Changelog

* Added two new animal types, Hartebeest and Gazelle, and individual species of each: bubal, stormbreak gazelle, and white gazelle.

* Added four new environment types, with location specific weather messaging: Dunes, Marsh, Midden, and Plain.
* Added location-specific dust devil and sandstorm weather messaging for City of Omrazir locations. Whee!

* All environment types should now have time/weather messaging that shows whenever a new time period starts (e.g., midday, sunset). Formerly this was only showing in City of Omrazir, Town of St Loomis, and Desert environments.
* Add environment-specific weather messaging for Oasis areas.

* Zodiac constellations have been shifted to be either visible or in the sun (not visible) during the appropriate months. Some new constellations and stars have been added, and all existing constellations now have descriptions.

* When timbering a mineshaft, if multiple people are holding onto a timber, they should not be left with glitching inventories. This has been accomplished by an overhaul of how DRAG works that is now more foolproof in dealing with multiple draggers of a heavy object, and also gives better messaging.

* Fixed some issues with lifts (for the Razmani Enclave in Omrazir).

* Checking basic tailoring designs should give an indication of what sorts of fabric can be used.

* Willow trees now have properly-described wood characteristics, meaning they can be felled, and willow sticks and branches might be foraged.
* Milling logs into timber will now produce a more reasonable amount of timbers, regardless of how huge the tree may be!

* It should now be possible to mend broken clothing without being told that it is 'not cloth'.

* More dawn and dusk weather messaging.
* New plants for real this time, for both the St. Loomis and Omrazir areas.
* Added and edited holidays on the web calendar, and made some other small changes to pages on the website.

* You no longer need to be 'wielding' a needle to mend garments, only 'holding' it.

* Weather fixings.
* There seem to be some 500 errors with the website that I haven't been able to figure out -- if you get one, please send me an OOCMail with all the information about how. The server log isn't being useful about this. I've taken out some prints for NPC actions that were cluttering the log, though.
* It is now possible to forge cowbells (and make custom crafts reliant on that base functionality of essentially being a wearable musical instrument that sounds like a small bell when rung or played).

* Some phrasing typos fixed with designs in tailoring and leatherworking.
* Leatherworkers can now fabricate slings. (You can use scrap leather as well as an actual piece of tanned hide, if you don't want to waste the whole hide and don't care about it being fancy.)
* A bug with personas resetting has been fixed; anyone frequently donning disguises now shouldn't have their personas constantly being erroneously reset.

* It is no longer easy to commune in the misty zone.
* Two more communion abilities added at level 2, though one is a special ability based on whether or not a PC has had a certain mysterious life event.
* Diminishing returns have been implemented in order to soften the xp-gain from bug reporting -- first bug reported will gain the playtester 1xp, then .5xp, then .33 xp, and so on. These decimal xp points may not register in SCORE until the fraction reaches the next integer point, but it's there!

* Traverse effects have been added for the afflictions of clumsiness and dizziness.
* 'Disturbances' are being coded in for those who are going through a process of becoming ungrounded. At first these should be very rare, and they will only be triggered if someone is meddling with things of a magical nature.
* It is no longer possible to diagnose 'magical' afflictions, unless you have a sufficient level of arcana.

* Buggy rank order reworked in organizational code, and currently existing organizations should be patched.
* It should be possible to get through organizational guards when: they are not present, conscious, standing, and able to move to the vicinity of the exit they're guarding -- you are following a member of the organization -- or you are riding an animal. Some of this HAD already worked, but was rendered broken with the handling revamp and is now fixed.
* Organization leaders can view coffers and set up temporary stipends at the local bank.

* Bug with concocting burn cream fixed.
* Sleep avatar behavior is slightly changed -- they will no longer vanish when someone else is present and watching, and they will vanish after 24 hours instead of 8. Traumatized sleep avatars will no longer vanish at all. The documentation in HELP QUIT has been updated to reflect these changes.
* Using STOP while in the middle of doing an ability will now return your lost roundtime.
* Armor value and copper value should now properly work on forged armor items. (Actual values might need som editing as they're based on multiple modifiers: the base template and the metal used for armor value, the skill of the roll for copper value -- but at least they generate properly now!)
* It is now possible to forge pots, pans, and saucecups.

* A lumberer VNPC group has been added to the lumber camp outside St Loomis, along with a functional sawpit.

* New general ability: split wood. (For splitting chopped-up log chunks into firewood bundles).
* Throwing containers at objects will now cause that object to get messy with the contents of the container, instead of it just spilling on the ground. If the targeted object is a canvas or other sort of page, and the contents included ink or paint or dye, it will create a new paragraph of randomly-generated drawing complete with the color.

* Logging abilities have been added: chop, saw, fell (level 2), notch (3), and mill (4). The old logging abilities which were never functional have been removed.