Chaos Storm #681 has swept the Lok'Groton island chain. Please post any changes you have observed and wish to share with others in the comments. If you don't want to read possible spoilers, please do not read any further!

Delta Tao's "What's New" for v681:

12/15/2010 v681
There may be Peace without Joy, and Joy without Peace, but the two combined make Happiness. — John Buchan (1875–1940)

* Happy Bawkmas!
* No crashes in 10 days and counting. There was a single (as yet unexplained) server crash on 25 November, which had the side effect of revealing a hitherto-unknown flaw in our server monitor tools. That flaw, in turn, triggered a number of unnecessary and annoying server restarts, every ten minutes or so, during the evening of the 25th — until a smart GM deduced what was happening and assassinated the misbehaving monitor. The monitor tool has been repaired, and diagnostics have been installed to try to discover what caused the original crash.
* You’ll have to explore to discover the rest of this Chaos Storm’s changes.

ClientGM’s faithful iMac G5 has passed away after a protracted degenerative illness. As a result, we’re no longer able to build the “traditional” PPC/Carbon client, for users of Mac OS 8–10.3. If you haven’t already switched to the newer “Univeral Binary” client, now is the time to do so. Accordingly, the minimum Mac system requirement is now OS X 10.4.