The BS&R Message Board’s new URL is http://www.sitepowerup.com/mb/view.asp?BoardID=100433. The old one is no longer in effect.

Recently, on Saturday, March 6th, I (Nobody) was appointed Avalon’s Prime Minister, and on Monday, March 15th, was sworn in as part of a larger Avalon ceremony. (My new Guildstone title, in fact, reflects both of my leader roles: [PM-Avalon; GM-BS&R, ].)

Avalon is a player community located on Ultima Online’s Baja Shard. It has been officially in existence since June 2nd, 1998. More information can be found on it’s web site can be found at its web site, http://avalon.crpgtavern.com.

Many of you may already know that I have enjoyed various degrees of activity in Avalon for some time, most recently helping manage the Lucina Juno’s Avalon Merchant Cooperative.

I just reinstalled ICQ and most of my Contact List is gone. Anyone who wishes to once again be on my list needs to send me a message at  4365757. Make sure you say who you are and how I know you, because it’s likely I might reject someone who isn’t related to my BS&R or Avalon activities.

As you probably already know most of the BS&R news lately is of the “transient” variety, that is to say it is of the type that does not have lasting impact. As such BS&R news can pretty much be disseminated effectively by only using the Message Board. Well, EverQuest is up to its Phase 4 of the Beta test, and PapaMan and Calvin aren’t the only ones who have it now.

Some Members, especially PapaMan, want to spread the BS&R out into other games. “Wonderful!” sayeth I. Relating this to EverQuest: there’s only going to be a certain finite number of guilds allowed in the game, with each accepted official guild having to have a minimum of 10 members. We need to know which BS&R Members play EverQuest, and then we can get the ball rolling on becoming official for EQ.

Pfft. And you thought I forgot about our Holiday Feast. I’m thinking next Monday night, December 28th, at 8pm Pacific Time. The location is the BS&R Smithy, located just north of the cemetery in the swamps north of Trinsic. I expect it to be a small, quaint gathering. BYOB. :]

I hope to swear in our latest Member, Lucina Juno of Avalon (in fact, in charge of the Avalon Merchant Cooperative) at this time. It’s likely that some Avalonians will be there as well. It’s just a big barbecuing mixer.

BUT, that’s not all. I’ll be Friending all BS&R Members to this “Operations Center,” as per the new Ultima Online house rules. (More on that on the AMC site on which I work.).

While I was accepted into the phase 4 of their Beta test, I haven’t heard from the EverQuest people yet about when I will get my CD. In the meantime I have to hear PapaMan, Calvin, and some others gloating about their good fortune and my laziness in sending in the application. :]

I’ve helped set up the Avalon Merchant Cooperative (AMC). It’s going to have a Commissary—a large brick building (donated by Legolos) which will be a Vendor market. Ultimax has declared himself the Commissar of Avalon’s merchant mall, and is working on his IDing skills.

I don’t know about you, but I went to www.everquest.com today and signed up for the phase 4 of their Beta test. I hope to get in if only to be a human shield for our intrepid adventurer, PapaMan. EverQuest is a first-person, massively-multiplayer, Internet, fantasy adventure/role-playing game.

Our first message board was deleted by the service that hosted it due to lack of use. We shall mourn it’s passing.

Sure, more of a personal note, but here’s some news about me.

A couple of weeks ago Avalon asked me to help them by being their assistant Events guys. I was a little surprised, but maybe I can squeak out one or two fun things in the month that I gave myself to “put up or shut up.” Anyone who has an idea and/or wants to contribute please drop me an e-mail or ICQ message.

The other thing about Avalon is actually a two-parter. The first part concern’s Lucina Juno, head of Avalon’s supplies, resources, and Vendors. She’s formed the Avalon Merchant Cooperative and I’m going to help her. To this end I have taken over the Avalon Town Hall front door (key) Vendor. I’m compiling information about Vendors and services based in Avalon, will create a web directory using this information—and connecting it to a map of Avalon). I’m going to create the AMC web page as well, at www.hurm.com/amc/

(Oh, and I also accidentally broke some links when I did the web revisions. When you come across them please let me know, and you can use the easy forms to do it, too.

Some of the (sub)links of the BS&R pages you may have bookmarked possible do not currently exist. Don’t worry, the pages will be available again once my revisions are done. However, they won’t be the same specific URLs. In fact, don’t bookmark them as I make these changes, because they could still be changing on a weekly basis.

The web page updating goes as planned, although slower than I have hoped. Both areas of the web site, member and non-member, will be integrated into one site. This is a temporary measure, and I plan to finally password protect the members area soon. Why merge them at all? Well, the combination site, with all the redundancies, is getting pretty confusing.

Thanks for being patient with someone who has taken on more than he thought.

Older news may be found here