Direction
We handled player investigations & appeals this week, internal audits, and department organization.

• MonMarty performed individual direction for staff members and server upkeep & maintenance.
• LumosJared performed individual direction for Lore members.
• Birdsfoot_violet performed individual direction for Lore members and handled player reports.
• BillyTheScruffy performed individual direction for PR members.
• Derpadillo performed individual direction for Quest members and continued the Ezekiel megaproject.
• CS_Birb performed individual direction for Tech members and performed server maintenance.
• QGMK performed individual direction for Game members and hosted Survival Staff meetings.

Quest
Ezekiel event is nearing the finale. Inter-department work is happening to see to its successful release soon. Quest supported Regalia this week by writing informational quests on game lore pertaining to Sorcery.

• Derpadillo – Ezekiel Event – mob preparations for the finale, announcement post work, finale script planning. Roleplay event – quest coding/QA
• Iyyiushi – QA Meeting with derp, installed Occult Expo quest code.

PR
Things are a-brewing in the PR department. Announcements are going out left and right, as well as player spotlights. Projects, secret and public one’s are being worked on and the progress and general goings-on of the server is being updated through social media.

• Oblivaify: announced the finale of the Ezekiel Incursion and worked on the economy player guide.
• Femma: Did social media upkeep, and got screenshots in game.
• Ocularum: researched the forums and websites of other RPG Minecraft servers.
• seoulmate: did some social media upkeep.
• slurmancer: did some pmc maintenance, and roleplayer player spotlights x2.
• Goldifish: Did work on (massive cosmetics, delete this for forum post) super secret project

Game
This week game worked on the following projects: We continued to make progress on essa spawn. Made an update to Kathar mobs and the damage on them has been buffed and the health has been reduced Parrots have been updated so you can name tag them and they won’t despawn Ash and vampire fangs have been replaced to drop their vanilla drops of gunpowder and ghast tears. If you do have any ash or vampire fangs you can make a ticket to get them converted.

• Moistwhenwet – Assisted players and in investigations.
• Fiend_Of_Massive – Assisted players and worked on Essa spawn.
• Physicsfrog – Assisted players and worked on [REDACTED].
• RahmKota – Assisted players and worked on Essa spawn.
• Sevak – Assisted players Effloresce Assisted players and in investigations.
• NjMcr- Assisted players and worked on Essa spawn.
• qgmk aided players, handled appeals and reports, and tested upcoming plugins.

Lore
Lore Updates:
Changes Submitted by Birdsfoot_violet, Scribbe & MonMarty

We’ve identified an issue with folks having trouble connecting to the server/crashing in certain parts of the city if they have not updated to 1.17. We recommend if you are having this issue and have not yet updated, to update, and if you are still having the issue on 1.17 to make a ticket so we can help troubleshoot.

It looks like this may be an MPM bug. Make a ticket providing Birb a crash report file if it persists.

Small modification to Mai-Allar speciation:
Mai-Allar are anywhere between slim and muscular, while having a general aquatic body. For the majority of the subrace, heads are shaped like those of specific marine species (orca, most shark species, hammerhead shark (including the head shape), dusky dolphin, or dunkleosteus). They can also have any of the aforementioned species skin/scale colors and patterns (including a shark-like appearance, with orca body coloring). There exist also a smaller minority of fish species, with heads shaped like any type of fish (there are some exceptions, fish that look too alien or un-fishlike may be non-canon, if you are unsure, please make a ticket on the Discord to discuss availability). That being said, those wish fish heads (due to their lack of predator physiology) are generally seen as the less-efficient more “gremlin-like” variant among the Mai-Allar, though they can also use different Body Shapes than the more common predator Mai-Allar.

For a long time, it’s been kind of an implicit lore thing that only older players remember that Eronidas that enter Regalia from outside are made to do hard labour for the Empire. Since that came up in a prog, it seemed kind of important to typify what exactly these camps are, what they do, and what the Eronidas think of them. Link here!: https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Eronidas#Eronidas_in_Regalia

World System Updates:
Change submitted by MonMarty

A new micro function for the System!
Non-Family Courtiers have been added to the Imperial court page: https://wiki.massivecraft.com/Imperial_Family#Non-Family_Courtiers entirely comprised of retired Noble Characters/retired Noble Houses. These Characters have progression functions, and can be interacted with through progressions for the specific skills they have.

(Note, Dianne Black is still pending, I got overly excited about her presence and put her up there, but Darkarely has not replied yet to my request for inclusion, so she may be withdrawn if things don’t pan out).

Future retirees with adequate function that I can re-use for the system may look forward to also being on this page.
https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/armies-navies-marshals-cabinet-explained.98275/
https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/court-jobs-explained.98278/

Event Updates:
Change submitted by Dedjok

The Regalian Volunteer Guild’s list of quests has been updated! Four new quests have appeared, with repeatable ones sticking around a bit longer so everyone who wants to get involved with it can. From here on out, new quests will pop up every Monday unless posted otherwise. Thank you so much to everyone who’s been involved so far!

Roleplay Updates:
Changes submitted by Birdsfoot_violet

https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/to-be-dutiful-chancellor-mandate.98247/
https://forums.massivecraft.com/thr…-15-uncomfortable-choices.98271/#post-1028775

World
Waterdruppel wrote up a nice changelog blurb for the World Department, but I accidentally deleted the message before copying the message here. My bad.
-Q