Happy Birthday to us!

As most of you know, having seen the itinerary, September is Achaea's 19th Birthday! We always try to do something special to celebrate and this year is no different!

Along with the events laid out in UPCOMING, there's lots more in the works.

Firstly, we're bringing you a 35% credit sale!
This is a whopping 45% if you have an Iron Elite Membership, one of the biggest sales we've ever run!
Head over to http://www.achaea.com/Credits and buy yours today.

Secondly, we're bringing back the Wheel of Fortune!
Every player who is logged in for an hour will get one free spin per day.
Use SPINS PURCHASE [CONFIRM] to purchase more spins.
This costs 25 bound credits.
Use SPINS SHOW to see the number of current spin tokens you've bought.
--** Details of prizes can be found below **--

Thirdly, a range of gold and credit auctions will be going live tonight.
These will last until the 15th.

Fourthly, keep your eyes peeled for Stian.
Solve his clues to earn a prize at the end of the month!

Spinning the Wheel of Fortune will reward one of many great prizes, such as:
* 250 lessons
* a collection cache with a lot of possible collections attached.
* A talisman cache with almost all attached talisman sets.
* Another spin
* Ice figurines
* One of 3 new crated minipets (a red rubber ball, a living rope, or a pair of leather shoes)
* One of two new crated, pre-collared mounts (a dreadful chimera or a scarred scorpion)
* Stat-altering artefacts (Hunter's belt, Pixie's boots, Ogre's Gauntlets, Epicurean Sash)
* Permanent tattoo ink
* Humgii racetrack tickets
* A group of seftonium or lucrescent nuts + 1 or 2 random rare minerals.
* A girdle of Aegis
* A Birthday present
There are three tiers of surprises to be found in the presents: common, rare, and super rare.
For each tier, more potential items are added to the list of things you can get.

Some prizes also generate one of these random consumable birthday items:
* A goblet
This will refill with an appropriately celebratory liquor at each Serenade.
* A party stick for 10 uses of coloured illusions!
See HELP ILLUSIONS for details.
* A party favour. BLOW this to deafen the room!
It has a balance cost and 10 uses.
* A jumbo-sized firecracker. Celebrate our birthday Garden style!
This firecracker gives you 5 worldwide fireworks!

You can UNWRAP a birthday present for a chance at one of the following:

Common items found in birthday presents:
* One of three Crooks.
SWAT <player> WITH <crook> and see what happens!
These have a limited number of uses.
* an enamel bubble pipe
Blow bubbles with this artefact pipe (ivory equivalent)
* a conical party hat
Much more stylish than a boring old top hat.
* googly goggles of whitesight
I think the name says it all!

Rare items found in birthday presents:
* a horn of jubilant plenty
This horn generates party food!
* a beribboned cane
Walk faster and in style with this festooned Cane of Quickening.

Super rare items found in birthday presents:
* a palmed probing stick
Vibrating sticks are so 2015.
* a festive paper crown
Who needs a diadem and gems when you can have a paper crown?
* pearlescent fairy wings
The fairies can fly high with the eagles.

Every so often, the wheel will additionally gift the spinner an additional prize alongside what they spin up. This could be anything from 50 credits to 500!

If you don't have any credits, we've got you covered too! All adventurers can spin the wheel once per RL day (after an hour of playtime that day) for the chance of some different rewards, such as:

* Crit bonuses
* XP bonuses
* XP rewards
* Bound credits
* Lessons
* Humgii Racetrack Tickets
* Rare minerals
* Another spin on the wheel
* The chance to transform into another race for 5 minutes.
* A present (see the above prize pool)

We look forward to seeing all the presents opened and watching you all compete in the various contests this month!

Penned by My hand on the 20th of Chronos, in the year 721 AF.