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01/08/24 - In The Outer Ruins:
- Added opening graphic.
- Increased bonus XP from fighting Zombie to 75 from 50.
- Increased bonus XP for fighting Skeleton Lord to 75 from 25.
- Increased bonus XP for fighting Skeleton Master to 200 from 100.
- Increased bonus XP for fighting Fiends to 125, from 100.
- Increased bonus XP for fighting Wraiths to 75 from 50.
- Increased bonus XP for fight Wraith Lords to 200 from 100.
- Decreased amount of gold Poltergeist steals from you to 25 to 50, from 75 to 100.
- Decreased amount of damage from being poisoned to 2 to 5 HP, from 6 to 9.
- Reduced cost to bribe a fiend to 200 from 400.
- Reduced cost to bribe an uber-fiend to 500 from 1600.
- Made Fiends and Uber-Fiends drain your XP, instead of your skills.
- Increased XP bonus for Altar, Gravestone and Basket to 25 to 50 from 10 to 20.
- Increased XP bonus for Runes to 25 to 100 from 25 to 50.
- Increased Gold bonus for Gravestone to 1 to 20 from 1 to 10. And removed some "nothing happens" results as well.
- Added 3 more powers that the Altar might give you.
- Gems affect thieves now.
01/01/24 - In The Outer Ruins:
- Moved powers and items to a sidebar.
- Made rows light up when numbers in them change.

07/15/16 - in The Forgotten Forest: Fixed a bug so that it doesn't say 0% chance to be irritated or bored.
06/07/16 - In The Lost City:
- Added new power: circumspect. It helps you find things when you would have found nothing.
- City food reward increased to 2 to 4 from 1 to 3.
- Added mystic aura to specials box, and made that box light up when anything in it changes.
06/01/16 - In The Lost City:
- Added highlight box around a location if it is the current quest.
- Re-arranged main game box.
- Added pop out boxes to the right of the main display, which show specials and quest info.
01/10/16 - Added the Magic Portal , which is a prestige item for long term players to build on the hero roster, and it reduces the cost of all basic and advanced games by 1/2.

