CST we begin our tree planting ceremony!  Everyone who comes to plant a tree will receive the supplies needed for each tree, along with gardener garb.  After trees are planted, we'll party at the Knights' Pub!  At the party we'll raffle off two suits of nature-green verite armor and two nature-made ropes!

Our merchants and crafters had a busy night last night making goods for customers.  They made many sets of armor, scrolls, bows, and much more.  In fact, some are still filling orders!  Thank you to the OSS for coming to shop with us.  Thank you to the crafters who were able to help, and the Knights of KFW who helped slay the trouble-makers.

A scene from the Craft Faire.  Thanks for the pic Vulcan Ironsides!

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny


March 23, 2001    Festival of Trees-First Day!

A great turn out of folks joined us to collect the key ingredient in our tree planting experiment, fresh fertile dirt from healthy Trammel, on the first day of the Festival of Trees.

Join us TONIGHT for the Craft Faire at 8pm CST!

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny


March 17, 2001     Happy St. Patrick's Day!
All day long: 
Free drinks at the WWP!
Silly Green Hats in Destiny - WEAR ONE!

Tonight:

Party at the Keg and Anchor in Trinsic!

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny


March 13, 2001     Festival of Trees Arbor Day Celebration

Sponsored by the Town of Destiny
Map to Destiny
Arbor Day History

March 22: Earth and Water Collection, 8pmCST
In the book "Basic Gardening", found in the Destiny Library of Knowledge, we have learned what ingredients are needed to regrow our trees. Be prepared for battle, as collection of the most important ingredient requires it.  Meet at our Knight's Pub in the Town of Destiny at 8pm to help us collect earth and water.

March 23: Travelers of Destiny Crafter Fair, 8pmCST
Destiny's talented crafters will be on hand to craft the finest products Britannia has to offer, for no charge, if you bring resources. If they provide resources, all items will be sold at half price. Visit the roof of Destiny's Mage Tower Friday, March 23, at 8pm to stock up on the bargains.

March 24: Arbor Day - Tree Planting, 8pmCST
With the ingredients collected Thursday night, we will plant new trees in Destiny. All participants in planting a tree during Arbor Day will receive a special commemorative green exceptional sash, short boots and green leather "gardener" gloves. Meet at the Knight's Pub in Destiny at 8pm to plant a tree with us!

March 24: Arbor Day - Post-planting Party
Time to celebrate our first annual Festival of Trees! We'll have a raffle for some nice prizes. Don't miss this fun right after the Tree Planting Ceremony in Destiny!

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny


March 8, 2001     A Time of Remembrance
Let's set aside this Thursday night from 8 central until.. to come together and remember our friend Raven. Anyone who wishes to speak may, but it won't be anything formal. I'll save my journal for Mosis to send to Raven's family, if he wishes. To prevent fighting and allow faction members to come, we'll have the memorial in Trammel. We'll meet in Trinsic, City of Honor, at the Meeting Hall. I've also asked Dren to lock down a book in the Knight's Pub to allow folks to share their condolences there. Hopefully he'll be able to do that soon.

If anyone knows of other guilds Raven was in or friends with, please invite them to join us tomorrow night.

When: Thursday 3/8, at 8 central
Where: Trinsic Meeting Hall, Trammel
For transportation: Meet at 7:45 at the Knight's Pub.

Sincerely,
Carina


March 4, 2001     Town Meeting Minutes

 

Council Attendance:  Big John (leader, WingNut (leader), Hyzenthlay (leader), Nabzif (Des Head Recruiter), Berek Halfhand (GM KFW), Dren Jootz (Advisor Par), Kurrgan (leader) 

  • Carina made the following announcements:

“As I read the new books in the Library this month, ‘Basic Gardening’ and ‘Crafty Plants,’ I started thinking an looking around at all the dead trees and forlorn faces, and have decided to declare a day to celebrate the trees.  March 24, from here on out, will be Arbor Day in Destiny!  We will celebrate this first one with a Festival of Trees!  Look for more info forthcoming from that”.

The Citizens stone is no longer “allied” (through war) with any other guilds.  The first trial weekend seems to have gone well, so it will continue.

Thalkos Mystar has resigned from leadership and Destiny.  He no longer has any responsibility associated with leadership or the town.

  • Nabzif reported the following, associated with recruitment:

Several folks went to some Trammel cities last week to give out Destiny runes, handbooks, and invitations to visit.  There have been quite a few new recruits in the last couple of weeks, including three from the drive last week.

Nabzif and Crystal are working on a jousting tournament.  There is a post on the Event Planner concerning rules and prizes.  They do need judges and valorite ingots.

  • Berek reported the following for KFW:

The team of Kurrgan and Sabine are the winners in the Banner Quest.  They found the most ruins spots, one more than the team of Darth and Timcushio.  Runebooks with all the ruin spots are now located in the Rune Library in the mage tower.  Be warned – they are dangerous spots.  Also, some Knights have returned to KFW after short leaves of absence.   

  • RoBiNHoOd reported for S_B.

S_B has been quiet the last few weeks.  Soon there will be more activity and events to help the town to feel more comfortable with its thieves guild.

  • Hyzenthlay announced the St. Paddy’s Day party event. 

 Destiny was invited to do an activity at the St. Patrick’s Day party in Trinsic.  Some members of the events committee decided to do a UO-adapted telling of a version of the story of St. Pat in a skit.  The narrator will tell the story and everyone else will act it out.  People are needed to play orcs (must be able to hide well) and to play townsfolk.  See Hyz and watch for announcements to participate!

  • Big John announced that he would be holding some trips to cleanse the shrines of evil monsters soon.

  • WingNut announced that his shop will soon have a leather dye tub and special dye tub available for use by the public.  This will surely get much use!  Thank you WingNut!

  • Special guest, Kent Darkthrall, announced the forming of the town of Aequalitas.  The senate of the town seeks an alliance with Destiny.  Quoted from Mr. Darkthrall:

  “Thank you and Hail Citizens of Destiny.  I am from a new Town called Aequalitas.  And our town has one purpose - to provide a place where guilds can meet and share ideas.  We are working out the details as we speak; but we have come to let you begin thinking of a possible alliance with the city and with other guilds who, too, will be joining the alliance.  The city will be a forum of many guilds like your own city represented here.  Together we can increase the safety and learning of our citizens.  Thank you for your time.  Oh sorry.  The city is located at old TelRuid, in Fellucca.  Thank you”.

He did inform us that they do not look for an alliance via the “war” system on guildstones.  Some of the other guilds they are talking to for alliance are KoA, Skara Brae Rangers, and FCB, among others.  Town Council will discuss the alliance and send word to Mr. Darkthrall. 

  • Citizen Darien Lonewolf stated that he would like to have costume contest for St. Patrick’s Day.  He and Hyz decided that after the skit dress rehearsal, the day before St. Patrick’s Day, we would have the contest.

  • Citizen Phillip introduced himself and informed us that he loves us all.  *Grin*

  • Sabine announced for the Library.  The How-To Contest ends this Wednesday.  Most topics are fair game, just be creative.  Entries can be turned in to Chino or Sabine.  There have been many new additions to the Library recently.  Look for a big announcement for those soon.  A new rune to a nice poetry library is being added to the Library of Britannia runebook.  Sabine is reorganizing again.  If you have trouble finding something, just ask.  When all the dust settles, she promises a much easier system.  Look for more contests, events, and special news coming from your local library!

Thanks to all who attended!  The next Town Meeting will be Sunday, April 1st at 8:30cst.

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny

 


March 2, 2001     A Forward Thinking Community
 

We are! Really!

As some of you may have noticed, we removed the war status from the Des stone with all guilds. The mechanics of the game have changed so that there is no longer a need to keep the ally-through-war system. There are, however, two big reasons for not keeping it.

The main reason is Trammel. Not being at war, gives our citizens freedom to travel and adventure in Trammel, without having to resign upon death. We want more exposure and new blood for Destiny - that will come from Trammel. Letting our citizens go there to adventure begins to give us that exposure.

The other big reason is change to looting rules. It is no longer safe to loot an orange corpse without going gray, unless you helped damage it. Those of us who don't fight in groups much haven't learned these new looting rules yet, and end up being gray and attacked without knowing it. At least with a "blue" corpse, we know what we're getting ourselves into.

The only drawback to this is intra-guild sparring. There hasn't been much sparring going on in town for some time now. But, Telzarn has volunteered to show anyone who wishes to know how to spar safely with "blue" friends. Just contact him, the message board, or me.

Although, I ask that the other guilds consider it, I'm not requiring other Destiny guilds to un-war. That is up to each guild. Game mechanics have changed in such a way that there really is no compelling reason to continue to ally through the warring system anymore.

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny

 


March 1, 2001     Town Meeting


Sunday, March 4, 2001
8:30pm central
Mage Tower Roof

People to attend:

Carina, Mayor of Destiny
Dren Jootz, Advisor
Nabzif, Representative for DES
Berek Halfhand, Representative for KFW
Mendenbar, Representative for ToD
Bleddig the Boar, Representative for DW
Green Viper, S_B representative
Cayce McLeod, Representative for WWP
Town Leaders: marina, Hyzenthlay, Crater, Wingnut, Kurrgan, Telzarn, Big John

Agenda:

From Carina-

  • Special Declaration
  • Un-warring of Des stone
  • Upcoming St. Patrick’s Day Party
  • Resignation of a leader


Citizen Report 

KFW Report

ToD Report

S_B Report

WWP Report

Open floor to Leaders

Open floor to all

-Carina, Mayor of Destiny