October’s OotS is Firestarter, along with their Pleather Jacket and Punk Piercings! This month’s coat and items were created by Meru. You can purchase this set in the Out of the Shadows shop through the end of the month!

Autumn has officially arrived, and with it, our new Autumn Seasonal. Bruc has rotated out his stock to include the new Autumn Forager Mushroom, as well as all of our favorites from seasons past. Be sure to pick up your fall friends before winter arrives in December!

September’s monthly roundup has been posted and all stickers and prizes have been distributed! This month’s prompts are now available for tackling, too!

Our monthly Productivi-Day will be held on Thursday, October 15th! We look forward to spending the day productive-ing with you all!

We are currently in the midst of round 2 of our artist application process! We are extremely pleased with the submissions we received, and are excited to welcome our new artist(s) at the end of the application process!

We also opened up applications for a new Community Coordinator last month! We will be holding interviews this week, and will hopefully have some news on that front later this month.

Rather than our usual Inktober activity, we will instead be holding a similarly spirited daily creative challenge in November. We’re calling it The Drawntlet, but, as always, it will welcome various types of creative endeavors. More information on this activity will be made available towards the end of the month!

In the meantime, though, if you have any one word prompt suggestions, you can share them right in this thread!

Starting on October 31st, the ghost of Howard past will be hosting his annual spooky pop-up shop! Bring your spare nuggets to stock up on favorites from previous Halloweens, as well as a handful of new treats to enjoy!

A few brief updates on behind the scenes work:

• glitch spent a lot of time creating some additional player controls and is nearly done. We’ll have more information available when that is released this month! He’s currently working hard on getting the event prepped for release.
• Myla worked on prepping the event, artist applications, coordinator applications, and orders this month.
• Artist applicants will be entering the final application stage this month, and the trial artists will be selected!
• Most of the staff team’s time this month went toward event work! Between many of the artists having intense IRL stuff going on and event work, queues are moving slowly.

Get ready to stretch your sea legs and face some deep-sea horrors —The Siege of Saltrock Cove event is only a few days away! The seafaring sisters Clipper and Doc are awaiting your arrival to help save their seaside home from an onslaught of slimy beasts. The monster-fighting festivities begin at 12:00 ST on October 4th!

i’m in love with the autumn forager! i can’t wait to get one.

as for prompts, i have a few suggestions! i wanted to base these a little more on november celebrations and holidays and less on the typical fall feels. night, chill, ritual, mischief (for mischief night, on nov 4th), bonfire, lore or weather-lore (a superstition about the weather, like groundhog day), ancestors, lanterns.

Hush’s IRL work has finally gotten to a manageable level, and so they are coming back from their hiatus, woooo!!  Welcome back, Hush! <333

Players now have the ability to implement player blocks. You can read more about how blocking works on the blocking page! This was logistically complicated code with a lot of different components to think about, so if you’re using it in the near future, please pay close attention to each component to make sure it is working as intended!

Cozy Tavern Background by Loon was added to the Bag of Wonders!

Hoooray thank you! I appreciate this feature a lot.

I would like to suggest the following, if I could.

1. Have an option to block a player from their profile, rather than having to navigate to the community settings, then the blockpage, then typing their name in.
(alt/additional: Be able to block players by ID number in case of non-English/special characters or other weirdness)

3. Have blocked players not be able to see your “last online” information or online status.

We received a number of excellent applications for our Coordinator role, resulting in a highly competitive decision making process. By our interview stage, however, two candidates stood out with some truly superb characteristics! Each candidate excelled in a different area of our initial search and after going back and forth several times, we determined that our goals and the work available justified creating two new positions: one focused on social media and recruiting new players to Mycena Cave and one focused on developing our existing resources and player experience to keep our players interested and excited in the Cave!

To that end, I am thrilled to welcome our newest staff trial coordinators:
Cien will be filling our recruiting focused role and Hyasynthetic will be filling the retention focused role! Cien and Hyasynthetic will be working closely together to help continue growing and developing Mycena Cave and we are so excited to see what they bring to the team and site as a whole. <3 Welcome aboard, both!!!

gosh so much wonderful news this month already!!!!!!

congrats hya and cien!!!!!!!  can’t wait to see what y’all can do!!!!!!!!!

and welcome back hush!!!!!!!!!!!!!! we’ve missed you!!!!!!! will hush be taken off red for the queues? :0 or will the focus be site assets for a while? 

also thank you guys for the event and the block feature and everything I’m so grateful for y’all like not to sound like a suck up but…......... ily

Nice! I think that sounds like a really good plan.
Congratulations to both of you, glad to see you were hired for the positions c:

Belated welcome back, Hush!

And aaah thank you so much, all!! I’m so excited to be selected with Hyasynthetic, and can’t wait to work with everyone! <3