The +joust system has now been completed and can be read about in +help +joust. It is likely that the system will undergo some tweaking as it sees more testing, and the gain and loss of Renown has not yet been added in, but the basic functionality of jousting someone else is now functioning.

The +rumors system has been at the same stage of completion for some time now (see +help rumors), but we haven’t announced this as we had hoped to get the Renown in there. That will take a bit longer, so we would like to announce it now anyhow. Basically, it will work as it should for untargetted rumors and targetted rumors using Influence rather than Renown.

If you’d like to advertise the game on any other games you play on, or in any on-line communities, we have now made an official game ad available. You can access this on the game via +display nymeria/ad (this will give you an evaluated version suitable for forums or livejournals) or via ex *nymeria/ad (this will give you an unevaluated version suitable for other MU*s).

Before you post the ad somewhere, keep these things in mind:

1) Make sure advertising is allowed.

2) Only advertise on games where you play.

3) Make sure someone else has not already advertised the game in the same place.

4) If reciprocal advertising is required, we have an ElseMU* board setup for this purpose. However, the game would have to allow you to make the reciprocal posting, as guests cannot make use of it.

We’d also appreciate it if you drop us a +mail to note where you have placed the ad, so we can keep track of where the game has been advertised.

A new Type, ‘Extra’, has been added to the CDB. This will be used for NPCs added specifically to be used by any player who needs them for a scene. They are intended primarily as background characters; septons, guardsmen, merchants, etc. We have already had quite a few suggestions (but more are welcome) for such characters in the thread we created for this purpose on the board and we will start adding these as soon as we can.

We would like to remind everyone that players are expected to regularly update their characters. The most important things to keep updated are history and relations, but persona, rumors and secrets.may also need updating. This is vital to ensure that characters who are retired aren’t totally outdated when someone else picks them up.

How well (or not) a character is kept updated is something that will be taken into consideration for players who seek to apply for a new character or, when this becomes possible, an alt. It will also impact experience point gains when we get to that point.

A Roleplay channel has been added. Its described as follows:

Channel for roleplay-related discussions. If you are looking for roleplay you are encouraged to use this channel to ask if anyone is around but you may of course also use Public. However such questions are more easily lost in the spam on Public.

Do consider adding yourself. We will be starting to auto-add newly approved players to this channel. To join, use @chan/join Roleplay

The official end of the beta will take place at 1500 Eastern Time on Saturday, December 9th, with the celebration of King Daeron’s return to King’s Landing in the company of Prince Viserys and the Dragonknight, will be featured at the River Gate. It will be a bit of a reprise of the arrival of the Dornish hostages, except with a lot more pomp and a deliriously happy crowd. A feast will follow, although it will be the first of many. We know the notice is short notice, but it turns out to be the best time given the holiday season.

Within a few days, the king will be holding the first court session since his return—we plan to make these regular events at this point, aiming for one RPed court a month. Once the king and all his various company are settled and rested, there will of course be a rather magnificent tourney. I think the format will be of interest, but that’s a closely guarded secret until we nail down a firm date. Given the holiday season, we will probably have to push the tournament until after New Year.

For those who have or will request personal meetings with Daeron, you’ll start receiving possible dates for this shortly.

Have a tournament, feast, or other notable public event mentioned in your background/history which doesn’t appear in the Chronicle? Submit the details in a +job or via email to in a Chronicle-style entry, noting any relevant details (occasion, participants, noteworthy occurances, etc.) and we’ll see about adding them. :)

We’d like to remind people to use the +vacation command (+help +vacation) to set themselves on vacation when they expect to be absent or inactive for a period of time.

We’d also like to remind people to make sure you are familiar with the rules for idling outlined in INFO POLICY PURGES and INFO CHARACTER IDLING. These files have recently been updated, to include information about the activity requirements for important characters (Restricteds, characters in important positions at court, etc).

At the end of November (exact date to be determined), Blood of Dragons will move from being in beta to being fully open. This will coincide with the IC return of King Daeron to King’s Landing. Since the Submission of Sunspear over a year ago, the Young Dragon has had to fight both long and hard to subdue all remaining rebels, but now it appears the situation is finally in hand.

Would you like to be one of those already gathered in King’s Landing, waiting for the kings return? Or would you prefer to be a returning hero of the Conquest who has accompanied Daeron on his journey back? If so, you may not want to wait too much longer before finding a character to apply for.

The consent policy file has been overhauled. Please make sure to re-read it. The basics are the same, but we’ve restructured the file and emphasized a couple of points.

-We have started work on a house-related project that has been previously neglected, namely the adding of Blood of Dragons-specific information about a house to the house page where the family tree can be found. For those houses that have PCs, we would like to invite the player(s) to submit a writeup for their house. If there are multiple PCs from a house, it is a good idea for the person who does the writing to get some input from fellow house members. However, we would like to stress that these writeups should not focus on the existing PCs. Instead, they should focus on giving a concise picture of the house’s recent past and current affairs. They should also avoid including information that needs regular updating.

For an example, see House Dondarrion.

Those who are interested in working on this should get in touch with me and Balerion via page or +mail. The same goes for any questions you might have.

The player profiles page is now more or less up and running. There may still be some tweaks to the information included and how it is presented (if you have any suggestions, let us know), but feel free to make use of the submission form if you want to be included. Just make sure to read the information about what is and isn’t required information first.

We want to preserve a record of as many notable IC events on the game as possible. For this to work out, we need players to submit posts for consideration for inclusion on the Tidings board and in the Tidings blog. These can either concern a single event or series of related events or they can be a collection of recent noteworthy news items.

If you run a plot, providing at least a concluding writeup for Tidings is a requirement.

We’ve added three new channels: Politics, Sports and XXX (for those really dirty-minded, late-night talks that might shock new players off the game ;). That doesn’t mean these topics are entirely banned from Public, but lengthier discussions should be taken these specialized channels in order to keep Public from getting too spammy.

We’ve noticed in recent logs a certain propensity for players to perform difficult actions which involve skills that our character generation system covers, but which they have at a low level relative to the difficulty of the action(s) expressed, where in some cases “low level” means not having the skill on their sheet not at all. This presents some problems in terms of keeping character play consistent and retaining some of the believability we hope the system will reflect.