Duskruin/saved posts August 2025

Announcements

Announcement 1 - Updated Dates

Discord Message Link: Event Opening Change
Author: GM Tivvy
Date: 07/29/2025

[Duskruin] - Event Opening Change

Oops! There was a mix-up with the calendar, and Duskruin will be opening on August 8th at 9PM Eastern instead of August 15th as originally listed.

Booklets will still be on sale until August 31st at 11:55 PM Eastern.

The event will close Wednesday, September 3rd at 11:59 PM.

We're working to get everything updated to reflect the updated information, but if you notice anything with dates other than the one in this post, please let Tivvy know.

Announcement 2 - Shop List

Discord Message Link: Shop List
Author: GM Thandiwe
Date: 8/4/2025

New - Brand New Offering to Duskruin

Refresh - Either shop wares were freshened up or new items were added.

Reopen - No inventory was changed

Last Run - Shop will be closed next time Duskruin is run

Closed Shops This Run

• Best Foot Forward
• Bloodriven Bowery
• Broken Coin, the
• Curved Cuts
• Dunh's Lab
• Fireside Supplies
• Knit One, Punch Two
• Shield Thyself

Last Run Shops

• Balance and Frenzy
• Bloodbenders (Bloodtooth Bracer)
• Fatal Afflares (Custom Flare Messaging)
• I See You (Peek-A-Boo Hair)
• Ode To Resistance (Resistance Armor)
• Secretive Sips (Drunken Clothing)
• The Hide and Fur Depot (Fuzzy Warm Parka)
• The Journalist (Fancy Journal)
• The Modern Morph (Morphing Runestaff)
• The Vaalin Rose (Elven Armor)

New Shops

• Aggro Culture (Delayed)
• Celadon Thread, The
• Petal to the Metal (Delayed)

Refreshed Shops

• Amalgamations
• Coalescence
• Right to Flare Arms
• Totemic Spirits

Reopened Shops

• Alchemical Attractions
• At The Ready
• Balance and Frenzy
• Be Still My Hops
• Be Warez
• Beyond Barriers
• Blood Red Rose, The
• Bloodbenders
• Bloody Lotus, The
• Bolt From The Blue
• Bundle Up
• Burning Twilight
• Certifiable
• Clockwerke Solutions
• Currents and Safeguards
• Daily Grind, The
• Daily Grind, The, Accents
• Deep Within Darkness
• Demon Drop, The
• Diskovery
• Essencetials
• Fairy Ring, The
• Fatal Afflares
• First Rule, The
• Gamac's Goods
• Good In-Tent-ions
• Heady Spirits
• Herbal Huntsman, The
• Hide and Fur Depot, The
• I See You
• Icy Disposition
• In the Shadows of the Sparrow
• Journalist, The
• Just for Kicks
• Knifery, The
• Make Your Mark
• Mar and Scar, the
• Mind Your Manas
• Modern Morph, The
• Mystic Phrases
• Ode To Resistance
• On The Other Hand
• Paranormal Pages
• Pirate Looks at Four Teas, A
• Preening Plover, The
• Rock Solid
• Scoria and Dross
• Secretive Sips
• Sigil Shop
• Skayl Mix
• Sparrow's Dance
• Spellbound
• Sprite Club
• Stay Awhile and Glisten
• Temple of Tentacles
• Tome Raiders
• Trapper's Shack
• Twinkling Twilight
• Twist of Briars, A
• Untamed Spirit
• Vaalin Rose, The
• Volatile Storage
• Wet and Dry
• Wild Instinct
• With a Flourish
• Yarrrpee Shoppe, The

Announcement 3 - HESS

Discord Message Link: HESS
Author: GM Tivvy
Date: 8/6/2025

[Duskruin] - Some HESS Information

HESS and the Annex will not be open when the event opens. We're aiming for an 8/15 opening.

New services this run:

• Transmute Greater Fyrswn'ava - 250,000 BS
• Script Add: Spore Weapon - 50,000 BS
• Script Add: Nightshroud Cloak - 50,000 BS

Note: All script add services add the script at the base tier with no additional unlocks.

Major Enchant (+5 enchant, up to 15x) will be returning for this run. It will not be available at the February 2026 run.

