Hello,   A week ago I announced the Alora Quiz event: https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/81567-aloras-new-year-quiz1b-in-prizes/   I'm happy to conclude the event and announce the winners. I'll announce the three winners for the prizes and all the answers to the questions below. I'd like to thank @[member="Tauri"] and @[member="Omicron"] for helping with the event, and others that offered to help.   Winners 1st Place @[member="To gain"] - 22 Points 500M   2nd Place @[member="Don Fiji"] - 22 Points 350M   3rd Place @[member="Selenagomez"] - 17 Points 150M   *Tie breakers were decided by who answered the quiz first. In this case To Gain answered before Fiji to take 1st place, and Selenagomez answered before Str1 to take 3rd place.     Answers [spoiler] Q1 - Alora's release was first mentioned on what platform? A - The answer is Rune-Server. The topic below was the first advertisement thread for Alora. https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape-development/rs2-server/projects/633664-osrs-alora-quality-old-school-gameplay.html   Q2 - What server is Alora based on? A - The answer is found in Alora's Rune-Server thread, which is Hyperion. However, we also took "Impact"(name of Omicron's previous server) as an answer as well. https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape-development/rs2-server/advertise/647059-alora-revenant-caves-mage-arena-ii-live-inferno-raids-hardcore-ironman.html   Q3 - What was Alora's official release date? A - The answer can be found in any of Alora's old anniversary event topics, or Alora's Rune-Server thread. We updated this so that 1 point for correct month & year, and 2 points for exact date. https://www.rune-server.ee/runescape-development/rs2-server/advertise/647059-alora-revenant-caves-mage-arena-ii-live-inferno-raids-hardcore-ironman.html   Q4 - What piece of content has remained unchanged from Omicron's previous server until now? A - We decided to let people answer this and then we would accept the answer or decline it. Some answers included: Crystal Key chest, and Information messages/tips.   Q5 - Who designed Alora's current website? A - As seen by this Announcement, Slyther designed Alora's current website. https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/62561-new-website-design/   Q6 - The forum Userbar rework was done by who? A - Dumbshit made a thread with a bunch of userbars he worked on and after some feedback, he sent another batch of userbars and they are the ones we have today.   Q7 - Alora used to have a Donator-only forum section, true or false? A - False.   Q8 - What was the highest donator rank on Alora's release? A - As seen by the picture below, taken on Alora's release, Legendary was the highest donator rank. https://i.imgur.com/ca3SpLD.png   Q9 - Who was Alora's first Community Manager? A - Blank was Alora's first Community Manager. Raw Envy was the Advertisement manager and Lowkey was an administrator.   Q10 - There is 1 discontinued rank on alora, what is it? A - We made a mistake with this question, there's actually 3 ranks. Those are the Wiki-Editor, Developer, and Website Developer ranks. https://i.imgur.com/rRU5y0K.png   Q11 - Name as many Event Managers as you can. 1 point for at least 5 correct names. Bonus 1 point if you get them all. A - The following players held the Event Manager rank at some point. All can be found in the Staff History thread. uTorrent, F 8, Scenery, Jare, Lowkey, Hellish, Paine, KP, Moe, To Gain, Kyle, 99, Tauri. https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/42789-staff-history/   Q12 - Name all members of the staff team on release. A - Omicron, Blank, Ikta, Raw Envy, Lowkey, Python, Caliphate, Nick, Super Saiyan, Ecstasy. https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/42789-staff-history/   Q13 - Name all 4 forum users with over 2,500 forum posts. A - Sheep, MT, Diva, Moe https://i.imgur.com/2C14AF4.png   Q14 - Name the player with the most player referrals. A - Life https://i.imgur.com/awCHddp.png   Q15 - Who was the first forum user to reach 1,000 forum posts? A - Diva was the first person to reach 1,000 forum posts.   Q16 - Who was the first in-game player to achieve 200M experience in every skill? A - Unknown was the first player to achieve this milestone, although he would proceed to reset his combat stats and quit after doing so which is why you don't see him on the hiscores front page. https://i.imgur.com/ltpkZLv.png   Q17 - Who were the first players to achieve 200M experience in every skill on the following game modes: Normal, IM, UIM, HC, EIM, GIM. Bonus point if you get them all right. A -  Normal: Unknown, June/July 2017 IM: Hc adex, Late 2017/Early 2018 UIM: Nacyto, 5 May 2018 HC: HC, 21 December 2019 EIM: Noobair, 20 December 2019 GIM: Kharyrll, 19 March 2020   Q18 - Who was the first player to achieve 1,000 wilderness kills? A - 5   Q19 - Who was the first player to achieve 2,000 wilderness kills? A - Ragragrag46   Q20 - Who was the first player to solo the Theatre of Blood? A - According to the TOB competition thread, it was Weak Mental. https://i.imgur.com/B7UVzfv.png, https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/37811-raids-2-theatre-of-blood-competition/   Q21 - Who were the first three players to achieve an infernal cape? A - Casual, Take Notes, Taxseazon https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/18292-the-inferno-statistics/   Q22 - One player is a handful of pets away from completing the All Pets section of the collection log. Who is it? A - Slight mistake here, but we accepted Detharrow26 or Extremedanny as an answer.   Q23 - One player went particularly dry for one item at a certain boss and it became a meme in the Alora Community. What item and what player? A - We took any answer and accepted/declined it. Some examples were Morgen and Tanzanite Mutagen, hc adex and K'ril Tsutsaroth pet.   