we had a visit from the codelizard tonight!

so you know what THAT MEANS :D THANK KHTALL AND ENJOY THE BOUNTY.

tweaks!
- portal has been changed so it WORKS. previously if you were not both peaceful/deadly and not within 15 levels of one another, it would fail. now it works. HA!
- polymorph reverting will not leave you with negative HP
- drain now gives the caster some of the mana drained from the target
- when more than one hidden object (or exit) is in a room, search now runs a chance of turning up more than one at once.

glory mobs!
- the oublie cathedral guardians now give glory if you are under level 30
- the fat lady and diablo now give glory if you are under level 20

pooka spells!
- MOONSHINE : that cherry screw wasting time in your inv? that lemonade just molding away? wait til cover of darkness and cast moonshine for a random different drink!
- SUPERFLAT : although no more powerful than earthquake, and working in essentially an identical way, superflat naturally involves multicoloured daisies and gets your target a little...loopy.

also, there was as i mentioned an art update to the site!
artists updated include: art (new guy!), moi (icarus), tavanaka (bogsherry), amred, phil, greenbear (tcarah), maniacTHP (roren), chukotto, anthonius (jemli), cilaw (new guy!), cypress, ruck, golaro, brassu, fax, makr (new guy!) and naturally the pchat folder.

and who gets featured artist? weeeeell...
( *drumroll* )

and, as mentioned in the comments for the last post, Mad's new map of the Queen Anne's Revenge can be found in the maps folder.

on this fine, fine saturday morning i finally got off my butt, got some melon soda and updated the art!

there's new art from: greenbear, cypress, phil, brass, golaro, Maniac THP aka ROREN, yours truly and a new artist who just joined the ranks of sabrous known as gavvar!

( and a small comic for those of you who were playing brinstar roulette the other day )

badaboom

kent did this amazing thing for me


kentrin's ms paint skillz representin

long time no getting around to THIS. site update!

i've been sitting on this PILE of art for the longest time, and i'm fairly sure there's new stuff from just about EVERYONE, but a few names i know are tavanaka, tarendol, yours-truly, greenbear, brass, cypress, kilo, maniac, amred, minteh, ronin and chiyokins. yeesh!

as for the featured art...i might have featured this before, but it goes hand-in-hand with my next update on news so ENJOY IT.

Daisy Invasy by Tavanaka

'wtf tochi'
wtf tochi indeed. it is my next news to announce that we are looking for FOUR people to beta-test the pooka class. the requirement for this is that you promise to give feedback with some regularity and that you have at LEAST one character at LEAST at level 30. the testers will be selected randomly from anyone who applies if there are more than four applicants. if you're interested in beta-testing pooka, just reply here with your 30-or-above alt name and something like 'oo me me' or something.

pooka betas will start out at about level 20, UNLESS you specifically want to start at the start. you can pick any race you want, we'll set you to pooka after you come through the newb area.

also, tare and i are planning a little thematic freeform RP kind of thing for new years (or as Sabrous calls it, POLE DAY) and more details on that later. :>

hello peoples. it's a very much delayed site update.

i was going to wait until i got back home, but there was just so much stuff built up it just. didn't make sense. a ton and a half of fanart.

so there's new fanart from, tcarah, brass, golaro, muhself, maniac THP (roren), cypress, ruck, kilo, vinri (new guy!), jakrian and fax (new guy!). also there's a whole ton of pchat arts up.

( and the featured artist iiiiiis.... )

the rules got a small update, mostly just toned down to reflect the sabrous of today since a lot of the problems i anticipated just never even became an issue. also, rejoice! kentrin's fabled newbie guide is now up in the help & guides section. you should totally go get it cause it kicks ass :D

the 'play now' page also reflects the other ports you can log in on, and the top smaug MUDs button is now fixed to show up. TOOK ME LONG ENOUGH HUH |BBBB

i'm thinking someone should do a pretty quick roleplay ettiquite and command guide. maybe ..me? :o but it might be a good addition to make. anyway.

rejoice :D it's also my understanding some of the new guys have made some maps. perhaps we will see them soon.

o-KAY!

all freeform roleplayers should have been awarded their practice sessions. if you feel you were missed, leave a comment here or email me at z@demon-sushi.com. it's ENTIRELY possible i missed a lot of roleplayers since i have to rely on word from other people.

i'm aaaaaalmost down through my to-do list to work on sabrous! that means soon there SHOULD be a new area and some new pooka skills and other stuff. yeesh, it's been a while huh?

