Lydia's Current MUD Projects

Moderating the USENET newsgroup rec.games.mud.annnounce.

Submissions to the group should go to rgm-announce@graphics.cis.upenn.edu and private communications for the moderator should go to rgm-announce-request@graphics.cis.upenn.edu.

Working on MUSH server code.

I used to maintain PennMUSH, but it's now in the capable hands of Alan "Javelin" Schwartz and the PennMUSH mailing list. I do some work on TinyMUSH 2.0, in conjunction with the MushHacks mailing list. Finally, I'm one of the primary maintainers of TinyMUSH 2.2.

Updating the MUSH Manual.

Maintaining a bunch of World-Wide Web pages.

Check out the MUD Resource Collection, Amberyl's Almost-Complete List of MUSHes, The Automated MUSH List, a list of MUD Home Page Links, and the Changes Page for all of it.

Pax Magica god.

I'm currently working on setting up a new MUSH called Pax Magica, and mainaining its home page. It's based on the Mythic Europe of the Ars Magica roleplaying game, and will hopefully provide a high-quality roleplaying environment focused upon the city of Venice in the year 1201, just prior to the Fourth Crusade.

AmberMUSH wizard.

I'm heavily involved in AmberMUSH, as both a code wizard and the feature character Deirdre and a prop controller of the shadow Parys. You can also find me, as Fluff, hanging out with other AmberMUSH players on TooMUSH, where I'm also a wizard (not that this necessarily means anything on TooMUSH).

Consulting technical wizard.

I'm peripherally involved in various MUSHes as what might best be described as a technical consultant; I'm generally available for help anyway, but my close associations include PernMUSH, where I was a wizard for four years, and Bloodletting: Dublin by Night, where I am a largely-absent code wizard.

Playing an awful lot of MUDs.

My heavy involvement in MUDs has led me to spend at least a little bit of time on most of the MUSHes out there, and I LP-MUD on occasion, though I forcibly broke myself of that habit cold-turkey after a particularly unproductive summer doing nothing but working myself up to the thankless position of ArchWizard on Midnight XTC.

Reminiscing.

I've held wizbits on some two dozen MUSHes thus far, and played countless more. I can quickly get nostalgic about The Belgariad MUSH, or grumble about Robotech MUSH, both of which I used to run; I'll also occasionally mumble about the good ol' days of MythMUSH and TinyKrynn, or whatever else you might care to trigger my memory of.