Q24 - During the last Leagues event, one player missed out on a top 3 placement by how many points, and who was the player? A - As seen by this thread, Reah missed out on top three by 10 points. https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/77073-league-winners-announced-extension/   Q25 - Name any two big clans from Early Alora(2016). A - Once again, we took in all answers and accepted/declined whatever was correct. A lot of players answered ICE, which was opened in 2018. Some answers included any Ironman clan(Iron Help, Ironman OG, Iron Clan), The Next Generation, Dill Pickles.   Q26 - What was the Chambers of Xeric room layout before the big COX update? A - Shamans, Vasa, Vanguards, Ice demon, Thieving, Mystics, Tekton, Mutadiles, Tightrope, Olm Video   Q27 - During one of Alora's first boss mass events, a major fuckup happened. What happened? A - Chaos Elemental was spawned by the Event Manager, Chaos elemental then teleported players from the event area to the wilderness.   Q28 - Name the 5 players that won Alora's first PvM Cup. A - The Tournament cup east of ::thieve provided the answer. King Purple, Not a Nerd, Syms, Hot Pies, F 8 https://i.imgur.com/T75Ud4C.png   Q29 - Name the 2 players that won Alora's first PvP Cup. A - The Tournament cup east of ::thieve provided the answer. Night, Theo https://i.imgur.com/jRHf6St.png   Q30 - Name the player that won Alora's first King of the Skill event. A - The Tournament cup east of ::thieve provided the answer. Sololite https://i.imgur.com/FWNgioU.png   Q31 - Which player donated the most to Alora's last Anniversary event? A - Gimslaving https://www.alora.io/forums/topic/80549-aloras-6th-anniversary-drop-party-900-value-giveaway-65b-donated-so-far/   Q32 - What is Alora's most liked thread? A - 217 Likes, Alora's 5th Anniversary - Drop Party/Giveaway ! 85B+ Donated https://www.alora.io/forums/best-content/   [/spoiler]

Gamers welcome to the the New Year edition of the Alora Times! We are going into this new year with an awesome player base, a bunch of great content, a great staff team, and saving the best for last, an awesome owner! So get ready to enjoy a nice read hopping into 2023 and I hope to continue delivering a great read for everyone to enjoy. Also make sure to follow Alora on FB and Instagram above and join the discord.    <3 Christmas Update, Completionist Capes, Theatre of Blood Rework, The Mimic, Extended Holiday Sale, & More! - 26th December 2022     January Vote Competition [Jan 1st - Jan 20th] - 1st January 2023     Bonus Schedule for January -  1st January 2023   If you want to check out the entire update list, click here. There were no new rule updates during this month.         The Official Rules can be found here. The latest Staff Changes are as follows:   Promotions: El Mufasa has been promoted to Forum Moderator. Krest has been promoted to Forum Moderator.   Secondary ranks/Name changes: Santino has added a secondary rank to Mark Normand. Krest has removed secondary rank from Almighty Ty and added a secondary rank to GIM Krest. El Mufasa has removed secondary rank from Macha.         For more info on Staff Updates, click here.   This month we have a some good interviews from some long time players. Up first is VARlANT.    Lucifers GIM: What are your current goals in Alora VARlANT: Current long term goals are pet hunting, collection logs, and 4.6b total xp. Short term goal would be high score ranks and going for 750 collections logged.   Lucifers GIM: What keeps you motivated to keep the grind going? VARlANT: What motivates me is learning how to pvm more efficiently and slowly becoming a sweaty gamer while also seeing my ranks in the classic high scores go up.   Lucifers GIM: Whats the most memorable place you've visited? VARlANT: The most memorable place would be Disney in Florida, it's where I took my wife on our first get away trip a year after being together and it's where we plan to take our new born on her first birthday to have plenty of pictures and memories.   Lucifers GIM: If you have 24 hours to do anything you want, what would that look like? VARlANT: If I had 24hrs to do anything it'd be to just stay at home with my wife and baby and to spend the whole day just enjoying ourselves.   Lucifers GIM: What's the best gift you've every received? VARlANT: The best gift I've ever received was the life I live, my work life balance hasn't always been the best, but through a lot of hard work I live a very comfortable life with a bright future. My wife and I have an extremely loving and supporting family, and considering the conditions I've grown up in, it's night and day and not a single day goes by where I don't appreciate and acknowledge that blessing.     And up next we have Tauri!   Lucifers GIM: What made you want to start streaming and become the new events manager for Alora? Tauri: I have streamed before I became a staff member in Alora, and a few days before the 6th Anniversary Drop Party I thought to myself, "Dang I wish Lowkey would be around and stream the event," as he used to and those were always bangers in my eyes. Therefore I came up with the idea of trying to stream myself, and I reached out to Omicron if they would be interested in me providing some content regarding the event and they were down to do it. Now people want me to stream more frequently but I personally would stream whenever there is content to cover (Anniversary, Christmas, Etc.)    When it comes to wanting to become an Event Manager, I used to help previous Event Managers with various events during my first stint as a staff member in 2019. Since I saw Moe was the only person handling events, taking a major toll on him cause of his other duties as wall, I reached out to him and offered my helping hand, which he accepted. From there, my interest in hosting events and potentially becoming an Event Manager only increased.   