Lucidity Daily Times

Phone-Friendly Adventuring Arrives

Adventuring from a phone has become much easier. The web client now offers a drag-and-release joystick for movement in all eight directions, together with six quick-command buttons for actions you use most often.

Each quick-command button can be given its own label and command chain from the terminal:

/button <1-6> <label> <command;command;...>

For example:

/button 1 Attack roar;kill all

This labels button 1 "Attack". Pressing it runs `roar` and then `kill all`, in that order. Button definitions belong to the individual character and are saved automatically, so their labels and commands return on later and new sessions.

The phone keyboard now stays out of the way while the joystick and buttons are in use. Tap the terminal when you actually want to type.

Tap the client's `?` Help button for full instructions, examples and limits.

-- The Insomnia Team

Cooking Fires Open Across the Realms

Adventurers can now turn ordinary ingredients, butchered meat and freshly caught fish into proper meals at working cooking fires across the realms.

Place between two and four suitable ingredients into the pan above a fire, then cook the pan. An exact recipe produces a finished meal. If the mixture does not make a known dish, nothing is consumed: ingredients can be removed, the pan can be emptied, and another combination can be tried.

Fenella's Grocery, immediately north of Tin Street Three in Lucidity, sells inexpensive vegetables, fruit, butter, oil, spices and other pantry staples. Fenella also offers a changing selection of recipe cards. Studying a card records the recipe, although knowing a recipe is not required if an adventurer discovers the correct combination through experiment.

Fighters and Druids should take particular note. Fighters can obtain meat with the butcher command. Druids who wield a knife or dagger can use fielddress to recover clean raw cuts from a corpse. Either kind of meat can be combined with grocery ingredients to make especially nourishing meals. These substantial meat dishes, and meals made with caught fish, restore far more than ordinary pantry cooking and provide a cheap, practical way to recover while adventuring.

Working fires can now be found at the ogre camp, the bandit camp, Midsummer's rehearsal green, Boosey's jungle camp, the mountain castle courtyard, the Dolphin Pub kitchen in Slumber, and the White Bowl Cookhouse in Krasia.

Use help cook for the full set of cooking commands.

-- The Lucidity Daily Times

Path Found Toward A Far Southern Volcano

Scouts returning to Lucidity bring word that a way has been found into the far south-eastern reaches beyond the town's better-known roads.

The reports are cautious, as such reports should be. They speak of travel beyond the great lake, of country lying somewhere south of the jungle of Pondar, and of a rough pathway where the green world thins and the ground begins to remember fire.

Those who follow the hints may, with patience, find the land rising toward a huge volcano under a darkened sky. The route is not said to be friendly, nor entirely direct, but it is no longer only a smudge on old maps and tavern stories.

Several alarming rumours have also circulated concerning an Artrell alliance in the region. Responsible voices in Lucidity advise that these claims may be safely ignored for now, as no credible evidence of any such arrangement has been found.

Adventurers are reminded that smoke on the horizon is still smoke, stone paths can betray tired feet, and distant mountains have a habit of being nearer than they look once trouble begins.

-- The Lucidity Wayfarers' Register