While stories are unfolding all across the land, 2025 chugs along!

For February we have a new promotion available at www.achaea.com/credits - Giftcards!
Buy these and send to yourself (or to others) to unlock the rewards contained within.

For those with the Iron Elite membership, every 10 you purchase earns a free giftcard!

A giftcard is also available in the renown shop!

You can theme the giftcard from a list to choose whether it is delivered in a manner themed to your fancy, your city, or maybe you're in the Guild of Knights, or are one of the Marks!

On reading a giftcard you receive:

• One of the major prizes*.
• One of the consumeable prizes*.
• A bonus*.
  If you are missing one of the giftcard bonuses, you will get that with a 12 hour duration.
  If you have all the bonuses, you'll get a random extension of 1-3 hours on an existing bonus.
• If the card was not sent to you by yourself, the sender also gets a random bonus under the same rules.
• See the prize and bonus lists below.

Details:

GIFTCARD SEND [ANON] :
Send a giftcard to someone (or yourself!)
If you choose to send it anonymously, your identity will be concealed.
You can send to yourself with your name or me/self.

GIFTCARD READ [ALL [VERBOSE]/]:
Read a giftcard!
If you include no arguments, it reads the first giftcard in your inventory.
If you specify all, it reads all giftcards and gives you a summary of everything you received.
If you read ALL VERBOSE, it shows you what each card is giving as well as the summary (this might get spammy if you have a lot of giftcards!).
You can read a specific giftcard by number if you want to do that for some reason!

GIFTCARD STATUS:
Shows you how many giftcards you have available to send and how many you have to read!

GIFTCARD OPTIONS:
Shows you the types of giftcards available for you to send.
Not all will be available to everyone, each org has their own special design for instance.
Options affect the style of the giftcard and the delivery manner!

Major items:

• Card sleeves that open for all suits.
• Talisman caches (eldergods, moderngods, elemental.)
• Collection caches.
• Bronze, silver, gold, and platinum giftboxes.
• A concoctorial strand (NEW ITEM)
  Apply this to a pipe or vial that is not an artefact and it will convey artefact bonuses + non-decay/resetting if not present!
  APPLY [TO]
  This is consumed on use - SINGLE USE ONLY
  This is now listed in HELP PROMO ITEMS

Consumeables:

• Grey and clouded bottle (Consumeable beckon)
• Ledolian surcoat (Consumeable +armour/resistances)
• Amber ampoule (Consumeable goblin minipet racial traits)
• Carved wooden horse (Consumeable Raido)
• Bottle of fairy dust (consumeable prismatic barrier)
  See HELP PROMO ITEMS for more information on these

Bonuses:

• 10% xp bonus.
• 30% battlerage generation bonus. This does stack with the mineral one, though there is diminishing returns (together they push you to a 140% bonus).
• A critical hits bonus.

About Bonuses:

• If you are missing one of the giftcard bonuses, you will get that with a 12 hour duration.
• If you have all the bonuses, you'll get a random extension of 1-3 hours on an existing bonus.

HELP GIFTCARDS has all of this information!

Happy New Year everyone! A post will follow this with our resolutions for next year, so I'll keep this one as brief as possible!

On January 10th the raffle will be drawn! The first name will win gloves of arrowcatching (or 2000 bound credits), the second name will take home a gold inkbrush, and the third name drawn will claim a red inkbrush!

All tickets belonging to non-winners will be converted to 2 bound credits each.

For January you'll find Polymegahedral Dice available at www.achaea.com/credits!

Dice purchases also award House and City credits, and, for Iron Elite members, every 10 you purchase grants you an extra die!

You can roll up to five dice at one time.

DICE ROLL [number of dice to roll (defaults to 1 if unspecified)]

For each two dice rolled in combination in this way you will receive 1 racetrack ticket (so 1 ticket if you roll 2 or 3 in combination, 2 tickets if you roll 4). There is a bonus for rolling all 5 together, so you will receive 3 racetrack tickets if you roll 5 dice together.

Dice currently have six sides. The prizes for each side are as follows (and yes, these dice are weighted).

1: Credits (between 30 and 50).

2: Interlocked caches that open for Renegades, Contenders, and Underworld sets. On cache open the Renegades, Contenders, and Underworld sets have a 25% chance to give a second piece.

3: Legend Deck card sleeves

4: 1 or 2 Mayan crowns

5: 50 to 80 customisation credits

6: One of: a silver giftbox, a golden giftbox, a bronze giftbox, or 100 credits.

