Mibbler – 11

I was still trying to wake up from a nasty afternoon sleep that had me completely taken over. To come back to the mousehunt page to find it was not there. The tiny mouse was telling us an update was taking place… When the game came back up, i was still dabbing my eyes as somebody was really quick and bright :) and posted this:

“After this last update, be sure and click on “Mice” and see the changes and new question marks!” – Judy B.
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* Today’s game update: Of Crowns and Meeces

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# King’s Crowns

These trophy crowns will be awarded to hunters upon catching a breed of mouse 10, 100 and 500 times. You can view the crowns you have collected both on the Mice page, and on your profile in a designated tab.
Rather nice detail: when somebody gains a crown, it shows up with a message like this in your journal and profile page: “I caught my 100th Chameleon Mouse and earned a Silver Kings Crown!”Amost instantly the first thread asking: “So how many crowns do you have?” appeared in the forums.

# Mice page changes

There are now indicators on the Mice page to tell you how many mice from a specific group or region you have caught. The green ‘check’-mark is for when you have caught all mice in a group. There are different colours for having caught like 10 or 100 of all mice in the same group.
Some hunters have noted glitches with these coloured checkmarks in this first release. Checkmarks also seem to be off for the mice when arranged regionally. All of which will no doubt be fixed ‘soon’ ;)
Also new: Power type effectiveness has been added to the mouse popups to let hunters see what power type is best against a particular mouse.

# Bubbles

Pay attention: the new Bubbles are non-consumable! O.o Keep the high-heeled glasses in the cabinet please! High risk of breaking your marbles * cough * … ehm, your Crystal!
As we indeed noticed earlier this week: Zugzwang’s Tower has been spotted in Rodentia! Unfortunately, Zugzwang’s pet octopus, Bubbles, is quite protective of its master, and is preventing any ship from approaching the tower. In a future update, hunters will have to find a way to coerce the aquatic beast into letting them sail toward the tower. Although no hunter has been able to land yet, some details have been collected from ship wreckage floating past the S.S. Huntington II…

# 35 New Mice

What little details are now known about the tower and island have been added to the mouse page: Two new breeds of mice have appeared there: the Seasonal Soldiers (new mice 23) and the Wizard’s Pieces (new mice 12). Both new breeds of mice seem weak to tactical weapons.

From the ever-changing vistas of Zugzwang’s garden come the Seasonal Soldiers, a group of mice who have been infused with the magic of the four seasons. If you want to draw these ‘seasoned’ veterans in, use normal cheeses, such as swiss, brie, gouda or SUPER|brie+ and a tactical trap, but know this: The Hunter seeking true mastery of the Seasonal Soldiers must find the special weaknesses that are unique to each season.

Fighting a perpetual battle within the enchanted halls of Zugzwang’s tower are the Wizard’s Pieces, warrior mice who follow a complicated and rigid set of rules in order to achieve victory. On one side is the Technic army, brimming with metalworks and gadgets, and on the other, the Mystic army, who use spells and charms to gain the upper hand. You’ll have to defeat the entire chess set to reach the king, so plan your moves carefully!

Due to these descriptions, there’s already a fair bit of thinking aloud and some speculation on the possible but hidden Zug-mices special weaknesses, going on in this thread: source: http://bit.ly/bYzCex

# Other small changes and additions in today’s update…

There is now a small chance to receive scrap metal when capturing a Steel Mouse using the Digby Drillbot or the Chrome Drillbot.

The full Newspost from the Developers, including a small list of what they are working on next is here: http://apps.facebook.com/mousehunt/newspost.php?news_post_id=24
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= This just in =

“Mouse totals are wrong since the King’s Crowns… Well, it could be that 141 is actually the correct total, and the old figure of 90 was wrong. Devs?

<a few minutes later>

From Michele, our mod & mousehunt support worker:

If you have caught an event mice in a region, your regional total may state that you caught more mice than are currently available in the region (example: 55 out of 33). We’re working on removing event mice from these totals.

