Welcome to the August-September edition of the Alora times. An exciting two months have flew by, so lets dive straight in to see what everyone has been up to. I appreciate all the submissions to the newspaper_submissions channel, it's great to see what you all have been doing. Remember to join our discord for frequent giveaways and announcements!     <3 ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Bonus Schedule For September   September Vote Competition [September 1st - September 21st]   Mini Update (Quality of Life, adding missing content & more)   Varlamore Expansion: Gemstone crab, Totem Fletching, Stalker Den, Tonali Cavern & more!   Respected rank   If you want to check out our past updates, click here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ None this month!     Alora's Official Rules can be found here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   The latest Staff Changes are as follows:   Promotions: [member="U"] has been promoted to Event Manager. [member="Gl"] has been promoted to Global Moderator. [member="GIM SSS"] has returned to the Staff Team as Game Moderator. [member="A"] has been promoted to Global Moderator. [member="GIM Hellish"] has been promoted to Global Moderator.   Rank Changes: [member="Mufasa"] has given up the Event Manager role and will remain in the team as Administrator.   Secondary ranks: [member="Logan"] has added a secondary staff rank to [member="4rd"] [member="GIM SSS"] has added a secondary staff rank to [member="PleaseDontDC"] [member="U"] has removed secondary staff rank from [member="Paul"] [member="Mufasa"] has added secondary staff rank to [member="Sung Jin"].   Resignations: None this time!   Demotions: None this time!   To see our past Staff Updates, click here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________       ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________   Stay up to date with some of our community members' recent Goals & Achievements:    [member="Audi gang"] Audi gang   [member="No bank mate"] Am I the first UIM?   [member="Italy"] 1000 KC // Boss Pet Challenge       Disclaimer: Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or send your achievement in the #newspaper_submissions channel in Alora Discord to be featured here! ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Here we honour our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a few of them! We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time!   __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________ The winners of July & August MOTM's are... [member="stormy"] & [member="dead walker"] ! Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being great members here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :) The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here. ___________________________________________________________________________________________________________________     Make sure to check out our streamers and video makers. 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That concludes this month’s edition of the Alora Newspaper! If you would like to see something added to the paper make sure to message [member="H"]! You can read the previous edition by clicking here. __________________________________________________________________________________________________________________  

Fall 2025 Community Awards     Hello and welcome to the 2025 Fall Community Awards! This is the third of four editions of this year's Community Awards, and we are hoping for it to be as active as it has ever been!   This thread will be up until September 30th and the results/signatures will be posted by October 7th, don't miss your chance to vote!   Thank you for participating!   RULES:   1) Guest Accounts will not have their votes counted! 2) You must fill out the entire template provided below. If you do not have anyone to vote for please leave it blank instead. 3) You may NOT vote for yourself. 4) You CANNOT vote for the same person more than 6 times. 5) Any troll posts will be removed and the poster will be infracted. 6) No buying/selling or asking for votes.   Any breached rule will result in disqualification.   Please fill out  75% of the template or your votes will not be counted!       Staff     Best Event Manager:    Best Administrator:    Best Global Moderator:    Best Senior Moderator:    Best Game Moderator:    Best Server Support:    Most active on Discord:    Most active In-game:    Most active on Forums:    Most Respected:    Most Potential Promotion:    Funniest Staff Member:    Overall Best Staff Member:      Players     Most Active In-game:  Most Active Yapper: Most Active on Forums:    Most Active on Discord:    Most Active Overall:    Most Wealthy:    Most Addicted to Gambling:    Most Friendly:    Coolest Veteran:  Best Planker: Best Fashionscaper: Best Bankstander:   Best Helper:    Best PKer:    Best PvMer:    Best Raider:    Best Skiller:    Best Clan:    Best Ironman:    Best Hardcore Ironman:    Best Ultimate Ironman:    Best Elite Ironman:   Best Elite Ironman duo:   Best Group Ironman (Player):    Best Hardcore Group Ironman (Player):    Best Realism Player:    Best Classic Player:    Best GFX Designer:    Best Youtuber:    Best Streamer:    Top Overall:        Good luck to everyone! If anyone has any new suggestions for any new future community award categories please reach out to me via forums / discord @ loooooogan or any other staff member, much appreciated.

