Aetolian Game News
Terramancy Liaisons
Written by: Varian the Celestine
Date: Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Addressed to: Everyone
GENERAL
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- You can no longer start walking across rubble with a broken leg.
ENCHANTMENT/CONJURATION
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- By using a gold stone, instead of an arrow, players can now make
meteor bullets in addition to meteor arrows.
TERRAMANCY
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- New Skill: SINK
- New Skill: STONESWIM
- New Skill: RETURN
- New Skill: EARTHSIGHT
- New Skill: EARTHSENSE
- New Skill: INFO
- New Skill: SUREFOOTED
- New Skill: SCOUR
- New Skill: RESONANCE
- Quake is now a passive skill. Using the command again will turn it
off.
- Duststorm now impedes movement for anyone in the room.
- Shoes no longer block damage from spikes.
- Reduced the mana and willpower costs for impale.
- You can no longer move from a room if you are stuck in quicksand.
- Rings can now be constructed in Hills, Mountains, and the Desert as
well. These rings will have different descriptions.
- Deconstruct only takes 100 mana and 50 willpower now.
- Reduced construct time by 60%.
- Reduced mana and willpower costs for meld.
- Rockslide will now block all the exits in the room the player is in.
(Unless a specific direction is specified)
- Increased eq cost when rockslide is used to block all exits.
- Rockshower now shatters shields.
- Rockshower damage has been increased.
- Stonefeet and Stoneskin cannot be stripped when in a ring allowed
environment.
- Stonefeet and Stoneskin can be cast anywhere now.
- Absorb will now cure the same afflictions as other random curing
skills such as the tree tattoo.
- Absorb eq cost is slightly increased.
- Slingshots and associated references are now just sling.
- Slings are one handed weapons.
- Slings now take one cloth and one leather to craft.
- Teradrim have a sling proficiency.
- Earthenpass will work on shielded targets now.
- Rocks from rockharvest will have a longer decay time now.
- Runes will now be removed from rings when you attempt to place a new
one.
- Slings will no longer be confused by other coloured items in your
inventory when trying to 'sling' them. For example, SLING PURPLE AT
VARIAN would be confused if you had purple rocks in your inventory.
That will no longer happen.
- Purple slingstones can now be targeted at specific limbs. (See the
ab file for the proper commands.)
- Reduced the damage from green slingstones.
- Green slingstones now hit with loki.
- Blue slingstones will strip levitation if you are already on the
ground.
- Updated the AB file for sling to include how to use meteor bullets.
- Slings will no longer fire tekura trip or pinch blocks.
- Rockcrush will now create a standard amount of bullets based on skill
rank. One for inept thru twelve for transcendent.
- Enrich will now double the number or rocks that will be harvested in
a room.
- Trying to create an invalid type of rune or trying to create a rune
without the proper inks in your inventory will not take mana anymore.
- Quitting the teradrim, losing class, or forgetting the terramancy
skillset will wipe any existing rings.
- Several messages have been modified to deal with the changes to ring
descriptions, sling descriptions, and various message bugs, so be
prepared trigger freaks.
- You can now OUTS <amt> <bullet colour>
- There were several other suggestions made that I originally approved,
but time has been a constraint. Not to mention the fact that this
skillset has had several big changes that I would like to monitor for
a while before we do anything else. As such, things like a gargoyle
form, petrifaction, earthen resurrection, and other items will have
to wait until next time.
Penned by my hand on the 9th of Slyphian, in the year 229 MA.