We have some good news, some bad news, some more good news, and
some more bad news.

Good news #1 - Journals and Manuscripts are looking very good!
Bad news #1 - For a while, they weren't, and some got upset.

Good news #2 - We found out why they weren't looking so good!
Bad news #2 - A little bit may have been lost.

Odd occurrences of late have swirled around Journals. Of some,
you have all doubtless heard, even from my Quill, for I have
written of them beforetimes.

We can only conjecture as to the true reason behind this
evil state of affairs. Perhaps Lord Sartan wishes to confound
us all with his scheme to control the written word. Who can say?

In any event, we have avoided the worst eventualities, and have
stopped the attack entirely.

What is the practical upshot of all this? Anything written in
a journal or manuscript in about the last Achaean month, or
perhaps two, may have been destroyed utterly so that it is as
though it never were. You may seek for your most recent writings
and find them not. These are gone. Extinguished. Destroyed.

But anything that existed before that time should be as it
was, unchanged.

We apologise that we had not anticipated this vile attempt to
eradicate all written knowledge. At least we did stop it before
it got very far.

Penned by my hand on the 11th of Chronos, in the year 394 AF.