SHROUDWORLD SERVER IS DOWN UNTIL FURTHER NOTICE

The Shroudworld server for NWN2 is currently down and new players should forbear from downloading the hak and PWC files. There is a serious technical problem with the module, and at present no clear solution. So, sadly, Shroudworld is on-hold (indefinitely) until further notice.

The following elucidatory article was ripped angrily from the Falgoon Gazetteer:

Stop Press!

The general strike that threatens to cripple Shroudworld continues unabated. Miner Applejack has unionised non-player characters, overcoming bitter factional rivalries to bring together nearly all of the factions of Shroudworld. Only the Methbein, who are philosophically opposed to collective bargaining, have excluded themselves from this disparate organisation, although unnamed sources have hinted that there is considerable, and rather high-pitched, disquiet amongst the Eunuchs, who may yet throw in their lot with Applejack.  

The strikers are demanding better pay and conditions, and in particular better treatment of hostile NPCs at the hands, and sometimes also the feet, of the server's enthusiastic player base. Dungeon Masters, however, felt unable to budge on the so-called No Slaying clause.

"It's the thin end of the wedge," Segal Soulsaver told us over a glass of bootlegged sloe gin on the upper deck of the Royal Galleon. "I'm a reasonable man - I'm perfectly prepared to implement the requested ban on biting and hair-pulling (both on and off the server), but if we call an end to slaying NPCs we'll alienate our core clientele and then we'll all be out of a job!"

On the other side of the picket line, Miner Applejack was unavailable for comment.