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THE PURPLE DRAGON MUD [unclaimed]
telnet pdragon.org 5555

Players now: no count (nothing here says why)
Reachable: 44.3% of the last 90 days
Longest outage: 6h

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 (12 Jun 2026 – 9 Sep 2026, UTC)
Probed in this range, and no player count could be read from any of it.

Reachable (last 90 days)
Reachable 44.3% of the 23 days we have measured. 1 day unreachable. 13 days
degraded — we got in and could not finish. Longest outage 6h (timed out). 67
days predate anything we measured.

  12 Jun – 17 Aug: 67 days not measured
  21 Aug: 1 day unreachable (timed out)
  28 Aug – 9 Sep: 13 days degraded (handshake stalled)

Capabilities (0 of 3 disagree)
  MCCP       measured: yes     declared: -
  MXP        measured: yes     declared: -
  MSSP       measured: NO      declared: -

Declared by the game
  name       The Purple Dragon MUD  (declared, 3w)
  codebase   ROM  (measured, 12d)

Connect screen
  [connect screen: 35 lines, text only]

  
  
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                               ROM Version 2.4 beta
  
                 Original DikuMUD by Hans Staerfeldt, Katja Nyboe,
                 Tom Madsen, Michael Seifert, and Sebastian Hammer
                 Based on MERC 2.1 code by Hatchet, Furey, and Kahn
                 ROM 2.4 copyright (c) 1993-1996 Russ Taylor
  
                          PDM 1.2b copyright (c) 1997-2000
                 Ironside, Dingo, Jaey, Turian, Overeasy, Greeneyes
  
                          For TMC: [email protected]
  
           WELCOME!!!  This is The Purple Dragon MUD.   We all hope that
            you have a good time here.  The MUD is still in development
              so there may be sudden changes, some of them quite big.
                        please have patience with us. :)
  
  By what name do you wish to be known?

What changed
  2026-08-18  NAME recorded as The Purple Dragon MUD (staff)
  2026-08-18  endpoint recorded as pdragon.org 5555 (handshake)