Direction
This week, Direction finished a variety of spring-cleaning projects.

• LumosJared worked on a host of rank and permission changes, updating the security our staff use to access different moderation tools, as well as minor lore writing, individual direction, and HR services for staff.
• MonMarty hosted lore events at the Retreat, prepared for the incoming new noble system season, and lore writing.
• BillyTheScruffy worked on overhauling the PR Department, creating new research teams, starting a website rebranding update, and ensuring new social media management by expierenced individuals to ensure higher quality content.
• Birdsfoot_Violet has been working on special permission reviews, moderating discord chats.

Game

• Many PVPers are aware of an issue with the FFA in KitPVP where when pearling with <1.5 hearts, you heal to full instead of dying. After working with the developer of the McDuels plugin, he claims it is a bug on their end, not ours, and will have the issue fixed in the next update of the plugin towards the end of the month. Hang tight until then!
• New players are now forced into a “PVPImmunity” faction, in which they are unable to PVP for 3 days. If they wish to create a faction, join a faction, or PVP, they are reminded to /f leave. After 3 days, they are forced out of the faction.
• For 3 days upon joining the server, players have access to /tpa. Players that are more than 3 days old cannot request or accept TPAs.
• We will be introducing a /rtp or /wild for these new players which will have a cooldown between uses. -Thank you to all who came to the faction event at Steadfast! https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/invasion-of-steadfast.93343/

World
This week for world was a fairly relaxed week. Mainly did event set-ups at the noble retreat, work on a new dungeon coming up soon, we also set-up a new deco head display at /tp crates for all the new deco head! We also did our usual tasks of regalia upkeep/tickets.

• SpunSugar worked on a few mini event set-up at the noble retreat for social gatherings.
• WaterDruppel worked on a dungeon. Changed the flooring, started adding small deco/ruins bits to the hallways, and added more ceiling borders in the other rooms.
• Patsie Decorated main street shop for a pet shop. Built the new deco head display at /tp crates.
• Yigit built a Crookback Checkpoint with a platform for archers, several seats and barriers and many flower pots placed around on request, as well as bell ring for alarms and such.

Lore
Lore Updates:

• The Regalian Noble Assembly has dissolved all marriage laws (except forced marriage) and insult law, meaning all bars and limitations on marriage have been removed including cross-race marriage, bigamy, polygamy, polyandry, and all injunctions on fornication and adultery have been decriminalized. Keep in mind, insulting nobles is still illegal by court honneurs and blueblood laws, but it is now fully legal for nobles to insult each other, or for commoners to insult each other, without legal repercussions.

World System Updates:

• Prestige event Results:
• House van Hal: Submission was creative, must have spent an insane amount of effort to cut out all 2000+ windows in the palace, and was probably the most unique submission. As a result, this submission “Won” the selection.
• House Viduggla: House Kade is insulted that House Viduggla tried to ship a heathen lamp into the palace.
• House von Schwarzkrau: House Kade does not appreciate being given hand-me-downs and junk items.
• House Loughdonairt: Pretty, gets runner-up position.
• House Petrou: Appreciated, but unmentionable.
• House von Eisner: Appreciated, but unmentionable.
• House Litvinova: Appreciated, but unmentionable.
• House von Drachenburg: Appreciated, but unmentionable.
• House Cadieux: House Kade questions why the Duchess thought it necessary to flank a statue of the Emperor with nude figures.
• House Minarith: Nice, creative, gets shared runner-up with Loughdonairt.
• House Peirgarten: Description missing.
• House Morathes: Appreciated, but unmentionable.
• All other families: No submission received. Thank you all for participating, the gifts have been judged by the Kade family’s current presence in the city, and will be passed on to the Emperor when he recovers.

Event Updates

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/summertime-bazaar-pt-1.93678/#post-1008694
• The Vogel – AtticCat on Haddi Van Hal
• The Leaping Ksai – Yui_Drax on Zhu Fen’ha Te
• The Nook and Cranny – Qoll on Susanne of Havenreach
• The streets of Regalia at random times of night seem to grow cold, foggy, reportedly by the scarce citizen & drunkard. It is written off as negligible nonsense.

• “My friends, your reward shall be on its way shortly. Thank you again for attending. And for any other buisness, make sure you consider attending the Bazaar for another opportunity at a prize!” -Gamedi, Merchant Lord of the East

Roleplay Updates

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/thr…cellery-decree-05-no-retreat-from-duty.93776/
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/on-the-founding-of-a-new-sect-and-an-act-of-faith.93868/

PR
This week the PR staff team attended two department meetings and nailed down our direction as an department while assigning new projects to our members, new and old.

• Kirishark attended both PR department meetings, submitted the PR round-up, interviewed skinners regarding skin branding, contributed to the skin branding project, wrote a corporate espionage report with
• Flossy wrote an independent corporate espionage report requested by Billy. Battlebrawn attended both PR department meetings, contributed to the skin branding project and worked on reintroducing faction spotlights, starting with a faction interview.
• Essentialess attended a PR department meeting, prepared a poll regarding a graphics change and started on a trends document.
• Wan_Xia attended both PR department meetings and worked on video editing and audio recording for the Race Spotlight.
• Hierophant attended a PR department meeting and posted on the Massivecraft Twitter page.
• Wynstiel attended both PR department meetings, posted on social medias and reminded players to vote in game.
• Flossy attended both PR department meetings and wrote a corporate espionage report with Kirishark.
• Canaaa attended a PR meeting, tended to in game tickets and brainstormed new projects.

Quest
Quest this week has been busy on doing our upcoming dungeon.

• Derpadillo worked on new player rank.
• Iyyiushi has been working on dungeon layout.
• Wan_Xia has been working on mob design for the dungeon.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on MassiveRaces:

• FourThirteen has been working on the Altalar fireball ability including testing the rename of Orcs to Eronidas. He has also been pair reviewing code and discussing further future ability changes for MassiveRaces.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has been working on the 1.17 update. This includes pair coding with…
• CS_Birb to update some of our NMS dependent plugins such as MassiveCore. He has also been testing some of our external dependencies to ensure they still work with the 1.17 update so we can update our own plugins.
• Ghirko has been working on fixing some of the Kathar truce bugs.
• XVW fixed an issue with Allars being able to fly after leaving/switching race when using fly water. He has also been adjusting the Altalar ultimate activation so there is a delay before the first strike. Finally, he has been working on changing Dwarfs so other race ultimates bypass the immunity against harmful effects.