Towers of New Londinium — or as everyone, including staff, calls it, “TowersMUX” — is a World of Darkness MUX set in the city of London, using the 20th Anniversary World of Darkness rules and setting.

As of Saturday, 2 March, we’ve entered what we hope will be a short period of beta-testing before the game can be fully opened to the world! During the beta test period:

• Access to the game will be by invitation only; character creation at the login screen will be disabled.
• Content on this site may (and is likely to) change, though probably not in major ways.
• Not all of the IC grid will be complete; we expect to have most of central London north of the Thames available. Islington and Lambeth are under construction, with Southwark, Lewisham, Wandsworth, and Hammersmith to follow before the end of beta. The outlying boroughs will be added in over time.
• The Subterranean London and Umbra grids will not be available at the start of beta. Please use RP rooms where necessary to substitute for them until they’re ready. The subterranean grid will have priority, followed by the Middle Umbra, with the Upper and Lower Umbra and the Digital Web to come later if there’s sufficient demand.
• There will be limited IC +hangouts and roleplay venues available — we expect to have at least 60, but this will continue to expand over the course of the testing process and after opening.
• Most game code will be broadly functional, although we expect there to be some bugs and feature requests still to complete.
• The game wiki is up and running but is direly in need of someone who knows how to set up character page templates. If this is you, please speak with staff.
• Automation of the influence system is still to come, so requests will be handled manually. Please be patient!
• Vampire, Werewolf, and Mage will be available at the start of beta, with Changeling to be rolled out during the testing period.
• Most, though not necessarily all, character types for the available spheres will be ready. We have not yet decided whether to implement Hsien.
• Writeups describing the IC institutions for available spheres should all be in place (albeit some of them may be a little sketchier than we might like).
• We don’t expect to have any immediate metaplot element drops at the start of beta, although we hope to have some before opening to help draw new players into the game.
• We do not expect to have a complete set of house rules before beta; these will be gradually rolled out as time allows, so please try to be flexible.
• Staff will be focused on completing the remaining elements needed for opening, so requests for things like NPC appearances, influence system actions, information on specific IC elements, etc., will probably be delayed a little longer than in an ideal world.

Thank you for your patience while we compile the information we need and push it out to this website, as we continue to develop the game and the world it’s set in. We’re working as quickly as we can to make our version of London a compelling and fully realized place to roleplay, but we don’t want to compromise just to make it happen according to a fixed schedule, either.

We look forward to welcoming you into our shared world.