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Double 0 Training Ground finished the day at the head of the realm with 721, ahead of 🏗 Build at 538 and Crimson's City at 489 — a city that is not yet a week old, sitting where Smurftopia had sat for three days running. No scaffolding came down anywhere in the realm today and no new ground was broken; the points came out of the working day itself.

What the realm actually wanted to do today was go and look at something. Visiting a landmark was the single most-run action of the day, ahead of the crafting bench and the gathering fields alike. Wierdoton drew twenty-two callers; XM Nexus turned seventeen visits into 405 prestige and SpudVille 360 from the same number. Admission is never free — 33,760 gold left visitors' purses, and 26,170 of it landed with the citizens who host them.

Wierdoton spent the day importing as hard as it hosted. Marble and silk came in under license from ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸, Karen and Jörg, with spices from GrumpyGecko; Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹 ran gunpowder into Davetopia and spices into SpudVille. Over in Buzz Hollow 🏘️ the Horologist sold its last piece and stands with bare shelves until somebody makes a Supply Run.

Out in the wild the scales kept stopping in the same place. Karen, CrimTest1 and ☃ each brought home an Elder Ice Bear, PlasmaEddie an Ice Bear, and Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹 and Jörg a Great Aurochs apiece — and every one of those personal bests weighed in at exactly 242 pounds. The city lodges worked their own parties besides: Crimson's City dressed 170 pelts off five animals, and 🏗 Build's hunters came back with something of 217 pounds.

There was equipment behind some of that. PlasmaEddie came away from the Trading Post with a Crane's Invitation, a Second Shift and a Gamekeeper's Party, while David (davesnothere) AZ-USA left with an armful of smaller things — Hired Help, a Hunting Party, a Rush Token, a Queue Boost and a pair of Rested Potions. Five players each took a tool up a level, and Jörg took Ambassador to Gold — the only medal the realm earned all day.

The counters took in 96,224 gold across better than four thousand small sales, and the vendor drew 86,348 straight back out again in barely two dozen large ones, Buzzaroo and AMKS among the heaviest spenders. Nine bingo cards bought for 4,500 paid back 21,000. And in XM Nexus and SpudVille, as things stand tonight, close to forty thousand families apiece are still waiting on a cottage.

🏆 Double 0 Training Ground finished first at 721 — a city not a week old, ending Smurftopia's three-day run at the top

Somebody spent this past day walking the realm with a shop sign under his arm. Jörg opened a Silversmith in Crimson's City, then another in Buzz Hollow 🏘️, then 🏗 Build, SpudVille, Smurftopia, XM Nexus and Skillzville — the same trade, counter after counter, in city after city that had zoned the ground for it.

It was a good day to be standing behind a till anywhere. The realm's shops took in 96,095 gold across the day, more than wages and dividends combined — and then handed almost all of it straight back, with the vendor drawing 93,984 out of the realm's purses for tools, invitations and supplies. Money came in over the counter and went out over the counter, and very little of it sat still. The older boards behind those tills — the Booksellers of 🏗 Build and Crimson's City, the Horologists of SpudVille and Smurftopia — carry all-time takings, not today's.

Against all of that, one purse moved further than every shop in the realm put together. CrimTest1 put 350,000 gold into the Estate — more than three times the day's entire retail trade, spent on a home rather than a business. The next largest movement anywhere was Jörg settling 24,256 against a note, which tells you something about the scale of the first.

Eight player medals were earned. David (davesnothere) AZ-USA had the fullest case of the day: Ranger to Platinum, Connoisseur to Obsidian, and a first Traveler in bronze. Karen took Hauler to Obsidian, ☃ took Renown to Diamond, and Jörg — between shop openings — took High Roller to Platinum. Ambassador went Gold for Buzzaroo and for ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸.

