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25349: Re: [MUD-Dev] Stunning success and catastrophic failure for skills. Ideas needed!

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From: shren <shren@io.com>
Newsgroups: nu.kanga.list.mud-dev
Date: Mon, 4 Nov 2002 08:51:28 -0600 (CST)
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Organization: Kanga.Nu
On 30 Oct 2002, Edward Glowacki wrote:
> On Sat, 2002-10-26 at 15:51, Britt Green wrote:
 
>> certain skills. For example, what's a catastrophic failure for
>> candlemaking? Stunning success?
 
>   "On the table sits a ball of wax with pieces of string randomly
>   hanging out the sides.  You raise an eyebrow and try to light
>   one of the wicks, but it just makes a loud hissing noise and
>   turns black.  The heat from your lighter does however melt the
>   wax, which spreads out all over the table creating a terrible
>   mess.  Suddenly one of the strings catches fire, and the candle
>   springs to life!  Flames spread all over the wax-covered
>   workbench, then leap to a nearby stash of candle wax.  By the
>   time you manage to get the fire extinguished, you've lost the
>   raw materials required to make 10 candles."

"You realize that you forgot the wick.  Congratulations, you now
have a wax paperweight."


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