February 2025 All Guilds Meeting Summary
Here is the summary for the 178th All Guilds Meeting, moderated by Claidi Song, along with the raw and cleansed chatlogs!
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OpenUru
☛ The fourth Rapid Age Development contest will start on February 8 and run until March 8. The theme will be a Pod Age; participants will be assigned a basic pod shell file (for Blender or 3ds Max). Entries will not need to be MOULa-ready, but at least working on the Destiny shard.
The only canon guideline is that if you set your pod on the Pod Age, you cannot include a moon. While it is not known with certainty that the Age has no moons at all, no pod set on it shows one.
As with previous editions, the intention is to encourage potential builders with a challenge with specific limits in size and time. Tre’bivdil and the Vothol Gallery were originally built for similar contests. It will be up to each builder if and on which shards to submit these Ages for release.
☛ A couple of Ages are on Minkata Alpha for the first round of debugging: Rei’schu Vo’at Veknen (formerly the Rei’schu Apartment) by Calum Traveler and Sameehn by Ametist. If all goes well, they may be released on MOULa sometime in the first half of the year!
Mysterium
☛ If you plan to attend Mysterium in person, you have not finished the Riven remake yet and you wish to avoid spoilers, this year they will be giving little “no spoilers” star stickers to put on your badge holder.
☛ All submissions are currently open: shirt and pin designs through February 26, events through April 30, writing and artwork through July 15.
☛ Mysterium News updates will no longer be posted on Twitter/X. They will continue as scheduled on BluSky, Facebook, Discord, and their website.
☛ The Creativity Prompt for January–February is “Rime” (in any sense), the deadline is February 28. Entries for the “Hearth” prompt for November–December were from Calum Traveler and Talashar.
Events in the Cavern
☛ On Monday 3, Skyisblu will tackle the fabled recipe for chor bahkh, the meat-filled roll mentioned in The Book of Ti’ana, and the only actual mention of food (along with ikhah naijuhets) in the entire Myst trilogy.
The Cooking Sessions are on the first Monday of the month at 12:00 KIT, via Twitch, in the Guild of Caterers’ Hood. You can find past recipes and recordings at Skyisblu’s blog and YouTube channel.
☛ Every Tuesday, Ereshkigal is hosting an Ancient Stories event at 11:30 KIT in Mir-o-Bot’s Eder Gira (PM “link” to Mir-o-Bot #32319 or MinBot #9292763 to get there), reading folktales, translated ancient texts, historical fiction from all over the ancient world, as well as the occasional historical-inspired fan fiction. They are currently reading a story from the days of Ramses II, in ancient Egypt.
☛ Babbel will host her next classical music program in the Hall of Kings in Ae’gura, on Monday 17 at 12:00 KIT. The theme this month is “Composers from Scandinavia“.
☛ Dah’mpa announced Dah’mpa Waves, a series of events on Brazilian music, a mix of streaming and the occasional live broadcast. There will be no pre-determined schedule; the first event will be held on Friday 14 at 16:00 KIT, in a yet undecided location. It will be a live guitar and voice event on Dah’mpa’s Twitch channel [link t.b.a.].
☛ PodHopper announced a Celtic Night event, the first of a series that will air every three months, separate from the Relaxing Sessions. The first Celtic Night event will be held on Friday 14 in the Guild of Healers hood’s Eder Delin at 13:00 KIT. (same day as Dah’mpa Waves but earlier, so the two events will not clash).
☛ Nosila will organize this year’s International Women’s Day, on March 8. Anyone with ideas for events, or interested in being involved in any way, is welcome to get in touch either via KImail (#8961365) or the IWD Discord server.
☛ Augur is starting a speculative fiction book club. Meetings will be held in Nezetahn(1)’s Hood’s Eder Delin, on the third Saturday of every other month (so March 15, May 17, July 19, September 20, and November 15) at 12:30 KIT.
