From kostas@skiathos.physics.auth.gr Fri Sep 30 18:54:47 1994 Return-Path: Received: by skiathos.skiathos.physics.auth.gr (5.0/SMI-SVR4) id AA26267; Fri, 30 Sep 94 18:35:46 +0200 Date: Fri, 30 Sep 1994 18:35:44 +0200 (EET) From: Liakakis Kostas Subject: A sad day... (or: Thy game is over) To: muda-l@vergina.eng.auth.gr Cc: theodore@cc.uch.gr Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Content-Length: 7883 Status: RO X-Status: X-Keywords: X-UID: 9 It was a lovely day, judging from the sunshine. No clouds in the sky. Everything was beautiful as it used to be. But in their hearts, gosh... storms & thunders. The sorrow was drawn on their faces too. They did nothing to hide it, pretend they were ok. Cause they werent. They just stared at each other.... They... Three people were standing, apparently all alone. Their only company, the frozen bodies of the other adventurers about twenty meter behind them. Three people, representatives would be more appropriate. The one who seemed older, Griflet, was wondering into these lands almost since their creation by the Great Mage. Standing next to him, Grego, a bit younger. And facing to the other two, KL. They were, funny to think of, like symbols of the ancient times, the middle age and the near past of this world. And all together the present! Really, at least one of these people was present to all of the major or minor events of this world. Standing all alone now, to a place once full of life. What caused it nobody can tell for sure... Was it some dark force, so powerful not even the Gods could cope with it? Maybe because the Great Mage, the creator of this land, had retired quite a long time ago? Perhaps cause of... So many reasons, each different from the other. Which one? All of them? But they knew, they it had to be done. Now, or it might be too late if they waited longer. Both for the world and the existence of all the adventurers. Yet it hurt so much! None of the three had the courage to it. Everybody was waiting from the others to take the first step. Griflet moved a bit. "Farewell friends" he spoked and kneeled to the ground. Grego did the same, looking up to KL who seemed to be a bit frozen. Finally KL kneeled as well. Each took a good look to the other two. Thoughts, feelings... and above all, memories! Yeah, that could be it! Memories!! They neednt talk about it. They knew, they had exactly the same thought. And they all agreed. It was dangerous, yet the only way... KL looked up to the sky and raised his hands. Stayed like this for a bit, attempting to concentrate... Searched for the Great Mage with his mind, to ask for support. He could barely feel him. But sure, he was there and watching. Finally he started whispering the words of power, with Grego and Griflet following the same pattern... The surroundings darkened, as the sun suddenly stopped shining. The earth was shaking. Calmly at the beggining, geting harder though with the time. Light, pure white light came from the frozen statues behind them, emmiting from within each one. Shortly the light grew in intensity, surrounding the three as well... In a flash, they all dissappered the moment before the ground, the whole world actually, falls appart into zillions of pieces... /------------------------------/ Darkness. Nothing but darkness all arround them. But still, they could feel each other... as well as all the adventurers, who were slowly turning to flesh again. Griflet first tryed to talk... No sound came out of him. Hmm, now that he thought of it, he was feeling very shapeless... He knew he was there, but at the same time every sense of his was at a strange state. "Did we succeeded?" he asked himself. "I dont know... I hope so.". What was this? Where did it came from? "Grego is this you?" he thought back. "Yeah, it is me..." *said* Grego. "KL? where are we? Our friends are losing their protective ice. I am worried about them", he added. "I am here as well folks. Succeeded, dunno... I had never attempted before to step into the memories plane". Apparently it was KL's thought that was displayed to them. "Memories, ", Griflet