I posted this originally on this thread, but I think it really belongs here. Besides, I wanted to change a few things without getting people confused. So here's the new expanded and revised version. 
*puts on asbestos Great Robes*
What will really happen in 1000 Lusternian years:
1300 CE: The celebrations of the fourteenth century CE happen at Deepnight. Eight-lane highways cross the Basin and unite the the three cities, and everything is relatively peaceful as disputes are mediated by the LUN (League of United Nexi, formerly the Walkers). Richter is the richest man in the Basin; Hajamin is forced to implement scientific notation to express the amount of gold he takes from his shop every day.
1312 CE: The long-awaited sixth archetype (Monk-Ninja-Bard-Assassin) is released. The web forums go down due to excessive cries of "NERF!".
1314 CE: The twenty-fourth tradeskill, Nuclear Physics, is released. Several users of lesser tradeskills such as gourdcrafting, meatsmithing and system administration start to switch.
1320 CE: Murphy transcends Nuclear Physics before anyone else, reveals the trans skill (NuclearICBM).
1321 CE: Gaudiguch is finally released; it has 40% of the playerbase in it after a month.
1322 CE: Narsrim transcends Nuclear physics; Narsrim and Murphy start to duke it out using ICBMs.
1323 CE: New Celest is destroyed in the crossfire of the ensuing nuclear war.
1324 CE: Glomdoring's Master Ravenwood tree is blasted, and the recently cleansed forest is contaminated with nuclear waste; a stray rocket hits Ackleberry's Nexus but leaves the surrounding forest unscathed. Gregori Mes'Ard, regent of Serenwilde for the 6th time, comments: "We'll never trust the cities again!" he says, in utter glee. When asked about Narsrim's involvement, the Dark Seneschal of Glomdoring and the Regent of Serenwilde could not be reached to comment.
1325 CE: Magnagora survives the nuclear onslaught, but the fallout causes extensive mutations on the population; crossbreeding creates the new mutant race.
1326 CE: Verithrax comes out of inactivity in the LUN hall in Deepnight just to watch the carnage and scream "I TOLD YOU SO!". Hallifax and Gaudiguch have another 'Minor misunderstanding' which causes their utter destruction through nuclear weapons. Refugees from Gaudiguch flee and found the village of Raiduchi in the desert; the Mirh Barosi and the Seekers of the Matrix are reactivated after 800 years serving as social clans for the elderly in Gaudiguch and Hallifax. Lucidian scientists in the Scarch Desert start researching ways of using the Continuum Transplotdevicioner to bring back Hallifax.
1327 CE: The LUN Building in Deepnight City gets blasted after Murphy and Narsrim get tired of the repeated screams from LUN members, during a brief truce. Verithrax and several others end up like this guy. Verithrax's last words, "Hey, at least I got Murphy and Nars to work together," preserved for posterity by a scribe. Several important works of art stored in Deepnight, such as "Lobstrosities playing cards" and "Murphy and Narsrim holding hands" are destroyed. Arix starts selling t-shirts with Verithrax's face on the front and 'Viva la RevolucÃon!" on the back, making several thousand gold in 5.4 minutes and causing a credit market crash. The war kills the last few Artisans and Bookbinders; those and all other useless tradeskills are completely forgotten. Only alchemy, enchantment, herbs, tailoring, jewelry, poisons and forging remain.
1338 CE: The nuclear war comes to a halt as Murphy and Narsrim get shrubbed. Several screams of "SOD THIS, I'M GOING TO WORK FOR BLIZZARD!" echo through the IRE headquarters. Estarra leaves Lusternia to work in IRE's long-awaited fifth MUD.
1339 CE: Arix attempts a coup d'etat in Magnagora by flooding the streets with poorly baked cakes with Verithrax's face piped on it, and flame sigils attached. His evil scheme ends when several enterprising Lusternians start selling cheaper, counterfeited Verithrax t-shirts, cutting Arix's supply of gold. VeriT-Shirts.com, Arix's multi-billion dotcompany, goes bankrupt by the end of the year. Arix is stoned by angry magnagorans after saying "This honeycake is was good enough for Luciphage!" along with three people who were accused of taking Luciphage's name in vain; Arix's last words ("Worse? How can it be any worse? Luciphage! Luciphage!") are preserved forever by comedians everywhere.
1341 CE: Finding nobody willing to run Lusternia, Matt decides to do the work himself. The year 1341 CE marks the Coming of Sarapis to the Basin. The web forums are reactivated, and wiped clean shortly after the flood of OMGWTFBBQ posts.
1 CS (Coming of Sarapis): New New Celest is founded in the southern region of the Basin; the region Old New Celest resided in is renamed 'Spectre Hill'. The last members of the old playerbase go inactive; Aesyra and several others are found in their rooms surrounded by three years worth of take out boxes and deceased after massive overdoses of caffeine. The new playerbase (50 people who never played a MUD before) starts to complain about how Wisp and Flow are weak in the forums. Envoy reports asking that wisp be improved are sent by all of Serenwilde's guilds. Magnagora influences and takes all of the Basin's villages.
EDIT: For the 0.001% of you who wouldn't get a clue if it was jammed up your nose, this is a work of SATIRE. It's supposed to make you laugh.
*puts on asbestos Great Robes*
What will really happen in 1000 Lusternian years:
1300 CE: The celebrations of the fourteenth century CE happen at Deepnight. Eight-lane highways cross the Basin and unite the the three cities, and everything is relatively peaceful as disputes are mediated by the LUN (League of United Nexi, formerly the Walkers). Richter is the richest man in the Basin; Hajamin is forced to implement scientific notation to express the amount of gold he takes from his shop every day.
1312 CE: The long-awaited sixth archetype (Monk-Ninja-Bard-Assassin) is released. The web forums go down due to excessive cries of "NERF!".
