See that beholder up there? He has friends... a lot of living dead-type of friends. We think it's time you make that beholder's social circle a little bit smaller this weekend by making them permanently dead in Dungeons and Dragons Online.

The folks at Turbine Inc. are putting the Risia server back online with content for the second part of the Litany of the Dead storyline of their Twilight Forge module. They've got five new quests, all of which have something to do with shadows and the aptly named "Shadow Crypt" dungeon, as well as a couple of new enemies for people to try out.

That's not to say the process was perfect, however. As they write on their updates page:

We have combined all of the servers onto Risia this time: the data was grabbed on December 9th, so any character you created before 12/9/06 should be on Risia for you to play.

Unfortunately we did have a small implementation issue as we were transferring over all of the characters: Some guild data did not survive the jump. You will be able to create a new guild, but your old guild will not exist. In addition, players from Xoriat, Mabar, Sarlona, Fernia, and Lhaazar will be missing their Friends Lists.