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Major Nexus Update Coming
We're finally ready to give a sneak peek at our next project. Our team has spent the last year rewriting Nexus from the ground up. The new version will include several exciting features. Read on and learn what to expect and check out a few screenshots to see how things are progressing.
Here is the shortlist of the new features:
We will be releasing the browser, desktop, and android versions within the next few weeks for you to start experimenting with. The iOS version is about ready as well, we just have to finish jumping through the hoops to get it listed.
Here is the shortlist of the new features:
- Mobile, stand-alone versions of the client for Android and iOS.
- A stand-alone desktop version. No need to play in your browser.
- Edit settings while not logged into your character.
- Add characters to the client to easily manage them.
- Auto-login options. Especially handy on mobile.
- Add and play third-party games to the client. Yes, you will be able to play almost any MUD from the Nexus client.
- Settings save on the cloud across all clients. Edit your settings on the desktop version and use them in the mobile app.
- All IRE games can be played in a single client.
- The client is faster and more responsive.
- Settings from your current characters are automatically ported to the new client. They are stored separately, so don't worry about corrupting your setups in the current version of Nexus.
We will be releasing the browser, desktop, and android versions within the next few weeks for you to start experimenting with. The iOS version is about ready as well, we just have to finish jumping through the hoops to get it listed.
Jumpy
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Announce post #3308: Great Hunt Results!
1/17/2022 at 0:08
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Great Hunt Results!
After a gruelling 48 hours, the Great Hunt is now over and the results are as follows:
99+
Rank Name Count True Rank Curr. Class
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1 Jezreth 142038 1 Zealot
2 Tetchta 108132 2 Carnifex
3 Kurak 102657 3 Carnifex
4 Aeryx 92717 4 Templar
5 Teani 71527 5 Shapeshifter
6 Czcibor 42711 6 Warden
7 Cayn 42497 7 Carnifex
8 Toz 40064 8 Carnifex
9 Isia 35991 10 Warden
10 Nipsy 35968 11 Carnifex
Sub-99:
Rank Name Count True Rank Curr. Class
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1 Zerin 37021 9 Sentinel
2 Akrios 20532 16 Warden
3 Procyon 12663 21 Oneiromancer
4 Tahlan 9942 23 Zealot
5 Kevrud 9051 25 Archivist
6 Wyno 8622 28 Warden
7 Vilvoc 8373 29 Carnifex
8 Linne 8323 30 Archivist
9 Sardara 5577 38 Oneiromancer
10 Mielo 5194 42 Warden
Ironman:
Rank Name Count True Rank Curr. Class
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1 Valorie 33791 13 Shaman
2 Bryn 30362 14 Archivist
3 Tanthilos 20685 15 Wayfarer
4 Holbrook 13095 20 Archivist
5 Wjoltyr 9928 24 Sciomancer
6 Herenicus 8752 26 Praenomen
7 Ioai 8644 27 Revenant
8 Rhine 5237 40 Warden
9 Oriana 3641 49 Shapeshifter
10 Saphielle 3043 52 Syssin
Well done to everyone who placed, and to everyone for participating! City riddles will be starting soon!
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 21st of Ios, in the year 500 MA.
Ictinus, the Architect
Everyone
Great Hunt Results!
After a gruelling 48 hours, the Great Hunt is now over and the results are as follows:
99+
Rank Name Count True Rank Curr. Class
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Jezreth 142038 1 Zealot
2 Tetchta 108132 2 Carnifex
3 Kurak 102657 3 Carnifex
4 Aeryx 92717 4 Templar
5 Teani 71527 5 Shapeshifter
6 Czcibor 42711 6 Warden
7 Cayn 42497 7 Carnifex
8 Toz 40064 8 Carnifex
9 Isia 35991 10 Warden
10 Nipsy 35968 11 Carnifex
Sub-99:
Rank Name Count True Rank Curr. Class
----------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Zerin 37021 9 Sentinel
2 Akrios 20532 16 Warden
3 Procyon 12663 21 Oneiromancer
4 Tahlan 9942 23 Zealot
5 Kevrud 9051 25 Archivist
6 Wyno 8622 28 Warden
7 Vilvoc 8373 29 Carnifex
8 Linne 8323 30 Archivist
9 Sardara 5577 38 Oneiromancer
10 Mielo 5194 42 Warden
Ironman:
Rank Name Count True Rank Curr. Class
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 Valorie 33791 13 Shaman
2 Bryn 30362 14 Archivist
3 Tanthilos 20685 15 Wayfarer
4 Holbrook 13095 20 Archivist
5 Wjoltyr 9928 24 Sciomancer
6 Herenicus 8752 26 Praenomen
7 Ioai 8644 27 Revenant
8 Rhine 5237 40 Warden
9 Oriana 3641 49 Shapeshifter
10 Saphielle 3043 52 Syssin
Well done to everyone who placed, and to everyone for participating! City riddles will be starting soon!
