The letter X traditionally marks the spot.

From Merriam - Webster’s Word of the Day

The Word of the Day for Jan 31 is:
puckish \PUH-kish\ (adjective): impish, whimsical

Example sentence:
Bert delighted in teasing his colleagues, and fortunately they recognized his puckish behavior as good-natured and tolerated it cheerfully.

Did you know?
We know Puck as a mischievous sprite who changed shapes, caused milk to spoil, and frightened village maidens in Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream . The Bard drew on English folklore in casting his character, but the traditional Puck was more malicious than the Shakespearean imp; he was an evil spirit or demon. In medieval England, this nasty hobgoblin was known as the “puck,” “pucke,” or “pouke.” To the Irish, such a creature was the “pooka,” and to the Welsh, he was “pwcca.” But it was the Bard’s characterization that stuck, and by the time the adjective “puckish” started appearing regularly in English texts in the late 1800s the association was one of impishness, not evilness.

surely these are the last days

Whoever has no house now, will never have one.

- Rilke

from The Phantom Tollbooth, by Norton Juster

“What could be more important than doing unimportant things? If you stop to do enough of them, you’ll never get to where you’re going … now, do come and stay with me. We’ll have so much fun together. There are things to fill and things to empty, things to take away and things to bring back, things to pick up and things to put down … Why, if you stay here, you’ll never have to think again - and with a little practice you can become a monster of habit too.”

- The Terrible Trivium, Demon of Petty Tasks and Worthless Jobs

The Museum Annex is pleased to announce a new ongoing exhibit of GNE Anagrams, compiled by Outis. Please contribute and enjoy!

Hallo! Musta? I was able to add a few hubs at the gallery. Hope you guys can visit its almost the end of the world =)

http://puckishpitstop.mine.nu/hubs.htm

Thanks!

During some sort of Harpsichord-lifting contest in Bentown, a good number of Harpsichords had accumulated in the hub. When the number got to 2300, I started to notice some strange effects on the behavior of the UI. By the time there were 7325 Harpsichords, the effect was quite pronounced!

Thanks to poxaV for doing the heavy lifting!

Hey folks, I’m trying to compile this Glossary of GNE slang for Selva’s mag, and I was wondering if you could give it a quick once-over and let me know if there’s a phrase I’m missing?

Also if you have a funny redefinition for something I’ve already defined, I totally want it.

My contact email address is on the page.

If there’s anyone without an XML-capable browser, let me know and I can try to cook up some javascript that’ll let you read the glossary -
thanks…

Hi folks!
I’m just working on a GNE quiz in ‘Who wants to be a millionaer’-style.
For I am not capable of coming up with too many questions I appreciate any help from you.
If you can think of any GNE related questions please

enter your suggestions for questions here

thanks a lot … see you around in the game :o)

Reposted from Collective Detective

GNE got a mention in today’s Webmonkey newsletter (also posted on the site).

Shame they got the plug right before they pull the plug… ‘til the big game.

Hi, everyone! I know everyone’s getting geared up for the end of days, but we also wanted to let you know that the end of the alpha also means the relaunch of Ludus Perpetuus, the GNE fanzine! The first issue will be a retrospective on the alpha experience, and we were hoping that there would be folks out who’d be willing to contribute articles or article ideas. The deadline is ten days from now, January 31 (we promise there’ll be more warning in the future!). Please contribute if you can!

We’re also looking for non-themed art, poetry or prose submissions, as well as… well, I’ll let the individual column authors seek submissions separately.

Please send your submissions via the feedback form, and remember to add your in-game user name! Thank you!

GameNeverending has a wide userbase with people who have been around since last summer, to people who only just signed up. With the alpha’s impending closure, I am wondering if any Pioneers would be interested in creating an online guide to GNE. It could provide information on recipes, standard usage of items, etc. While not revealing all of the hidden mystery of advancing your character. I am sure that future releases of GNE will change the way people play considerably, but being an online resource, it could easily be updated.

The other day yeoz showed me a map Aaaugh! did of Metafilter users locations around the world. I got the link from Aaaugh! and created one for GNE pioneers. Please go add yourself, so we can see just how much of the world Ludicorp has dominated… ;)

Found today a most pleasing causal chain:

Bob Barker > Jack Tripper doll > Treasure Map > Diamond Ring > Vintage Guitar > Absinthe

AND you get xp out of it! Does anyone know of a longer one?

