Is the MUCK down?

[Shani]

Thank you, Unwe. I am hopeful she'll be able to beat this.

To me, all the good ideas for TLK based Mu*s have already been used. If any of you can think of any suggestions, TLK or something else, by all means mention it here.

At least you all have another TLK Mu* to play at, even if it's not TPC.

You can also email me at tplmuck(at)gmail(dot)com

[marafane]

As for the ideas and such, the immediate thoughts that comes out to me is not really revolutionary or amazing but... yea might as well say them.

There is always legacy era, back before Mufasa's time or a few generations in the future. They give a good flex for story and a lot of freedom while remaining in the same theme and world.

Of course good or bad ideas are all dependant on how they are used in my opinion but I'm odd over all.

As for RP and other places I'm, not really any where at the moment. Massive fallout on two of the TLK places due to a very old incident with someone I knew who was a very good friend at one time which still bothers me after many years and the others I've not had much courage to try to become a part of. This place was a bit different and looked to be small and warm enough I wasn't intimidated. hehe.

[Shani]

Hmmm... Tho when I suggested a prequel idea no one really seemed to like it. Nor did anyone like a postquel. I myself like the idea of a Queen Kiara reign. Or even a few generations past... great or great-great grandkid. It's thinking up the storylines that's hard to come up with.

I do like these ideas.

[marafane]

Not sure where to go or any thing my self but if the MU gets restored to workable condition some tenetive building can be done, even without much direction so when things come togethere there is less prequsite work.

[Unwe]

Sorry for my absence but i' m back now.

If we are going to be sticking with TLK, then I'd suggest something post story. Having Kiara as queen is certainly something we can do, less of a story to come up with. Going several generations into the future is something else. We could all come up with something that explains whats happened over the years (back story mind you) then have a vote. Go with the most likable idea. Keep in mind, these ideas can be anything from keeping with the good to a full reversal - bad.

[Shani]

I'm all for post-tlk myself. Like you said, Unwe, less of a storyline to come up with. We'll still need to come up with some kind of a plot... like a villian or something.

[Tikk]

Database probably isn't fully dead since logins work and are stored in the same location. Only real thing that is separate are the MUF programs. Though you would need access to your host in order to attempt to determine what went on. Even if someone maliciously tampered with the DB, room, item and character descriptions probably still exist.

Sorry things aren't going well. I was trying to peek on and grab a description I saved there, but couldn't remember my password, and guest access was all funky. >.<

[marafane]

My first reaction was thinking it wasn't a BIG problem but a serious error with the database for handling programs.

Come to think og it, if 'look' was errored it would seem ebvery thign was gone. Because you couldn't see the rooms. Might just be a massive mess of program failures or a folder problem. o.o

[Unwe]

How about this for a story idea.

Since the union of both Outlander and Pridelander, peace stood for many years but when Simba finally stepped down and gave leadership to Kiara and Kovu (or who ever. Kiara could of very well gone with someone else as king.) tension rose. Members of the pride were skeptical over the new King and Queen, thinking them inexperienced- to free spirited. Those who believed such began doing as they pleased, stepping all over Kiara and her king with hopes the two would step down letting a real leader take over. (This could be anyone; an outside lion who some knew about but didn't say anything, or maybe one of the pridals thinking them self better suited.)

Simba, now retired, sits back and watches. If his daughter was ever going to prove herself a valued and respected leader she needed to unite the pride and show them she's not only the carefree child every ones come to know but a leader who can stand her ground.

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See I figure an outside force could come in and befriend the pride. This small group or solo figure comes off as more level-headed. Dealing with situations in a way that makes members of the pride question their king and queens capabilities. Time and time again they begin to notice this and try to regain the prides confidence but always seem to fall short. On the brink of losing their pride to strangers, the two are forced to change their approach which may or may not put them in favor again. Don't forget there are still members of the pride still loyal.


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Tell me what you all think and what could be added to make things better.

[Shani]

Sorry it's taken me so long to respond. I like your idea very much, Unwe. It's just the idea I was hoping to come up with myself, but was unable to. Now we just need a new server and all that goes along with it.

[Unwe]

I might be able to get us a coder.. as for a server, I know that Yaro does hosting. If he doesn't want to do it we might have some troubles.

[Shani]

Does anyone know how to get in touch with Yaro? I know he said he'd host it, but now that we're starting basically from scratch, I'm not sure he'd have time to set us up.

[marafane]

I'm in what ever happens, still but had real life get in my face a bit and cause me to be disappear.

[Seidaku]

Greetings and happy new years folks;

I was just poking around Rhal's furry list and found your game. I have to admit that I have found myself in your situation at least once in my mucking career. As a general forward, I operated at the host level for games such as The Prides Muck which had its hay day back in the mid 90's as well as performed some level of programming. Albeit I've been out of the game for a while but I still have a working game to draw code from to get you back up and running.

In order to help you get back up and operational, there may need to be some cooperation with the individuals in charge but I'd be happy to do what I can to fix your problem. If you prefer to work in fuzzball that is doable though I admit to being a glow fan myself. There are some other distributions you could choose from to build a new platform.

I have a game up and running at seida.dyndns-free.com port 9999 if you want to check out what parallels I have program support for. I don't know where you stand on doing this but other avenues could be explored from mapping support to straight up terra forming. Really just depends on you guys. Let me know!

Thanks,
Seidaku.

[Seidaku]

If you can get the hosting shell, I can work from there.