Apologies for the abrupt hiatus... I am genuinely sorry to the group as a whole for promising to deliver a lot on the part of the ARPG last year and for my radio silence. I've been dealing with a lot on my plate over the last few months between university, health, and living situation which has pushed a lot of things back creative-wise. I'm likely to continue to be busy for the next year. However, I will be doing my best to keep up with monthly bulletins. I made a lot of promises last year as to the expected timeline for the ARPG and I'm sorry that I wasn't able to keep to those estimates, and I apologize as well for being unable to be timely with rewarding people who participated in the summer event. Going forward, I want to be more transparent with you all as to the state of things.

Seasonal mechanic! This is additional to the monthly prompts. Every three months starting from March, the season will change. Completing all three monthly prompts for the season will award that season's pet. Furthermore, all pets have a seasonal aspect - drawing or writing about pets that match the season will award bonus Obols, if you own the pet. This system begins this month, debuting Spring 2024's pet, the Trepiko!

ARPG updates. Most of the groundwork in terms of structure and content is there! Most of what remains is to finishing coding up the pages and contemplating a system to distribute rewards faster and easier. This may mean a new moderator position for logging things. There's a possibility of moving to Lorekeeper in the future - I understand all the moving around is hectic, however.

Masterlist issue. Most of the images on the masterlist site at the moment are broken, as they were previously hosted on Discord. I'm working on fixing this, though it may take a while. Furthermore, Discord image links will no longer be accepted for submissions of any kind.

Speaking of the Twelfth Seat event. Candidate A has been voted into the Council! Looking forward, we'll be exploring concepts of Rhea's past... but beyond the door, who can say if that's for the better? Their design is also available for prompts as a community NPC.

Candidate A - Oriachl

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Good morning, Rhea. I am honored to accept the position of Twelfth Seat. My name is Oriachl, but please call me Ori.

Being the Twelfth Seat... I do not plan to sit back and be complacent. If you allow me, I wish to work alongside you all. Support your visions on the Council and speak with you in the city proper. I am truly excited to see what you have in store.

Good night, Rhea. I will see you in the new dawn.

Event rewards. Congratulations to greypij for winning the design of Candidate B and xXStarryPuffyDreamXx for winning the MYO slot! Furthermore, all Obols and pets have been awarded to participants.

Next on the drawing board. In the immediate future, I have two things I plan to work on when I can. A page to display all the different pets, since many of them come with lore, as well as a "tutorial" to the ARPG storyline. I can't promise any exact dates on these, but the pets page will definitely come first.