Over the past few days, the coding team have been working of fixing
numerous bugs and adding new features to the game. Here is a small list
of what we have seen completed recently.

- Subterfuge: LIPREAD will now allow you to understand speech that has
been disturbed by wind.

- Runelore: You will no longer be able to continue sketching runes if
you fall asleep or die during the process. Further, you will no longer
be able to finish sketching a rune on a player if they have died.

- Tarot: You will no longer be able to continue inscribing cards if you
have died.

- Tekura: You will no longer remain in your stance through death.

- DASH, GALLOP, and SPRINT have seen the following change: Rubble will
now hinder movement and stop you in your tracks. Water will no longer
stand in your way if it stands directly before your starting location.

- You will now be able to properly DIAGNOSE when impaled upon a
necromancer's daegger.

- You will no longer be able to keep the shipwarning defence activated
if you leave a ship via unconventional methods.

- All letters preserved from this point onward will have a line added to
their extended descriptions (what is seen when you probe) to signify
that they have been preserved. This will not effect letters that have
already been preserved.

- You will now see the decay time of an item a denizen is selling when
you ASK <denizen> <item>.

- The messages received on various parts of the ship have been
significantly changed. No longer will you see movement messages and
other command related messages while inside on a ship or asleep.

- Those of you with the orb of suppression artefact no longer have to
worry about the "and" in the clothing line of your description being
dropped when someone looks at you.

- Clan invitations will no longer be able to be sent to people who have
you snubbed.

- "You fumble about drunkenly" will no longer hinder you for commands of
the following nature: bugs, issues, typos, and help files.

- Your leadership points will now decrease when leaving a political
office or falling below one of the level limits, if you are unable to
sustain the number of points you have acquired.

- No longer will you be able to consider a player your enemy while being
lusted to them following an arena event.

- If you have SHOUTSOFF or are snubbing the shouter, you will no longer
see the shouter faint due to a ridiculously lengthy shout.

- Probed furniture will now respect your pagelength.

- Gravehands and graffiti will now only appear if you are standing on
the ground.

- Those of you experiencing dementia will now find WHO HERE displays
more convincing information.

As always, be sure to file a BUG report with as much detail as possible
if you come across any issues.

Penned by My hand on the 8th of Valnuary, in the year 544 AF.