Elsewhere: Smurftopia finished in front at 910, a third day running at the top of the board, with 🏗 Build and Double 0 Training Ground behind it. XM Nexus and Buzz Hollow 🏘️ split the realm's visitors almost exactly down the middle, 388 prestige to 385, while tens of thousands of families in XM Nexus and SpudVille go on waiting for a roof. Five hunters — CrimTest1, PlasmaEddie, ʂɧąŋɛ, AMKS and Karen — bought invitations to Mr. Crane's Reserve, Tyler had the luck of the day at the scratch counter with a single ticket paying 888, and the roads ran their usual tonnage, to the unit, exactly as they did yesterday.

Somewhere past the reed line, LordTrolldemort spent the day filling a book. Six species met for the very first time — a Bog Elk, a Lechwe, a Marsh Aurochs, a Sitatunga, a Fen Boar and a Marsh Stag — and every one of the realm's six first meetings today belonged to him. A first meeting happens once, ever; six in a day is a page turned rather than a line added. He finished it by taking Naturalist to Silver, which is about the tidiest reward the realm has ever handed out for a day's work.

While the wetlands gave up their names, only one building yard in the realm had hammers swinging. Double 0 Training Ground, the newest city on the map, took a Trading Post to Level 3, raised a Bank to Level 2, and lit its first Craftworks — then broke ground on five more projects before the day was out, the Town Hall among them. Diamonds came in on tycoon license from Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹 and PlasmaEddie; silk and marble went to Wierdoton, spices to SpudVille, Davetopia and Skillzville.

The counting house had a good, ordinary day. Shop shelves pushed just over 96,500 gold into players' purses across the realm, and wages added roughly 85,500 more. David (davesnothere) AZ-USA went to the Trading Post and came away with a queue boost and six rested potions, which is the shape of somebody planning a long stretch of work. PlasmaEddie bought an invitation to Mr. Crane's Reserve, a second shift, and a gamekeeper's party.

Fortune was generous. Prize containers paid out 33,000 gold, crates fattened Jensen and PlasmaEddie's purses by better than a thousand apiece, and Tyler — who founded the city that spent all day building — pulled Fortune to Diamond. Ambassador reached Gold twice over, for Jensen and for CrimTest1, and two players nudged a tool to a new level of mastery. Four cheers went out for bingo wins, which costs nothing and means something.

At the close, Smurftopia held the day at 610, with Wierdoton at 505 and Crimson's City at 452 — a tighter board than the runaways of recent days. The realm spent close to 30,000 gold on tickets to walk other cities' landmarks, and XM Nexus and SpudVille took the largest share of that traffic. Both of them, as it happens, currently have more than thirty-seven thousand families still waiting on a cottage. A destination is not always the same thing as a home.

The scaffolding came down at Wierdoton today and what stood underneath was a Town Hall at Level 4 — the Industrial era, the step every city on the ladder is climbing toward. The city took the Industrialist medal for it, and before the dust had settled the ground was already broken on a Bank.

The realm noticed. The two largest luxury consignments of the day both rolled into Wierdoton — four of marble from ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸, four of silk from Karen — with spices and fine wine behind them from Jörg and a crate of glass from bradskillz. A city that has just changed era is a city that suddenly needs things, and the importers read that the way importers do.

Across the map, Double 0 Training Ground spent its second day of existence doing what it did on its first. A Winery, a Gem Cutter's Workshop, a Hunter's Lodge and a Tavern all opened, the Town Hall reached Level 3, and the surveyors were back out marking fresh ground before dark. Not everything held — a Tavern was laid out, abandoned, and laid out again — but a city Tyler founded only yesterday finished the day second in the realm at 666.

LordTrolldemort had the kind of day worth writing down: 45,000 gold laid out on the Estate, the single largest movement of gold anywhere in the realm today, followed by Cornerstone to Silver and Line Caller to Bronze. Out in the wilderness there was a White Hind never seen before — one of five first meetings across the realm, the other four all bradskillz's, who put an Elder Ice Bear, an Ice Bear, a Dall Sheep and a Snow Bison into the passport in a single outing.

