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title: "ADVERTISEMENT: [circle] Dark Pawns"
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### dkarnes — Jun 26, 1997 20:00 UTC

<pre class="usenet-transcript">D A R K   P A W N S

                            pawns.guru.org 4000
                             198.3.157.2  4000
                     WHOD daemon: pawns.guru.org 4001

                 Circle 3.00 beta patch level 11-based MUD

          A List Of Features (Not all of them but a good sample anyway):

          o       Free Rent
          o       Vampirism/Lycanthropy (werewolves)
          o       Languages For Each Race
          o       Mounts/Ranged Combat
          o       Ton of Mob Specials (to keep thing interesting)
          o       Multi-Char OK (up to 3)
          o       PK Allowed (keep it reasonable and no one intervines)
          o       Tattoos
          o       Spell reagents(components)
          o       TAG!  Your It!
          o       All Original Areas In A Medieval Theme


Signature
- Serapis, Imp of Dark Pawns
- [email redacted]</pre>