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| 11/30/1999 | WEBSITE AND GAME OUTAGE |
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Access to GemStone III, the Play Dot Net Website, and the Message Boards will not be available from 9AM to 1PM Eastern time on Thursday, December 2, 1999, as Simutronics makes important Y2K compliance upgrades.
We apologize for the inconvenience and thank you for your patience. |
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| 11/28/1999 | FIFTH ANNUAL SILVERGATE GALA |
| Come one, come all! Join the members of Silvergate Inn for the Fifth Annual Silvergate Gala on Feastday, day 4 of the month Eorgaen (Sat., Dec 4th), at 8 pm by the elven time standard for food, drink, dance, a song fest and general merrymaking. | |
| 11/25/1999 | *** MENTOR EVENT CALENDAR *** |
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November 28 - The Art of the Hunting Healer
(See News 20 for Details) November 28 - Rogue Group Hunt (See News 4 for Details) December 1 - Lexicon for Novice Citizens (See News 9 for Details) December 5 - Sorcerer Roundtable (See News 13 for Details) December 8 - Lexicon for Novice Citizens (See News 9 for Details) |
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| 11/25/1999 | ** ROGUE GROUP HUNT ** |
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Please join the Order of Lorekeepers for a group hunt -- rogue style. The rogues of Silverwood Manor will share their knowledge on the topics of ambushing techniques and stance adjustment.
The hunt will take place on Sunday, November 28th at 9 PM Elven Standard Time. Groups will form at Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing, 200 Erebor Square, one east of the temple. |
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| 11/24/1999 | FIRST FRIDAYS - FESTIVAL OF LEARNING |
| The Festival of Learning will be hosted by the House of the Argent Aspis on the first Friday of every month at 9 PM Eastern. Hunts, games, stories and opportunities to learn more about Elanthia and its history are open to everyone! House Argent Aspis can be found at the far southeast end of Wehnimer's Landing. | |
| 11/24/1999 | *** IS IT HISTORY OR JUST BAD ART? *** |
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The Order of Lorekeepers and Helden Hall are offering guided tours of the history wing of the Wehnimer's Landing Museum. Meet us in front of the Museum (one block east of the temple) every second Monday of the month. Tours begin at 8pm EST.
Tour Schedule: $ July 12th $ August 9th $ September 13th $ October 11th $ |
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| 11/24/1999 | **STORYTELLING NIGHTS CANCELLED TEMPORARILY** |
| The Order of the Lorekeepers is unfortunate to announce there will be no Storytelling Night in River's Rest on the 15th of Imaerasta (September). Various reasons, including a Call Wind accident blowing stories all about the chamber, have brought this cancellation. The Order is in hopes the stories will be straightened out for the next storytelling session on the 1st of Jastatos (October). | |
| 11/24/1999 | SPIRIT GUIDE MODIFIED! |
| A near pass of a comet to Elanthia has resulted in a disruption in the flow of magic throughout the realms. Once sedate flows of magic have become roiled and turbulent and may affect magical transport. Practitioners are advised to be wary of such turbulence in their travels. | |
| 11/24/1999 | CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPARTMENT |
| The Simutronics Billing and Customer Service Departments will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 25th and Friday, November 26th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | |
| 11/24/1999 | TEMPORAL PORTALS SIGHTED THROUGHOUT THE REALMS |
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There have been literally hundred of reports of massive temporal portals tearing open all over the realms. These strange vortexes seem to be large anomalies in time and space itself. Travelers have reported being sucked into these 'rifts' in space, only to emerge in entirely different locations. One voyager was quoted as saying, "Aaaiiieeee!"
Local scholars believe these irregularities may be directly related to subtle shifts in the essence of magical energies. But none will speculate on what implications this may have and when the phenomenon will come to an end. |
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| 11/24/1999 | *** LEXICON FOR NOVICE CITIZENS AND ROLEPLAYING 101 *** |
| The contest will start at 9:00 PM (Eastern) in Icemule at the Silverwood Manor Courtyard. Lady Shadoedove will be available for demonstrations and questions following the contest. | |
| 11/24/1999 | BREAKAGE SYSTEM MESSAGING TEST RELEASED! |
| The breakage system messaging has been released as a test of how the system will operate. Weapons and armors have an inherent material strength and durability. The items will degrade when they come in contact with each other through normal use. You may LOOK at an item to see its integrity value. The integrity denotes the current deterioration state of the item. When items clash through use, there is a chance that the weaker item will sustain irreparable damage and be rendered useless. A message will indicate such an occurence. During the test, no item will be removed from the game resulting from such irreparable damage, though a message will be shown to indicate the possibility of such an outcome. At any time, you may invoke FIX to restore an item to its original status. | |
| 11/24/1999 | CHECK THE TIME, VIEW THE CALENDAR! |
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Illistim scholars and scriveners have been working hard to gather together information on the official historical timeline, and we are pleased to announce that their labors are coming to an end! As scribes gather together the documentation from all over the continent for a final look, news has been sent out that the results will be made accessible to the general public.