[06/09/25] Bug Fixes: Many messages in the totem fletching minigame have been categorized as spam. The gemstone crab is now immune to venom/poison. Fixed a bug where the loot key interface was not working properly. Fixed a bug where Ent trails were not working properly. Fixed a bug where players could activate prayers even if they were out of prayer points. The gemstone crab now has a killcount tracker. This will only track kills for players who were eligible to mine the loot.     Hello everyone,   Today’s update is primarily focused the large expansion to Varlamore, which includes a new mini-game (Auburnvale Totem Fletching), new dungeons & caverns (with new slayer monsters & rewards), and the new Gemstone crab boss ("AFK" training method). In addition to this, we've also made improvements to server performance for EU players, and have added many quality of life changes and bug fixes. There's plenty to explore in this new update, so we'll let you dive right in below!   In other news, we are also nearly done with the Doom of Mokhaiotl (Delve boss), but since this boss is fairly complex, we wanted to spend some more time with it to make sure that everything feels accurate and is working as intended. It will be available in the near future (within the next couple of weeks), so stay tuned for that!   Ping Improvement: Sometimes (particularly for EU players) when logging in you would accidentally be routed through an NA server leading to higher than usual ping. This should no longer happen, and you will always be routed to the lowest ping server possible based on your location.  Varlamore Expansion: Auburnvale Totem Fletching Minigame: Players with at least 20 fletching can now participate in the Auburnvale fletching activity. This mini game requires that players run from totem site to totem site, building up and decorating the totems for the wandering Ents. There are 8 totem sites in total. Players can build/decorate totems made out of oak/willow/maple/yew/magic/redwood logs. Oak totems require level 20 fletching to build. Willow totems require level 35 fletching to build. Maple totems require level 50 fletching to build. Yew totems require level 65 fletching to build. Magic totems require level 80 fletching to build. Redwood totems require level 90 fletching to build. Building higher tier totems/decorating them with higher tier decorations will provide more experience, and make the totems more durable. Totems have a durability of 1-7 (depending on a bit of RNG and which type of log is used), and will lose 1 durability each time an ent passes through and admires the totem. Each time an ent admires a totem, players will earn more offerings. When it loses all durability, it will break and need to be rebuilt. When building a totem, players will be asked to carve 3 specific animals into the totem. There are 5 total animals to choose from, but players should carve the 3 spirit animals that are around the totem site into the totem to maximize their rewards. The ents will also leave ent trails behind as they pass from site to site, and stepping on the 2 trails they leave behind will give players increased experience/rewards for a short period of time. Gameplay loop: The idea of this minigame will be to quickly move from site to site, making sure you build a totem and decorate it at every site you visit. Along the way, it’s a good idea to fletch logs into decorations to put on the totems. Most items that you obtain from fletching a log can be used to decorate the totems (unstrung short/longbows, shields, etc…) There is also a new item players can fletch from redwood logs, called the redwood hiking staff. This is a cosmetic item requires 90 fletching, and provides 11 base fletching experience. Totem Fletching Plugin: The Runelite client offers a plugin which helps with all aspects of this minigame. This allows players to highlight the chatbox carving options, shows totem overlays, points overlays, and highlights ent trails. Rewards: When an ent admires your totem, they will leave behind vale offerings. These offerings can be collected from the totem sites, and players can rummage through them to obtain rewards. Players will be rewarded seeds, feathers, anima bark, birds nest, as well as a few new rewards: Bale of Flax: A stackable item that can be opened into 25 un-noted flax. Ent Branch: An item that can be fletched into atlatl dart shafts, or used to make greenman carvings/statues. Dirty arrowtips: Arrowtips that can be cleaned to provide a random assortment of arrowtips. The tier of arrowtips provided is better at higher levels. For example, cleaning these at level 40 will mostly provide steel arrowtips, with a rare chance to provide rune arrows, while at level 90, it will mostly provide adamant/mithril arrowtips, with a common chance to