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Ok... so there I was settling in for an evening full of mudding adventure with detailed plans for floading a few mobs and leveling up my puny paladin. The wifey was content to watch a chick-flik all by her lonesome and hit the bed early... daughter was on a sleep over with a friend... and the boy was already in bed (normally he wouldn't be, but he was majorly bummed about getting his ass chewed for bombing a test at school and realizing that although the world wasn't going to end, he had just diminished his chances for claiming the $100 bill we have tacked up on the cork board as incentive for getting an all 'A' report card).
I had just elevated my mood (with some legal in some states homegrown herbal stuff) and had stash of cold beer on standby. Although worked sucked, more than usual today, I was properly prepared for bringing death and destruction to the minions of our alternate reality. Life was good...
So anyway, I'm all logged in and stuff and had just completed a round of leveling making my aforementioned puny paladin not quite so puny. I had even tagged a few of the mobs I was floading, and although they hadn't popped anything, I had high hopes they would as my inner sense was kinda going off. *sigh* ...Apparently, in my altered sense, I had mis-interpreted my tingly feeling... what I thought was a good feeling turned out to be short lived.
Right about this time, someone (an obviously invisible Godly type Immortal boon giver) announced a surprise for myself, and a fellow mortal adventurer of the world. *quiver* As I briefly pondered the meaning of our invisible friend, a message flashed on my screen: REBOOTING IN 1 MINUTE. *cheer* So that was the surprise! With only 1 other adventurer on, I had first access to all the mobs I could think of (and get to, and kill) for the wonderful opportunity that a trinket or two had spawned and my collection of baubles and widgets would be increased. Well, there wasn't anything I could do in less than a minute, so I naturally proclaimed something to the effect of 'hey, don't wait to reboot on my account' and the result of that was 10... 9... 8...
I grinned like the Chesire Cat and called 'dibs' on a particular zone. The other mudling called another. Although it wasn't really spoken, it was understood that we would carve up the mud searching for new baubles and trinkets, calling on the other for help if needed, and exploiting (to the best of our meager abilities) our fortunous opportunity! ...3 ...2 ...1 Then our connection was lost.
Now normally, there's about a minute or so where, IF your quick enough, you can grab a beer, take a piss, choke a smoke or whatever while the magic of the mud resets itself and you can re-connect. Well... what can I say. It's been a damn sight more than a minute. I won't go into details, but suffice it to say I'm 4 beers short of what I had, my mood elevator is gone (literally... i'm out!), I had the time to watch Caprica (kinda interesting, I might have to watch more of it someday although I'm not really one for watching TV), and I got a full nights sleep and woke up to fresh brewed coffee without that damned alarm clock shrieking in my ear. Ok... so I get out of bed and stumble outside with the dog. It's her time, at least till she pisses. I hate cleaning up after her, but she has a bladder infection atm and is prone to 'letting go' if we dont' take her out quick enough. She's normally very good about this, but was having her little 'accidents' for the last few days so the wifey got her checked at the vet... so yeah, after $160 to the witch that tells me I can't feed her table scraps and snippets of meat, we know why she's piddling in the house.
Anyway, I'm feeling that 'calling' to the altiverse... and I try to log on to see how many chaps had logged on and thus mentally calculate my chances for finding sumtin cool and useful (like it does any good to do that, right?). But noooo.... I still can't connect! Our world is dis-connected... If it doesn't get fixed soon, I'll need a fix. I try checking the web site and connecting via that method. Nada... nothing...
Is the world coming to and end? It's not 2012 so that can't be it... *sigh* Somehow, the world got broke and there's no way for us mere mortal types to notify the powers to be. I thought maybe I could log onto the builders port, but since I've not built a zone, I don't know what that port is... or even if it would help in my attempt to let someone know the mudd is broken.
Is there anything in place whereas someone can be notified if this happens? Are we doomed to waiting till someone (meaning an IMM type with the power to do anything about it) by chance notices? Can something be set up? ...perhaps an email (not mudmail obviously), blackberry pin message (preferred, since I have a crackberry), IM, smoke signals, or something? ...anything?
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