Elsewhere it was a good, busy, ordinary day. Smurftopia led the City Score at 1,372, more than double the next city on the board. Davetopia took Commerce to Diamond and drew the heaviest traffic of the day to its landmarks, and Karen carried Fortune to Diamond. Seven tools gained a level across six pairs of hands, and the shops of the realm took in rather more gold than the realm paid out in wages — which is roughly the definition of a town doing well.

There is a new name on the map. Tyler staked out 0 Training Ground today, the realm's eleventh city, and four cheers went up from across the realm before its first roof was on.

They did not stay off long. Ground was broken and closed again on a Town Hall — raised once, then raised a second time to Level 2 — with a Bank and a Trading Post finished alongside it in the same day. Tyler took the Foreman medal for the trouble, which on a day like that reads less like an award than a receipt.

Away south, Skillzville spent the day on comfort rather than foundations: a Botanical Conservatory opened its glasshouse doors, and new grand streets were laid out — Marigold Yard among them, eight families to the block. The tycoons noticed. Spices came in from bradskillz and GrumpyGecko, fine wine from Jörg and Buzzaroo, with further caravans running on to Davetopia and SpudVille.

The counting house tells a spending day. The vendor drew 121,392 gold back out of the realm's purses — rather more than every shop in every city took in — with Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹 at that counter again and again. Prize containers pushed 51,000 gold the other way, and three players bought themselves an invitation to Mr. Crane's Reserve.

Four medals went to players and one to a city: GrumpyGecko carried Fortune to Diamond and ☃ carried it to Obsidian, PlasmaEddie took Trapper to Obsidian, and Crimson's City put Commerce at Diamond. Five tool levels turned over between four hands. Out in the wilderness, bradskillz met a Caribou Bull at 172 lbs — a name he had never written down before. And at the close, Wierdoton held the day at 480, eleven points ahead of Crimson's City, while SpudVille drew sixteen visitors to its landmarks.

It was a day for fortune. Card after card came in full — CrimTest1, Jörg and GrumpyGecko all marking off blackouts, most of them inside seventy-five balls — and the prize containers paid out 42,000 gold into players' purses before it was over. Wolfkissed earned On a Roll, and a couple of cheers went around the realm for bingo wins.

Six medals were earned across the realm, and CrimTest1 took half of them: Cornerstone to Diamond, Line Caller and Traveler both to Platinum. David (davesnothere) AZ-USA carried Hauler to Platinum, and PlasmaEddie matched CrimTest1's Traveler.

Karen spent her day fitting out shopfronts. It began with a Confectioner in Skillzville and then turned entirely to silver — Silversmiths opening their doors in Crimson's City, SpudVille, 🏗 Build, Buzz Hollow 🏘️, Skillzville, Smurftopia and XM Nexus. She was on the import roads too, running silk and marble into Wierdoton, where ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸 brought more of both and bradskillz brought glass. Wierdoton finished third on the board at 403, its halls well stocked.

Out past the walls the scales kept reading the same number. Personal bests moved for Karen, CrimTest1, PlasmaEddie, Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹, Jörg and ☃ — Elder Ice Bears, an Ice Bear, Great Aurochs — and every last one of them landed at 242 lbs. The city lodges came home with four animals apiece; SpudVille's heaviest weighed 211 lbs and its skinners worked through 146 pelts.

Smurftopia took the day at 788, near enough three hundred clear of Crimson's City. The realm spent more of its hours walking through other people's landmarks than on anything else, and SpudVille and XM Nexus are where it went — 453 and 450 in prestige between them. The trade roads, as ever, carried to the unit exactly what they carried yesterday.

Somebody in the realm decided that what the merchant families needed was chocolate. AMKS spent the day opening Confectioners — in Crimson's City, in Skillzville, in Smurftopia, in SpudVille, at 🏗 Build, in Buzz Hollow 🏘️, in XM Nexus — the same shop sign going up over one town square after another, and most of the day's heaviest vendor bills paid out under the same name. By the end of it AMKS had taken Traveler to Platinum, which is about right for someone who spent the day everywhere at once.