1314 CE: The twenty-fourth tradeskill, Nuclear Physics, is released. Several users of lesser tradeskills such as gourdcrafting, meatsmithing and system administration start to switch.
1320 CE: Murphy transcends Nuclear Physics before anyone else, reveals the trans skill (NuclearICBM).
1321 CE: Gaudiguch is finally released; it has 40% of the playerbase in it after a month.
1322 CE: Narsrim transcends Nuclear physics; Narsrim and Murphy start to duke it out using ICBMs.
1323 CE: New Celest is destroyed in the crossfire of the ensuing nuclear war.
1324 CE: Glomdoring's Master Ravenwood tree is blasted, and the recently cleansed forest is contaminated with nuclear waste; a stray rocket hits Ackleberry's Nexus but leaves the surrounding forest unscathed. Gregori Mes'Ard, regent of Serenwilde for the 6th time, comments: "We'll never trust the cities again!" he says, in utter glee. When asked about Narsrim's involvement, the Dark Seneschal of Glomdoring and the Regent of Serenwilde could not be reached to comment.
1325 CE: Magnagora survives the nuclear onslaught, but the fallout causes extensive mutations on the population; crossbreeding creates the new mutant race.
1326 CE: Verithrax comes out of inactivity in the LUN hall in Deepnight just to watch the carnage and scream "I TOLD YOU SO!". Hallifax and Gaudiguch have another 'Minor misunderstanding' which causes their utter destruction through nuclear weapons. Refugees from Gaudiguch flee and found the village of Raiduchi in the desert; the Mirh Barosi and the Seekers of the Matrix are reactivated after 800 years serving as social clans for the elderly in Gaudiguch and Hallifax. Lucidian scientists in the Scarch Desert start researching ways of using the Continuum Transplotdevicioner to bring back Hallifax.
1327 CE: The LUN Building in Deepnight City gets blasted after Murphy and Narsrim get tired of the repeated screams from LUN members, during a brief truce. Verithrax and several others end up like this guy. Verithrax's last words, "Hey, at least I got Murphy and Nars to work together," preserved for posterity by a scribe. Several important works of art stored in Deepnight, such as "Lobstrosities playing cards" and "Murphy and Narsrim holding hands" are destroyed. Arix starts selling t-shirts with Verithrax's face on the front and 'Viva la RevolucÃon!" on the back, making several thousand gold in 5.4 minutes and causing a credit market crash. The war kills the last few Artisans and Bookbinders; those and all other useless tradeskills are completely forgotten. Only alchemy, enchantment, herbs, tailoring, jewelry, poisons and forging remain.
1338 CE: The nuclear war comes to a halt as Murphy and Narsrim get shrubbed. Several screams of "SOD THIS, I'M GOING TO WORK FOR BLIZZARD!" echo through the IRE headquarters. Estarra leaves Lusternia to work in IRE's long-awaited fifth MUD.
1339 CE: Arix attempts a coup d'etat in Magnagora by flooding the streets with poorly baked cakes with Verithrax's face piped on it, and flame sigils attached. His evil scheme ends when several enterprising Lusternians start selling cheaper, counterfeited Verithrax t-shirts, cutting Arix's supply of gold. VeriT-Shirts.com, Arix's multi-billion dotcompany, goes bankrupt by the end of the year. Arix is stoned by angry magnagorans after saying "This honeycake is was good enough for Luciphage!" along with three people who were accused of taking Luciphage's name in vain; Arix's last words ("Worse? How can it be any worse? Luciphage! Luciphage!") are preserved forever by comedians everywhere.
1341 CE: Finding nobody willing to run Lusternia, Matt decides to do the work himself. The year 1341 CE marks the Coming of Sarapis to the Basin. The web forums are reactivated, and wiped clean shortly after the flood of OMGWTFBBQ posts.
1 CS (Coming of Sarapis): New New Celest is founded in the southern region of the Basin; the region Old New Celest resided in is renamed 'Spectre Hill'. The last members of the old playerbase go inactive; Aesyra and several others are found in their rooms surrounded by three years worth of take out boxes and deceased after massive overdoses of caffeine. The new playerbase (50 people who never played a MUD before) starts to complain about how Wisp and Flow are weak in the forums. Envoy reports asking that wisp be improved are sent by all of Serenwilde's guilds. Magnagora influences and takes all of the Basin's villages.
EDIT: For the 0.001% of you who wouldn't get a clue if it was jammed up your nose, this is a work of SATIRE. It's supposed to make you laugh.
I like the notion of missiles 
In 1000 years from now I suspect Lusternia will become what modern society is today, and we'll be playing a game within a game.
In 1000 years from now I suspect Lusternia will become what modern society is today, and we'll be playing a game within a game.
You forgot the part where I become the ruler of New Magnagora and force everyone to wear my crappy T-shirts
Yeah, I like the idea of Lusternia having computers, and us playing Lusternia in it. 
QUOTE(Verithrax @ Dec 13 2005, 08:39 AM)
1339 CE: Arix attempts a coup d'etat in Magnagora by flooding the streets with poorly baked cakes with Verithrax's face piped on it, and flame sigils attached. His evil scheme ends when several enterprising Lusternians start selling cheaper, counterfeited Verithrax t-shirts, cutting Arix's supply of gold. VeriT-Shirts.com, Arix's multi-billion dotcompany, goes bankrupt by the end of the year. Arix is stoned by angry magnagorans after saying "This honeycake is was good enough for Luciphage!" along with three people who were accused of taking Luciphage's name in vain; Arix's last words ("Worse? How can it be any worse? Luciphage! Luciphage!") are preserved forever by comedians everywhere.
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Sorry, Arix, not gonna happen. Mr Happy Fun Crystal Ball says so.
