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Announce News Post #2170

Weave News

Written by: Clementius, the Weaver
Date: Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Addressed to: Everyone


Re-users of real tell magic rejoice. Really! Repeated/redundant TELLSOFF
or TELLSON will no longer acquiesce quietly, but will gently remind you
of redundancies of the repeated,
done-over-again-once-more-for-the-second-time-over-again kind. In short,
if your tells are off, and you try to turn them off again, you'll know
it!

Denizens and inanimate objects of the realms promulgate policy! Achaean
denizens and other less-than-animate things (such as rocks, fruits, and
the like) have recently declared that they will no longer participate in
the antics of mutes in any way, thus sparing the already-overexposed
eyes of Achaean adventurers everywhere.

Those who know about bloodswearing also know, or used to know, before it
changed. Hmm, let's start that again. So, you're bloodsworn! You leave
your class. Are you still bloodsworn? Well, that depends. Starting about
half an Achaean year ago, the answer is no. Leaving class terminates
bloodsworn relationships. This is likely the least of your
relationship-relevant problems, but there you go.

False reports of Truenames? Keepers of Truenames had seen, over the
years, a pronounced tendency to accumulate names that they themselves
had forgotten. Advancing age? The first thing to go? Perhaps! For all
you ailing and/or decrepit truenamers, we have good news: your lists
should no longer include names that you are unable to recall. Voila!
Your memory is as good as you thought you remembered.

More case antics. Who's to say that lower case is truly "lower?" Maybe
it's just a little story whispered about by those snooty "upper case"
types. Get it? Types? I crack myself up sometimes. Anyway: "L", "l",
"LOOK", "look" and other variations have not always done the same thing.
Now they do, in any case. Get it? Case. Case!

If you try CONFIG MAPSHOW OFF you'll now be told to use LOOK as the only
way to see a map when there's one to see. That's true. This goes right
along with the mysterious disappearance of the MAP command, which has,
in fact, disappeared.

Failed attempts to MIND LOCK could be used to reveal someone's presence
and activity (or lack thereof) in the realms. This is no longer the
case.

Bagatelle should now perform as advertised.

Grove elevate does count as moving, and does cause shields to go away.

The WHO command has been spiffed recently. Now you can see which part is
the name, and which part is all that other stuff usually used to: (a)
advertise products and services, (b) confuse the unwary and obfuscate
the true name (not to be confused with the truename), or (c) provide
titular details.

Penned by my hand on the 18th of Lupar, in the year 409 AF.


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Announce News Post #2170

Weave News

Written by: Clementius, the Weaver
Date: Thursday, December 15th, 2005
Addressed to: Everyone


Re-users of real tell magic rejoice. Really! Repeated/redundant TELLSOFF
or TELLSON will no longer acquiesce quietly, but will gently remind you
of redundancies of the repeated,
done-over-again-once-more-for-the-second-time-over-again kind. In short,
if your tells are off, and you try to turn them off again, you'll know
it!

Denizens and inanimate objects of the realms promulgate policy! Achaean
denizens and other less-than-animate things (such as rocks, fruits, and
the like) have recently declared that they will no longer participate in
the antics of mutes in any way, thus sparing the already-overexposed
eyes of Achaean adventurers everywhere.

Those who know about bloodswearing also know, or used to know, before it
changed. Hmm, let's start that again. So, you're bloodsworn! You leave
your class. Are you still bloodsworn? Well, that depends. Starting about
half an Achaean year ago, the answer is no. Leaving class terminates
bloodsworn relationships. This is likely the least of your
relationship-relevant problems, but there you go.

False reports of Truenames? Keepers of Truenames had seen, over the
years, a pronounced tendency to accumulate names that they themselves
had forgotten. Advancing age? The first thing to go? Perhaps! For all
you ailing and/or decrepit truenamers, we have good news: your lists
should no longer include names that you are unable to recall. Voila!
Your memory is as good as you thought you remembered.

More case antics. Who's to say that lower case is truly "lower?" Maybe
it's just a little story whispered about by those snooty "upper case"
types. Get it? Types? I crack myself up sometimes. Anyway: "L", "l",
"LOOK", "look" and other variations have not always done the same thing.
Now they do, in any case. Get it? Case. Case!

If you try CONFIG MAPSHOW OFF you'll now be told to use LOOK as the only
way to see a map when there's one to see. That's true. This goes right
along with the mysterious disappearance of the MAP command, which has,
in fact, disappeared.

Failed attempts to MIND LOCK could be used to reveal someone's presence
and activity (or lack thereof) in the realms. This is no longer the
case.

Bagatelle should now perform as advertised.

Grove elevate does count as moving, and does cause shields to go away.

The WHO command has been spiffed recently. Now you can see which part is
the name, and which part is all that other stuff usually used to: (a)
advertise products and services, (b) confuse the unwary and obfuscate
the true name (not to be confused with the truename), or (c) provide
titular details.

Penned by my hand on the 18th of Lupar, in the year 409 AF.


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