Over the next few days we may experience some connectivity issues with either the website or the game itself.

This is because the hosting company is upgrading its network infrastructure. While they'll making an effort to minimize down-time there still may be some brief moments where the server or the webpages are unreachable. So don't panic if you can't connect--simply try again five minutes or so later.

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For the month of May, we're going to try out the Glow Chat System by adding a global channel. It is possible that you'll think of it as the 'public channel' but it is called "Dreamchat". The usual sorts of commands will allow you to access it, such as 'dreamchat', 'dc'. As I am lazy, I leave the other aliases as an exercise for experimentation.

We'll be trying out a variety of settings throughout the month. This week, the channel is configured so that it has to be turned on each time your character connects (unless it is already connected). The channel WILL NOT announce when someone has started listening to the channel.

It is a public channel, anyone might hear what you say on it, so be conscious of that when you use it. Don't have conversations on it that you intend to be private. As always, be careful not to reveal privileged in-character information, do not use the channel as a way of speculating about player alternate characters, and try not to 'reveal your secret identity'. Play your cards close to your chest, just like a superhero.

We're trying it out from 2012 May 1st (Midnight-GMT) through 11:50 PM GMT on May 31st.

Some of you may have played a board game called Wolves and Foxes, created by Wixenstyx and located in a couple of places around the MUCK. We got some bug reports on it and so I've straightened those out and added several more game sets around taverns and inns in various regions. There's also a set located in the lower level of the OOC Lounge, if you can't find one in your IC region.

Come one, come all and match your wits!

We had a problem recently where fishing and combat commands didn't work properly. Combat would complain about a "divide-by-zero". Feaelin made an improvement to the Glowmuck engine that allows it to handle decimal numbers in MUF programs, but it had an unexpected side-effect that broke these two game systems. Read more »

We made some changes to the server configuration this morning. There were some configuration changes that we wanted to make and update to a more recent version of GlowMUCK... Read more »

We experienced a brief network outages today. Our hosting service's data-center experienced some network connectivity issues around 12:36pm (CST) today. Connectivity was restored at 12:55pm.

Our apologies to anyone who tried to connect during that time.

You may have noticed in recent weeks a new theme for the forums that is slightly more in keeping with the main body of the website. It's been sort of my pet project for the last several weeks and as of this writing I believe I've finally gotten it to the point where everything works as intended.

However! I am going to be completely honest with you! I don't know the first thing about web development, and it's possible that there are lots of things that I have broken or browsers in which everything looks atrocious. To that end, I would be greatly appreciative if you could let me know about any possible bugs you find with the new forum skin. I can be contacted by email (blackclaw@narniamuck.org), in-game page mail, or by forum message.

I play an online computer game which will remain nameless. Socially, the game is a great deal like a MU*...small independently operated servers with a small staff. I had been playing 'lone wolf' style--playing independently of the other players on the game. I paid only marginal attention to what staff and other players were talking about on public chat. On occasion, I saw some things go by that got an raised eyebrow or two, but I ignored it... Read more »

Our mobiles (anything that moves/talks/etc. around on its own without a player) are handled by a program called Animazing. We've had some recent problems with Animazing in that it couldn't stay running the way it normally does... Read more »