Lucifers GIM: Any inside track on new events you have been planning for our fellow Alorians? Tauri: There definitely is some interesting stuff I would love to experiment with, for example the Quiz Event hosted by H has a lot of potential in my eyes. One idea is to try and create quizzes for each month over the course of 2023, completion and result of the quiz giving you a certain amount of points and in the end of the year, we will make a summary and announce the winners.   Other than that, I would say that most of my event ideas are rather spontaneous. I think of something I could possibly turn into an event, then develop a plan of how I am going to do it and then present the idea to other staff members (Secret Santa for example). If the plan is good, I will present it to the rest of the Alora Community.   Lucifers GIM: Besides Alora, what do you enjoy doing in your spare time? Tauri: I do work in IT, testing software. But aside of my job, one of my main hobbies is organizing and being a referee in Track and Field events. I even attempted an International Referee Exam, which if I pass, will give me chances to attend more events abroad. I used to be a big basketball enthusiast, so one of my goals is to get back into that eventually.   Lucifers GIM: What is the ideal way for you to spend your birthday? Tauri: Usually I prefer quiet environments, because I see myself as a productive person at all times. So big parties and such things are never something I dream of. The past couple of years we've celebrated my birthday with a couple of friends and drink lots of alcohol in order to sustain the economy of our country. I do love surprises though, and the biggest surprise for me is that I will never know what my next birthday is going to be like, and I like it.   Lucifers GIM: What would be the first thing you did if you won the lottery? Tauri: First thing I would do is ;;yell RIGGED. But in reality, the probability of me winning a lottery is the same as Morgen getting a Tanzanite Mutagen, so it is a 50/50. I probably wouldn't tell anyone about me winning the lottery and then going to try and improve living conditions for my family, because that's what I truly care about.       Disclaimer: If you'd like to be interviewed or see a particular member of the Alora community interviewed and/or particular question answered, make sure leave your nomination on the Newspaper Interview Nomination thread each month or you can DM me on discord at IronCountry#4540.                                      Here we honor our fallen comrades from the last month and there were a lot of them! We wish them the best on their new Ironman journeys and better luck next time (1000+ Total Level).   Spotlight                                         Stay up to date with the progress threads from the following members of the Alora Community:     Andy November Progression Dump / All TOA Rares Achieved   Sassa fras II - 17   ferinlith My Path to 4.6B XP   I OllieJ Ironman Achievements --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------   Andy September/October Progression Dump                               Disclaimer: Make a topic in our Goals and Achievements section or PM me on the forums/Discord with your accomplishment to be featured in this section! The winner of December MOTM is... [member=N]     Congratulations! You have stood out in the eyes of the Alora community. Thank you for being a great member here on Alora and enjoy your rewards. :) The link to the Member of the Month thread can be found here. Also, please make sure to check out our streamers and video makers. They would love to have you keep them company during their streams and check out the content they create for Alora.     Video Makers Not Magnata https://www.youtube.com/Magnata5K Eim Bonk https://www.youtube.com/c/Bonkloots TreuMeR https://www.youtube.com/c/TreuMeR_RS DickRockhard https://www.youtube.com/c/JTooSquared JACKYT https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCM-vsmNi1JfecO4tEJTl9OA [youtube]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Mzc669sEWLE[/youtube]     If you enjoy Alora content, make sure to hit the Subscribe button on their channels to show them your support!   If I've missed anyone I do apologize, just message me on the forums or on Discord with a link to your channel and I will add you in. That concludes this month’s edition of the Alora Newspaper! If you would like to see something added to the paper make sure to DM me on discord at IronCountry#4540. You can read the previous edition by clicking here  

  Happy New Year!   As we enter the New Year (or have already entered 2023, for our European friends), the Alora Staff Team would like to wish you all the best this upcoming year! For those of you who will be out celebrating with friends and family tonight, we wish you a safe New Year's Eve -- have fun and make it back in one piece for the weekend events! For those of who will be celebrating with us, we've turned on all of the server bonuses for tonight to start the new year off right ;)   We're honored to be celebrating another year with you all, this is our seventh New Year and we could not have fathomed having this incredible community still here to celebrate with us after all this time, thank you all for being a part of it.   As for Alora, we're excited to get right into it this year with the same quality updates as we've always provided (minus the OP Super restores), and we have a whole lot in store that we can't wait to share with you guys -- more on that later.   All the best, Omicron, Chad & The Alora Staff Team