April arrives and this post is no prank!

First up we will be holding a Great Hunt (see HELP GREAT HUNT) from Friday 13th April to Sunday 15th - see UPCOMING for specific times! Double experience will be in effect throughout, as well as a number of enhanced dangerous enemies and credit prizes for all victors!

The Artisanal and Bardic contests are back, there will be another post shortly with all the pertinent details!

The Artefact Cart and the credit sale are now gone from the website, but replacing it we've been oiling the bearings on the Wheel of Fortune!

Everyone who plays for an hour each day will earn a free spin of the Wheel (which can be found in the casino in New Thera), and you can get a range of boosts and prizes including...

... Critical hit bonus, xp bonus, xp, lessons, wheel spin tokens (see below), credits, and rare minerals!

For those of you who want to gamble big, prismatic tokens are on sale at www.achaea.com/credits!

Just head to New Thera and SPIN WHEEL WITH TOKEN to win a prize ranging from lessons to credits to level 3 artefacts, or even one of our new talismans!

The Contender's Talisman set contains pieces for the following new talismans!

a funereal bouquet
With this emblem of mourning in your inventory, whenever you die and leave behind a body, the corpse will be covered in flowers themed to your city or for rogues.

a porcelain piglet bank
This trinket starts as a mere piglet and grows into a fully fledged piggy bank as it is filled with gold!
To encourage saving, gold cannot be removed once put in (and is entirely safe from theft).
SMASH the piggybank to destroy it permanently and retrieve your savings.
SHAKE it to see how much is inside.

an adventurer's journal
READ this journal and learn the details of a quest you have never before completed!
It will change once per Achaean month, and will never show newbie or Elemental Planes quests.

an odious jug of chum
CHUM JUG and gain a bonus to strike chance when deep sea fishing.
This effect lasts for 30 minutes.

a featureless battle figurine
TURN <figurine> <player> and this figurine will change to resemble the player and fight according to their abilities!
This can be done every 15 minutes.

a prismatic stud
Once per Achaean day, your prism tattoo will lock on to the target of a contract or a bounty, following them even if they move from the initial location.
If the target changes area or you move, the prism will still be cancelled.

a crimson ribbon bar
With this bar in possession, whenever you score a player kill, you begin to accrue a kill streak!
- After five successive kills, you will be fully healed in mana.
- After ten successive kills, you will be fully healed in both health and mana.
- After fifteen successive kills, your afflictions will be cured entirely, and your health and mana pools will be restored to max.
- After twenty successive kills, in addition to a full refresh of health, mana, and afflictions, your health will be temporarily doubled until lost through damage.
This does NOT function while Mayology is active.
If you die, the streak is reset to zero.
Upon reaching twenty kills, or after fifteen minutes without kills elapses, the streak is reset to zero.

a bronze-handled magnifying glass
CONSIDER will now tell you if the denizen in question has any resistances.

Yes, denizens have resistances!

For a more comprehensive list of prizes see HELP WHEEL OF FORTUNE (or HELP WOF).

Also keep your eyes peeled for the big spin announce, every so often wheel spinners have a chance to win 500 credits!

And don't forget to watch UPCOMING for all the fun we have in store this month!

Penned by My hand on the 12th of Glacian, in the year 767 AF.