Volume I, Issue VII *The fresh dirt on the MUD* October 12, 1998
| Mudlib Changes | Skills primary will show your true real stats, score will show you your modified stats, ie; Dex and Int changed by smoking pot, etc. Vampires walk among us. Three vampire clans have been started. Thanks to those of you who particpated. Help vampire and man vampire will reveal the gory details to you. A new mages guild and a new fighters guild have been built. There has been some harassment of the Mage trainers, but I will change that soon. There are seperate trainers for each skill, an area for that class only, and a somewhat understocked store for each. A component (guess which one) is now required for Stoneskin. More of these components have been added around the mud or can be purchased at the mage shop.
Help primary will explain of each of the primary stats do for you. |
| Area Changes | Magic crystals from Xanadu are now only attainable once every few hours instead of once a login. These include Smoky, Blue, Clear, and Pink crystals. The Tournament has been closed until further notice since it is broken. The ever popular Deepheart area in the Baator domain has been reopened, thanks to Cin. (Someplace for the Vampires to hang out during the daylight hours perhaps...) Cracker has put a map of it on his web page. Finger Cracker for the address. I have gone through the area and cleaned out the ugly ansi and headers.
The rather poor descriptions of the Weslar castle are being made much nicer by Strider. |
| Did You Know | That you can change your description with the describe command?
You can get a list of all the emotes with the look soul command? |
| Real Stories of the Bug Patrol | The bug that happen when you put coins with no argument has been squashed. Single bottles now show as A bottle instead of One bottles, and are 'recycled' when sold to a shop. Same sex marriages have been made to function properly. Debug message wont happen from wedding rings any longer. 60 or more player reported typos have been corrected. The bad formatting in the bank and post office in Harborside has been fixed.
Unlimited monster repops in the Monastery and the Labyrinth have been remedied. |
| Behind the Scenes | Mazrimtaim was in a bad car accident. A drunk driver hit him head on. He is currently in the hospital and our prayers go out to him. Novax has applied to become a creator. He is learning LPC and starting work on the development site.
Cracker, having reached level 50, has applied to become a creator and shows some aptitude for it. |
| Upcoming | New guilds for Cleric and Thief, with individual trainers, stores, message boards. The sewers for near the thieves guild will be finished. Voting for Guildmasters for each class and guild will commence.
I am considering putting pictures of the various folks from Malevolence on the web site. If you would like to be included, please email your picture to darktoast69@hotmail.com. |