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 (???) |                  R E A L M S    O F    D E S P A I R !                   ||
 (???) |                      Endless Medieval Enjoyment                          ||
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 (???) |                Written, maintained and modified by Thoric                ||
 (???) |                  Connection provided by BlueGenesis.com                  ||
 (???) |                Gameplay governed by the Council of Elders                ||
 (???) |             (email all concerns to kali@realmsofdespair.com)             ||
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 (???) |       Home of SMAUG based on Merc2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, Kahn        ||
 (???) |       in turn based on DikuMUD code (Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe        ||
 (???) |            Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert and Sebastian Hammer)             ||
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 (???) |  Realms: www.realmsofdespair.com               Code by Thoric            ||
 (???) |  Smaug:  www.smaug.org                   (Derek Snider, derek@smaug.org) ||
 (???) |  FTP:    realmsofdespair.com (port 21)   with Altrag/Blodkai/Haus/Narn/  ||
 (???) |                                          Scryn/Swordbearer/Tricops/Gorog/||
 (???) |                                          Rennard/Grishnakh/Fireblade/    ||
 (???) |  Version: SMAUG 2.6                      Nivek/Edmond/Conran/Meekon/Lina/||
 (???) |  Dies lunae MMVIII                       Belkira.                        || 
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 (???) y what name are you known (or "new" to create a new character):