Patch 0.69 — Glaux Teaches: The Training Grounds

Blood & Nectar Patch Notes

Patch 0.69Glaux Teaches: The Training Grounds

August 4–5, 2026

The trainings get a teacher. Glaux the owl takes over the arena board in her own voice, the lessons play inside a mock Discord channel so the thing being taught is the thing you will use, and a finished training can be walked again as a rehearsal that grants nothing. Meanwhile the client grows the furniture a client needs: a friends rail, a queue with a running clock, and a loading screen between lock-in and the arena.

Pushes

Hours in

2,508 pushes · 968 h

Total so far

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Glaux, the Owl

Detailed Changes

🦉Glaux, the OwlNew

Athena's little owl already greets travellers in Discord, so she becomes the teacher: her own speaker, a violet name, plain chat messages, no BOT tag. The bot posts the game itself; Glaux explains what it just did.

In the channel

Lines scripted per step, grouped under one name header. The instructions were pulled back out of the bot embeds, so the channel teaches once instead of saying everything twice.

On the arena board

On training fights she stops the fight and draws on it: rings around your team, theirs, the health bars, the momentum crystals, the ability row and CONFIRM; brackets out to labels; an elbow link for DISPLACED. Seven lessons, each waiting on "Got it".
Two overpaint styles, marker and chalk, toggled from her card. A perch in the corner calls her back. A lesson can never cost a newcomer their turn: training duels skip the auto-skip.

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SYSTEMS

🦉 Glaux

An owl who teaches in her own voice, takes over the arena board to do it, and lifts clear of the ability bar when she is in the way.

💬 Trainings, In Place

Lessons play inside a mock Discord channel, hold the champion until you press END TURN, and can be browsed and switched rather than marched through.

🔁 Rehearsal

A finished training can be walked again for nothing — practice without a second payout.

👥 The Friends Rail

Our own social graph, three lists, quick chat only, with the mutual-guild walk cached and never-seen accounts labelled Offline.

⏳ Queue and Load

A queue widget with a running clock, an accept-window ring on the Match Found circle, and a VS loading screen between lock-in and the arena.

🖼️ The Home Screen

Three horizontal promo slides replace the baked flyer, and the hero is the slides again rather than a rail.

Full Patch Notes

Gave the trainings a teacher, a channel to be taught in, and a replay that pays nothing.
Put the client bar on every surface — the home screen, Training, the Vault and the Arena — with PLAY as one button on the top-left edge.
Made the client tell you a training is waiting, and what it pays.
Built the friends rail on our own social graph rather than borrowing Discord's.
Added the queue widget, the accept-window ring, and sound on every beat from queue to first turn.
Warmed the cue pool and held navigation for it — the ACCEPT press had been silent because the page tore down mid-fetch.
Collection: unreleased is not the same as unowned, and unreleased champions leave the collection entirely.
Artifacts show what they DO, instead of a tier that never meant power.
Stopped the home screen being served without cache headers.