12/22/15 - In The Forgotten Forest:
- 3 in a row matches for many spaces in the forest.
- 3 new powers!
- Hermit only gives 6 of 7 items per game, to give variety and replayability overall.
- 10 new verbs for poems and sayings.
- The stats boxes light up and dim as your stats change, like the other games.
- Out of turns box floats left now.
- Re-formatted it to fit on iphone screens better.
11/23/15 - Added opening and closing images to The Ancient Catacombs.
11/17/15 - In The Forgotten Forest:
- The Hermit now shows you a way out of the cave if he does nothing else for you.
- New side text box for poems, sayings and Hermit reward.
- Added bonus turns for making a poem or saying.
- Poem and saying chance doesn't go over 100% now.
- Showing more detail about trying to make a poem or saying.
11/13/15 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- When you try and open a door, or jump a chasm, it now shows your chance of doing it.
- Doubled the rate at which heroes get bored talking to you.
- Added a 'savings throw' against your charisma to re-engage a person who would have gotten bored of you otherwise.
- The chance of a hero teaching you something if they can is boosted by your charisma.
- Decreased the size of xp bonus per point the hero is ahead of you, but increased the difference range. This means that they need to be 5 times as high ahead of you to give you the same stat boost, and that it comes down in value in smaller, 10 pt, chunks.
- Bonus turns for gaining a stat are now 3, but it doesn't use up a turn to boost a stat.
- Fixed a few layout and control bugs.
11/09/15 - In The Sulphur Mines:
- Total supplies recovered from all wins now recorded.
- Disabled buttons instead of hr blocks for actions you can't currently do.
11/05/15 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Redid main layout to add floating boxes for items and kings defeated.
- Reformatted combat screens for clarity.
- Fixed bug where demons could drain you to negative energy.
11/02/15 - In The Sandy Wastes:
- Added showing current powers when at an encounter where you can get powers.
- Swapped the numbers for trading salt with the traders, so salt is more valuable than water now.
- Added disabled buttons for actions not avaible.
- Fixed typos.
10/26/15 - Updated all 11 icons for stage 3 of the game, The Alien Journey.
10/23/15 - In The Well:
- Even more back button error code.
- Help text about gaining skill points shown the first time you get some.
- Reduced bonus turns from gaining a skill point from xp to 3 instead of 4.
10/22/15 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Added opening and closing pictures.
- Shows a little bit of detail about encounters to other players, when in recent players list.
- Back-button error handling.
10/17/15 - Added opening and closing images to The Subterranean Realms.
10/16/15 - In The Alien Journey:
- Updated icons: amoeba, comet, all asteroids, crevasse.
- Added a pop-up box that announces when you get to a new stage.
10/09/15 - In The Great Desert:
- New encounter: Sand Barge!
- Increased the amount of Knowledge you can get from the mystic, and increased the minimum to 25.
- Changed focus to % display.
- Small amount of Baboon feedback shown now.
- Added robuster error handling for back button errors.
10/05/15 - In The Subterranean Realms:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added minor error handling for back button errors.
10/02/15 - In The Outer Ruins:
- Resting at home now gives you 15 to 30 health back, instead of 4 to 8.
- Responsive for mobile! Plays on phone or tablet better.
- Shows more details in the recent player screens when at an encounter.
- Disabled buttons added for when you can't do an action, so the interface looks better and is more stable.
- Made the winning roll in an encounter visually larger, so it is easier to scan for.
- Fill up bar for health.
- Robuster back-button error-handling.
09/23/15 - In The Alien Journey:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added one opening and four closing images.
09/21/15 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- New Item: Bloodstone.
- Added auto-defeating monsters which you could have fought without losing, to speed up the game some.
- Stone altar can give you items from 20 levels lower now.
- Runic shield breaks 5% less often.
- Increased xp bonus for defeating monsters with special abilities by 0 to 50, depending on the power.
- Increased the impact monsters flee amount has on danger adjustment. It was every 15% was -1, now it's every 10% is -1.
- On recent players listing, catacombs players now show which monsters they are fighting.
- Added disabled buttons on main screen for actions you can't currently perform.
- Adjusted help text to match current stat names.
09/14/15 - In The Western Dunes:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added opening and closing images.
09/09/15 - Doubled the credits you get per dollar paid, so now its 4 credits per dollar.
09/07/15 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices. This is the last one to be converted! Yay!
- Reduced bonus turns from gaining a skill point from xp to 3 instead of 4.
- Made it so using a skill point doesn't use a turn.
- Combat Roll results highlighted by who wins, to make it much more obvious.
- Robuster back button error checking.
08/31/15 - In The Forgotten Forest:
- Updated graphics for the bird, ruins, Mouse, Lightning, Rain, Clouds, Grapes, Flower, Tower and Stream.
- Relocated the information for the Hermit's quest to a better place.
08/23/15 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added special encounters text to the recent players listing while a player is playing.
- On pirate, asteroid, and ion cloud encounters, it now shows how much fuel you will burn if you try to avoid them.
- Added stats box to Guide encounters.
- Re-arranged trading post and stardock screens to make them clearer.
08/19/15 - In The Forgotten Forest:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added opening and closing pictures.
- Brightened link colors to make them more readable.
08/14/15 - Added highlighting to the news entries, instead of the old '***'.
08/14/15 - Increased the time it shows recent players on this list to the last 60 minutes, up from the last 20 minutes.
08/14/15 - Hid the game designer's rating from the top players lists.
08/10/15 - In The Lost City:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added opening and closing pictures.
- Added a knowledge reward for finding each place initially.
- Made it so you can't lose thoughtful when you gain knowledge of less than 25 for something.
08/05/15 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Changed the layout of the main screen to have floating boxes to the left and right, to show powers, items and skill boosts.
- Fixed a bug where not all bonuses were being shown when fighting a demon.
- Adjusted many layout details and minor bugs.
07/30/15 - Reset the high scores for The Well.
07/30/15 - Reduced the maximum bets allowed in the saloon, based on how many buildings you have built. Now, the more you have built, the more you can bet.
07/27/15 - In The Sandy Wastes:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Added stats boxes to giant lizard, bleached bones, oasis, mystic, lake, bunker, shrine, traders and sandstorm encounters.
- Added 'You have a feeling...' to alert you to upcoming fixed encounters.
- Now you can't accidentally miss fixed encounters when you lose turns from digging in at the sandstorm, or running away from the giant lizard.
- Removed losing people at the sandstorm.
- Shows what you will lose if you run or dig in at the sandstorm.
- Halved the number of turns lost to digging-in at the sandstorm.
- Increased tranquility bonus to 100, from 75, when relaxing at the oasis.
07/22/15 - Added opening and closing images to The Sulphur Mines.
07/16/15 - In The Sulphur Mines:
- Made it responsive for playing on mobile devices.
- Changed layout and coloring.
- Now the stats rows light up if they have been changed on a turn.
- Added a message about finding a back-up battery if you already have one. You get some energy, but not a second back-up battery.
07/06/15 - Added opening and closing images to The Celestial Tower.
06/25/15 - In The Well:
- New Encounter: Glowing altar.
- Added 3 new powers: Alert, Observant and Shining Aura.
- The Amulet of Willpower now stops you from running from fearsome enemies.
- Monster bonus powers don't appear til after level 10 of the Well now.
06/21/15 - In The Great Desert:
- Added stats box to sandstorm, and text saying what each choice does.
- Reduced the amount of stuff you might lose from the sandstorm to 1/3 of your total stuff, down from 1/2.
- Changed the amount of junk needed to build shelters at the sandstorm, a little less of your total junk and a little more of your total food.
- Removed losing people from the sandstorm.
- Made it so that if you lose turns to an encounter (like digging in for the sandstorm), it doesn't skip over special fixed encounters.
- Added Burial Ground encounter.
06/15/15 - In The Great Desert:
- Added 'you have a feeling' to warn you of upcoming special encounters.
- Increased the tranquility reward at the Oasis, the Ruins and the Bleached Bones.
- Added new mini-stats box to some encounter screens, to help you make more informed choices.
- Now shows % chance to teach the traders.
- Added Analyze Game State link, and included food per turn in the analysis.
06/10/15 - In The Great Desert:
- Added opening and closing pictures.
06/08/15 - In The Celestial Tower:
- Made the main screen resposive for mobile.
- When you can't pay the requirements for a level, the things you can't pay for are shown in red, to alert you so you don't have to refer to the inventory list as much.
06/03/15 - In The Great Desert:
- Made the main screen resposive for mobile.
- Added light up stat changes on main screen.
05/29/15 - In The Well:
- Tripled xp from the Crown of Kowledge.
- Ring of Regeneration renamed to Ring of Vitality, and protects you from curses and imps as well now.
- Added 600 gold bonus for reaching the bottom of The Well.
- Increased gold found with bracelet of light to 1/2 normal finds instead of 1/3.
- Put special encounter check before monster check, so things like altars, basins, treasure chambers, and so forth, show up much more often.
05/26/15 - In The Well:
- Reduced the base amount of gold sulfurous enemies destroy, by more than half.
- Streamlined combat results to make them responsive design for mobile.
- Made combat results roll result larger for the winner, to highlight it.
05/24/15 - In The Well:
- Removed the goals from the main screen and put in a link to show them.
- The people that show up to sell you stuff have been given a new floating box to the right, as well as pictures of each person.
- Streamlined some text at end of game.
- Added whitespace to combat results page.
05/23/15 - Reformatted the hero roster to make it work with responsive design for mobile phones. Along the way, streamlined the turns clock!

10/13/14 - In The Well:
- The Wall Crack encounter has been re-designed, to be much more useful and obvious what the choices are.
- The murky pool choices have changed dramatically, as well as the description.
- The murky pool has been made into a randomly occuring encounter, instead of a fixed one.
- Added floating item list to main display.
- Changed the monster and treasure percentages to round down to the nearest 5%, to make it easier to understand what is happening with them.
- Fixed some minor bugs in exploring.
10/11/14 - In The Well:
- Removed the upper limit on getting xp from the scroll in the nest, and increased the amount of experience awarded by 150.
- Increased the amount of coins found in the nest, and made it a constant, instead of by level.
- Added an experience bonus if you wish at the fountain and nothing else happens.
- Added a few more options to get as a result of a wish at the fountain.
- "Greyed-out" options at the fountain if they aren't helpful.
- Bribing a monster will now skip all special abilities it has, except for fearsome.
- Imp choices now show consequences.
- Ignoring the imp now sends you up 3 to 5 levels instead of 4 to 7.
- The imp now demands half as much gold as previously.
- Blessing now protects you from being cursed.
- Made Treasure Chambers and Coffins findable from going down a level, instead of only when exploring a level.
- Increased the bonus experience you get for fighting monsters with special abilites by at least double.
- Changed the cost to train up your stats with the champion to 150, instead of 400.
- Changed the cost of buying items from the magician to 250, instead of 500.
- Added a closing picture.
10/03/14 - In The Subterranean Realms:
- Increased the font size in the main text area, and increased the size of the main text area.
- Replaced finding 'moments of peace' with finding gems.
- Removed '*'s from monster names.
- Changed 'drive off' to 'defeat'.
- Changed combat experience to 3 stats: prowess, toughness and stamina.
- Reduced the items needed when exploring the Caves to 1 rope instead of 1 torch and 1 rope.
- Reduced the items needed when exploring the Lower Caves to 1 torch and 1 rope instead of 1 torch and 2 rope.
- Replaced finding 'nothing' in the sewers with finding torches, rope and keys.
- Now, when a monster resists your attack, you get +.5 prowess, for trying.
- Changed the Rat Lord in the Rats Nest to a Giant Rat, and made it take no herbs to fight, but more energy.

