This is Real Life stuff, not game stuff.

I run the mailing list for another game, using the same system as this one, and we have been having troubles with the mailing list for a while. A few of the players have trouble getting the mails, and some kept getting their messages bounced.

I put in a support ticket with our ISP, and received not great news.

These lists are run by a Mailman server, and as the years have gone by, and email requirements have changed and got ‘secured’, Mailman has not kept up. With the result that the ISP has decided that long term, Mailman is not fit for purpose. And, at this point, they have decided that they are going to retire that part of their offering. Already, you cannot create a new mailing list, and while they have not yet announced a sunset date for the service altogether, it is going away eventually.

Now, the Aurellis and Sable games rarely use the mailing lists any longer. We play live games, we play Discord games, but we don’t really do any email playing. So, my thoughts on this are that for our games here, we just let the lists die, and we make use of the Aurellis and Sable discord servers, where there are general announcements channels, for anything global that needs to be said.

It does mean that any players that want to stay in touch need to let us get you on the discord server. Please drop me a line if you want to do this.

Having spent the last while leading the loyal troops of Amber in battle at the very foot of Mount Kolvir, repelling an invasion of Creatures of Chaos, that originated from Down a Black Road that led from the very gates of Greater Thelbane to our own gate, it is with great sadness that we must declare that the state of Brotherly Harmony, which previously existed between Greater Thelbane and Amber, is now ended. The Greater Thelbane Ambassador and all the Ambassadorial staff are hereby expelled from Amber. There is an amnesty of twenty-four hours for them to vacate the diplomatic premises, after which those premises will be forfeit to the Crown. Any further contact between Greater Thelbane and Amber will be hosted by our brother Finndo, in Asgard. We hereby appoint our Loyal son, Prince Eric as our Ambassador in Asgard.

It is also a sad day for many of Amber’s people, for whom, in past times, the inclinations of romance had led them to stride the enormity of all Shadow and consort with descendants of Greater Thelbane. That state of duality will no longer be permitted to exist. With heavy hearts, we must declare that you are either here, or there. That same twenty-four hour amnesty will exist for all to make the necessary arrangements to permanently move to the court of you choice, and for those who were not observed to be arrayed against us on the battlefield, then we shall honour your peaceful departure, and wish you farewell.

Certain of our family were observed to be arrayed against us on the battlefield. Those persons are hereby declared to be Enemies of Amber, and will be detained immediately upon being discovered, anywhere in Amber, the Golden circle, or anywhere else in Shadow, to be brought before the Crown for sentencing. Most chiefly amongst that number, is our own son Corwin, no longer a Prince of Amber. May the Unicorn have mercy on his soul.

Also at this time, having been observed personally leading forces against us, the following individuals are also declared Enemies of Amber, to be detained immediately upon being discovered, anywhere in Amber, the Golden circle, or anywhere else in Shadow, to be brought before the Crown for sentencing: Crown Prince Bleys Barimen, Prince Brand Barimen, Princess Batelle Hendrake, Archduke Eregion Jesby, Archduke Tubble Chanicut.

Issued this day by the hand of Princess Florimel. Mistress of State, from the mouth of King Benedict of Amber.

His Royal Majesty, King Random, is most content to confer the following Awards and Titles, for outstanding services in the recent liberation of Điện Biên Phủ:

Prince Ian Cushing, Duke of Kolvir is now made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Unicorn
Queen Sapphire is now made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Unicorn, and is also made Countess of Somerby
Lord Eugene Fogg is now made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Unicorn, and is also made Earl of Morton
Princess Anabelle of Arden, Duchess of Bayle is now made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Unicorn, and is also made Countess of Morley
Grand Duke Aleksandr Romanov is now made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Unicorn, and is also made Earl of Wakefield
Allister Edward Baldur Montague KGCU is now made Duke of Avon, and is made a Prince of the Realm.
Alana Norris is now made a Knight Grand Commander of the Order of the Unicorn, and is also made Countess of Io
Freiherr Artur Acker KGCU is made Earl of Ledbury

by the hand of Princess Florimel, His Majesty’s Princess of State.

Let it be hereby known, that for any Realm, be it a hamlet, village, town, city, county, country, continent or planet, if they can find two men and one woman, who will agree to come to our Realm, of their own free will and consent, and, together, undertake a sacrificial Ritual with our loyal and consenting servant, on the Eve of the New Year, then, once the Ritual is complete, the woman will be returned to her Realm, bearing our Blessing upon it, for the whole of the Year to Come.

I place my seal upon this pledge for all eternity.