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==== Forum Features: What’s keeping hunters busy? ====
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* MHCC included in the Wiki

MHCC reached 750 members, and therefore now has her own Mousehunt Wiki page. MHCC might have something to do with the new Crowns-update, they are shy to boast but very happy with the latest update. The MHCC-page: http://mhwiki.hitgrab.com/wiki/index.php/MouseHunt_Century_Club
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* Simple tale about Luck and its Whims…

Somebody posted THE statistical question that’s on every hunters mind – while most have no idea it is a statistical question at all! It goes like this: Say the Silth’s catch rate is 10%, which is 1 catch per 10 attractions. Say I’ve missed 10 silths… does my chance of catching a silth on the next attraction increase, or is it the same as if I’d never attracted a single one?
Can you picture the tension building after so many misses? The hunter starts thinking: it cant be far off now, anytime soon its bound to be! And it is not. This hunter and me too, we are suffering from a Gambler’s Fallacy:

All hunts in Mousehunt are independent. So every time you attract a Silth you will always have 10% chance to catch it or not, regardless of how many prior attractions you’ve had. Please dont bet on your luck turning up just because it has previously been bad. Be guided by this easy peasy rule instead: “Statistics becomes confusing when you start thinking about events in the PAST and events in the FUTURE.”

Despite all statistics and coins flipped in theory… even for statisticians it boils down to this pretty Zen-statement one of them made in the thread: “You get what you get.”
source: http://bit.ly/aqLLPn
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* Who has the best average MH-Career?!

Find out the number of days you’ve been playing with this: http://www.timeanddate.com/date/duration.html Then find your average horns per day and mice per day, and see how well you’ve done. Can you match the first Topic-poster’s 29 horn calls per day on average & 41 mice per day on average?

source and list of accomplished mousehunt carreers: http://bit.ly/9FiS7l

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==== Rumours, Opinions … and Stories ====
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* Crafting an airship? With what?

Hunters were wondering all weekend how we will do it: get to that floating Zugzwang’s Tower, an island in the sky? But it is pretty clear that because we cannot go by sea, we will need to set sail on an airship. What crafting materials will we need? And will we need parachutes? http://ifightrobots.com/images/catplane.jpg
Or will we be teleported? As simple as that? Can any of us swim?
And ofcourse: Can we eat the Octopus please? @.o

source: http://bit.ly/cYJ2KZ
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* Last but not Least:

A smart and football-wise hunter on the Forum was very quick in pointing out a possible remarkable resemblance between Bubbles and Paul the Octopus…

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Thanks to Jane B. for sending in the ‘Statisticians on Luck’ thread!

From friday on i will be on holidays. With a one-woman-crew this means there will be no Mibbler for a time-period of about 2,5 a 3 weeks.

Now be carefull with these Octo-Cookies, dont let them grab you! http://bit.ly/9YOEYk

# Anybody who has news or wants to write a (fluffy) piece but not a whole Mibbler, can send the copy or the idea, or even just the interesting thread-adress… to my pm-box :)
# No News, no Mibbler, as there is a a very strong-headed non-fluff person on the board of advisors. # No Fluff, well – we have to warn you here – but in case of no fluff we might accidentally still post a Mibbler with strong warnings of putting on your sunglasses first before reading.
# If no crew: no Mibbler. Which is really really sad. Luckily there’s always the possibility of posting your news or newsrelated question in the last Mibbler’s thread.

Mibbler – 10

Ha! I thought the news was done for the weekend. In hindsight: how could i think that when there was still a FeedBack-Friday coming up? Plus there were some weird malfunctioning bits and bytes as well… On behalf of keeping the news fresh as long as it is still fresh, here it comes:
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* Nice & last minute Surprise: It’s Cove’s Weekend…

Once upon a time, in a Galaxy far far away…. Nah. It was sometime on saturday, and actually not long before this Mibbler was published, that the ticker announced this: “The Riptide Mice of Balack’s Cove seem strangely calm… Hunters will not be washed out of Balack’s Cove by the tides this weekend.”

Hunters around the Kingdom are a bit worried about this ticker message, as they have experienced a weird unstableness in the hours before, and even right on to the moment the announcement was published. The devs could have foolishly posted on the ticker before being sure they had disabled the flushes, yes? Could they? Noooo.

