YO HO HO!! It's December, so Happy Holidays from us to you! It's also TDM month so for those interested can get a little preview through our details!

We have updated the Calendar for important dates, but here is a quick heads up on what to expect this month:


The Manta Board has been posted with new and updated quests! A few of last month's quests have also carried over, so if you didn't have a chance to do them last month, you have another chance.

We also have some interesting quest updates! First we have a new bounty, and don't let that innocent looking fluff fool you… As for some continued quests, the Gallows Gambit in particular has a follow up with the Paladins scrambling to clean up the mess and Corsairs wanting heads for it. There is also a new Goose bounty, and it's either evolved or some new version of it has appeared. Good luck.

IMPORTANT! We didn't make this clear before, but characters helping opposing armada quests will only be rewarded 2pts for participation unless specified otherwise. This will be enforced starting this month; we will not enforce this retroactively. So if your Corsair helped a Paladin on their Paladin quest or vice versa in the past, you can count them as full 4pts. But from now on, it will only count as half as those quest rewards are meant for that particular group.

Our Rewards page has been updated with a few new limited items for the month! Unlike last time, we are not keeping the previous month's limited items, so if you missed them, they're gone! For now, anyway. We'll try to rotate them back or have another version of them another time.

Speaking of rewards, important reminder about Shellphone User IDs! All characters' ID will be their journalname, but they can change it through the Rewards page. So please be sure to buy it through the Rewards page if you haven't already!

We have officially changed the player cap to 65. More details on that here.

As a reminder, this month's AC is check-in only! We are also offering free passes to those who do submit AC. You can read more about it in the AC Results section.

Here are the results for our first AC round!

Yuta Okkotsu | cursedpromises
Basch fon Ronsenburg | fonronsenburg
Lea/Axel | luxilviignis
Raistlin Majere | magus_majere
Ashi | notmymother
Aether | startraveler
Rikku | sylreha
Balthier | theleadingman
Ashelia B'nargin Dalmasca unflattering

Our player cap is currently at 47/65, which means we have 18 slots open.

IMPORTANT! As we mentioned, December AC is check-in only! As long as you comment that you're still around, you'll remain in game. However, if you do have AC, you can submit it and receive a free pass to use in 2024. Here is the information for the free passes:


If you have any questions about any of this, do not hesitate to ask!

Since we did hit our original cap of 50 and we feel comfortable enough to handle more, we are permanently upping the player cap to 65. Laena is banned from upping it any further, so this is likely going to be the last cap increase.

Application cycles will continue as normal, so after the January app cycle, the next one will be March. Mod invitation requests will remain open for January Cycle. However, depending on how many we get this month, we may have to limit invitations to players only and it will be a first come basis.

Just some quick notes on state of various things that don't quite fit anywhere.

First off, thanks to everyone's efforts, both the Naughtilust and Eltrut are feeling much better. The Naughtilust will now continue its roam through the waters and traverse between all three leviathans, so some days it will be closer to Nogard, some days Elah. Eltrut has also shed all of its pumpkin, its shell nice and shiny…before it will need to prepare for its hibernation in January.

As for what everyone's been up to, you guys were clearly busy little bees and we love it. We wish we could highlight everything that everyone has done, but that would make this about five pages longer. So we can only give some quick general summaries for some of the topics we asked for:


There was a lot more that happened, but we're loving everything we're seeing!! Thanks everyone!

And finally, a quick Reward Shop update. It occurred to us, that we didn't include anything for characters just having their own small boat for personal use. Sailboats, fishing, small yachts, dinghies, cabin boats—just boats large enough to have a small group and for short traveling around or would need modifications and a lot of fuel stored to travel the vast distances between leviathans.

So we have included a….boat permit of sorts to get three different sizes of boats. Note, none of these will compare to a full fledged crew ship, but they will at least help individual characters get around. Transportation to move ships to different ports is automatically granted and can be handwaved so you can still use these boats in different places if needed. Finally, it's only one boat per character, but they can switch and upgrade boats through the shop. It's also possible for characters to do their own upgrades, but will still need to use upgrade points to keep things fair.

In Escordvi, there's no "Santa Claus," but they do have various winter traditions for the season, some of which are very similar to the Santa Claus concept. However, it should be noted that except for some specific locations, it won't be very cold. In fact, the temperature is quite warm, so it might have more of a "Christmas in July" feeling. So there might not be a lot of "snow activities" this month, but we can guarantee next month will have a nice "winter resort" that everyone can look forward to.


That should cover the main highlights of the event! As a reminder, since this is a TDM we'll include the basic prompts for new characters that pop in. The log will go up Wednesday, December 13 and will also be the IC date when everything starts happening.

And that's it! If you have any questions, feel free to comment here. All quest-related questions should be posted to the Manta Board post.