for those of you in florida, me and one of the original beta testers will be at a free-to-enter convention called yasumicon. if you have the time, drop in and say hi! we have a table in the artist's alley, so just look for the sketchbooks what display tochiart. :3

speaking of tochiart, i'm doing art commissions! 10$ is a very base rate for a full colour marker pic. if you're interested, email me at z@demon-sushi.com. i accept paypal, checks and money orders. i'll even take commissions for minicomics (though those can get rather pricey...one of the most expensive ones i did was 70$) so i'm open to lots of things. just mail me lalalala.

site update coming soon! so many things coming soon. SO MANY THINGS :O

ENJOY THIS MASSIVE POST THAT'S BEEN A LONG TIME COMING!

sorry for the radio silence guys. i've been psychoticly busy lately and even if i have been doing things, i haven't had a chance to come back and tell you about it :B

new maps:
the wastelands, the thieves' forest, the mayor's office (this is my building map, it's NOT clean), the lizardman port, crateria and the cloud sea!
HUGE thanks to nical, keech, rachella and roren for their infinate patience and care in all these maps. be sure to thank and compliment them when you see them!

new art is up by me, brass, chukotto, hatz, cypress, kilo, maniac/roren, tarendol, tcarah/greenbear, amred and TAV :D

glory for the catacombs quest has been awarded! some people did not get glory but MOST did. if you really, really want glory but you weren't awarded any  just come talk to me and we'll see if we can work something out.

new skill:
-call familiar finally works for druids! rock.

bug fixes:
-the scholars once again speak all languages. ayep.

tweaks:
-the pooka morph strider is completed.

once again, if you have a roleplaying journal put the username for it here! the list of currently known journals is here and if you're not on it, tell me here so i can add you! if you could also be so kind, when posting in sabrous_rp add the names of the participants as tags. ie, if the RP included phil and velesti, add the tags 'phil, velesti' to the entry. just for quickref for us immortards. i've fallen so behind on the RP community that basicly, i'm just going to start asking tarendol who should get PR XD sorry. what i mean to say is practices for RP journals has been awarded. other PRs have not been awarded YET, i'm counting on kentrin to give me a list of people who need it. 8D

WELL. THAT WAS A LONG WAIT FOR NOTHIN HUH. oh you're still here for a featured artist?
( this time around i honestly could not decide who to pick )

well, it's quite seriously that time again :o time for the tweak update. dananananana TWEAAAAAAAAAKS!

for pookas:
-you now have the sex change spell
-knock spell removed

general tweaks:
-polymorph costs less mana
-poisoned weapon now echoes the damage done
-drug quest finally completed.
-nazo's gold nerfed. sorry, but there was no need for him to have so much :B
-tek's level range dropped to about 3 to 15 in shops
-ork's level range moved to between 25 and 35 in shops
-small tweak to the pourra mane item

bug fix :o
-when reverting a morph mana won't go negative. NICE HUH :D

info for imms
-glory houses can built between vnums 500 and 599. the zone is homes.are
    be sure that when doing player housing you remove the appropriate glory from the players with qpset take (name) (number of glory taken)
(PLAYERS that means check the rates on glory if you want your house built. it's in HELP HOMES. if you'd rather taren build it than i, mail him at tarendol@gmail.com)

and of course we have a few new arts by: moi, amred, golaro and brass
( featured art beinggggg )

and back to the area tweaks. areas given their race/class to npcs: the desert, the earth temple, moss forest, the low fields, the sun tower and the north tek gardens.

the catacombs quest synopsis should be coming later tonight, when i get down and write it up. for now...yes it is batman time.

i may be out sick but THE SOUL NEVER RESTS!

lovely tweaks
-ice fruit can now be picked up
-the underworld shield/collar are one again THEORETICALLY purchasable.
-valburg got a bit of a facelift, making her items and NPCs suitable to the 20ish range.
-norra got a major facelift. items, NPCs, etc. you can fight several you couldn't before, and there's new items to boot.
-coinflip now checks to see if you HAVE a coin to flip
tweaks for immortals only...
-pet orders will no longer be reported to us (yay no more spam)

i also put in helpfiles for block and coinflip.

and god after how many months of putting it off, i finally got around to updating the website. not only does this mean we got lots of new art, but it means i finally made the much requested classes page complete with class skill lists.

we got lots of new art and old art that i left piling up. for the sake of clarity, brand new artists have been marked with an *. Our new art is by: kilo, maniac, blinkdog, anthonius, cypress, greenbear, drayco, redmoon *, noda *, hatz *, cideon, ruck, saturn* and minita*

which, of course, means we have an art showcase. so this time i picked...
( something quite relevent to our current economic drive )

and because i will never never stop until i die, the areas who got their NPC race and class additions this time are: thief hq, valburg library, valburg's west field, valburg's east field, the mesa top, the thieves' forest, ew ork training park and the sewer worm