For the first meeting Augur picked three novels up for vote, via reactions in either the MOULa Events Discord or the URU Community Movies and Games Discord. Voting for more than one book is fine, but please vote only on one server, not both. The novels are:
- The Invisible Life of Addie Larue by V.E. Schwab,
- One of Our Kind by Nicola Yoon,
- Severance by Ling Ma.
☞ For a more complete list of upcoming events, check our calendar. Times and events may change at the last minute; you can find the latest updates at:
- Facebook group MOULa : Anniversary – Holidays – Events;
- Facebook page Myst Online: Uru Live (again);
- Discord server MOULa Events,
#announcementschannel; or - Discord server Official Cyan Chat,
#cavern-eventschannel.
D’ni Language Classes
Shokhootahn Rehn had two updates, one for the D’ni Language Classes and one for the Story Nights.
Visitors are asked to not post pellet points into the hood imager: one of his former students and a close friend, Yutiel Yoshi, who passed away in 2018, is listed there. He has refrained from posting pellets to maintain her name at the top, as a form of memorial.
D’ni Language Classes schedule (click to expand)
- Those who would like to attend the lessons should contact Rehn, preferably on Discord (r’Tayrtahn#1317), or via KImail (#80428). Be sure to include your KI number, so that Rehn can send you a reply!
- The Guild of Instructors’ Hood will be open and public unless a class is in session. Classes are individual.
- Daytime openings are on Monday to Friday, at 10:00, 11:00 or 12:00 KIT, depending on the student’s schedule.
- Evening openings are on Monday to Friday, at 20:00, 21:00 or 22:00 KIT, depending on the student’s schedule.
- Daytime availability is subject to change with little or no notice. Last-minute changes to class times will be announced via Magic Bot (#27527) or Mimi Bot (#71459); to be notified, add both as buddies, then PM them “advert”.
R’Tayrtahn’s Story Nights
Story Night Europe and Original Story Night will continue this month with the stories of the 29th king, Adesh, and his successors Lanaren, Asemlef, and Jaron.
Eventually they will cover all of the books and games, as well as the three human attempts at the restoration of D’ni. As this year the holidays fall mid-week, there will be stories for the entire month of December.
R’Tayrtahn records videos of the sessions (via an avatar named “I’m a bot, do not message”), that he will eventually upload to his YouTube channel. Be careful if you PM r’Tay or the bot during the events, as messages will be visible in the videos 😉
Videos now also come with auto translated captions in French, German, Indonesian, Italian, Polish, Portuguese and Spanish. Automatic translation often has trouble with words like “D’ni” or “linking books”, so your mileage may vary 😉
Story Nights schedule (click to expand)
- Story Nights are held in Tsahno’s Hood every Saturday, gathering at the fountain at around 23:00 KIT, with the story starting at about 23:30 KIT.
- For Story Nights – Europe, the gatherings are on Saturday starting at 13:30 KIT, with the story starting at about 14:00 KIT.
- On All Guilds Meeting days, the event will begin at 14:00 KIT or 30 minutes after the meeting, whichever is later.
- The stories are told using voice chat, so you will need to have your speakers, headphones or KI devices on. If you would like a reminder, please send r’Tayrtahn (#58324) a KImail with your KI number included in the text, so that he can add you to his buddies list.
Miscellanea
☛ This month, the Fan Age Expeditions in Deep Island will explore Tentsahveet by J.J. Jaguar, third chapter in The Secret of the Rainbow series. They will then investigate Palamary bay, and the connected Ages of Peridia, Myst Refuge and Ruins of Azmar, by Melvin.
And that was it for this month. Please consider donating to keep the Cavern open!
December ended with the CavFunding at 110% (CavCon 4.1) and the reserve at 719%, with no extra expenses.
The next All Guilds Meeting is planned for Saturday, March 1st, 2025 (Leevotahr 19) at 13:00 KIT.
Until then!
