The Wizard of Wor Quest
(November 16th 1999 to November 30th 1999)
This is a record of my Wizard of Wor Quest, consisting of all of the message board posts related to the quest. Apologies that you cannot jump straight to a post you want; too much work for me. The quest and its main monsters were alternately inspired and borrowed from Midway's classic 1980 arcade game 'Wizard of Wor'.
Bloomer
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7 (Tue Nov 16) : Bloomer ** QUEST ** Wizard of Wor pt I
8 (Tue Nov 16) : Bloomer WoW pt II
9 (Tue Nov 16) : Bloomer WoW pt III
10 (Tue Nov 16) : Bloomer Wow pt IV
11 (Thu Nov 18) : Bloomer Wiz of Wor is go
12 (Thu Nov 18) : Bloomer WoW update 1
13 (Sat Nov 20) : Bloomer WoW update 2
14 (Sat Nov 20) : Bloomer WoW update 3
15 (Mon Nov 22) : Bloomer WoW update 4
16 (Mon Nov 22) : Bloomer Monday the 22nd, WoWers : Read this!!!
17 (Mon Nov 22) : Bloomer Monday the 22nd, WoWers : Read this too!
18 (Mon Nov 22) : TheGenius update again
19 (Mon Nov 22) : Trickyone Further Grewor Update
20 (Tue Nov 23) : Bloomer WoW update 5
21 (Tue Nov 23) : Bloomer Tuesday 23rd: WoW Battleplan for today
22 (Tue Nov 23) : Bloomer Tuesday 23rd (continued)
23 (Tue Nov 23) : Terror Tuesday 23rd Update
24 (Tue Nov 23) : Bloomer WoW update 6
25 (Wed Nov 24) : Bloomer Wednesday 24th: Strange Games !!
26 (Wed Nov 24) : Bloomer Wednesday 24th: instructions continued
27 (Wed Nov 24) : Bloomer A few nudges to find the clues
28 (Wed Nov 24) : Bloomer WoW update 7
29 (Thu Nov 25) : Bloomer WoW update 8: Thursday onwards
32 (Tue Nov 30) : Bloomer Tuesday 30th: The Wizard of Wor,
33 (Tue Nov 30) : Bloomer Tuesday 30th: and other Worlings
34 (Tue Nov 30) : Zulumasai Worlings and what not
37 (Tue Nov 30) : Bloomer Wow: Game over!
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 16 06:05:55 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: ** QUEST ** Wizard of Wor pt I
Priority: Normal
The Wizard of Wor ((c)1980 Midway Manufacturing Co.) cometh!!! As
of 18th November (Thursday), the wizard's Worlings will begin to
secrete themselves about the mud. In case you had not guessed, the
Wiz is not a very friendly individual. His many goals are dread
and elusive, and inevitably bring him into conflict with mortals,
whom he despises. This means YOU. Slay any Worlings you find and
reap the spoils of WOR!!
Here come the guidelines for this week-long (approximately)
campaign. They're long, but basically I wanna nail confusion
before it exists:
(a) Players of all levels may participate. There will be Worlings
of all degrees of toughness, from easy to extremely difficult.
Just use common sense: CONsider any Worlings before starting a
fight!!!
(continued)
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 16 06:06:02 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW pt II
Priority: Normal
(c) Some Worlings may carry extra cash. Any other spoils will come
in the form of *tokens* which you loot from slain Worlings.
(d) Tokens are redeemable for prizes from me. Tokens are matched
to specific prizes. You won't know what prize any particular token
will get you until you hand it in. To generalise, I will say that
the tougher the token-carrying monster was, the 'better' the prize
will be, but of course that's a subjective business.
(e) IMPORTANT!!!! If ANY of a particular player's characters has
attained True Hero status (51 51 51 51), that player will only be
allowed to redeem ONE token in total!!! I aim to discourage
veterans from sweeping up every token. Just remember - if a
Worling is only about as tough as your character, or less, chances
are very good that you ALREADY HAVE whatever piece of equipment is
attached to the token it's carrying!! EG. a coral ring.
