Hey sabrousians!

many folks have been talking about how they want to RP lately, but haven't had the time to come up with ideas or just don't know what to do. they don't want to be the 'single driving force' for any one RP, but they do WANT to RP. Myself being kind of all over the place timewise also, and thus unable to run quests, Velesti and I came up with this alternative:

Weekly Roleplay Prompts.
basicly, this is the 'talk of the town' for the week. the gossip on the street, the in-thing, etc. the whole town won't shut up about some random thing. it's a good springboard for starting off roleplays which could have ongoing plots, without laying all the responsability on the shoulders of one individual.

so tavern-up and RP with the weekly prompt! if you save and post logfiles, PR will be rewarded (as was in times of old) AND if you are ESPECIALLY inventive with your spin on the talk of the town, you might even get bonuses or glory.

these prompts will be released on SUNDAYS. if you have ideas for prompts, feel free to submit them either here or in e-mail.

This Week's "Talk of the Town" RP Prompt is: GHOSTS

has your character seen a ghost? do they swear they were haunted last night? are you intent on hunting ghosts? studying ghosts? do you not BELIEVE in ghosts? are you fiercely positive you can MAKE someone believe in ghosts? are you thinking ghosts are a great cover to play some spooky tricks on your gulliable friends? who knows! but everyone's talking about ghosts in town this week, and it's spilled its way into the tavern.

so, what does YOUR character have to say on the subject? shall we find out?

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.

okay, here's the rules related to glory coupons, since a few people are confused.

COUPONS are worth 3 glory.
VOUCHERS (details of this not announced, but for future ref) are worth 1 glory.

you may only have one glory coupon per puzzle/boss mob
at the time of this posting that reads as
1 nihilanth
1 progi
1 pyramid
1 queen buis

but you may also have ONE coupon which is counted as a 'present'

that means your friend can give you a coupon and you can have no clue where it came from, but it's still cool to keep.

...also, there've been quite a few new maps added lately. be sure to check them out here.
from fax, minita, tcarah, ronin, jakrian, brassu and daos we have...
-the valburg theatre
-a revised north tek map
-a north tek gardens map
-khefera map
-mourning mountain map
-a coral sea map
-a black lake map

i'll also be updating the art later today. eventually :B

if you emailed me about your participation in the kazza quest, glory has been awarded!

also Nadelle, Brass, Daos, Maltain and Phil your custom items (either via bonus or the easter quest) are now in your lockers. also Amarella got her long overdue easter stat boost.

next thing i owe you guys: the custom polymorphs/pets i've had building up in my inbox. HEY, I'M GETTIN THERE.

if you have a Roleplay/Character blog please respond here with what its username is! i'm also going to be doing the practice session rewardings this week. plus, i'm going to try to do something else too. SO POST IT HERE, DAMES.

doing very, very minor bugfixing. also some quest info here :B

minor bugfixing:
noma's mirror, dapper dan hair treatment and perfume all actually cast their respective spells again. lolwoopth.

you asked for it so...
-added a hurricane social (brass!)
-added a noodle social (?? i forget who)
-added a 'tak milk seller in the sandbox back alley (HALF THE MAFIA)

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now, on to the matter of quest stuff

THE CATACOMBS QUEST WILL FINISH THIS WEEKEND. it will only run friday because i hardly have my stuff unpacked here :< i'm really sorry, but there should be plenty of runs. here are the times. times are in EST (eastern standard time) and thusly the quest is friday, june 8th.
5.30pm
7pm
9pm
12 midnight

there will also be a trial run early on friday morning. trial run people still get glory, but keep in mind it's the 'rough run' of the quest. the trail run will be at: 8AM friday morning.

also, if you were involved in the KAZZA QUEST, please email me at z@demon-sushi.com! the logfiles have proved denser than someone trying to sup cor out of a deathtrap, so we're just going to reward based on the honor system. email me your character name you used in the kazza quest.

also tarendol is working on writing up some info about the 'unoffical' RPs that happen (ie, general rules of thumb or common things done by it) for people who want to jump on in and join. so look forward to that showing up sometime in the future. :v

Hello! TWEAK, HELPFILE AND QUEST DELIVERY.

Tweaks:
tattoos keep their damroll, hitroll, ac and spell buffs after death. this is ALL khtall's doing, so thank her.
speaking of khtall, that language telling tweak now applies to all channels. horray!
monk had many, many skills and spells taken away (about 14) and was given vent. that should streamline you better.
all imms can now use unsilence.

Helpfiles are now available on the following topics (thanks to tarendol): run, train, land, bank, listen, study, charge and fear. also the credits helpfile was updated. go look and be thankful :o

as for the QUEST! this week's quest looks to bit a bit of a long run, and will be split into 3 parts. part 1 will run TONIGHT (friday night) starting at 9pm EST. the following runtimes will be announced when we know how long it will take. gather in North Tek as usual! This quest DOES require you to be able to leave North Tek, so being at least level 4 is needed. glory will be awarded, so save up for those houses!

also, in order to potentially raise money (real money) for advertising for sabrous, i am considering doing character livejournal icons for 5$ (USD) each. if you'd like in on this, tell me. i'm not sure if we'll do it yet, obviously need to know what the show of interest is.

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

just some quick info. i meant to keep this to myself til i did another update, but a lot of inquiry has been flying, so here goes :B

there's been a lot of interest in caroline returning and finding out more about the berzerker drugs the razordemons were making from the quest last weekend. people are wondering if those will come back, want to know more...etc. well, i can tell you right now: both will come back in later quests. i can't tell you anymore because that would be cheating ;3

also people wondered about glory from quests. some players got glory, some didn't. some got one glory, some got two, some even got 3. basicly glory is awarded at the end of the quest to people who not only successfully complete the quest objectives but also roleplay. ie, if you just invis'd and ran along with the group the whole time, you won't get any glory. if you emoted here or there, maybe threw a line in...you'd get one glory (if you successfully completed the quest). take a bit more of a proactive role, stay IC outside of talking to NPCs...you'd get 2. do a LOT of roleplay, take a central role at one or more times, you'd get 3.

okay, so, what can we use glory for?

glory, my dear chums, will get you something you may find quite neato. maybe not, i dunno. but that neato thing and its details are coming with the information from an actual update.

so basicly, players who recieved no glory, you are NOT the only ones. several players got no glory from the last quest. the imms don't OMG HAET you, you weren't missed...that's just how the rules of glory points go.

on that point as well, a few players recently have found themselves silenced. silence is basicly the immortal way of reminding you that chat channels are a privilage, not a right. if you break the rules (specifically rules 1, 2, 9 and ESPECIALLY 8) you will find yourself silenced. the silence will usually last until an immortal has a chance to sit down and discuss your actions with you, so logging out in a huff and waiting 20 months to see if it was lifted is not the way to be rid of silence.

this goes for other players as well. if someone is driving you crazy, i do NOT want to be getting messages while i'm at work that there was a fight on the chat channel. if you absolutely MUST fight, take it to tells. but honestly, i would prefer you to make ample use of the ignore command.

remember. nobody walks into the game hating you. don't give them reasons to start, and no one will ever hate you there. the rules are not just here because we're sticklers, the rules are designed to help players have fun and not ruin eachothers' good times.

this has not been a real big problem (there was only one fight on chat, really, and only one person breaking rule 8) but i'm just taking this time to remind you. mellow ouuuuuuut.

on that note, several players have started compiling an unofficial sabrous soundtrack. if you have songs you'd like to contribute, drop their names and artists off in the comments :o we'll make a compiled soundtrack eventually and we can aaaaall share in the maaaaaaaagic 8D