Melben has announced an archery contest on the Clan Lord Sentinel:
Dear Puddleby:
An archery contest will be held on April 27th @ 4 pm PDT. Please any and all interested exiles attend!
Additionally, up to 8 bows and quivers with arrows will be available to lend for the use of the contest.
Prizes: (Many prizes and donations still being accepted) - Please donate
Dye Kit #1 = 1 orgaberry, 1 lilaberry, and a silk shirt
Dye Kit #2 = 1 orgaberry, 1 lilaberr, and a puma pelt or fellbuck pelt
Armor Kit = 1 iron helmet, and 1 iron shield
Small Door Prizes galore
Competition: 3 Rounds
1st Round = A 3 stage timed biatholon of running and shooting in the east field.
2nd Round = A Spiritwood hunt, allowing for three shots at spriggins.
3rd Round = A moving target round to be held at the University with three shots and obstructions.
The rounds may be subject to change as testing continues for efficiency, fun, and competition.
Please any and all exiles attend, even healers and mystics will have a fine chance to win.
Sincerely,
Melben the Mystic
Delta Tao reports:
The v852 Mac client had an annoying auto-update bug, which we didn’t know about until an hour or two after the v855 storm. As a result, the first edition of the v855 Mac client contained the same bug too. The symptom is that the auto-update process stops midway through, after successfully downloading the replacement client but before firing it up.
If you haven’t yet been able to auto-upgrade your v852 client to v855, then look in the “Downloads” folder beside it. You’ll find a shiny new v855 client waiting there, all ready to go. Simply drag that out of “Downloads” into the enclosing folder, replacing the 852 client, and you should be all set. (See also the discussion of this issue on the Sentinel.)
If you did successfully upgrade from v852 to v855 soon after the Storm — in other words, earlier than approximately 1:00 AM EDT on 17 April, then you received the bad 855 client. You should download this repaired v855 version, which fixes the bug. Otherwise the v858 update (three weeks from now) won’t go as smoothly for you as it’s supposed to.
Sorry for the inconvenience.
Chaos Storm #855 has swept the Lok'Groton island chain. Please post any changes you have observed and wish to share with others in the comments. If you don't want to read possible spoilers, please do not read any further!
Delta Tao's "What's New" for v855:
4/16/2014 v855
A well-spent day brings happy sleep. — Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)
* We did a pretty fair-sized spring cleaning among the scripts: the server now wastes appreciably less memory. In theory, you won’t notice any differences. But in practice, there’s always a chance that we dotted a “t” where we should have crossed an “i”; so if you spot anything misbehaving egregiously, please do /BUG it. (Don’t go cross-eyed, or dot-T!)
Connie Crete sent the following report to TMN:
Ber Para,
Great news! Tha mighty Dwarven Militia be havin a new member. Gofram comes out rarely, but when he does he joins our moseys. He be good halflin with a dorf heart. So he said a while back, "kin I join." After much drunked deliberation we said "Sure!" Then we dranked in town.
The End.
Oh ya, befer that we had a good metz mosey. Lots o guests, lots o regulars, few FB, lots o DM. Kilt stuffs, fell lots, didnt have ta short walk home. All in all, a good mosey.
Ber!
-Connie