IMPORTANT DOWNTIME NOTICE

Author: SIMU-SOLOMON
Date: 4/27/2007 3:10:32 PM

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At some point between 1:00 am and 6:00 am Eastern time, our lovely Internet Service Provider will shut off our Internet access for approximately 1 hour, while they do something "maintenancy-like" to their equipment. We believe this has something to do with their need to replace their Internet Tubes.

The most exciting part about this whole ordeal is that they will not narrow this time frame down or give us any more detailed information than this. We hope you agree with us that this is truly wonderful and join us in anticipation of the fun that could happen at any time, without warning, in the middle of the night. Oh joy.

It is extremely important for you to understand that while you WILL lose your connection to the game when this happens, the GAMES THEMSELVES WILL KEEP RUNNING and, in addition to being unable to log in during this particular time which we have no additional detailed information about, if you are logged in when we lose our connection, you will likely ghost. If you are in a combat-type situation, you will probably die in a horrible manner which you will not be able to fully enjoy (because you'll be staring at a non-moving screen and panicking). Obviously, if at all possible, we will TRY to shut the games down as soon as we know our connection has been dropped, however, 5 hours is clearly a pretty big window and we may not be able to do this as expeditiously as some of you would hope we could (or should).

Therefore, we suggest multiple things to remember for tonight:

1) Don't start a script and go to bed, particularly not a combat script. That's bad enough as it is and if you already do this (you should be ashamed of yourself) but tonight is a particularly bad night to do that. If you don't do this, then please accept our warmest regards and bask in the glow of our e-kisses and e-praise. Bully for you, <3, and all that sort of stuff. If you do choose to defy our wishes and ignore our sage advice for tonight, then we secretly hope you get beaten to a pulp, auto-depart, and lose all your things. Wait...I guess if we tell you that, its not a secret anymore. Oh well, too late. Don't say we didn't warn you.

2) Don't choose tonight to decide to hunt that new critter you've been hearing so much about from all your bigger, tougher friends who secretly just keep you around for plucky, comic relief because you're not that good at killing things. It'll likely be just you luck that as soon as you realize you're about to get your arms ripped off and beaten to death with them and realize that you never should have decided to stop killing those fluffy, easily-smooshable things you were hunting this afternoon, we'll lose our connection and you will become a dark stain on the ground and not be able to do anything about it until we get our connection back. At least your big, tough friends will have another great story to tell about why you're so fun to hang out with because you do all those wacky crazy things. Don't say we didn't warn you.

3) Don't choose tonight to drop all your items on the ground and re-organize your inventory or your locker/vault/storage containers. Dropping things on the ground in the first place shows ridiculously poor decision making skills, but Murphy's Law dictates that as soon as you remove and drop your last item and say, "Ok...where to start?!", everything will go black, the Janitor will get lots of awesome loot, and you'll start to cry. We would hate to laugh at you if this happens. Really. We would hate it. Don't say we didn't warn you.

We do sincerely apologize for this obvious inconvenience and as usual, we'll do our best to inform you of these things as far in advance as possible.

Happy Arbor Day.

Solomon

"Experience will come, it's not a race or anything. The ones who kill themselves to get to the finish are the ones who tire out quickly."

GM[Anti-ESP] Pormithius just killed Caelumia's ESP!