10/28/11 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- Added a new planet encounter, the storm in the wilderness.
- Added a new city encounter, a shady person.
- Added Mining Lasers, as well as two new secret mystery items.
- Now, in relevant encounters it shows how much stuff you have, so you can better determine a course of action.
- Now, there is a limit of 7 shrines per planet, down from 12. Also, shrines give you double their previous reward for building them.
- Added a small virtue reward for talking to people but failing to convince them of anything.
- Widened the main display, adjusted some encounter chances, and fixed a few typos.
09/22/11 - The Celestial Tower got its main screen reformatted to be more compact and concise.
08/17/11 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- Once you meet a prophet, he adds clues to the location of the next prophet onto the map.
- Once you have met the Sixth Prophet, he gives clues to find him again.
- Added 'return to the prophet' text into the tasks area when you have finished a task, to make it explicit that it is time to go back and get your reward from the prophets.
07/27/11 - In The Well:
- Added pictures for five non-monster encounters.
- Fixed it so relentless monsters stop chasing you if you run and drop to 1 health.
- Re-arranged the encounter screen to be clearer, and added hover text for monster special abilities.
- Changed the monster ability 'shrouded in mist' to 'sulfurous' to be shorter and clearer.
- The altar now shows up randomly, like the treasure chamber, instead of appearing at fixed levels each game.
- Now when you boost a skill, you get a turn.
07/20/11 - Finally got a replacement for my local server! Now I can edit the pages easily again. In honor of that, I fixed a few typos.

12/07/10 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: While adjusting the formatting for the encounters to make them easier to read, also decided to add a line of text which tells you what your % chance to succeed at an encounter is.
10/06/10 - In The Sandy Wastes:
- Added visual warning system for when you are going to run out of supplies in a few turns, are over carrying capacity, or don't have enough people to bring all your sleds when you move.
- Ant power now lets you send 25 questers at a time, instead of the former tedious 5.
- Now, you build as many sleds at a time as you have junk and labor for, instead of just one per click.
- Shelters cost less junk to build the longer you have been camped.
- When you have no, or very few people, it is much easier to find new people when wandering.
- Fixed a bug where the wandering lizard would show up sometimes right as you broke camp.
08/04/10 - In The Journey to New Earth: Reduced the number of turns lost to guards and pirates sometimes, and removed the limit of 15 fuel a turn when trading supplies at the mines. Also reduced the overall chance of the planetary patrol showing up. Also fixed a bug and added a mini-event when visiting the mines.
06/30/10 - In The Outer Ruins: Reduced the amount of gold a thief in the bunker steals to a maximum of 50, down from 100, and now when you open a basket when you are fully healed, you can gain a little experience.
05/10/10 - In The Ancient Catacombs: Increased starting artifice by 2, made danger level not go above 100%, and fixed 2 typos.
05/10/10 - In The Well: Relentless monsters stop attacking you once you are down to 1 health.
05/07/10 - In The Well:
- Added 2 new special encounters: The crack in the wall and the enchanted jewels, found on the earlier levels to speed up the game and add variety.
- Added 'weak' monster modifiers for the early levels, like 'flimsy' or 'clumsy'.
- The imp has a picture, and also demands 100 gold less.
- Reduced health bonus from the potion of vitality and the elixir of skill, to 3 each from 5.
- Took out the hermit encounter, and added some item description text to recieving special items from some encounters.
04/29/10 - In The Well:
- Added 3 new special encounters: The stone basin, slitherwyrm nests, and spear traps, found on the earlier levels to speed it up and add variety.
- The Ring of Regeneration now works after encounters, and also gives you immunity to some monster powers.
- Now, items have a level below which they don't normally appear on.
- You can no longer gain health from training.
- The etheral cloak now gives you a boost of 5 health, instead of 10.
02/07/10 - In The Great Desert: Added pictures for the encounters.
01/31/10 - In The Well: Added advanced monster powers, which are given to about 1 in 10 monsters you find, to add variety into the encounters. Also added a new thing you can find: an old sarcophagus. Because of these changes, the high scores were also reset.
01/29/10 - In The Subterranean Realms: You don't take an extra turn fighting monsters you could automatically defeat.

