Lets just JUMP into it.

Good to see you Mr./Ms./Mrs. Reader-person, I hope you’ve had a very merry Christmas week. Us here on the 53rd floor have been doing what we do best, drinking eggnog and making video-games.

This week has been a fun one. On Monday night we pushed out the return of the Enchanted Dungeon event, which we’re looking to run until approximately January 7th, just to make sure it’s active for everyone’s holiday celebrations. Additionally, I hosted a live-stream each day this week in which some Enchanted Dungeons were hosted, some anniversary Darzas made a comeback, and we bullied members of our community (namely Cute) an absolutely perfect amount. The turnout was great, which was wonderful to see; averaging about 35–45 viewers at any point of the stream. I’ll definitely be looking to do more live events like this, as well as routine streams, in the near future.

I’m going to stick to the plan of not talking directly about developments on these letters, but in place of that each week I’ll talk just a little bit about what I want to do with the direction of the game as we move forward. Today that topic is going to be the livelihood of NPCs within both the Tavern (Nexus) and the Dominion Village, the new area you spawn in-to after entering the Dominion.

When the update releases, you’ll notice (at least) two immediate changes to NPCs in the Tavern. A Tavern Keeper will have appeared behind the counter in the main room, and the Storyteller will have found himself a new resting place in the room north-east to spawn. They each will have their own rolling dialogue sets, chat-bubbles, and little incremental movements around their spaces. Albeit small, these changes are the start of making the Tavern feel alive; and they certainly won’t be the only ever changes toward that goal. As time goes on, you’ll see more and more life around you as you go to accomplish whatever you do in your time there. Before too long, you may even see those NPCs offering you both great challenge and great reward for your time, should you be willing to put your reputation to the test; but we’ll get to talking about that in a later letter.

Hope you all had as a merry of a week as I did, putting on streams and drinking Arnold Palmers, we’ll see you in the next one.

Typ.