Aleksey will come back tomorrow with a renewed sense of Christmas spirit, by which I mean his "I follow Santa with triggers and chain-sit-on-lap in violation of help robot" turned off. Also, he'll probably stop peeing on Santa or he'll get coal in his stocking. Ho ho ho.

As National Ninja Day comes to a close, monster anti-abuse code returns to normal. Strangely, most monsters don't seem to remember anything that happened in the last 24 hours.

To celebrate 90th birthday of Finland small Finnish flags can be found from areas. Claim them and you receive few taskpoints. Happy independence day Finland!

It is National Ninja Day. Anti-abuse on almost all monsters is suspended until reboot. Good hunting.

Batclient v1.53 (a fix revision) was just released.

Mandrake has received a slight bump up the ladder. Have a nice flight and a safe landing, Mandrake.

Behold mortal, for Melemkor Yunxi is now an ArchWizard and will so remain.

'stream' channel has just been added to people who are interested in good MP3 streams with nice music. If you're interested in streams that are available to BatMUD's public or are ran by BatMUD's folks - join the channel. (Please do not spam di.fm or alike things in there, only the streams you run yourself).

BatMUD website (http://www.bat.org/) has been renewed and opened. A huge thanks goes to Gore for resurrecting himself for the project. We can be pretty proud ourselves as we quite much did the unthinkable and pushed this through in just mere weeks (now you know the other reason why your local archwizards have black panda eyes, due to sleep deprivation). Excellent project, now in "release" status: we trust you'll like the outcome! Some enhancements are still underway, but the website should now be fully usable.

Thank you to everyone who has participated. A HUGE warm THANK YOU. We've got enough to get Ashley to Oulu. Your contribution is very much appreciated and your warm thoughts will always be remembered.