Hello Everyone! I love GNE so visit the Puckish Pitstop at http://puckishpitstop.mine.nu/

If you can, share some things at the site. Comments and suggestions are welcome =)

Thanks

To-day, I will seek not the shadowy region;

Its unsustaining vastness waxes drear;

And visions rising, legion after legion,

Bring the unreal world too strangely near.

- Emily Bronte, from “Stanzas”

As the Alpha GNE Eschaton Nears, and with that my hopes of engaging in acts of bovogenesis or ludifaction fade, I’ve composed a farewell psalm for the game.

GOD is my algorithm; I shall not want.

He maketh me to lie down in green pastures, before they are covered with houses.

He restoreth my karma: He leadeth me to the nodes with the blue paper for his game’s sake.

Yea, though I walk in the valley of the Forests of Thorns¹, I fear no reload. Thou art logged on, and thy reverse-video chat messages comfort me.

Thou leavest sides of beef for me to discover in forests of Saskatchewan, massage oil for my head or fries, my Load=301/300.

Surely Karma and Mood will follow me all the days of my life, and I will dwell in the Game Neverending for ever.

Footnotes:

1. “Forests of Thorns” is the literal translation from the Greek (dasos ankathos). I considered the more poetic “groves of eglantine” but rejected it fearing it would bawdlerize what had already become an exercise in poetasty.

BTW: I will send a purple sheet of paper to the first person to correctly identify the association between the number of the parodied psalm and the term “eschaton”.

One of my friends (who lives in Seattle), sent me a link to this story: Camping For A House Of Their Own. It describes how affordable housing is so scarce in some areas near Seattle, that people who want to live there are forced to camp out at the local realty offices so that they can be the first to snatch anything that becomes available.

Does this sound familiar to anyone else? ;)

At first glance it would appear to be they’re on to us. A mainstream comic puts out a series of strips that describe a rather familiar place.

When plagued with thoughts of woe and dread Last night, to Bentown’s streets I fled For smoke, for drink, but lo! Instead: Fine GNE’ers, “giving head!”

Written by Selva Morales at 1/13/2003 5:40:03 PM

Amazing what you can do with a little produce, isn’t it?

there is an arrangement of emeralds in Convivial Grove. it’s a public art installation and anyone is welcome to take some emeralds.

the brilliant green of the emeralds represents the grass missing from ‘round Wintermute Tower. if it must stay, it ought to have grass around it!

It has recently come to light that GNE is in fact a ground-breaking experiment in particle physics…

Ever since the US House of Representatives closed down the Superconducting Super Collider Laboratory project way back in 1993, scientists have fumed about the wasted US$2bn funding and what many thought was the best chance to probe the structure of fundamental particles.

But no longer! It seems that a crack Ludicorp team has been working secretly to harness the enormous potential lying dormant in the networked computers (and minds) of bloggers, artists, cognoscenti, and other denizens of the ‘Net.

An 3-tier application was built so as to seperate the complex processing from users, engaging them instead with colourful graphic entities (hubs and networks; electric sheep and marshmallow daggers) whilst a back-end DB simulated and explored processes previously unknown to humankind.

Players of the game made purple paper and yet simultaneously collapsed quantum waveforms thousands of miles away. Dagger fights caused electrons to change shells. Each yoinking caused a cascade of parity violations.

Commenting on the ingenious methods used both to fund the project and to secure the necessary computing power, a small furry spokesdog for Ludicorp said: “Woof”.

inevitable link to random nonsense: http://tinyurl.com/4duo

if tinyurl breaks, use the longer version:

http://216.239.51.100/search?q=cache:9SfEwQiMddwC:www.jlab.org/exp_prog/experiments/summaries/E93-038.ps+%22gne+is+essential+to+understanding+the+structure+of+matter%22&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

Abulafia’s entry about GNE related dreams made me wonder how GNE affects everyones daily life.

When I was having friends over for tea and cookies right before christmas I found myself being caught in an neverending cookie making loop the night before. I just could not stop! It felt like I was hitting *make another* again and again and…

Have you had any experiences like that or is it just me totally mixing up GNE and RL?!

