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From: ggq@mentor.cc.purdue.edu (Zaphod Beeblebrox)
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Newsgroups: alt.mud
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Subject: The Mudder's Test (version 1.0)
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Summary: How serious of a mudder are YOU?
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Date: 25 Apr 90 08:16:18 GMT
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In the grand tradition of the Purity Test and the Hacker's Test:
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The Mudder's Test
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(100 question version)
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Original version composed mostly by Finrod (alias B.E.E., Zaphod
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Beeblebrox, bee@cs.purdue.edu) with help and suggestions by many other
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mudders, many of which are immortalized forever :-) in Part III of the
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test.
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Mudder's Test history:
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Version 1.0 (100 questions) posted on 04/25/90, with about 90 of the
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questions coming from Finrod, and various of the others coming from
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other mudders, the list being far too long to list (let alone
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remember). Particular thanks to Dirque, who suggested two excellent
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questions (51 and 61) to break the deadlock and get the number up to a
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nice even 100.
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-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-
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Part I: General Questions
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1. Have you connected to a mud before?
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2. For more than 1 hour at a time?
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3. ............. 4 hours?
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4. ............ 16 hours?
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5. Do you have characters on 2 or more muds?
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6. ......................... 4 or more?
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7. ........................ 16 or more?
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8. Have you ever been connected to the same mud with 2 or more characters?
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9. ................................................. 4 or more?
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10. Have you ever dug a room in a mud?
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11. ... Ever created an area with 10 or more rooms?
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12. ............................ 100 or more rooms?
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13. Ever changed forms (shapechanged)?
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14. ... Do you have 4 or more forms you've been in?
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15. .............. 16 or more forms?
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Part II: Places
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Have you ever been in (the):
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16. Rec Room?
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17. Hellgate Pocket Dimensions Nexus?
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18. Harvard Square?
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19. Falco's Tavern?
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20. FrandLand?
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21. Under Unicorn Point?
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22. The Castle Aaaaarrrrrggggghhhhh?
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23. furPark?
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24. Internet Hate Room (either one)?
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25. Buried Alive! ?
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26. Public Truth Or Dare Room?
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27. Crystal Cavern?
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Part III: People
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Have you met (or are you):
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28. Wizard?
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29. Random?
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30. Julia?
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31. Eliza?
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32. Xeglon?
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33. Lynx?
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34. Frand?
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35. King_Arthur?
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36. Jerry_Cornelius?
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37. Nymph?
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38. Cindy_Brady?
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39. fur?
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40. Faerie?
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41. Dirque?
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42. Garrett?
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43. Gadget?
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44. Carneggy?
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45. Insane_Hermit?
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46. Molly?
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47. Three?
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48. Finrod?
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Part IV: Trivia internal to Mud
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49. Do you have a character on a mud where the number of objects on
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the mud is over 10 times your character's object number?
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50. Do you own on any mud an object that's older than your character?
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51. Ever been the only person (excluding 'bots) connected to a mud?
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52. Are you a wizard on any mud?
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53. ... Ever @forced anyone?
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54. ... Ever @booted anyone?
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55. ... Ever @toaded anyone?
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56. Ever have anyone ask you if you are a wizard?
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57. Ever attended a wedding?
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58. Ever put flowers/similar token of affection on a grave?
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59. Ever been in a meeting in the Crystal Palace Meeting Room?
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60. Ever been to a TinyBall?
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61. Ever been to a TinyBirthdayParty?
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62. Ever owned a stone arch?
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63. Ever owned a hotel/apartment complex/other area where people take
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up residence?
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64. Ever invented an expression or saying that was taken up by 3 or
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more other mudders?
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65. Ever held a conversation with someone else in a mud when that
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person was in the same (physical) room as you?
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66. Do you have any macros?
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67. ........... 10 or more macros?
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68. ........... 30 or more?
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69. .......... 100 or more?
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70. Ever save any mud logs?
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71. ... Have any over a month old?
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72. ... Ever reread them?
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73. Ever discussed this test on a mud?
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74. Ever tried to raise your score on this test?
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Part V: Trivia external to Mud
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75. Ever patched the mud source?
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76. ... Did it work?
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77. ... Was it included on more than one public mud?
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78. Ever talk to people as if you were doing a : command? (i.e.
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saying to someone "thinks that so-and-so had better keep quiet")
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79. Ever have people call you by your mud name in public?
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80. Ever BONK someone in Real Life?
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81. ... Did they OIF?
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82. ... Did they not OIF, and surprise you when they didn't?
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83. Ever traveled over 100 miles to meet another mudder in person?
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84. Have you met in person another mudder?
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85. ...................... 10 other mudders?
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86. ...................... 30 other mudders?
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87. Ever posted to alt.mud?
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88. ... Was it a flame?
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89. ... Was it counter-flamed?
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90. Ever type a mud command elsewhere by accident?
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91. Ever add any aliases so that you could use mud commands in your shell?
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92. Do you often connect to a mud within 5 minutes of logging in?
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93. Have you ever logged in intending to do something but end up
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spending the time mudding instead?
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Part VI: Misc. Mud knowledge
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Do you know..
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94. what the STICKY flag means when on a room?
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95. who sees the @osucc message on a room and when?
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96. what non-wizards can @teleport and where they can @teleport them to?
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97. why the help command often doesn't work when there's a large
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number of people connected?
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98. what it means when you get a message of the form "You sense that
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<person> is looking for you in <place>"?
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99. how to keep from seeing such messages?
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100. what is the most recent flag to be added into the code?
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Scoring:
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Give yourself one point for each question you can answer yes to or
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know the answer to. Then check your rating on the following scale:
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0-10 : Evidently you haven't been mudding much or for very long.
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Time for you to get more involved!
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11-30 : Apparently you know the basics of mudding. Be careful, lest
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you be sucked in deeper! :-)
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31-50 : You have definately spent a good amount of time mudding, and
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may very well become an incurable addict soon. Beware.
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51-70 : You are definately a mud addict. You may suffer withdrawal
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symptoms if you lose your mud access permanently.
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71-90 : You are hopelessly addicted to mud. Violent behavior followed
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by periods of depression is likely to occur if mud access is
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withheld for over 48 hours.
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91-100: You have no life outside of mud at all. You probably own a
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cellular phone and a portable computer so you can mud 24 hours
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a day. For your own good, it would be best if you didn't own
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any kind of weapon, lest you use it without thinking against
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some poor fool that interrupts your mudding.
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