Hey, guys. First up are massive apologies for how slow we've been with the end of November's plot. Running through the hols turned out to be a lot more chaotic than we'd anticipated. Thank you guys so so much for bearing with us. This post will have November's event conclusion here if you just wanna skip right to that first, but since we're mingling with December's rundown, we have some announcements to punch out first. This is gonna be a long post ( she says as though all of her posts aren't long posts ), so please bear with me!

First up, December's plot event will be concluding Arc 3! You will notice on the calendar an oddly pink day, which we will be using henceforth as our post-story arc mod HMD! That means on December 7, we will put up an HMD meme solely for feedback on the last six months, the events we ran, what worked / didn't work, what you guys would like to see improved upon, and so forth. Responding to this will not be mandatory, but we are going to have some really important player polls on there so please do check it out when it goes up. It'll be under the !mod post tag, if you guys have that tracked!

On that note, our second announcement is that Arc 4 starts in January. The course of that story arc will depend largely on player votes to determine what the gods and the Travellers do as Ragnarok becomes a looming threat on the horizon again. These will be extremely important and determine the plot of the game as we work towards our projected end-game in December 2014, so please be sure to look for these polls on the mod HMD.

Thirdly, as our traditional yearly present to y'all, AC for all characters will be waived in December! We will still post the Activity Check and you will still be required to check in for all of your characters, but you will not be required to post any activity proofs. It's the holiday season and we want you guys to take it easy, so this one's on us!

Last but not least is a friendly reminder about our new buddy system! All of our newbies should jump on in there if they think they'd like an extra helping hand in finding their way through the game, and our oldies should be waiting in the pool to catch them! Or something. Sign-ups for this are always open, so if you ever think you would like someone there with you to help you out, come on over to this page.

That's it for now! There will be no Holes event this month because there's a lot in store for you all. As a reminder, AC closes at midnight on December 3, and applications will be opening at midnight tonight. Moving on to your events, we'll be starting with the conclusion to November's A House Divided before jumping into December's events. You can find your calendar here, as always!

( Nov. 27-30: A House Divided Conclusion )

( Dec. 1-6: The End )

( Dec. 13-14: Dammit, Loki )

( Dec. 17-20: The Winter Holidays )

And that's it for the rest of 2013! Thank you guys so much for joining us through this crazy year. It has been such a blast and we look forward to the mischief we'll be getting up to next year. As always, let us know if you have any questions / comments / concerns / dirty jokes in the comments sections below!