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      | Welcome       ||                                                                     ||  _   ___   _o |
      | Announcements ||                                                                                  || | | |...| |.| |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ || 2018-07-21: Moving to a new server                                               || | | |.o.| |.| |
      | Web Client    ||             While Nightfall  already moved relatively recently  (last fall), the || '-' '---' '-' |
      | Clients       ||             server to which it moved at that time was rather old & powered by an ||              \|
      | Quickstart    ||             AMD  Athlon  X2!  This...age  has  required  another move  to  occur ||               |
      | Wait, What?   ||             now. The new server  is powered by a Kaby Lake  Xeon and expected to ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ||             last  a few  more  years. Nightfall  is already  up  and running  at ||               |
      | Races         ||             nightfall.archwiz.org and we expect the domain nightfall.org to also ||               |
      | Guilds        ||             be updated soon.                                                     ||               |
      | Map           ||                                                                                  ||               |
      | Lore          || 2013-08-09: FTP Access Enabled Again                                             ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ||             According to some  lost logs on Nightfall, the  last time FTP access ||               |
      | Who's online? ||             was available for wizards to code  was some time in May of 2004.  We ||               |
      | Finger        ||             are more than happy to announce that, with a helpful hint from Alloy ||               |o
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ||             (of FinalFrontieręś› fame), we were able to  implement a rather basic, ||               |
      | The Guide     ||             yet  fully  sufficient FTP  server  using  pyftpdlib.  Feel free  to ||               |
      | Player Help   ||             contact us if you're interested in the code, we're making use of the ||              \|
      | The Sky       ||             same interface mod_mud for ProFTPd used.                             ||               |
      | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ||                                                                                  ||              \|
      | Imprint       || 2013-06-20: New Website Launched                                                 ||               |
      |               ||             We are happy  to launch the new website  for Nightfall today.  There ||              \|
      |               ||             should now be much more information and functionality available than ||               |
      |               ||             before, and  the simple,  yet effective, new  connection to  the MUD ||               |
      |               ||             will make it easy to implement  more in the future. We would like to ||               |
      |               ||             thank the testers from Nightfall and other MUDs for their time while ||               |
      |               ||             bugs were hunted down and exterminated mercilessly.                  ||               |
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      |               || 2013-06-13: Sky Project Concluded                                                ||               |
      |               ||             Up  until now,  dragons and  carpets  didn't really  'fly' from  one ||              o|
      |               ||             location to another but rather moved instantly. Now, they physically ||               | o
      |               ||             move  in  a  set of  rooms  representing  the  sky, where  they  can ||               |/
      |               ||             interact, fight, die or just go with on their business.  Expect more ||         o    s|
      |               ||             to follow soon!                                                      ||     o  /    /x|
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      |               || 2012-09-01: Nightfall Moved to a New Server                                      ||       \/   \xx|
      |               ||             Nightfall has moved to a new server with some more RAM and extra CPU ||        \    \s|
      |               ||             time, as well as full IPv6  connectivity!  It is hosted again by one ||         \   /x|
      |               ||             of the founders of Nightfall,  Deepthought. Many thanks to Krise for ||        nmsxxsx|    
      |               ||             his great work during the past years!                                ||       xsxxxmxs|      .
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