Even elemental upset can't halt the passage of time and the looming promise of Logosmas here in Achaea!

To celebrate the upcoming festive season, stockings are back again!

These are items that you'll be able to purchase from the website and be able to hang up in-game for you or your friends! Once you've purchased them, you can simply HANG STOCKING FOR ME or HANG STOCKING FOR <adventurer> and it will be placed in the room! You can additionally add ANONYMOUS to the end to give someone an anonymous gift!

Once hung, Ironbeard will drift through the realms at the next in-game midnight and fill them with gifts! Stockings come in 4 varieties: Logosmas, Fancy, Grand, and Extravagant, with each tier containing higher and higher values of gifts inside! (Ironbeard will return to his normal rounds closer to Logosmas proper.)

You will be able to see the status of all of your hung stockings with the STOCKINGS command, and once Ironbeard has filled one, simply go to the room and OPEN STOCKING (or <STOCKING#> if there are many in the room). Only you can open your stockings, so no need to worry about the nasty Krampus coming to steal your gifts! Once you open your stocking, it will be destroyed.

Additionally, for every 5 stockings of each type you purchase, you'll receive either a gold or platinum stocking of that tier! So if you purchase 5 fancy stockings, you'll get a gold (or platinum) fancy stocking. These special versions contain double the reward value as the regular versions! Ironbeard only has so much room in his sack, so these stockings will only be filled on December 25th (gold) and January 1st, 2018 (platinum). All unhung gold stockings will be converted to platinum versions after December 25. These tallies count over multiple purchases, so if you purchase 5 single stockings over the month, you'll get a special version with your 5th purchase.

All commands for stockings can also be found in HELP PROMO ITEMS.

In addition to Logosmas stockings, there is a 30% credit sale all December long on credits purchased from the website, that's 40% if you are an Iron Elite member!

In the stockings this year you can find the following:

All sorts of artefacts
Consumeable items
Artefact discount vouchers
Artefact upgrade credits
Clay chips (trade these in for credits!)
Ice figurines

And, guaranteed to get at least one piece in every stocking, we have the new Elemental Talisman Set!

This talisman set contains a Fire Pendant (valued at 200cr), a Shackle of Garash (valued at 600cr), a Brooch of the Tempest (valued at 150cr), a Sceptre of Aquaeous Mastery (valued at 2000cr), and the following new items:

A miniature air elemental - valued at 60 cr
A minipet in the Domesticated collection!
A warblefish's jawbone - valued at 200 cr
OPEN this underwater and the next thing you say will be heard by all who share the underwater environs with you. The jawbone will then close for 30 seconds before it can be used again.
A tiny phial filled with the Tears of the Sea - valued at 300 cr
POUR from this phial into a vial of fresh or salt water to convert it to the other!
A mineral-crusted shovel - valued at 375 cr
DIG those pesky burrowers up from deep in the earth (more than 1 level of burrow), none shall escape your wrath!
A dripping mudbomb - valued at 700 cr
THROW this in a room and everyone (including you!) will be hit with an effect that increases the balance time on flying by a nontrivial amount.
This item will return to you five minutes after being thrown.
The mud effect will fade naturally on its own after a couple of minutes, or can be scrubbed off in a body of water.
A seared glyph - valued at 850 cr
This glyph must be ATTACHed to either a shield of absorption or a suit of artefact armour containing an absorption paragon.
Every five times the armour absorbs a hit from a denizen, it will lash out with flame, dealing damage to the attacker.
Note that this item CANNOT be removed once attached.
A stratospheric harness - valued at 1700 cr
SHAKE <harness> when in an associated region and of sound body in order to capture the far flung windstreams, these immense forces will allow you to travel to nearby isles.
- Western windstream encompasses Tuar, Tapoa, and Ageiro.
- Eastern windstream encompasses Zanzibaar, Clockwork, Colchis, and Umbrin.
- Northern windstream encompasses Karbaz, Suliel, and Ilyrean.
An armoured charge tank - valued at 1350 cr
This item is controlled with the DEPLETE command.
This tank charges up as you slay denizens. Higher level denizens convey more charge, and the max charge the tank can hold at any one time is 7500.
You may spend charge on various actions.
- For 1500 charge, you may destroy an item similar to a mushroom sigil, but you will not take damage to do so. DEPLETE EXPLOSION <item>
- For 1500 charge you may burn away ropes or webs that bind you immediately for a short balance. DEPLETE WREATHE
- For a minimum of 7000 charge (though it will consume all charge on the tank), you may grant experience to all that stand in your location, similar to a bard's Chorale. DEPLETE GLORY
This final effect may only affect you once every 2 hours and may only be performed by you once every 18 hours.

So head to www.achaea.com/credits and buy stockings for yourselves and your friends and family today, and remember that credits are on sale too!

Also keep an eye on UPCOMING in game so you don't miss any of the ongoing events!

Penned by My hand on the 13th of Aeguary, in the year 758 AF.