April 2009 Envoy Report and Fixes
Written by: Charune, the Horned One
Date: Wednesday, May 27th, 2009
Addressed to: Everyone
===April 2009 Envoy Reports===
o Ringwalk (Stag) has been boosted in effectiveness but will now sharply
decrease in per-person effectiveness with more stags present.
o Moonwater, the Serenwilde potion, will only trigger if it cures
something.
o Sensitivity given by Nihilist demons and Celestine angels will bypass
deafness entirely.
o The balance on shooting and aiming the blowgun (Stealth) has been
lowered.
o Beastmaster(Beastmastery) can now be used three times per month.
o Appraisement(Influence) has been made usable for finding out the fees
of others, see the AB for more information.
o HexenSoles (Hexes) will trigger without the person being enemied.
o A "firm" option has been added for Blocking(Athletics). Please see the
AB for more information.
o You can no longer summon people into the rooms that normally are host
to Supernals, Demon Lords, or Avatars.
o Fear will respect avatar rooms and rooms with a nexus.
===Misc. Fixes===
o Certain magical abilities, like planar transport artifacts, won't
trigger Pathtwist.
o Pathtwist will only fire in ground and tree elevations.
o Domoth fluxes will no longer interfere with blessings on other
domoths.
o There was a long-standing problem with the Curse enchantment not being
cleared, resulting in a bugged proofing on the item. If these bugged
proofings remain after two days from now, please BUG it.
o Crow spying sent to the nest will only work if the nest owner is
online.
o If a newbie joins a city or commune through the Portal of Fate it will
properly count as being in the organization for purposes of
automatically joining later.
o You can't attach fetishes to your Ecology Familiar if in a different
room.
o Suicided people will no longer bully you or be your victims.
o It should no longer be possible to have more than one ancestral curse
in a room.
o Movement will now check balance first before other conditions. As a
consequence, failed movements won't count against for being too hasty
and failed movements will not prevent tumbling.
o Gust(Beastmastery) is now doable prone.
o Currents(Aquamancy) and Whirlpool(Aquamancy) won't affect those in
pits.
o Choke(Night) will properly clear if the caster dies.
o Doorblast(Elementalism) will no longer consume mana if attempted
toward a nonexistent direction.
o Clan deed holders may now appoint themselvse leader of a clan even if
they were not previously a member.
o Family heads who reject their family no longer retain their position.
o Trademasters can no longer transfer designs from one cartel to
another.
o A long-standing issue with Stolensight(Phantasms) not working some of
the time has been fixed.
o Poison afflictions will not show the affliction message when blocked
by a tea defense.
o Superslinging the same rune twice will correctly consume two runes
instead of one.
o Trying to chop when no tree is present will no longer break shields.
o When a person has a pierced leg and is impaled through the gut, they
will now sustain wounds to their gut when rended instead of their leg.
o Untargetted Beckon will respect Telekinetic Barrier.
o Cartel stamps were showing incorrectly in some cases. This has been
fixed.
o Sorcelglass containers should group correctly in inventory.
o You can now STAND while burrowed.
o Longnight(Night) no longer requires the cauldron to be dropped.
o Spy(Crow) will recognize locations where the eye cannot be buried.
o LegLock(Telekinesis) will now always give a message when it is cured.
o You can no longer put wielded items into containers.
o TELLSON can now be done while a soul.
Enjoy!
Penned by My hand on the 17th of Klangiary, in the year 236 CE.