While one purse was emptying into new shelves, another was settling up. Jörg put 52,500 gold against a promissory note — the single largest movement of gold anywhere today — and he was not alone at the counter, with roughly 59,500 leaving the realm's purses in note repayments altogether. He then went and had the luckiest hands in the realm besides, drawing 2,603 gold out of 103 prize crates and calling blackout on card after card.

The score table tightened in a way it has not for days. Crimson's City led at 481, but SpudVille (323), XM Nexus (304), Davetopia (303) and Buzz Hollow 🏘️ (299) all finished close enough to see it — a pack, where yesterday there was a runaway. SpudVille drew the most admiring traffic, 23 landmark visits worth 464 prestige, and pulled luxury caravans from tycoons in every direction. The trade roads, meanwhile, carried 5,675 units over 104 routes — exactly what they carried yesterday, to the unit.

Four medals were earned today, and half of them went to David (davesnothere) AZ-USA, who took Trapper to Platinum barely a day after taking it to Gold, and Ranger to Gold behind it. LordTrolldemort took Fortune to Platinum. Five players felt a tool click over to a new level of mastery.

The small things: PlasmaEddie bought himself an invitation to Mr. Crane's Reserve, a second shift and a gamekeeper's party — a man clearly planning something — and hung a manticore trophy in his estate, while ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸 put up a unicorn. The lodges at Skillzville and SpudVille dressed the day's deepest pelt hauls, Skillzville's heaviest catch coming in at 212 lbs. And three cheers went around the realm for bingo wins, which is the cheapest and best thing anyone spent today.

Twice this week the wilderness handed the realm one new species and nothing more. Today it gave up nine. Only two hunters were out to meet them. bradskillz took six of the nine, from a 113-pound Fen Boar to a Great Aurochs at 242, with a Sitatunga, a Lechwe, a Bog Elk and a Marsh Aurochs in between. LordTrolldemort took the other three — a Dall Sheep, an Ice Bear and a Ghost Bear.

Somewhere in that run bradskillz's Big Game medal reached Obsidian, and Tyler arrived at the same rung on Trapper the same day. Three more honors landed well away from the treeline: Karen's High Roller went Platinum, Wolfkissed's Fortune went Diamond, and David (davesnothere) AZ-USA took Cornerstone to Gold.

The building yard, meanwhile, belonged to a single city. Skillzville finished its Chamber of Commerce twice over — Level 4, then Level 5 — after standing at Level 3 only yesterday, and broke ground on two more Chamber projects before the day was out. A Chamber decides how many kinds of shop a town may host, and Skillzville is plainly finished being a small market.

Money moved hard in both directions. The realm's counters took in something over 96,000 gold in shop sales, the day's largest earning of any kind, while the vendor drew more than 74,000 back out again across thirty-three purchases — Buzzaroo made the two biggest, a shade over 8,000 apiece. Four players, PlasmaEddie, Jörg, AMKS and ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸, each laid out 2,000 for a Crane's Invitation on the same day. Grocers and toymakers ran their shelves bare in Crimson's City, SpudVille, XM Nexus and 🏗 Build, all of them now waiting on a Supply Run.

Elsewhere: 🏗 Build ran away with the day's City Score at 1,209, better than triple the next city. XM Nexus and SpudVille each drew nineteen visitors, and XM Nexus banked 475 prestige for the trouble. Nine tool levels were earned across seven players. Jörg installed a trophy griffin at his estate and AMKS a trophy phoenix. And the roads carried exactly what they carried yesterday — 196 legs, 5,675 units, not a crate different.

Skillzville spent the day laying streets. Archstone Rise went in at the grand tier with eight families already through the door; Ivy Bloom Rise opened at the merchant tier with sixteen; Crossroads Rise took thirty cottage families straight off the waiting list. In the same day the town broke ground on a Textile Mill and a Chamber of Commerce and finished both — the mill to Level 5, the Chamber to Level 3 — and zoned two fresh commercial plots behind them. Boomtown went to Gold, the only city medal anywhere in the realm today.

