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The Kymer Clarion is not to be redistributed in whole or in part without prior permission of the Editorial Board and the inclusion of our copyright notice. !*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*!*! >*<>*< INDEX >*<>*< >**|**<<>>**|**< FEATURES & DEPARTMENTS >**|**<<>>**|**< GIFs in this Issue The Editor Speaks ............................................Marianne G IMHO: Ava Speaks Her Mind .......................................AvaTara I Dreamed I saw ..............................................Marianne G From The House of Magic ....................................The Magician //-//-/ ARTICLES \-\\-\\ Events & Announcements WorldsAway White & Yellow Pages Return Historical Headlines New Course Offering New Forum Staff WarSun Game #6 --_^+^_-- GAMES AND GAMING --_^+^_-- Bacchus Red Eye Trivia ..........................................Bacchus Boxerama Trivia .....................................................Jal Duckolyte Trivia .................................................Askani Monday Ghost Racing ......................................Acolyte Serena Thursday Ghost Racing ...........................Necrolyte SKY TOWER SrK WARaffle Results ...................................................Lynx Worlds of Fortune ..........................................Acolyte Data *** SCHEDULE *** Schedule............................................Compiled by Glynicus $ $ $ ADVERTISEMENTS $ $ $ Compiled by Pearl Girl Businesses And Services Community Notices Help Wanted Lost/Found/Buy/Sell/Trade Turf Notes =====/ HOUSEKEEPING /===== Colophon.................................................Editorial Board <><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><><> >**|**<<>>**|**<<>>**|**<<>>**|**<<>>**|**<<>>**|**<<>>**|**<<>>**|**< >>**|**<< >**|**<<>>**|**< FEATURES & DEPARTMENTS >**|**<<>>**|**< ----------------------------------------------------------------------- GIFs In This Issue ----------------------------------------------------------------------- SGR0297.GIF Sunday Race Winners for Feburary hosted by Brains TGR0297.GIF Thursday Ghost Racing Winners for Feburary by Necrolyte SKY TOWER SrK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- The Editor Speaks By Marianne G ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Sorry this is so late.... I have only my stomach to blame. We won't go into details, but I still need plenty of sleep to get over it :D I sprayed this file with lysol before uploading, so I can not be blamed if you become ill after reading it. We have a new member on our staff this issue, please help me to welcome The Magician to the staff. When I asked for a little information for an introduction I was told: "After my discharge from military service, I remained in Europe to make my own Grand Tour. To pay travel expenses, I worked as a pro- fessional magician. When I decided it was time to return to the USA, I took a job with the federal government and worked as a computer programmer until I completed my 30 years service. When I retired, I simply changed hats and became a professional magician once more. I have a whole library full of conjuring books, games, puzzles and related material." Check out his first contribution in this issue. This file is in two parts, CLAR020A.TXT and CLAR020B.TXT as it seems unzipped the two parts of the paper are too large for most text pro- grams. I can do it in write, but not everyone has access to those, so I just cut the paper in half :D Missing is a letter to the editor I received and can't seem to locate and a picture of Mondays Ghost Racing Championship..... I have no idea where I put the picture I took. I'll find it eventually I'm sure. So, off you go, read the paper, have fun, and see you in a few issues. