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Announce News Post #2344

Cryptic Chest items

Written by: Razmael, the Synthesist
Date: Wednesday, December 10th, 2014
Addressed to: Everyone


Hey folks,

Our chests are now loaded with new items, along with some familiar old ones. Details contained below!

NEW ITEMS:
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A 25cr artifact discount voucher
- Your next credit artifact purchase at Qeddwyn's shop will be 25cr cheaper. Will stack.

An ambience token
- This can be redeemed for an ambience message attached to your character. This is essentially a message that will show in whatever room you're standing in every few minutes. Restrictions and standards apply. Talk to Razmael to redeem.

NEW COMPENDIUM PAGES:
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- The Forgotten Dome
- Bastion of Illdon

NEW MINIPETS:
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- a sprightly foal
- a young fawn
- an orange and white tiger cub
- a raccoon cub

RE-ADDED RELICS:
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By popular demand, a few of our old artifact relics are making a return. You will once more find parts for the following artifact relics in the chests:
- the Eyes of the Observer
- a bracer of hammered ilmenite
- a compass of disorientation
- an ornately-framed mirror
- the star chart of Elenina

NEW RACIAL RELICS:
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Here is the list of new racial relics, their corresponding relic piece, and what they do.

Plumage (4x a clump of feathers)
- Allows access to the WINGFLUTTER emote.
- Allows you to RUFFLE FEATHERS.

Snake skin (4x a scrap of snakeskin)
- Allows you to SHED SKIN once an hour, leaving it behind as an item.

Elemental shroud (4x a glowing <element> crystal)
- Six variants, one for each element (earth/fire/air/water/shadow/spirit).
- Changes your room description in LOOK to show you being wreathed in the specific element.
- Allows you to BLAST <target>, a basic attack that will use the specific element.
- You can obtain multiple shrouds, but only one may be activated at once. Use ELEMENT <type> to select.

Mandibles (4x a crushed insect head)
- Allows access to the MASTICATE command and MANDIBLES emote normally reserved for Horkval.

Horns (4x a broken animal horn)
- Your HEADBUTT emote will deal minor damage to its target.
- You can HORNLOCK someone else with the horns relic and attempt to throw them to the ground.

Glow (4x a glowing firefly larvae)
- You can GLOWON to suffuse your body with a gentle light, appending a coloured line to your description.
- You can FLASH to reveal any hidden people (SEARCH substitute).
- GLOWOFF to turn it off again.

Vines (4x a creeping vine tendril)
- Grants a custom message when using swing up/swing down to climb trees.
- You can use ENTANGLE <target> as a free web tattoo effect.

REMOVED:
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- a simurgh hatchling
- a grumpy baby gorgon
- a fledgling air beast
- a snow-white ermine
- a hissing mephit
- Albedi sunspear relic parts
- dreamscape mirror relic parts
- all previous racial relics were removed

Penned by my hand on the 21st of Lleian, in the year 436 MA.


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