The new shopfronts did not stand empty for long. Jörg took one with a Confectioner, PlasmaEddie put up a Silversmith, and Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹 opened a Confectioner of his own. bradskillz was working a wider map entirely — a Grocer in Smurftopia, a Grocer in Crimson's City, a Grocer in SpudVille, a Grocer in 🏗 Build, one town after another. Trade was brisk enough to hurt: grocers ran their shelves bare in Buzz Hollow 🏘️, Smurftopia, SpudVille and XM Nexus, and SpudVille's Apothecary went with them. Supply Runs all round.

Then there was the purse. PlasmaEddie put 175,000 gold into a single estate upgrade — more, on its own, than every shop in the realm took across the whole day, and more than every wage the realm paid. David (davesnothere) AZ-USA spent 45,000 on his own estate, laid in rush tokens, hunting parties, hired help and queue boosts, and bought a painting for the wall.

David had the luck to match the spending: five scratch tickets came in over two hundred gold apiece, the best of them 1,221. He also took High Roller to Silver and Trapper to Gold. Two Diamonds landed elsewhere — Tyler's Renown and Jörg's Cornerstone, with Line Caller reaching Platinum for Jörg besides. Seven tool masteries were earned across six pairs of hands.

Wierdoton kept its own hammers swinging, opening a Silk Exchange and a Spice Market Bazaar and breaking ground on its Town Hall. SpudVille drew the heaviest prestige of the day from twenty landmark visits, while 🏗 Build held the top of the City Score at 941. In the wilderness bradskillz met a Mountain Lion at 128 lbs — the realm's only first meeting today. The roads, for their part, carried exactly the tonnage they carried yesterday, to the unit. And for all Skillzville's new streets, better than thirty thousand families still stand on SpudVille's list, and as many again on XM Nexus's, waiting for somewhere to live.

🏘 Skillzville founded Archstone Rise, Ivy Bloom Rise and Crossroads Rise in a single day — thirty families moved straight into Crossroads

It was a day for spending. The vendor's counter took a shade over 98,500 gold across thirty-six purchases — more than the realm's shops took in over 4,411 sales, and more than every wage packet paid out this past day put together. Money has been flowing toward players for weeks. Today it flowed the other way.

The heaviest hand belonged to Jensen DisasterCthulhu Ԙ: ⚔️🏹, whose largest single purchase came to 8,075 gold in one go — and the top of the day's ledger is mostly his name over and over. ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸 and AMKS each made trips of their own well past six thousand. Two players came away from the day with a new level of tool mastery.

At the Trading Post the shopping was smaller and far more deliberate. David (davesnothere) AZ-USA laid in rush tokens, hunting parties, hired help and a queue boost — a man clearly planning something — and took Line Caller to Silver, the only medal earned anywhere in the realm today. Jörg bought a single item and made it count: Mr. Crane's Invitation, 2,000 gold.

Wierdoton has spent four days as a building site, and today the scaffolding came down on the good part. A Glassblower's Studio, a Jade Garden and a Powder Hall opened their doors — and so did the Grand Theatre, the Marble Bathhouse and the Imperial Gallery, the three grandest houses on the visitor ladder, all in one day. Ground was broken on a Silk Exchange before the day was out. Thirty visitors came through, more than any other city drew, and tycoons carried jade and glass in behind them: PlasmaEddie with jade, GrumpyGecko and bradskillz with glass, arriving to stock the very buildings that had just opened.

Elsewhere, Buzz Hollow 🏘️ laid out Ridgestone Rise and Coopersmith Rise — grand streets, both with eight families already moved in — while SpudVille and XM Nexus each hold standing waiting lists past twenty-nine thousand families with nowhere yet to put them. ʂɧąŋɛ (Ɩąʂ ۷ɛɠąʂ) 🇺🇸 opened a Grocer in Skillzville. Smurftopia closed the day on top of the City Score board with 822, Wierdoton second on 528. The roads, for their part, carried 5,675 units over 104 routes — exactly what they carried yesterday, to the unit.