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Message ID: 6026
Date: Fri Sep 3 15:01:46 BST 1999
Author: Talies the Wanderer
Subject: RE: travels behind the scenes and the infamous 'cat room' OT


At 06:55 AM 9/3/99 -0500, you wrote:
>From: "Kyle" <ksibbald@...>
>
> This is my guess. Most MUD based games have special rooms created by the
>game masters (generally called wizards, gods, etc.) that are their
>workshops. In these workshops are the parent items of things in the game. It
>could be that these npc's are the parent objects of the npc's that we see in
>the game and when one gets killed it gets cloned from this parent npc.

Not to be a know-it-all :P but, those NPCs from what I understand, are
NPCs that have fallen through the world and are trapped. Notice the
corpses in the screen shot with all the NPCs and the bear (and notice the
"broken" NPCs (mobs that have a ! in front of their name, or have the wrong
model (such as orcs that look like humans)).

Talies