Necromium

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The blackened portal is no longer free. Now when you enter the portal, it takes you to a new room with a mob that is a shopkeeper. Typing LIST will show you two items for sale: a figurine and a murky grey potion. The potion is a normal recall potion, so newbies don't get stuck in there, and the figuring is what allows you to access the normal recharge room.

The figuring costs 65k gold, which is basically your ticket to recharging items. As soon as you buy the figurine you will be teleported to the normal recharge room, where you can recharge your items. That room is peaceful and no longer flagged CPK, so people can't swipe your items that you recharge. The room is also !beacon, so you have to pay every time you want to recharge anything.

There is a new help file on the blackened portal. HELP RECHARGE or HELP BLACKENED PORTAL


Also, another minor change, the portal in the CPK grove on gash (the !magic one) now flickers. This means the portal will disappear and reappear at fixed intervals. So someone who runs a speedwalk through the grove may find that the portal is not there, or maybe it will be. The goal here is to restore some of the risk to the portal, which was virtually eliminated by the !spam code.