First of all: belated congratulations to Dalekon for finally dinging level 50! And that without setting a foot into Lair, nicely done :) We helped finish his epic quests yesterday, so Jerelyn can have her borrowed set back :)

After some problems with his account, Hjakold has gained his promotion to Emissary today and is now a full fledged member. Welcome again, Hjakold 8)

With regard to the subscription pages: I've been told subscription passwords are being sent at the moment. It will take a while for everyone to get their passwords, so if you don't have it yet, don't panic. If you received your game password, you should receive your subscription password without problems.

From the DAoC Europe website:

Game Login and passwords : final chapter
[2003-28-08]

The procedure of sending the GAME Passwords ended yesterday evening around 22H00. All accounts received a new password, even the closed ones. For security reasons we didn't want to add the login in the mail with your new password. So if you have several accounts, you have received several mails, and all you have to do is use the correct login with the corresponding password.

If you have not received your password (for instance if your email indicated in your profile was not correct), as this is the case for several hundred players, you will have to write to subscription@goa.com when it reopens, specifying your personal information (name, address…), as well as your Game login. Your IDs will be sent to you via post mail. This email address is for the moment saturated, but we are working on restarting the customer support and subscription section as quickly as possible.

Moreover, it is possible that you have not received your password yet, because of a maintenance of your mail provider. The last worm attacks (MsBlast and So Big) required interventions for many ISPs and mail providers, and this can have caused delays in the email.

http://camelot-europe.goa.com/news/newsarticle.php3?id_article=1270

After some chaos around some hacking in the European Dark Age of Camelot system, things are slowly returning to normal.
GOA has assigned people new game passwords, most of which should be delivered by now via e-mail.
Subscription passwords will also be changed, you will receive them later this week, after which the Account page on the DAoC Europe website should come back online.

If you don't receive any passwords in the coming days because you didn't keep the e-mail information in your account info valid, you will need to e-mail GOA at subscription@goa.com after all this is over, after which GOA will get situation sorted. Instructions from GOA itself will probably follow when regular Customer Support is resumed. Don't bother mailing now, the address is reported to be invalid for the moment.

DAoC Europe website - check for latest news
RightNow and Subscription page shutdown
Original news item about server shutdown
Some more recent and in depths news

Today Ambush (Jerelyn) dinged 1065 Fletching, currently the maximum skill reachable in this craft. Big GRATZ to her as she's the first person on Midgard Excalibur to reach the magic number :)

In other news, I'd like to welcome Keinandil to the guild. He's a Runemaster and currently level 38, so if you have a character of similar level, remember him ;)

Late breaking news: Dynn has been spotted wearing an emblemed shield.
As a result, we're somewhat worried about his current mental stability. For your own good: be gentle with him.

I just wanted to say congratulations to Gryrith for dinging level 50! I'm not sure if his epic is done yet, but please lend him a hand if he needs any help.

Yes, I'm experiencing some news lag, so here comes some more old news:
Kindar has donated 8p to the guild house fund, which is now slowly getting somewhere.
We still have a long way to go though, so we'll be organising some DF hunts to raise cash. Unfortunately our last one got interrupted prematurely by us losing DF access and a couple of knights that were tougher than they looked 8)