added method fromJSON(...) to base classes via MUDObject. added variant getProperty(...) to mud.MUDObject that take a Class object to cast the property's value to and return it as that type modified test() in mud.MUDServer. commented out problematic portion of look code (checking for DARK flag on Item(s)). added function to handle initializing Thing(s) created on the fly. rearrange commands in file to have alphabetical order. tweaked Weather setup in test(). removed Area,AreaConverter from repository since they're incomplete, not used, and not in the plans at the moment. removed cmd_loadDB(...) because it was pointless and unused.