
So what is going on? Some of you may ask. Well after 3 years of no updates I have gone ahead and updated the site in the hopes that I can get it to a point where I don’t have to update it anymore.
Why is this? Well over the years my interest in Myst/Uru etc has dispersed, especially in the last 6 months. DJC and I have always had a love hate relationship and my wife won’t allow me to get rid of the site completely. So I have cut a lot of the fat out of the site, removed a lot of the incomplete sections and am leaving up just the core aspects (game info, storylines, journals etc).
I’ve also changed the news section to just pull from the Guild of Messengers’ RSS feed to save some trouble.
I know the new site isn’t flashy, and is rather basic, but I’m afraid I just don’t have the time, interest or passion I once had for Myst/Uru stuff.
- Keith “Tweek” Lord (01/08/10)

Guild of Messengers - Delivering Uru News to the Community
To support a corps of volunteer journalists disseminating information within the Myst/Uru community.
As many of you may know, the creator and maintainer of Drizzle and the original UAM database of Ages, Dustin (aka ddb174), has retired from the community some months ago, and since then Drizzle, the Uru Age Manager and the UAM Shard were left without a maintainer.
Drizzle is not being developed anymore, but it still works. You can still download Ages with UAM but new Ages are not going to be added to its list. And the UAM Shard just works, but nothing more.
This has started to become a problem just lately, when new ages have been finished by some Age Writers and they had no way to deliver them to the non-technically-expert Uru Community, because they couldn't be added to the list of UAM.
This is why today diafero announced a new UAM Database, the Deep Island UAM Database.
How does this work? Well it's easy, it work the same way the original UAM database worked: you just have to open your Drizzle, go the the UAM tab, click on the Change Server button and insert the address of the new database:
http://www.the-deep-island.de/uru-ages/
Confirm the change and push the Get Latest List button to update your list of Ages. And there you go! Everything is ready for downloading the new ages.
The Open Source Uru community has finished the work on a new update for MOULa!
OpenUru.org announced that they have locked the update (meaning, no more changes can be done) and Cyan Worlds has been notified that it's ready. Now everything is up to Cyan: to decide which parts to include in MOULa, to test it with their internal workflow and finally to publish it.
Right now Cyan's schedule and times are still unknown.
Here is the list of bugfixes, changes and new features as it was published on OpenUru.org: Read more
Join Ghaelen D'Lareh and the Guild of Healers in a retrospective journey through the closing, waiting, and expectations of the re-opening of the Cavern from 2010!
Through music and voice, relive this time with those explorers who experienced it. If you were there, add your thoughts and memories of the Cavern re-opening, and Ghaelen will include them in the Opening Ceremony program. The opening ceremony kicks off a week-long celebration that includes music, games and other programs. To listen via Shoutcast, please visit: http://healersradio.hopto.org
The Theme of the Opening Ceremony is A Fall through the Chasm: This will involve the loss, the waiting, the hope of a renewed cavern. It will include dedications, tributes, and a silent vigil to commemorate the loss of our home, family, and friends. In essence, we fell through the chasm, grieved, then hoped to come through the other side to a renewed place.
The Theme of the Closing Ceremony is Welcome Home!: As in previous years, we welcome those we have recently lost and those new explorers who have joined us since February of 2011. This will be a joyful ceremony as we celebrate the continuance of our home for another year and the fun of creating new memories to share next February. Following the fun-filled events of the week as it does, you can expect several rounds of /shout and /cheer.
The music, dedications, a tribute, and a vigil will take us through the days during which we lost our beloved Cavern Home. We will also remember past and recent community members who have left us and pause for a silent vigil should some explorers wish to individually visit the memorial in the Kahlo Pub. Finally, we remember the hope that someday we could go home again. That hope includes the continuance of our home well into the "current" future years. Read more
Come one come all to the greatest, and only, quiz show in the cavern, Significa, organized by the Guild of New Greeters!
Wear your Guild of Greeters shirt from Kirel to show your support and head on over to the Guild of Greeters Pub (found in the City Locations tab of the Nexus) for a night of questions that will test your meddle against your fellow explorers!
Questions will range from visual picture questions, history questions, family tree questions and much much more!
Today Cyan Worlds, specifically Mark DeForest (a.k.a. Chogon), has committed some code to the CWE and MOULSCRIPT repositories (which are the places where the code of the Client is kept).
