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After Careful Examination..., posted on Sun Feb 26 07:23:47 2023
Posted by: Kadath
Category: Klatch (domain pages)
I've made a few more changes to the DJB Language School to address some long-standing bugs. The two most noticeable changes are as follows:

1) If your teacher finishes their shift, or you are forced to log off, during your final exam, then your exam paper will now remember who you are and which questions you have already answered. You can log off without penalty and return when your teacher is available to finish and hand in your exam. In addition, if you somehow manage to lose your exam pape...
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Cultural Exchanges, posted on Mon Feb 20 22:43:36 2023
Posted by: Kadath
Category: Klatch (domain pages)
I've fixed a number of bugs and made a couple of adjustments in and around Djelibeybi. Some will have more of an impact on your day-to-day play than others, so I do suggest reading this one carefully.

- The language school textbooks should no longer have more than one word with the exact same Djelian translation, meaning players no longer have to guess which is the right word when given the translation and asked for the original word.

- Textbooks for learning the Klatchian language should...
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Home Decor And Other Animals, posted on Wed Feb 8 18:23:06 2023
Posted by: Guildenstern
Category: General
* The Djelibeybi real estate receptionist will now explicitly tell blacklisted players that the reason they can't bid is that they've been blacklisted.

* Real estate offices that control leased properties (i.e. shops) now have a notice listing the dates when the leases will end.

* Sum Flying Duck, who lays tatami matting in Bes Pelargic, no longer talks about carpet.

* Various issues relating to pluralisation of appliques have been fixed.

* A blood splatter applique has been added to Nese St...
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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.

Learned Response, Part 2, posted on Sat Jan 14 15:38:10 2023
Posted by: Kake
Category: Forn (domain pages)
Some more updates for the Genua trainable pets:

- They now do an emote (about wanting to go on an adventure) when they send a follow request to someone. This should make it easier for their owners to see what's going on and hence to praise or punish them as preferred.

- The monkeys can now be trained to "equip" and "unequip", thus allowing them to wear and remove human clothing as well as pet clothing. (This was kinda-sorta implemented already, but wasn't working properly.) You can still simpl...
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Kiss The Blade, Part 2, posted on Sat Jan 14 15:01:18 2023
Posted by: Kake
Category: Guilds
A couple more things started during the last Bugfix Weekend are now finished:

* The Conlegium Sicariorum reception area now has a helpfile.

* The unarmed and sharp weapons dummies in the Ninja dojo can no longer be used by people who are currently on the balancing beam.

* The Ninja dojo now has a climbing rope.

- Kake and Stygian

Kiss The Blade, posted on Wed Jan 11 14:18:54 2023
Posted by: Kake
Category: Guilds
Being at the turn of the year, our most recent Bugfix Weekend focused on a guild concerned heavily with endings - assassins! Here's what we did.

* Fingering an assassin will now show if they hold a position within their spec.

* Inhumation books/scrolls/rolls can now be viewed with the contracts sorted by price (ascending/descending) as well as by name.

* Something at the Mano Rossa mansion that was not previously climbable has now been made climbable (and also something-else-able).

* Monsieur G...
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Learned Response, posted on Mon Jan 2 12:50:28 2023
Posted by: Kake
Category: Forn (domain pages)
Several changes have been made to the Genua trainable pets:

- They can no longer be put into backpacks, vaults, etc.

- They can no longer be picked up by anyone other than their owner.

- They now show an indication of their mood when you look at them.

- They now respond to many more souls than they used to.

- They no longer consider the splash ritual to be a punishment unless it's performed on them specifically.

- They no longer require you to omit punctuation for them to understand a command (e...
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Festive Frolicks Are For Life, Not Just For Hogswatch, posted on Mon Dec 19 20:32:22 2022
Posted by: Evensong
Category: Am (domain pages) and Guilds
Anticipating an influx of Holiday weddings the Guild of Fools and Joculators have revamped their Chapel of Fun. Brother Whopply has been subjected to all the puns from the talker during the last couple of months whilst being beaten with an assortment of bladders and has agreed to perform marriages if only he doesn't have to listen to any more puns.

Furniture has been rearranged, ancient artifacts have been restored and they've even put fresh hay down on the floor. Head on over (with or witho...
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Me, I'm Counting, posted on Sat Dec 10 17:56:26 2022
Posted by: Kake
Category: General
* A bug with the squirming black tentacle has been fixed. You can no longer hold this with any of your limbs (even the normal ones) when under the effects of Booch's Extremal Polymorphism. On the bright side, this means that your tentacle will no longer be eaten by a silent runtime error.

* Playerhouse rooms can now have up to six different types of decoration on the surfaces (floor, ceiling, walls) before the description gets collapsed into "X are multicoloured". (If you have a room that stil...
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