So, manses are defined somewhat as bubbles floating around in aetherspace. What happens when two bubbles crash into each other? They link together, and sometimes form into one (or pop, but that doesn't make my idea work!).

Without further ado...

MANSE LINK deepnight_22 e to shadows_1 w

You have asked Chade to link deepnight_12 to shadows_1, you will be notified if there is a response.

Chade sees: Richter has asked to link his room, deepnight_12, to your room, shadows_1. Type AGREE to make the link.

You have successfully linked your manse with Chade's!

survey

You discern:
You are standing in an aether manse.
Your environment conforms to that of aether.
You are in the Aetherways.
You are currently in The Aethercity of Deepnight.

east

survey

You discern:
You are standing in an aether manse.
Your environment conforms to that of aether.
You are in the Aetherways.
You are currently in The Shadow Tower.

And:

MANSE UNLINK deepnight_12 e from shadows_1

You have severed the link to Shadows.



This is the coolest idea ever!

Seems ok, but you should have to have a door there... then you could have like one big manse which would sorta be like the Monsters Inc. place... maybes it's not a good idea, ya know seeing as you could go from one manse, to another, to a enemies and slaughter and back again..

What kinda costs are you thinking of doing that?

I mean it costs 1000 power to link to a city...

perhaps 50% of each linker to link?

It wouldn't make sense to have a power cost to link them together. If I link with a Serenwilder's manse, who gets the power drain, Serenwilde, or Glomdoring? And how would that be regulated.

A gold cost, perhaps.

And why would you need a door? You can desgin anything in a manse, why couldn't I have, for example, a performing arts center, with Deepnight having the stage, and another manse having the dressing room behind it?

As for going into manses and killing people... Here's what you'd have to consider. If you're worried about someone coming in and killing you, Don't Ever Link your manse to another. Or heck, put up a door, and set the perms between it.

If I understand building right, from when I was a bulder on another MUD, and fromo building my manse, all we would really need is to create exit from this room number to that room number, and we're done.

All I'm suggesting is an automated system.

Can't paintings serve the same function?

Yes.

But paintings don't make the manses link together, like two bubbles hitting each other and making one. Paintings can be destroyed. Paintings can decay. Paintings don't make it readily apparent where you're going, whereas in my idea, you'd just walk one more room.

If we email support or artifacts, or something, is there ever a chance that the gods will link two rooms together?

If it's never a possibility, I guess I'll spend the gold to make a room just for that other manse, so we know where it goes. I'll have like, the Deepnight ring of portals, and each room will have a specific name for it, like...

The Deepnight Portals
You see exits leading north, south, east, west, and out.

out

Shadows room
There is a painting of the Shadows tower here.
You see exits leading east.

Touch painting.

OMG, you travel through, and get paint on you. You're like, in another manse now. Wicked bad!




Or we could have me save 300k and two paintings and make linking possible... *puppydog eyes*

Artifact.
Aether Magnet 50Cr
by placing this magnet in a room it allows you to attract other manses close to yours and create a link.

I like the thought of 50% of EACH person's reserves. You know, for connecting two bubbles.

I like that as well. Still would require lots of power, and it would stop insane, constant links.

What I want is to have Glomdoring's Shadow tower in the middle of my manse somewhere, with links to the, oh, I dunno, east and west. So you could walk through my place and hit random other places as well. Maybe get Ialie to link her forest thingy to the forest part of mine.

... Who needs prime, i mean we have Manse world, no status from it, basically coolerer looking rooms, and everything on prime, well cept for the Tutors and mobs, but i'm sure Richter will buy mounts and put collars on them, so we can bash 'em instead.

Yeah! He can Transend riding, and go up to Astral to rope in a few goats and stuff, and then stick bridles on them so they always come back to him, and we can all have an Astral Manse!

Damned good idea, if you ask me.

..and he can set up a toll booth to get into that section, so people have to pay, like, 1k gold to bash there!

And you should be able to buy artifact shrines which are attuned to you, to put in your Manse, and anyone who offers at them gives you a (very small) amount of experience...like .01% of the value of the corpse offered!

And then he can put one of those in the "Astral" area of his manse, and insist anything bashed there is offered to his shrine!

Okay, -now- we're just getting silly.

But don't think I haven't thought about stuff like that. I actually wouldn't mind seeing it turn into a village, even if it were no longer under my control. But, wishful thinking, for now, I just make do with what I've got.

So, manse linking! Back on topic!

Pish, silly. I bet you that's Lisaera, and Raezon, and all the other current Divine got their start. Only, they don't want anyone catching up, so they all agreed to destroy all knowledge for the making of such shrines, and so they're the only Big Bad Divine there is.

It's a communist plot, I say!

I like this idea. I wish i had credits and golds and stuff like you Richter. I would link my manse to yours, that is, if i had a manse.

I have a full time job and I live at home. I wouldn't wish that on anyone, heh.

Any divine input on the idea?