12/28/09 - In The Subterranean Realms:
- "Monsters defeated" changed to "Combat experience". Now, when you defeat a monster, you get more combat experience the harder the monster was to defeat.
- Now it only takes ten explorations of a level to explore it completely, down from the former 16.
- When you visit the city, you always rest to your full health immediately. Also, you can't find 'a moment of peace' there, since it gives you extra energy and that is redundant now. Instead you find an Herb.
12/01/09 - In The Lost City: Now it shows how many turns are left for you to try and finish a quest in.
11/23/09 - Increased the number of starting turns for each hero to 32, up from 20, in order to give players a play-time boost at the beginning of a game.
11/23/09 - Doubled the chance of winning a free unlimited turns hero in each game when it is started with credits.
09/16/09 - Added free trial games. They let you try a game without spending credits, to see if you like playing it. Games with free trials are: The Great Desert, The Lost City, Western Dunes, Ancient Catacombs, Outer Ruins, Subterranean Realms.
09/09/09 - In The Western Dunes:
- Now there is only 1 omen per turn, to give more focus to the omens.
- Doubled the length of a generation, to give more time for building up your tribe and stores.
- Increased the minimum food found per search, to make your tribe more stable.
- Reduced the cost of the game from 5 credits to 4.
- Changed the name of phases to years.
- Doubled food needed to establish a settlement.
- Removed 'you find nothing' from scavenge results, and replaced with finding extra junk.
09/04/09 - Reformatted the Game Stats screen to be easier to read, and put some of the data into text that is only displayed when you hover over a number.
09/01/09 - Now, when you use PayPal to buy credits, the credits are automatically added to your account.
08/30/09 - The Food Cellar now won't give out turns to heroes above what they need to finish the game, in games with a fixed number of turns.
08/11/09 - In The Outer Ruins:
- New buyable item: viper mask.
- Now, when you defeat an enemy and would have gotten a skill point before, you get boosted in the stat you used in the fight instead.
- New temple space: potion.
- New maze space: cabinet.
- Increased the chance of finding gems in the maze. From 33% to 50%.
- Now you can find the glowing beetle in the chests in the catacombs.
- Bunker: halved chance of finding the med-kit, and added a rare chest with good stuff in it.
- Catacombs chests now always give gold and sometimes an item, instead of either an item or gold.
- Reduced the chance of finding open space in the tower by 50%.
- Altered hollow horn to always get good things, as well as 1 enemy champion if possible.
- Increased the chance the herbs and medkit cure flesh rotting disease, to 30% and 60%.
- Increased the chance that the altar breaks the curse, to 35%, and added a new way to break the curse.
- Invisibility now works on thieves.
- Redrawn: falling bricks, uber-fiend, fiend, tower map space.
- Left-aligned encounter results screen.
07/27/09 - In The Outer Ruins: reformatted and added whitespace to the main screen, to make it easier to read and more clear. Also made the item lists easier to read by adding columns to them.
07/24/09 - In The Sandy Wastes: reformatted and added whitespace to the main screen and encounter screens, to make it easier to read and more clear.
07/22/09 - In The Western Dunes:
- Starting food multiplied by 10.
- "Wander" now gets you at least 4 times as many people as before.
- "Camp" changed to "Breed". Also, now you only breed your tribe when you select "Breed", instead of every turn.
- New stat: Tranquility. Formerly known as 'turns omens calmed for'.
- People eat less food when they are tranquil.
- Reformatted main screen for clarity and readability.
- Reset the high scores.
- Birth rates are more affected by the omens than they used to be.
- Death rates lowered, and lowered the amount they increase when your people are hungry.
- Junk and food finding are doubled by some omens now, and halved by others.
- City Stress decreases if your cities revert to villages, increases more than it used to if you get food or people from your civilization at times, is modified by the omens more, and not reduced by nothing bad happening on a turn.
07/14/09 - In The Forgotten Forest:
- Reformatted the main screen to be clearer and easier to read, by lining columns up, adding whitespace and re-arranging the items text.
- Now, the Hermit tells you when you have completed the last quest.
07/13/09 - Added new buildable item, The Obelisk of Time, which lets all mini-game heroes have unlimited turns.
07/12/09 - In The Alien Journey:
- Added light up stat boxes, to make it easier to track what has changed each turn.
- Reformatted the main screen to be clearer and easier to read, by lining columns up and adding whitespace.
- Redrew some icons: wormhole, debris, comet, bigasteroid, huge asteroid, avg ast, time ions, junkpile.
07/06/09 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- Encounters:
- New items: booster rockets, maintenance gear, rescue beacon, security pass, debris scoops.
- New planetary locations: Stardocks, mines, trading posts.
- New stat added: Hull. It represents how strong your ship is. If it is less than the number of your ships, you can't fly. This new stat brings things like repairing your hull, taking damage from encounters, and ships being able to crash onto planets, or be destroyed if you have more than one.
- Skills:
- Prophets:
- Infiltrating a city now requires a variable number of followers in relation to the size of the city, instead of just 1000.
- The corruption change after infiltrating a city was reduced from +/- 25% to +/- 2.5%.
- Searching gets rocket fuel sometimes on high tech planets.
- Reduced fuel capacity by 25, and junk capacity by 2000.
- Mini-events added.
- People use more supplies a turn.
- 'Extra turns' used are tracked as 'turns detained or in jail,' and shown in analyze game state.
- Reformatted main and encounters screens for clarity, added whitespace and fill-up bars and changed colors to be more monochromatic.
- Meditation action removed.
- High scores reset.
- Updated "How to Play".
06/01/09 - Reformatted the view player screen, and put a cutoff limit on the top players lists, so it doesn't show people who have nothing.
05/27/09 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Added light up boxes and a stat change column, to make it easier to track what has changed each turn. Also added fill-up bars for health, strength, and experience, to make it easier to see how full each of these is.
- Reformatted the main screen and encounter screens to be clearer and easier to read, by lining columns up and adding whitespace.
- Added 1 new location: the Sepulchre, and also noxious fumes which can appear in locations.
- Increased starting health from between 6 and 10 to between 11 and 18.
- Total turns lost in shock shown when you analyze the game state.
- Training rates decrease faster as you grow in power.
- Now you can't use the fruit or balm when you are fully healed, and accidentally waste it.
- The greater the chance that monsters flee when you are around, the less the chance of danger increases per turn. For every 15% of flee chance, danger chance increases 1 less per turn.
05/18/09 - In The Sulphur Mines: reformatted the main screen, made controls more consistent, and changed link color to something less bright.
05/14/09 - In The Celestial Tower: minor reformatting of the main screen, decreased the chance of finding a refreshing breeze and increased the chance of finding useful stuff on most levels, and gave items their own table row when they appear. Also, reset the high scores.
05/13/09 - In The Subterranean Realms: reformatted the main screen with larger text, more whitespace and lighter, easier to read colors.
05/09/09 - In The Great Desert: reformatted the encounter screens with larger text, more whitespace and lined up buttons. Also increased the font size for the text area on the main screen.
05/07/09 - In The Well:
- Reformatted the main screen and encounter screens to be clearer and easier to read.
- Changed the color scheme to make it easier on the eyes.
- Reduced the number of times the wandering magician and champion appear, as well as made them start appearing lower down than previously.
04/16/09 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Re-arranged main interface, for clarity.
- Added stat change highlighting.
- Regeneration: doubled rate at which it functions, and made it absorb some turns in shock that are taken from large damage.
- Increased the chance of learning Steel Skin from 40% to 75%.
- Increased the chance of learning Mystic Aura from 40% to 66%.
- Mystic Aura decreases your rate of fame increase a little.
04/12/09 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon, when fighting Demons:
- They steal half as much food.
- They steal a little more junk.
- They drain some more experience.
- The results of what the demon does are shown in summary, instead of as individual lines.
04/06/09 - Reformatted the hero roster, and news pages.
03/16/09 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: reformatted the encounter screens to be more clear.
03/03/09 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- If you win a dexterity, charisma, or strength encounter or get exp from a task that tests a particular stat, and you get up to 1000 exp, instead of getting bonus points, the points go directly into the stat that was used. Experience gotten from other means still gets you a bonus point if it rolls your exp over 1000.
- Jumping across the chasm and falling gives you 100 to 200 exp now. Also, climbing up and down the shafts from the canyon gives you exp if you fail.
- High scores reset.
02/15/09 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- You skip encounters that are made too easy by powers or items, but activate the chance to lose those powers or items.
- Encounters that are too easy, except that you are hungry, tired, or cursed, now give you experience if you defeat them.
- If you sleep at a place that is hard to sleep in, you don't wake up alert anymore.
- Re-arranged interface to put the talk to a hero controls with the rest of the controls.
- Made other heroes get bored of talking to you after a little bit, to reduce the amount of experience you can get from them.
- Added pictures for climbing up and down from the canyon when you have the magic rope.
- Mystic Aura now doubles your chance of opening a portal to the astral plane.
01/17/09 - In The Well:
- Now the Bone Shield sometimes gives you a roll bonus in strength fights.
- Charisma monsters (and imps) now do damage to you if they would have put your experience below zero. So you can't have negative experience any more.
- Added stat change highlighting, like in the Celestial tower.
- Minor layout changes to encounter screen, including putting strength experience bonus into hover text.
- Fixed 'back button' error for encounters, so you can't do anything you shouldn't have been able to do, like sing to a strength monster, or use a runestone when you didn't have one. Instead, you will run away.

