The instance "Lair of the Dark Mage" is ready
There's a new ring that adds the "Zap" ability, shoots a 200ms cooldown ray that deals 200 pure damage
As with everything, this instance will get balanced a lot too, I plan to introduce more common orbs that drop easily
One noteworthy experiment this week was NexusNull's suggestion of a new approach to disappearing texts, the last phase was more readable yet a bit awkward after getting used to the current look of things, as texts moved with entities too - shelved it for now, but the new name tags etc. were also shelved experiments at one point, I think the next stage of disappearing texts will be free texts, yet once a text overlaps another text, the text above will move faster so they quickly clear each other, also dot damage's should have a lower priority and fly away fast into a random direction when this happens
I think the most noteworthy addition this week will be the "NewCharacter joined Adventure Land!" realm announcements, instead of #game_events, they will also publish to Discord/#general - similarly level>=80 announcements will be realm announcements too, but won't get published to #general - I suspect the new announcements could get bugged and spam the game or bring down a server etc. - so best to be on the lookout
In addition to this, new players have an aura that lasts an hour, the aura emits for a day, it's a small incentive to visit them from time to time