We’ve all heard that popular Pop/R&B song by Jennifer Lopez called “Jenny From the Block,” but have you heard it remixed GNE Style? With one of our favorite players in mind we have “Inspy From the Block.”

Original lyrics are located here.

Breath mints growing
Woods producing
Players go working
Some do yoinking
Everyone’s got to make some paper.

POX yeah
Ins-po yeah
Yeah, yeah, yo, yo

We off the hubs this year
Went from a low to a lot this year
Everybody mad at the sheks that I wear
I know where I’m going and I know where I’m from
You hear POX in the air
Yeah we at Plectrum out
D-Block from the block
Where everybody Air Forced Out
With a new white sheet, you fresh
Nothing phony with us
Make the shekels
Get the mansion
Bring the homies with us

Don’t be fooled by the sheks that I got
I’m still, I’m still inspy from Porlock
Used to have a little now I have a lot
No matter where I go I know where I came from
(From Porlock!)
Don’t be fooled by the sheks that I got
I’m still, I’m still inspy from Porlock
Used to have a little now I have a lot
No matter where I go I know where I came from
(From Porlock!)

From makin’ paper to enlightenments
From trivia to haikus to this
Headline clips
I stay grounded as the amounts roll in
I’m real I thought I told ya
(I’m real) I’m really real on Oprah
(I’m real) That’s just me
Nothing phony, don’t hate on me
What you get is what you see

Chorus

I’m down with Stencilton like this
Rockin’ this first test
I’ve grown up so much
I’m in control and loving it
Rumors got me laughin’ kid
Love my life and my public
Put me first and can’t forget to stay real
To me it’s like breathing, yeah

Chorus

It takes hard work to cash paper
So don’t be fooled by the sheks that I got
They assets
You get back what you put out
Even if you take the good route
Can’t count the hood out
After a while you’ll know who to blend with
Just keep it real with the ones you came in with
POX and inspo
They act like they don’t but they know

Chorus x 4

I was sure I had simply been up too long. Perhaps the coffee I was drinking was getting to me…there was a cup of coffee listed in my social contact list. :)

Then others pointed out they saw it too, and I felt much better. Thank “GOD” I wasn’t losing my mind!

But what’s this? “Mina has joined you in Inspyville”??

Aieee. I think perhaps I need some rest. To make sure I would remember the moment, I took screen shots.

“You join a MUD and spend months building a character in that community. At the end of this time, you have probably become well-known in that community - you have well-developed social capital. That social capital - the set of experiences and understandings that individuals in that space have of you - is built through time and repeated interactions.

“In cyberspace no assets are transferable. You can move from one community to another, but with each move you must start over again. You do not enter a MUD with money or social status. You enter as a character whom you must then construct.

“Paradoxically, then, we might say that it is harder to change communities in cyberspace than it is in real space. It is harder because you must give up everything in a move from one cyber-community to another, whereas in real space you can bring much of it with you. Communities in cyberspace, then, may in the short run have more power over their citizens than real-space communities do.”

- Lawrence Lessig, from “Code”

Hi all,

The zoo in Twee has now been populated. I populated it a few nights ago, and since then have been busy restocking! For some reason the cows and ptarmigans disappear quickly! I’ll have to look at upgrading their enclosures. :)

Feel free to squeeze the chickens and milk the cows, but do drop them when you are done. If I have left any GNE animal out, do let me know!

As for the Purple Unicorns, Blue, Yellow and Pink horses with long blonde manes, bunny rabbits and Tamed Rainbows…well they *were* there, but some scoundrel must have made off with them. ;)

Hey everyone! Yogi and I turned the Stencilton Museum into a Museum of Making. Each item you can make is on display plus a note that tells you how many making skill points you get for ‘em.

It’s long, but worth the read. About this thing called lard… caused a huge surge of creative power from most of the GNE kids who were online at the time. I must admit i was quite surprised at the frenzy that a lil ol bit o lard can work up.