Michele entered the main thread in the News section about this, asking if and keeping close tabs on whether anyone’s been washed out since the ticker announcement went up… So if you wanna try the Cove’s weekend, and still keep a close watch on what happens, keep an eye on this thread and whatever is reported in it: http://bit.ly/9ImqCP
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* “Mike accidentally all the webservers”

Just before this weeks FBF on friday, many of us had problems logging in or coming back to Mousehunt. The ‘White page of Death’ appeared instead. Apparently some have seen the above announcement. Which is a bit cryptic to non-geeks and mousehunters who are new to the game.

In Mousehunt we had an earlier incident where Franco deleted the database. It was also admitted in the same style and phrase: “Franco accidentally the database”. The geek-side of things is this: “I accidentaly the [noun]” is a meme originating in 2008. It started when someone said on a well know webbased bulletin board “I accidentally the whole rar file”. It implied that the person did something bad to it.

So Mike blew up all the web servers. Or something like that… However, the game was back on its feet before the actual start of FBF, so phew – thanks for that! and no sweating!

source: sorry, the thread has been erased (as it was probably no proper ‘News’)
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* MouseHunt Analytics Urgent Information!

Did you experience some hickups while using mousehunt and visiting Furoma.com? I did, on friday especially… And so i was eager to read this on saturday:
“MouseHunt Analytics was hacked, there was a script that redirected hunters to a site that tells you that you have viruses. This site offers to to “fix” the problems for you, but if you let it, then it downloads viruses to your machine.
Mousehunt Analytics believes the site is now clear of the redirect script. If you do have any further problems please let them know. And they apologise for any inconvenience caused.”

Phew, all’s clear! So no further risk or anything. And they were really quick in fixing it too! Hurray for the guys on Mousehunt Analytics and Furoma.com

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==== Forum Features: What’s keeping hunters busy? ====
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* FBF – so many reviews this week!

Turns out rather more then one hunter was ready to jump the Forums with his or her version of FeedBack Friday. For details and versions and in depth comparisons:

1st FBF review: http://bit.ly/aQew6e
2nd FBF review: http://bit.ly/dhOn1H
and yet another FBF review inside the Tavern Times: http://bit.ly/bVEl7n

I did watch the FBF myself as well, and here are the highlights for who only want highlights…:

There was only about half an hour FBF this friday and the devs sure had thought about how to pull it all off in half an hour. Most of it was with the chat turned ‘off’ for to better focus on answering the mailbag questions, and for us hunters to actually listen to the answers. I and many more, liked it: please do keep the chat ‘off’ during mail bag next time again please!

The first part was with chat as this involved feedback from us, while the Devs tell us and question us about their ideas on changing the timed environments: they are looking for another trigger to move hunters in or out. It has to change as with the increase of hunters there’s more and more transportation problems arising. One idea is to have to catch a certain mouse that transports you in, and the same for being transported out. Plus there may be an item that can protect you from that dynamic if you dont wanna move. Mind you this is all ideas! They are still thinking it up and not sure yet on how to actually go build it.

And ‘Its all just Ideas’ is the main thing i got from this FBF. Whether its mice-specific scoreboards, cork-notifications or even the Stale-shop: All just ideas. Dont cling on to it as if it’s been promised to us! If an idea appears to be popular it might go up the ranks of ideas… And indeed, the devs have noticed the popularity of Tournaments and are taking this popularity serious. But the Tournaments as we knew them will take 2 up to 3 months of estimated building time. Work on Tourneys should begin sometime around October.

The devs are very busy catching up with a lot of the work still related to the release of mh3. For this reason they can also not yet do more weekend events for us. Stuff that is going to be worked on this month will include: King’s Crowns (or badges in other words) that will mark hunting feats, and a Trap Effectiveness Bar which will show how well your trap should work in certain areas.

Dave doesnt want to commit to a date for the release of the new upcoming area. But he thinks the well-known Question Marks on the mousepage will start to appear ‘SOON”!
Franco on the other hand, does squeek this bit in, in the last minute of FBF: the release of the new area, plus the opening of the Dragon’s Chests, is expected by the end of this month.

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==== Rumours, Opinions … and Stories ====
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* More on the supposedly ”Evening out” of the Students… or the Lich’s for that matter

A remark in the last Mibbler on the ‘evening out’ of Students did evoke some reactions. And for sure many amongst you will still see uneven numbers in their inventory, even after having hunted in Dojo for a long time.

