# The Brass Ring / The Brass Ring

> slug: `brassring` · browser status: `playable` · native port: `40265`

A Dead Souls 3.8.x-based game-in-development (self-titled 'The Brass Ring') that ships as a content overlay for Dead Souls rather than a full mudlib on its own. On top of the underlying Dead Souls engine, TBR bundles a full DikuMud Alfa port (domains/diku-alfa/, 1185 files -- Midgaard and its zones) and is actively building its own bespoke fantasy continent, Etnar (the village of Wyr, with NPCs Albert Derby/Waltin Kelley/Caltan Dowini/the Pierce family already in place and a virtual wilderness room system). Character creation includes an age gate, a screen-reader accessibility question, an 8-race pick, and a complete 6/4/4 primary/secondary/minor skill selection across all 28 skills; new characters enter play in Saquivor, the real starting town (distinct from the tutorial start room), from which Etnar's Wyr (The Lounge) and diku-alfa's Temple of Midgaard are both reachable. No outbound network connections at boot -- unlike several sibling Dead-Souls-family libs, this one is safe for high-frequency automated re-boot loops.

## Play in the browser (WebAssembly)

- Landing page (description + notes): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/brassring/
- Play now (boots the WASM driver): https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/brassring/play.html

## Download source ZIP

- Same-origin ZIP (trimmed source tree, no need to clone the whole repo):
  https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/brassring/brassring.zip
- GitHub tree: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/tree/main/libs/brassring
- README: https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/brassring/README.md
- Restoration notes (NOTES.md): https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs/blob/main/libs/brassring/NOTES.md

## Run natively with FluffOS

1. Build a current FluffOS driver from https://github.com/fluffos/fluffos
   (native `build` / `build-debug`; see that repo's docs).
2. Download and unzip `brassring.zip` from the URL above (or clone
   `https://github.com/fluffos/mudlibs` and use `libs/brassring/`).
3. From the unzipped lib directory, ensure `config.fluffos` points
   `mudlib directory` at this tree (the checked-in file may contain a
   maintainer-local absolute path — edit it to your extract path).
4. Start the driver:

```bash
/path/to/fluffos/build/src/driver config.fluffos
```

5. Connect a UTF-8 MUD client to `127.0.0.1:40265`.

- Admin / wizard login: see this lib's README (no seeded account recorded)
- If you host this on a public network, change the published default
  admin password before opening the port.

## Machine-readable catalog

- Site-wide catalog: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/games.json
- Site-wide LLM overview: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/llms.txt
- This file: https://mudlibs.fluffos.info/brassring/llms.txt