The Chronicle

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 GalacticNovaFox (2,282 Bucks) · 🥈 Cyber (389 Bucks) · 🥉 GreenDemonTV (177 Bucks) 🔴 20 streams went live (cyberwizard68, green_demon_tv, wendib0501, theravenqueen8585…) 🙌 1 props exchanged — most loved: GalacticNovaFox (1) 👋 New Bastages: michael_pro025, Tashtaldo — say hi! 🧠 Trivia champ: GalacticNovaFox — 4 correct this week 🌟 Member Spotlight: GalacticNovaFox — earned the most props from fellow Bastages last week (1)! Type /daily in chat to keep your streak alive, /rank to see the race, and /props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 GalacticNovaFox (2,923 Bucks) · 🥈 ⌊⌊ƝՄͲⲤƦᗅⲤⱩЕƦ (25 Bucks) 🔴 18 streams went live (green_demon_tv, wendib0501, erikthewriter, mattrixxzgaming…) 👋 New Bastages: torqworks_dev, ⌊⌊ƝՄͲⲤƦᗅⲤⱩЕƦ — say hi! 🧠 Trivia champ: GalacticNovaFox — 3 correct this week 🌟 Member Spotlight: GalacticNovaFox — topped last week's earnings race with 2,923 Bucks! Type /daily in chat to keep your streak alive, /rank to see the race, and /props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 God's_Si11iest_Goose (75,858 Bucks) · 🥈 GalacticNovaFox (2,606 Bucks) · 🥉 GreenDemonTV (1,981 Bucks) 🔴 29 streams went live (wendib0501, nomoe42, green_demon_tv, erikthewriter…) 👋 New Bastages: firefly0617, sabdatosneyyyyyy, .whattheforge, unfeelagirl423, quadcam48, thedoctordonna97, BrohanSolo — say hi! 🧠 Trivia champ: GalacticNovaFox — 7 correct this week 🎁 Most generous: God's_Si11iest_Goose — gave 500 Bucks 🎮 Game vote: The Other Side won the lineup 🌟 Member Spotlight: God's_Si11iest_Goose — topped last week's earnings race with 75,858 Bucks! Type /daily in chat to keep your streak alive, /rank to see the race, and /props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 God's_Si11iest_Goose (67,816 Bucks) · 🥈 GalacticNovaFox (3,025 Bucks) · 🥉 Bunny.bacon (1,971 Bucks) 🔴 23 streams went live (wendib0501, erikthewriter, green_demon_tv, nomoe42…) 🙌 2 props exchanged — most loved: Cyber (2) 👋 New Bastages: Megan Guerra, Mattrixxz, Matt Rixxz — say hi! 🧠 Trivia champ: GalacticNovaFox — 5 correct this week 🎮 Game vote: The Other Side won the lineup 🌟 Member Spotlight: Cyber — earned the most props from fellow Bastages last week (2)! Type !daily in chat to keep your streak alive, !rank to see the race, and !props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

This morning I found that our nightly backups of the site’s database were sitting somewhere another program on the same server could have read them. I’d rather tell you than quietly fix it. **What’s in those backups:** email addresses, scrambled password fingerprints (not readable passwords — nobody could get your actual password out of them), and two-factor secrets for anyone who has turned that on. **What I actually know:** - It was fixed the same morning, within hours of the first backup ever being written. - Nothing left our server. The only thing that could have read them was another program already running on it, which we control. - There is no sign anything opened them. **What has changed:** the backups are locked down now so only the site itself can touch them, and I restored one from scratch to be certain they genuinely work. **What you should do:** nothing, honestly. If you would feel better changing your password or re-setting up two-factor, both are on your dashboard — that is your choice, not a warning from me. ## Our promise to you I could have said nothing about this and nobody would ever have known. That is not how we are going to run this place. So, plainly: **we will always be transparent with this community.** If something goes wrong here — a mistake, an outage, a security problem, anything that touches your account — you will hear it from us, in plain words, as soon as we know. Good news or bad. Every single time. You should never have to wonder what we are not telling you. — Cyber

