It will, you know, barring the unforeseen. Have a little faith. Yes, I know what the date is.

I thought I'd mention some of the things we've been doing while we were away.

There's a map. It'll change and grow and, yes, it'll be the navigation interface eventually.

There's much more content. Especially by way of Opportunities. The hidden areas referenced in the Ambitions now exist, too.

You can choose avatars. More to come. You'll be able to pick alternate avatars for a small number of Fate Points.

You can engage in social actions with your friends. Or with anyone, really. There's a limited number of these, and a consciously light feature-set, while we trial the framework changes we needed to support them. There'll be more. Feedback welcome.

There's been an economic rebalancing. We were very generous with rewards in the beta to make sure people saw a lot of content in a limited time...and on top of that there were some bugs and loopholes that allowed people to get *very* rich. It's all a bit calmer now.

There's a newsfeed so you can keep up to date with messages without relying on Twitter direct messaging. A bit primitive, we'll iterate.

There are now rare successes in some events - you won't necessarily see everything a storylet has for you first time round...

Content now goes in via a CMS rather than my crazy DSL. The way I put content together when I was testing didn't scale at all well to the task of updating content for the live site. Yes, all sounds fascinating, I know. What it means though is that you should see a greater variety, of, ah, narrative topologies, God I love saying that, in game events.

We've decided to stop taking Jack-of-Smiles seriously. I never liked serial killers.

And some bug fixes, scaling enhancements, styling changes that no one but us cares about.

Finally, there is a payment wall ready to go so you can buy Fate...but it's all feeling a little bit more beta to me with all these changes. So we're going to leave that off for the first week or so after we come back, until I'm happier we're bedded in.

Thanks for your patience. See you in there.