(Please read from the bottom up)

dashcat: Lard is in the air
Mira Arianrhod: It must have been lard, but it’s over now.
inspoetica: but I can’t help falling in lard…with…you
flippy rice: me lard you long time
Zion El-dar: now ya got it yogi
Yogi: Lard me two times.
Mira Arianrhod: I’m larding this.
Loli: ha
dashcat: I’m ready for Lard…bad company :o)
poxaV: so i bought an oncidium today
flippy rice: lard is a many splendid thing
georgie parker: yes yogi - lard = oxygen
Gorgik: Whole Lotta Lard
Yogi: Lard, sorry.
Kyle Stein: Excuse, the LARD of god.
Yogi: Lar is like oxygen?
Kyle Stein: This HAS to go to Paperlane. For the love of god, save it.
flippy rice: lard machine
georgie parker: for the lard of lard…
Loli: Yay, Mira!
georgie parker: do you all feel it?? the power of the lard? kinda catchy ?
Kyle Stein: Mass GNE Cardiac Arrest.
Mira Arianrhod: Feel like making lard
flippy rice: haha boys ii men
capodistria: hunka hunka burnin’ lard
Yogi: You’re not mad at me because the girls left messes in the rooms, are you Kyle?
inspoetica: I’ll make lard to you, like you want me to
georgie parker: can’t get enough of your lard baby
flippy rice: eww nyquil tripping
Gorgik: it needs more lard, right?
Zion El-dar: im just a lard machine
mood +5 The clown wig cracks you all up.
poxaV: triple onion dip: NOT ONIONY ENOUGH
poxaV: visions/fever/hallucinations… kyle, stop sucking on the nyquil bottle please
Gorgik: no, transcend entitlement
Gorgik: ooooh
Yogi: Are you having visions, Kyle?
Zion El-dar: I must waddle off with my full pack here
georgie parker: the summer of lard…
Yogi: I’m about to do something?
Mira Arianrhod: You walked in on a lard-in.
Kyle Stein: It’s not what you did. It’s what you’re about to do.
Loli: Yoggers, you being bad?
georgie parker: actually - lard prevents premature death poxaV
Yogi: Whaddid I do?
Kyle Stein: THEN sell it.
poxaV: we will all die
Kyle Stein: No, make it into enlightenment.
inspoetica: yup
Kyle Stein: YOGI, you are so gonna die.
Gorgik: should I just sell it?
flippy rice: elton john right?
Gorgik: I have a bunch of entitlement
flippy rice: wow good one inspy
Gorgik: so
Mira Arianrhod: To Sir, with Lard
Yogi: ‘lo all. What’s new?
Gorgik: Married With Lard
inspoetica: can you feeeel the lard tonight?
flippy rice: goes together like a horse and carriage
georgie parker: lard and marrriage… lard and marrriage…
Zion El-dar: mira, kyle, gorgik all rule
Mira Arianrhod: Going to the Chapel of Lard!
georgie parker: i’m *crying* over here
dashcat: lol elder
Zion El-dar: Brother Lard’s traveling salvation show
inspoetica: what the world needs now, is lard, sweet lard, its the only thing that theres just too little of
georgie parker: the power of lard
Mira Arianrhod: As long as you lard me.
Kyle Stein: Summer Lardin’
Gorgik: by Lard Trick
poxaV: hahaahhahahahaha
Mira Arianrhod: The Lardin Spoonful…
Kyle Stein: RADAR LARD
dashcat: Righteous Brothers, Four Tops…
Zion El-dar: not to mention MIke Lard of the Beach Boys
Kyle Stein: Jennifer Lard Hewitt?
Gorgik: Courtney Lard
Zion El-dar: gorgik, whoot!!!
Gorgik: oooh
dashcat: wow, a whole lotta Motown fans here tonight
Kyle Stein: That’s even BETTER in the uk
Gorgik: 50 ways to leave your larder
Gorgik: lol
Kyle Stein: Ain’t no mountain high enough to take me away from my lard.
Zion El-dar: you’ve lost that larding feeeling, ohhhh, that larding feeling
flippy rice: np
Mira Arianrhod: Baby, I need your lardin’
georgie parker: ok - thanks
flippy rice: email selva
flippy rice: you get a paperlane account
Zion El-dar: whole lotta lard — gonna give me evry inch of your lard
georgie parker: hey - how does one post to paperlane? i’ve got a clipboard covered in lard that i need to put somewhere
Matilda Dacuycuy: If anyone needs a room I have some to spare :)
Zion El-dar: if I ever I fall in lard, in wouldn’t be in springtime …
Kyle Stein: O, Lard, carry me home.