08/09/08 - In: The Forgotten Forest: Now, poems start out a little easier to make and get easier to make the more you have made, and sayings get harder to make the more you have made. Also, made the text clearer when making poems and sayings, and added an "analyze game state" link.
07/22/08 - In The Well:
- Increased the experience bonus for reaching the bottom from 500 to 4000.
- Treasure chambers: 1/2 chance of the roof collapsing, 1/2 damage if it does, gold reward doubled, finding items always possible.
07/21/08 - In The Well:
- Condensed train x10 text results.
- Made items in your item list draw lit up when they have been used on a turn.
- Fixed light up border for winner of combat.
- Added more whitespace and took out some minor text, to make reading easier.
- Adjusted spacing around header and footer.
06/11/08 - New game added: The Outer Ruins. An advanced game where you play a random mutant creature in a ruined landscape.
04/24/08 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- Navigation and controls all changed to push buttons, and placed in the right side box.
- When are you performing a task for a prophet, a hint to what system he is located in is shown on the local cluster map.
- Tasks completed or underway are shown more succinctly.
- Made it a little easier to find the 4th prophet.
- Added stat change column and got rid of the "this turn" bar.
- Added "analyze game state" link, and got rid of the "status" bar.
- Now %chance to defeat an encounter through an action is shown at the beginning of the encounter.
- Re-arranged some encounter screens to be more readable.
04/20/08 - In The Subterranean Realms: Added a 5% chance that when you are exploring the city, a monster may wander off.
02/22/08 - Re-arranged the hero roster to be simpler, and split off personal high scores to their own page.
01/22/08 - In The Forgotten Forest: Gave the quiet spot its own new picture, so you can tell it apart from the blank wall.
01/22/08 - In The Great Desert: Made a more sombre message for after encountering the well, to replace "You feel invigorated!".
01/22/08 - In The Alien Journey: Gave names to the empty spaces.

11/29/07 - Now the top players listing skips inactive players, unless a viewer specifically requests to see them.
11/20/07 - Added the ability to rename a hero if it has played less than 32 turns so far.
10/22/07 - In The Sandy Wastes: Added a penalty of lost turns for running from the lizard.
10/02/07 - In The Lost City:
- Added a new rare item.
- Increased the Book of Knowledge per turn knowledge bonus from 1 to 1 to 3.
09/29/07 - In The Lost City: Added result highlighting, to make it visually easier to follow what happens.
09/07/07 - In The Sulphur Mines: Added fill-up bars for energy and body.
09/06/07 - In The Celestial Tower: Added result highlighting, and a fill-up bar for energy.
09/04/07 - In The Subterranean Realms: Added a rare item, increased the effectiveness of the Helm of Might by +5%, and added lots of results highlighting, including a fill-up bar for energy.
08/13/07 - In The Subterranean Realms: You now get additional bonuses for defeating certain numbers of monsters: less herbs and energy needed for future fights.
08/13/07 - Simplified the overall rating screen to show only a player's rating versus the best high score, but the more complex comparison can still be seen via a link.
07/18/07 - When a player logs in on their yearly anniversary of joining Arcane Journeys, they get 2 free credits. If they joined on an uknown date, they get this bonus if they log in on January 1st.
07/16/07 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: Now, after you feed the animals (formerly frogs, crickets and lizards - now just lizards), they move one space away from you. Also, you get an experience reward as well as a score bonus.
07/16/07 - In The Ancient Catacombs: Updated the astrolabe function to show multiple estimated times to finish, based on defeating the undead kings and collecting the gold.
07/04/07 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Defeated monsters now give experience bonuses depending on what their special powers are.
- Added "analyze game state" link which tells you about some previously hidden attributes. This let me find and fix a bug where some of the artifice bonuses were using the hero's current artifice, instead of their maximum.
- There is now a chance a hero will start with more than 1 artifice.
- Minor item bonuses: when you slip away using the cloak of stealth, it lowers monster awareness, and when you have the luckstone, it reduces the chance of your shield and armor breaking.
- Put a lighted border around the winner in combat for regular attacks.
05/19/07 - In The Celestial Tower:
- Reduced the number of keys needed to explore the library from 2 to 1 a turn.
- Added another rare item.
05/17/07 - In The Sulphur Mines: Added highlight coloring on the stats energy and body, to help alert you to them being low.
05/17/07 - Redesigned game end screen, with added navigation links on the bottom.
05/16/07 - In The Well: Made ignoring imps cost you only levels instead of levels and turns.
05/05/07 - In The Well: Added opening picture, and re-wrote the intro text.
02/26/07 - In The Western Dunes: Added stat change column, like in the Sandy Wastes.
02/24/07 - In The Forgotten Forest: Added stat change column, like in the Sandy Wastes.
02/16/07 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Greed zombies now steal more gold the further down you are in the catacombs, but you also recover 1/2 to all the gold they stole from you if you defeat them.
- Posion zombies increase their poison damage by 1 per every 20 catacombs levels.
- Redrew combat results screen some, to make it more clear.
- On the main screen, next to the Monster Awareness, the amount that awareness changed from your last action is shown in parenthesis beside it.
- Reduced the amount battle cry and berserk raise monster awareness, by 10% and 5%.
02/13/07 - Added a new buildable item: the Inn, which is buildable after the Shrine of Heroes, and gives you two more free heroes on your roster.
01/28/07 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: increased chance of losing mystic aura from fighting demons, and made it give you slightly less reward for defeating encounters while you have mystic aura.
01/26/07 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- New navigation map featuring icons added. This also meant re-arranging the main screen a bunch.
- The encounter screen re-arranged some, to make it more readable.
- Wandering monsters added. They start to look for you as your score increases, and do things no other encounters do.
- New item: Teleport Stone.
- New stat "Energy" created to track turns until you get tired. A few things affect it a little, like running from a monster, and eating the magic fruit.
- Many sleepiness variables tweaked and changed.
- Hermit giving skill points changed to not be broken. I.e. he gives them much less.
- Inspiration now gives +7 to defeat encounters.
- Mysterious stranger removed from desert camp, and now you can gossip with camp people, instead.
- Gossip, Meditate and Wander now give tiny XP if nothing else happens when you do them.
- Removed exhaustion from high level strength encounters.
- Increased hungry and tired penalties by 3 each.
- Similar to Regeneration, Philosophy and Scavenging now don't work when you are hungry or tired. Slow metabolism doesn't work when you are tired.
- High scores reset.