Penned by my hand on Kinsday, the 21st of Ios, in the year 500 MA.
Re: Announce post #3309: City Riddle Contest Results!
As promised, here's the outline of all the riddles and their solutions! There were 9 "neutral" riddles that everyone had to solve, and each city also had 1 riddle unique to them.
NEUTRALS
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Through the woods of poor sanctuary, where civilisation dwelt the most in, and the gates never open.
Answer: Before the gate to Dennel, in Ilhavon Forest.
Biggest clues:
* Illhavon = ill haven, rewritten could be poor sanctuary.
* Most in is a play on 'Mostyn'.
* Dennel was a village within Ilhavon.
* Gates never opened because the village was wiped out.
A storm of filth in citadel's wake, where cloth and bucket a home make - no hiding in here!
Answer: Within a cleaning supply closet, in the Squal.
Biggest clues:
* The citadel in question was Ciem, upon which the Squal was built.
* A squall is another word for storm.
* Squalor is another word for filth.
* Cloth and bucket can be found in supply closets, usually!
Where four five and six are the same as one two and three, chains break at the peak, go free.
Answer: A hilltop before a mansion, in the Atlatl Plantation.
Biggest clues:
* The numbers refer to the letters in the name ATLATL. First three letters are the same as the exact same as the last three letters.
* At the hilltop (peak), you can knock on the doors to escape the maze (go free).
All that's brittle is bone, in a drift but not adrift, frozen memory sequestered.
Answer: A massive, bone-littered chamber, in the Ankyrean Containment Laboratory.
Biggest clues:
* The entrance to the area is from a room described as a 'snowdrift' in the Tundra.
* The bone refers to the specific room.
* Frozen memory sequestered is a second clue pointing it towards the Tundra. Frozen memory can hint towards some sort of ruin or corpse.
The mighty hath fallen where the queen quoth no more - she won't be mist.
Answer: Before a massive fallen oak in Dromse.
Biggest clues:
* Oaks are often referred to as "mighty".
* Dromse is adjacent to Belladona's Keep - a place where the queen no longer speaks.
* The missed/mist pun refers to the mist enshrouding both the lake surrounding the keep and Dromse itself.
* Quoth is a reference to The Raven (though it was not intended to be the crux of the clue!)
My first is the mind, my second is blood, my third was a mixture, and my fourth a mystery. My fifth caught the sun and opened the door.
Answer: Outer sanctuary in Masilia.
Biggest clues:
* These were the five puzzles that had to be solved in order to open the door to the Aechros confluence.
From cattle neck to crier's palm to wedding's song to war's alarm - a tribute to these all in haunting darkness knell.
Answer: The Shrine of Bells in Sterion.
Biggest clues:
* All of these refer to bells (cowbell, crier's bell, wedding bell, alarm bell).
* A shrine is a monument or tribute to something.
* Sterion is heavily related to darkness.
Vassals to a broken lord, the dead walk but here they should rest in view of the light.
Answer: Graveyard with an eerie glow in Mor.
Biggest clues:
* The undead in Mor are loyal to Zsarachnor, a now-broken vampire lord.
* A graveyard is somewhere the dead should rest.
* This graveyard has an eerie glow (light).
My quarrying days are done - retired from use but not from service. Once there was blood in the stone below, but now forgotten.
Answer: The Broken Pick tavern in Khauskin.
Biggest clues:
* A broken pick isn't used anymore, but the tavern still offers service.
* There used to be vampires below Khauskin, and the area has a history with Bloodloch (blood in the stone below).
* The Forgotten Mausoleum is now under the village.
CITY UNIQUES
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Between life and death I dwell in shades of black, arms outstretched to shelter dark's gift and magic's legacy.
Answer: Beneath the laden boughs of a towering black oak in Abelaas.
Biggest clues:
* Abelaas is in the crater of Hashan, between a dead city and a living forest.
* The tree itself is black.
* In mythology, Hashan was a gift to Sapience from Severn (dark's gift)
* The blasted crater was left behind after the awakening of Odravh (the Albedi God of Magic and the Arcane).
Four sentinels turn away from the sea, staring inward at the heart of industry.
Answer: Village centre in Kornar.
Biggest clues:
* Four statues surround the central room, these are the sentinels in question.
* They look towards the market and not the sea, Kornar is a coastal town.
* The heart of industry and trade often tends to be the centre of a village market.
In a place of renewal where the old became new and the vile became whole - at the breach, a clash of twins broke me.
Answer: The west dock in Jaru.
Biggest clues:
* Jaru was healed from its plague of darkness and renewed.
* The Arqeshi found a home here, purified from their "vile" state of original Nazetu.
