Direction
This week, Direction met to discuss server hosting, factions-survival future, and other topics.

• MonMarty reviewed roleplay systems and worked on Ithania map. Check out his stream here.
• LumosJared reviewed roleplay systems.
• Derpadillo performed individual direction for Quest staff.
• CS_Birb began updating server hosting and performed individual direction for Tech Staff.
• QGMK hosted Survival Staff meetings, completed Direction paperwork, and performed individual direction for Game staff.
• Birdsfoot_violet processed paperwork and performed individual direction for Lore Staff.
• BillyTheScruffy performed PR department oversight and direction.

Quest
The Ezekiel Event Minimum Product was decreased to five quests. Most of these are already written and pending review and testing. The quests that did not make this cut may be added back after launch.

• Derpadillo: Product design and review, coding, and storyboard writing.
• Iyyiushi: Quest Coding.
• Wan_Xia: Quest Coding and Storyboarding.

Game
We need YOUR help testing Kingdoms! The sooner the issues are ironed out, the sooner it will be released!

How to test Kingdoms: Fill out this form to be whitelisted. Join pts.massivecraft.com and type ‘/k’ for a list of possible commands. Try to get together with your friends and make a Kingdom of factions. We want to see if yall can figure it out based on the information given when you type ‘/k’. Try allying/trucing/enemying other factions and kingdoms. Try using the bank! Try out whatever you see! Post any question or issue you have in #Kingdoms Discussion !

Here are some updates from this week:

1. We welcomed a new aspirant this week, njmcr!
2. Our rules page has been updated. Review the complete update here.
3. War Declaration Rules have been changed. Check them out here.
4. The Sliver of Color skinning contest is now live! Check out the post if you’re interested!
5. Theres a faction event 2v2 tournament happening next Saturday the 13th at 3pm eastern time. Sign ups are available here.

• QGMK aided players, updated the rules, appeals and reports, onboarded njmcr to Game, made plugin configuration changes, and configured [REDACTED].
• Sevak: Races dungeons, PvP scoreboard.
• Fiend_of_Massive: Helping sevak with his Races dungeons.
• Effloresce: In game tickets and discord tickets.
• Skhosh: [REDACTED].
• Rahm_Kota: Race dungeons, War dec update, Player assistance, Rule enforcement.

PR
This week’s PR has focused on both internal and external things. We hosted a Jackbox night in the discord and a skinning contest is currently ongoing on the forums. Others stayed focused on 3D modeling and are looking into really refining that. Other than that it’s business as usual, and we’re going to still be working on the voting incentive, as well as the lore-item revision.

• Femma: did some general social media upkeep posts. Did the PR Roundup and Podcast coordination. Also did some tickets on the server.
• seoulmate: upkept social media posts!
• Obilvaify: consulted with several of the survival project-leads to discuss and plan PR strategy, designed graphics for the skin contest announcement post, and recorded and edited upcoming video content.
• Hierophant_: hosted another Jackbox night in the discord!
• indyfan98: Worked on 3D modeling assorted decorations for World Staff usage in Regalia.
• kirishark: did some tickets on the server and posted the skin contest with Goldifish.
• slurmancer: made shortlist for rp group roundups, learned some OBS/video recording, mostly just setting up the groundwork for group posts and TikTok.
• Goldifish: worked on 3D modeling and finished the skinning contest with Kirishark.

Lore
Lore Updates:
Changes Submitted by, Birdsfoot_violet, Mollymock, and MonMarty
Kathar, Altalar, and Power Arken Faith Manifest. have a new Ability added to replace Arken Sense 1. Arken Speculate 1. It is exactly what it sounds like.

An update to the Burglary/Black Market System for y’all. The release process has been slow, due to a rather low level of participance in the system over the Vampire Crisis than expected, but it’s started to pick up again so we’re gonna be rolling out updates and expansions as time rolls on. For all information regarding the Black Market System, please see the forums manual here (which will be linked from the Roguery page whenever Staff Lizmun gets a moment to do it).

https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/black-market-system-manual.96481/

Small edit to Syndicates: The minimum number of characters to form a Syndicate is now four rather than five.

World System Updates:
Submitted by Monmarty

Final call reminder that noble applications are still open, and will remain open, but the Season will start very soon. Now is the best time to get involved, and if you miss the opening call, that’s not really a problem, but you may find it is harder to catch up to families who have already been in the system for a while. You can find applications here https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/noble-family-applications.96350/

Changes are occuring in the Progression/Noble System. I have rewritten the entire government:
https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/assembly-explained.96507/

What this gives now is a Lower House and an Upper House. For the first time ever, Commoners can get directly involved in government through a pre-legislative Lower House. If you are playing a Commoner that would like to get involved with the government but couldn’t in the past, you should read up on the Lower House.

All Noble Factions have now been declared invalid and void. You should create new Factions. The First Lower House Meeting will be held next Friday or Saturday, the exact day is TBD. Y’all have a week to get organized.

Finally, we have added “Staff Event Blocs” on the calendar, every Friday and Saturday. This is to inform people who are potentially scheduling events during this time that there is a likelihood of a Staff Event popping up ahead of that time, so please schedule with that understanding. This is not a guarantee we will host events on these days every week, but a courteous warning for those scheduling.

Event Updates:
Submitted by Kirishark

https://forums.massivecraft.com/threads/a-sliver-of-colour-skinning-contest.96490/

Roleplay Updates:
Submitted by MonMarty

Bring out the scarf and winter skins! First snow of winter has arrived in Regalia, like clockwork on the opening of October.

Tech
Kingdoms, Kingdoms, Sieges, Sieges.

World
Nothing to report.