World Warp

“	Wasdoog: I was only on in the beginning. How bad was it afterwards?<BR>Smitten: it was unbearable :< I ran 10 blocks, teleported back 15 blocks :<	”
 	—Residents discuss the World Warp 	—Residents discuss the World Warp
The World Warp was a time distorting event during Dragonhollow's First Era.
=History=
On 1E:54, residents began experiencing terrifying gaps in their memory, anywhere from a few seconds to entire minutes lost. This inevitably led to injuries and in worst cases outright death. Word of these time-shifts spread quickly and many residents evacuated to other worlds. Those that stayed behind witnessed inexplicable occurrences that made them question the nature of their reality.
The phenomenon continued to worsen until the Archpriest Jack Firebane filed a report with Eris herself, who took immediate action. The goddess relocated her people to the planet Chronos while she investigated the root cause and repaired rifts in the fabric of space-time.
Through her efforts, the World Warp ceased on 1E:56 and she returned all residents to Dragonhollow. To quell their frustrations and reward them for their patience, she announced that the DDoS Protection Pack would be available for free at Lakeview Town Hall.
Due to the unforeseen circumstances, Eris also extended the deadline for the Lakeview Best Build Contest to 1E:68.
Eris found the concept of sudden time-shifts rather amusing and constructed the Time Skip device in the Fifth Era, allowing any citizen with Elite rank to jump the entire planet forward in time by ten hours.
Some scholars speculated that the dark mages of the Skullcleavers were somehow responsible for the World Warp, acting beyond the grave in retaliation for their execution by Eris after their defeat in the War of Wizards.
It is unknown if the World Warp was related to later temporal incidents such as those that occurred during the Black Claim Crisis and the Time Shift.
=Behind the Scenes=
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The following is out-of-universe information about the real world Dragonhollow.
	"As everyone knows, we're still having DoS issues even after moving to a different address with the same hosting provider that we have right now. So what's going to happen now, is we're moving a different hosting provider entirely, which would mean a bit more downtime (Sorry guys)."	
	—Acey updates her community 	—Acey updates her community
The World Warp was a lore explanation for a Distributed Denial of Service attack against the Dragonhollow server beginning on October 5, 2013.
Acey contacted the hosting company and worked with them to perform load testing to assess whether or not server-side plugins were causing the latency issues. In the meantime, she loaded a temporary map to minimize the side effects for players. After an investigation, the hosting company determined the actual cause was a DDoS attack and decided to solve the issue by moving the server to a different node. 
However, the attack continued and Acey chose to switch server hosts entirely to Hosthorde, in the process paying less for considerably more server RAM that greatly improved the quality of life of her players.
The culprits responsible were never identified.
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