Hi folks! The first month of 2026 is down and we're saying hello to February already! With Year 1000 looming, see my previous post for a preview of the calendar! As a reminder, the Staff Games will begin in Sarapin 1005, which is approximately May 16th. Specific dates and information will be posted separately to the Year 1000 events. Meanwhile, the Wheel of Fortune returns to New Thera! Prismatic tokens for the Wheel can be obtained from the Achaea website (www.achaea.com/credits). Capping renown seven times in February will also award you with a free prismatic token to get a premium wheel spin as a one time only benefit. Prizes from the wheel include: - Unbound credits starting at 33 - Legend Deck Sleeves that unwrap for any suit - Bronze, Silver, Gold, and Platinum giftboxes - Artefact vials - Phials of shimmering ink - Talisman caches that open for Moderngods, Races, or Blackwave - 300 lessons (You won't win lessons if you have over 2500 lessons or 5 classes.) - Collections cache that opens for any collection (these trade in for 30 credits). - Artefact upgrade credits - Mayan crowns In addition to the prizes above, you may also win bonus racetrack tickets for the humgii races! Wheel spins will also award raffle tickets as promised by Mak in post 5751. These, as well as the tickets from December, will go into a single pool that will be drawn on 1st March and three winners will be chosen! First place will have first pick of three prizes, second place the remaining two, and third place the third prize. All other tickets will be converted to bound credits. The prizes include: - A shattered token which can be exchanged for any complete talisman of your choice - A veil of the Sphinx - A gold inkbrush HELP WHEEL OF FORTUNE has all the details. We'll also be looking to schedule another Tea Time some time this month - keep your eyes peeled. Enjoy! PS: Welcome back to Neraeos and Vastar! Penned by My hand on the 13th of Valnuary, in the year 996 AF.

Some classleads: Metamorphosis ------------- * (336): FRENZY STING now paralyses if you sting with darkshade when they already have darkshade. * (336 adjacent): KALMIA is now an acceptable venom for FRENZY. * More to come still for these changes. Reclamation ----------- * (326): REVIVE can now be performed on reclaimed ground in general, not only ground owned by the druid. Tekura ------ * (83): In addition to its standard effect, WRENCH TORSO now prones if both of the target's arms are also broken. * (91): Head kicks (WWK and AXK) now give the SCRAMBLED BRAINS affliction when they land. This is significantly shorter lived than when given by SLAM. Misc ---- * (186): You may now RELAX MASS/DENSITY to strip your mass defence. This is instant if not under aggression and has a three second delay if it is under aggression. This also both requires balance/equilibrium and incurs a three second equilibrium cost in both the aggressive and non-aggressive cases. Enjoy! Penned by My hand on the 7th of Valnuary, in the year 996 AF.