A big week. Here’s everything that changed and what it means for you. ## Raids got properly good **Use your whole kit.** A normal hit, your pet, or a spell — same one-swing cooldown, so pick what suits the fight instead of mashing the same button. **Swings are public now.** Everyone sees them in the channel, and you can press someone else’s raid card to jump in with your own character — exactly like a normal fight. **Proper attack cards.** Boss art, a health bar, your damage, and where you rank against everyone else in the raid. **Getting roughed up actually hurts.** A boss now takes real health off you instead of just making you wait longer. **Rewards actually pay out.** They were quietly failing before — you could beat a boss and get nothing. That’s fixed, and any win that got missed is still owed to you. Check `/menu` → **Guild Raid**. You might have spoils sitting there. ## New: is it down, or is it me? **magnificentbastages.org/status** A straight answer on whether the website and each of our game servers is up, with player counts when they’re online. We now watch them automatically — when one stops, staff get told. You shouldn’t be the one who finds out first. ## Pick your own roles Role menus have a proper banner across the top now, and each role says what it actually gets you instead of leaving you to guess. Level rewards also save correctly — they never did before, which is why they never seemed to work. ## Behind the scenes The whole site is now backed up every night, and I restored one from scratch to be certain the backups genuinely work rather than just assuming. I also cleared out two months of machine logs nothing reads, which took the database from 134MB to 30MB — everything loads a little quicker for it. Anything broken, confusing, or just odd — tell me. That’s how most of the above got found. Want these as they land? Grab the **Website Updates** role from the role menu and they’ll come to you nightly. — Cyber

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 GalaxyFox (2,329 Bucks) · 🥈 Bunny.bacon (1,616 Bucks) · 🥉 God's_Si11iest_Goose (771 Bucks) 🔴 26 streams went live (erikthewriter, green_demon_tv, nomoe42, theravenqueen8585…) 🙌 1 props exchanged — most loved: GalaxyFox (1) 👋 New Bastages: Kayn, Dr_Fart, Mrs.Writer, arch_cabbage, ADemonsFury, EriktheWriter — say hi! 🧠 Trivia champ: GalaxyFox — 4 correct this week 🎁 Most generous: Kayn — gave 100 Bucks 🎮 Game vote: Meccha Chameleon won the lineup · 🔥 Passion pick: Rocket League 🌟 Member Spotlight: GalaxyFox — earned the most props from fellow Bastages last week (1)! Type !daily in chat to keep your streak alive, !rank to see the race, and !props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 Bunny.bacon (1,608 Bucks) · 🥈 Cyber (448 Bucks) · 🥉 DsQueen8585 (130 Bucks) 🔴 19 streams went live (erikthewriter, green_demon_tv, wendib0501, gods_si11iest_goose…) 🙌 2 props exchanged — most loved: GalaxyFox (1) 👋 New Bastages: nomoe, Nicholas Morgan, Test Admin, GalaxyFox, jacob38jp. — say hi! 🧠 Trivia champ: GalaxyFox — 1 correct this week 🎮 Game vote: Severance won the lineup 🌟 Member Spotlight: GalaxyFox — earned the most props from fellow Bastages last week (1)! Type !daily in chat to keep your streak alive, !rank to see the race, and !props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 Bunny.bacon (810 Bucks) · 🥈 Cyber (506 Bucks) · 🥉 GreenDemonTV (224 Bucks) 🔴 21 streams went live (green_demon_tv, erikthewriter, dsqueen8585, zenithdarksky…) 👋 New Bastages: Bunny.bacon — say hi! 🌟 Member Spotlight: Bunny.bacon — topped last week's earnings race with 810 Bucks! Type !daily in chat to keep your streak alive, !rank to see the race, and !props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 Wendib501 (382 Bucks) · 🥈 Cyber (372 Bucks) · 🥉 GreenDemonTV (359 Bucks) 🔴 22 streams went live (green_demon_tv, dsqueen8585, zenithdarksky, erikthewriter…) 👋 New Bastages: cyber alt, DsQueen8585, GreenDemonTV — say hi! 🌟 Member Spotlight: Wendib501 — topped last week's earnings race with 382 Bucks! Type !daily in chat to keep your streak alive, !rank to see the race, and !props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥

👑 Crown of the Week: 🥇 Cyber (424 Bucks) · 🥈 wendib0501 (134 Bucks) · 🥉 DsQueen8585 (110 Bucks) 🔴 26 streams went live (erikthewriter, cyberwizard68, zenithdarksky, green_demon_tv…) 👋 New Bastages: Imalane, God's_Si11iest_Goose — say hi! 🌟 Member Spotlight: Cyber — topped last week's earnings race with 424 Bucks! Type !daily in chat to keep your streak alive, !rank to see the race, and !props <name> to celebrate someone. 🔥