There is a very small chance for a particularly lucky dice to land on its corner. This dice will pay out a platinum giftbox instead of its standard prize!

Every 500 dice rolled (gamewide), the lucky roller will also receive 500 credits on top of their standard prizes.

All of the credits for the above prizes are unbound.

Enjoy!

December is here!

Later in the month the realm will become entirely festive, Makesh will put his Logosmas wares on sale, Ironbeard will make his rounds, and Merrywick will open once again! (UPCOMING has the date, and also the dates for gold and platinum stocking reminders!)

For the promotionally inclined stockings have returned to www.achaea.com/credits featuring a new talisman set, the Scholars talisman set (see below or HELP SCHOLARS TALISMANS)!

There is no bonus for Iron Elite owners with stocking purchases, but credits are also on sale at www.achaea.com/credits offering a 30% bonus on the purchase, that's 40% if you have Iron Elite!

Caches from stockings can also be opened for Logosmas set talismans if desired.

See HELP STOCKINGS for all stocking-related commands and to see a complete list of prizes and minimum stocking values!

Every 150 stockings opened will trigger a bonus stocking in the next 50 to be opened, awarding massively increased prizes!

ADDITIONALLY! For every 5 stockings of each type you purchase, you'll receive either a gold or platinum stocking of that tier! So if you purchase 5 fancy stockings, you'll get a gold (or platinum) fancy stocking. Gold and platinum stockings are special and fill up only on Christmas and New Year's Day, respectively!

All previously hung stockings have been returned to their original owner's inventories, and can be hung fresh for yourselves or new recipients!

ALSO! On January 10th we will also be drawing a raffle! Tickets for this will be gained from opening stockings, and each day you earn your maximum of 2000 renown you will earn a ticket too!

First winner will take home a pair gloves of arrowcatching (or 2000 bound credits if they don't want them)!

Second winner will take home a gold inkbrush!

Third winner will take home a red inkbrush!

Any tickets held by non winners after the raffle is drawn will be converted to 2 bound credits each. (If you win prize 1, 2, or 3, all of your tickets are consumed and do not convert.)

AND FINALLY! The Scholars Talisman Set:

A portly capybara - TALISMAN INFO CAPYBARA

• This handsome gentleman is a minipet with full scrapper capability and ambient reactions.

An owlish plume - TALISMAN INFO OWLISHPLUME

• Drop this in a room and for the next sixty minutes all learning will be enhanced as if everyone learning in said room had consumed myrrh. Note: does not stack with myrrh.

A reflex mallet - TALISMAN INFO REFLEXMALLET

• While holding this you may INVESTIGATE to see the damage on a target's limb.

A Logosmas war goat - TALISMAN INFO WARGOAT

• This is a unique war goat with a Collar of Lupus and badge of returning included.

A curious quiz box - TALISMAN INFO QUIZBOX

• Answer 4 questions to get a reward! You have a chance at a small number of lessons, a small amount of xp, or a short lived experience bonus.
• TOUCH to show the current question
• TURN to attempt to answer the question
• The questions/counter resets at Serenade.

A vigilant model guard - TALISMAN INFO MODELGUARD

• Valued at 500 credits
• ACTIVATE this model guard and he will tell you whenever someone enters or leaves your city. Lasts thirty minutes and has an hour cooldown.

An intricately plotted chart - TALISMAN INFO GUARDCHART

• Valued at 750 credits
• Study this chart and for a relatively significant balance you will be able to determine whether you are within CALL FOR HELP range of any nearby city guards.
• Naturally, only works in cities.

A stark librarian's desk - TALISMAN INFO LIBRARIANDESK

• Valued at 1300 credits
• Drop this desk in a room and the next time someone tries to SAY something or CALL FOR HELP you will shush them, conveying a silence effect upon that person.
• This lasts around twenty seconds and after you shush your first person your desk will go on cooldown for an hour after thirty seconds.
• Note that if no one speaks or calls for help for two minutes after your initial drop of the desk, it goes on cooldown regardless.

A pearl of wisdom - TALISMAN INFO WISDOMPEARL

• Valued at 1600 credits
• CLUTCH this pearl of wisdom and for the next five minutes most stunning effects and all modifiable willpower costs will be reduced by approximately fifteen percent.
• Note that some stuns and willpower costs are strictly unmodified, and these will not be included.

