Glitch-o-Ween + Coconut Crab

Hey Jammers! Yeah, I know this post is late... I have a ton of school assignments I need to get through, and a big test next week! Blah. School can be really annoying sometimes.

Because I should really get started with my homework, this post will just include what I believe to be the highlights of the update, as well as an extra surprise at the end. ^-^

First off, Jamaa is spooky now, in more ways than one...

You see those static-y rectangles? Yeah, that's never happened to me before until this morning when I logged on. I included them in the picture of the phantom statue to let you know just how spooky AJ is right now.

Adding onto the spooky glitchiness, I randomly decided to go to a Jammer party for the first time all year. It seems like I came at a bad time:

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I had also heard something a couple days ago about no one being able to get into the Wolves Only Party for some glitchy reason. 

I guess AJHQ doesn't have to work so hard patching bugs during the Night of the Phantoms. Static rectangles? Blacked-out rooms? Locked parties? No glitches here, just the phantoms making everything wacky!

Interesting things are also afoot in the center of Jamaa Township...

You can't really see it in the screenshot, but icy blue "lines of power" have been seen lacing across the Township in mysterious shapes.

Perhaps this might have to do with the Mira statue being replaced with a phantom. Maybe it's causing an odd unbalance? Remember the passage in The Forgotten Archives: these lines of power can be drawn upon for a darker purpose.

Also, I just came up with a theory for Night of the Phantoms. The phantoms want to destroy Jamaa, so why do we have a whole month celebrating them and letting them come into Jamaa? I think it might have to do with some kinda compromise that was struck at some point in time –– the phantoms promised to not to do something if they could have a month where they are allowed in Jamaa. Maybe. What do you think?

These lines of power look like they could somehow be compared to a map of Jamaa to determine where the "power centers" are. 

So far, I have no clue where they fit.

Although, I did observe from the brief power line flashes that a circle goes around the well around the bottom of the Township. Hmm...

In addition to this, a new book passage has been discovered in The Forgotten Archive:

I believe that every major update, a new excerpt will be revealed. Maybe at some point we'll be able to put all of them together into full volumes?

On a side note, I really like that image of the rabbit, wolf, and monkey. The style is so cool! I love all these images printed in the excerpts.

I also love how there is a desk with raw material to make printing pigments in the Forgotten Archives:

If you think about it, this desk's existence makes it seem like Zios might also have a body along with a floating mask, if he was physically able make pigments. 

...Or maybe Peck just made them. It really isn't certain what the Alphas' roles are involving the Archive.

You know, with AJ, I used to think that stuff was just coincidently decided, like putting phantoms in Jamaa during the Night of the Phantoms. Now, with AJ becoming increasingly accepting of lore and fan-theories, I keep wondering about every little thing!

Before I go, here's that surprise I promised at the beginning:

Do you know who this is? This, my friends, is a coconut crab! He is a large crab who lives on land, and, as you can probably tell from the name, loves to eat coconuts! He climbs up into coconut trees, uses his strong pinchers to cut down a couple of coconuts (which either break on impact with the ground or are opened up by the crab himself), and then carefully crawls back down to eat his lunch! 

I didn't take the above pictures, I found them in a YouTube video showing the coconut crab. They are so cool wonderful to watch! ^-^

See you in Jamaa, my friends~