11/16/06 - In The Sub. Realms: Monsters sometimes drop items when driven off.
10/02/06 - In The Well:
- The Bracelet of Light now gives you a 1% more chance to find each non-ethereal item, and also a 1% decrease to the chance of encountering an imp.
- The Bone Shield now stops 1 more damage per use, and possibly 2 more.
- The Crown of Knowledge now gives 25 to 50 experience a turn, instead of 15 to 30, and also gives you a 10% chance to find a secret passage and avoid a monster you otherwise would have encountered.
- The scroll of knowledge, potion of vitality and elixir of skill now give the equivalent of 1, 2 and 2 more skill points respectively.
- Added the ability to train 10 turns in a row with one click.
09/25/06 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- The information about the location you are at has been reformatted, and more is shown about the places you can go from there, to lessen hunt and peck navigating.
- Added a new encounter: A derelict ship.
- If you succeed at talking with pirates, your reward is sometimes much greater, and always a little better than previously.
- If you fail to convert (convert/debate/talk/discuss) an enemy, Humility gives you a 25% chance that they will overlook it and ignore you.
- Encountering space encounters without moving uses fuel now.
- When you can't feed your followers in space, they depart in escape pods, and cause confusion as they go, which causes you to use more turns.
- When in the last stage of the game, radioing the first prohpet for emergency fuel now takes extra turns based on how big your fleet of ships is.
- You get less virtue as a reward if you reduce the corruption in a city that already has low corruption.
- Cities regenerate poverty and corruption at 10 to 20 times their previous rate.
09/05/06 - New online game added: The Sandy Wastes.
09/02/06 - Added screen shots page.
05/21/06 - In The Sub. Realms: When exploring the deep caves or the sulphur vents, you can't get 'a moment of peace'. Instead you get a bag of gems.
05/13/06 - In The Well:
- Added an experience bonus for defeating higher strength monsters who do a damage bonus if they win.
- The imp now demands more gold the lower you go in the Well. The demands range from 300 to 500 gold.
03/03/06 - In The Well:
- Added an Ethereal Shield.
- Added archetype pictures for encounters.
02/28/06 - Added two new options to player accounts: 1) force low turns, which lets you force a lower turn limit per day, so you can play through all turns a day if you like to feel a sense of completion; 2) Force minibrowsing, which reduces the site some for cell-phone or pda browsers.
02/19/06 - In The Sub. Realms: Reduced the number of times needed to fully explore a level to 16 from 20, and also increased the fighting bonus you get for the number of monsters defeated to 1 for every 2 from 1 for every 5. Both of these changes should reduce the average number of turns per game, and knock some turns off the best scores.
01/29/06 - In The Well: Free heroes start with the same stats every time, so people don't delete and restart until they get stats they like.
01/29/06 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: Every 5 Charisma gives you 5% discount when trading junk for items.
01/18/06 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Added 4 new items: shovel, magic rope, a potion, and exotic herbs.
- The scarab now wants to be dropped at random spots, instead of always at the dunes. It is like a short quest.
- Regeneration now works after an encounter.
01/04/06 - Added a 20% discount if you build all remaining buildings at once, if there are more than 2 left to build.
01/01/06 - In The Well: Now, if you can automatically defeat an encounter, you do it immediately on the action page, instead of having to go through the encounter sequence, to save some time.

12/31/05 - In The Subterranean Realms:
- Added a 22% chance of finding scrolls in the rats nest. Also reduced chance of getting rope and torches there, by 11% each.
- Increased the chance to defeat the ghost in the cellar by 5%.
12/31/05 - Changed 'donate' to '$ credits $' and 'payment'.
12/30/05 - Added icons for the buildable items. Thanks to Tom Gale.
10/23/05 - Added a new buildable item: the Astrolabe, which gives a player the ability to estimate their final score while in the middle of a game, as well as possibly see some other calculations, depending on the game.
10/18/05 - Added a new buildable item: the Angelic Gemstone, which makes an account permanent.
10/14/05 - Changed the credit bonus for winning, by adding a +1 bonus for getting a personal high score, and reducing the bonus by 1 for free heroes. See more
10/07/05 - Reduced the cost of The Lost City to 4 credits, and made it a basic game, free to players with a Shrine of Heroes.
08/22/05 - Added a small chance that paid for heroes can get unlimited turns for free.
08/19/05 - In The Great Desert:
- New random encounters: Sand Shrine, and Sandstorm.
- Traders now trade at 2 junk for 1 food, instead of 3 for 1.
- Wandering Mystic gives much better rewards, and is different depending on your stats.
- You can no longer study at the generic Ruins.
- Monk power now gives a small amount of tranquility each turn, even if you don't meditate.
- Baboon power does an additional mysterious thing.
- High scores reset.
06/24/05 - In The Great Desert:
- Concentration doubles tranquility made, instead of giving a small bonus and decreasing the time to maximum focus.
- Monk: tranquility bonus increased by x3, focus bonus by 20% (you get to maximum focus faster).
- When meditating, knowledge is half as useful as it was, and focus starts 10% lower (it now takes longer to get to maximum focus).
- If people leave due to hunger while you are meditating, your focus drops to 0, unless you have concentration, and then it drops by 1.
- Knowledge gained from exploring the Ruins of Ashkelon reduced to 1 to 5 per person, down from 1 to 10 per person.
- Philosopher power now brings +2 knowledge a turn, up from +1.
04/24/05 - In The Great Desert:
- Changed to side controls on the action screen.
- Increased the amount of junk and food brought by the small band when you are wandering, to x6 and x2 respectively.
- Renamed "meditation level" as "focus", and added it to the main display.
04/22/05 - Added the first draft of an RSS feed for the news, messages, and latest change.
03/24/05 - In The Well:
- Added Treasure Chambers, which show up randomly, and let you take a risk for more treasure.
- Added Imps. They also show up randomly...and are pesky.
- Increased bonuses for the scroll of knowledge, potion of vitalization, and elixir of skill.
03/15/05 - Added an editable note for each hero, to keep track of your strategies, goals, thoughts.
03/03/05 - The Forgotten Forest, a new online game, released. It features icons like the Alien Journey, but this is a full length, non-losable adventure.
02/07/05 - Food cellar updated so that you can buy turns directly to it, and also distribute stored turns evenly among heroes from it.
01/25/05 - Reduced the cost of UNLIMITED TURNS for heroes. (By 1 to 9 credits)
01/17/05 - In the Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Difficulty of the falling bricks increased to 7.
- Chance of encountering falling bricks reduced to 60%.
- Heroes created free because of the shrine now start with fixed strength, dexterity, charisma and health (2/2/2/4). To prevent create/delete cycle to get a better starting hero.
01/10/05 - $ to credit rate for donations changed to $1 = 2 credits, from $1 = 1 credit.
01/06/05 - Original game Angelus the Necromancer for PALM OS released.
01/02/05 - In The Celestial Tower: The refreshing fountain is 25% more likely to be found in the entryway, and the entryway can't be explored if you have maximum energy. These changes are to help speed play.
01/02/05 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Mystic armor reduces monster awareness by 1 a turn.
- Runic shield breaks 5% less easily.
- Fixed bug that gave negative exp from training.