Here’s a general observation about random statistics. *IF* the Devs have and use a true random number generator, then the typical observed variation will go as the square root of the number of catches. At 100 catches, that’s 10% variation, which people are definitely going to notice. At 400 catches, that’s 5% variation, which is still pretty noticable. At 2500 catches, it’s 2%, and at 10,000 catches it’s 1%.
This is why PooFlinger (Furoma.com) is so important: none of us are ever likely to reach even 2500 catches, let alone 10k.

Through the reactions on the earlier Mibbler, i realised it will be interesting to know how many catches PooFlinger has recorded for each student and whether they have evened out. And hey, being a reporter i could go ask, coudnt i? So: – to be continued –
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* Somebody has a new favorite mouse! :)

On friday 6th of august Jacob Johnson wrote: I have a new favorite mouse, and I am painting him right now! What? More cute then the Pebble? Or the Nugget? Or the Longtail himself??? Wow.
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* Last but not Least, a Zug-story written by our own Judy Rapp:

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Zug’swang’s Tower

Zugswang smiled – a quiet, gentle smile. People had thought he was crazy to choose such a small, obscure island as this one, when he could have had an estate in Gnawnia as his gift from a grateful King. They hadn’t remembered that he was a master chess player, not that he played the simple one-board game very often any more when he preferred the more challenging hexachess version with interlocking boards and intriguing Time Pieces. They hadn’t remembered that he had inherited the family affinity to metal and fire, and they might not even have known that he had inherited some rather esoteric magics from his half-fae mother.

No, he was not crazy. This Island suited him very well indeed. Born over a ‘hot spot’ the mountainous Island was metal-rich from the magma which seethed deeply below its crust. His smile widened a fraction and he raised his index finger. almost effortlessly, the ground melted from the centre as molten metal rose from the plume, shaping itself as it rose and cooled, steaming in the salt air. The sections rose and slotted themselves together as if they were hexachess themselves, twisting and interlocking until a tower had arisen from the earth. With a small chuckle and a thought, he decorated the top with his favourite Time piece, the one which less experienced players tended to overlook as insignificant – until they suddenly realised their defeat.

Satisfied, he took the heat from the plume which had fed his tower, making it shrink and fall away form the Island, loosing the anchor which had caused it to remain in one place. Manipulating the ocean temperature, he caused a current to take him North. He would return… but not yet.

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= = = = = Cookies & Credentials = = = = =
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Huge thanks to Loretta Johnson for enlightening us on the Random generator’s effects!

Oops, last time i forgot the Cookies! O.o

Today my hubbie has baked the Ultimate Chocolate Cake :) It’s a bit too much for just the two of us, so please dear mousers, help yourselfs to a piece!
http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/3092/ultimate-chocolate-cake

# Anybody who has news or wants to write a (fluffy) piece but not a whole Mibbler, can send the copy or the idea, or even just the interesting thread-adress… to my pm-box :)
# No News, no Mibbler, as there is a a very strong-headed non-fluff person on the board of advisors. # No Fluff, well – we have to warn you here – but in case of no fluff we might accidentally still post a Mibbler with strong warnings of putting on your sunglasses first before reading.
# If no crew: no Mibbler. Which is really really sad. Luckily there’s always the possibility of posting your news or newsrelated question in the last Mibbler’s thread.

Mibbler – 9

Dear oh, there is just this tiny little bit of news here… This Mibbler is skating on thin ice! Let’s hope the board of Directors will look through their fingers and let this slip. O.o
But I have one thing to say for this edition to be coming out today: one of us Mousehunt Heroes wrote a wonderfull piece of fiction and it’s in today’s edition! It so needs to be read! Go read, shoo shoo… off with you!
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* Zug-Tower First Sightings!

The Zug-Tower has appeared on the Full Gnawnia map! Sometime between thursday and friday (dont ask me about that, Einstein had something to do with it!) the first sightings were done. And they caused a little uneasyness and yes and no’s and to’s and fro’s, as the new images did not come through the servers at the same time all over the world… <for some less technical clearance on this: see the footnote ^^>
But the Tower is out and about and it is so true! Even as i can’t see the Zug-Tower right now via my own mh-travelpage, i have seen the screenshot and i am a believer!

