For those who like to read, I can hereby announce that most of the background stories of our players who asked for an RP-flag over time, have been published again. A list of the characters can be found at the following link: http://4dimensions.org/node/PlayerStories.

In case your story isn't there but you still have a copy somewhere, please send it to Diandra.4d@gmail.com and I'll get it published as soon as possible.

And for the people, who currently don't have the RP-flag but want to obtain one, write up an IC-background story of how your character got into the Realms of 4D and send it to the same emailadress. If you need any help or pointers, ask one of the RPL's ingame.

Once your story is approved, your character will get the RP-flag ingame and your story will be published on the website.

The serial murder mystery has been solved, due to the efforts of the players, in particular Lionheart’s CIIA deputies, where Erwin and Kitolani did most of the sleuthing work. MadMax was tracked down and brought to justice by Erwin, while Kitolani was the first to figure out the identity of the Poet, and collect incriminating evidence against her. The Poet turned out to be Joanie, our own Imm secretary, who apparently got fed up with irritating players, and having to do a lot of work for the Imms without getting any salary, or even thanks. Joanie of course is an android, so she shouldn’t need either salary or thanks, but apparently she got her wires crossed in the nodule that controls the Three Robotic Laws *), which made her turn sinister.

Those who want more info about the event can check the logs on the Roleplay Forum, http://4dimensions.org/forum/index/topic,93.0.html

Or get the full explanation on http://4dimensions.org/forum/index/topic,117.0.html

*) The Three Laws of Robotics 1. A robot may not injure a human being or, through inaction, allow a human being to come to harm. 2. A robot must obey orders given to it by human beings, except where such orders would conflict with the First Law. 3. A robot must protect its own existence as long as such protection does not conflict with the First or Second Law.

Who is killing off all the Trainers of 4Dimensions?

By now already 12 people and a dog have died. The last victims were all the Clan Trainers, and still the corpses are piling up. Who is The Poet? And what could be the motive behind these heinous crimes? Who is angry enough to hire the notorious serial killer MadMax from USA to do their dirty work? A group of CIIA agents has been sent over from USA to help in the search for MadMax. Unfortunately Lionheart, the leader of the group, doesn’t seem to get along very well with the local police. In fact, both parties seem to regard each other with the utmost distaste. The CIIA agents regard the local cops as backwater bums, while the locals resent the intrusion on their territory. Hardly a climate for constructive cooperation, but young Agent Erwin plods along diligently is his investigations, helped by the ESP powers that his Martian origin gives him. But so far everything seems to get more confusing for every day, as more tracks and red herrings plop up. Is the Olde Yorke Mayor really involved in the killings, or is he just one of those shady Politicians, who abused his position and got caught with the fingers in the jam pot? Could the entire plot be a Jester joke that went bad? There is some rather incriminating evidence against the top Jester, Thotter, who for sure is an anarchist and anti-capitalist too. But he is also a known pacifist and vegetarian, so is it really likely that he’d go on a killing spree? Or could The Poet be a woman like Kitolani, a young female CIIA agent in Lionheart’s group, seems to think? An angry woman, who wants to strike back at the male chauvinist pigs that dominate the world in 4D as in most places? Women’s lib at its peak... And what about the Sicilian connection? Everybody knows that the Sicilians run the poker game in the Recall area. And nobody believes that the current Godfather is just an innocent used cars salesman, like he claims. But is he also the twisted brain that concocted this plot? From another angle, the Sicilians seem just as worried about the situation as everyone else. After all, a serial killer running rampant in the Realms is very bad for business, and above all the Sicilians are businessmen. If you want to catch up on what happened in the RP event so far, check the logs on the Forum: http://4dimensions.org/forum/index/topic,93.msg763.html#new

It’s been some time since we last ran a global RP Event, but we are planning a pretty big one now. It will start on Friday April 25th and I scheduled to run for about 10 days, meaning that everyone should have a fair chance to participate in at least parts of it, since both weekends and weekdays are involved.

