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- You can get a specific amount of items:

> get 4 bread
> get 3 gem 2.bag

* March 17, 2009
- The 'spells' command has been improved.
- Some objects won't fall.

* March 13, 2009
- The detect poison spell now works more like detect magic,
giving a person the ability to detect poison for a while.
- First aid has been made more useful.
- Most fluid or non-corporeal creatures won't leave behind
a corpse when killed.
- The exits and scan commands were tweaked a bit.

* February 4, 2009
- After using summon mount, (Anti-)Paladins won't have to wait
a week to summon a new one; the cooldown is now 12 hours
since the mount is lost.
- The guard skill now works on NPCs.
- New emote's command lets you do stuff like:
> emote's arms flail wildly as he falls over!
<> Laochan's arms flail wildly as he falls over!
- Damage amounts now visible for damage done by soulshield,
fireshield, and coldshield.
- Creatures that armor themselves magically will no longer
manage to get -2000 ac and be unhittable. *yay*
- Fixed numerous minor bugs.

* September 20, 2008
- Anti-Paladins have uncovered the secrets of the Dark Presence spell.
- The consider command has been improved somewhat.
- The Comprehend Language spell has been removed.

* September 14, 2008
- Cryomancers have lost the ability to cast vaporform.
- Waterform has become a quest spell.

* September 10, 2008
- Odaishyozen has been touched up a bit. See if you can find
the new items!

* September 7, 2008
- Equipment used to become weightless when you wore it. Now it
will continue to have weight. This will disrupt some folks'
carefully apportioned kits, so the weight limit has been increased
accordingly.
- Objects will now generally disappear from the game if left
unattended for too long. Basically, if a player handles something
and then gets rid of it, OR if an object falls to the ground from
a decomposing corpse, it will disappear after a while.
Also, player corpses will take even longer to decompose.
- When you're very close to your weight limit, you'll be too
heavy to fly.

* August 31, 2008
- The towns of Mielikki, Anduin, and Ickle won't tolerate evil
pets any more, and the guards will attack them on sight.
Necromancers especially should take care.
- Town guards are more protective of players and will help them
out in a fight, instead of taking the NPC's side like they used
to do. There is an exception: if you're fighting a guard or
other valued townsperson, the guards WILL still attack you.
- The new toggles have been renamed ExpandObjs and ExpandMobs.

* August 30, 2008
- The StackObjs and StackMobs toggles can now be used to control
whether you see multiples of the same object or mobile on a
single line when you look in a room, a container, or your inventory.
- The 'abandon' command allows you to leave behind folks who are
following you.

* August 24, 2008
- Adventurers may be excited to learn that a way exists into
Technitzitlan that doesn't involve falling. Good luck finding it.
- NPCs won't have unlimited spells any longer.

* August 21, 2008
- According to word of mouth, a new resort up north has opened
its doors to the public! Phoenix Feather Hot Springs should be
a good challenge for those of you in the 55-60 range.
- There is no longer a damage type of "magic". The magic missile
spell now does piercing damage. Bigby's Fist does crushing damage
and disintegrate does acid damage.

* August 17, 2008
- You can edit your description in the game with the 'desc' command.
- By player suggested idea your trophy will clear when you die,
unless you're questing. This was a good idea submitted long ago
but we're going through them all and going to give each its due.
Some quests require you to get a list of creatures on your trophy.
Gods who assign quests are responsible for marking players as
'questing' or not.

* August 16, 2008
- A hundred or so player submitted ideas have been addressed
and the responses are in the forums. These ideas span all
the way back to the first week this current version of the
code was active.

* August 12, 2008
- Some sorcerer single-target attack spells were recalibrated.
- NPCs are affected by laryngitis. This sad affliction has
descended upon them due to the corruption of the Necromancer
class by nefarious agents.

* August 10, 2008
- Due to insufficient demand, the weapon slinging feature has
been retired.
- The operation of the sense life spell has changed. Our
long-time players may recognize its behavior being very close
to the original spell. In keeping with the concept of life
forces, it now depends on the susceptibility to healing magic.
As a result, purely magical creatures cannot be sensed with
this spell.
- Heatwave and Cone of Cold was fixed. You'll have to discover
that that means.

* April 17, 2008
- Hitroll and Armor Class points are now individually significant.
Previously, you had to roll over the 10s digit to gain any
benifit - for example, 19 was no better than 10. Now every
point counts.

* April 12, 2008
- The AUTOTREAS toggle can be used to merely loot treasure,
such as coins and gems, from your kills.

* April 4, 2008
- The split command now randomly chooses who gets
the 'leftovers'.
- There are two new toggles: autoloot and autosplit.
See HELP AUTOLOOT and HELP AUTOSPLIT.
- The movement point cost for using the disarm skill
has been changed.
- Bashed mobs will stay down a bit longer.

