>Altered cranial within a couple of days of my dwarf warrior
>beating him to death at a pair of centurions with another
>maran at my side (who was relatively ineffective except for a
>round or 15 of lag). I don't want to search the
>announcements, but I'm rather certain he posted the change,
>and I wondered why it fell so unbelievably close to me besting
>that particular mort. If needed, I have the log and date of
>the incident to confirm a specific time frame, and I would
>love to know what 'actual' event inspired this rather abrupt
>alteration. It always came across as particularly fishy,
>considering Yanacek's success and Sebeok's control over the
>thief revamp. Answers?
>


Here's a list of the changes to cranial and when. Not all of them were done by me, but hopefully this answers your question. I don't remember the beatdown you mentioned, but I know for a while there if you had two mace specs cranialing you were pretty much permalagged.

6/12/03 - victim's helmet was checking pierce AC for some reason, was changed to bash AC
9/18/03 - victim's helmet (if it met the AC requirement) helps out a little more (Note: Yanacek's helmets he wore never were high enough in bash AC to make a difference.. most of his life he had the crown of eldritch power, which is 0 armor)
11/6/03 - AC requirement for victim's helmet increased slightly
10/6/04 - cranial in combat has a timer like cranial out of combat does