Newsflash: Magnifico has come out of retirement to launch an excellent
new mud, Tempora Heroica, based on the old
Archipelago code. Having regained his 'C'-legs,
Magnifico has already added exciting new features such as clans, player
houses, custom on-the-fly socials, and unique mobile and object stacking
unseen anywhere else! New code is added
nearly everyday with no end in
sight.
Before retiring
from the mud world, the immortal pixie
Magnifico Terrifico
was one of the original builders, and served for a short time as head
implementor, of Archipelago, a multi-user dungeon
very loosely based upon the Ars Magica
role-playing game published by Atlas Games. He
created the city of Wivernhoe, rebuilt most of Lamman, and was key in
shaping the look and feel of the mud. A slightly dated, public-release
version of
Archipelagos code is available via ftp at the CircleMud website.
According
to many of Archipelagos players and immortals, including the
founding
implementor Ponder, Magnifico was the
heart and soul of Archipelago. He was a creative, mischievous
pixie
with a
slightly warped sense of humour and was known for building such strange
creations as the
Egg of Annihilation, hookah smoking
caterpillars, Doctor Whos TARDIS, ruby-red recall slippers, and the
dreaded, poetry
reciting lorshroompesti. He was dubiously nicknamed Mad Mag
by
his immortal peers who often questioned his sanity.
The moniker MAGNIFICO
(mag nif ´e ko) is a noun
meaning any grandee
or great personage and comes from the Latin magnificus.
The name has also appeared in Isaac
Asimovs Foundation Trilogy and
the ZBS
Foundations audio drama series The Adventures of
Ruby.
In Ruby
3, Magnifico is the name of the City of Malls.
Magnifico is also a popular ice cream flavour in the United Kingdom... go
figure!