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Papilio Tempestae Ad Nauseam., posted on Fri Apr 7 15:16:27 2023
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds


I have taken the wizard spell Patient Taming of the Quantum Weather Butterfly firmly by the metaphorical scalp and shaken it up and down a bit.

You will notice that there is now a physical weather lotus in the room when you cast the spell, as well as the fact that the temperature command will report how much the weather orb is affecting you.

The most important functional (rather than cosmetic) change is that the temperature change effected by a weather orb will only be able to affect others if...

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Fade Out., posted on Wed Feb 1 10:02:47 2023
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
The witch fade command is supposed to insert the witch in their chosen position in the room's long description. A bug was causing this not to happen, and now it has been fixed!

N.B. It may take some time for this change to filter through so you won't start showing up in long descriptions immediately.

Snowhorses., posted on Thu Apr 1 13:39:47 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
You can now make snowhorses.

Samurai Titles., posted on Fri Mar 12 10:38:58 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
After longstanding and repeated complaints were raised about how bad some Samurai guild titles were, I have put in a load of new and different titles for them. Many are entirely new, several were changed because the title used to read along the lines of "the Keen Samurai of the Samurai" and this was ugly. Guild level ranges are not affected.

TPA/SFP And Major/minor Shield And Aegis No Longer Mix., posted on Thu Mar 11 18:33:51 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
As per the previous blog posts warning that this change was imminent, TPA/SFP no longer mix with Major/minor shield and holy aegis.

Sad Dragons., posted on Fri Mar 5 19:29:06 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Am (domain pages)
The Sunshine Sanctuary for Sick Dragons has become concerned about the number of dragons being abandoned around the Disc without their owners.

Swamp dragons appear to also be saddened by being abandoned - they have recently been spotted wandering around looking for affection from their absentee owners.

P.S. Another change to swamp dragons will be coming in the next few days, which will make them actually do something vaguely useful.

Less Durable Tinfoil., posted on Fri Mar 5 17:27:49 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
The anti scry effect of the wizard spell Kipperwald's Perlustration Prevention now has a dramatically reduced duration.

This means that instead of, for example, your KPP lasting for a twelve hours, it might last for 2.5 hours instead.[0]

[0] These numbers have been picked out of thin air purely for explanatory purposes.

Meditate, posted on Thu Feb 25 14:07:49 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
Meditation is now available as a stand alone command away from high altars. Although meditating to remove your divine protection is now available for use anywhere, other techniques still require the use of a high altar.

Anyone can learn the command from a temple instructor, even atheists or witches and wizards. In order for such individuals to learn the command, they will need to find an instructor that they can reach without worshipping a deity - probably either the Pishe instructor in the tem...

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Mixing And Matching Of Faith And Magical Shields., posted on Tue Feb 9 13:57:54 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Guilds
As people are asking me this a lot, I thought I'd blog to save people the trouble :)

The recent changes to major shield that made it outer armour go hand in hand with some more changes that will be made shortly.

They haven't yet been made because I found some additional things that needed doing first.

You will soon no longer be able to combine major shield, minor shield, and holy aegis with magical impact shields (TPA and SFP) and bugshield.

Other combinations of faith and magic shields (includ...

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Tuna Bay Spawns, posted on Sat Feb 6 17:49:02 2021
Posted by: Aristophanes
Category: Cwc (domain pages)
A recent change led to the Tuna bay terrains not spawning npcs properly. This has made it impossible to complete some sausage missions.

This should now be fixed and the tuna bay terrain should now be spawning properly.

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