(continued)
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 16 06:06:06 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW pt III
Priority: Normal
[(e) continued..] I'd prefer
you tough guys to leave alone any target that's obviously way
below you ;) There will be tons of bad guys to kill, and probably
tokens for better stuff on Worlings that are more hardassed.
Either give unwanted tokens to the very needy *cough*, or - BETTER
IDEA!!!! - give them back to me for redistribution. This earns you
brownie points. I:>
(f) The moment you get a token, it's your responsibility to either
grab me if I'm on the mud, or MUDMAIL me immediately, telling me
which one you got. Then you'll get your goodie(s) at first
opportunity *:D If I see a token has disappeared but no-one
sent me a mudmail, I will assume the mud crashed or something
along those lines and, like a stolen credit card, it'll be spayed,
and replacement(s) distributed.
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 16 06:06:11 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Wow pt IV
Priority: Normal
[are we there yet?]
(g) Worlings might attack you.
(h) Employees of Meat-Mud corporation and their families are not
eligible to enter the Wor.
(i) Try to have fun!
- Bloomer
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Time of Post: Thu Nov 18 22:58:12 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Wiz of Wor is go
Priority: Normal
Ok Wizard of Wor is here and Worlings will respawn at least once a day
and probably twice, in different places. Recapping stuff that people have
asked about:
- Worlings will carry more cash than the average mob %99 of the time, but
- Tokens are A LOT RARER!!
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Time of Post: Thu Nov 18 23:28:49 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 1
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for evening of the 18th:
- The warm-up entertainment, an Avatar of Eldred, killed Pack
- A swarm of Ptewors attacked TheGenius, who nailed them and picked up
a divine token
- Many Worlings slain
- Wizard of Wor creates a duplicate Max. Max II is discovered by TheGenius
whom it slays. Max II is then slain.
- Grimm slays hotdog eating Dogwors in Rome, then a Garwor dueling with
the ghost of its old nemesis (!!?) in Corinth
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Time of Post: Sat Nov 20 02:24:30 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 2
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for the 19th:
- Yeah now we are cooking with the proverbial gas! At least 50 worlings
slain today.
- Tokens: Khrono and Krull got biology tokens, Marielisabeth got Crimson
token, Dar got evil token, Dylane got venereal disease.. I mean token
- Classy encounters include: Jer and Dar vs. first Garwor and Apprentice of Wor,
retrieval of Private Ryan's severed arm by TheGenius, and variously
Max, Ohead, Khrono, Dylane, Endorr versus Thurwors
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Time of Post: Sat Nov 20 22:18:54 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 3
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for the 20th:
- King Welmar's soldiers massacred by Garwor! Garwor massacred by Dar and Trickyone
- Apprentices of Wor begin random summoning of adventurers
- Lum makes first contact with Morwor in Transylvania. Morwor eats Lum.
Large group returns for vengeance!
- Coin trail laid by ghost of Worrior leads to more Morwors hidden in
greenhouse. Violence ensues. Yay!
- Tokens: Datower got Alexandrite, Dar got serpentine, Bilbo got aquatic
- TheGenius wants it pointed out that he singlehandedly mauled a Garwor
when Ohead had to leave suddenly, hehe
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Time of Post: Mon Nov 22 01:16:47 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 4
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for the 21st:
- Chant and Trickyone went to THE VOID to fight the Worluk
- Chant travelled 2 continents looking for clues
- Tokens: Chant got 2 tokens, 'unwieldy' and 'disppointing', Zulu got a
divine token (assistance by Ohead), Grimm got a star token, Figment
got a carnelian token
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Time of Post: Mon Nov 22 08:57:37 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Monday the 22nd, WoWers : Read this!!!
Priority: Normal
Ok I'm writing this at 8:45 am MST (ie the mud's clock! I think) on the
22nd Novemeber, Monday.
