I recently loaded some massive "under the hood" changes that for the
most part you should not be able to notice. The one quite minor
exception is a side effect of my changes enabled the CONFIG COLOUR to
work for what you set as background settings. (Previously it would
ignore your background settings, which I believe is the case for all IRE
games.) So feel free to use this if you are into that sort of thing,
though note that some MUD clients may render it funny. (I've noticed
Savitar sometimes has issues with background colours, for example.)
Rapture also seems to put the colour on any leading spaces before a
sentence with the background colour, which I have no way around.

Penned by My hand on the 8th of Vestian, in the year 145 CE.