Enjoy!

While we were busy working away preparing for December, the end of the year, and all that those things mean, Mayaween gave us a good old jumpscare and reminded us that November is here right now!

So, to tide you over until glorious stockings arrive, we have the artefact cart, the Wheel of Fortune, and lesson packages available at www.achaea.com/credits for November!

You can purchase prismatic tokens for the Wheel from the website and there is also a token available from the renown shop. (WALK TO WHEEL will take you to spin them!)

You can find the full list of what is available from the wheel under HELP WHEEL OF FORTUNE.

Talisman caches this month open for Blackwave, Planes, and the Wanderer sets.

The Artefact Cart lets you add your artefacts to your shopping cart on the website and purchase them at a discounted rate directly (30% discount by default, 40% if the purchaser has an Iron Elite membership).

Do note that you do need to be logged in on the website to buy artefacts in this way, so to be sure that your elite bonus always applies if applicable!

On top of the standard 30/40% discount offered by the artefact cart, we're also further discounting select artefact categories throughout the month:

1st through 10th - Offensive and Class artefact categories.

11th through 20th - Crafting and Tradeskill, and Miscellaneous categories.

21st through 30th - Defensive, Stat and Regen, and Artefact Armour categories.

The changes in discount are listed on UPCOMING!

Enjoy!

Somehow, there are only three months left in 2024! October arrives with the promise of Mayaween on the horizon, and then we're only a hop, skip, and a jump away from Logosmas and the end of the year!

First of all though, congratulations to Veldrin, the newest Champion bearing the Staff of Nicator. And a hearty well done to all who contended for the Staff in the Games, it was a ride!

For October's promotion, keys to the caskets are available at www.achaea.com/credits then you can visit the graveyard in Tomacula and open one to see what you can rob from the grave!

When there are no prizes left, when the special prize has been claimed, or on the first of the month, the restless dead will reset the casket contents to full once more! There is a game announce when this happens!

CASKETS OPEN NUMBER <#> - open a specific unopened casket
CASKETS OPEN - open an unopened casket by coordinates
CASKETS OPENED - list all opened caskets
CASKETS CLOSED - list caskets still to be opened
CASKETS / - view a specific casket

See HELP CASKETS for all of the details on prizes and commands!

In the renown shop you will find a magnificent pumpkin available to be purchased once per character this month.

AND, also in the Tomacula Graveyard, you can now purchase magnificent pumpkins for bound credits. Every five purchased from the graveyard will reward a free magnificent carved pumpkin which contains increased prizes!

HELP PUMPKINS contains all the information on these!

It's our birthday! We're going to play games!

This month over at www.achaea.com/credits you can get lesson packages, talisman caches, and a 40% credit bonus sale! That's a 50% credit bonus if you have an Iron Elite membership and are logged into the website!
(This does not include no-brainer lesson or credit packages.)

Talisman piece purchases give caches.
Every ten caches (this is tracked per set, so four Moderngods and six Eldergods won't work):

• If you have elite, you get another cache
• In addition, you get either:
• A random rarer piece if its a specific set.
• Another random piece cache if its your tenth random cache.

This month in Achaea:

Use the HAPPYBIRTHDAYACHAEA command once per character to earn 27 credits, and 24 hours of double XP! The double XP activates when you use the command, so don't do it just before QQing!

Visit Stian in the Wander Inn to begin a daily quest! Complete this 20 times and you'll earn a prize!

The 16th through the 20th of September will have double experience activated for everyone! This is the Mon-Fri between the two XP event weekends.

Achaea's actual birthday is September 9th and we have an expansion to our customisation system to announce on that day, keep your eyes peeled!

Next, the Championship Games. Again.

These dates are all on UPCOMING, but we start on Saturday the 6th with the Race Around The World, and the World Games Extravaganza. See HELP RACE AROUND THE WORLD and HELP CHAMPS WORLDGAMES for the details!

Sunday the 7th will be the riddle! HELP GROUP RIDDLES has all of the information you'll need to get started!

CHAMPFAQ has a list of questions and answers for other information regarding all of the games, and we will have a new scoreboard for tracking points via the CHAMPS command!

Good luck to all of our contenders and their supporting crew, we'll see you at sea on Saturday!

Finally, it's the first of the month (at the time of posting - obvs), don't forget your resolutions, especially if you are planning on winning the Staff of Nicator!