Use the TIME and CALENDAR commands to view the date, time and some of the major holidays and feastdays celebrated across the continent of Greater Elanith. Our Official Timeline will be released sometime next week. Look for it on the front page of our official website! |
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| 11/24/1999 | *** THE ART OF THE HUNTING HEALER *** |
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Join the empaths of Silverwood Manor, the Order of Lorekeepers, for the art of the hunting healer. A class designed to teach young empaths how to be a hunting healer and a lesson on the indigenous herbs of Elanthia.
The class will start at 5:00 PM EST on Sunday, November 28th at Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing. Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing is located one east from the temple, at 200 Erebor Square. Silverwood Manor in IceMule Trace is located one north and one west from Town Center at 310 Cursed Street. |
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| 11/24/1999 | WEDDINGS ON SALE |
| The new wedding system is finished and weddings are now on sale! Type WEDDING HELP for more information, or visit the wedding information page on our website and sign up for a November, December, January or February wedding! | |
| 11/24/1999 | SORCERER ROUNDTABLE |
| Please join the Order of Lorekeepers for an open discussion on all things pertaining to sorcerers. The discussion will take place the first Sunday of every month. The next roundtable is scheduled for Sunday, December 5th at 9:00 PM EST on top of the West Tower in Wehnimer's Landing. | |
| 11/24/1999 | SIGN UP A BUDDY! |
| Win an alteration, free quest, or one-month free game play by inviting your friends and family to play GemStone III. Go to http://buddy.play.net/gs3 for more details. | |
| 11/24/1999 | ** LEXICON FOR NOVICE CITIZENS ** |
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The Lorekeepers of Silverwood Manor will be hosting the Lexicon for Novice citizens. The purpose of this contest is to help new citizens learn their action verbs to enhance their roleplaying activity in Elanthia.
The contest will be held on Wednesday, December 1st at 9:00 PM EST in Wehnimer's Landing at Silverwood Manor and again on Wednesday, December 8th at 9:00 PM EST in IceMule Trace at Silverwood Manor. Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing is located one east from the temple, at 200 Erebor Square. Silverwood Manor in IceMule Trace is located one north and one west from Town Center at 310 Cursed Street. |
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| 11/24/1999 | SAVE YOUR CHARACTER FROM DEATH MOST PERMANENT |
| Be sure to gain favor with the gods, and receive your deeds to use in case of your death. The way to earn deeds may be mysterious, but it is well worth the effort. Those in the know hint that you should have at least three deeds at all times, and some even say you should have more. | |
| 11/23/1999 | ACCOUNT SECURITY ISSUES *IMPORTANT* |
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Simutronics employees will *NEVER* ask you for your password. Protect your account from potential sabotage by keeping your password secret!
