It's May Day everyone! Another month with another update and we've got some slow events running. A trio of Exchange agents are looking into a mysterious suicide and the ritualistic murders that began in March are still waiting to be investigated!

A May garden party is also looming in the immediate future, so keep an eye out!

Development
Spirits
The penalty to Inhabit has been removed and their Defence Class lowered to 2. At Eidolon rank, a Spirit can now use Inhabit to permanently switch Paths if they inhabit a brain-dead or otherwise unoccupied human or half-blood body. Their Path progress will start at the Untrained rank in the new Path.

Shifters
Hyrd to Deor levelling requirements modified slightly, experiencing the effects of aconite added. The effects of aconite has also been clarified.

Possessed
The penalty to Strike during Unchained has been removed. Possessed can now select new Combination Keywords from the list on their Path page. See the levelling overview for when you can select Combination Keywords.

Enchanted Item Creation
The framing of item creation has been expanded, read all about it on the Enchanted Items Guidebook page.

Ritual Mechanics
For Arcanists, using keywords they do not have has been adjusted. As before it requires the use for their Circlebreaker Cinder pool, but now the Threshold is increased from 4 to 5. If a non-human or tainted human attempts to perform a ritual, they must use their Path Cinder Pool and the Threshold is increased from 4 to 5.

Metropolitan
We've added more clarity around Easthaven's relative size, both in regards to area and its supernatural population. Check out the Setting Guidebook page.

New additions
Keyword Expansion
We've added elemental keywords to different portfolios: fire into empyrean, earth into cthonic, water into eldritch, and air into fey. The Undying have gained the Keyword 'anti-venom'.

Ritual Components
Components now have quality levels, ranging from Poor to Superb. Read more about how they work on the Enchanted Item Guidebook page and the Arcanist Path Guidebook page. Rolling Cinder, a partial failure results in Poor, complete success in Average, exceptional success in Good, and a Critial Hit (10 passes) gains Superb components.

All Paths, Luck Drain
After pushing past the limit in the Paths, be it Bloodrush, Feral, Unchained, Resonance, or needing to Ground, each use of a Magical Keyword in those states will subtract 1 Luck from the character using the Keyword.

New Skin
Many may have noticed we introduced a new skin a few weeks ago. This is a custom skin developed for Three on a Match with a dark and light variant, but as with everything newly created, there may be bugs or things missing. Don't hesitate to tag us if you spot something that doesn't look quite right.

Upcoming

• Further advancement prompts from dabbler to the higher levels.
  
• New Time Untils
  
• Refinement of Double or Nothing mechanic
  
• Path and Keyword Icons
  

May Hotspots

Pebbleway Cove & Easthaven Cemetery

Time Until

Our Time Until meters can be found in the Player Toolbox, under the toolbox icon in the sidebar.  Therefore Sheol enlarges its throat is looking close!