In a few minutes, a revised newbie tour will be sliding into place. This
newbie tour has a title: the Trial of Rebirth. The basic RP premise is
that 18 year olds have earned the right to take a Trial involving The
Flame of Yggdrasil that transports them to another plane, where they
learn and complete a quest to be reborn to the world. Newbies created
from now on will undergo this Trial.

You will notice a new message: Supernewbie has been Reborn in the Flame!
<-- this is the new graduation message for newbies who complete the
Trial. Don't be alarmed! And if you've already panicked like a headless
chicken over your CT assuming that the newbie graduating message
heralded some apocalyptic event, and your citymates who already read
this announce mocked you relentlessly, well I'm sorry. Your citymates
are jerks, and you should read Announces more often.

Penned by my hand on the 2nd of Lupar, in the year 414 AF.