Recent News

By Alara: Work on the underworld has begun, thanks to the return of Satyana, the daemon queen! However, I, as fairy queen, deemed it necessary to banish her to the underworld, where she now sits trapped in a pit of lava. Feel free to throw tomatoes at her. Well...at least you can try.

Other updates! I've changed the TvN wiki page to read "Asepsis" and "Antiseptic" rather than my cheesy term of "Alive" for the term of "Good Taint." Thanks to Rajabelle for this idea.

ALSO, I've further updated the standard @conformat to show "sleepers" in a room. This basically shows those who are within the dreamrealm and will wake up in this room. So, if I sleep and am transported to the dream plane, you will still see me in the room where I went to sleep, but under a new listing called "Sleepers." The player will not actually be there, but will awaken there if they ever do awaken. This means I should probably set them as FIXED if they sleep, to ensure that they do use the WAKE exit to leave.

That's all I have for now! Have fun, all

-Alara
--Fri, 07 Dec 2012 01:11:39 MST

By Alara: I've updated a few things and fixed some related bugs in regards to dark players and room contents:
- Room @conformat has been updated to be more streamlined and easier to edit.
- The new @conformat caused unconnected, dim players to show up. This has been fixed as well.
- DARK players now show as *UNFINDABLE* on +who, +who/all and where.
- Sleeping players (in the Dreamscape) now show as *ASLEEP* on +who, +who/all and where.
--Wed, 05 Dec 2012 01:26:16 MST

By Alara: Heya, all! Haven't written to here in a little while, but I wanted to give you all an update on what I've been up to. Welcome back Ytheria (previously Lorien), and thank you to Rajabelle for coming on so much more frequently. And also welcome Tiel. Did I already post and tell ya'll to welcome him? Well welcome again. Hopefully we'll have Satyana back as well. I've been speaking with her and as demon queen, she really wants to come back and wreak some havoc on us all. I welcome the opportunity for a bit of roleplaying 'conflict' or fun, whatever comes first.

On another note, our increased player activity has stirred up quite a few bugs and ideas which I've been working intently on:
- Sally Spiven purchases will now show a prettier messages to third parties.
- Ytheria's made a few requests for ideas, and the first is complete with: a smokeable pipe.
- I'm planning on upgrading the room contents list a bit. It won't look any different, except now objects will be able to be set dim.
- AWAY players (and dark/@hidden) will have their room colours monochromized as a reminder that they are set away/dark/@hidden.
- I'm planning a big upgrade to the wardrobe, making the commands easier, and actually letting the wardrobe SET your description, rather than just telling you what you should change it to.
- Dryad tree descriptions in the container room now evaluate instead of just get the text on the dryad player.
- A new skillset called General Skills has been introduced for skill-type commands that all players can access, instead of being limited by race. The first skill to this is DREAMCAST, which lets you send an illusion to a player who is asleep.
- More plans are on the drawing board regarding the dreamrealm.

And much more to come! I have about 50 or so tasks/bugs/ideas that need to be processed or reviewed, so I'll be taking a lot of time with that.

Hope you're all well! Love you all!

-Alara
--Tue, 04 Dec 2012 08:39:16 MST

By Alara: I've successfully gotten an embassy set up for the Fairy Garden over in Gateway MUSH! In addition to it being a nice advertising system, this also gives us a place to go if for some reason I have to shut this game down temporarily. I've cloned three rooms (my limit) there in our embassy from here: Sally's cafe, a snapshot of the isle of Endelana, and one of the areas upon the lunar plane of Lunara. These three, I felt, were the most descriptive to depict the general feel of this world.

I'm going to write +HELP GATEWAY for the connection and direction info while in that realm, but for now, you can find Gateway MU* at connect.mu-gateway.net:6700. I'm going under the name of Alara there as well, so +FINGER ALARA and +MUD/INFO THE FAIRY GARDEN MUSH should all reflect the information about this world properly!

Yay for advertising!

-Alara
--Thu, 22 Nov 2012 16:21:42 MST

By Alara: So, per my latest tweet, it's now snowing big time where I live. Therefore I've decided to get all festive and fun and put out the decorations early. Enjoy the snowy weather! Oh, and be sure and welcome a new ..what I would call a demigod, since that's probably the best I can do for a general description. Welcome Jack Frost who lives in a hidden ice cave up in the winterland mountains. If all goes well, he'll be taking adding a rather personalized touch to the snow around here. Have fun! And early Merry Christmas. -Alara
--Sat, 10 Nov 2012 21:31:03 MST

By Alara: Wonderful news, all! I've been working long and hard on a new Dryad system and I think I've gotten it all squared away. Please put your hands together and welcome the new Treemeld skillset! With this skillset, dryad are now able to plant a seed and grow a tree in any natural environment. Once their tree is grown, they are able to return to it instantly (like HOME), meld with its heart and enter it, describe its interior and even open portals to allow other players in! And of course, they can uproot their tree and plant it elsewhere.

All the initial bugs should be worked out of the system, thus making it useable, but I'm thinking of a few more features and bug anticipations to take care of soon. That'll be put in a separate task though. For now, if you're a dryad, look at LIST SKILLS and see all your newfound abilities, and enjoy!

-Alara
--Sat, 03 Nov 2012 12:51:18 MDT

By Alara: Great news! I've added a new softcoded function: cmd(). This will, at least for me, make it a whole lot easier to write help files and directions. You may have noticed that many of the help snippets on various objects display commands as bright yellow text, usually capitalised, signifying that this is the bit you should type to make a command work. Well, before, I coded this the hard way by using the ansi() function and calling a standard color value from a data table listing somewhere out there. Well, NOW I've at long last @function'd that string, and consolidated everything down into a simple function called cmd().

In addition, I've ALSO moved all of the function and hook handling into the Startup/Shutdown Machine. As a note to myself, if I ever need to add more hooks or softcode functions, all of them are initialized there on startup. And attributes no longer need initialization, but I've kept my old command list in there anyway, just for posterity.

Anyhow, you shouldn't see anything out of the ordinary, nor will I, but things should be at least a little bit cleaner now.

More to come soonish.

-Alara
--Sat, 27 Oct 2012 12:24:11 MDT

By Alara: I've enabled STATUS to work on players as well. This opens up quite a few possibilities, such as the dryad tree-morph thingy, or a similar idea I had for a masquerade party for Halloween. However, due to skill restrictions, I've turned this attribute into wizard-only, so if you have an item you want to set status on, you'll have to ask me for help with that. Of course, I'll be willing to do so without any problem at all. Or I'll just build a command that will do it for you. We'll see.
--Mon, 01 Oct 2012 23:52:40 MDT

By Alara: Sorry we were down for the last couple days. I felt the need to do a complete server reformat and reinstall of the operating system. Thankfully everything was backed up and so getting everything back up and running was no issue AT ALL. By the looks of it, we should be completely up and running now! Feel free to log in and idle or poke me at your leisure! -Alara
--Fri, 31 Aug 2012 23:11:43 MDT

By Alara: Please help me in welcoming our newest player, Eluana! We're getting quite a repitoire of players now, though most everyone has moved on rather quickly.

If you're interested, pop in via one of our five Guest players and check out what we're about!

-Alara
--Sat, 11 Aug 2012 16:51:53 MDT