For the August 2025 run, these are the allowed spells for the SK Enhance Tattoo and SM Item Creation services:

Tier 2:

• Bulleted list item

Empathic Focus (1109)

Tier 3:

• Bulleted list item

Heroism (215)

Tier 4:

• Elemental Defense III (414)
• Strength (509)
• Dauntless (1606)
• Mystic Focus (1711)

Tier 5:

• Bulleted list item

Relieve Burden (314)

Tier 6:

• Spirit Warding II (107)
• Spirit Strike (117)
• Benediction (307)
• Prayer (313)
• Elemental Bias (508)
• Floating Disk (511)
• Resist Elements (602)
• Camouflage (608)
• Mindward (1208)
• Martial Prowess (1705)

Tier 7:

• Spirit Fog (106)
• Locate Person (116)
• Lock Pick Enhancement (403)
• Disarm Enhancement (404)
• Nature's Bounty (604)
• Foresight (1204)
• Shroud of Deception (1212)
• Rejuvenation (1607)
• Arcane Decoy (1701)
• Death Cloud (1713)

Tier 8:

• Spirit Warding 1 (101)
• Manna (203)
• Unpresence (204)
• Glamour (1205)
• Neutralize Curse (1716)

NOTE: This post will be updated once the allowed MK list is available.

Announcement 4 - Duskruin and EVENT Updates

Discord Message Link: Duskruin and Event Updates
Author: GM Wyrom
Date: 8/8/2025

Booklets and vouchers have been updated to a new system. You will need to REDEEM the item to add it to your entries total. You can type EVENT ENTRIES to see your totals. If you would like to create physical booklets or vouchers, you will type EVENT ENTRIES DUSKRUIN {amount}. Entering the arena or ratacombs (sewers) no longer uses the physical item, it pulls directly from your EVENT ENTRIES, so you will need to REDEEM them to join the activities at Duskruin. The scrip exchange NPC (gladiator) has also been updated to use the new event entries. He does need the physical items, but can will accept various amounts now via GIVE. The cap is 250 at once. You will receive 300 bloodscrip and 200 experience per entry, so if you give 25 entries, it will be 7,500 bloodscrip and 5,000 exp. There is a cooldown equal to 2 seconds per entry you turn in, so 1 voucher would be 2 seconds, 25-count booklet will be 50 seconds.

Old booklets and vouchers will no longer work at Duskruin, but if you have them, you can REDEEM them to convert them to the new system. Duskruin is the only option for now, but we'll add Rumor Woods and Ebon Gate to this soon.

Converting back to physical booklets will have the same descriptors from the store if they are in the exact number (1, 10, 25, 50, 100, 250, and 1,000), but will be "creased" if they are another number. This is just to help with the trading of booklets. TEAR no longer works as well.

If you have any of the super old jars or dueling slips, those may not work and you'll need to ASSIST. If you have any of the promotional slips (mostly from Platinum or Shattered) those will still expire.

Announcement 5 - Duskruin and EVENT Updates

Discord Message Link: Duskruin Arena Updates
Author: GM Wyrom
Date: 8/9/2025

• The big crab is back and dropping the correct reward. You may find a rare gear that works with the vault item if you spawn the crab.,
• Rare gear drops are also in the sewers, but no crab.
• WATCH LIST is back to a condensed list of who is in the arena.
• There is currently an issue with about 5% of UCS kills in the arena not triggering the ogre to clean up your kill. If this happens, you can SEARCH to call the ogre.
• SEARCH now works in the arena to point at hidden creatures.

Announcement 6 - Profession Service Potions in Spellbound

Discord Message Link: Profession Service Potions in Spellbound
Author: GM Tivvy
Date: 8/9/2025

Greater versions of the profession service potions are available in Spellbound. These provide a larger boost to profession service skills. Check the table for the effervescent versions of the original potion descriptions if you're looking for the more potent type.

Announcement 7 - Greater Felcour Gauntlets -- Loresong

Discord Message Link: Greater Felcour Gauntlets -- Loresong
Author: GM Xynwen
Date: 8/8/2025

Greater Felcour Gauntlets from February 2025's vault now have a loresong. Come sing and see what madness happened at Fryc and Shives Laboratories.

Teasers

Teaser 1 - Twisted Kicks

Discord Message Link: Twisted Kicks
Author: GM Marstreforn
Date: 8/1/2025

New footwear available at Duskruin in August 2025.

Just like Twisted Weapons, the Twisted Flares (Tier 3) unlock on Twisted Kicks can flare in addition to the standard ability flares. Acid Edition comes with standard "acid" ability flares when sold off the shelf with a +20 enchantment.

