MUSE Ltd.: impure

impure

impure

adjective The opposite of pure, applied to a real or proposed version of MUD which incorporates changes that run counter to ideals held dear by whoever is making the comment. the game "will never be the same again"/"will be abandoned by all its players"/"will become a laughing stock" if the proposed changes are made. Although some wizzes may point the finger of impureness because they simply don't like the idea that future players might find life easier than they did as a mortal, the real die-hards have an almost doctrinal attitude which they defend with all the logical vigour of a dedicated flat-Earther. Typical examples of things deemed impure at one time or another are the introduction of PPs, the removal of berserkers, the very notion of blanks, and increasing the amount of surface T available. Only unusually do wetter players cry impure to demonstrate their compassion for lesser beings, arguing that changes should not be imposed because they'd make the game too difficult ("No-one will ever make wiz if you raise the points needed from 76,800 to 102,400."...); pureness in MUD is a weapon of conservative forces rather than liberal ones.