I know there are more. What have I missed over the years?
I don't know Erimess, but I see people asking about her from time to time. I don't think she's on facebook either. Her real name isn't on the Roster either, which makes me a little sad - harder to get ahold of people that way, such as long lost friends.But surely someone knows her real name or current e-mail? I hope she does come back, she seems much-missed and well-liked when she was here. I know a few like that, names I knew a long time ago but I don't know what happened to them now.
Maybe I should start a new thread. What do the Dragons mean to you?
There's a compilation of terms as of my day at http://www.ultimainfo.net/Misc/UDICtionary.htm
Enjoy, though sadly many of the external links are dead.
What is UDIC to me? It is a lot of things for me but I'll share one thing that I tell on occasion with RL friends.him so much) and joining the discussion and progress. It was a bad situation, that could have become very ugly, leaving her blind, but I read, heard what she was going thru, felt invested in hoping for her full recovery, and listened to her progress and
Erimess Dragon (who I don't see on our roster on FB or did I miss it?) was talking some years back about her torn cornea (think that was what it was) and her talking nearly daily about how things were going with it, Optician Dragon jumping in (I miss
What she doesn't know is shortly after her experience there was a call a co-worker received and their symptoms were exactly like Erimess's so I told the co-worker, call your family member back and have them go to the hospital immediately, this could bevery serious and cause them to become blind if something is not done now. That callback saved that person's vision. So even the mundane stuff we often talk about in UDIC can sometimes do great things in the RL and we don't always know.
So, Erimess, thank you for sharing your experience, due to it, you saved another person's sight. :)
WyrdWeb Dragon
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Err.. what's NMPR? I'm horrible with acronyms. Finally figured out GVT is government though. :D
So, long time no post, but it's me, Dracos Dragon (sans the Revoker for the time being). I thought I'd check in and see how the group is doing, after watching a long play of Ultima Underworld II. My, but my account is dusty, dusty, dusty.
I've been busy since whilst I was away; wrote a PhD, turned that PhD into a book, took some of that material on tour in the US and Europe, and am about to go spend a year at the University of Bucharest as a Fellow. Busy, busy times.
Dracos Dragon
Since this place is a little sleepy these days, I figure I should ask some of my essential Dragony questions here. The FB group is the highest concentration of Dragons in one place these days, but I did a tally and out of its more than 1000 members,upwards of 40% aren't Dragons or aren't on the Roster, and at least 10% more are what I'd consider newbies ( <3 years, pretty much since Shroud was announced, the largest uptick in new joins in over a decade.) Many of the oldbies aren't on often. So the
Most there know that Cinnabons are a Dragon "thing", but some seem to think that Dragons are only "Ultima+Cinnabons" from the impression I get. But how did we even get to have them as a characteristic? Someone started doing something silly that was non-Ultima one day, and it caught on. That's all that's really required I think.
So my question is: What other essential Dragon "things" are there? Some conventions were around when I was in 1995, some were invented later. We could still invent new ones now if we wanted to. Some of the things I have observed or heard of are:
Get-togethers with funny acronyms (my SADSAC was in the vein of MADCAP) Indigo Girls
Enya
The Never Ending Thread
Beards as age designators
P*
GVT (or lack thereof)
Greeters
NMPR
Pink Bows
The Weyrmount, both as the actual MOO and the mountain in our lore
The Ultima Dragons' own backstory, mostly based on and chronicled in Core of Darkness
Pie throwing, SPLUTting, as a way to greet newbies
Dolphins
Mono's invented language for the Dragons, Dragish
Exodus (the Prodigy event)
Steve (the Avatar from Nakar's Let's Play, she has been made as a bot on the MOO)
The -==(UDIC)==- symbol itself, or its predecessors from Prodigy
Propensity to discuss real-world politics, literature, movies, operating systems, other computer games, or anything else on our minds...
General silliness and fun
None of these things is specifically in an Ultima.
I know there are more. What have I missed over the years?
Gallara Dragon
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