Loli: hahaha
georgie parker: lol!! you leave the screen for two seconds… and then LARD!
Kyle Stein: Funny, the lard seems to be on my front today.
konamouse: jeesh, georgie, look what you started!!
Kyle Stein: Zion: LOL
Matilda Dacuycuy: the lard is on my side today..lol
Zion El-dar: capo : lol
Loli: heee
Kyle Stein: Well done Purple!
inspoetica: lardie don’t leave me
capodistria: sweet new age lard
Zion El-dar: praise the lard and pass teh ammuniton
Loli: (Is there a leveling tunnel somewhere?)
poxaV: purple crayon is one of the best and oldest MOOs :)
Mira Arianrhod: And Matilda too! Share the lard!
Gorgik: that’s “larding out loud”, by the way
georgie parker: it just doesn’t stop…
Gorgik: LOL
Zion El-dar: lard is a many splendored thing
Zion El-dar: oh, lard, won’t you buy me a mercedes benz (sic)!!!
Gorgik: :-)
poxaV: hee hee, gorgik :)
Gorgik: Free Lardster Bisque in Centraal Station
Kyle Stein: Someone should post this to paperlane :)
Mary Elizabeth: lol yeah zion, very frightening
Gorgik: The Lard Giles Band
Mary Elizabeth: :) good night
Zion El-dar: go KS
Zion El-dar: ME: two minds with a single (and frightening) thought
georgie parker: LARD HURTS
Kyle Stein: LARD STINKS
konamouse: Stop, in the Name of LARD
indigo: sweet dreams mary elizabeth!!!! ill see you again soon!
georgie parker: what if the world i want IS filled with lard songs? am i an infidel all of a sudden?
Mira Arianrhod: Lard makes the world go ‘round.
poxaV: you’re just trying to taunt me
poxaV: hahahaha
Mary Elizabeth: “you’d think the world would have had enough of silly lard songs”
georgie parker: anyone feeling peckish?
Zion El-dar: some people think the world is filled with silly lard songs
kyntemis pravyn: and thus in one night, Babylon the proud nation, fell
Mary Elizabeth: I’m deliriously tired, I’m of to bed, hopefully to dream of lard
georgie parker: lard, lard me do… you know i lard you
Gorgik: Women who lard too much
flippy rice: a lard song for no one
Kyle Stein: Stop! In the name of lard…
poxaV: all yours, kyntemix
Gorgik: Lard Story
Gorgik: :-)
georgie parker: crazy little thing called lard
Mira Arianrhod: Make lard, not war.
Kyle Stein: YES GORGIK!
Zion El-dar: once more in the name of lard
Gorgik: The Lard Song of J Alfred Lardfrock
Mary Elizabeth: lol
georgie parker: yeccchh Z
Zion El-dar: can’t you see Bono crooning IN the naaaaame of lard
konamouse: Shakespear in Lard
poxaV: what’s lard got to do, go to do with it
georgie parker: what’s that?
flippy rice: all we’re missing is derxus’ limerick
georgie parker: once…. i had a secret lard…
flippy rice: hehe
georgie parker: and you see it goes on… and no flip - ALWAYS LARD!!
Mira Arianrhod: i can’t help falling in lard with you
Kyle Stein: Lard no!
flippy rice: so do you ever replace the noun?
Kyle Stein: Well done Indigo!
Mary Elizabeth: lol
Kyle Stein: I’d lard you to lard me.
georgie parker: ;-)
georgie parker: lard me tender… lard me true
Mary Elizabeth: can’t buy me lard
Kyle Stein: Indigo: CHOICE!
flippy rice: i will lard you
Mary Elizabeth: lol
flippy rice: lol
indigo: praise the lard!!!
Mira Arianrhod: i just called to say i lard you…
capodistria: lard will keep us together
georgie parker: the greatest lard of all…
konamouse: lard to lard you baby.
flippy rice: everlasting lard
flippy rice: lol
Zion El-dar: Lard Shack
georgie parker: what’s LARD got to do with it!!
flippy rice: all you need is lard?
flippy rice: eew
flippy rice: all you need is love?
poxaV: where time becomes a loop
georgie parker: replace it with “LARD”…
flippy rice: more games within the game would be nice
poxaV: there is the theory of the moebius, where time becomes a loop
georgie parker: any song you can think of with the word “love” in the title…
Mira Arianrhod: you’re welcome, poxaV :)
capodistria: tell us georgie!
flippy rice: what was it georgie?
georgie parker: learnt a funny party game over the break…

