Roleplay Pacing & Housing Polish
September 15, 2026 · Enael
Features
permanents without an argument in the house editor now informs you on how to customize said permanents.
- Rumours you plant are now passed on by a random townsperson instead of by your own description, so gossip no longer points straight back at you.
- Roleplay XP gets going faster. A scene now starts at twice the old base rate and reaches full pace in about half the time. Established characters no longer drop below the old starting rate.
- Roleplay now always gives Charisma a steady chance to improve, even early in a scene when the XP is still small.
- Inspiration can now be used on Meditation, like the other magic skills.
- New
help illusion molding for sorcerers. help reflexes now explains exactly when Reflexes trains: only when someone you are fighting lunges out of the reach of your drawn weapon. The remember FAQ, Dreamwatch, Spinal Shivers, and Resonant Lexicon helps have been updated, and Resonant Lexicon's now explains why a word the speaker stumbles over still comes through garbled.
- New
guildleaders command shows who leads each guild, along with their guild and rank, so you can see who to approach about joining (help guildleaders).
diagnose <person> <wound> shows a wound's full reading, the same one a healer sees while treating it, without opening the wound or using up a poultice.
tool <object> ed add <keyword> <keyword> opens the editor once and gives every keyword you listed that same description, instead of retyping it for each one.
- New recipe: steel can now be made from iron.
forge steelfromiron takes two iron ingots and a stick of charcoal and gives two steel ingots. Buying steel ore still works exactly as before.
- Silver rewards from RPXP stripped, and now accumulates through the week based on activity, paying out during a Sunday evening or Monday morning real-life time.
- Racial language defaulted to rank 60, free of charge.
learn block <ability> holds a skill where it is. learn block <ability> 50 holds it at rank 50, or whatever you choose, and learn unblock <ability> lets it grow again. Learn helpfile rewritten.
- Fiddled some more with RPXP calculation and tiers. Cyans and veterans now earn the same, cyans just increase the earnings of all other players in the room. A cyan will still boost the RPXP gained from another cyan. Fantastic is reachable, though it requires a full base plus 5 points bonus.
Housing
- A door can now be made lockless.
door nolock <direction> in the house editor takes the lock out, and the door still opens and closes. door normal puts an ordinary lock back.
- You can rename a door with
door rename <direction> <name>, so a hidden exit can answer to something like "bookcase." The direction still works too.
- The house editor refuses to open while someone else is on your property, so nobody can reshape the place around a visitor. Co-owners do not block you.
Bugs
- Forgetting on your remember list now works the way
help remember faq describes. Seeing someone you remember refreshes your memory of them, and so does remember <name>. People you've written notes on can still fade to grey, but they're never dropped from your list.
- The bug, idea, and typo lists now keep the unread star on each report until you open that report. Opening or filing one report no longer clears the stars on the others.
- The tracker notices at login and in
score now include answered reports that have changed since you last read them, and tell you when a reward is waiting. A report with a reward waiting now shows as "reward" in the list instead of "closed".
affects and score now agree on what your affects are called. Resonant Lexicon no longer shows up as Horse Stance, perfume and makeup no longer show as an unknown affect in score, and forgetfulness reads as Poor Memory in both.
purchase ability <name> 1 now works instead of telling you that you already have rank 1. Buying rank 2 used to give you only rank 1 (at rank 1's price), so if you bought rank 2 of anything, check your ranks and buy rank 2 again.
evoke search now lists each matching spell once, instead of repeating it all the way down the list.
- Spells found on the astral planes show the glowing golden orb again, including in the Aether Ocean. Each plane had been handing out spells from the next plane's moon. Now each gives its own, so expect different spells to turn up in each plane.
- Dreamwatch now tells you when the person you want to watch isn't in the room with you, or when you try it on yourself, and neither mistake uses up the spell.
- While you sleep, Dreamwatch now shows you each room the person you watch enters or looks over (its name, description, and exits), and everything said, whispered, muttered, yelled, sung, emoted, rpechoed, or rpyelled around them, as they heard or saw it, with people named as you know them. Nothing OOC comes through.
- Spinal Shivers now finds someone from the first three letters (or more) of the name you remember them by. If no name on your list matches, it tells you so and keeps the spell ready.
- Emotes, rpechoes, and rpyells no longer reach characters who are asleep, the same as speech.
- The clinic physician no longer repeats her price every few seconds while you sit there unable to pay. She names her cheapest price once, treats any wound you can afford, and moves on to her other patients.
- Wounds taken on through magic now worsen a wound of the same kind already on that limb instead of adding a duplicate, the same as wounds from combat.
- After a reboot, lamps in town and in houses are lit or put out to match the time of day right away, and it no longer counts as night until the next game hour.
- Looking into indoor rooms, or checking the weather through a window, no longer changes the world's temperature.
- In a dark room you can no longer see, walk to, pick up, or light a lamp that isn't lit. You can still light a light source you're carrying.
- Fixed the house editor frame collapsing on one side if an entry has xterm colors.
- Finishing a summoning circle now checks if you're on the Path of Demons before granting you the initial first 3 names.
- Treading Hooves no longer shows up as Axe in
affects and score.
- Fixed the OOC channel switching itself off after every logout.
- Mounts no longer announce who owns them. They also do not print the player name when mounted.
Admin Goodies
- Unread stars are now kept per report for staff too, so the bug, idea, and typo lists show exactly which reports you haven't opened since they last changed.
rumor all, rumor search, and the staff line under a heard rumour now show who planted each rumour and how they looked when they did.
- The hedit helps (
help hedit and its subcommands) can now be read at immortal level 101, the level hedit itself opens at.
- Framed OLC screens (redit, oedit, and the house editor) keep their right border when names or descriptions carry colour codes.