thought, " yeah, that explains it. Everything we had on us, even our bodies, became memories. All of our existence, turned to thoughts. Memories is what we are left with, for now." A bit of silence, Grego broke first: "Indeed, you are right Griflet". "Friends, dont be scared! You arent in danger. We are all here, luckily, nobody is missing. You will get used to this state, in which we will be forced to stay for a while." KL took over: "Thats right. The world, the lifeless things, we can create them again. It is you, people, who cannot be reproduced. We did the best we could. Kept your memories. Memories from the world, the other adventurers whom you liked or hated, even the smallest event. All is here, all is you!" "But beware!". It was Grego now *speaking* to them. "Dont you ever lose these memories, or you will be lost for ever. And we cant do anything to bring you back... nothing et all!" Tired they were, all three of them. There was a limit even for Gods as it seemed. Now all they could do was wait. Their strength would be back soon. And now they would have Kaspin to help them, and all the other immortals. The Great Mage wasnt there with them. No, he wasnt lost, they would have felt it. He was out there, in someplace... They were counting on his help as well... Yeah! Someday their world would come alive again. Reborned, free of evil spells, free of the Curse. And all of them, would be part of it. It was just a matter of time. Just a matter of time! -Kostas PS: It really hurts, you know... after Nov '91 when I started. Heres the last log. The day is 29 September 1994. Time is GMT+2 10:48:50 0 0 GREGOII : unfr 10:49:47 0 0 GREGOII : nick KL2 10:59:10 0 0 GRIFLET : names 11:00:09 0 0 GREGO : unfr 11:01:09 0 0 GREGO : hug kl2 11:01:27 0 0 GREGO : say hi 11:03:59 0 0 KL2 : say Just you and me... seems Theo is absent... havent login s ince now 11:04:31 0 0 GREGO : i sighs... 11:28:11 0 0 GREGO : say ok, no way to avoid it... 11:28:16 0 0 GREGO : i closes his eyes. 11:29:11 0 0 KL2 : i does it too 11:35:30 0 0 GREGO : sigh 11:39:37 0 0 GRIFLET : unfreeze 11:40:10 0 0 GREGO : hug griflet 11:40:14 0 0 GREGO : hug kl2 11:40:33 0 0 GREGO : say just the right (last) moment 11:41:15 0 0 KL2 : say Hmm.. yeah... Well, guess this was it friends 11:41:38 0 0 GREGO : say for now... 11:41:52 0 0 GREGO : say but the last word is not yet spoken 11:42:12 0 0 KL2 : say Ok.. for now... 11:42:47 0 0 KL2 : i reaches close to the *red* button 11:42:50 0 0 GREGO : say we will meet again, either in cmud or a new site (prefe rraply both) 11:43:02 0 0 GREGO : say preferrably 11:43:44 0 0 GREGO : i watches KL2. 11:44:33 0 0 GREGO : say it has been a good time, and we shall try to continue i n another world 11:45:08 0 0 GREGO : say see you all there 11:45:27 0 0 GRIFLET : grin 11:45:30 0 0 GRIFLET : say well, good to see you again! 11:45:37 0 0 GRIFLET : hug grego 11:45:45 0 0 GRIFLET : hug kl2 11:45:47 0 0 GRIFLET : say Farewell good friends 11:45:49 0 0 GRIFLET : i kneels 11:46:51 0 0 GREGO : i kneels beside Griflet. 11:47:07 0 0 GREGO : say farewell 11:47:47 0 0 KL2 : i kneels too 11:50:47 0 0 KL2 : i looks at the skies and raises his hands... 11:51:52 0 0 KL2 : shutdown 11:51:52 Shutdown in progress... IUCV trap has been removed. * Virtual reality collapsed. * It will be restored later. /Spirit MUDAIUCV is now installed. Total unfreeze since last reboot:18 MCC@UKACRL CINTHYAN@BRFUEL FJTCLADA@BRFUEM CLIEN@IUBACS GRAD304@BRFUEM U211709@HNYKUN11 ELAPER41@MAINE KDENIZ@TRCUNIV MMURRAY@ESOC MUDAMNT@GREARN U055204@HNYKUN11 VOOST@HNYKUN53 BJOESTOE@DOSUNI1 BOLNPD01@BRFUEM CAAZ01@GRTHEUN1 OE2P@DLRVM DMTGOMES@BRFUEM MTJ@UKACRL ------------------------------------------------- 11:51:55 Freezing users... 11:51:55 3 users found on-line. 11:51:57 Freezing Ok... 11:51:58 Saving cycles. 11:52:07 Users array saved. 11:52:07 Saving system inventory. 11:52:15 System inventory saved. 11:52:17 Updating Top10 list... DMSSRT034E File TOP10 LIST1 A is not fixed length DMSEIO621E Bad Plist: Input file TOP10 LIST A does not exist 11:52:21 Top10 list updated. 11:52:30 Returning to CMS