For those of you in the freeform RP, i added some information on the mechanics of magic and gods into the sabrous_rp community. So y'should check it out. :v

also about THE CATACOMBS QUEST: It will run this weekend at the following days/times EST. This will be the LAST PART of the catacombs quest!
friday night- 7.30pm, 9.30pm, 12 midnight
saturday night- 7.30pm, 9.30pm

on my great campaign to give areas mobs which have proper races and jobs, the following areas have been fixed up:
ice mountain, lizardman seaport, the chuian tree, verdi forest, the inhuman ghetto, the myche encampment, the cloud sea, peen canyon, stormy plataue (this was done anyway i just tweaked it).

in terms of bugs only one's really been reported and that's that the Ew Ork blacksmith wouldn't fix things. well, the blacksmith's fixed. so that's done anyway. won't you?

the site has new art by drayco, phil, jakrian, locard, music by kilo, brass, cypress, greenbear, tavanaka, tarendol, yours-truly and metrazol

there's also a brand new map in the maps folder by rach of the inhuman catacombs. very handy, and quite spoiler-free.

( this week's featured art isssss )

the major tweak is that now when you type gibberish or nonsense commands you get random messages. thank khtall |3 as usual. NOTE: the "HATS GOING ON" thing is not a typo. the function itself is called hatsgoingon. THIS IS A JOKE. NOT A TYPO.

later today i am hoping to have the slists for jobs available on the site. but that's for later.

call it a mid-week art folder update spawned by altair's ARTSPOODGE :D

just fyi, not ALL the imms require artspams...but basicly alt asked expressly for art for his birthday so WE JUMPED UPON THAT BANDWAGON. if you'd like birthday art spam of your character too, feel free to post about it when your birthday's coming up and we shall see :o

anyway- art spam!

there's new art by moi, chu/raizy, greenbear, tavanaka, cypress, tarendol, metrazol, brass, golaro, ruck, goa, drayco and kilo

if you emailed me art but don't see it here, don't worry. i'll be doing another update this weekend. also kilo had two galleries for some reason (one under travisuped) and so they were condensed into just the kilo gallery.

and if you're curious there will be a quest this weekend...but we're going to try something a little different with times etc, so stay tuned for that once i've got the details figured out.

here's a link to the site for the lazy: clickity

long time coming, the site got its art update :B heeeee.

new art by: drayco, cypress, ruck, kilo, yours-truly, goa, greenbear, wainwright, mithos, golaro, razul, metrazol, brass and tav

showcase art? oh god this was a hard choice.
( click within to view )

also rachaela did a GREAT new map of the Wastelands (not the Northern Wastelands) which is now in the map directory. tooootally beats the pants off the old one. everyone say thanks to her!

at the moment khtall and i (mostly khtall) are working on something cool for devotees suggested by she-of-many-names who i'll just call kysu. it's a cool suggestion and i think you'll like it. :>

as of this posting, bonus items made while you are offline will be placed in your locker if you have one. check your locker regularly if you ordered a bonus item. it may be within :>
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the tweak is done! or rather, it will be with the next reboot.

after next reboot, MOON devotees gain MORE hp during night and less during day when recovering...and SUN devotees do the opposite. cooooool ;o

we'll get around to giving the earthies their bonus, but it'll be slightly different, and i am keen to leave that for a day when i am not ready to rush out to a meeting :B

okay folks, time for the general update beam!

added to the site has been a whole slew of new art by the following folks:
raizy, arzen, starie, drayco, ruck, blinkdog, moi, raln, golaro, cypress, anthonius and wainwright.
( And so, our featured artist of the week is... )

Part 2 of the quest went really well! part 3 will run tomorrow (sunday) at 7pm, 9pm, 2am and 7am. yes, there's going to be four runs, because this quest hsa had a HUGE turnout for the first runs and it becomes difficult for anyone to get anything done. so hopefully this will slim it down a bit. This is the LAST PART of this quest!
( Synopsis of part 2 for those who missed it )

If you were in Group One, this does not mean you're out of the race. basicly show up tomorrow and do your VERY BEST and you can still salvage some glory for yourself. but be careful, there's a lot of potential for Bad Ending in the last run...

