I've made the following chnages to the novice intro:

1. Ansi is now the default for new players.
2. I set up some automatic communication color configs for newbies.
3. Coloured all says in the newbie intro.
4. Changed what it says about Hashan.
5. Made Lothariel's in-room description include his name.
6. Made the vision lesson in the intro take them up to Novice.
7. Brightened up the no-help-file notice.
8. Took out all encouragements to shout for help and replaced them with
encouragements to use the newbie channel.
9. Gave more specific directions in a couple of places.
10. Removed the reference to HELP WEAPONS.
11. Redid HELP WEBSITE.
14. Removed suffixes/prefixes from enter/leave messages for players.
(this really affects everybody, but I forgot it in the last post.)
15. People in intro can't write in their journal during the intro
anymore.
16. People will be able to use the newbie channel while dead now.
17. Made it so that before they go down into Azdun, their prompt stats
goes on.
18. Made the default TIMEOUT 10 minutes.
19. Changed buying a piece of clothing to buying a backpack. Stocked
Shallam clothing shop with backpacks for this purpose.
20. Made sure they cannot buy the wrong thing, ever, in the intro.
21. Added Runewardens to the list of guilds/classes in the novice intro.
22. Shouts won't get turned on for newbies automatically after
graduation anymore.
23. Cut the number of practices needed to master a new weapon
proficiency by 75%.

There were some other minor chnages here and there too, but probably not
worth mentioning.

More changes will be coming tomorrow.

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Glacian, in the year 293 AF.