We recently pushed out an update to the system we use for handling
almost all of our quests, item interactions, etc. In theory, this should
have affected nothing. However, a handful of progs relied on a
particular implementation detail of the old version of the system, which
was changed without documentation when this version was released. As
such a small number of item interactions are at least partially broken,
including various quests and, notably, sands-empowered power generation
from essence.

This came to light too late to feasibly roll-back to the previous
version, so we'll be working to fix this ASAP. Our first priority will
be fixing the power generation and any other high-impact breakages, and
then we'll deal with quests and other smaller issues.

I'm going to try to have a fix for the essence breakages out in ~12
hours or so. I won't have an ETA for a complete fix until I've had a
chance to investigate the full scope of what's broken and what'll be
needed to fix it.

Apologies for any inconvenience.

Penned by My hand on the 10th of Kiani, in the year 437 CE.