{"id":3042,"date":"2014-12-09T06:49:19","date_gmt":"2014-12-09T05:49:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/?p=3042"},"modified":"2014-12-09T06:50:47","modified_gmt":"2014-12-09T05:50:47","slug":"trunk-updates-8-december-2014","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/trunk-updates-8-december-2014","title":{"rendered":"Trunk updates, 8 December 2014"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Some fun new toys to play with this week:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>New artefact: Gyre and Gimble, two quickblades <a href=\"http:\/\/i.imgur.com\/5dflcKs.png\">linked by a chain<\/a>. It takes two hands to wield, but strikes twice for every attack. Dual-wielding is finally here&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;<\/li>\n<li>New spell: Gell&#8217;s Gravitas, L6 Hexes\/Translocations. Targets a creature &#038; hurls all other nearby creatures toward it, causing damage to whichever ones collide. &#8220;Basically a one-turn Singularity&#8221;.<\/li>\n<li>The &#8216;blurry vision&#8217; mutation no longer causes scroll-reading to occasionally fail. Instead, it adds a delay before the player finishes reading the scroll (and gains the benefits): one turn per level of the mutation.<\/li>\n<li>All non-shortblade weapons now stab equally well (or poorly), excepting felid claws, which now stab as well as shortblades. Clubs no longer have a chance of confusing &#8216;stabbed&#8217; enemies. Ogre Enchanters and Assassins no longer start with clubs.<\/li>\n<li>Armour penalties to dodging have been smoothed; there is no longer a breakpoint at which Dodging goes from giving zero EV to the normal rate. Instead, armour decreases the rate at which Dodging gives you EV. Sample numbers are <a href=\"http:\/\/pastebin.com\/nKt9dqJH\">here.<\/a><\/li>\n<li>The Book of Wizardry has been removed; its spells have been redistributed.<\/li>\n<li>Monsters created by Phantom Mirrors are now only two-thirds as strong as the original.<\/li>\n<li>Orange rats have been renamed to hell rats, and are now demonic. They also glow in the dark.<\/li>\n<li>The arbalest &#8220;Hellfire&#8221; has had its hellfire-explosion damage roughly doubled.<\/li>\n<li>When active, Gozag&#8217;s gold now sparkles.<\/li>\n<li>It is once again possible for bardings of flying to generate, after they were accidentally removed earlier this year.<\/li>\n<li>Orc wizards can no longer confuse the player for 30+ turns.<\/li>\n<li>The lords of Pandemonium can now buzz and croak.<\/li>\n<li>Players in hell can no longer hear gut-wrenching screams while Silenced.<\/li>\n<li>Goblins no longer continue their peaceful slumber after being hurled through the air.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Happy crawling!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, crawlers! Some fun new toys to play with this week: New artefact: Gyre and Gimble, two quickblades linked by a chain. It takes two hands to wield, but strikes twice for every attack. Dual-wielding is finally here&#8230;&#8230;&#8230; New spell: Gell&#8217;s Gravitas, L6 Hexes\/Translocations. Targets a creature &#038; hurls all other nearby creatures toward it, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":31,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/31"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3042"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3047,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3042\/revisions\/3047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/crawl.develz.org\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}