Hi folks! With Year 1000 on the horizon and the Staff Games following after in 1005, I wanted to post with a preview of the event calendar for you to look forward to! ** NOTE: This does not include the specific calendar for the Staff Games which is still being determined. For the sake of clarity and cleanliness, we will post all Staff Games info separately. ** This is an enormous milestone for Achaea and as such we have a great deal planned over the entire 1000-1005 span with a focus on remembrance, memory, and recollection. Some events remain shrouded in mystery but all will eventually become clear... Before I get into any specifics I want to disclaim that some of the dates are subject to availability and thus might need to change. We'll put everything on UPCOMING soon. As always, all times are in GMT! - Monday March 16th 01:00 * Year 1000 dawns IC & Year 1000 Celebrations begin * A design contest will open * The Artisanal and Bardic contest will open * A lottery will open for a brand new Delos shop * Renown caps will be doubled for all of Year 1000 * The opening ceremony will unveil ???? * ??? will be released into the world for those with an interest in lore and history to discover * Periodic starfall will reveal ??? to the world * Note: Details on any new mechanics will come in a relevant post at the time! Speculate away! - Tuesday March 17th 23:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns with a focus on ??? - Saturday March 21st 14:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns once more - Monday March 23rd 00:00 * Do battle with ??? in order to obtain ??? - Wednesday March 25th 22:00 * A Quiz on Achaea history and lore - Friday March 27th 17:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns for its third visit - Saturday March 28th 16:00 * Treasure Hunt - Monday March 30th 22:00 * Beardball! - Tuesday April 1st 23:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns for its fourth visit - Friday April 3rd 00:00 * A round of Auctions will open for 10 days! - Sunday April 5th 22:30 * A raid on ??? to relive ??? - Tuesday April 7th 21:00 * Drinking contest! - Saturday April 11th 22:30 * Obtain the memory of ??? by re-enacting a battle from ??? - Sunday April 12th 12:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns for its fifth visit - Monday April 13th 01:00 * Treasure Hunt Redux! - Wednesday April 15th 19:00 * Archery Contest - Friday April 17th 23:59 * A Great Hunt begins! - Tuesday April 21st 18:00 * The Meropian Foozle - Friday April 24th 23:30 * Pay homage to the old ??? and unveil a memory of ??? in the process. - Sunday April 26th 02:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns for its sixth visit - Monday April 27th (Time TBD) * An update to ??? will be released - Wednesday April 29th 22:00 * A rampage sponsored by the Patron of Heroes - Friday May 1st 15:00 * The Itinerant Bazaar returns for its final visit - Sunday May 3rd 23:00 * Avatar Capture the Flag and the Memory of ??? - Wednesday May 6th 22:00 * Emberfall and the Memory of ??? - Saturday May 9th 23:45 * ??? - Sunday May 10th 23:45 * ??? - Monday May 11th 05:00 * All contests close and we enjoy a 1 week break before the Staff Games! Lots to take in! Some of you will notice there are some gaps in the calendar: this is deliberate and we may have more to announce closer to the time. There will be no shortage of things to do throughout the celebrations! Penned by My hand on the 4th of Valnuary, in the year 996 AF.

Hi folks, We've just been made aware of an issue with the game receiving notifications from Paypal about membership renewals. This problem has now been resolved and as far as I can tell, all affected memberships have now been manually processed by me. If you have a Paypal membership that was due to renew between 24th and 30th of this month and it has not renewed but payment was taken, please let me know via msg or email (please include transaction ID and the email you used to purchase if possible), and I'll verify and fix immediately. Thanks for your understanding and my apologies to anyone inconvenienced by this blip. - Icti Penned by My hand on the 8th of Ero, in the year 996 AF.

It is Tuesday, the 27th of January, and the following changes have been implemented:

• We now have HELP SCREENREADER, which also redirects with HELP VIP and HELP VISUALIMPAIRED
• It is now possible to log in to the Achaea wiki again.
• The following command is henceforth available, by decree of Goose Thera: DESIGN COMMENT

Hey, everyone!

At the recent Tea Time (which you obviously attended, right?), someone brought up the lack of new BADJOKEs, and we decided that it was time to try and improve that.

For that reason, we'll be holding a gamewide contest! Send in your best bad jokes and not only will we add them into the game if they're good, you'll get straight up credits for it!

You may submit them on Discord in the #contests channel OR you may mail them as a letter to Mr. Quackers, whatever you prefer. You will get 50 credits per joke you submit that we add in, and the top 3 jokes will get a bonus of 500, 250, and 150 credits for first, second, and third place!

Rules:

* Your joke MUST be Achaea related.

* NO TOLERANCE FOR ACTUAL OOC BIGOTRY. If the punchline is a RL minority you will win a swift shrubbing only.

* Jokes should be short, 1 or 2 sentences at most and generally 1 or 2 lines at a reasonable line wrap.

* You may submit as many jokes as you like! However, if you are going to submit 1,000 jokes by letter, try to do them all in one letter instead of sending us individual letters for each.

You have until the last day of February to submit your jokes. Good luck!