Direction
This week, Direction finished a variety of projects.

• LumosJared worked on HR, rank changes, paperwork, and lore ability writing.
• MonMarty worked on upcoming noble and lore system changes.
• BillyTheScruffy worked on the PR Department leadership and the new noble and lore system changes.
• Birdsfoot_Violet has been working on special permission reviews, lore writing, and tickets.

World
TThis week for world we worked on some main street shop decoration, event set-ups, some clandestine base decorations, and our usual tasks of regalia upkeep/tickets.

• EdnaMode worked on two event set-ups. The first event was the floating gardens event, also a play hosted at the festival grounds arena.
• Yigit decorated some Main Street shops. One was Boulevard9 an Artifices Natura rental, and arts and crafts shop. Worked on a FoodCourt1 stall, the Eflaln’s Root.
• WaterDruppel worked on darkemporium shop fighting pit with Bunemma, also worked on boulevard 7 decorating a veterinary shop. Worked with Bunemma on a clandestine base and did some decor.
• Bunemma worked with WaterDruppel on the square go fighting club, also with the veterinary main street shop. Helped EdnaMode on an event set-up for the floating gardens.
• SpunSugar Set up event in crookback. Party tables, buffet table, fabric swags, dance floor pavillion, etc.

Lore
Lore Updates:

• Clarifications have been made to the Dragon Warden page.
  -Dragon Wardens cannot use Sorcery (regardless of its source)
  -Dragon Wardens cannot use Clockwork (regardless of its source)
  -Dragon Warden point cost clarified as flat 5, rather than the 10%.
  https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/psa-on-event-riddles.94059/https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/art-competition.93985/ Don’t forget we have our art contest, enter for a chance to win Super Premium and 3 months rental of a free Standing Villa in Regalia.

World System Updates:

• In preparation of the prog system, we have completed the final draft of tokens. You can see the listing here. Context on the meaning of the tokens will be given when Billy is done with his update for Archipelago Order Manual(s)
• https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12Oza_A_ltVMMw9LwQ7RyDAljtK8pDPazj3NS2A4nWzQ/edit#gid=0
• House Harhold is being forced into flex nobility. We are also cancelling Static Nobility, with the exception of House von Drachenburg since its part of his DM status, Black will probably get married soon, and Reinard has a separate arrangement.

Event Updates

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/fourth-commoners-assembly.1645/event?id=1745
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/ino-femunn-boot-camp.1630/event?id=1722
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/the-imperial-fencing-guild-open-day.1666/event?id=1766
• https://forums.massivecraft.com/calendar/ein-biergartenfest.1659/event?id=1759

Roleplay Updates

• https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/de-azcoissia-chancellery-decree-06-1-action.94142/

PR
This week the PR staff team attended the interview training seminar held by Marty and Hemingway7.

• Kirishark submitted the PR round-up, reminded players to vote, worked on a poll regarding the podcast project and finished a corporate espionage report.
• Wan_Xia worked on data pack research and testing.
• Wynstiel reminded players to vote, updated the custom recipe page and posted daily on the Massivecraft Tumblr and Instagram accounts.
• Seoulmate did the weekly round-up, prepared next week’s weekly round-up and scheduled a week of daily posts on the Massivecraft page.
• Battlebrawn interviewed another factions leader for the weekly factions spotlight and took pictures of their faction base.
• Annie_Short reminded players to vote, worked on an artist spotlight and planned a community activity night.
• Northern_Ireland finished the player spotlight featuring Occularum and attended the interview training seminar.
• Canaaa reminded people to vote and did some event acting with lore staff.
• Femma reminded people to vote and started working on projects for the Massivecraft Pinterest and Twitter accounts as well as photographing in-game events for these accounts.

Tech
This week, tech has been working on the 1.17 update.

• FourThirteen has been working on the Altalar fireball ability as well as discussion with XVW about the future abilities within the plugin.
• XxXYaJrAbXxX has been refactoring and reviewing some of the changes to the Dwarf abilities.
• XVW has been making changes to the Dwarf abilities so that Dwarfs take damage off of other race’s abilities. He has also been working on the Isldar changes so players hit with their ability take more damage.