Volume II, Issue VIII*The fresh dirt on the MUD* March 22, 1999
| Introduction | The responses to the first Malevolence Questionaire have been received. Thank you to all of you who took the time to reply. The responses can be viewed at: http://www.malevolence.com/survey/index.html. Until such time as the development server is back up, newbie coders will be given apprentice level characters on the player site. We are scheduled to be reviewed by http://mudreview.hypermart.net.
A manual explaining the role of the Guildmaster has been written. |
| Mudlib Changes | The Mages have been given a Reduce Weight spell. This spell will permanently reduce the weight of non-enchanted items. A spell component, clay, is needed to cast. Tree Seeds has been added to most domains, to make it easier to make use of the plant door and barkskin spells. The kittens and such that populate the Escher Memorial newbie area carry items on them more infrequently. To many twinkies and such were cluttering up new players limited carrying capacity.
You receive a hunk of meteorite iron in exchange for being abducted by aliens. |
| True Stories of the Bug Patrol | Armour forged at the Smithy, even if of exquisite quality, will no longer be created as enchanted.
An error was keeping some monsters from wielding their items and weapons. It has been corrected. Thief monsters will now attempt to backstab. |