As we welcome in the new month, and the upcoming Championship Games (to be determined and announced), we're saying hello to Globes of Shifting Continents!

Available on the website, these snazzy globes will contain a variety of prizes including:

- Artefacts ranging in value from 25 to 2500 credits
- Mayan crowns
- Artefact upgrade credits
- Artefact discount vouchers
- A featureless ice figurine
- Bloodstained enamel shards
- A collapsible shop cart (always given with a crown or talisman cache)
- A trait reset*
- A free reincarnation*
- Tradeskill slots**
- Racetrack tickets
- Talisman caches which open for the new INVASION talisman set!

* If you already have a trait reset or reincarnation a different prize will be awarded!
** If you already have 3 tradeskill slots, a different prize will be awarded!

In the Invasion talisman set you will find the following items:

A brick of slowmelt ice - (icebrick)
POINT BRICK <dir> to create a reforming icewall on that exit!
Every three seconds, if broken, this icewall will reform itself, up to six times total.
Standard checks apply (i.e. can't icewall on a firewalled exit etc).
If the icewall fails to reform once, the remaining attempts will still happen.
Use of this item incurs a 5 minute cooldown.

An iron cauldron - (cauldron)
LIGHT CAULDRON to place firewalls in all room exits.
This item has a 15 minute cooldown.

A reinforced battering ram - (batteringram)
RAM <target> <dir>.
If there is an icewall or stonewall between you and your target, smash through it and knock the target prone.
This will not pull your entourage.
This item respects standard movement hinders such as piety/gravehands/etc.
Any wall in the way will be destroyed on use.

A steel caltrop - (caltrops)
THROW DOWN CALTROPS <venom>.
The next three people to enter the room will be hit by that venom.
Caltrops respect standard envenoming restrictions (if you can't envenom it on a weapon, you can't envenom it on these).
This will not work in retardation.
After the third hit or 3 minutes passes, this item will go on cooldown for 15 minutes.
If the 3 minutes passes and the caltrops go unused they will be on cooldown for 2 minutes.

A crumpled scouting map - (scoutingmap)
SCOUT SURROUNDINGS to see all corporeal and alive players in adjacent locations.
Use of this item has a 2.5 second cooldown, but no balance cost.
This functionality is not blocked by walls or doors.

An observant hag's eye - (hagseye)
PROBE PORTAL
Works alongside the identify_portal power to tell you the list of players on the other end of the portal.
This item comes with the identify_portal power.

A shadow-wreathed adamantine shackle - (shadowshackle)
If you can't beat them, copy them?
This is a shackle of Garash themed to match the one worn by the Tsol'teth Ama-maalier.
Wearing this shackle gives you the mass defence, so you never have to worry about running out of mass salve mid-fight!

A figurine of Bain'maal - (darkearthfigurine)
A battle figurine of the Tsol'teth Bain'maal.
This figurine is a part of the Tsol'teth battlefigurine collection!

Head to www.achaea.com/credits to buy your globes today. There's a bonus prize for every 500th globe opened!

Marks talismans are now available in the Delosian Talisman shop. HELP MARKS TALISMANS and HELP INVASION TALISMANS are now live.

Don't forget to keep an eye on the Announce news in the coming weeks for news about Adventures and the Year 80? Championship Games!

Penned by My hand on the 2nd of Ero, in the year 799 AF.