This is the list of what updates were presented by JWPlatt on the OpenUru.org Forums:
CWE Notes:
Added Donate button to the login screen
Added fixes from Christian Walther for the Python SDL tuples
Added plLocalizationEditor source and projectThe Localization Editor has been added to the sources. This was unintentionally omitted from the original source distribution. Thanks Chogon!
MOULSCRIPT Notes:
Minkata Sparklie fix from D'Lanor. This is in concert with Cyan's internal fix to Minkata.
As you can see there are some interesting things: first of all the long awaited fix of Minkata's Sparkly made by D'Lanor and Cyan Worlds. Then we can see a change in the Client itself for adding a Donate button to the login screen of MOULa (remember MOULa survives only with donations!), then a fix made by Christian Walther to the Python code and the Localization Editor, which apparently has something do to with the possibility of translating CWE content in other languages.
We would like to remind all of you that this is "only" a commit on the repositories where the code is kept, the MOULa program (client) has not yet been updated so you won't see these changes in MOULa yet. We will publish more news when this will happen, probably after the code has been tested.
Shorah fellow explorers and all cavern-dwellers!
I am excited to announce a special week to celebrate our return to the cavern! We are now entering our third year of MOULa!!! In honor of this achievement, various groups have banded together to “lay the groundwork” to create a series of small events into a full-blown festival. Below, one will find a Master Schedule which will be kept updated. Any interested parties are asked to submit additional events via the MOULa forums within a special thread created by Tai'lahr.
"MEMORIES OF THE CAVERN"
Master Schedule of Events:
[Feb. 4th-11th; All times listed are KI-time, unless otherwise stated.]
Sat., Feb 4th:
- 10:00: Guild of Healers Dedication/Opening Ceremony (See ghaelen's post )
- 13:00: Kirel: All Guilds Meeting
Sun, Feb 5th: Read more
The D'ni Musicological Research Hood proudly presents:
"MUSIC IN THE DMR"
The Cavcon Level is currently at 3. Let's help bring it back up Level 4 and beyond!
Please be as generous as you can!!!
The music begins on Saturday, January 21st at 18:00hrs Ki-time
The Music of Myst:
http://www.ustream.tv/channel/live-in-the-dmr
All cavern dwellers are invited to drop by and to enjoy the music!
Simon (Ki# 05495449 ) has once again been asked by Alexander to assemble a team of volunteers to begin a methodical search of the various Ages. This meeting will focus upon important new revelations about Inshir along with the Investigation Team's hunt for the four keys.
The meeting will be on Saturday, January 28th at 13:00 KI Time (3pm EST / 9pm CET) in Alexander Rush's Hood for anyone interested in joining the search.
If you would like to sign up for the project (and to receive further info), send a KI message to Alexander Rush (Ki# 13924302).
Good luck, explorers!!!
The D'ni Musicological Research Hood proudly presents:
"SANCTUM"
A new musical adventure, presented and hosted by: SolarSoul
Join our journey through peaceful music at: http://mysterium.caster.fm
The first journey begins at 20:00 Ki-Time on Friday January 13, 2012.
All explorers are welcome to attend!
Hello Explorers!
The "gophers" of the Guild of Messengers are organizing a Meeting for talking about all it's business and get to know each other better. ![]()
We will meet on January, Saturday 14th at 11KITime (10am PST, 1pm EST, 7pm CET, 10pm MSK) in our IRC channel, (kindly offered by amonre, maintainer of the mystlore server).
Our IRC Channel can be reached using any IRC Client Program (such as Pidgin), connecting to the server chat.mystlore.com and choosing the #GoMe channel.
For easy access and for who doesn't want to download and learn a new program the Guild of Messengers offers a web access to the IRC channel thru our websites (no installation required, no registration required!):
_Visit the IRC Channel on the GoMe website
_Visit the IRC Channel on Rel.to
The following topics will be discussed:
- Cavern Post Issue #2: discussion of new articles and feedback from the 1st issue.
- Recruitment : Want to learn more about GoMe and/or join our team? Well, now's the time to claim one of those bright yellow tees for yourself!
- Cavern Criers Organization: recent changes of CC job, finding more Criers, Nev'yn for president!
- All Guilds Meeting & Kirel's Population Limit: Strategies & solutions.
- Other Business: Relaying, event submissions, along with other bits just sitting around collecting dust.
All the GoMe meetings are open to the public. We invite everyone to join us to bring their ideas and suggestions, or even just to listen. Read more