Keep Update 12/24/2004

[Myhrginoc]

Greetings and felicitations! Happy holidays to one and all! Whether this season is your high holy days or a time of rest and relaxation, pause a moment and enjoy the Christmas edition of the Phrozen Keep News. We have a nice collection of goodies to stuff your stockings and pile up under the yuletide tree.

Happy Anniversary
Infinitum turned one year old yesterday, and begins its second year with a new look and many improvements. All animations are now available as plugins, with new tokens so you needn't remove any monsters to add any of these. Stockings aren't enough here, you'll need Santa's bottomless bag to hold them all.

Big Box Presents
We have a couple of mods for you, and neither of these are trifles at over 160MB apiece.
- Phrozen Heart and Pagan Rainfall have unveiled their new mod, Pagan Heart (v0.76 beta), drawing on the vast archives of Infinitum for many new monsters and NPCs. This is the first peek we get at a major mod from one of our founding leaders. Find out about it here.
- Sardius has updated his gargantuan mod, Hell Unleashed, to v1.08F which is expected to be the final version. So many changes are included that it is available as a full download only. Get the complete story here.

Gem of a Plugin
The GemFix plugin for the D2Mod system (v1.00 by Myhrginoc) formats the properties displays for gems and runes so each property gets its own line. The plugin also corrects the bug reported by kingpin where a long description drops weapons properties. Now you no longer need worry about unreadable properties for any item defined in gems.txt.

Stocking Stuffers
New contributor fishynsmelly has packaged almost 1000 item graphics into Fishynsmelly's Item Pack 1. The images are provided in both dc6 and pcx formats. Get the Item Pack here.

More Stocking Stuffers
Tired of the same old forum images? We have several new galleries to pick an avatar from. Choose a new face in your Profile page:
- 150 "Spiderman (Comic)" avatars
- 100 "X-Men (Comic)" avatars
- 70 "Buffy" avatars
- 25 animated D2 avatars

Holiday Cheer
Wlffrsether wins big ($60,000) in the PK:OT Lottery, notching up a second win in just a few weeks. December has been a lucky month for Wlffrsether! Has the cabal of perrenial winners been broken? Find out for yourself by playing the PK:OT Lottery.

A Lump of Coal
We wish all our stuffers counted as good news, but even the best-laid schemes o' mice and men gang aft agley. Our Christmas Mini-Mod Contest soared like a lead balloon and landed with a painful thump. No entries were submitted, even after taarna's challenge. We want some feedback, are these contests not worth hosting? What are your suggestions?

That is all for the Christmas Edition. Go forth and enjoy your new goodies! If the Sun itself can pause, and go a different way this time of year, why not you?