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We have all the news that’s fit to share today for you! Here’s a carefully curated set of leading headlines from major GS news sources and tips by the TownCrier team. Send news and tips in via the handy web form at: http://bit.ly/TownCrierNews – We archive previous news items here at our home web site: http://gstowncrier.com/

SUNDAY
#TODAY in Elanthia: [Noon: Restday Fast-Breaking-RR] ** [2pm: Curator Zenlynn Museum Meeting-ILLI] ** [’til Midnight: extra 50% experience] ** [’til Midnight: Frantic Feeder Frenzy] (All times Eastern)

VOTE FOR GS
Get your votes ready, folks, for every day of the new month at TopMudSites for GemStone! Let’s remind everyone what the best game is. Use ;autovote with ;autostart and never forget. Lich will remember to vote for you every 13 hours. If 100 people voted 2x a day, we’d beat *all* the other games. We CAN do this, peeps! This PSA Sponsored by The Goatique. http://www.topmudsites.com/vote-gemstone.html

ROLEPLAY
On Sunday May 31 at 2pm, Curator Zenlynn will host a meeting for any interested in the renovations to the Museum Alerreth in Ta’Illistim. It will be one of a series of gatherings, so do not fret if you cannot make this one.

ANNOUNCEMENT
The cold winds of the north are blowing change into Icemule. GM Auchand is the new Town GM. He wants to get to know you and scheduled an OOC Town Meeting for Thursday, June 4 at 10pm. Watch for more news about the Icemule Elections, (NPC Mayor decision still stands); he says expect election month to be one for the books. And he signs the bottom with a reminder that he already destroyed one town. “Icemule’s probably safe. Right?” Right… https://bit.ly/2XI2cQA

ANNOUNCEMENT
GM Estild announces that Armor Specialization: Slash/Crush/Puncture Protection now works on cloth armor (robes)! https://bit.ly/2ZSt82U
BELOW THE FOLD – As previously reported

ROLEPLAY
On Thursday June 4 at 9pm, all are invited to come on down to Zul Logoth’s Bluerock Brewery, Taproom to have some beers and converse! Talk about current or past events, play games, meet guests, drink beer! Every Niiman night at nine!

RUMOR WOODS
Auntie H releases Rumor Woods 2020 event information! Dates: Friday, June 19, 9pm ’til Sunday, June 28, 11:59pm. 10 new shops. 17 refreshed shops. Featuring The Battle of the Coney and the Tortoise! There’s more specific information about Mount Feature Alterations, and a list of new shinies! Resistance cloaks, interactive tattoos, Foxes (THOSE Foxes…), Ponies, Fast Travel, and too much more to list! Read it all: https://bit.ly/2TSjU2D

NEWS
GM Auchand announces some tweaks to the new Sanctum of Scales creatures adjustment. Shapers have new spells. Sentinels will actually swing and their monk spells have have more bite and variety. Periapts only drain when you fail a maneuver or warding roll, periapts charging chances is increased, and Lurks are now a bounty creature option! https://bit.ly/3chpdPq

NEWS
Wyrom rolls credits on Friday Night’s amazing #PlayApartTogether Silver auctions: https://bit.ly/2TTcyfs where we saw previews of new metals and some wonderful wares! The TownCrier kept track of all the excitement with live coverage and a live spreadsheet. 9.617 BILLION silvers later, here’s how it all shook out, we saved the spreadsheeet of auction results for posterity: https://bit.ly/2ZLrboT

ANNOUNCEMENT
GM Oscuro updated the Lich Phylacteries of The Scatter so that they can now be damaged by empty fists if you are wearing magical gloves or under the effects of the Dragonclaw spell. The minimum roundtime to attack one has been reduced from 2 seconds to 1 second, too. Read the details at the Officials: https://bit.ly/3gAdVt1

STORYLINE-FWI
The First Sergeant knew something was not right when he discovered the cell door open. Then he felt a cold at his throat which quickly turned into a searing line of … The Fate of the First Sergeant, GM Quilic tells the story: https://bit.ly/3dbPbFF

EVENT
Beacon Hall continues the tradition of Restday fast breaking on Sunday, May 31st, in the tree house of River’s Rest Town Commons (lich #10865) at 12pm Noon. Expect a post-brunch activity! http://beaconhall.net/index.php?Calendar#oc6a9e9f

STORYLINE-QKST
GM Kenstrom & GM Quilic post vignettes for All That Remains – Reflections. Callid considers the circumstances he finds himself in; he was personally plied and promised … something … for his cooperation. And mayhaps Callid has made something extra special. Mayhaps. The second vignette is a glimpse of a woman and another shattered mirror. https://bit.ly/3c8f8UZ

NEWS
Chief Zombie Lord Wyrom rolls out the credits for the Flower Girl Troll Quest and shares the stats! Flowers turned in: 2318, Total characters that participated: 951, and Titles awarded: 484. https://bit.ly/2AexpTz

PODCAST
New on the GemStone Town Square Central Podcast, Milax interviews GM Auchand and we learn about Spirit Beasts and so much more! These recently got a rewrite and is in beta on the TEST Server https://bit.ly/2VZZeGo – and here’s the man to talk about them! Who wants to play Spirit Beasts with Milax now?! The Podcast is available at all your favorite Podcast outlets and on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oaybeJC-B7c

ANNOUNCEMENT
Zombie Chief Wyrom goes over the remaining days of #PlayApartTogether – Friday the 29th, look for the Larger Amounts Silvers Auction with 20-25 items. No previews, no info ahead of time. Do not harangue the Wyrom about them! Saturday and Sunday will feature 50% more exp plus and extra frenzied Feeder Frenzy for the 2 days. https://bit.ly/36yUhcz He does some Q/A in a message afterwards: https://bit.ly/2XCpdUW

ANNOUNCEMENT
GM Auchand brings out the Sanctum of Better Scaling – and if you’re post-cap and hunt there, you will want to read it closer. If only for the line about lurks… TL;DR: spawn rates and population pressures there have been brought more in line with other areas of similar level. https://bit.ly/36Aepe1

ANNOUNCEMENT
Briarmoon Cove info from Chief Zombie Wyrom: They’re adding even more to it, and the estimated date is first weekend of December. He says the weekend will be the main event, with the week left for shopping, casual roleplay, possibly lighter merchant work. His post: https://bit.ly/2A80AHM

STORYLINE-QKST
Monday during #QKST – Egregious Facts get Agreements Back. 3rd part of ritual is this week. Vlashandra explains that she needed the reapers and patchwork army to gather parts for the perfect body to house Aralyte and talks some percentage of the crowd into continuing to aid despite risks with the portal… All That Remains. Review Miss Mayor Leafi’s Summary, Bullet points and log at the wiki: https://bit.ly/2AdveiO

ANNOUNCEMENT
GM Oscuro has a very nice QoL change for the faithless…er, I mean the people who need to convert to a new deity via Intercession (The Tier 5 Holy Receptacle Blessing). Silver cost will no longer apply the penalty for converting multiple times if the last conversion happened more than a year ago.

VERBINESS
If you have ever struggled with making a decision and need to let others know you’re struggling. You can show them by beg (self).

CALENDAR
**Upcoming Major Event Dates: [June 5-7: Festival of Lumnea] ** [June: Rumor Woods] ** [July 13th, 14th, 15th, and 24th: Bardfest] ** [Aug: Duskruin]

OUTLETS
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Newsby is the main anchor for the TownCrier channel over ESP and Lich. She does not adventure, she is a townsperson and completed her apprenticeship for the news desk in 2017.