Happy New Year, everyone! We hope you all had a wonderful holiday season! As it's now January the first this means a change in the promotion!

Gone are the Logosmas stockings and through January every 100 credits purchased from www.achaea.com/credits will earn you a free giftbag! Even if you purchase 50 credits today and 75 on Wednesday, you'll get a giftbag on Wednesday as this takes into account multiple credit purchases.

Your first 100 credits will also get you a second giftbag, so that's two giftbags at 100 credits! This extra first giftbag bonus will always contain a Tome of Muses(*)!

At every 500 credits you'll get a second giftbag too!

We've also got a lesson sale running on the website, so if you're looking to pickup some new classes, or finish the ones you have, now is a great time to get those lessons.

In the giftbags this month we have a number of items including:
- A tome of Muses* (Information can be found below, in HELP MEMENTOES and HELP PROMO ITEMS)
- Various artefacts
- Consumeable items
- Credits
- Artefact Discount Vouchers
- Two new minipets:
A violet silk moth
A fire-bellied tree frog
- Four new battle figurines:
A figurine of Lltharax, Emissary of Kkractle
A figurine of Asahana, Emissary of Sllshya
A figurine of Ulghoch, Emissary of Garash
A figurine of Uacyll, Emissary of Whiirh
* The tome of Muses is a new item!

This tome can be gained from giftbags (and is tradeable until it is first upgraded) and can also be purchased for 20 mementoes from Tinker Drucker in the village of Petra. The tome in its initial form is empty and will decay.

Into this tome you can put special pages, there are two types of pages:

A resplendent page of enchanted vellum: These pages are gained from giftbags and will never decay.

A page of aged vellum: These pages are gained by completing the Icosse and Margam forays. These pages are not permanent, after 15 days the pagecount will decrease as the page decays away. These pages are tradeable.

Pages can be added to a tome with ADD PAGE TO <TOME>! Doing so will increase your tome's page count by 1 up to a max of 20. Each page offers some information about one of the ten Muses visible with READ TOME and TURN TOME will turn the page. These pages also unlock Inspiration and a variety of special effects, PROBE TOME to see the available list!

But what do these pages do? I hear you ask!

1. This first page placed into the tome preserves it, binding the tome to you and making it non-decay and resetting.
2. Start gaining Inspiration on an hourly basis (this powers a number of the later effects) PERFORM RECITATION to see how much inspiration you have gained.
3. Create a glamour from the public list with PERFORM GLAMOUR <public glamour name> (150 Inspiration)
4. PERFORM REHEARSAL and you will gain a significant amount of inspiration. It also mentions that this may only be performed once every 24 Achaean days.
5. PERFORM WINDWHIRL <Item> <Direction> AT <Target> to send the item flying up to two rooms away at a happless target. (30 Inspiration)
6. PERFORM RESOLUTE and take resolutions regardless of the time of month or year. (Only once per performance). (1000 inspiration)
7. PERFORM CHRONICLE Snapshot your current location and everybody in it, allowing you to recall the memory at any point you like with PERFORM RECALL. (80 Inspiration)
8. Laughter is the best medicine; once per 8 hours, LAUGH restores some of your willpower and endurance. Each person who uses this ability within 5 seconds (timer refreshes on each laugh) will be restored even more!
9. The glamours created from page 3 can be made to stay in a room in exchange for a shorter decay time. PERFORM GLAMOUR <glamour name> PERSIST.
10. PERFORM LILT and exchange all of your current rage for a small heal, caps at 20% of max health at 100 rage. This requires at least 50% battlerage. (50 Inspiration)
11. Extend your range to six rooms when enacting the windwhirl, PERFORM WINDWHIRL from page 5.
12. TOUCH TOME to get a clue to a location of historical importance. When the location is discovered, standing in it will allow you to PERFORM VISTA once a day to gain a significant amount of inspiration.
13. PERFORM MOCKERY <target> and force everyone and thing following the target of your rapier sharp critique to unfollow them. (200 Inspiration)
14. PERFORM SKETCH <tattoo> ON <bodypart> of <adventurer granting the ability to ink a tattoo twice as fast as normal. (100 Inspiration)
15. Gain a bonus to PERFORM REHEARSAL, cutting the cooldown in half.
16. PERFORM OBITUARY in order to recall the current location and name of the last person that killed you. (50 Inspiration)
17. PERFORM COMPOSITION and spend inspiration to shield everyone in your location. (250 Inspiration)
18. PERFORM PRODUCTION to give 200 inspiration to everyone who CLAPs or APPLAUDs, and 200 to you if you BOW. There is a 12 hr cooldown on benefiting from this.
19. PERFORM SACRIFICE <ally> <direction>! Invoke the muse of tragedy and switch places with a mutual ally in line of sight (and visible) on your next damage taken. A monolith sigil in your ally's location will prevent the attempt. (250 Inspiration)
20. In the direst of circumstances you may need to perform this song of battle, spurring all in your location (except for yourself) to recover balance and equilibrium faster for a short time, be they friend or foe. PERFORM BATTLESONG. (400 Inspiration)

So get your tome today either from the Tinker in Petra or via giftbags, then go and pickup credits for your giftbags and premium pages, or brave the toughest of the forays for unenchanted pages to fill out your tome!

And don't forget lessons are also on sale this month, head to www.achaea.com/credits for both!

Penned by My hand on the 6th of Phaestian, in the year 760 AF.