Monster Island News and Information

From: casbahcarl@aol.com (CasbahCarl)

Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 00:00:00 +0000

This message has a couple of items on Web sites and such. I'm writing this
message just before I leave work for a few days. We Americans are celebrating
Thanksgiving tomorrow, a national holiday where we give thanks that a long time
ago a few Brits survived one of our nasty New England winters.

Anyway, I digress. My personal MI Web site has gone through yet another
transformation. It's now the official repository (<not> suppository!) of the
"Monster Island Herald", the :::taking a deep breath::: ABM-published and
ABM-distributed player-produced newsletter for Monster Island players in these
United States of God-Bless America. :) The Web site has some special links and
pages on resources for players anywhere who'd like to write Monster
Island-based fiction. If you'd like to take a look, it's at <A
HREF="http://users.aol.com/casbahcarl/MIhome.html">http://users.aol.com/ca
sbahcarl/MIhome.html</A> Past editions of the newsletter can be downloaded and
read (using the free Adobe reader).

I beg pardon for the self-promotion, but I'd like to point out that in one year
of existence, my MI Web site clocked over 5,000 visits! Currently, I'm seeing
about 200 visits per month.

The second item I wanted to mention is that I've created a Webring for
top-level Monster Island Websites. Participating Web sites must have some pages
or items of general, game-wide interest. So far, I've got Mark O'English's
Zargnoth page on there, William Kidda's Monster Mapper page, Larry Barrows'
statistics Hall of Fame page (which, incidentally, has no British monsters
listed--not tough enough, I guess <g> ), and my own Herald page. ABM has
committed to joining us, and I've invited a few others
ing.org/cgi-bin/webring?ring=monsterisland;list">http://www.webring.org/cg
i-bin/webring?ring=monsterisland;list</A>

For more information on the Monster Island Webring, just follow this link to <A
HREF="http://users.aol.com/casbahcarl/MIring.html">http://users.aol.com/ca
sbahcarl/MIring.html</A>

Thanks! :)

Incidentally, I'm coming up on five years of Monster Island gameplay!
December's my anniversary. Puh-lease <don't> tell my wife how much money I've
spent on the game over the years. She would definitely take a Spiked Club to me
and the Lightning bolts would be flying in our house!  ;)

Well, 'nuff said. Happy Turkey Day, y'all!

Chuck Miro (aka Sol-Rac Orim, the Supreme Stud of Monster Island)