We're pleased to re-open a much revamped Underworld with all its nefarious figures and faces, and to welcome the return of Globes of Shifting Continents to the website!

Globes can be bought directly from www.achaea.com/credits and contain a variety of prizes, including:

Bound Credits - ranging from 10 - 100.
Mayan crowns.
Interlocking caches - these open for the DEATH and new UNDERWORLD (see below) talisman sets, and occasionally CONCLAVE.
Various artefacts ranging from vials and pipes to stat arties and beyond!
Reincarnation/trait reset (this will be credits or artefacts if you have a reincarnation already or have the relevant artefacts).
Boxes of parts - these will always pair with either a Mayan crown or an interlocking cache.
Artefact discount vouchers.
Bloodstained shards of enamel - see HELP PROMO ITEMS.
Ice figurines.
Racetrack tickets - these will always pair with an interlocking cache.
Tradeskill slots - if you have 5 slots unlocked already you will get an interlocking cache instead.

The new Underworld Talisman set features 8 new items!

A withered crypt worm
This wriggling legendary mount bears the effects of the Collar of Lupus and the Badge of Returning.

The culling blade
While wielding this blade you may utilise a special battlerage attack with the REAP command.
This will strike your specified target and a second creature in your location of the same type (REAP UNDEAD for instance).
On the treacherous planes of Annwyn and the Underworld, reap will hit a third target as well.
This consumes the same amount of rage and rage balance as a standard, high- damage rage attack, and also does the same damage.

A funeral shroud
WRAP yourself in this shroud and you will vanish from sight in a location.
This specifically hides you on LOOK, QUICKLOOK, GLANCE, OBSERVE, VEILGLANCE, and similar abilities.
It does not hide you from sense abilities.
Performing any action while concealed by this shroud will cause it to immediately unwrap.
Wrapping yourself carries a three minute cooldown if not in the Underworld.

A talisman of custody
BREAK a piece off this talisman and hand it to an adventurer with less experience than yourself.
If that adventurer dies while you are both in the realms, while you are wearing the talisman of custody, you will take the experience loss in their place.
Each time you use the talisman in an RL day, the experience cost will increase:
At first you will only lose the same experience they would.
After ten deaths, you will lose 10% of the experience they would and 90% of the experience loss you would have suffered had you died yourself in their place.
The talisman will break on the tenth death, but it recharges all of its uses once a month.
SHAKE the talisman to make it whole again if you change your mind.
TOUCH the talisman to see who currently holds the piece.

A sliver of fog-wreathed obsidian
Each time you die this sliver will absorb part of your fading life essence.
You may BREAK this sliver to restore your health (the more charge, the bigger the health gain).
This healing can push you over your max health by up to 25% of maximum!
(This does also work if you have your max health increased by the effect of the death cape.)

A totem of unlife
TOUCH this totem while standing next to an entrance or exit to the Underworld and a list of all currently in the Underworld will be carved upon it.
Be warned that everyone in the Underworld will see a message whenever the totem is used.
There is a 30 second cooldown on its use, shared by everyone, but any time it is used, all totems held by adventurers in eligible rooms will also bear the new carving.

A skein of sanity
WIND this skein to add balance time to it while in the Underworld.
PULL this skein to consume the time you've wound onto it, allowing you to act with normal balance while under the corrupting effects of the Underworld.

A splinter of shattered psyche
This splinter will double your rate of corruption while within the Underworld.


It's been a crazy first half of 2018 so far, but we're far from done with exciting additions! Keep logging in to see what we have in store for the next six months, and head to www.achaea.com/credits to get your Globes of Shifting Continents today!

Penned by My hand on the 19th of Daedalan, in the year 775 AF.