Clearly the tower is MASSIVE, see the screenshot: http://bit.ly/9zUqFi

^^ Footnote: Hunters all over the world seem to underestimate the cloaking power of Tower Magic.

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==== Forum Features: What’s keeping hunters busy? ====
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* Zug-Speculations have begun!

We will need cheese, thats for sure. And there will definately be some new artwork too. Plus we do know what dev Dave mentioned: we are gonna need some dragon chests for the Zugzwang’s Tower. But for what exactly? Secretssss….
For now its a complete riddle what will be needed to get in, to be first, to qualify… oooo, please let it not be that devious-Silth-loot-drop that was once mentioned! @.@ Many, many speculations are doing the rounds, are being rumoured… tension builds… Buzz abound!

There’s a nice mix of facts, riddles and speculations in this thread: http://bit.ly/bvkCgu
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* Wild chase up the stairs: Hunter caught his 2nd Eclipse on 1 Tier II potion!

Ronny W. was the very first person to prove it can be done with 1 T2 potion! In hiw own words:
“I got my 1st Eclipse today and had 1 potion Tier II left in my inventory. I thought before I move on, I’ll just convert the potion and ‘hunt the cheese away’. Guess what: – I got up to Tier VI easily (2 potions drops for each lvl) – then finally got 1 Tier VII potion and was kinda shivering. My last piece of Tier VII cheese gave me a very kind Necromancer dropping my 2nd Tier VIII potion ever… and i ended with catching my 2nd Eclipse! I took pictures all the way up from my 1st potion converting to the final catch :D for you all to see it.”

Why this was posted in the Whine section beats me. Oh hmm: there’s >cheese< in there as well ^^
Anyways, if you wanna see some screenshots as you clearly cant believe this, here they are: http://bit.ly/9mXZZq
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* MHCC’s ♫ Zugzwang’s Tower Bet! ♫

For those who will run at the new area and are already afraid they will be done with it in no time, there is a fix for that. Made up on beforehand just for you by the MouseHunt Century Club (MHCC): “Do you think you have what it takes? Do you have the stay-ability? Just how bad do you want the first 100 in the upcoming area? We are here to encourage you in your obsession and what better way than to have a bet?”

A race to be the first to get 100 of one of the new Zug-mice! Lotsa fun and huge prices to be had! Interested? Go for it: http://bit.ly/9AWIxG

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==== Rumours, Speculations & Opinions ====
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* All I’m getting are raisins of wrath O.o

This was just the start of an every-other-day’s conversation on the Forum. It was followed by this: “And all I don’t get are the raisins.” And this: “I need bottled up rage! 13 raisins, 9 pinches and zero bottles. Pass me a bottle someone!!!”

Is there a moral to this story? Oh yes. Listen to what Hunter – on the Scoreboard number Two (thus has clearly spent lots and lots off time in the Cove! – has to say:
Kristijan S.: “I think that the game balances it’s self out in the long run. When I first started hunting in the Cove I had half the amount of Liches than the other two. Now it looks like they are all pretty well balanced. Similar to the students in Furoma, for me at least.”

source: http://bit.ly/acq2kH
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* Sorry to ruin your imagination, but there is something to be unveiled here…

Some myths just have to be deflated! We all are for sure fooled by many suggestive bits and pieces inside Mousehunt. For instance: we tend to think we ‘toot’ the horn. Well you’d better wake up and see what Yu Xuan Ho has to show you!
Have a look at his drawings that clearly reveal some of them myths: http://bit.ly/cX9WpW
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* Idea: A Community Event

Remember when the Gauntlet was ‘in building’? The King builded it actually. Inspired by all the King’s builders good work, JuneHo Y. suggests that we hunters have a community event where we build our new hunting area with crafting items. It sure would help out the developers, wouldnt it?
To summarize: Every hunter apprentice or higher could contribute, and when it gradually stacks up, it will reach its goal. This is what will be needed for a Furoma Fighting Grounds (a tourney area):

