Earlier today we had a really bad bug resulting from a very minute
problem. Unfortunately because this bug caused the Howling to repeat, a
number of serious problems occurred that propagated throughout the rest
of the game in unpredictable ways. A few things of note that occurred:

1. Numerous designs were irrevocably lost due to time having passed and
their decay time ticking down.
2. Everyone's record of logged time for the last few weeks was wiped out
entirely, so vote strengths were lost.
3. A number of individuals both gained and lost experience due to
numerous blessings and curses ticking 25+ times in half an hour.
4. All Undead houses reverted down to Minor house status due to lost
playtime records.

Numerous other issues continued to crop up, but I made the decision at
that point that the prudent course of action was to rollback to the last
available backup before the initial Howling. Unfortunately,
organizational logs have been lost, but otherwise everything has been
recovered to the place it should have been.

We apologize for the approximately two hours of time that was lost to
those who were present and active during this unfortunate incident, but
note that the problem has been corrected and will not repeat in the
future.

Any continuing problems should be directed to Me, and I will do My best
to accomodate any egregious circumstances.

Penned by my hand on the 3rd of Midsummer, in the year 286 MA.