Here is the situation for today:
(1) A fair few Grewors have spawned all over the mud: If any of your characters
is a TH however, you are to LEAVE THE GREWORS ALONE!! They are for
'newbies'. For the eligible, they might be found variously in the swamp,
the forest of Haon-Dor, the plains east of Corinth, Hollywood, Elemental
canyon, the gnoll stockade, Drow City, the swamp, and Drac's castle.
The Wizard of Wor is watching, and so am I.
(continued next message)
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Time of Post: Mon Nov 22 09:23:24 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Monday the 22nd, WoWers : Read this too!
Priority: Normal
(continuing,)
(2) A couple of Disciples of Wor are in amongst the Grewors. These guys
also aim to fight low->mid level adventurers. If it looks like you can
flatten the Disciple with your little finger.. don't bother. Cos you
waste my time as I redistribute a token that's no good for you. Or maybe
I'll Make you redeem it and rule you out of redeeming any others!!! :p
These rules are for today in particular, okay?
(3) Last but not least - one particularly nasty Worling is in Midgaard.
There are NO restrictions on who can try this one, but if you're not a hero
and then some, you'd be stupid to try. Don't :)
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Time of Post: Mon Nov 22 16:11:24 1999
Posted by: TheGenius
Subject: update again
Priority: Normal
Well, I wasted the swamp Grewor and the Trans. Grewor too. so that leaves like 2.
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Time of Post: Mon Nov 22 18:41:18 1999
Posted by: Trickyone
Subject: Further Grewor Update
Priority: Normal
Myself and afew others went off and found another Grewor in Elemental Canyon.
There's now one less Grewor in this world, I'm pleased to report
Trickyone
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 23 07:20:19 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 5
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for the 22nd:
- All the Grewors were exterminated *clap clap*
- Morwor in Midgaard discovered by Terror, slain by Ohead
- Zulumasai got 2 Sard tokens, Ohead got an obsidian token, Vicar got
a turtle token
- Minor fiasco in THE VOID (I love typing that), but the Worluk was
indeed killed by Alpha, Grimm, Khrono, Vicar
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 23 09:57:17 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Tuesday 23rd: WoW Battleplan for today
Priority: Normal
Tuesday the 23rd: Today the Wizard of Wor celebrates the great misfortunes
of those adventurers who continually stray into dead-end traps, chambers
with no exits, fall off cliffs etc etc.. and then are torn to shreds
by monsters before they can even draw their swords. Worlings might be found
in such rooms today, including:
- Too Bright to Tell, The spider web, The River Bed, Steep slope,
The Broken Staircase, Mahatma's Inescapable Trap, Scaling the Mountain Wall
THE UNKNOWN
Try Galaxy, Arachnos, Haon-Dor forest, Transylvania, MST3K, and the
mountain where the black dragon is (officially known as 'Sparky's bitchy
no-name area). Ever play WUMPUS?.. When you are one room away from one
of the trap rooms, you'll see the corpse or whatever's left of someone
who went there before... (continued)
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 23 09:57:49 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Tuesday 23rd (continued)
Priority: Normal
(part ii) Be extremely careful when you might be about to enter a no-exit
room containing a Worling, for very obvious reasons!!! Again, there is
one Worling that is on a much higher plane of viciousness, so Consider
your targets - when you get a chance :D
Again today, if you find Worlings that aren't aggressive and obviously
are waaaay beneath you, consider leaving them for someone their own size.
Bon voyage!
Bloomer
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 23 14:48:47 1999
Posted by: Terror
Subject: Tuesday 23rd Update
Priority: Normal
Din and I tracked down and slaughtered the GrowWor's in the Spider
Zone, The Galaxy, and Sparky's Bitching Area. Din died at the
hands(?) of the Thurwor once but was rescued by a
kind Immortal. Later on, Ohead, Krull, and I sought out
and destroyed the drenching Weirwor
in the River Bed in Dracula's castle. I died twice and
Krull got the shit beaten out of him. Ohead faired just as
badly. The last ones to depart this mud were the five
Vrawors just outside of the Spider Zone, whom I managed to
charm and eventually coerce to give me all of the 100,000 coins
apiece that they had on them. Sadly, I then was forced to slay
them as they insulted my mother.
This is about it, except I'm still wondering just who the hell
killed whatever mob was in the MST3K Zone in THE UNKNOWN.
Oh, yea...Din got a token and so did Ohead.
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 23 23:52:01 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 6
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for the 23rd:
- Din got unholy token from Ptewors in 'Too bright to tell', which he
*graciously!* returned for redistribution
- From that slaughterfest with the Weirwor with Krull an' Terror an' Ohead,
Ohead got cunning token, which he *graciously!* returned for
redistribution
- ROOK killed an Apprentice of Wor and got a biology token
- Other stray Worlings variously picked off by Isa/Kiri, Grimm, Warhead
- A correction from earlier news where I goofed up.. * Ronan! * also helped
zap that Worluk in THE VOID, and correspondingly lost all his xp too,
heh. Sorrrrry! To all those who lost xp - all details have been forwarded
to Seuss and you'll be fixed up at the first opportunity
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Time of Post: Wed Nov 24 07:44:52 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Wednesday 24th: Strange Games !!
Priority: Normal
Wor Campaign, Wednesday 24th: Strange Games
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Today's episode was gonna be called 'The Phantom Menace', but I heard that
name was taken. Then it was going to have been called 'Funny Games', but that
is the name of an Austrian film that I think is an excruciating piece of
crap. So we have 'Strange Games'! In case you had not noticed, the Wizard of
Wor likes to play the odd game with you. One of his favoured Worlings has
come down to engage you. You will recognise her because she is holding a
'glutton's token'. For those of you THs who have been passing on tokens
waiting for something bigger, this token is a 'something bigger'. This
Worling is correspondingly powerful. There will be other less savage Worlings
for those of you choosing to skip the EXTREMELY DANGEROUS one. Inversely,
if you choose to play the game and look for the glutton's token, I ask
you to leave all other Worlings that you might see alone for today.
(continued)
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Time of Post: Wed Nov 24 07:45:38 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Wednesday 24th: instructions continued
Priority: Normal
(continuing..) The game - part I is to find her.
Like hide'n'seek. There are about a dozen clues scattered about the land-
scape of the mud. Find the clues, then find the Worling. The clues are *in*
the landscape. You will almost always have to Look or Examine to find them.
Try fountains, desks and cabinets
Try a rope, try crystal balls and altars
Try an 'elephantine, enormous, giant, huge, immense, mammoth, titanic,
tremendous, vast' tree
Try containers and resting places for the dead and undead
Part II of the game is killing her.
These are strange games, so keep your wits about you. Cooperate to find
her, only do not post locations of found clues on the board. Use gossip
and word of mouth only :)
Good luck,
- Bloomer
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Time of Post: Wed Nov 24 20:28:25 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: A few nudges to find the clues
Priority: Normal
Ok, I was impressed that the game has yet to be solved yet, though
Terror has been working at it the hardest and posted the letters he found.
I am going to tell you the areas where the clues may be found:
High Tower of Sorcery (more than one)
Thalos (more than one)
Midgaard (more than one)
Sanctuary (one)
Shadow Grove area (one)
Transylvania (one)
Dwarven Kingdom (one)
The colossal tree - since you all know about this one :> - one
(type 'look colossal')
And one clue moved to where it is more readily found - to a guy who sells
stuff in circus. (one)
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Time of Post: Wed Nov 24 22:49:47 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 7
Priority: Normal
Wor-related news for the 24th:
- Apparently there is this little thing in the US called Thanksgiving, that
I didn't know was going on ;) With lots of people on holiday etc etc
quest stuff didn't pan out quite as I expected.