Building Requirements:
7,500,000 Splintered Wood; 1,000,000 Bolts of Cloth; 4,000,000 Ropes; 6,400,000 Paint-brand Paint; 1,000,000 Invisi-glu; 1,000,000 Rice Paper; 3,000,000 Scrap Metal; 5,000 Tiny Platinum Bars; 150,000 Coal; 6,000 Dragon Embers; 50,000 Magic Essence; 350,000 Stale Cheese; 60,000 Master’s Seals; 35,000 Onyx Stones; 10,000 Stale SUPER|brie+; 200 Tournament Tokens; 2,000 King’s Reserved Bubbleh; 1 Furoma Fighting Grounds Final Plans (extra-rare loot from Dojo Sensei, only one.)

Read more on this idea and the possibility to help out the devs: http://bit.ly/crG3Ug
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* Last but not Least *a Zug-story written by our own Judy Rapp:

Once upon a time, long ago, there was a baby born to an Earl and Countess of Gnawnia. His parents had very high hopes that he, too, would be a brave hunter, following in his parent’s footsteps. As he grew, though, it became more and more obvious that he was going to be an escape artist instead. He always escaped from anywhere he did not want to be, such as his bedroom and his school, leaving behind little piles of ash where a door used to be. They even tried iron bars, but found little slugs of metal melted over the windowsills.

As the child grew older, his parents worried sick as he developed such a dislike for fur that it was obvious he would never become a hunter. They apprenticed him to a cartographer, but the painstaking work hurt his eyes and gave him a headache. He tried being a barman, but threw up at the smell of stale sweat, beer and other unpleasant odours of unwashed humanity overlaid with the smell of old and untanned mouse pelts.

He ran away. Wandering the streets, the lad came upon a forge and went in. Hungry, he asked if he could work for food and the blacksmith agreed, setting him to work the bellows. At the end of the long day, he was given food and told that he could sleep in the forge if he wished. Though the furnace was out, the stones were still warm. In the morning, the blacksmith entered the forge and found, to his amazement, that the trap he had been working on was complete. Not only that, but it had been intricately decorated and burnished to an incredibly smooth finish. The furnace was still cold. How had it been done? He woke the slumbering youth and asked “Did you do this?” and thus began a long and profitable friendship between the Blacksmith and Zugsholt.

Zugsholt never forced his children to become something they were not. One of his daughters became a master Smith, like him; another became a wealthy merchant and flew the realms in a magical hot air balloon. One son became famous throughout the land as a formidable hunter who designed, and made, all his own traps and one ventured into the Ice Caves and used his power over heat and metal to defeat the legendary Frostmouse Ice Giant who was terrorising the area. And all lived happily ever after.

* another episode will be here for you to read in next Mibbler, so stay tuned! ;) *

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I am helping out on a new initiative to start a Mousehunt Paper in the Tavern. This means you may see parts of the Mibbler in that soon to be published Tavern-paper. (Sorry, its name is still a secret due to a competition.)

BUT: The Mibbler will always be the first with one of my pieces of writing, and it will always have exclusive bits that wont be in the other one ^^

# Anybody who has news or wants to write a (fluffy) piece but not a whole Mibbler, can send the copy or the idea, or even just the interesting thread-adress… to my pm-box :)
# No News, no Mibbler, as there is a a very strong-headed non-fluff person on the board of advisors.
# No Fluff, well – we have to warn you here – but in case of no fluff we might accidentally still post a Mibbler with strong warnings of putting on your sunglasses first before reading.
# If no crew: no Mibbler. Which is really really sad. Luckily there’s always the possibility of posting your news or newsrelated question in the last Mibbler’s thread.

Mibbler – 8

It is quiet in the Kingdom. Not completely quiet ofcourse as there is at least one party partying, the AN/AM Birthday is on and still going strong for 2 more days ^^ But Otherwise it’s rater quiet… All hunters have something to catch (up with), and the bartenders are polishing their glasses. The devs are working hard on the Zugzwangs Tower, trying to get that Zugzwang’s magic under control ^^

But we did find a few tiny newsbites worth telling you…
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* This week’s Feedback Friday will take place at 2pm EDT (6pm GMT)

The original message had a mismatch between the EDT time and the GMT time listed. But that was soon explained and cleared up by moderator and support-worker Michele and the ticker has been adjusted.

