• You can start the quest "A Search for the Unknown" by going to Peddler's Port and clicking on Pai.
• There are 3 quests in total: A Search for the Unknown, Perusing the Constellation Library (Repeatable, available throughout the month), and Secrets of the Tomes (Unlocks after a number of days completing the previous quest)
• Agnes' Winter Boutique is open again for the month of February!
• Stocked are Ravan's items, with a new item available!
• Ravan's seasonal currency "Scrap of Knowledge" can be obtained from Pai's repeatable seasonal quest "Perusing the Constellation Library" as well as through several other regular site mechanics.
  

SILVIE'S MINE BALANCING
We're currently testing and finalizing content for the Silvie's Mine Balancing update. We meant to release it within January but due to some delays moved it to this month. This update will be released in the first week of February! We hope you enjoy the upcoming content.

WINTER EVENT PREPARATION
Our artists and writers are hard at work on content for the upcoming Winter Event, it will feature the familiar Gifting Event along with a new area, NPC's, and lots of fun content to collect. We'll also be hosting some forum contests and giveaways during the event. We're aiming to launch everything around the end of February but will need to observe our progress to finalize any dates. Looking forward to revealing more!

IRL OBLIGATIONS & CUSTOM STATUS
You might have noticed a few delays over the last couple of months, this was due to key members of staff going through some unexpected IRL related circumstances that needed to be prioritized over working on the game. February will be a busy (and short) month IRL for some staff members as well, so we may need to shift some priorities around in order to accomodate this. We're looking at shifting the release of the current batch of customs if we absolutely need to!

STAFF RECRUITMENT
We're preparing materials for the recruitment of new Jr. Moderators and Community/Event Managers, as well as updating our current internal staff organization system to be more efficient and well organized. Once this is done, we'll be ready to release a recruitment post!

ROADMAP RELEASED
Recently, our Roadmap thread was released, we'll be updating it as time goes on as well as adding more information to it when we're able to provide it. We hope you're excited for some of our long term plans!

AFTERWORD
While working on the Silvie's Mine Balancing update, we were experiencing some unexpected IRL related delays. Because of this, we decided to shuffle things around a bit to get this update released first. We're currently still testing the newly balanced dailies along with finalizing the other items on our list, and hope to get them out as soon as we can. Thank you for your patience this month as we sort things out! We hope you enjoy this update, we've parceled out our stockpile of new Wishing Well content and this is the first installment.

• Speak to Pellumi at Soll's Ruins to begin the seasonal quest "The Winter Sands"
• There are 4 quests in total to be unlocked in succession.
• 2 of 4 quests are repeatable quests. "The Great Labyrinth" can be completed once a day while "A Moment's Respite" can be completed 3 times.
• Pellumi's Antique Nook is open again for the month of January!
• Stocked are Soll's items, with a new few new items available this year.
• This shop takes Ruin Lights which are obtainable through the Seasonal quests in Soll's Ruins, Random Encounters, Random Item Alchemy, Adventuring Rewards, and the Starry Night Minigame
  

SILVIE'S MINE BALANCING
We'll be releasing the Silvie's Mine Balancing update some time this month! Included will be daily quest rebalancing similar to our previous daily balancing updates, with tons of new NPC shop items and pets!

ROADMAP & BETA CHANGELOG
While we were planning to get these up last month, December was unexpectedly hectic IRL for much of our team. We'll be ready to release this and tick it off of our priority list at long last this month. Thank you for your patience all this time!

NEW WISHING WELL UPDATE
We have produced a pretty big stockpile of unreleased wishing well content, so we'd like to do a wishing well update some time this month!

WINTER EVENT PREPARATION
We've made the decision to postpone Thalies' story event to next fall, and tackle a more casual Winter Event instead. The plan for this will be a not too lore heavy event with gifts and fun new content all around. More news on this will arrive when we've progressed further!

The event's conclusion brought in a new NPC and a new town, complete with daily errands and a full NPC shop, as well as possible future content!

• The Stranger's initial quest line starting from "Amid the Murk and Mire"
• You will unlock a shop at the quest's conclusion which requires Crimson Energy. 
• "Traversing the Warring Forest" can be completed twice a day from now on, allowing new players to unlock the later content in 8 days instead of 15.
• The New Daily Errands - Amount of Crimson Energy gained per quest completion has been raised from 5 to 10, negative route completion has been raised from 2 to 5.
• The Various Witch Fruit hatchable recipes have been moved to the Officiator's Record Office
• The Stranger's Wares shop has disappeared along with the Summer Seasonal clothing sets, which will return next year in a different event.
• Crimson Energy can be obtained in: Random Encounters, Random Item Alchemy, Adventuring Encounters & Bar Rewards, 3's Forest Cleanup
  

All Witches War quests are now part of a permanent side storyline that will unlock the new area for players.
Any players that have not started the Witches War storyline can begin the "Amid the Murk and Mire" quest in their own time after completing the initial main storyline in 3's Forest, namely after completing the "Returning to Trout" main quest.

Here are some plans for improvements for future events like this that we've accumulated from hosting this event!

• This was our first event with permanent content unlocked as a result, and we're excited about new functions that we were able to code in for future storyline mechanics.
• We're looking forward to doing more permanent content releases through events and a bigger variety of content!
• Team Selection -  We'll be looking into ways to give users more agency and choice in the team they help, while still keeping the teams relatively balanced.
• We'll be making it so that draws by default and draws from duel responses give different rewards, draws by default should give the default less amount while draws from duel responses should get a bigger reward.
• We'll be looking at the daily losing team point gain boost to make it more balanced and give teams more agency.
• We'll be looking into various ways to safeguard against cheating both through coding as well as balancing.
• We'll be adjusting the team insignia code to allow them to linger for a time after the event ends.
  

Our next event will be a fun Winter themed event with a more casual, less lore-heavy story some time this season! More news is incoming when we're ready.

Recently, we discovered a few instances of rule breaking which skewed the points in the Witches War. This was too significant to ignore, so after extensive investigation and some deliberation, we've decided to do the following.

• After rollover tonight, the bonus point gain will be reduced to just 1%, effectively giving the teams a relatively even battlefield for the final showdown.
• We're hoping that these updates make the best of a difficult and unique situation, and we'll also be looking into ways to safeguard against this for other events of this type in the future.
  

• A 15 minute maintenance will occur on December 12th 12AM DVT - 4 hours after the team battle ends - to conclude the storyline.
• The Stranger's Wares shop stock will be moved to a new place, with the seasonal summer clothing continuing to be available for purchase there until December 16th.
• Complete the "Traversing the Warring Forest" quest for 14 days in total in order to unlock more content after maintenance!
  

We'd like to ask that in the future, if anyone sees possible examples of rule breaking, to please report it through the ticket desk only and refrain from discussing it publicly on site or in our Discord Server. This kind of action can unintentionally lead to witch hunts and harassment, which are against our Rules of Conduct and harmful overall to the community. Rule breaking should not be grounds to be harassed by other users, allow us to be the mediator. Thank you very much!