While the Great Hunt was going on, the team and I took the opportunity to work on some of the many player-submitted IDEAs in the system. We're pleased to announce the following changes:

Skills and abilities:
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* CLAWVENOMS has been added to REND's AB file.
* DISMOUNT has been added to CHARIOT's AB file.
* SEVER ALL has been added for elemental channels.
* CHAMELEON tattoo will now show who you are mimicking on DEFENCES.
* Server-side curing will no longer try to stand when a serpent BASKS.
* Serpents may now SNUFF LIGHTWALL to cancel their own walls.
* BACKSTAB, SNIPE, and the DARKSHADE venom now have a unique deathsight.
* Riding a balloon giraffe will convey waterwalking to the rider.
* DOLL/PUPPETLIST abilities have been added.
* FISHLIST has been added.
* LETTERLIST will now show if a postal item is a letter or a parcel.
* Butchering cleavers can now be forged.
* HYPOCHONDRIA affliction has been reworked. It now fires a little slower, but triggers more debilitating afflictions (outstanding CLASSLEAD change).
* The final message of tattooing is now different for the recipient and witnesses.
* FLEETSENSE will now show the hoisted flag, if any.
* RATTLE TO <adventurer> has been added for serpents.
* SKYWATCH, TREEWATCH, GROUNDWATCH will now fire more consistently for movement within the same room.

Organisations and groups:
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* TRADE FUNDS has been added to the trade ministry.
* Army leaders will now be notified when a soldier increases in rank.
* ARMYWHO will now show the soldier's class and channel status.
* Citizens who log on during a sanctioned raid will now receive a short period of divine grace. This will only occur if the citizen has not logged in recently.

Items and artefacts:
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* PROBE'ing the Conclave hourglass will now show any remaining time.
* Portable potbellied stoves are now only takable by the owner, and are generally more lively.
* The # reference has been added to the REFILL command (REFILL VIAL#5 FROM HEALTH).
* Heron feathers are now groupable.
* The contents of the pipe will now be shown when puffed and when the pipe goes out.
* RELIC YIELD will voluntarily give up a relic in your possession.
* Loyal mounts "killed" in the arena are now moved to the staging grounds.
* Owners of the platinum whistle can now use the INV argument to have the mount summoned to their inventory.
* Masked entities will now longer reveal their presence when summoned with a platinum whistle.
* INRIFT/INDECK ALL have been added, allowing easy clean-up of riftables.
* PROBE will now prioritise denizens in the room over corpses in your inventory.
* Letters will no longer decay inside stationary kits before being taken out.
* Heart-shaped furniture is now available.
* Frozen images from the obsidian disc can now be engraved.
* Manuscripts can now be targets as books.
* Serpentine keyrings can now be targeted as serpentine.

People:
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* PROTEGES will now show the online status of your students.
* The wandering salesman Darmong now responds to tells asking "where are you?"
* BIRTHDAYS is now sorted by age.
* PROBE <adventurer> will now function the same as LOOK <adventurer>.
* RACEWHO will now colour the adventurer's name (similar to CWHO).
* Experience sharing in groups is now modified by each adventurer's level.
* Friend requests will now expire within 14 days.

Places:
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* A new dynamic landmark has been added: WALK TO LASTDEATH[ROOM] Taking you back to where you last died.
* Arena challenges will now show the challenged adventurer how much the spar will cost.
* The plane of Annwyn has been divided into four separate areas.
* Ferzels are significantly slower at moving around, and much less likely to gather in large groups.
* The wilderness at Clockwork Isle no longer suggests the man-made island is a naturally formed beach.
* A newbie landmark for IMPS has been added.
* Denizen shopkeepers standing in their shop will now direct you to look at WARES, when asked about their wares.

Emotes:
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* TAUNT can now be untargetted.
* FLIP is no longer a rude gesture.
* BIRD has disappeared.
* FLIPOFF now exists.
* ZIPLIP has been replaced with LOCKLIPS.
* TICKLECHIN has been updated.
* STROKE has been altered.
* YUM has been updated.
* PUNT has been replaced by SHOVE.

General:
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* SEARCHNEWS now allows three letter search terms.
* ENTS is not a valid alternative to the ENTOURAGE command.
* ALIAS command structure has been consolidated, use ALIAS on its own for the syntax.
* PRIO and DEF are now shortened arguments in the CURING command.
* SAY will no longer cause kneeling adventurers to stand.
* SETTARGET, REL, and REPLY can now be done during channelled actions (such as propping totems).
* IDEA and CLASSLEAD may now be done while sleeping.
* Your own IDEAs may be deleted with DELIDEA <idea#>.
* IDEA submission will now tell you the idea# for your submission.
* Submitters will be be shown the text of their IDEA when it is approved.
* Defences have been added to CURINGSETS.
* Server-side curing respects voice balance when putting up defences.
* SHOW INFAMY has been added.
* SHOW POSE has been added.
* HELP NISHNATOBA now exists.
* HELP SHALLAM exists once more, and is listed under HELP HISTORY.
* The system message when a queued command is run will now state which queue it is running from.
* HOUSING LIST ROOM UPGRADES is now an acceptable substitute for HOUSE SHOW ROOM UPGRADES.

Penned by My hand on the 17th of Phaestian, in the year 660 AF.