Item script link: Twisted kicks

Teaser 2 - A Wild Teaser... Revealed

Discord Message Link: A Wild Teaser... Revealed
Author: GM Xeraphina
Date: 8/3/2025

So, now that I've had my fun, I can go ahead and make this post to reveal that which I've been teasing (and I've been soooooo excited to do so!)

Releasing this DR, is the new wood material, fyrswn'ava. It is an aelotoi-cultivation of the crape myrtle tree and produces sap flares when crafted into runestaves, bows, or shields.

These flares are tiered. At the base tier, Sprite's Kiss causes physical conditions against a target, either rooted or blinded, if the flare hits the target's eye or head. The upgraded tier, Amber Grave, pairs a mental condition with the physical: either terrified, confused, or clumsy.

The material's base enchant is +20, and will be available for purchase in The Celadon Thread.

Special thanks to GM Ethereal who suggested the tiering and the mental effects AND coded this wonderful idea for me to release. He's a real one.

Material document: Fyrswn'ava

Teaser 3 - Aggro Culture

Discord Message Link: Aggro Culture
Author: GM Weaves
Date: 8/4/2025

Have you ever wondered what happens to the bloodied weapons, shields, and armor removed from your fallen opponents in the Duskruin Arena? Have you screamed in delight as you land a hit so bloody your opponent slams to the floor, dead as a salmon bear snack? What about having an uncontrollable urge to make that mangy bandit marauder even more dead, only to think it's a little bit late for that? Have you stamped in angry annoyance as you swing and make a clean miss?

...You probably get the idea, but if these sound familiar, you might want to swing by Aggro Culture to browse and add a weapon to your bandolier that will help channel those feelings into something more useful.

Item script link: Aggro Weapon

Teaser 4 - Fizwidget's Wonderful Widget: Vault Item

Discord Message Link: Fizwidget's Wonderful Widget: Vault Item
Author: GM Xynwen
Date: 8/7/2025

Inspired by February's Greater Felcour Gauntlet, August's unique vault item starts its life with you as "a brass widget pin" -- but after choosing where you want this jewelry item worn, it becomes a conduit to tiny pocket dimensions for your roleplay needs. See also Fizwixit's Wonderful Widget.

Reminder that this item binds to the person opening the vault, and you can only get one. Also note, I do not know when the vault will be available, but I know we always announce it.

Straight out of the vault, you can select either Viridian Sands Cove or Amphitheatre of the Clouds for your room themes. With a quick TURN of your widget, you can set up a portal to there.

The Details:

1. 5 fluff verb traps
2. A loresong
3. 2x/day, 30min per time with the ability to "refresh" by using your 2nd charge while the portal is still up
4. Option for single-room setup or dual-room setup
5. Option to restrict entry
6. Option to permanently BREAK the item, destroying it and receiving the standard EXP orb. If you never want to break it, you can POKE it to permanently stop it from breaking and thus rest easy that you won't accidentally do it.
7. Two 2-room themes, with the ability to add more sets (see Themes below)

Single-Room vs. Dual-Room Setup
Each theme is a pair of rooms. When single-room setup is chosen, only the first room in the pair will be accessible. You can set it to allow anyone to enter or only those you POINT your widget at. This is great if you want everyone in the same room and able to interact.

If you choose a dual-room setup, access into the first room must always be restricted to those you POINT at. For the second room, you can either leave that open to anyone or restrict it so only those you WAVE your widget at can enter. The second room is a viewing room -- so you will PEER (window), and it will show you everything that is happening in the first room.

Portal Setup
Once you set up your widget with all the right settings (accessed via WHISPER), you can TURN your widget to have a portal appear. There are ineligible areas -- if you cannot teleport in that room, you can't set up the portal.

In addition, when the portal is set up in a room that is NOT intown or neartown, you will not be able to disarm traps or pick boxes, do magic, hand things to others (including exchange), or drop anything.

You cannot be injured at all if you wish to go through the portal.

Intent
This is meant to be a roleplaying tool, giving you temporary access to tiny "pocket dimensions." You can host a brunch or host a play, but you can't fight! If you want to fight, use those Greater Felcour Gauntlets from last run!

Themes
Sometime after opening, a prize pile that costs bloodscrip will be put out; I will announce it when it is live, including where it is. If you pay the price, you will be given a tiny brass gear. The gear will have a random theme (ANALYZE it to see what it is). If it is a theme you have not collected, you can PUSH (WIDGET), while holding both it and the gear, and add that two-room theme to your widget.