12/29/04 - Added UNLIMITED TURNS for heroes, for extra credits.
11/28/04 - Converted site to use CSS (hover over links is one visible change).
11/18/04 - Added the Lottery.
11/02/04 - In The Ancient Catacombs: Added a stone altar, where you can offer gold for a random result.
10/23/04 - In The Ancient Catacombs: Now monster awareness goes up by 1 per turn for every 7500 gold you are carrying.
09/18/04 - In The Ancient Catacombs:
- Training with runes and the Book of Strategy now decreases in effectiveness more rapidly as your skills increase.
- Added the 'Shove' attack, so you can use less energy when fighting weak monsters, and take a chance on sort of weak monsters.
09/08/04 - Added the Help page.
08/23/04 - In The Western Dunes:
- Increased junk needed to make a settlement to 300 from 200.
- When a settlement disbands, it returns to your tribe a percentage of the resources used to make it originally.
- If your last settlement disbands, and you have no cities or villages, city stress drops to 0.
07/28/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Took out the action 'Sing to the Hermit' and added its results into 'Talk to the hermit'.
- If you have collected your maximum food on a turn, you don't eat food that turn.
07/18/04 - In The Great Desert: Two new encounters added. One random, "bleached bones", and one fixed, "the Ruins of Ashkelon".
07/18/04 - Cost of The Journey to New Earth lowered to 6 credits.
07/12/04 - New Online game: The Subterranean Realms.
07/12/04 - Three new rare items in The Celestial Tower.
06/21/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: Training now gives less and less experience as your skills increase. This stops the trick of training for 400 turns to get to the high level encounters.
06/17/04 - In The Well: Removed the old system of treasure and monster finding, and replaced it with a simpler system. Also got rid of the 'Meditate' action; now the chances of finding monsters and treasure are shown on the main screen.
06/07/04 - New players now get a period of seven days with double turns to introduce them to the games.
06/07/04 - Free promotional heroes now start with the same amount of turns as regular heroes.
06/04/04 - Added 'Top rating' category to top players lists.
06/04/04 - Added 'New' and 'Updated' tags to hero creation and preview screens.
06/02/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: If you can easily beat an encounter, due to your basic skill being equal or greater than the difficulty, you don't go to the encounter screen, but just win it on the main screen.
06/02/04 - Treasure hunt modified, mostly for people who have already found the treasure a bunch.
05/27/04 - Now, if a player gets a site high score, that is announced in the news, and they get bonus credits.
05/25/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Put a maximum of 60 on what lava-heat will raise health to.
- Decreased minorly junk to tranquilty rate.
- Getting sleepy now cancels clear-minded and alert.
05/23/04 - In The Ancient Catacombs, strength drained by monsters is now recorded, and recoverable from resting and using healing items.
05/23/04 - In The Journey to New Earth the message system was removed.
05/15/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Lowered exhaustion from fighting zombie hoard.
- Increased chance of losing alert and clear minded when encountering a demon.
05/10/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon, how many skill points you have is now shown by the increase skills buttons.
05/08/04 - In The Well, how many skill points you have is now shown on the main screen, and "Exp. Level" has been removed, since it was largely irrelevant.
04/21/04 - In The Ancient Catacombs, the fire gems only get used in combat if you have a lower score than the enemy after the roll.
04/21/04 - Revised the messages page: Added links to view players from the messages, and list of replies to a message.
04/17/04 - Added the MESSAGES page to the site. Now you can post messages here.
04/17/04 - In The Well: Now you can't lose an ethereal item on a turn in which you gained an ethereal item, so you always get at least one turn to use it.
04/12/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Doubled rate of junk collection.
- Increased rate of food collection by random 1/2 of old maximums.
- Increased resting rate by 1 to 5 health a turn.
- Increased rate majorly on: Junk to Art and Junk to Tranquility.
- Increased rate minorly on: Scavenging and Training.
04/12/04 - Subdivided Recent changes list into years.
04/12/04 - Added 'Most Treasure' category to top players lists.
04/09/04 - Added 'Max' button to food cellar, so you can give lots of turns to a hero at once.
04/08/04 - In The Ruins of Ashkelon: Turns lost to shock don't come out of turns remaining to play, they are just added to the total turns used.
03/21/04 - In The Well:
- Turns lost to shock don't come out of turns remaining to play, they are just added to the total turns used.
- Added "Chant" action to rid a hero of ethereal items.
- Purchasing the ethereal ward now rids you of any ethereal items you have at the moment.
03/19/04 - Added new game [V.P.] to the SALOON.
03/06/04 - The number of times each player finds the hidden treasure is now tracked, and displayed on their roster.
03/06/04 - In The Journey to New Earth the chance of encountering something is now shown in the 'location' section of the main screen.
03/04/04 - Lowered cost of The Lost City to 5 credits from 6.
02/08/04 - Redid main page to have left menu bar, and new introduction. Rearranged news pages. Redid hero creation page, with a left menu bar: now only one game is shown at a time.
02/07/04 - Revised credit bonus from mines for shrine owners. Now they get a credit only if they get their highest score.
02/06/04 - Added the online game the Ancient Catacombs. An advanced version of the Well.
02/02/04 - Added the SALOON.
01/07/04 - Added Average Score per game to game stats.
01/07/04 - In the Ruins of Ashkelon, the hermit now gives you 300 exp for completing his quest each time.

