All-personnel broadcast: Rampancy HL is up! I've got a backlog of new accounts to add, so bear with me. Carry on.

Most of you who frequent RHL probably already know that it's down. I've just gotten the scoop from the SysAdmin - there was a power outage at the site. Unfortunately, Fractalus is out of town, exhibiting some of his artwork. The web server (on which R.net runs) returned to service very quickly, but the separate box which handles RHL and some other functions will be down until at least Tuesday evening. Sorry for the inconvenience everyone.

Well, if you've been paying attention to the forum here or the RHL news area, you are aware that I have been thinking of taking the R.net Hotline server to login-based access.

Well, now it's official. To obtain your account, send an E-mail with your password to hotline@rampancy.net. Logins will be somewhat straightforward for consistency. (A persn named Dark Stranger will have a login of darkstranger )

Sorry about that little vacation... we saw it fit to celebrate Canada Day as well as Independance Day, and all days in between. It may take a few days, but I think the others will recover eventually.

With typical Canadian reserve and modesty, the Great White North turns 133 today. We salute you, O Canada!

Sorry about the forum problems over the last hour... the frankenscript finally broke, and it took a whirlwind course in sloppy code to get it working again. Feeling rather pumped right now, but at least the forum is working again.

For our nocturnal viewers out there we apologize for last night's down-time. Sprint began performing some maintenance on our pipe at around 0030 Bungie Daylight Time last night and royally botched things up until early this morning. Sprint gets R.net's Raspberry of the Week award!

Poor neglected poll, suffering our slow updating with its limitless patience. Wrapping up last week's poll, which asked how the cancellation of Oni's multiplayer affected buying decisions, we apparently have a two to one split among the 450 voters: