I've just made a change to how shrine writs and witnessing works, so if
you're in a Divine Order or you enjoy passing the time by defiling
shrines, you'll want to pay close attention.

When you WITNESS SHRINE and obtain a writ now, instead of the writ going
directly to your Order, it will go into a list of writs you hold on
behalf of your Order. You can see these with the WRITS command, if you
have any.

While you hold a writ on behalf of your Order, you are allowed to attack
the person the writ is against. This allows you to defend a shrine
immediately when you find someone defiling it. If you'd prefer that your
Order call upon a mark member to handle the writ instead, you can WRIT
YIELD <writ #>. If you do so, you can no longer attack that person.

Of course, what if you go to witness a shrine, gain a single writ
against the defiler, and find that the defiler has 10 friends with him
ready to jump in to 'defend' the defiler? To prevent this, HELP PKCAUSE
now has an addition under Section 4 for Defense, to state that if you
defile a shrine, you have initiated the conflict and are not eligible
for legit defense from retaliation for your act within a minute of the
writ being generated. If the writ holder goes to hunt down the defiler
later, though, and those 10 friends are with the defiler, they can
indeed defend. Hopefully that makes more sense in practice. 🙂

HELP WRITS and the writs section of HELP PKCAUSE have been amended to
reflect the changes.

In summary, if you witness a defiler now, you CAN initiate combat with
the defiler. If you liked it the old way where the Order hired a mark,
you can simply yield the writ and let it be done the old way. Let's see
how this works out!

Penned by my hand on the 1st of Mayan, in the year 409 AF.