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Reforged blades

10 October 2026 · version 0.134

The 2-handed sword has been reforged: a long slender blade with a fuller and a long point, a blunt ricasso with two parrying hooks, a wide guard sweeping towards the point with a ring on each side, a long leather-wrapped grip for both hands and a heavy pear-shaped pommel. It is still carried on the shoulder and swung with both hands.
The dagger is now a proper dagger: short and broad, tapering straight to its point, with a small knobbed guard, a wrapped grip and a wheel pommel. In a fight it is no longer swung overhead but drawn back to the hip and thrust at the foe.
New icons for both: the 2-handed sword now crosses the whole slot with its ringed guard, and the dagger is short and stout, so neither is mistaken for another sword at a glance.
The short sword and the long sword are told apart at a glance too. The short sword has a broad leaf-shaped blade, a short block guard and a round pommel; the long sword has a long slim blade with a fuller, a wide guard turning down at the ends, a grip long enough for a second hand and a kite-shaped pommel. Their icons and the swords in hand both changed.
The scimitar has been reforged too: a single-edged blade curving back from the hilt and widening towards its clipped point, a bright edge along the outer curve, a small S-shaped guard and a capped pommel. In a fight it is raised high and drawn down across the body in a slicing cut.

9 October 2026 · version 0.133

The last part of the old mine's tale: Beneath the City (3 quest points). The city is awake, but nobody dares move back. Brokk is waiting just inside the great door. Bring food: a combat level of 35 or more is advised.
Below the oldest workings lies the Black Quarry, and something in it has been sitting very still for two hundred years. Dying down there costs nothing, and you wake on Seven Square.
Finish it, and Deepforge opens its great forge to you: its furnaces, its masters, a dwarven trader, a strongbox, and the deep seam of the quarry. And a dwarven book of arms, to learn to hit true, to hit hard or not to be hit.

9 October 2026 · version 0.132

A new adventurer's story now begins at sea: a calm voyage aboard the captain's brig turns into a storm of rain, lightning and rising waves, until a whirlwind comes over the water. Then you wake on the beach at Dangerhollow. A click, a tap or a key skips it.

9 October 2026 · version 0.131

The brigs in the harbours have planked hulls with a painted strake, a raised quarterdeck, full-bellied sails, rigging, a lookout's basket, a lit stern lantern and flags, and casks and coils of rope on deck.
The skipper's sailing boat, the rowing boats and the wreck on the shore have new hulls to match.

9 October 2026 · version 0.130

The skill icons are darker and more weathered, in the worn steel, old gold and night blue of the crest.

9 October 2026 · version 0.129

If your browser reloads the game by itself, the login now tells you why: it closed the game while it was in the background, or it reloaded the page, perhaps short of memory.

9 October 2026 · version 0.128

A door or a gate now answers a click anywhere on it: its frame, the opening under its lintel, the doorways between a great gate's two leaves and the carved stone round Deepforge's great gate. A gate one passes through is taken from your own side.
Talking to or trading with someone behind a shut door walks you to the door, opens it and carries on to them.
Nobody can be talked to through a wall or a shut door any more. Across a counter or over a fence still works.

9 October 2026 · version 0.127

In the old mine and the city below it, the quests' moments now happen as you step into the place, from whichever way you come: into the cavern of the helmets, into the city, onto the square, out of Dorin's hall. No more hunting for the one spot in the middle.
At the end of Stay Out of the Old Mine, Elder Corwin waits for you at his table in his cottage, not out by the mine's lane.
Quest dialogue in the old mine and the city below now tells you where to go next: when the way on is not plain, your character says it, and after mining your first deep iron or forging the new gear you think it over in the chat.
A few lines of Stay Out of the Old Mine were set straight: the notes in the hidden workroom, the stranger's first words, and the city's cold lamps.