Hints for dark elf quest:
Only two people have actually figured it out, but this is an rpg guys.
TALK TO NPCS. 
Dark Elf Quest starting disabled for 1 week while people process this information. Those already on the quest can still proceed.
Hints for necromancy:
Firebolt Drain Health Flame Whip
Reconstruct Total Protection
Firebolt hallucinate Firebolt
No more hints for either are going to be given out. Use your brain and figure stuff out on your own. Normal patches resume later this week.
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Today echo has been promoted to Developer, which is the First level of Admin.
As an admin, he has a few new powers that EVERYONE should be aware of.
First off, he has a nice shiny new robe.
Second off, he's an admin, with all rights and priveleges that bestows.
That means he can create rules at whim, and declare interpretations of rules, and anything that requires an Admin can be done by him.
That also means that any decision given out by him is near final, no individual staff(except broadband) can overturn it.
The only way to appeal an admin decision is to either:
Appeal to broadband
Appeal to the admins collectively (group vote)
Open Court
He has proven his fairness and knowledge of obsidian time and again, and has earned this position that is long overdue.
So yeah, give him the same respect(or lack thereof and risk the consequences) as you would give Jorus, Blinkers, or any other administrator. Because now he can be as crazy as blinkers, as wrathful as jorus, or whatever else he chooses so long as it's fair(but not required to be overly so) and deserved.
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Player A was invulnerable due to the map area.
Player B was not due to being outside the map area.
Player B attacks player A.
Player A then attacks player B, while player B cannot hurt player A.
Player A is being tried for being guilty of purposefully abusing a bug in PvP to safely hurt others while being unhurtable.
The administration believes that this is an obvious bug, and due to it's deliberate use in PvP should not have required a warning.
The administration believes this is reinforced due to line 21 of the rules which state:
"General Rule of Thumb: If you have to ask yourself if it is legal, it probably isn't."
Which is used to inform players that if a bug is obvious due to common sense, then they are expected NOT to abuse it, and instead if they think it MIGHT be a bug should ask staff before ANY use of it.
The administration also believes that an important part of this case is the fact that player A attacked back deliberately.
What is the court's consensus.
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1. Thanks for making every hard skill easy, especially those that took me long hours to GM.
2. Thanks for making pvp a matter of who has "snakes" or whatever other great gadgets one happens to find along the way
3. Thanks for the evergrowing player base
4. Thanks for the lovely poisoning system in place
5. Thanks for bringing back necros in a bug-free manner, I really appreciate not being cheated against
6. Thanks for always being respectful in your replies in the forums
7. Thanks for giving special privileges to those that somehow have access to a donator's guild or whatever
8. Thanks for making Obsidian the best shard ever
Now i've already replied to this person, but I figure we'll turn this into a game.
10 points for every correct guess on what i replied to him about a given point,
20 points for guessing who it was.
Only one guess per person per "question" and one guess for who it is.
I'll post my actual reply in a few days, but for those who keep up with the forums you should be able to piece together what I said since all of it's been said before.
Top 3 will get a prize.
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Alright, a few people have complained that they don't think bugs are getting resolved and that searching is too hard, so I'm adopting a new policy.
From now on, anytime a bug is fixed, i will move the thread immediatly out of the bugs/suggestions forum into the closed section. Even if the changelog for it isn't up yet.
If it pops up after that, you make a new post about it.
Likewise if you find ANY bug in-game and it doesn't have a thread in bugs/suggestions, make a thread about it.
I will try to keep the bugs forum under 2 pages to make things simple on all of us.
I just cleared out around 500+ posts, so take a look to make sure your bug is still in there. I tried not to move any i knew were still active but i might have missed some due to badly worded topics.
So take a look at what's still there and if you have a bug that isn't, post it.
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Alright lords and ladies for obsidian, someone's decided to be foolish and ask for an open court judgement on their actions, so for the first of the new year I present to you the case of cryptx.
Cryptx was caught yesterday afk macroing necromancy and meditation. He already has several warnings against him within the past few months for afk macroing.
He was macroing necromancy and meditation, and so a macro stone was placed on him. The stone ran it's course, and he was disconnected.
He logged back in roughly 5-10 seconds later, and begin challenging the issue.
Upon being caught, his first complaint was that the staff had cheated, and had disconnected him in 2 seconds, not letting the stone run 30. Then he complained the stones aren't actually 30 seconds.
He was docked necromancy points and told if he did it again that his penalty would be work.
This morning, he was again found afking necromancy and meditation.
A stone was placed, and he was disconnected when the stone ran it's course, along with 2 other players.
Upon reconnecting, he proceeded to again state the stones are only 5 seconds, and so i dropped yet another one on him and the witness at vesper bank Goku. Goku confirmed it was still 30 seconds.
At this point Cryptx then said that he was up answering his phone and he was barely gone longer than 20 seconds and that he shouldn't be punished.
His claim is that since he logged back in so fast he wasn't "afk", despite the fact that being disconnected is both noticable by most macro programs, and is kinda a huge big DISCONNECTED image in the center of the screen and so is hard to miss.
So open court of obsidian, what do you say to these challenges of the rules?
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So, public humiliation time, today we have two geniuses. Sorry i'm not giving names, but these two know who they are and everyone should learn from their example.
!st guy tried brute force guessing other people's account names. He has been warned and will be banned if i catch it again. I do not tolerate stupidity such as that. And yes, even 1 failed attempt shows up in my logs. Quite a few of you typo once or twice on your passwords on a regular basis.
2nd guy keeps messing up with his 3rd party program and has a big red "watch me" flag on his account. Minute he tries something illegal he will be banned, so consider this your very public warning.
So yeah. 0 tolerance on both of these, if i catch you doing it you'll be lucky if all i do is kill off a character of yours or jail/fine you.
This is also the LAST CALL for any skill transfer due to race/class changes. Only transfers that would have fit the previous set of rules will be allowed. After january 5th, no more skill transfers will be done, no exceptions
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Server just went silent, not sure if it's down or its a connection issue, will post more when i know it.
Probably gonna have to wait till a decent hour then txt broadband though.
Update: Texted broadband, we'll see if i manage to get him to fix it before he goes to work.
Anyway as something to do, if you all check the forum for this post you'll see i've attached a pic of the latest thing i'm workign on, if i'm lucky i might have it at least partially done and in today.
Gm Bob
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Merry christmas to everyone from the staff at obsidian.
For those who were told their houses would be restored, you should find them back in place. If i've missed anyone, please PM me with coordinates within the next 48 hours.
Winter seasonal stuff will be turned off in 48 hours as well for those who need to grab last minute stuff.
Also, today was the 61st patch since september of 2008, so all in all i think we're doing decently productive. Read the changelog for more details(as always)
Gm Bob
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Maher aka Lplkassm aka whatever has been in-game punished for leading people to believe he is staff.
AS part of his probation he is required to be nice to EVERYONE until the day after christmas, and to tell CLEAN POLITE jokes if people need cheering up, just by asking him(1 per person per day).
IF anyone says they're staff in-game as a character, don't believe them. Since it is STILL against the rules to talk about it and any staff who reveals themselves in-game risks losing their staff account.
All contact with staff should be in-game on staff accounts or through the forum PM feature.
That being said, stop messing with people. I don't care if you like them or not, everyone's just trying to play a fun game, and shit like this ruins it for everyone, not to mention pisses bob off.
Gm Bob
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