also get rune/dragon arrowtips. Bow string spool This is an item that can store bow strings in it. Players can use bow strings on the spool, or they will be automatically inserted into it when the player is turning flax into bowstrings. The initial capacity is 250 bowstrings, however players can add a duplicate bow string spool to their existing bow string spool to increase its capacity. This can be done up to 5 times, and increases rapidly the more spools you add. No spools added: 250 bowstrings 1 spool added: 500 bowstrings 2 spools added: 2,000 bowstrings 3 spools added: 5,000 bowstrings 4 spools added: 10,000 bowstrings 5 spools added: 100,000 bowstrings Fletching Knife: This is an equippable version of a knife, which goes in the offhand slot. It can also be used as a regular knife for fletching when in the player’s inventory, but it also has a 50% chance to increase the fletching speed by 1 tick. This normally should be a 100% chance, however on Alora, most fletching actions are a 2-tick action rather than a 3-tick action, so the speed up is only a 50% chance rather than being guaranteed with each fletch. Greenman mask: This is a cosmetic reward, but it can also be used with ent branches to make the POH decorations. Players can change the style of this mask to various other styles, such as normal, oak, willow, maple, yew, and magic styles. Players will also be given vale research points when rummaging through the offerings. These can be used in the Vale Research Exchange, run by Ranulph, to purchase the bow string spool, fletching knife, greenman mask, and ent branch. All of the items in this shop will also be obtainable from the vale offerings. POH decorations: Players can use the ent branches obtained from the Totem fletching activity to make the following decorations: Greenman Carving: This requires level 79 fletching, and provides 70 base fletching experience. It can be made with 5 ent branches, 1 greenman mask, and some yew logs. In can be built in various rooms, including the dining room, combat room, or throne room. Greenman statue: This requires level 53 fletching, and provides 55 base fletching experience. It can be made with 5 ent branches, 1 greenman mask, and some maple logs It can be built in the player’s formal/normal gardens. Custodia Stalker Den: This is a new dungeon near Auburnvale that houses a new type of slayer monster. This dungeon can be accessed from various entrances near Auburnvale, or using the teleport wizard. New Rewards: Broken Antler: These are common drops that can be fletched into atlatl dart tips. This requires level 74 fletching, and provides 10 base fletching experience. Cutting 1 broken antler provides 100 atlatl dart tips. Antler Guard: This is a tribrid shield item that requires level 50 Prayer to wield. It has stats that place it somewhere between an adamant and rune defender for melee, between an unholy book/book of law for ranged, and between an elemental tome/book of darkness for magic. Alchemist’s Signet: These signets can be used to open a chest in the Alchemical society’s headquarters (where the Mixology mini game takes place). Opening the chest guarantees 1 noted aldarium, and has a chance to provide various noted herbs, seeds, and noted secondaries.  Custodian Stalkers: There are 4 types of custodian stalkers: Juvenile custodian stalker: Requires 54 slayer to kill and is level 93 combat. Notable drops: Broken Antler Mature custodian stalker: Requires 67 slayer to kill and is level 117 combat. Notable drops: Broken Antler, Antler Guard. Elder custodian stalker: Requires 76 slayer to kill and is level 142 combat. Notable drops: Broken Antler, Antler Guard, Alchemist’s signet. Ancient custodian stalker: These are a superior variant of the elder custodian stalker. Requires 76 slayer to kill and is level 239 combat. Notable drops: Broken Antler, Antler Guard, Alchemist’s signet. Atlatl dart fletching: Players can now fletch atlatl darts. To do so, players must use atlatl dart tips on headless atlatl darts. This requires level 74 fletching to do. Atlatl dart tips can be obtained from chiseling broken antlers. Headless atlatl darts can be made from using atlatl dart shafts on feathers, the former of which can be made at level 74 fletching by cutting ent branches,  Gemstone Crab: Players can now fight the Gemstone crab in the Tlatli rainforest. This is a multi-combat boss that has a unique healthbar mechanic. Its healthbar works on a timer, rather than a hitpoint basis, allowing players to continuously attack the boss until it burrows away to one of the other locations. It can spawn in a total of 3 different areas, and there is a cave entrance at each area which will take the player directly to the crab boss if they enter. The timer lasts for 10 minutes at a time before the gemstone crab