Ansalon MUD

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  |    Originally by: Jair, Deason and Ahotasu                   |
 /      and currently by: Skol and Bharish,                     /
 |      with a huge thanks to Malum, Renli and Demilon          |
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|         |            Welcome to Ansalon!                 ` |  |
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 \       Credits: (read: where we're from and all that)         \
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  |  History: Crowther & Woods "Colossal Cave" Adventure -->     |
 /   MUD1 (Trubshaw & Bartle, 1978) inspired AberMUD (Alan Cox), |
 |   CopperMUD (Michael Chadwick), and DikuMUD (DIKU team, 1991) |
 \   --> Merc 2.1 --> ROM 2.4b2 --> Ansalon 1.7b                 \
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  |  AnsalonMUD is derived from ROM with decades of evolution.   |
 /   Ansalon began as AlphaMUD in 1996, renamed Ansalon in 1997  /
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 |  DikuMUD by Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe, Tom Madsen,        |
 |             Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer            |
 /   MERC 2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, and Kahn.                 /
 |   ROM 2.4 copyright (c) 1993-1998 Russ Taylor                |
|    Ansalon 1.7b (c) 1996-2026 David Leverich & John Patrick   |
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