For the month of December we have two things for you.

Firstly, we're offering giftbags on credit purchases! For every 25 credits purchased you'll receive a fabulous giftbag potentially containing prizes such as minipets, chocolates, consumables, and even an artifact if you're really lucky! Check HELP GIFTBAGS for full information on the prizes available. These will be updated in a few days time, so it may be your last chance to get some of them.

Secondly, we now have stockings for sale under the 'Artifact Packages' section of our credit purchase page at http://www.aetolia.com/credits

You can hang these stockings up for yourself or a friend, and after some time Ironbeard will sneak along and fill the stockings with goodies for you collect. Once you collect the rewards, the stocking will be used up. Only the owner can collect the prize from the stocking.

The syntax is HANG <stocking> FOR ME/<friend> [ANONYMOUS]. If you are hanging it up for someone else they will be notified of such, and if you choose to hang it up for them anonymously, they won't know it was you who did it. The message will also be delayed by a minute if anonymous, to give you time to flee the scene! You will be able to see the status of all of your hung stockings with the STOCKINGS command. Once it's marked as filled, simply go to the room and OPEN STOCKING.

There are four tiers of stockings: Festive, Fancy, Grand, and Extravagant. The only difference between these tiers is how many prizes you'll get in each stocking. That is, a festive stocking has 1 main prize roll. A fancy stocking has 4 main prize rolls, which is an extra +1 roll than if you bought multiple festive stockings for the same price. The grand has 11 rolls, which is +2 extra. And the extravagant is 29 rolls, which is +3 extra.

Additionally, for every 5 stockings of each type you purchase, you'll receive either a gold or platinum stocking of that tier. So if you purchase 5 fancy stockings, you'll get a gold (or platinum) fancy stocking. These tallies count over multiple purchases, so if you purchase 5 stockings from the same tier over the month, you'll get a special version with your 5th purchase. These golden and platinum stockings contain on average twice the worth of the regular stockings. However, unlike regular stockings, these stockings won't be drawn until later on in the month.

All the golden stockings will be filled simultaneously on December 25th. Any golden stocking that has not been hung up by then will be converted to a platinum stocking. Four of these golden stockings will contain one of four possible artifacts usually only available through auctions: An Orb of Nullification, a Market Stall Construction Kit, a Torc of Vitality, a Ring of Elemental Mastery.

All the platinum stockings will be filled simultaneously on January 1st. Four of these platinum stockings will contain one of four possible artifacts usually only available through auctions: a Helm of Command, a Merchant's Logbook, a Bangle of Returning, an Ironwall Ring.

You can refer to HELP STOCKING ITEMS to see more information on what items you might find in your stockings, including the unique artifacts that will be drawn in the golden/platinum giftbags.


Penned by my hand on Closday, the 22nd of Niuran, in the year 462 MA.