- Rman got unholy token with TrickyOne, which he graciously gave to Tricky
- Rman got a cunning token from thurwor while looking for clues
- Terror did a sterling job looking for clues, later on allowing Eggroll
to decipher 8 out of 12 and work out that the bad Worling was in the
Witches Tower
- Eggroll had the joy of meeting the Exowor and her twin sis, killed first
one with assistance from TG and Pack, and the 2nd one with Pack
- Eggroll got a glutton's token
- Many players were distracted by a giant thanksgiving turkey which took
3 hours to kill, I hear
- PS Pack would like it known he previously drubbed an Apprentice of Wor,
even when he was nekkid of equipment
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Time of Post: Thu Nov 25 07:38:33 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: WoW update 8: Thursday onwards
Priority: Normal
WoW campaign, Thursday 25th:
----------------------------
From my original projections of a week-long campaign, today was to have
been its final day. However, as it was initially pointed out to me by
Vicar, the thanksgiving holiday is in progress. I hope you enjoy it :)
With a dearth of players on Meat, what this means for the Wor quest is that
I am going to extend its duration in general, and schedule the last day
to be Tuesday 30th November, by the mud's clock, which I believe is what
you Americans call MST. This means that on 30th November (probably in the
evening) the Wizard of Wor will descend to face you mortals himself. He
will have the last token of the quest. During that day you might encounter
his higher level henchmen and Worlings.
I hope to keep Worlings spawning til Tuesday (!) and maybe throw in more tokens
and stuff, but I hadn't planned for the extra days, so I make no promises ;)
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 30 09:29:20 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Tuesday 30th: The Wizard of Wor,
Priority: Normal
Wor Campaign Tuesday 30th
-------------------------
You had probably got all complacent over thanksgiving. No Worlings
harrassing you, summoning you, causing you heinous loss of xp etc.
Today, after a week of enjoying watching you go to Wor, the Wizard grows
weary of watching and comes down to earth to see what you're made of. He will show up at ** 8pm MST today at the earliest **
That means yes it could be later, but it won't be earlier. If you think
you're pretty tough, join in and try him out. If you're not a hero, and/or
don't have at least a few 100 hp to spare, and/or don't think you're
pretty tough ;)
then give him a miss, cos your xp will only suffer.
But don't feel left out!!! The Wizard is just one encounter. In the
meantime, his minions are restless, and will be causing some havoc
today (continued)
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 30 09:29:28 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Tuesday 30th: and other Worlings
Priority: Normal
IN the meantime - Worlings have spawned today. If you're 'mean', you are
requested again to leave the Grewors and Burwors and little ones alone
for lower level players. However it's open season on all other Worlings!!!
They should be all over the place, Hollywood, Ofcol, Transylvania, the
Plains, Hollywood, Dwarven Kingdom, the High Tower.. and probably
elsewhere too.
Meaner Worlings: The master charmer recently trapped a Thurwor in his cage.
A Morwor was seen by Mr. Teagle wandering around his manor and shape-
shifting into something more humanoid. You have been warned!! And a danger-
ous and elusive Worling has been heard muttering incantations in the
forest of Haon-Dor.
Some Worlings have been seen clumping around Sanc City too.
That's all for now. Happy hunting!
Bloomer
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 30 11:38:20 1999
Posted by: Zulumasai
Subject: Worlings and what not
Priority: Normal
I have killed 3 Worlings so far. An apprentice of Wor,
a Garwor, and a Burwor. No tokens so far.
Zulu
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Time of Post: Tue Nov 30 22:59:55 1999
Posted by: Bloomer
Subject: Wow: Game over!
Priority: Normal
Ok, many corpses, much blood shed, lots of Xp and money made when the
Wizard of Wor came down to earth. Grimm got the last token which was a
voyeur's token. GRATZVILLE!!!! Thanks to everyone who participated thru
the whole quest. Wor campaign is now officially over :) Now I'm chronic-
ally tired and I need to lie down, I think I am Worred out.
Bloomer