This Week At PIRATES

-Ahoy, me hearties! This Week At Truth, we be plundering and flogging the enemies of the Light. It has been a pleasure seeing all the Clan Truth seadogs and scallywags gaming this week. Yo Ho Ho indeed! It's been a week of milestones here in Discord - and we've got a lot more gaming to do as Season of the Plunder continues!

-First off, we are now 1,200 pirates strong here in the Discord! Another notch on the ol' Captain's belt that our Admin crew is proud to be a part of.

-Over the weekend we saw the return of the wretched Oryx in the reprised King's Fall raid. The Old Guard captured Clan's First during contest mode #1382 and was the only team in the clan to finish the Regicide Triumphs, clocking in at #662 overall to earn the Day 1 emblem. Another booty for their hoard of Day 1 finishes. The Thralls Deep team also finished contest mode (#4667 overall) and Maple Chutney completed the contest as the 24hour buzzer sounded. Fantastic jobs all around by our members.

-King's Fall is back and we know just how much people are looking to get into the raid! Unfortunately, the Charlemagne bot is three sheets to the wind until Thursday, LFG events will be moving to slash commands when it returns which means some slightly different ways of scheduling those raids and other LFGs in #lfg_event_schedule. We will update our tooltips to help as soon as we are able to. In the meantime, you can continue using the @Raids ping in #lfg_raids, and we are trying something new as a stopgap to encourage you landlubbers to use threads in that channel to organize for specific dates/times. It isn't perfect, but the pirate life never is. 

-We will be updating the Resources + Infographics section of  Discord soon with charts/images/helpful stuff for King's Fall, this is always a work-in-progress but it will help organize the information that's needed. The raid is new for many, but we understand not everyone wants to or is capable of teaching players the mechanics of the raid. Around here, we consider that perfectly acceptable if that's the case, but we would try and discourage the use of "KWTD" in posts as it can be condescending. For those that are looking to get their first clears, be on the lookout for the Old Salts making sherpa posts willing to teach. 

-On the seasonal front, we sail into the vast seas hunting down the recently-freed Eramis from her prison. Time to HangEmFromTheYardArm! You can hunt for pirate treasure completing the Ketchcrash and Expedition seasonal activities and continuing the quest at reset. Keep your pirate plunder conversation in #season_of_the_tax_buddy. 

-Alak-Hul and the Lightblade strike is this week's Nightfall. Rift returns to the Crucible, this time as a rotator. Bonus ranks in Gambit, but be warned as the punishment for Gambit privateers is walking the plank! Earn your extra Pinnacles completing the Pit of Heresy and Garden of Salvation boss encounters. 

-its been exciting seeing so many of our members gaming and streaming their activities, and we love trying to support all of our members' content creation goals. A few notes for the streamers: we do have some specific streaming VCs in Discord that you can use. If you are streaming, we consider it very important to let other players know that is the case, as not everyone is comfortable being recorded on streams. Please do your best to keep this in mind. If you link your Twitch account to your Discord and Enable Streamer Mode in the settings, your livestreams will appear in our #promotions channel every time you go live. We can assist if you don't know how to set this up. 

-Hoist your mizzen masts and keep that poop deck clean you scurvy dogs. Keep gaming and being excellent to each other. YARRRRR

--Witty