burrows away. When it burrows away, the 16 players who did the most damage will be able to mine the crab’s shell 3 gems. This requires a pickaxe, but does not provide any experience, and does not have any mining requirements. Any gems obtained will go into the gem back if possible. This boss only provides 87.5% of the normal combat experience, but is a superior afk training method at higher levels, since the gemstone crab cannot be killed faster by dealing more damage. The Gemstone crab is immune to bolt special effects. Tonali cavern: Players can now enter the Tonali Cavern, containing Grimy Lizards, Moss Giants, Skeletons, Giant rock crabs, Rockslugs, and Earthen Naguas. Players can get there by entering through the Tlatli rainforest entrances, or using the teleport wizard option. Earthen Nagua: These are a new level 128 enemy that requires 48 slayer to kill. These nagua have a special mechanic, where upon reaching 60% hitpoints, they enter a reinforced form, making themselves more resistant to slash and less resistant to crush. Hitting the nagua with a crush special attack while in this state will cause their armor to shatter and weaken them, reducing their defences. These nagua drop the Earthbound tecpatl, which are similar to the Glacial temotli/Sulphur blades, but for the stab attack style. Quetzal transportation and the Pendant of Ates have been expanded to include this new part of Varlamore. The shops and shortcuts in the new towns have all been mapped out, as well as the new farming patches (a few of which have been added to the farmer’s blessing). The teleport wizard can also take players to Auburnvale, the stalker den, and the Tonali cavern. Warriors Guild Shops: Players can now use the warrior’s guild food and potion shops. These are individually stocked for ironmen. Quality of Life: Event zone changes: Npc’s spawned during boss mass events will now distribute loot in a fairer way. Any players who dealt 5% or more of the boss’ total hitpoints will now have a chance to get the loot when the boss dies. This means that all players who are able to contribute a bit to the fight will have a fair chance, rather than just a small handful of players who can afford the best gear. The amount of crystal shards obtained from The Gauntlet and The Corrupted Gauntlet has been increased from 3-7 to 5-9, and 5-9 to 7-12 respectively. EIM/GIM/Realism players can now trade in emblems/relics for their full value. Previously EIM/GIM players would get half the gp, and realism players would get 1/3 the full amount. Players will now be notified that they’ve failed the “Let it seep in” combat achievement just before the fight with Araxxor begins if they have a poison/venom immunity or a serpentine helm equipped. The Helmet of the Moon is now a 1/100 drop from the Moon chest, rather than 1/300. Catching Dashing kebbits through Falconry will now provide raw dashing kebbit meat. This can be cooked at level 83 cooking, providing 215 cooking experience. When eaten, it will immediately heal 13 hitpoints, and then 10 more 7 ticks later. Added many new sounds to the Leviathan battle. When a Manticore sees a player and targets them for the first time, it will now wait 6 ticks before charging up it’s first attack. Removed the combination warning when adding the 2 moon key halves together. Bloats falling flesh attack will now begin 2 ticks later than usual after he stomps. Players can now purchase empty cups from the Culinaromancer's chest. The blue moon spear now has +5% magic damage. Added some more sounds to the Vardo Bug fixes: Players can no longer use the Wilderness slayer cave shortcuts while they are frozen. Fixed a bug where the gypsy’s table in Varrock had a broken animation on HD. Fixed a bug where some shop items would be sold for their sell back price (for example escape crystals were being sold for 20k rather than 250k each). This issue has been fixed for all shop items. Bloats stomp animation will now have a higher priority. Fixed a bug where the royal titans hiscore plugin killcount was not showing properly. The moon key tooth/loop halves are no longer tradable. Fixed a bug with Verzik's phase 2 acid pools using the incorrect object id. This would sometimes cause the tiles to turn black. Fixed a bug where the sound of xarpus firing poison projectiles at the beginning of the hardmode fight would play many times over. It will now only be sent once. Sotetseg will no longer deal any damage if it is dead/dying. Fixed a bug where tanning noted hides while already having a stack of the same noted tanned hides would create 2 separate stacks in the player's inventory. Fixed a bug where Masori armour wasn’t properly increasing max ranged hits. The molten sand pools/crystals will now appear slightly sooner during Sol Heredit phase transitions. Sol Heredit