Changelog
* The MAGIC command will now show your base magic resistance, and you can read more about that in HELP MAGIC.
* Magical skills that you have not learned will no longer show in SKILLS ALL.
* A few magic abilities have been added.
03/28/2023
* You can now use parenthesis with the LOOK command, to produce an emote.
03/27/2023
* A massive revamp is in the works, which has resulted in several features that may not be working as intended for the time being: swapping and switching things in your grip, riding horses, and choking people.
* Small fixes have been made with the aesthetics of the sky.
* Several small bugfixes are done.
02/22/2023
* You can now use the self-referencing conventions of /me, /my, /mine, and /I in parenthesis emotes.
* You can also use them in thoughts, memories, and feelings -- which now also support parenthesis.
02/21/2023
* Unsaved logs no longer show up when trying to make a new story development.
* Practice situations are set up for linguistics learning, which accordingly has the 'practice' ability added.
* Gaining a new ability when learning a new skill will now notify you of the fact.
02/20/2023
* Updated some aesthetics of ability displaying, and slightly rewrote some ability descriptions to universalize grammar styles for the lists.
* Added more leatherworking base fabrications, and the capacity in leatherworking to design and craft custom items.
* Light tailoring revamp; you can now design adjustable parts in certain garments, such as hoods or veils.
* Carpenters can carve buttons and leatherworkers can make corded leather laces and rawhide ties to use in tailoring designs where a fastening item is needed.
02/17/2023
* Separated Weaving into two skills: Weaving and Basketry.
* Added leatherworking abilities: 'tan' and 'fabricate'. Protip: don't drink tanning solution, or you'll get the new affliction of food poisoning.
02/16/2023
* Perfumery, Stoneworking, and Dyeing have been added as craft skills.
* Custom crafting is now available with Smithing and Carpentry.
02/14/2023
* It is now possible to craft tools and other ingredients for crafting with the Carpentry skill, not only furniture.
* Carpentry can be learned by practice if you're holding a saw.
* You can now teach another person a unique design for any craft, and generic versions of commands for all types of crafts have been made for ease of use. (HELP CRAFTING for more information.)
* New abilities in Smithing: 'refine', to temper raw ore into ingots and otherwise manipulate mined objects into useable materials, and 'forge', by which a smith can make various sorts of items out of metal with the use of hammer, anvil, and forgefire.
02/08/2023
* You can learn smithing if you're near an anvil.
* Burning certain things (wood, coal) in a fire now creates ash. Coal will burn for a good while longer than wood, regardless of its weight, and it will turn to charcoal while in a fire. Vines will turn to vine charcoal. Charcoal of any kind can now be used to write with.
02/06/2023
* People can now hire porters to carry things for them with the ability to 'arrange transport'. AB ARRANGE TRANSPORT for more information.
* Ability lists are now alphabetically sorted.
* The 'quarry' ability has been added to the Mining skill. (AB QUARRY)
* You can learn education if you're in the company of scholars (a public library).
02/05/2023
* Mining updates: You can now learn mining in any ore-rich environment (most typically a mine). Builders can add ores to rooms from the RMENU. Veins and deposits of ores, minerals, or stones can be found via foraging in these areas, particularly by using FIND VEIN/DEPOSIT. If you have a pickaxe, you can then MINE. HELP MINING for more information.
02/03/2023
* The webclient can now be connected to securely via the websocket without any need to fall back on ajax, and the multiple lines in the account creation menu after the screenreader question have been dealt with.
02/02/2023
* There is now a command to check your current cohabitation situation (to see a list of everyone you are cohabiting with).
* Changed NOTES display, as well as how the ABILITIES command works. When checking abilities you will now get a list of abilities in each of your skills that come with abilities, and you can check AB with a skill as the argument to see a more detailed list of abilities from that skill specifically. You will still be able to check AB for individual abilities to see all of their details.
02/01/2023
* Updated to Evennia version 1.1. For players, this primarily means that you now get help file suggestions if you can't find your help file with a keyword.
* Several small tweaks have happened staffside, including more options in the django database web view and a new command to add or remove or check rooms on the pathfinding map. Evennia 1.0 also comes with the tasks command to check on ongoing delays, and script management commands have changed.
* Some bugs have been addressed with ferry bell ringing, climbing with heavy loads, and guard patrol confusion when there's someone to arrest in the area who has logged out.
* Plot notes have been reworked to show date and whether they have been read or not, so that they will be sent as a recorded message when you log into a character. This means that all current plot notes have been cleared, and it looks a lot cooler when you view a specific plot note.
* Player characters can now leave each other plot notes, as long as they are cohabiting with each other, and these can contain information like: "Donna never came home last night", or "Waraqa's sleepwalking is getting worse".
* Cohabitation between player characters can be established with the COHABIT command.
* You can add also ROOMMATEs to your lodging, and in doing so grant them an extra key and rent-paying privileges.
01/20/2023
* NPCs can now edit their previous cutscene posts, and cutscene posts will only show the last time they're edited rather than every time.
01/19/2023
* Added organizational pre-requisite for quests, and there is now a potential organizational relation to applying for jobs: gaining employment at an organization will automatically induct you to that organization at the requisite rank you applied for.
01/18/2023
* 'APPLY' is now an alias for requesting a certain job title at a location.
* The affection an employing NPC has towards an employed PC will now be instrumental in adjusting that PC's pay. Further, jobs will now have small quests you can do in the workplace to 'work' if you want to actively roleplay about it rather than considering it an off-screen chore.
* Some bugs with the quest system fixed, notably NPC ticks not firing during the waiting period and time display being skewed.
01/11/2023
* Some small things about VNPC groups have been refined, and there is now a wandering minstrel at the crossroads in St Loomis.
01/10/2023
* There is now a wandering poet on the Via Magna.
* Performances can be set up as either tragedy, comedy, drama, or thoughtful -- and this will change the reaction from VNPC onlookers.