* At the edge of the water (where the sea is split from the land), Xaseira blew up the dock while Shadow and Spirit were fighting over the right to board her ship.
Neath endless dust did sixty percent gather ere defeat and here 'midst vile experiments make ends meat.
Answer: A clinical abbatoir in Tornos.
Biggest clues:
* Endless dust refers to the tundra and the vast snow covering the land above.
* Sixty percent refers to three of the five Ankyrean conclaves that worked in Tornos originally.
* An abbatoir is another term for a slaughterhouse - typically used to slaughter livestock for meat.
NEUTRALS
---------
Through the woods of poor sanctuary, where civilisation dwelt the most in, and the gates never open.
Answer: Before the gate to Dennel, in Ilhavon Forest.
Biggest clues:
* Illhavon = ill haven, rewritten could be poor sanctuary.
* Most in is a play on 'Mostyn'.
* Dennel was a village within Ilhavon.
* Gates never opened because the village was wiped out.
A storm of filth in citadel's wake, where cloth and bucket a home make - no hiding in here!
Answer: Within a cleaning supply closet, in the Squal.
Biggest clues:
* The citadel in question was Ciem, upon which the Squal was built.
* A squall is another word for storm.
* Squalor is another word for filth.
* Cloth and bucket can be found in supply closets, usually!
Where four five and six are the same as one two and three, chains break at the peak, go free.
Answer: A hilltop before a mansion, in the Atlatl Plantation.
Biggest clues:
* The numbers refer to the letters in the name ATLATL. First three letters are the same as the exact same as the last three letters.
* At the hilltop (peak), you can knock on the doors to escape the maze (go free).
All that's brittle is bone, in a drift but not adrift, frozen memory sequestered.
Answer: A massive, bone-littered chamber, in the Ankyrean Containment Laboratory.
Biggest clues:
* The entrance to the area is from a room described as a 'snowdrift' in the Tundra.
* The bone refers to the specific room.
* Frozen memory sequestered is a second clue pointing it towards the Tundra. Frozen memory can hint towards some sort of ruin or corpse.
The mighty hath fallen where the queen quoth no more - she won't be mist.
Answer: Before a massive fallen oak in Dromse.
Biggest clues:
* Oaks are often referred to as "mighty".
* Dromse is adjacent to Belladona's Keep - a place where the queen no longer speaks.
* The missed/mist pun refers to the mist enshrouding both the lake surrounding the keep and Dromse itself.
* Quoth is a reference to The Raven (though it was not intended to be the crux of the clue!)
My first is the mind, my second is blood, my third was a mixture, and my fourth a mystery. My fifth caught the sun and opened the door.
Answer: Outer sanctuary in Masilia.
Biggest clues:
* These were the five puzzles that had to be solved in order to open the door to the Aechros confluence.
From cattle neck to crier's palm to wedding's song to war's alarm - a tribute to these all in haunting darkness knell.
Answer: The Shrine of Bells in Sterion.
Biggest clues:
* All of these refer to bells (cowbell, crier's bell, wedding bell, alarm bell).
* A shrine is a monument or tribute to something.
* Sterion is heavily related to darkness.
Vassals to a broken lord, the dead walk but here they should rest in view of the light.
Answer: Graveyard with an eerie glow in Mor.
Biggest clues:
* The undead in Mor are loyal to Zsarachnor, a now-broken vampire lord.
* A graveyard is somewhere the dead should rest.
* This graveyard has an eerie glow (light).
My quarrying days are done - retired from use but not from service. Once there was blood in the stone below, but now forgotten.
Answer: The Broken Pick tavern in Khauskin.
Biggest clues:
* A broken pick isn't used anymore, but the tavern still offers service.
* There used to be vampires below Khauskin, and the area has a history with Bloodloch (blood in the stone below).
* The Forgotten Mausoleum is now under the village.
CITY UNIQUES
-------------
Between life and death I dwell in shades of black, arms outstretched to shelter dark's gift and magic's legacy.
Answer: Beneath the laden boughs of a towering black oak in Abelaas.
Biggest clues:
* Abelaas is in the crater of Hashan, between a dead city and a living forest.
* The tree itself is black.
* In mythology, Hashan was a gift to Sapience from Severn (dark's gift)
* The blasted crater was left behind after the awakening of Odravh (the Albedi God of Magic and the Arcane).
Four sentinels turn away from the sea, staring inward at the heart of industry.
Answer: Village centre in Kornar.
Biggest clues:
* Four statues surround the central room, these are the sentinels in question.
* They look towards the market and not the sea, Kornar is a coastal town.
* The heart of industry and trade often tends to be the centre of a village market.
In a place of renewal where the old became new and the vile became whole - at the breach, a clash of twins broke me.
Answer: The west dock in Jaru.
Biggest clues:
* Jaru was healed from its plague of darkness and renewed.