12/16/03 - New page: Game Stats. See stats, like total times played, won, lost, and so forth, for all the online games.
12/14/03 - Added SEVEN TREASURES, a custom card game with art by Thomas Gale.
12/03/03 - Added the SUNDIAL item, which when built lets you see how many turns your heroes have taken in a game.
11/26/03 - A hidden treasure was added to the site.
11/18/03 - New page: Links.
11/04/03 - New online game: The Western Dunes released. Establish a civilization in the desert.
11/04/03 - Food Cellar now reachable from the 'out of turns' message as you are playing a game, so it is easier to get to.
11/04/03 - Game order made consistent for champions, preview, creation, ratings and hero roster high scores screens.
10/11/03 - Added the Food Cellar item, buildable on the hero roster. It accumulates turns like a hero, and lets you give them out to your heroes.
09/30/03 - Added the POLLS.
09/14/03 - Added the ORIGINAL CARD GAMES section of the website.
07/22/03 - In The Alien Journey:
- Added five random points to your starting supplies in the asteroid belt.
- Increased the starting energy of stage 2, to 25.
07/19/03 - In The Alien Journey:
- Increased chance of getting good things in asteroid belt encounters: (Wreck, alien, debris)
- Added bonus turns to some encounters, like the Time Ions.
07/17/03 - New online game: The Alien Journey released. A mini-game. The first game to feature graphics.
07/17/03 - Cost of The Well lowered to 4 credits.
07/17/03 - Cost of The Great Desert lowered to 4 credits.
06/23/03 - In The Lost City: Added quests, a frequently occuring type of random goal for bonus knowledge. Spices the game up a lot.
05/31/03 - In The Lost City:
- Reduced the rope cost of the mines from 2 to 1, to encourage gems strategy.
- Made finding the locations at the start easier, to speed the beginning of the game.
- Added knowledge rewards to the city and dunes to half the time it used to be nothing, in order to reduce overall play time.
04/01/03 - Original game Adventure Solitaire for PALM OS released.
03/23/03 - On the Champions page for The Sulphur Mines: Now the current mine level of the Robot is shown.
03/20/03 - In The Sulphur Mines: New depots on levels 75 and 100. Also 5 new pieces of equipment. Good luck...
02/18/03 - Fixed a bug in Creating a hero which stopped some people from getting a second free hero, and let them enter a name, but not choose a game.
02/01/03 - Increased the score bonus for doing quests for the Hermit in The Ruins.
01/09/03 - In The Celestial Tower:
- Added upper limit of times you need to explore a level before finding stairs up, or the ORB.
- Percent top level explored added to display.
- Can't find keys if you have a Skeleton Key.
01/09/03 - In The Journey to New Earth:
- Reward for giving out supplies to cities increased by times 3.
- Humility now gives more people per turn, and they bring some supplies with them too.
01/07/03 - New system for tracking your best high scores on site games. Also, the name of the high scoring hero is saved, as well as the total number of times played.

12/31/02 - Now see your overall rating on the site, from your hero roster. Also see other people's, when you look at their userinfo.
12/19/02 - New online game: The Sulphur Mines. Another mini-game costing 1 credit.
12/19/02 - Redid hero creation so all games are shown in the list, even when getting a free hero.
12/19/02 - Redid Palm games pages.
12/19/02 - New Palm OS game: DUNES TRADER.
12/10/02 - In The Well:
- Exp bonus for wandering Mystic increased to 350.
- Added an experience bonus for reaching the bottom of the well.
- Increased the experience reward for one of the Pool of Scum results.
11/02/02 - Ethereal Ward item added to The Well.
10/08/02 - Two new rare items in The Celestial Tower.
10/04/02 - Now on Recent players, you can see the last game the player took a turn in.
10/04/02 - Added the PERSONAL BEST tags to the news lines, when someone achieves a new personal best score.
09/29/02 - The Lost City got a special moving quest!
09/05/02 - Original game Two-Inch Town for PALM OS released.
08/14/02 - The Well got an interface update. Buttons are on the side now, plus colors of the tables changed.
08/14/02 - Hermit encounter added to The Well.
08/13/02 - In The Journey to New Earth, Third Prophet will now trade special cargo with you.
07/04/02 - Re-arranged the high-scores on the hero roster, to make them more easily readable.
06/18/02 - Quest added to The Ruins of Ashkelon.
06/10/02 - Two new helpful wanderers added to The Well. Now you can buy magic items and pay to train your skills.
06/09/02 - The Celestial Tower, the sixth game, opened for play! It is the second totally free game, so players can now have more than one hero at once to see that aspect of the site.
06/09/02 - Site name changed to Arcane Journeys.
06/04/02 - In The Journey to New Earth, Junk to Fuel conversion now produces up to 100 fuel a turn, up from 25.
05/27/02 - Bonus turns for certain results added to the Great Desert.
05/10/02 - Top players listing added, which ranks players by most champions, credits or number of current heroes.
04/15/02 - The Lost City, the fifth game on the site, added!
04/05/02 - Ethereal items added to The Well.
01/26/02 - Added Longevity Bell. Buildable by players, it allows an acount to remain open for up to one year of inactivity and lets a hero store up to a maximum of 300 turns.
01/10/02 - in The Ruins of Ashkelon
- Changed regular encounters to use push buttons.
- Added new locations (garden, plaza, amiptheater, deep caves)
- Added new items (flowers, fruit, tunnel)
- Added demons!
- Added new movement options to and from the Desert Canyon.

12/16/01 - Changed radio to buttons to push buttons for special encounters in the Well.
12/16/01 - Changed radio to buttons to push buttons for special encounters in the Ruins.
12/09/01 - In the Ruins of Ashkelon:
- Lava hardens the skin 1/3 of the time.
- Losing a dex encounter now loses turns 1 per every 10 health lost, instead of 1 per every 6.
- Mushroom forest now has max of 4 food a turn, up from 3.
- World's edge gives exp for being there.
- Highest level strength encounters can now exhaust you even if you win.
- Reduced turns lost from running to 1 (used to be 3)
- Interface re-done to use push buttons.

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