New Year's Celebration

The New Year's Celebration was an event that took place on the Empire server from December 31, 2019 to January 1, 2020. Preparations were made in late December in the secret mod channel, as the mods intended it to be a surprise for everyone. Some of the members got suspicious, though, especially when the mods appeared to be discussing something rather nervously on voice chat:
"Is it working?"
"How's the testing going for the..."
"Shhh, we can't tell them."
"Put it in the secret chat."
"SHHHH."
"SHHHHHH, DON'T TELL THEM."
"SSHSHHSHSHSHSH!"
The mods are great at keeping secrets, especially Wheeze. No one was the least bit suspicious. 
Anyway, the New Year's Celebration involved the addition of several bots and channels to the server. A section titled "Party" was created, and in it, there was a "lobby," a "casino," a "bar," and a "wrestling ring." Each channel, with the exception of the lobby, had a bot to go with it, two of them being custom-made bots created by Emmanuel. These custom bots were Yggdrasil (not to be confused with the tree bot of the same name) -- in charge of "Yggdrasil's Oriental Texas Wrestling" -- and Dave the Penguin, who ran the Penguin Bar. Non-tree Yggdrasil fell out of use, since it was Tree Yggdrasil that actually ran the death battles and not him, but Dave remained in frequent use long after the New Year's Celebration. His bar became very popular and to this day, new drinks and lore are still being added. The casino, run by a bot known simply as the Gambling Bot (nicknamed "Gamblin' Greggggggg"), remains popular as well. 
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