I am not certain about vanilla Mud, but just wanted to say on Greatermud to get past the library you need to "look parchment"

In NMR it looks like it is read from the read Old Parchment (a hidden item in the room)

But can someone who might know this stuff a little better than I confirm if vanilla ...

I've been in and out of the MUD scene for awhile now. First getting solidly bitten in the early 90's on a BBS in Virginia. Even got tagged as a MUDOP before Cupid's BBS went defunct.

Ran my own for a little while (totally legit copy of WG and Majormud, maybe one of the last people to actually ...