* March 28, 2008
- When you are in a fluid state due to the Waterform or
Vaporform spell, you won't be able to pick up or accept
objects.
- Creatures are resistant to various types of damage
according to their composition. For example, ice creatures
will be immune to cold, but vulnerable to crushing. See
HELP COMPOSITION for more information.
- Creatures are also vulnerable to certain attacks according
to their life force. See HELP LIFE FORCE for more
information.
- Spectres, ghosts, and other creatures with no physical
form are generally invulnerable to physical attacks.
However, the bless and dark presence spells can help
fighters destroy these beings. See HELP BLESS and
HELP DARK PRESENCE.
- The above changes represent a major change to Fiery's
combat system, so rebalancing is likely. Please use the
BUG or PETITION commands if you see any inconsistencies
or imablances.

* March 11, 2008
- With the NoClanTell toggle, you can suppress messages from your
clan channel.

* February 11, 2008
- There's a new toggle: nohint. You can use it to choose whether
to get the names of similar commands when you enter a typo or
nonexistent command.
- Did you know that most of the subclass quests were broken?
Well, they got fixed.
- Hide was acting up too. It got fixed.
- Deities will be able to "hotboot" the mud so that it restarts
without disconnecting everyone. Other than that, it will be
like a normal reboot.

* February 5, 2008
- Scavenger mobs have been fixed.
- Players can now be assigned several titles for their good
(or nefarious) deeds. You can choose which of your titles to
display at any time.

* January 26, 2008
- Area Updates:
o A couple of the Eldoria quests were repaired.
o A large number of phase armor quests that were broken should
be functional now. Post in the forums if they are not.
o Princess Signess shouldn't hide anymore.

* January 21, 2008
- You can drag incapacitated players who have consented you.
- Spellcasters won't receive skills they can't use.
- Observations made using infravision are more detailed.
- The "attributes" command now shows unmodified HP and MV.
- Quite a number of scripts and quests have been updated to take
advantage of some code improvements. Let us know if any of
them cease working.
- Some mobs (like assassin and warriors) will now fight back using
various skills, like kick and hitall. Look out for thieves with loose
hands too. Also, spellcasters will now cast spells more specific to
their class too.
- The exp bar will now appear on your score, and also displays your
progress to the next level with greater precision. The * shows
your overall progress towards the next level, and the = marks
show your progress between * gradations.
- You can use the 'aggr' command to make yourself aggressive, and
to preemptively attack mobiles that would attack you.

* December 25, 2007
- Merry Christmas!! and a Ho Ho Ho!!
- There was a bug that prevented says from being seen by other
players in the room with you. This has been fixed.
- Some bug associated with fly has been fixed.
- There was an error in weight calculations that allowed players
carrying so much weight they would be crushed to be able to move
around still.. fixed!
- The armor bug has been fixed and should actually help your AC
instead of making it worse.

* December 24, 2007
- Merry Christmas!!
- Clans have been redesigned from scratch, and should eliminate
some of the previously experienced bugs. Some snazzy new
features have been introduced with the new design, including
descriptions, alts, and the ability to enroll, promote, demote,
or expel someone when they aren't even online! See 'help clan'
for more info.
- The score command now almost always shows the numbers behind the
descriptive text, even for newbies. Some of the descriptive
messages have changed to be shorter (current load) or more
accurate (exp progress). Some of these changes also affect the
attributes command.
- Several new command codes are available for prompt, including
hiddenness, alignment, your name, exp, and active spells! See
'help prompt' for descriptions of each code.
- Or if you're too lazy to figure that all out, try one of the
two new preset displays (just type 'display' to see them).
They show alignment, hiddenness, exp to the next level, and
active spells.

* December 10, 2007
- Transient objects should behave better once picked up.
- Numerous long standing crash bugs fixed.
- Instakill will now have a chance to improve skill on failure.
- Steal will have a slightly better chance of success if hidden.
- Changes to the open command! For the long history of FieryMud
if ever there was a container and a door in the same room a
player would always try to open the container and be frustrated
just trying to find the door. This how now been fixed! If you
state open it will open the door. The
trick is stating the direction will now always ignore
containers and other objects.
- The automatic reboot times of the mud, introduced to give
players a fresh mud to hunt in from time to time, has been
lengthened.
- Rumor has it, carrying capacity was tweaked a little to
increase it. But not for Ehlissa.
- Spellcasting will abort nearly instantly if the target of
the spell disappears for some reason.
- Damage caused by low level sorcerous creatures (NPCs) has been
reduced to be inline with melee damage. (Wait, what? oh
man why we so nice? -Zzur)
- Fixed "some" damage oriented spells that weren't
properly calculating damage.

