uncadonego on 23/4/2003 at 02:37

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.....don't get it....did finding your way through the caves make you a basket case or something:confused:

uncadonego on 23/4/2003 at 03:36

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D'Oh!!!

nil8hate on 23/4/2003 at 04:08

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So...i just read delphos' story about being a kid and the ice cream and how all the adults took care of him and how much her cares for those people, along with others where he is wanting to help the poor and pay for potions and and and and.....in all the other missions, i never FELT like i was doing anything wrong....for some reason i am feeling just a little slimey!!!! i am expecting to run into some twist that reveals the guy truly is a slime :erg: :p :angel:

epithumia on 23/4/2003 at 05:17

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Please keep in mind that the counts you see only reflect downloads that happened since I started keeping track of them in the database, which was less then a week ago. Going back since the mission was released, I count 228 total downloads from unique IPs. That's certainly better than 69. And if I recall correctly, thiefmissions.com is not the only place hosting this mission, so the actual total is bound to be higher.

uncadonego on 23/4/2003 at 21:43

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Once when John James Audubon was in Labrador in Canada observing puffins and petrels, he observed that 17 men butchered twenty-five hundred seals in three days. He observed the commercial eggers and feather hunters working and wrote: “The people gather all the eider down they can find. they kill every bird that comes their way. So constant and persevering are their depredations that these species, exceedingly abundant twenty year ago, have abandoned their ancient breeding places. This war of extermination cannot last many years more. The eggers will be the first to repent the disappearance of the myriads of birds that made Labrador their summer residence.” He also noted: “We talked of the wild country around us and the enormous destruction of everything, except the rocks, which is going on here. The aborigines are melting away before a stronger race, as the wild animals are disappearing before them. Nature herself is perishing. Labrador must shortly be depopulated of every thing and every animal which has life and attracts the cupidity of men. When her fish, game, and birds are gone, she will be left alone, like a worn out field.”
Audubon also held a view of conservation ahead of his time. While even today we shoot crows and try to eradicate them from fields, we use pesticides to control grubs. Audubon was an ornithologist who was well aware of the nature of crows and their problems, yet he still said: “I endeavor to speak of the crow with all due impartiality, not wishing to conceal its faults nor its merits. I can well assure the farmer that if it were not for the crow, thousands of cornstalks would every year fall prostrate, being cut over close to the ground by the destructive grubs called cut-worms.” Funny isn’t it that we kill grubs, then must kill crows because they eat crops for lack of grubs? Yet we know that a single crow’s stomach can contain up to 200 crop destroying caterpillars. He foresaw the destruction of the natural habitat, the disappearance of the buffalo, and so many other things that others overlooked. He died in 1851, even before the onslaught of the industrial revolution.
I thought that since Karras and the Mechanists were polluting Dayport and none of the plants were surviving, it would be interesting to put a couple of characters with similar insights ahead of their time like Audubon.:)