A few theme teasers: The Sanguine Salon, A Darkened Bakery, Waterlily Pool

There will be more!

Teaser 4b - Fizwixit's Wonderful Widget -- Prize Pile Advance Info

Discord Message Link: Fizwixit's Wonderful Widget -- Prize Pile Advance Info
Author: GM Xynwen
Date: 8/9/2025

ADDED on 8/9:
[Duskruin] Fizwixit's Wonderful Widget -- Prize Pile Advance Info

The prize pile should hopefully be out by next weekend. Each go at the pile will cost 200 bloodscrip. You will be given a tiny brass gear. ANALYZE the gear, and it will randomly select something.

1. There will be a very rare chance to get a gear that will either increase your maximum uses per day by 1 (up to 4x/day maximum total) -OR- a gear that increases the total time duration per use from 30 minutes to 60 minutes. So you can use 2 of the 1x/day increase gears and 1 of the duration gears on a widget.
2. Otherwise, it will randomly select one of the several available themes (more on available themes will be forthcoming when the pile goes live). If you do not have that theme, you can use the gear to add it to your widget, granting permanent access to that theme.

In addition, at the same time, the 2 rare gears will also be placed in the feeders for both sewers and arena, so you have a rare chance for those to drop there. </nowiki>

Teaser 4c - [Duskruin, Vault Item] Widget - Now With Portal Coloration

Discord Message Link: [Duskruin, Vault Item Widget - Now With Portal Coloration]
Author: GM Xynwen
Date: 8/17/2025

ADDED on 8/17:
[Duskruin, Vault Item] Widget - Now With Portal Coloration

A minor update just went live with Fizwixit's Wonderful Widgets! You can now pick a color for your portal -- it's one color across all 3 portals (the entrance one, and the exit one in each room), and it does not change the text that pre-pends to each room's description.

WHISPER MY (widget) COLOR for options.

This pulls from a color repository that has a few colors that are >15 characters, but the portal requires no more than 15. Therefore, it filters those out, and you'll notice that some numbers are skipped. Not to worry though, you still have about 150 different color options. You can change it as often as you like *between* uses. Once your portal is up, it stays that color until the session ends.

Enjoy!

Teaser 5 - Animalistic Totem and Animalistic Spirit Updates

Discord Message Link: Animalistic Totem and Animalistic Spirit Updates
Author: GM Avaluka
Date: 8/7/2025

A few new purchaseable updates to Animalistic Totems will be available this Duskruin. In addition, an overall Animal Noun/Category system will be released with both Animalistic Totems and Animalistic Spirit items pulling from it. Please read the post for full details!

NOTE: I will make a separate announcement when these updates are live.

Teaser 5b - Updates are Live

Discord Message Link: Updates are Live
Author: GM Avaluka
Date: 8/8/2025

The Animalistic Totem and Animalistic Spirit updates are live. If you noticed any oddities in your totems in the past 30 minutes, it may have been due to the new features rolling out. Spirit Change certificates should allow you to use TWIST to choose nouns within groups now. If you notice anything strange now, please let me know in the Animalistic Totem/Animalistic Spirit updates forum thread.

Teaser 5c - Fluctuating Focus Unlock Bug

Discord Message Link: Fluctuating Focus Unlock Bug
Author: GM Avaluka
Date: 8/10/2025

A bug was fixed in Fluctuating Focus unlock certificates for Animalistic Totems - the certificates should work correctly now.

Teaser 6 - [Duskruin] Phytomorphic Weapons/Shields

Discord Message Link: Animalistic [Duskruin Phytomorphic Weapons/Shields]
Author: GM Avaluka
Date: 8/16/2025

Debuting this Duskruin at the shop "Petal to the Metal" is the new combat script Phytomorphic Weapons/Shields. Imbued with the power of nature, these armaments are able to draw essence from the flora around them and channel it into "Phytomorphic Putrescence" flares, a script flare with disintegrate damage. They are additionally able to absorb the essence of Foraged Items you PUSH into them, allowing their appearance to change. Random flora from the area you are in, as well as whatever Forged Item may be fused with the weapon/shield, appears in the flare's messaging. The Foraged Items you PUSH into the item work like Veolas - you can customize the look of the weapon/shield when types of Forageables are added to it.

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