* October 25, 2007
- The behavior of hide and sneak has changed.
Players, mobs, and objects now have "hide points,"
reflecting how hidden someone or something is. If
this number is lower than your perception stat, you
will be able to see it. The search command will
remove hide points from hidden objects. Also, if
you are hiding, you are now automatically sneaking.
- If you know the name of a hidden door, you can
type "search to find it immediately.
- Monks have some new chants, three of which you
may quest for.
- Druids will no longer be randomly kicked out of their
shapechanges, but will return to their normal form if
idle for too long.
- Druids can now be able to use OOC communication
as themselves while shapechanged.
- Toggles are now available while shapechanged.
- Instead of crumbling when you remove them,
"transient" items will now crumble when left on the
ground. Expect some newbie items and keys to be
marked transient.
- Summon will now find the closest target to the caster.
- Many communication and information commands
will now be usable while meditating, casting, and
paralyzed.
- The compare command can be used to help decide
which of two objects is better than the other.
- We decided to stop dropping newbies into a bottomless chasm.
- You can set your hometown (the place word of recall takes
you) by touching certain artifacts in Mielikki, Ickle,
Anduin, and Ogakh.

* September 15, 2007
- We've moved a few of our newbie areas nearer to
the Forest Village of Mielikki.
- The rent limit has been abolished, although
carrying capacity for some of our stronger
characters has been lowered.
- Single-target attack spells for Sorcerers,
Pyromancers, and Cryomancers have been beefed up.
- Thieves get double attack at level 75, and
mercenaries get dual wield at level 15.
- Thieves have a new ability: identify. Well
actually everyone has it, but only thieves are
any good at it.
- Druids can now specify an animal job to shapechange into:
tank, damager, tracker, or travel. Additionally, there is
now a set of fish species available when in the water.
See help shapechange for more information.
- Invigorate is now a group spell.
- Farsee now helps you scan farther.
- Natures embrace now allows druids to freely move around
outdoors while still hidden from view.

* August 20, 2007
- The abort command will allow you to prematurely
end a spell cast.
- Circle of fire will now do damage both on the way
into and out of a room, as the helpfile reports.
- A stadium-style PK arena is now open at the
Festival Grounds in Upper Anduin. Yes, you read
that correctly.
- The locate object spell is back. All sorcerer
classes receive it. Wands and scrolls of locate
object may also be found across the realm.
- Skilled warriors and mercenaries can carefully
concert their combat movements to control their
escape from battle using the retreat skill. Mercenaries
can direct an orderly retreat of an entire group using
group retreat.
- Monks may now train to springleap their opponents,
potentially knocking them over.
- Especially skilled rogues and monks can corner their
opponents, preventing them from fleeing.
- With a little bit of effort, industrious rogues and
thieves can conceal items in the room. They may
also be able to conceal their interactions with items
through the stow and palm commands.
- Rogues and assassins have the ability to discretely
follow their targets, shadowing their movements.
- Skilled rogues and thieves may reach new levels
of sneakiness with the stealth skill.
- Druids have a new spell, moonbeam, in circle 3.
- We have new socials: flanic, glomp, mumble, twitch,
beckon, and glower.
- Many creatures across the realm have received their
due elemental immunities. Fire won't harm fire
elementals, cold won't hurt ice golems, and so forth.
- Excessive talking, gossiping, and other communicating
will result in laryngitis.

* July 29, 2007
- Mounts are now available to all levels - just
don't expect to be able to control anything
particularly powerful at level 1.
- Pets, including purchased and summoned
mounts, will leave the game when their master
attacks them or leaves the game.
- Ehlissa's singing won't be able to crash the
mud anymore.
- The douse spell is now called extinguish.
- Word of command no longer causes mobs to
attack you when the spell succeeds.
- The banish spell has had a complete rewrite,
and should be more useful.
- Dispel magic can now make invisible items visible.
- Wizard eye now works on NPCs.

* June 24, 2007
- The track skill works more sensibly.
- You must now find a guildmaster within your
class/subclass group in order to level gain.
- Plus several world fixes!

* May 20, 2007
- Rogues once again have the eye gouge skill.
- The color spray spell has been overhauled to be
cooler and more useful.
- You can now use stabbing and stinging weapons for
backstabbing.
- Your prompt is now customizable! See help prompt
for details.
- The quest system has had extensive background
changes. Please let us know if there are any problems.
- The commands command is back.
- The demonic mutation spell works now.
- A new spell is available to cryomancers via questing.

* March 28, 2007
- SEVERAL minor fixes across the realm.
- Innate command has been tidied up.
- Minor spell fixes and improvements.
- Summon mount now depends on your level and alignment.
- Some skills may improve faster now.

* Febuary 20, 2007
- Some adjustments to the Frost Elf tower. You
should check it out.
- Sorcerers get a new spell in circle 8: harness.
- Waterform and ice armor got tweaked a little.
- Pyromancers are losing firewalk and greater
firewalk, but gaining two new spells, combust
and cremate.
- Spells like entangle and minor paralysis shouldn't
start combat if you're successful now.
- Rain will now put out circle of fire.
- Save spell will now actually make a difference.
- Dimension door has been repaired.
- Protection from evil now protects you from evil.
- The freeze spell has been repaired.
- Harm and full harm have been boosted a little.
- Negate heat and negate cold will now work as
advertised all the time.
- Identify shows the capacity of containers.

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