will now continue pursuing players while he is changing phases. The nightmare UI will now update more responsively. Health/totem charge status will now be updated every game tick. Parasites and Husks will no longer spawn underneath the nightmare if it is avoidable. Fixed a bug where dragon claws would alch for over 2m. They will now high alch 123k, and low alch for 82k. Fixed a bug where players could not exit the kephri/Ba-ba boss rooms. Sulphur naguas will now drain 5 prayer when using their special attack, rather than 5 damage. Fixed a bug where the Eclipse moon would sometimes cause the player to remain frozen if it was killed during the shadow clones phase. Fixed a bug where any text after a “<“ symbol when typing in the clan chat would be invisible. Zuk will no longer rotate with the player's movements. This was causing un-wanted animation glitches during the final wave. Multiple players can no longer attack Singles plus bosses (artio, spindel, cal'varion) at the same time. The banana peel in the Ba-ba fight will no longer be affected by the Raid damage modifiers, which would sometimes lead bananas destroying players for 67+ damage,  Phantom Muspah now uses the correct attack sounds for range/mage attacks. Muspah will only play 1 sound when a spike spawns during the fight. Fixed a bug where removing a bench in the POH when the player had 2 of the same types of bench built would cause both to be removed. Nightmare parasites will no longer drop any loot. Fixed a bug where falador ranger guards would attack using melee. The Phase 2 warden's max hit through prayer has been reduced for range attacks. Fixed a bug where feathers were costing 0 gp from the ironman shop. Fixed a bug where players could not buy the 5-year vetaran cape from Hans. Adjusted the Tumeken's shadow start graphic to be at the correct height. Fixed a typo when casting the upgraded death charge spell. Fixed a bug where players would sometimes be attackable before entering the boss room in the Tombs of Amascut. Fixed a bug where Zebak/Baba’s attacks would sometimes hit players after/as the boss was dying. Fixed a bug where the Yama divine severance contract wouldn't always turn overhead prayers off after 2 ticks. Fixed a bug where Yama would not follow the player closely in Phase 3 when the Contract of Sensory clouding was active. Players can no longer deal damage to yama with magic when the Glyphic attenuation contract is active. Players can no longer skip the enrage phase of the Whisperer with a thrall. Eternal donators now have a cap on how many duke supplies they can collect. They can still collect enough to make 40 potions at once. Fixed an issue on mobile where clicking the "Walk-here" option through the dropdown menu would path players to the incorrect tile. The sounds of molten sand spawning during the Colosseum will no longer play multiple sounds at once. Only one sound will be heard, even when multiple sand objects spawn within a short window. Adjusted the timing of the sounds of the crystals in the fight with sol heredit. They should no play a sound right when a crystal spawns, and then also play another sound if the player takes damage from the attack. The mager in the Colosseum will now check if the player's prayer is up 2 ticks earlier (as it previously was). Tier 1 prayers (the first 5) will now last a lot longer (36 seconds). Fixed a bug where the Combat Achievement bosses overview interface was showing the incorrect number of tasks. Callisto cub (retro) will now be hidden properly when using the Entity hider plugin with "Hide other players’ pets" setting enabled. This means at 1 hp, players will hit their normal max hit every time. Fixed a bug where the crawling hand item did not have a bank placeholder. Fixed an issue where the Dreadborn araxyte was using it's special attack too often. The dreadborn araxyte will no longer use its special attack if the player has a serpentine helm equipped. The "you pick a mushroom" chat message during the Duke Sucellus fight is now categorized as spam. Removed the granite helmet from the Collection log, as it is not currently obtainable. Fixed an issue with the Collection log overview being misaligned. Godwars dungeon minions/bosses will no longer try to target players after they’ve left the room. Vials of water now cost 50 gp each from the ironman shop. Fixed a bug where slayer helmets with shop ornament kits on them were protecting over more valuable items. Unlike other valuable untradalbe items, when a player dies in PvP, they do not lose the ornament kits attached to these helmets.       As always, with updates of this scale, there are bound to be some bugs -- please report them in the bug report section as soon as possible so that we may fix them promptly.   We hope you enjoy this update!   Regards, Omicron