NOW! ON TO TWEAKS!!
for the sun tower:
-fixed ew ork teleportation bug 
-fixed lock on door
-sun crest now level 0

general tweaks
-ordertalk, music and quest now have distinctive colours which allow for easier telling of apartness.
-everyone can skin! :D however, there are new rules related to this, so please read below.
-peacefuls can cast spells on deadlies
-mafia storeroom fixed (it is with tony the nikitak) ...hopefully.
-order of the sun portals in sun offices up. LOOK PORTAL to use them.
-moby dick fixed...he's no longer a total puss :P
-diablo souped up...he has much more HP now. sorry, guys.
-scale-plated skin has keywords which include scale and plated
-muti in a group now display as 'muti' on the group screen

as some of you have already noticed you can also cash in for NPC BOUNTIES in the Sun Tower. The way to do this is to go to Gumchu and say 'any bounties?' he will give you the data on what characters have bounties. the trick is that you need to kill all of that npc and turn in the proof to gumchu before they respawn. it's quite tricky, but can totally be done. i suggest working in groups for it, honestly. gumchu also sells cookies. GET YOURS TODAY!

( In here are rules related to skinning... )

AND ONE MORE THIIIIIIIING.

i, and MANY MANY OTHER PLAYERS, am DAMN sick already of the internet being totally a-hype for 300. if you liked it, this is fine. if you want to talk about it, this is fine. but we are all absolutely sick of seeng AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA fill our screens and playlists. if you are caught making this kind of crap joke, you'll be banned, and i'm not even joking. we'll warn you once, in case you missed this message, and after that...out. this includes screaming SABROUSSSSSSSSSSSSSS or anything along those lines. some of us can't even read our livejournal friends lists because they're so freaking SPAMMED with the first letter of the english alphabet. it's dumb, it's annoying, we are taking drastic measures to ensure it stops making us all see red. okay? okay.

Well folks welcome to another lovely saturday addition of What's New in Sabrous :o

first off, the website has a mahvelous art dump going on. new art by greenbear, ruck, tav, raizy, cypress, raln and... yours truly have all been uploaded. also! there've been quite a few sabrous paintchats, so there's now also a paintchat subfolder for your viewing pleasure. ;3 there's also now a permalink to the paintchat.

In terms of the actual game, there've been a few tweaks.

When you're battling now, you may notice that both you and the enemy have critical hits. a critical hit does double the regular damage...but ocassionally still misses. should spice up your battles a bit.

also there's now a petfind command. this will help you find...your...pet. once it gets lost. see help petfind for more informations.

edits to helpfiles include polymorph (there is no revert command, so removed the info on it), glory and quests.

tweaks included the sewer worm...before you could use it even if you hadn't perfected mount. NOW YOU CAN'T HANDLE THE WORM. also tweaked was the sabrecat skull item. also Death now has a clause in the newb area to help you if you can't find the underworld staff. naughty underworld!

( AAAaaand this week's artistic showcase goes to... )

in any case, back to work! there's a lot of cool tidbits we might be adding quite soon. woooooosh! i'm gettin pretty good at this 8D

hail and hello! it's your weekly update of the website, along with the regular bugfix.

we have a new map by brass! check out his map of the RAZOR DEMON TOWER...this will be important for tomorrow's quest. today's quest. THE QUEST OF THIS WEEKEND.

we also have a lot of new art by players! there's art by greenbear, raizy, maniac, chuko, brass, cypress  and MUSIC by travisuped.

now, let's try something :o a character art showcase. each week i will pick a fanart that shows off someone's character, and showcase it here. ( this week's winner is... )

now, on to the bug fixes!
you can now access the 2nd level of the north tek gardens from any of the 4 corners.
there are no longer two karl the healers in valburg's training arena.
deadlies should now no longer see the hand of gravoc message...theoretically.
immortals should no longer recieve bug reports related to the sandbox dancers, shady merchant or moon blossom being purged.
immortals now have vnums up to two billion to work in. horray!

a bit later tonight, the intro post for this week's quest will be made and people will begin to gather in the afternoon, EST if they want to participate. this quest will run all weekend and may run more than once. all players are welcome to join, but remember that it is a roleplay excersize! you will not be doing much fighting or bashing, but character interaction. there will be a reward... :O dun dun dunnnn. but i hope people will show up for what will be the first quest :O!!

later on there will be helpfiles related to custom items/bonuses as well as house building. but later.

welp, apparently it was just a strange bug where the game actually hung up and despite my repeatedly recompiling, she was sort of...stuck, half-rebooted. WEIRD. repeat, not a bandwith issue, just a really weird bug.

and of course, right NOW, the entire HOST is down 8D waytogo rofl. but, don't worry. it's not JUST sabrous this time. i have a feeling that the snow over in americaland knocked out the power at the host or something along those lines...just don't panic :> this time, it's not our fault. repeat, entire host is down at the moment, not our fault.

in the meantime, take up cypress on that artz offer. me, i got some small childrenz i gotta teach today. but here. everyone go be stunned at this amazing cythid pic greenbear is doing. FLOORED, HOW BOUT YOU?