As you may have now guessed, we are releasing the lost cities of
Hallifax and Gaudiguch as player cities. I thought it is best I address
that here now before people rush to make any hasty decisions. Though
we've been planning this for quite some time, I must admit I was
struggling on the wisdom of releasing the new orgs without a larger
playerbase but eventually I decided to go ahead and do it but I thought
it should be a slow growth process. Therefore, as you may have already
seen, there is only one guild listed in each city. And, yes, that's all
that will be opening.

The plan is for the cities to raise 200k power. When they have that
much, and if they are willing, they must pay 100k power to release the
next guild. The choice will be between a guardian and warrior guild.
Those will be the next guilds we work to release (it may not happen
instaneously). For the next guild, the same procedure follows. After the
guardian and warrior guild are released we may or may not begin work on
a bard and monk guild. We will assess at the time whether or not we have
the playerbase to support it.

To emphasize, we expect this to be a SLOW process. The next two guilds
may be spread out over 2010. Certainly, we won't allow the next guild to
open for at least a couple of months. Also note, with the exception of
mercenaries (i.e., warriors with hunting), if you join the city and do
not want to be a mage, you will be stuck in a class who can't use any
skill that requires nexus powers. So please look before you leap!

While you can see the guilds listed already, we will not be allowing
anyone to join the guilds until probably Tuesday. (It may be earlier but
my birthday is tomorrow.) Entering the city may be allowed sooner, but
that has not been decided.

Also, the survivors of the Taint Wars (Scuchidira and Cririk) have been
granted sole and absolute power to act as city leaders and guildmasters
(i.e., they cannot be contested). Who knows how long they'll remain in
power? One can never tell with these temporal anomalies perhaps they'll
live forever!


Penned by My hand on the 13th of Dioni, in the year 253 CE.