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Thankstaking 2022: The Senseless
Hey there heroes!

It's Thankstaking! And you know what that means... food and drink and feasts aplenty! The food's all taken care of already, so all that's left is to enjoy... right?

Not so fast! Seems like some of the citizens of Falconreach are unable to taste anything at all! You'll have to get down to the bottom of this mystery and find where all the senses have gone... and save Thankstaking for everyone!

Also this week, the Book 3 main story quest: The Beast has been rewritten. There have also been minor adjustments to Unbound and The Beast to correct some inconsistencies (creatures are no longer chained by Zadd's mind control shackles).

We will continue to adjust things as we go!

Also, due to an unfortunate issue, some players may have to replay the first quest of Convergence: "The Point of No Return (Part 1)" before being able to proceed to the next main story quest when that releases.

Apologies for the inconvenience!

You can play this week's Thankstaking release from the Thankstaking storybook in the Book of Lore!
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Also this week:

This year's Mogloween masks are now available from the Mask shop in Cysero's Superstore of Savings.
The Black Friday House Utility sale is live! Get those in-demand House Utility items for 50% off this week only!
Temporarily fixed an issue with Pirate's Help From The Locker attack- this will be investigated and adjusted more in the future.
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If you find yourself missing some Dragon Coins, now is the perfect time to get more!

Get 50% more Dragon Coins from select packages (Not including Dragon Amulet and DoomKnight packages) until January 20th!
And that's all for this week!

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I do prefer the explanation that the Beastmaster was lied to rather than complicit in the enslavement of magical creatures. Pre-rewrite, the only way I can imagine that he thought he was helping them by shackling them is if his perspective was warped by his severe trauma, so I think this version makes more sense.

While I do miss the Beastmaster's connection to Grams, I do like that his backstory involves Yalla and her campaign. It reveals chilling insight as to what she and the Wind Elves that fought with her were willing to do to reclaim Greenguard and further paints a picture of the Rose actually being the good guys at first, only for them to devolve into an entity that echoes the oppressive practices of the very threat it originally fought against. And it also explains his scars rather well too. I suppose he may be the last of his kind.

I was unsure what to think at first, as I quite liked the original quest and thought the Beastmaster was an interesting albeit underdeveloped character, but I think the changes work pretty well.

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Okay I lowkey keep forgetting that Noxus is a um...C? D? Level villain within the context of Dragonfable now and it will never not be funny that this guy has gone from being a potential threat to Greenguard to effectively the Grinch when certain holidays roll around and I absolutely love that.



As for the Beastmaster rewrites,


It's interesting to hear more about Yalla's war campaign. It contextualizes Kara's line of Yalla supposedly summoning the creatures of the land. Previously, I just assume whatever animals, beastmen, and elements she called upon served willingly to take down human occupied lands, in service of nature and all that, but I guess it makes sense that Yalla would have concluded that all areas that previously belonged to the wind elves also included the beings they saw as little more than beast to be controlled. Gives more meaning to her designation as Conquest in the duo fight with Braytes San. Although the Beastmaster mentioning that the elementals were crying out does make me wonder if what Yalla was doing was effectively upsetting the elemental balance in some way be it big or small. And yeah I also have to agree with Flabagast that it is a bit of shame that the Beastmaster's history with Grams is kind of gone at least seemingly for now.

And I'd imagine now the next rewrite comes to our little talk with Jaania.