In the Mailbag thread in the Tavern Michele posted this as well: “Ideas/feedback on the timed areas (cove/acolyte) would be welcomed this week as the devs are looking at possibly changing the way the timed environments work in the future. This is not something that is going to happen now/next week/anytime soon so please do not ask for specifics – it’s just at the idea stage right now.”

There is still time to post your question (or suggestion) for Feedback Friday in the mailbag thread: http://tinyurl.com/mailbagweek31
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* It is quiet in the Kingdom. So here the Mibbler could end…

But its not Mousehunt if its not completely quiet ofcourse! There has been at least one Rucous resulting in the banning of some more or less famous hunters. As most have missed all or many parts of what was being said or exchanged, and since all threads have been deleted, almost nobody knows what truely happened.
Let me tell you this: RadioactiveGoldmouse has let his witchhunt get out of control, and has gotten many of the old garde hunters mad and on top of that getting 3 more hunters banned. The old-garde retaliated, resulting in RGm’s ban (amongst others).
Ofcourse everybody is wondering: will there be a FBF-review this week?
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* Incidents of Wiped Corkboards stay Mystery O.o

Many hunters have come back to their profile page to find their cork messages all wiped and gone. A clean slate as it were, altough some had handy notes in there that got lost. Michelle, our support-worker and one of the moderators, said this during the week: “Sadly a solution still has not been found for this. It seems to happen to only certain people, so no one has been able to replicate it to find out why.”
source: http://tinyurl.com/corkboardmystery

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* Do hunters want a sneak peek? Feedback on the devs questions

The devs questions posted in last weeks news were these: How do you feel about releasing teasers like this more often? How much detail about new areas should be in the teaser? Should details in teasers be ‘set in stone’?
Generally the feeling is: “Keep the teasers coming, don’t give too much info. Finding things out yourself is way more fun.” The setting in stone is getting mixed reactions.
And someboy was so smart to point out that there have always been sneek peak-teasers: the shadows of mice on the mouse page that suddenly appeared and where yet to be discovered surely slowly build expectations! ^^

Ofcourse there were also threads in the Tavern being critical at the decision on Zugzwangs Tower after last fridays news post. Hunters were for instance worried about the Zugzwangs Tower being so suddenly changed into a Lord’s area: Is there enough time to do the approriate preparations and changes to make it worthy & rewarding enough for Lord’s and Lady’s?
The protest and pro and con threads have already died out and what can i say? All this for sure is a sign of a very much involved community ;)

If you happen to be worried, you can read all pros and con-arguments in this thread: http://tinyurl.com/zugzwangsprosandcons

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* Catching embers without the Ice Maiden

Hunters want to get to the Cove! Yes they do. Several threads have been asking and reporting this week about the possibility to go hunt for embers in Dracano while not having the appropriate trap. Apparantly they can be caught with HVMT or even Rhinobot.

Here’s one source amongst many little threads: http://tinyurl.com/3249p6p
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* One mighty Whine: 640 Limelight Hunts… and still no nugget!!!

So you thought your luck was bad? But you were still holding back on whining? While we all know it works miracles! Please go whine before you get to 640 pieces of cheese as this whine did not yet bring in the goodies and sure was done too late!source: http://tinyurl.com/640whine
You can whine in the appropriate forum-section, or get your Grand Cru from MhHitM: http://tinyurl.com/frustratedhavesomewhine
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* The Bristle Hills Theater is now open!

Come enjoy popular titles such as: – Stewart Big; – Dr. Fromagelove, or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love Maintenance; – Stale Hard With A Vengeance and many many others! :)
source: http://tinyurl.com/bristlehilltheatre
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* Last but not Least:
Dont forget to hop in on the feast for AN/AM’s second Birthday! *

There are still two-plus days of partying and good prizes to be won. Personally i wanna recommend todays Riddle-competition that will run for still some 36 hours for you to get your riddles solved :)
http://tinyurl.com/anam-birthdayriddle

But possibly there’s something more to your liking? There will be a Team-Treasure hunt on friday that sounds really promising, and an Anagram-thingy on thursday… See some of the still upcoming events: http://tinyurl.com/anambirthday-schedule

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