Vol. VI: — The Masks Slip, the Totems Stand

🕯️ Vol VI: The Masks Slip, the Totems Stand

Dated: 1 August, 2025

High stakes tournament… but it’s not a sprint, it’s a marathon. Who will outlast?

📉 Eo left… maybe?

“Nobody” announced themselves—and then disappeared.
They’ll be back… probably. Maybe.
You never really know who you’re talking to.
Even ghost-sitters can send messages.

📦 Troops on the move

The tournament began with a whisper, then a stampede.
📍 6 million at 00:00 GMT, 7/31
📍 9.4 million by 15:00 GMT, 7/31
📍 23 million by 20:00 GMT, 8/1

If this is the pace in Week 1, well…

🏛️ Top 10 Totem Occupations (so far)

  1. Shraps Mem Academy [SMA] – 12 days 4 hrs 55 mins
  2. The Pirate Kings [YARR!] – 11 days 7 hrs 7 mins
  3. Skeleton Boar [SkB] – 7 days 9 hrs 34 mins
  4. Fairy Road Authority [Roads] – 7 days 6 hrs 53 mins
  5. The Dragon’s Forest [TDF] – 3 days 17 hrs 3 mins
  6. The Colonist Empire [TCol] – 3 days 14 hrs 20 mins
  7. Murder of Crows [mCrow] – 3 days 9 hrs 36 mins
  8. Dwarven Lords [Dlord] – 2 days 14 hrs 31 mins
  9. The Atreides Bunch [Bunch] – 1 day 6 hrs 55 mins
  10. Harmless? [H?] – 1 day 1 hr 55 mins

The race is on—and it’s getting crowded at the top.

🏚️ Alliance shifts & town exodus

Some changes are subtle. Others? Loud.
Towns are packing up and moving—
closer to the totems, closer to the fire.

Some cities that flew one banner last issue
now wave another in the top 10.
Shifts in name, shifts in power.

⚔️ The Colonist Empire landclaim

They’re guarding their tournament squares in Mal Motsha, Keshalia, and Kul Tar. We (every other alliance in the game) do not attempt to claim the tournament squares in these regions, out of respect.
They are, however, striking outside the TCol landclaim. Doesn’t seem too fair, no?
Line drawn. Swords ready.

🧝‍♀️ SassyFi & Elfsas

Did you spot it?
It’s Elfsas now. Not Elfses. And instead of the usual fiterra(numbers 1- a lot) account that our lovely Fiona has been so aptly using to make TerraForms, since her MiniFi account was abandoned, her alt appears to be SassyFi.
A long-time nickname has become… official, for these ladies.

🧠 Who’s really writing this?

At least one player caught the scent:

[19:35] <MrPingPing> That url you posted looks like the article is AI generated
[19:35] <MrPingPing> Chatgpt makes paragraphs like that and starts them with emojis

Guilty as charged.
This sole writer is very real, very tired, and very busy with the tournament.
AI just holds the inkpot.

Until Next Week,
The Whispering Scribe

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