Wecome to the TownCrier’s Discord Digest! In this space, we at the TownCrier will attempt to provide a daily digest of select conversations at the Official GemStone IV Discord server from 10 pm EST the night previous to 10 pm EST the night of. Not all conversations will be reported and we will endeavor to utilize a neutral tone (although our unique senses of humor may show through).

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The majority of this digest record was compiled by the player of Qafziel Nalfein/Darcena Wolf-Valslayer; #scripting was compiled by Luxelle. Have an error to report on this digest or some information to pass along? Contact Jen on Discord at ArmyJen#0001. Please reference which digest day to which you are referring.

What You Missed

General Gemstone IV

#general

Milax announced a special edition of the podcast Town Square Central featuring exclusive Duskruin information/spoilers and an interview with PM Wyrom.

#premium

Traiva announced that she “wrote a thing” for the Nazhor Chronicles storyline on Four Winds Isle.

#mechanics

Ibbo notified GMs that something funky was happening with 1205. GM Estild responded, “I found the issue with Soothing Word (1205) and fixed it. There was a situation where it wouldn’t provide the sheer fear immunity. It will also appropriately end Berserk now too.”

#scripting

LostRanger updated ;foreach with a bug fix. Download a new copy of this extremely useful script today.

LostRanger also reminded us about his Help Wanted ad that ran on the TownCrier last week: HELP WANTED: Lost Ranger seeks a JavaScript front-end developer to collaborate on a highlight string management script for Stormfront. Can you help? Contact Lostranger / dewin#1028 on Discord

World of Elanthia

#roleplay-in-elanthia

Questions:

  • Do your characters enjoy their work/avocation/calling in life? Is it an onerous chore for them, or do they relish what they do? [Do your characters enjoy their work/avocation/calling in life? Is it an onerous chore for them, or do they relish what they do?] [Lylia]
  • Our characters are all rolled up wearing garbage clothing and broke AF. Is it bad RP to get your other characters to outfit them or is it just something most people do? [Avalera]

Talinvor said about the Black Iron Chalice, “just to throw it out there, if anyone has interest in performing just for fun and without commitment, hit me up and I can roll something out. My MHO is specifically for performance RP”

SimuCoin Events and Quests

#duskruin

PM Wyrom posted the following snippets:

You search around and find a shimmering indigo orb! Roundtime: 5 sec.

A Silent Investor battlemaster says, “Here you go, Wyrom, for your efforts in the bank.” The battlemaster hands you 260 bloodscrip, which you pocket, and a nondescript burlap pouch.
>open my pouch
You open a nondescript burlap pouch.
>l in my pouch
In the burlap pouch you see a shimmering indigo orb, an oily kobold-filled painting and a drakar war hammer.

A Silent Investor battlemaster says, “Here you go, Wyrom, for your efforts in the bank.” The battlemaster hands you 260 bloodscrip, which you pocket, and a nondescript burlap pouch.

The battlemaster informs, “I’ve also been told you’ve been invited to the smithy for your work.”

He concluded by saying, “Don’t worry everything got a facelift.”

HebrewToYou suggested, “just gonna take this opportunity to renew my call for Self Knowledge Combat Maneuver items. those would sell VERY well” GM Estild responded, “That’s definitely on the list to someday implement, HewbrewToYou.”

GM Estild mentioned he would want great ideas on caster armor for future Duskruins and the channel explodes.

Leafiara summarized the teasers from Milax’s podcast:

Things coming to DR this run:
* extraplanar bane
* bane boosts (add more weighting/AS)
* greater elemental flares
* enhancive bonuses – now offers skills, stats, and (non-spirit) recovery
* add Voln armor to pre-existing armor
* lower level Voln unlocks
* old style coraesine
* old style chaos weapons
* chainspears
* 2x/day familiar items
Oh, and 260 bloodscrip in the heist, 275 in the arena, increased amounts in the sewers
Also an upscaling rate of finding RPA orbs until you find one, before I forget. (in other words, the longer you go without finding one, the more likely you do; then you find one and it resets).”

PM Wyrom said, “I’ll be posting everything and we’ll have an email too. And there is more being added outside what was on the podcast. Later tonight. Likely after 11pm ET. Email will be Friday.”

Leafiara mentioned she hoped the tokens would upscale in drop rate. PM Wyrom responded, “Not for tokens, this is more the beta run of it to see how it goes. If we feel token drop rates suck, we’ll adjust.”

PM Wyrom also said, “Smithy invites are everywhere now.”

GM Retser said, “You asked the other day, but I got distracted. The sprite swarm is triggered from the weapon so that will behave the same. The sprite swarm will be able to be triggered by the arrow, but each “swarm” has the same consumption rate as the flare.”

Calista asked, “sprite caster armor soon?” GM Retser answered, “I have some armor on the back burner, but it isn’t linked to anything else in theme. Maybe one day”

#quests

Melivn asked, “Oh all and powerful @Retser what are the chances more than one instance of NATA or BSC could be set up to run at a time? Its just kinda lame to get a group of people together get to the gate and see someone is already running it.” PM Wyrom stated, “Probably slim to none.” The player then suggested a system in which you could shove an orb in a book to lock a time. GM Retser replied, “As Wyrom said, there are a lot of hard coded things. So I would have to re-write the portions that handle that to identify based on instance it is contained within. That is in addition to duplicating all the objects and rooms. It isn’t a small task. It would basically be a re-write + implementation to get it done. You can use the QUEST STATUS to see who is running something. I’m handling some duskruin stuff and then hopefully wrapping up TW. It is my busier time of the year now as well.”

Continuing the discussion, GM Naos said, “I have thought about instancing mechanics a lot in the context of GemStone and we’ve definitely had some conversations about the technical aspect. Regardless of what that might look like, it would require all legacy content be rebuilt/converted to function in that context and that alone would be a significant endeavour. I would expect to see other instanced content released before we see older content updated.”

Qafziel Nalfein

Qafziel Nalfein, scholar and political devotee, travels Elanith learning more about the relationships between notable parties. His focus is on the Cooperative Houses of Elanthia and Meeting Hall Organizations and their liaisons, but he’s also known to pop into a town meeting on a whim or congratulate someone on reaching the pinnacle of their studies whether it be in warfare or sorcery or something else entirely. Qaf is always on the lookout for ways to connect individuals and organizations both with each other, with adventurers, and with the TownCrier for the betterment of our society. He maintains a network of informants who assist him in his tasks.