Now that GNE has once again become a game of javascript hacking, I seem to have lost interest.

In the early phases of the game, I was drawn in by exploration (of the world), then discovery (of how to use the various artifacts), then exploitation (arbitrage, finding optimal ways to make money, xp, etc.). And all the time, of course, by interacting with the clever, quirky, social people who are the most interesting feature of GNE.

But then I was able to Make everything that could be Made, knew everything within the game that I needed to know, and became a world-class Farmer.

In the past few weeks, I wondered if I could get to Level 19 entirely on genomes, without making a single GNE. I was pretty far along, too!

Then, last night, I noticed a player suddenly zoom way past inspoetica (and hence me) in xp. One theory: someone quietly accumulated way more wealth than inspoetica, but in something other than shekels, and suddenly traded that in for GNE ingredients.

Today, I see that a player whom I’ve never seen before has exceeded even that previous player. Uh huh.

So now there are two games. One, played by the rules the developers apparently intended, in which it is actually difficult to accumulate money, xp and the rest, and the other - hacking javascript - in which any idiot can appear to excel, and several have.

Given that, I’m not sure what’s left. Sure, there are the clever, quirky, social people who have always been the most interesting feature of GNE. But does that mean that GNE is now just a chat room with some cool people in it? That’s probably not enough, by itself, to hold my interest.

So I may be done for now. At least, until the next Great Wipe. If, after that, there are interesting new features, or at least fixes for the egregious hacks, I might once again be interested.

Or I may find myself still addicted to the mindless, repetitive activities that have occupied far too many of my hours in recent weeks. You never know. At least, *I* never know.

In any event, it’s been fun.

Hey - anybody want a few million shekels worth of diamonds? Or a chicken?

Uifz: Oh my god this is the gayest game i have ever played i thought this was a REAAL mMORPG

So began one of our more lively chat discussions on GNE Global Chat this evening. As you’ll see in the following chat transcript, many pressing issues were brought up. Is this a REAAL mMORPG? Is GNE gay? Where DO we fight all the monsters? Am I gay? Am I SOO gay, or just gay? Am I under or over 12? Whatever the case, these questions must be considered, and we are all grateful to the mysterious Uifz for making us re-examine ourselves and our game.

Uifz: Oh my god this is the gayest game i have ever played i thought this was a REAAL mMORPG

Orbst: Uifz: we all feel for you.
doubleA:*patpat* It’s okay Uifz, it’s okay

Uifz: what the hell do u do in this game

Orbst: Have some quiche.
doubleA: You neverend!
Orbst: Whatever you want. Talk in chat, make things.
Orbst: Get rich, prepare art objects.
moen: it is gay, but it’s home
Orbst: Flirt in IM.
moen: who flirts in IM?!

Uifz: where do u fight monsters

doubleA: Who needs to fight monsters when you can camp out in a real estate office!?
Orbst: ‘u’ fight monsters in a million (really really boring) LPMUDs.
moen: the only monsters i know are Santa is Satan and Tseran

Uifz: Oh my god this game is gay

Orbst: You can squeeze chickens.
Orbst: You’re very kind.
doubleA: And whoever named my living room the burp room.
moen: thanks, Uifz, you already mentioned that
Another Chris: *readies his bubble gun*

Uifz: why do u guys play this game, how is this fun

doubleA: It just is. Okay? If you don’t like it, leave.
Another Chris: *goes hunting for Uifzes*
doubleA: Simple as that.
Orbst: Talking to people is fun, exploring is fun.
Lilith Frobbit: We are all gay, therefore it is fun
doubleA: ps- I carry a flame thrower, do you?

