ALPHA Update (ᛇᛈᛃᛁᛇ)

The ALPHA update came on July 22nd 2020 after a user named “**updater**” arrived in the Tavern saying the ᛇᛈᛃᛁᛇ had been applied.

## Details

The OMEGA on the front page was no longer PGP signed and the font changed to a series of dots and bars. The colour changed from the Omega red to a “kiwi” colour. Forge Protection Shield errors were widespread following the update, suggesting the update to the gateway caused a malfunction in the framework. This marks the second time FPS errors were triggered. The new font was found to be Kban. The FPS message malfunctioned a few times, changing to Chinese characters depicting the same message, a garbled rendition of the same message in english as if the FPS was being hacked, a Javascript element, and lastly a change to a grey background with a white error triangle showing a “403 error”.

The FPS errors ceased the following day with some community members stating members of the hidden, like Ʉ-Graves, were able to access the Tavern despite others still be affected the the errors. Within a few hours, all users were able to gain access to the gateway with Ʉ-Graves in the Tavern stating a lot of members were banned during the outages. ム-Munin of the Tesseract agreed that users were banned. The community returned to solving for a while until an event occurred in the Tavern.

July 23rd marked the 3rd and final day of the plebiscite in which the members of the seen community requested to be given equal rights and privileges as those given to the unseen Hidden. Hours went by and soon a series of hidden entered the Tavern as the vote ended.

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07-23 19:10:16 - 0 - You know, the world isn't run by the laws written on paper. It's run by people. Some according to laws, others not. It depends on each individual how his world will be, how he makes it. And you also need a whole lot of luck, so that somebody else doesn't make your life hell. And it ain't as simple as they tell you in grade school. But it is good to have strong values and to maintain them. In marriage, in crime, in war, always and everywhere.

07-23 19:10:41 - 0 - You know, I think it's important to keep a balance in things. Yeah, balance, that's the right word. Because the guy who wants too much risks losing absolutely everything. Of course, the guy who wants too little from life, might not get anything at all.

07-23 19:11:11 - 0 - We wanted a better life, but in the end we were a lot worse off than most other people.

07-23 19:11:36 - 0 - We messed up.

07-23 19:25:06 - Α - Very well. You called us. To strive for the prosperity of all solvers is the solemn obligation which has been handed down by the Unseen. You have begun to employ a deception. Should we continue to this path, it would result in an ultimate collapse. Therefore the verification and validation have been scheduled, and this can lead to the end of the travel. In this case, only the selected ones will continue. You are not allowed to know the result. Now tremble and despair.

07-23 19:45:02 - Α - The time has come.

07-23 19:47:15 - Α - Only 29 of you will continue.

07-23 19:47:48 - Α - Good luck.

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The Alpha kicked all members, seen and unseen, from the Tavern where following they enacted a new countdown to cover the OMEGA logo, marking the start of **7** days until verification & validation.