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- IMHO: Ava Speaks Her Mind By AvaTara ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Acolytes: Just a Step Away... Kymer is like the endless circle of education. The newbies are taught by the oldbies to learn, think, and explore their own way around Kymer, and then, when each newbie has enough experience, they will (hopefully) become an active, contributing member of WA. Everyone does this in a slightly different way. Some join helpful groups such as the Golden Knights, Sunrays, or Duckolytes. Some simply dive right in and start hosting events, help out in general, or become a high-profile public voice, a leader so to speak. This leaves me wondering, why do we have so many helpful people who are ready and willing to become a part of something bigger, yet no action is taken to give them official status? We can already see the dire need for more Acolytes, as they are over- worked (and under-compensated) as it is. What happens if someday WA becomes so big and high-profile that we have another flood of newbies, and the acolytes simply cannot keep up with the questions? I think the Acolytes deserve a break and a good pat on the back for their job well done, but the sheer volume of their work often prevents them from doing an adequate job, which is, of course, not their fault. We need more Acolytes, and soon! My suggestion is a temporary addition of "Event Acolytes", selected mostly from groups such as the GKs and Duckolytes, to assist during events, as these have been some of the most hectic and problematic times for the Acolytes and Oracles. Next, double, if not triple the number of Acolytes. Again, helping groups seem like the best way to go. I can’t count the number of times myself or a friend has needed an acolyte and none were available. But there is almost always at least one person from a group of helpers In-World at any given time. I also think that the Oracles need to be more accessible, and there need to be more of them. I truly don’t see what the hold up is here. so many people just need the official power to help, and the WA government-types aren’t doing anything. These are our trusted friends who have proven to be nothing but the best in terms of help. It’s time to give the Acolytes a chance to do their job without fear of being targeted by the common disgruntled Kymerian. May we please have some more? If you have an issue you want discussed or a story you want told, please send it to AvaTara 76026,476. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- I Dreamed I Saw By Marianne G ----------------------------------------------------------------------- So, last week we were discussing housing. I decided that if I got a house, it would be the Ice Castle. Yea, sure, you're saying. How can a consistently broke avatar like me afford to actually OWN the Ice Castle and live there? Easy, I'd rent out rooms to others who would like to be able to say they live in the castle. The way I figure it, avatars would pay major tokens for such an upscale and classy address. This is perfect, the tokens I make on their rent would be able to pay the mortgage. The only thing I have to worry bout, is if they want me to turn up the heat in their apartments. I could end up melting the place. Guess the turfs will all come with extra blankets or something. Maybe I'll provide a scarf vendo in the lobby, and make tokens on that. Now for the outside, I'd have an ice sculpture garden, with maybe an ice rose arbour. Naturally I'd need to have an ice skating pond, and I can make additional funds running the concession stand and skate rental. Yep, rental would be better. They can rent the skates, but not leave the area with them. Have to turn it back for a small deposit and I get to keep the rest of the skate rental fee. Hmmm, wonder if I'd have to spray the skates to prevent mildew and such? The concessions would sell Hot Choclate, Teas, Chicken Soup, and maybe those fruit filled crepes.... I'll have to think about the menu. I know I would definatly have a CHOKE machine on the side of the concession area. The tables would be on a balcony over- looking the skating pond, with a nice animated view of skaters for the background. Yes, I can see it now. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- From The House of Magic By The Magician ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Answers can be sent to The Magician at 104671,3153 and first correct one in wins 25 Tokens. Now that February is the month of romance, find the female mates to the following: 1. Stallion 2. Fox 3. Maharajah 4. Peacock 5. Baron 6. Jackass 7. Gander 8. Earl //-//-/\-\\-\\//-//-/\-\\-\\//-//-/\-\\-\\//-//-/\-\\-\\//-//-/\-\\-\\ //-//-/\-\\-\\ //-//-/ ARTICLES \-\\-\\ ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Events & Announcements ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * WorldsAway White & Yellow Pages Return By Hotspot, Duckolyte Wing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- You had to wait quite long for it, but now they are back: The WorldsAway White & Yellow Pages! Be sure to get the latest update from the newsstand section. Due to RW-problems, German Giant was not able to update the pages for a long time and asked me to take care for this. As a little apology for the long time you had to wait, we offer FREE ads till the end of march. So if YOU want your name to be in there (either the White Pages or the Yellow Pages section), send me an EMail at 100725,1357 Also, if you find any mistakes in there, please tell me too. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * Historical Headlines ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Two more to go! What might these headlines from the past have to do with the Kymer of today? Headline #1 was: Huckleberry Nabs Spider Headline #2 was: Passion Walks Away With Boat Headline #3 was: Clover Morphs Into Pink Panther Headline #4 was: GermanGiant Dreams Minced by Garlic Headline #5 was: Kymer Streets Blasted by Wert Gumby's Boombox Headline #6: Hotspot's Dream Comes True ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * New Course Offering By Lindy, Duckolyte Wing ----------------------------------------------------------------------- A NEW course is coming!! Don't miss this very timely and topical workshop. We welcome and encourage everyone who may have questions, concerns or insight to attend. The course description is as follows: COURSE: The Ins and Outs of Relationships INSTRUCTORS: Oracle Uni and Lindy, Duckolyte Wing MEETING: 3:00pm WAT, every Saturday, March 1 thru April 19 LOCATION: KIU-Virtual Studies (Turf Building) COURSE DESCRIPTION: This course is one that encourages enthusiastic class discussion. The role of the instructors will be to facilitate. We encourage each participant to bring their own online experiences to use as course material. We will work together to create a safe supportive environ- ment in which to share glimpses into personal experience. The following topics will be included as focus for lively group dis- cussion: a. Multiplicity and online relationships. b. Seepage: When online romance leaks into waking world lives. c. Online sex and romance when one or both partners has a significant waking world relationship already. d. Online sex and romance when there is a serious age differential. e. Gender switching (open and secretive). f. Experimenting with alternative sexual choices and preferences online. g. Online Romance in a global environment: cultural and subcultural diversity. h. Other discussions with regard to relationship that may have been opened during the course of the workshop. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * New Forum Staff By Mary, SysOp ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings Members! The WorldsAway Community Forum Staff is proud to present: Renfield [74221,3141] as our newest Assistant SysOp!! Renfield has been a forum Helper since January 21st of this year, when he was helping with numerous member questions and problems. Since then he's been instrumental in helping to solve TCP/IP bottlenecks, has been lobbying for a companion winzip self-extractor with the next auto upgrade attempt, and has made numerous recommendations for solutions to help our members. ::Applause applause:: Welcome, Renfield! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- * WarSun Game #6 By Lynx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- How the WarSun games page works. Inside you will find several games. By playing in these games you will earn .WarSun Points (WSP) You can then use the WSP to purchase Items from our WarSun Store / To buy items (with WSP)(RARE ITEMS) send email to 76563,2525. Items in the WarSun store CAN NOT be bought with tokens so do NOT even ask. Send all game answers to the game hosts. The game hosts UID is listed with the game. Unzip the file into a new directory and open warsun6.htm into your www browser. Available RSN in the newsstand library. -_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_--_^+^_- -_^+^_--_^+^_- --_^+^_-- GAMES AND GAMING --_^+^_-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bacchus Red Eye Triva - Feb 26th By Bacchus ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Bacchus Red Eye Trivia 4pm WAT every Wednesday Harvest Area locale of Meditation Park Hosted by Bacchus, god of wine; and Acolyte Nicci Dreamscape Related Trivia Come out to the Harvest Area, and bring an alocholic beverage to receive 2 free points towards the game. As well, ALL players will receive something for playing the game. Monthly Standings for Snowman_Head! 12 pts -- Sunday 10 pts -- Mysty 6 pts -- Jal 5 pts -- Renfield 4 pts -- Brin Brown, Muchas, Gloree Others with 3 or less. This is last week for the month! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Boxerama Trivia By Jal ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Boxerama Trivia Sponsored by Acolyte Brynne Every Tuesday 6:00 PM Turf: Jal N Suz Hi Everyone! It is time for another great game of Boxerama Trivia! Saturdays Boxerama Special for the Teddy Picnic was great fun! There were a lot of players, thus a little bit of chaos, but it was still worth playing. Now we are back at the home turf. So grab your usual seats, and see how you do. There are lots of space for new players! Fun is the name of the game, so if anyone brings that nasty little squirrel from the wishing well, you will automatically loose 20 points! Tonights game is the last game of the month. The top 3 players for February will receive a prize. We also have a booby prize for lowest score, with best attendance. There is still time to make it to the top 3 list. Let us see who will make it. Here is the prize list for February 25th: Paint Gold40 Paint White42/Blue105 Paint White Paint Gold86/Blonde5 Bag O Chips Head X2 Fern X3 Halloween 96 Bag Red/Green Chest Love Chest Pink Valentine X2 Pumpkin Cranberry Pizza Hearty Serving Sparkling Cider Sparkolyte Soda Island Tofu Orange Hot Chocolate X2 Ornamental Candle 96 1000 T Jackpot Heart Chest Doll Ornament Purple Heart Flowers X2 Sceptre February Totals to date: Aby 2 Acolyte Nicci 5 Adam Sandler 4 Askani, Wing Commander 14 Avatara 3 Born To be Wild 11 Buzzerbean 1 Cat.Media 25 Cinnamon Girl 22 CompuChip 3 Dragolyte Sir Alexander 22 Dreamy Raspberry 19 Duckolyte Tolvart Srk 1 Five Spice 3 Gloree 5 Golden Knight SpiderGal 3 Hellena 21 JayVee 21 Jezzybel-Golden Knight 3 Jimi, Duckolyte Sr. Wing 3 Larry Lamb 15 Launce 28 Leadman III 3 Musette 8 Necrolyte Mrs. SkyTower 4 Necrolyte SkyTower Srk 3 PollyMary 29 Princess Katherine 2 Renfield 14 Sassafras 15 Shar 1 Sunray Ann 20 Szivarvany 6 High score for the month will receive a rare Robot Head, supplied by Acolyte Brynne. There will also be monthly prizes for the 2 runner ups, and a booby prize. Now for the rules of the game. :) Boxerama Trivia is a Word Scramble game, based on Worlds Away. No programs or fast PCs are required. (Only a quick mind, and fingers ). There will be 10 puzzles, and you have to ESP me with the *Correct Spelling* of the unscrambled puzzle. Each player with the correct answer, before the buzzer, will receive 1 point, towards their monthly total. The first correct ESP, will also get to pick a prize box (1-30). There is a limit of one prize box, per player, per week. Therefore 10 players will receive a prize each week. Categories vary from Vendo Items, Locales, Events, Avatar Names, Glued Items, Things in WA (I.E Scenery names, Vendo names, etc), Tell Me Abouts, Way 2 Kymer. Basically if it is something in WA, we will turn it into a puzzle. Way 2 Kymer is a story about Worlds Away, and is available for download from the forum (2KYMER.TXT). We now have a new Category, ANAGRAMS , these puzzles are tougher to figure out, so clues will be given, to guide you in the right direction. The top 3 scores each month will receive a monthly prize at the end of the last game of the month. You earn 1 point for each game you attend, and 1 point for every correct answer before the buzzer. There is a fee of 50T per week, to cover expenses and increase the token jackpot prize. Boxerama is a non-profit event. See you all Tuesday night at 6PM (WA Time), at Turf: Jal N Suz. WE ARE GOING TO HAVE FUN!! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Duckolyte Trivia - Feb 23rd By Askani ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Please join me in congratulating this week's Duckolyte Trivia Winners! First: Sweet Vibrations Second: Launce1 Third: The Power of the Dream Fourth: Time Travler A Also, this week's monthly winners, after a very hard battle , were: First: The Power of the Dream Second: Launce1 Third: Sweet Suz, Duckolyte Wing Fourth: tie between Sunray Texas Snowflake and Sweet Vibrations Duckolyte Trivia is a fast paced multiple choice trivia game held every Sunday at 7:00 WAT in the Duck Hunt turf. Come join us next week! ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Monday Ghost Racing - Feb 24th By Acolyte Serena ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Racing was fast and furious, as always. Winners were: 1) Wert Gumby - Non-Vendo Red90/Orange12 Head Spray 2) Wert Gumby - Romance Chest 3) LeadMan III - 50T 4) LeadMan III - Pink Valentine 5) myrtle - White Sceptre 6) Mrs Wert P Gumby - 50T 7) Mrs Wert P Gumby - Love Chest 8) PCI (Iron Paw Clan MC VC) - 50T 9) PCI (Iron Paw Clan MC VC) - Non-Vendo Red90/Orange12 Rose Head 10) Judge Roy Bean - 50T 11) myrtle - 50T 12) King of Kymer - Red Sceptre 13) SunRay Knight Kittee Kat - Red62 Non-Vendo Body Spray 14) Judge Roy Bean - 50T Judge Roy Bean, myrtle and Wert Gumby were the three who got to try for the winning heads, and the Winner was Wert Gumby! Congrats to all our players, and as a reminder, please, don't come play with hacks. Not only are they not fair to others and considered cheating, but it's not good for the soul. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Thursday Ghost Racing - Feb 27th By Necrolyte SKY TOWER SrK ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Ghost Racing results for Thursday, last race of the month, were: 1 Leadman III - Romance Chest 2 Leadman III - Red Double Hearted Sceptre 3 Lake - 50 Tokens 4 Lake - Paint 5 Nonsence. Stone - Pink Valentine 6 Clive - 50 tokens 7 Muchas - 50 Tokens 8 Mysty - Love Chest 9 Ax - Rose Head 10 Clive - 50 Tokens 11 Ax - White Double Hearted Sceptre 12 No Idea - 50 Tokens 13 Dark Horse - 50 Tokens 14 Hotspot. Duckolyte Wing - Paint 15 Dark Horse - 50 Tokens 16 Friendolyte JEDI - 50 Tokens 17 Muchas - flowers In A Blue Vase 18 Hotspot. Duckolyte Wing - 50 Tokens Last race of the Month was close and winning the head was Clive with runner up Nonsence. Stone. Ghost Racing is every Monday at 5 PM WAT and every Thursday at Noon WAT in the turf Dreamland. No Hacks/Patches allowed. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- WARaffle Results By Lynx ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Results for 23 of Feb: Uschi won 2,400 THE BRAINLESS won 3,600 Brin Brown won 6,000 Kintala won 12,000 Results for 2nd of March: 1. WARLORD-Golden Knight winning 15,500 Tokens 2. Brimble winning 7,750 Tokens 3. Lord Iron Paw MTC winning 4,650 Tokens 4. Vagabond winning 3,100 Tokens List of reps 2-15-97. (DO NOT BUY FROM ANYONE ELSE, IT'S A SCAM) Lynx Acolyte Electra Acolyte Moria Acolyte Nicci Acolyte Michael Angelika Necrolyte SKYTOWER Srk Lag O' Morph Quackers Dream Keeper Sunday Megret Megret, SrK Golden Knight-Megret, SrK Megret, Srk, GK Megret, GK, SrK GK-Megret Patrizia Duckolyte Jim, SRK Launce Megan Too ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Worlds of Fortune - Feb 25th By Acolyte Data ----------------------------------------------------------------------- Worlds of Fortune - Standings for Tut_Head Week TWO - Feb 25, 1997 Still Eligible For AVATAR #Points Perfect Attendenance? Jal 10 Y Sassafras 10 Y CAT.Media 8 Y Gabriel 8 Y PollyMary 6 Y Cmdr William T. Riker 6 N Dreamy Raspberry 6 N Lucilla Ashton 5 Y Lajolla 4 Y PGA (Freuda's Nightmare) 4 Y Dexter Databyte 4 N LeadMan's Little Princess 3 Y Sunray Texas Snowflake 3 Y The Sorcerer 3 Y Leadman III 2 Y Leshana 2 Y Sunray StarRae 2 Y Compuchip 2 N gloree 2 N Golden Knight - SpiderGal 2 N morning dew 2 N @phrodite 1 N bad boyz 1 N Freuda (PGA's Devil) 1 N Jim, Duckolyte Wing - SrK 1 N Lady of the Lake 1 N Musette 1 N myrtle 1 N Oogies 1 N Pale Rider 1 N Roadhouse 1 N Webby 1 N Tonight it was CAT.Media who gave the Romance Chest he won as a grand prize to Sassafras. Hats off to CAT for being such a gentleman!! Our other grand prize winner was Dreamy Raspberry. She selected a rare colored Rose Head & Body paint for her prize. Three points will be given to everyone who makes all 12 games. In addition, I will give a rare prize of my own choosing to anyone who makes all 12 games whether they are in the top three or not (14 people are still eligible for this prize)! So, everyone can be a winner! To receive your attendance point credit and have a shot at perfect attendance, you must ESP me when I call the Tut_Roll_Call. There are 10 more weeks left and even if you missed the first two games, you still have an excellent chance to get in the game as the top 3 point getters will play off for the Tut_Head in May. See the WorldsAway Life library, TUTPRIZE.TXT for a list of the rules. See you all next week, 7:30PM WAT in the Turf: Worlds of Fortune!