We have a new upcoming alchemist in the guild, Lupa (Shaniah) has attained the title of Legendary Alchemist yesterday. Congratulations!
While I'm at it, Khrin (Iri) has reached RR3, congratulations to you too :)

Tonight a fairly serious problem occurred on the Excalibur server, causing various problems. A server reboot was therefore required, which has had one effect: guild realm and bounty points for all guilds have been reset to to 1.69 patch day levels (5th of August). No character data was rerolled.

Last Thursday an event was once again held for us Midgardians. A great evil had taken over Modernagrav and people from the towns of Aegir were being abducted to be used for dark rituals to strengthen it's power. Once discovered, the realm of midgard quickly formed a war party and guided by the knowledge of Gythja Ingrid Sorensdottir the Matriarch was finally defeated.

Yesterday I dinged ML10 on Jydan on the raid that was held. Go me :) Unfortunately the planned repeat performance ultimately failed because too many people had left, so no ML10 for Thorarin yet..

Our faithful IRC bot, TiwazBot, has reached a milestone recently, having handled over 100,000 !info commands since January (when I started counting) and over 5,000 !guild commands. On a sidenote, XML/Chronicles data is currently not updating correctly because of the 1.69 patch. Hopefully GOA will fix this soon.

On a sad note, I've come to understand from this FreddyHouse thread that Juj has been permanently banned for macro crafting, thus violating the EULA by using 3rd party software affecting the game's behavior. A harsh penalty, but the message is clear: cheating will not be tolerated. If you cheat and you get caught, there will be severe consequences.