Simutronics and its employees will *NEVER* send you updates to their software through e-mail. Programs in e-mail claiming to be from Simutronics can contain viruses or password "sniffers". All software supported by Simutronics is available *ONLY* in our download libraries on our web site. Simutronics only uses play.net web site addresses for access to its games. NEVER enter account or password information into any web site claiming faster access to the game that does not have a play.net address. Please report anything suspicious to [email protected] Lets go over that one more time... SIMUTRONICS WILL NEVER DO ANY OF THE FOLLOWING: 1) Ask you to reply to a "letter from feedback" that is addressed from hotmail.com or any other non-simutronics.com e-mail address. 2) Ask you to use an alternative sign-in page from a URL that is not either PLAY.NET or one of the other official Simutronics supported URL's (gemstone.net for example) 3) Include the phrase "This is not a scam!" in a "letter from feedback" asking you to use an alternative signing page. 4) Misspell their own company name within the header of an e-mail to you. All of the above listed scams have been tried and most of them have succeeded to some degree. Use your common sense when you receive unsolicited e-mail from anyone. We rarely send out unsolicited e-mail, and we would not do so due to an error on our sign-in page. If we have a technical problem, we post it on the website, we do not send e-mail about it. Be stingy and be safe. Don't let these "kewl hakurs" get the better of you. :) |
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| 11/19/1999 | CUSTOMER SERVICE DEPARTMENT |
| The Simutronics Billing and Customer Service Departments will be closed for Thanksgiving on Thursday, November 25th and Friday, November 26th. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | |
| 11/19/1999 | TEMPORAL PORTALS SIGHTED THROUGHOUT THE REALMS |
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There have been literally hundred of reports of massive temporal portals tearing open all over the realms. These strange vortexes seem to be large anomalies in time and space itself. Travelers have reported being sucked into these 'rifts' in space, only to emerge in entirely different locations. One voyager was quoted as saying, "Aaaiiieeee!"
Local scholars believe these irregularities may be directly related to subtle shifts in the essence of magical energies. But none will speculate on what implications this may have and when the phenomenon will come to an end. |
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| 11/15/1999 | SORCERER ROUNDTABLE |
| Please join the Order of Lorekeepers for an open discussion on all things pertaining to sorcerers. The discussion will take place the first Sunday of every month. The next roundtable is scheduled for Sunday, December 5th at 9:00 PM EST on top of the West Tower in Wehnimer's Landing. | |
| 11/15/1999 | *** THE ART OF THE HUNTING HEALER *** |
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Join the empaths of Silverwood Manor, the Order of Lorekeepers, for the art of the hunting healer. A class designed to teach young empaths how to be a hunting healer and a lesson on the indigenous herbs of Elanthia.
The class will start at 5:00 PM EST on Sunday, November 28th at Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing. Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing is located one east from the temple, at 200 Erebor Square. Silverwood Manor in IceMule Trace is located one north and one west from Town Center at 310 Cursed Street. |
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| 11/15/1999 | ** LEXICON FOR NOVICE CITIZENS ** |
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The Lorekeepers of Silverwood Manor will be hosting the Lexicon for Novice citizens. The purpose of this contest is to help new citizens learn their action verbs to enhance their roleplaying activity in Elanthia.
The contest will be held on Wednesday, December 1st at 9:00 PM EST in Wehnimer's Landing at Silverwood Manor and again on Wednesday, December 8th at 9:00 PM EST in IceMule Trace at Silverwood Manor. Silverwood Manor in Wehnimer's Landing is located one east from the temple, at 200 Erebor Square. Silverwood Manor in IceMule Trace is located one north and one west from Town Center at 310 Cursed Street. |
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| 11/15/1999 | *** MENTOR EVENT CALENDAR *** |
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November 28 - The Art of the Hunting Healer
(See News 20 for Details) December 1 - Lexicon for Novice Citizens (See News 9 for Details) December 5 - Sorcerer Roundtable (See News 13 for Details) December 8 - Lexicon for Novice Citizens (See News 9 for Details) |
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| 11/8/1999 | SIMUTRONICS OUTAGE |
| Tomorrow (Tuesday, November 9, 1999) at 9AM Central Time, the Simutronics Website and GemStone III will be down for routine maintanence. The outage should last no longer than an hour. We apologize for any inconvenience this may cause. | |
| 11/4/1999 | *** MENTOR EVENT CALENDAR *** |
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November 7 - Sorcerer Roundtable
(See News 26 for Details) November 10 - Lexicon (See News 27 for Details) |
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| 11/4/1999 | *** LEXICON FOR NOVICE CITIZENS *** |
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The Lorekeepers of Silverwood Manor will be hosting the Lexicon for Novice citizens. The purpose of this contest is to help new citizens learn their action verbs to enhance their roleplaying activity in Elanthia.
The contest will be held on Wednesday, November 10th at 9:00 PM (Eastern) in Icemule Trace at the Silverwood Manor Courtyard. |
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| 11/4/1999 | SORCERER ROUNDTABLE |
| Please join the Order of Lorekeepers for an open discussion on all things pertaining to sorcerers. The discussion will take place the first Sunday of every month, beginning this Sunday, November 7th at 9:00 PM EST on top of the West Tower in Wehnimer's Landing. | |