October Announcements & September Update Log

[avalonmods]

Please note: We have received a significant amount of both support and feedback in Mod Contact and on the previous event outcomes post over the last week+ and we have not yet been able to respond to all of it. We sincerely appreciate it and are glad to see how passionate our players are about Isle of Avalon! If you have not yet received a response, we will get back to you as soon as we are able. Please know that we are reading and considering what everyone says and will choose where to go forward from here. In the meantime, certain items are up for polling right now until 10/2. Please respond ASAP! 

 Important Announcements for October:

• Brrr! October temperatures promise not to go above 55F/12.8C and nights will likely have an average of around 45F/7.2C. The first week of October will be wet, muddy, rainy, and heavily foggy. Things will clear up the second week for a little while, giving a brief peak of sun, a week of thunderstorms and heavy fog. ☔⚡ October will finish off with heavy, noisy winds. Spoopy!
• There's news that King Arthur will be making an open AMA post soon so that people can ask him questions and bring problems to him. Date TBA.
• The people of Lestari are showing cognitive mages how to make special candles for this time of year that burn with green flames and allow those sleeping in the room with them to dream of loved ones. These are typically made by those who cannot make it to the Death Ball, their seasonal holiday, but since it is impossible this year due to events, they will all be making candles. For more information about that and other cultural information about Celliwig and Lestari's citizens, click here.
• The old man who lives in the cabin across from the Pure of Heart bridge has passed away peacefully and well-cared for in his final days, under the care of Emet-Selch as part of his sentence for his crimes.
• Camelot's castlegrounds are open. Except for the King's wing, rooms are available for refugees or players to stay in. Meeting rooms are reserved for organizing recovery efforts. Additional guards will be needed for the castle stores to make certain that food is not stolen. It will be distributed as needed once all heads are accounted for to make certain that food is rationed and not hoarded. The castle will work with anyone else's recovery efforts and charitable help as well. Comment here to sign your character's up to work with Camelot to help with resource direction.

NEW Housekeeping Updates:

• Locations page updates:
  • Locations added: Ruins of Celliwig, Ruins of Lestari and the Southern Ash Mountain
  • Locations archived to comments: Celliwig, Southern Ash Mountain - City of Lestari
  • New function added: Player-created Locations.
    • Enjoy fleshing out the setting? Avalon encourages creating your own locations as needed within the overarching setting locales. If you have a notable location your character frequents or you want other characters to know about / be able to interact with, you can now add it using our form to the spreadsheet. Subject to mod approval before it appears on the spreadsheet. Whole new locations / significant modifications to known or mentioned locations must be mod-approved. Mods will check and approve periodically. You will receive a message if something isn't going to work out with the setting. None of this is required, it was just a wonderful suggestion from a player to allow players to contribute to the setting.
• We will be introducing a game-wide HMD going forward in January, May, and September. Participation of players will be 100% optional. Anonymous will not be enabled. There will be a section for moderation so that players have a standard place to provide feedback publicly, though we always accept suggestions and comments via the Mod Contact.
• Due to participation decrease, EMP/ATP will be changed to a similar quadrimester pattern to the HMD and will take place in February, June, and October. (Exempting this October, as we just did one yesterday.)
• The QuestBoard format has been changed to hopefully look a little less text-heavy. This wasn't noted by players as needing it, but we felt while we were cleaning up the layouts we could do this quickly. We will ask for feedback on this later in the same location as the new event layout once it is up. Please bear with us over the next TDM/events as we settle on a better format. 

Monthly Updates Summary:

• Player-asked questions and character business page links have been added to the navigation page.

Upcoming Updates:

• Locations page reorganization
• Reminder (shared since August, will continue to be until Nov. to get the word out): In November, all monthly items will be available for the game's one year anniversary. If you missed a previous monthly item (see Glossary for all available obtainables), you'll have a chance to get it in November! Please make sure to also purchase regular items you have been interested in before then as well, as some items of the standard stock will be changed. (We will be looking at previous purchases to see which ones are the least popular and switch things up.)
• Rewards page layout update

Comments

[tantailizing]

- Zidane's given up his room at the Inn and opened up his house. He's moved in with Garnet for now
- The treasure he's gotten from Jailbreak? Yeah, he's not keeping it in good faith, it's being used to help the refugees
- He's keeping Gangs from hassling refugees
- He's taking some aristocrats' dues since they don't want to provide charity willingly (one of whom, it's personal)
- Bargaining with the Dullahan... however that ultimately helps
- Helping any hunting efforts, building bunk beds, and burying the dead (obviously when he has time to spare)