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pumpkinhollow ([personal profile] pumpkinhollow) wrote in [community profile] ph_ooc2025-10-30 04:29 pm

TAG OR TREAT! A Halloween Bonus Challenge

tag or treat


Happy Halloween, Pumpkin Patch!

As you all know, Halloween is the season that Pumpkin Hollow was made for! To spread the spooky love, we've come up with a fun little rewards system for players to earn sweet bonuses from our diabolical October event! Here's some rewards you can get!

Hunter's Delight: for tagging into any toplevel with someone you didn't already have premade plans with, you get a protein-rich snack bar that excuses you from groceries for the month of November. (Honor system applies, since this one's hard to prove.)

Spiral Cakes: for tagging into a toplevel that is on page 2 or 3, you can get a swiss roll cake that allows your character to regain an item from their canon. It appears in their house as if it has always been there.

Lonely Lemon Drops: for tagging into a toplevel with 2 tag-ins or less, you get a sour candy that allows you to disappear at a moment's notice, either becoming invisible for 30 minutes or teleporting to the Bluffs.

Dark Licorice: for tagging into the toplevel of a character yours does not already have any CR with, you obtain a ring or pendant in a design of your choice that wards off hostile creatures after dark. (Also honor's system but I kind of already have an idea of most people's CR circles so it's fine)

Eye Candy: for boomeranging any thread to AC length by the end of the weekend, you receive a hard candy shaped like an eye that gives your character a piece of meta-knowledge they did not already know, subject to mod approval. This is the only one where it does not have to be a new thread, but all 10 tags must be obtained during the event period, so prior tags don't count!

Goals must be completed by Monday, Nov 3rd and turned in by the end of the AC period, either via AC or right here! You cannot use previously started threads, and there's no grace periods! All items can be gifted to other characters if desired, but the item goes to the character that earned it initially. How many Tag or Treats can YOU get?

(Please note: please participate in good faith. Don't just tag in to get the prize and then ditch the thread. Players who do this may be subject to having their prize revoked, at mods' discretion!)

Have a great Halloween, everyone! Staaaay spooky! <3
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Mark Smith ([staff profile] mark) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-25 08:42 am

Database maintenance

Good morning, afternoon, and evening!

We're doing some database and other light server maintenance this weekend (upgrading the version of MySQL we use in particular, but also probably doing some CDN work.)

I expect all of this to be pretty invisible except for some small "couple of minute" blips as we switch between machines, but there's a chance you will notice something untoward. I'll keep an eye on comments as per usual.

Ta for now!

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alierak ([personal profile] alierak) wrote in [site community profile] dw_maintenance2025-10-20 10:11 am

AWS outage

DW is seeing some issues due to today's Amazon outage. For right now it looks like the site is loading, but it may be slow. Some of our processes like notifications and journal search don't appear to be running and can't be started due to rate limiting or capacity issues. DW could go down later if Amazon isn't able to improve things soon, but our services should return to normal when Amazon has cleared up the outage.

Edit: all services are running as of 16:12 CDT, but there is definitely still a backlog of notifications to get through.

Edit 2: and at 18:20 CDT everything's been running normally for about the last hour.