Hi folks!

For the entirety of May, Cryptic Chests are returning to the website (www.aetolia.com/credits) under 'artifact packages'!

Every 500 Cryptic Chests opened will trigger a global prize where one of the next 50 to be opened will contain a bonus of 500 credits on top of the other prizes within, which are outlined below:

* Chocolate bags, elemental globes, fireworks, customisation certificates, iron coins, morphic metal, ambience tokens, styles and a low chance at salvage.

* Style selection for this month includes blazing, cowardly, airborne, and gambler, with a chance at receiving a style point to spend at the shop.

* Credit prizes ranging from 18 - 250.

* Various artifacts valued between 50 and 2000 credits.

* Minipets from a selection of: a fluffy gosling, a writhing amphisbaena, a spiky echidna puggle, a skeletal puppy, a soggy kelpie foal, and a winged tengu.

* The planar relic set makes a return with coffers containing a single piece found inside the chests. Each planar relic piece trades in for 30 credits. Check RELIC LIST PLANAR FULL to see the details. Two new relics have joined this set this month:

+ planar_life - a gnarled Dia'ruian charm
- While in your inventory, this relic confers a new passive effect upon your crystal tattoo: if five or more people have attacked you recently, the cooldown is only 600 seconds on use.

+ planar_chaos - a bottled storm of lurid force
- Carrying this bottle of chaotic force will imbue your meteor arrows with extra power, allowing them to strike your target even if they flee indoors. They must still be outdoors when you initially shoot the arrow, and this effect only applies to actual meteor arrows, not similar effects such as star tarot.

- Already have all the planar relics, or just not interested? You can PROMO EXCHANGE COFFER this month only to swap it to an ephemeral relic coffer* instead, containing a piece for one of: sunspear, sangchoker, keeneye, dreamscape, repair, dissonance, and resplendence.
* NOTE: These relics are all consumed on use or are temporary and will eventually decay. Pieces for them now trade in for 30 credits each.

- Compendium pages for: Skythrone, the Isle of Ollin, the Teshen Caldera, the Forgotten Mausoleum, Mannaseh Swamp and the Bakal Chasm.

In addition to these, you will always receive a filler prize (grimstim pills, various consumables, omnipotence pills, herbal jars, etc). These do not count towards your chest's value.

You can also find a chest in the milestone shop for May - 1 gold key as always!

Finally, every Friday this month is Favoured Friday! During that time, you will have a divine favour with all the benefits that a favour normally conveys.

Enjoy!

Penned by my hand on Tisday, the 18th of Ios, in the year 11 AC.