Late in 2003, a small group of people got together to discuss the future of the Dueling Forum. AOL had been steadily reducing our resources and things were looking bleak. This ragtag group met in clandestine chat rooms and together came up with a plan, created resources, shared thoughts and dreams a...
I was the one who shot down this idea in its original form years ago and I'll express why, as I feel the reason is still valid. However, that's not to say I disagree with the idea. Mainly I object to the 24-hour availability, and it's specifically because we do have a small community. There are real...
#1- As far as DoF and DoM matricies and rules go, yep, public domain because of the AOL transfer of ownership. DoS though, that matrix pre-dates even AOL, but I'd pretty much include it under community property law since at this point it'd be nigh impossible to claim, let alone establish hard proof,...
Since it came up recently I thought I'd share a bit more on the behind-the-scenes process here as far as the OOC "ownership" of the forums. Not sure how many realize this but the way the TOS was set up on AOL, by using the forums and chat rooms AOL provided the content became property of A...
"Better somber than dead." It was a natural reaction to get defensive, but he used the excuse of tunnel stalking to mask his reactions. He skulked in front of G, cautious but moving quickly nonetheless. "And no, I won't join your IFL team. I'm already fighting for a job that pays me r...
He had been looking down one of the store corridors, deciding whether that was the one which held the objective or not while G talked. His concentrated scowl deepened to something more foul the more G'nort said. "I'm here because these guys have a sonic device that I want. *You're* here because...
The only thing better than distraction is confusion. The troops wheeled as they heard G'nort's voice, one of them shouting, "there's more than one!" That might have done some good if he had actually said it to his communicator, but as luck would have it he was too busy lowering his weapon ...
"Does anybody see him?" With a tall can hat, red velour button-over vest and those jackboots, the soldiers looked like some throwbacks from the American Revolution as they squaked into a wrist comm. But Tareth knew that much like the soldiers themselves, the steaming weapons they carried m...
It was in the fall of 1993 that I first picked up AOL 1.1 on a single floppy disk, it was glittery. I think I still have it somewhere. I ran it on the good ol' 9600 baud phone line with an external modem on my mom's AT&T branded PC, go go brand new Pentium processor! Quickly I found the chat roo...
E, think of it this way... When you get a free sample, it's something small, right? Something basic and new, think like a small sample cup at a grocery store. If the sampler decides they like it and want more, they must go find the product and take it home. That's kinda the concept being used here. ...
The admin team has decided that anyone caught purposefully altering duel results will be subject to the following penalties; a permanent removal of the character(s) involved and a six-month ban on the player(s).