Purple!Yes Aura, and Midnight Potion is PURPLE!For those who knows the inside joke of Splinterlands; the phrase "purple & city bus" should be familiar to you. I bought one of the first regions during land pre-sale during October 2020 (yeah now nearly 4.5 years back!). The comment below is a reflection of my frustration during June of 2023, when we we still couldn't do anything with land. This was before Land 1.5. As a reminder, Land 1.5 released in November 28, 2023, when we could finally farm something! Before that and even after that for a very long time, items and spells remained elusive and fictional. So for a long time I used to say, item and spells could be PURPLE AND CITY BUS, meaning you can call it whatever, it doesn't mean anything.

Another Room with a ViewI love a room with a view, especially one that is dynamic, peaceful, and soothing to the eyes. This view below was the view from my rental condo at Cancun for the Easter week. I was travelling a lot for work, so decided to travel a bit more. Kids had school during that week, till Thursday, but my wife suggested I go and stay there from Sunday, and she would join me with the kids after school on Thursday. Cancun is a short 1-hour-45-minute flight from Houston, and there are upward of 20 flights there everyday. Therefore, it is easy to hop on an evening flight after school/work and arrive there by 8 or 9pm. We have done this many times in the past, so I said THANK YOU! :)

Historical Time Table of SplinterlandsI have been working on putting together a historical timeline of events for Splinterlands. It is not difficult to gather, but rather difficult to put together in a short and consumable format. I know @bjangles is working on a graphical display, which I am looking forward to see. However, I wanted to update a series of tables. These are not of numbers and dates I have staring for a while, so it is possible that I made mistakes in these table, so please help me fact check if you can.

SPS-DEC flywheelI am writing this post to perform a difficult task. My goal is to explain the SPS-DEC flywheel to the Splinterlands community. Trouble is I am probably not the most qualified person to do this, as the concept is most likely from @yabapmatt. If I remember correctly, I have learned the concept from a Splinterlands Town Hall from late 2021 to early 2022. So the first time I was trying to do is to reconstruct a timeline for the history of Splinterlands. There have been historical efforts to do this in the past, and there are written records for 2021 and 2022 by the team. I am quite certain that I have seen earlier record of this by the team, but I can't track it down.

The Chase is RealI consider myself a part of the League of Verico. For those who does not know, the League of Verico is a secret organization in the Splinterlands lore, specifically tied to the land expansion narrative of Praetoria. Basically a cartel or a CABAL! There you have it, you know how much I like a cartel! It was formed by land-owning battle mages to protect Praetoria and conceal the extraordinary powers of Castles and Keeps from outsiders. Membership is exclusive to battle mages who hold significant land stakes in Praetoria, and the organization operates under three core tenets: dedication to the cause, contribution to the cause, and loyalty through action.

Understand Grain FactorMidnight potion was officially announced yesterday, and will be online April 29! This is the first time activity in land will be directly connected to the trading card pack opening part of the game. Also this is the first time "Research", which I love to call "purple" or "City Bus", will actually have a use case. So I should stop calling that! For the record though; Aura Lab purple.