I cannot tell you much about the plot before the Event starts, except by publishing this initial warning that we’ve just received from CIIA in USA:

“Thanks to our advanced scanning equipment, our agents have succeeded in intercepting a number of messages, between a notorious professional hitman, known to the Police only as MadMax, and someone calling themselves 'The Poet'. The intercepted communication shows that 'The Poet' has contracted Madmax to carry out an unspecified number of murders. MadMax is already the main suspect in a number of serial killings in USA and other countries, but has so far never been apprehended. Apparently he sells his services to the highest bidder, but he also appears to take a personal pleasure in the killings. Although he uses different disguises and different weapons, there is one thing consistent in all the murders he is suspected of: The victim's left pinky finger is always cut off. (It is not clear whether he does this as a kind of signature, or whether he actually collects the fingers as souvenirs). As for The Poet, apparently he/she is residing in the 4 Dimensions, but the CIIA hasn't been able to secure any information about name, address or even gender. We have not yet any information about when MadMax is planning to leave USA, but since the deal seems to have already been closed, it will probably be within a week or two. You had better take all possible measures to warn the public and to stop these planned killings. Signed, Joe Goodbody, Foreign Affairs Director of CIIA (Central Intergalactic Intelligence Agency)"

What we expect from the players is of course to figure out who it is in 4D that could be angry or desperate enough to hire a hitman from USA for their dirty work. You can do this both by using your deductive skills, and by Roleplaying out the investigation, interview various suspects etc..

More specifically the task is this:

A: Find and neutralize MadMax.

B. Identify The Poet, and figure out the motive for the crimes.

There will be the usual rewards; Award Points and Tokens. You’ll get Award points for good RP Sessions, which should be logged, cleaned up from spam and posted on the Roleplayer Board in the Forum. There will also be a pretty substantial Token reward for the first player to figure out who The Poet is, and what the motive is for the killings. When you think that you know, you should send a note to Molly, but don’t be too hasty about it. Each player - (including alts) – only gets 2 guesses, so if you should change your mind later, you might have already wasted your chances.

More info about this Event later, on the Forum and in Game.

It took some time, but we can finally announce that all the available maps have been placed online again.

For a list of the maps try: http://4dimensions.org/node/maps

For once we don't have 4 sections but 5 area's since with the addition of the Gladiator Arena, the centralzone, more known is Recall, has two maps of its own.

Once you have clicked on the corresponding link of a certain zone, another webpage will open where you'll get to see the map.

4 Dimensions is a text based mud so there are no pictures - no graphics. By reading the description of the room, you get an idea of what the room is like and if there are any exits. 4 Dimensions gives players the choice of running around and killing things - hack-n-slash-, doing quests or a combination of both. Doing quests gives you a chance of getting the better equipment out there because it takes time and brainpower to do.

As you can see in the left column we've got a working forum again. The way to use the forum is a bit different than our previous forum, so it will take some getting used to.

Everyone can read the forumposts, but only registered users to the website will be able to post. If we get too many spammers posting adverts and such, we'll have to change that. That would mean that only approved, registered users will be able to post. People who then have used their charactername will be approved faster then others.

As you can see we are currently working on updating our website again.

For those new to 4Dimensions and new to mudding, there's already the Quick Start Guide which is available to the left.

For those, not so new to mudding our adress is: 4dimensions.org port: 6000

Our primary mission is to put back all missing content, that was lost during the servermove. After that, we'll put back some blogposts that we've been able to retrieve.

The good news are that Diandra has done an enormous job, and managed to retrieve a lot of the content of our lost webpage.

Hopefully we'll get a new page set up soon after Christmas, so that we'll be able to restore its content.

Some of it, like the player Background stories, has been harder to find backups of, but if we cannot find the files in any of our own computers, hopefully the players themselves will have copies of their own stories and will re-submit them.

There are several purposes with playtesting the arena:
- To find out if the area, scripts and code work as intended
- To prevent possible ways of cheating in future fights
- To check if the Gladiator chars have suitable stats or if they need to be tweaked
- To check if the different classes are balanced against each other

To prevent potential 'cheating', we need the following safety measures to work:
- Gladiators should not be able to leave the arena
- Other players should not be able to enter the Arena
- Gladiator equipment, potions etc. should be confined to the Arena