* The Arqeshi found a home here, purified from their "vile" state of original Nazetu.
* At the edge of the water (where the sea is split from the land), Xaseira blew up the dock while Shadow and Spirit were fighting over the right to board her ship.
Neath endless dust did sixty percent gather ere defeat and here 'midst vile experiments make ends meat.
Answer: A clinical abbatoir in Tornos.
Biggest clues:
* Endless dust refers to the tundra and the vast snow covering the land above.
* Sixty percent refers to three of the five Ankyrean conclaves that worked in Tornos originally.
* An abbatoir is another term for a slaughterhouse - typically used to slaughter livestock for meat.
Ictinus
10
Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
Don't make me issue you guys for spamming me with filler posts I am forced to read.
... on a more serious note that is unrelated to the recent row of conflict pet peeves, I was really enthusiastic to try my hand at the Y500 Design Contest, but I have had no inspiration and writer's block is hitting me pretty hard still, 17 days into January. Nothing is immediately springing up into my mind.
... on a more serious note that is unrelated to the recent row of conflict pet peeves, I was really enthusiastic to try my hand at the Y500 Design Contest, but I have had no inspiration and writer's block is hitting me pretty hard still, 17 days into January. Nothing is immediately springing up into my mind.
Elene
7
Re: Announce post #3307: Defilement Aura
TLDR: If they use getting killed after involving themselves in a fight that was not their own as a reason to PK you, that's when you involve Admin, because that's not a valid reason at all. Simply jumping into a fight that is not their own is still their choice, and they have to face the consequences of it.I don't think you're getting the point of the question. Your scenario is something that already happens all the time. According to these new rules, Whirran is not allowed to interfere, as he is not of Tanixalthas' order or congregation. Yet he does so anyway, hence breaking the rules. Are you now forced to fight an unfair 2v1, or are you allowed to call someone to help you to make things fair, hence having your friend break the rules too? Are these new rules admin-enforced like holy wars or player-enforced? Is it up to you to just suck it up and go claim cause on Whirran later or can you issue him and call it a day because we all know he should not be getting involved and that is blatant rule-breaking?
Essentially - is admin punishment going to be severe and swift enough to deter people from turning fights into tether vs tether instead of order vs order, or is it still largely player-enforced and we have to continue going in circles figuring out who has cause on who to duke it out later?
ETA - After some discussion, I think further clarification is required, so I'm just going to ask it this way: Is it permissible to defend someone who's getting attacked by people of the order they defiled, for having an aura of defilement? We're not allowed to bring attackers from outside the order, but the person with defilement aura is not disallowed from having all the defenders they want.
Valorie
6
Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
I believe in hard lines drawn in the sand regarding PvP and think those lines shouldn’t be allowed to be smudged. I know some think that those lines aren’t being smudged, but I do.
This might be unpopular, but justifying behaviour that negatively impacts players beyond the in-character consequences around, “it’s my roleplay” or “my God told me to” doesn’t make you anymore a competent role player - it makes you a dick.
In that same exact vein, shouting inanely and ganking random noncoms/lower-tiers that shout back doesn’t make you a villain, it makes you a dick. Being a villain is about enriching the story of others, not about seeing how much you can get away with and then excusing everything with the, ‘but I play a villain’ card.
Honesty if I have to have read another forum-lawyer post that essentially reads out, ‘sorry, but I realise a few people might actually dislike this avenue or may not be having fun but in the way I read the rules, I’m completely within my rights and as a RoLePlAyEr’. Just calm down a minute, Mr. Aetolia. I don’t think I can offer anything else here beyond I disagree with how far you’ve taken this and I disagree harder with how hard you are going to justify it.
This might be unpopular, but justifying behaviour that negatively impacts players beyond the in-character consequences around, “it’s my roleplay” or “my God told me to” doesn’t make you anymore a competent role player - it makes you a dick.
In that same exact vein, shouting inanely and ganking random noncoms/lower-tiers that shout back doesn’t make you a villain, it makes you a dick. Being a villain is about enriching the story of others, not about seeing how much you can get away with and then excusing everything with the, ‘but I play a villain’ card.
Honesty if I have to have read another forum-lawyer post that essentially reads out, ‘sorry, but I realise a few people might actually dislike this avenue or may not be having fun but in the way I read the rules, I’m completely within my rights and as a RoLePlAyEr’. Just calm down a minute, Mr. Aetolia. I don’t think I can offer anything else here beyond I disagree with how far you’ve taken this and I disagree harder with how hard you are going to justify it.
Naos
5
Re: Mildly Irritating: Aetolia's Pet Peeves
Who bashes in the vortex, what is wrong with all of you. The intended usage for the vortex is to oil yourself up after removing your armor. Then you emote at Iesid with your glistening body.
Ehtias
6
