Dara

There is a very important news post in dw_news that you all should read carefully.

TL;DR - Dreamwidth is forced to start blocking those accessing the site from a Mississippi IP address starting September 1st. This is because the state of Mississippi has passed a law requiring residents verify their age before accessing social media. As the burden of doing this is WAY HIGH for Dreamwidth (plus they don't want to do it anyway!), they have made the reluctant choice to block those users.

Dreamwidth is fighting the law in court with the help of Netchoice; denise is pretty confident they'll eventually win, but there's been a setback with one of the courts and thus are forced to take this action in the meantime.

I know I have some UK folks on my access list - I have not read all the comments on the news post yet but the very first comment from denise says the UK law doesn't apply to Dreamwdith because the number of users from the UK is too small.

I continue to be happy that Dreamwidth is one of my homes on the Internet. I stand by and agree with their principles.

It all began with a stone, or so the legend says.

In ages past, a sentient jewel, enormous and beautiful, banished the darkness. Its many-colored light filled the world with life and brought forth mighty gods.

Bathed in that light, the world entered an age of bliss until, after a time, the gods fell into slumber. That world was called Vana'diel.

The legend goes on to say...

From the darkest depths of the earth the Warriors of the Crystal rose...

The Rise of the Zilart expansion tells the story of the Warriors of the Crystal, and of the ancient clash between two races, one of which was the Zilart - who have plans to bring about Vana'diel's destruction. Read on to find out just what the Zilart have planned.

(As before, the actual game script is located at my Neocities site, here: https://altheavalara.neocities.org/ffxi/rotz - what lies under the cut is my summary for those who don't want to read the long script.)

( spoilers galore! )