THE DARKENING SUN [unclaimed]
telnet darkeningsun.com 5678

Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 100.0% of the last 90 days

When people are on (UTC)
No hour of the week has produced a player count. 140 hours across the week have
no measurement yet. 28 hours across the week answered but produced no count.

  Mon — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Tue — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Wed — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Thu — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Fri — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Sat — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable
  Sun — no count in any hour, 20 hours not measured, 4 hours probed but
  uncountable

  counted = we got in and read a number, including a measured zero
  uncounted = we got in and no number could be read
  not measured = we have no measurement for that hour

How many, over time (2 Jun 2026 – 30 Aug 2026, UTC)
Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.

Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 100.0% of the 13 days we have measured. No day we measured was
unreachable. 77 days predate anything we measured.

  2 Jun – 17 Aug: 77 days not measured

Capabilities (0 of 2 disagree)
  MXP        measured: yes     declared: -
  MSSP       measured: NO      declared: -

Declared by the game
  name       The Darkening Sun  (declared, 12d)
  codebase   Merc  (measured, 2d)

Connect screen
  [connect screen: 34 lines, text only]

  <VERSION>
  
                  |>                                              Based on:
                 /i\       Welcome to                  Diku by Hans, Katya,
  \             /#'`\   The Darkening Sun          Tom, Michael and Sebastian
  `\           /#'  `\  /\                             Merc 2.1 by Hatchet,
   `\         /#'-.  `\/ `\     |>                           Furey and Kahn
    `\       /#'-._   `\  `\    |                Rom 2.4 ©1993-1996 by Russ
     `\     /#'-.___   `\  `\  /'\                  Oblivion 2.0 ©1996-1997
  ___--'   '--.._____..--'  `\/# `\                           by Wes Wagner
  ,','|     |-    _  _-=|_.- /#   `\                The Dawn of Time v1.69s
   _-=}     |-   {_} _-=|.  /#`-   `\         ©1997-2010 by Michael Garratt
   -_=|     |-________-=|  /#`-._   `\         The Darkening Sun ©2000-2022
   []=|_.-._ \,_._._._./_ /#`-.___   `\                by Marc Garrett
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What changed
  2026-08-18  NAME recorded as The Darkening Sun (staff)
  2026-08-18  endpoint recorded as darkeningsun.com 5678 (handshake)