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Announce News Post #2071

A few gifts more to kick off year 400

Written by: Clementius, the Weaver
Date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Addressed to: Everyone


Numerous changes in response to direct reports from adventurers:
- heresy, inspiration, and grove hinder should no longer endure
past the point of leaving the arena.
- hwho should no longer show the dead.
- permissions for doors, totems, and libraries did not recognise
church org rank restrictions, but do now.
- observe is now foiled by certain forms of bad weather, just like
glance and other visual acts.
- ab files for besot and survival shrines removed.
- removing powers from a house position should now also remove those
same powers from the aides to that position.
- minor clarifications in ab concoctions and ab concoctions bottom
- some house positions had been granted the 'favours' power before it
was changed to a power that is not grantable. 'Favours' has been
removed from those positions.
- concussions were causing unfortunate side effects with nexus. Now
you will sometimes see a hint as to your condition if you have a
concussion, and nexus should not get upset either.
- radiance now conforms to the ab file.
- enlightenment gained outside arena should no longer be curable by
in arena loss or death.
- odd variations on snap (snap person <number>) were triggering
hypnotic suggestions but not identifying the target properly. Now
this should be corrected.
- can't mushroom containers in a stockroom.
- many things cannot be thrown into stockrooms at all now. rest
assured - throwable weapons, boomerangs, bombs, and sigils, at
the least, will still be throwable into stockrooms.
- angel/demon presences will now fail to locate those in beds/bedrooms.
- password comand will now require full mana and health and will not
be allowed in arena.
- help clan list will work the same now as help clanlist
- rn was malfunctioning but is working again.
- no references to on-line or online should remain in any success or
failure message, or report, or table in Achaea.
- nametells now fail the same way whether the target is out of realms
or present and not visible to the teller.
- blankets may not be worn in unlimited numbers any more.
- runes sketched on totems that are placed in totemcontrol arenas -
these runes are not removed at arena reset time.
- HOUSE INFLUENCE added and then changed to use Houses' long names.
- angel/demon seek respect bed/bedroom privacy now.
- odd situation resolved where those in possession of two items of
the same general type (say, battleaxe) but not precisely the same,
where in some cases one of the two items would not be manipulable
at all except by using its numeric id.
- attempts to checkout from a library were succeeding even in closed
libraries: no longer.

Doubtless there were other changes in recent days leading up to Y400,
but that's all that come easily to mind.

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Sarapin, in the year 400 AF.


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Announce News Post #2071

A few gifts more to kick off year 400

Written by: Clementius, the Weaver
Date: Wednesday, August 17th, 2005
Addressed to: Everyone


Numerous changes in response to direct reports from adventurers:
- heresy, inspiration, and grove hinder should no longer endure
past the point of leaving the arena.
- hwho should no longer show the dead.
- permissions for doors, totems, and libraries did not recognise
church org rank restrictions, but do now.
- observe is now foiled by certain forms of bad weather, just like
glance and other visual acts.
- ab files for besot and survival shrines removed.
- removing powers from a house position should now also remove those
same powers from the aides to that position.
- minor clarifications in ab concoctions and ab concoctions bottom
- some house positions had been granted the 'favours' power before it
was changed to a power that is not grantable. 'Favours' has been
removed from those positions.
- concussions were causing unfortunate side effects with nexus. Now
you will sometimes see a hint as to your condition if you have a
concussion, and nexus should not get upset either.
- radiance now conforms to the ab file.
- enlightenment gained outside arena should no longer be curable by
in arena loss or death.
- odd variations on snap (snap person <number>) were triggering
hypnotic suggestions but not identifying the target properly. Now
this should be corrected.
- can't mushroom containers in a stockroom.
- many things cannot be thrown into stockrooms at all now. rest
assured - throwable weapons, boomerangs, bombs, and sigils, at
the least, will still be throwable into stockrooms.
- angel/demon presences will now fail to locate those in beds/bedrooms.
- password comand will now require full mana and health and will not
be allowed in arena.
- help clan list will work the same now as help clanlist
- rn was malfunctioning but is working again.
- no references to on-line or online should remain in any success or
failure message, or report, or table in Achaea.
- nametells now fail the same way whether the target is out of realms
or present and not visible to the teller.
- blankets may not be worn in unlimited numbers any more.
- runes sketched on totems that are placed in totemcontrol arenas -
these runes are not removed at arena reset time.
- HOUSE INFLUENCE added and then changed to use Houses' long names.
- angel/demon seek respect bed/bedroom privacy now.
- odd situation resolved where those in possession of two items of
the same general type (say, battleaxe) but not precisely the same,
where in some cases one of the two items would not be manipulable
at all except by using its numeric id.
- attempts to checkout from a library were succeeding even in closed
libraries: no longer.

Doubtless there were other changes in recent days leading up to Y400,
but that's all that come easily to mind.

Penned by my hand on the 10th of Sarapin, in the year 400 AF.


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