I hope everyone has been having fun with the Brew Day celebrations, which will end on the 22nd. There are a lot of other events looming on the horizon, including another Moonlight Enchantments, another City Festival, and more! What more, you ask, in this season of bountiful live events? How about a celebration for that grand Trickster, god of Mischief, creator of halflings, Bristlebane?

Yep, that is right. Bristlebane Day is right around the corner, and, for the first time, there will be Bristlebane Day craftables! Of course Mum is making sure you are properly pampered and has a Bristlebane Day crafting writeup for you!

In a lovely update to the Shadows of the Betrayed signature quest, once you have completed the quest you may buy an extra copy of your class reward from the Shady Swashbuckler on the Nektulos Forest docks. This will allow you to have one for decorating your home, and one for using for evac or appearance! Thanks, Domino!

Overwhelmed by the overflowing abundance of crafter & decorator love? Perplexed by the plethora of planned parties and other events? It is getting a tad hard to keep track of what starts and ends when, much less which SF crafting dailies you can or cannot do on any given day, or when you can catch the next Portal Repairs mission for the signature quest. In an attempt to beat it all into submission, I am poking and prodding the forum Calendar feature into submission. The app is a bit limited, but it might just do the trick ... I hope! Down at the very bottom of the main forum page, you will find a Today's Events section that will give you an abbreviated listing of SF daily crafting missions, Mara daily crafting mission and any world events. Should you want further information, or a longer-term view, the Calendar link at the top of our forums leads to, unsurprisingly, the calendar view of the events. Each event comes with a clickable link that will lead you to another link with any additional details that are available for the event.

There are, of course downsides, such as the event-click leading to another link that needs to be clicked before you get to the event writeup, and a repeat event function that works so poorly that I will have to manually add the repeating events, one by one by one to the proper days, but it offers us an option that is integrated with the site, and allows you, with a quick glance at the forums, to see what is going on of crafter interest. Poke at it, try it out, see what you think. Once I see what the general response is, and we have made sure the information I already have up is accurate, I can see about filling in the events for April as well.

March 11, 2010 - Brew Day Festivities!

Brew Day is not just for drunken dwarves and followers of Brell! Make sure to check out the Brew Day preview for details on this annual event, which runs from March 11 through March 22. There is a wonderful pack that has a visible appearance amongst the several crafted items, and you will want to read up to make sure that you do not miss the quest to obtain the improved ale goggles (so you can see the nodes needed for the crafting components), as well as the quest to obtain the pack recipe.

March 11, 2010 - Brewday Bar Delay

Apparently there was a large bar brawl in the Brewday bars, or so says the system announcement. The bartenders are expected to have cleanup done, and the bars open, around 11 am Pacific, at last check. (All the rest of the Brewday stuff is available, but since all the crafting requires access to the bar before you can harvest, much less craft, um, you might want to go grab glowies, harvest more resources, etc. for a bit.)

March 09, 2010 - Pictures!

A few comments have been added to the SF signature quest, Shadows of the Betrayed, making it clearer that, yes, you have to be on the Emergency Portal repairs for one part, yes, you are under a timer for another part, and yes, when it says VERY CAREFULLY make the combine, there is a reason to be careful ... unless you like mender fees and crafting xp debt! :P In addition, we now have a page with pictures of all the class-specific rewards, including what they will look like when equipped. Among other things, the hotfix this morning included a change to turn them from dual-wield weapons into one-handed weapons, which should make it a little less awkward for quick swaps between weapons.

March 04, 2010 - Shadows of the Betrayed

Mysteran put together a detailed accounting of his adventures with the new crafter signature quest that was mentioned yesterday. The brief blurb that I threw up yesterday has been replaced with a step-by-step journey that includes over 40 screenshots(!!) Check out Shadows of the Betrayedfor more information. (Yep, he really is wielding an alchemy flask with particle effects as a weapon - how cool is that?!)

In other news, the date and location for the 2010 Fan Faire has been announced. I hope we will see some of you in Las Vegas on August 5-8!

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