Uifz: no im just wondering why you think it is fun

capodistria: *shrug*
Orbst: Getting new things to make is fun.
moen: it just is

Uifz: do you even do anything like fighting

moen: we love making browns
Lilith Frobbit: Mindless entertainment.
capodistria: i guess we like to be social and talk to members of the opposite sex
moen: now that’s gay
doubleA: Chatting is fun, breaking mirrors is fun
Orbst: Trolling in the chat window by pretending to think it’s an LPMUD is probably fun, too. *8)
Another Chris: its something to do while watching southpark
moen: or the non-sexes, capo! can’t forget them!
capodistria: you go do the fighting for us
doubleA: Why do you need to fight? What’s the point? Why don’t you just go hit the ground with a baseball bat and not bother us?
Another Chris: :P
Lilith Frobbit: breaking mirrors on gay people is fun

Uifz: lmao h ow is fighting gay, yea m buying cholckate chips and treats and a gutar and stupid stuff thats gay
Uifz: lmao
Uifz: bye
Uifz: ur all gay

doubleA: ya, u r too!!!1111!!!!!11!11!
Lilith Frobbit: gay as can beeeeee

Uifz: u all must be under 12, or like if ur over 12, your gay

Orbst: I feel pretty, I feel pretty!
Duluoz: I’m crushed. I need to re-examine my whole world view now…
Lilith Frobbit: Haven’t we already established our gayness?
capodistria: *dances*
moen: i am so over 12, baby!
Another Chris: i’m just here cause i enjoy people calling me gay :)
moen: gay!
doubleA: We’re all over 12 hun.
Orbst: Sunday’s child, that’s me!
Orbst: (prance, prance)
moen: i love it when you prance, orbst
inspoetica: did someone say the G word?
capodistria: *does mock waltz with orbst*
doubleA: Yeep
Orbst: mock??
inspoetica: *does fandango with orbst and capo*
moen: *watches*
Orbst: — aw shucks, Uifz is gone —
doubleA: Drat.
moen: that was fun
doubleA: I’m gonna mis them.
Lilith Frobbit: *pout*
Another Chris: me too
capodistria: im not good at waltz. mock is the best i can do!
Lilith Frobbit: We are all gay :)
Orbst: THAT, my friends, is what will happen itrg. *8)
doubleA: *sighs and puts crossbow back in closet* Ah well, maybe they’ll come back and take another stab at it..
moen: i can’t wait!
doubleA: Yeah, we’re all gay here! Whee!

Mawage!
Mawage is wot bwings us togeder tooday.
So I had the idea that individuals might be brought together in marriages or partnerships or harems or what have you, such that they might share social vibes, properties (co-habitation being a possible fix for the housing problem), new interactions, and so forth. More importantly, it would just make things more interesting. I’m sure this is a subset of a larger new social model for GNE, but it’s a nicely concrete example of something we could have.

Have you dreamt about GNE? Relate your dreams here.

Mei Pa came up with an idea today, that I believe is a flash of divine inspiration - underground houses. This would enable the devs to have space for more shelters, without taking away our green spaces. Mei Pa has already submitted the suggestion, now we just have to wait - and hope the devs can arrange it.

Four excited Stencilton residents welcomed in the new year this morning by all making their first GNEs together! mattan and Eleanor Rigby (me) started the train rolling downhill, and were met in The Back Room by Star Shine and Pom. All four lost their GNE-making virginity together, and returned to mattan’s philosophically-themed home in Noam for a small celebration.

An exciting first for Stencilton (as far as we know…): quadrophonic GNEs!

Greetings. As this testing phase of the game winds down, we here at Paper Lane are gearing up for the relaunch of the GNE fanzine Ludus Perpetuus. There are many new features planned, including a new players guide, an advice column, a society page with quotable quotes, and a humor section. We are currently soliciting volunteers for newbie guides, and cartoonists (see extended entry for details). To volunteer, please send an email to selva @ paperlane.net, or loli @ paperlane.net.

Newbie guides: This would entail being available to assist and/or advise new players who have questions or technical problems with the game. The motivating philosophy being ‘give a man a fish, he will eat for a day; teach him how to fish, he’ll eat forever.’ Game badges will be posted in new players guide, so those needing clairification or further assistance can contact someone who is currently in the game. If this sounds like something you are willing and able to do, please contact Selva or Loli.

Cartoonists: We are searching for cartoonist/illustrators to depict humorous happenings, and life in general within GNE. We aren’t picky, because the pay is horrible, but we do ask that it be kept tasteful. If this sounds like something you are willing and able to do, please contact Selva or Loli.