Hello Aetherius!

We are introducing two new things in Caanae, found inside the new Hall of
Heroes, which are also available for individual cities:

Leaderboards
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First, we have leaderboards. You will find statues within the various halls of
the Hall of Heroes, which correspond to their respective RANKINGS category.
These statues will change accordingly each day change, and are purely visual.

You will also notice certain halls have no statues yet. Those will be created
as part of future events, in combination with the LEADERBOARD command. Mainly,
it's a place to temporarily honor our victors until the next competition or
contest.

Cities wishing for their own leaderboard (complete with statues!) can submit an
org request (HELP ORGREQUEST). We are making these available for free. Please
provide an appropriate room where the leaderboard and statues will sit in. We
will refuse main rooms (where tutors are) as those are typically already filled
with quite a bit of stuff.

This gives the city access to the LEADERBOARD command in that room, where you
can organize your own leaderboard for an event. Statues will be created for the
top three, which will remain in the room.

See HELP LEADERBOARD for details.


Sparring Pits
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In the central hall of the Hall of Heroes, you will find a tetrahedron.
Touching it will teleport you to a pit beneath the Hall. These are meant for
quick friendly spars. Some quick facts about the pits:

- It's free, unlike the arena, and does not affect achievements.

- You can't die.

- One room is outdoors, another is indoors.

- TOUCH TETRAHEDRON to enter (and exit) the pit.

- TURN TETRAHEDRON to cycle the pit's environment (currently default, forest
and freshwater). This cannot be done when people are inside.

- PUSH TETRAHEDRON to expel everyone from inside and block entry for a short
time. This is not meant to troll players using the pit, but to prevent its
use as a safe zone.

- Probing the tetrahedron will show all these commands.

The main reason for introducing these is to provide a place for quick friendly
spars (or testing things). We will be more lenient of players being AFK inside
the pits, as we understand how difficult it can be to get help testing things.

On a similar note, however, doing the same in the actual arena, where
achievements and rankings may be earned is absolutely not acceptable. We are
aware it's been done countless times before, and most characters have already
earned all possible achievements. This is why we look at cases individually,
and now there's also an alternative.

As with the leaderboards, cities may request their own tetrahedron, which will
be connected to its own pit. There will be a cost of 5 million gold to the
city, however.

Penned by my hand on the 7th of Bellum, in the year 290 AM.