2025-05-07 v1432
Yes, I will spend the livelong day
With Nature in this month of May;
And sit beneath the trees, and share
My bread with birds whose homes are there.
“In May” — W. H. Davies (1871–1940)

• Thank you to our volunteers and artists for their continued work!
• Other than some behind-the-scenes bug fixes, everything else for this update is a secret. Or maybe not-so-secret?

2025-04-02 v1427
If people never did silly things nothing intelligent would ever get done. — Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951)

• You’ll have to explore and depart to see what’s new this Chaos Storm.

2025-03-05 v1423
Choice is how you can tell an intelligent man from a fool. — Henrik Ibsen (1828–1906)

• You’ll have to explore to see what’s new this Chaos Storm.

2025-02-05 v1419
We love the things we love for what they are. — Robert Frost (1874–1963)

• Testing potential new Champion ability: Charge. It has some small limits to the number of uses for now, until we figure out balancing. Apply for testing in Champ HQ.
• A few stubbornly wild pets can now be tamed by healers.
• Boostus got a little boost.
• Young lights can now better ward off the dangers of the dark.

2025-01-01 v1414
I have learned that to be with those I like is enough. — Walt Whitman (1819–1892)

• Season’s Belated Beatings!

2024-12-04 v1410
The noblest pleasure is the joy of understanding. — Leonardo da Vinci (1452–1519)

• Take 2: Three new areas will now properly give exploration rewards. Anyone who has explored these areas already will be able to do so again to receive the reward.
• Some dreary weather is looking clearer, and we wish you a merry Bawkmas.

2024-11-06 v1406
Nothing exists except atoms and empty space; everything else is opinion. — Democritus (c. 460 bce – c. 370)

• A statue remembering The Good Cat has been added to the Memorial Garden.
• A few cats waited until exiles were done trick-or-treating to put on their own costumes, wander around, and beg for treats.
• Improved <mumble>, <mumble>, and <mumble>.
• Three new areas will now properly give exploration awards. Anyone who has explored these areas already will be able to do so again to receive the reward.

2024-10-02 v1401
I’ve looked at clouds from both sides now
From up and down and still somehow
It’s cloud illusions I recall
I really don’t know clouds at all.
 — Joni Mitchell (b. 1943)

• Area of effect (AoE) damage has received some tweaks.
• You’ll have to explore to see what else is new in the world.

2024-08-14 v1397
One lives in the hope of becoming a memory. — Antonio Porchia (1885–1968)

• A player-led memorial is scheduled for Wednesday, September 25th at 7:00pm PDT.

2024-07-14 v1394
Be thou the rainbow in the storms of life,
The evening beam that smiles the clouds away,
And tints to-morrow with prophetic ray. — Lord Byron (1788–1824)

• You’ll have to explore to see what’s new this Chaos Storm.

2024-07-03 v1384
The future depends on what we do in the present. — Mahatma Gandhi (1869–1948)

• Sorry for the large update files, especially to our members who are still using dial-up internet services! Lots (and lots) of fun in the works.

2024-06-05 v1384
Rest is not idleness, and to lie sometimes on the grass under trees on a summer’s day, listening to the murmur of the water, or watching the clouds float across the sky, is by no means a waste of time. — John Lubbock (1834–1913)

• A few light bug fixes to some areas.
• Everything else this update is a secret!