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Major Love For Lockpick!
Mnemonsynes Lockpicking quest! updated!

Sadly, however, my favorite source for Peerless lockpicks -- the vendor inside Ashen's Tears -- was NERFED! ;-)

New Text!
Read the accompanying text, Mnemosynes and the Art of Lockpicking, here.

Other uses for the Intricate Carving Tool: Have a lockpicker turn a Virindi Key into a Virindi Master Key. Then use one of the three types of keys to open these loot containers. Sadly, I've yet to hear of any ph4t l3w+ being obtained. There's speculation that they might be bugged.

Item		Value	Burden	Description
Virindi Master Key		0	10	A key that shines with virindi energy. You do not seem able to understand how it works.
Director's Cache		?	?	A Virindi cache lies here. This lock looks impossible to pick (Resistance 5000).
Master's Holding		?	?	A Virindi holding lies here. This lock looks impossible to pick (Resistance 5000).
Singularity Trove		?	?	A Virindi trove lies here. This lock looks impossible to pick (Resistance 5000).

New Clothes!
And boy are they pretty! ;-) 

Whitley the Lizard Queen models the new Sclavus Skin Helmet. 
The Large Sclavus Hide came from an Ulu Sclavus.

New Crafted Items!
Type	Sclavus Skin Helmet	Snake Skin Coat	Snake Skin Boots	Ursuin Hide Coat
Value	1100	2890	1200	2700
Burden	900	1000	450	810
Armor Level	200	130	100	80
Protections	Aa/A/B A/Aa/B/B	Aa/A/B A/A/B/B	Aa/A/B A/A/B/B	A/A/A A/U/A/U

Stan D' Andeliver of TD models the 
new spring line of fashions!

Eric the Unready shows off a cool feature of the new Scaly Boots!  They change color with your GLOVES! (sorry, not greaves, thanks Catri!) And they shimmer when you walk! 

Angry Rooster of Thistledown and Tyler C both wrote to me telling me that the helmet also changes its trim color based on the color of your gloves. Totally groovy.

Small Hides for Boots can be found on Aste & Se Sclavus.
Hides for Coats are found on Essa & Sata Sclavus.
Large Hides are found on Ulu, Faisi & Chomu Sclavus.

New Weapon!
Eric the Unready wields the new Fang Mace and models the new Sclavus  Coat. (Take items  -- yes, including the FANG -- to Leather Crafter.)

New NPCs!
Located in Tufa 13.3S, 5.1E. Give them Mnemosynes for the following rewards. Both Locked and Unlocked return the same items.

From Anid Al-Fadee:
Tiny = 3 Gems of Cleansing
Small = 3 Gems of Purity
Large = 3 Gems of Stillness

From Ya-Bint-Al-Hawa:
Tiny = 10 Peerless Heal Kits
Small = 5 Treated + 5 Peerless Kits
Large = 10 Treated Heal Kits 

	Gem of Stillness
A small glowing gem that seems to radiate light from an internal source.
Value	1000
Burden	10
Spells	Nullify All Magic Self (Dispels all negative enchantments from the caster.)
Spellcraft	210
Mana	150/200
Difficulty	0

	Treated Healing Kit
A Treated Healing Kit that smells faintly of Hyssop and other aromatic herbs.  Use this on a person or monster to heal damage.
Value	2000
Burden	50
Uses	20

New Creatures!
Killer Clowns! Don't let the names fool you. (Innocuous, my ass. ;-)

Innocent Doll

Innocuous & Pristine Dolls

Marionette

Creature	Level	Str	End	Coor	Quik	Foc	Self	Hlth	Stam	Mana
Marionette	20	110	110	120	100	100	110	125	190	410
Dark Marionette	42	200	180	180	150	170	170	160	260	470
Innocent Doll	34	150	150	150	150	150	150	115	150	350
Pristine Doll	38	150	150	150	150	150	150	150	150	350
Innocuous Doll	34	150	150	150	150	150	150	115	150	350
Dune Reaver	29	160	170	135	135	110	110	120	370	110
Silt Lurker	21	140	150	115	115	90	90	90	350	90
Brutish Monogua	33	200	260	100	95	100	100	190	410	100
Wily Monouga	41	200	260	100	96	180	180	190	420	220
Ferocious Monogua	47	210	270	135	100	120	110	225	420	110
Ancient Mu-Miyah	50	100	110	120	120	200	210	115	310	310
Dread Mu-Miyah	50	230	220	130	130	100	110	170	420	110
Virindi Executioner	136	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?	?

 

Ned Cleversun reports on the Virindi Executor
Ok. Preliminary report, Virindi Executor. They have resisted all my attempts to Imperil or vuln them. I do have 5% vitae, however.

When I attack them with my bow, which has BD 6 and other buffs, I get 2 point hits. For comparison, I hit Umbris Shadows, unvulned, for 35-40 points. They evade me a LOT, about 10-15 times (not percent) more than the Umbris. The good news is that I didn't take too much damage from them, or haven't so far. One other point: they seem to level very easily. The one I fought leveled in the midst of our battle, and he didn't put that much damage on me.

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Virindis Attack Ayan Baqur
If you wandered into Ayan on the morning of April 1, 2001, you might have thought Turbine was playing an elaborate April Fool's joke on you. Virindi now stand in place of all the shopkeepers! What in the world???

The evening of March 31, the Virindi attacked! The shopkeepers high-tailed it out of town and hid deep in the Panopticon Dungeon (59.1S, 84.6W). This dungeon is restricted to levels 32+ and it may be tied to! Looks like getting to Ayan will no longer be the adventure it used to be. 

Inside the dungeon adventurers found a unique Virindi, Adirred the Theoretician, who cried the following message as he was killed:

"The Virindi's cloak almost implodes inward as it shrieks in your mind, "But the experiment was going so well! We were so close to breaking past the Singularity's structuralism..."

As someone mentioned on the boards, Adirred is Derrida spelled backwards. Jacques Derrida is a famous literary theorist and a leading deconstructionist. All but the most stubborn scholars find his writing almost impenetrable. Plus he's French!! ;-)

For more complete information on the night's event, read Crossroads of Dereth's write-up on the Virindi takeover!

You can also read the new Virindi Ulgrim rumors here. The charming fellow now has a taste for Red Wine.

Thanks to Gheres Reficul, Ned Cleversun, Lycius, Black Chi, Buliwyf, Shio, Stan D' Andeliver of TD, Whitley,  Annara, Magic Mike, Gaidheil of Harvestgain, Clark W., guillaume, Shimmerglow of Leafcull, & Virvius.