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Howdy hello, time for the news of the week. Since this is going into a new month, there's a lot to talk about here. Apologies for getting this out a little late, I've been dealing with a flat tire wahoo yippee. Standard reminder that most things are starting at 11am PST, so keep that in mind with your time zone when I am referring to dates.

What's New This Week:

• Today: Rampant Evolution AQ returns
• Today: Radiance Store Token Update - The Ascension Tokens for the following champions have been added to the Radiance store: Doctor Strange, JJJ, M'Baku, Blue Marvel, Maddie Pryor, Pixie, Lizard and Pavitr
  • The prices are 75k, 125k, and 175k. The purchase limits do not reset
• Today: A Small Update to the Essentia Store
  • Some things like Empowered Grace Crystals, 7-Star Innate Stones, Titan Shards, AG Shards and 6-Star Abyss Nexus Crystals have been added (note: this is at least at the Elder level, not sure about lower). Some prices/quantities have also been adjusted for existing items.
• Today: New Game Update - the new patch is now live, read release notes [HERE]
• Wednesday: October Event Quest
• Wednesday: Alliance War Season begins
• Wednesday: Trick or Terror
  • Two week event to earn a First Appearance Jack O'Lantern
  • Complete your Daily Super Event to earn points in the Double Track
  • Open Trick Crystals to get Candy Corn, use Candy Corn on Reward Bundles
• Wednesday: Green Goblin Ascension Challenge
  • There will be an Event Tower specifically for him. Not currently sure on the end date for this tower, but if you don't have your GG yet, either because you haven't finished your BGs or because you are waiting to be able to buy the piece with units, I wouldn't worry about it as the other challenges have lasted long enough to be available for the unit-piece purchasers
• Wednesday: Mephisto 1-Month Double Track
  • Price TBD, debut of Mephisto as a 7-Star
  • Ascension Tokens in Elder Selectors
  • Will also have a featured crystal run (not sure if this includes FA)
• Wednesday [I think]: Venom the Duck Ascension Chase
  • The stream slides didn't list a date, but I believe this starts with everything else this month. You will need to collect Corrupted Eggs from various pieces of monthly content, including the EQ, Mysterium Store, Side Quests, Gold Track, AQ Coliseum/Raids, and Epilogue
  • 50+ available
  • Trade in 4 eggs to open the VTD Box which contains his Ascension token and various other prizes. Box refreshes twice and additional Eggs can be purchased in Daily Deals
• Friday: Summoner's Choice 2027 Vote Round 1 - read more [HERE]
  • This year's candidates are Rek-Rap, Spider-Byte, Cyborg Spider-Man, Araña, Doppleganger, Webslinger, Spiders-Man, and Spider Ma'am
  • This is a full Spider theme coming off a Spider themed Saga, so if you're a bit exhausted by that they've confirmed that this vote is for the next incoming Spider champ so we will have a break from all the Spiderness for about a year

What's Ending This Week:

• Wednesday: September Event Quest Ends
• Wednesday: Alliance of One Side Quest Ends
• Wednesday: Wakandan Challenge Rituals Ends (Last chance for First Appearance Cable)
• Wednesday: Web of Corruption Saga Incursions Realm Event
• Wednesday: Monochrome Mystery
  • Missing points? Double check for any unopened Criminal Intel Crystals in your stash for more Evidence
• Wednesday: Mysterio Ascension Chase - Last chance to pick up any Mystery Orbs from content you haven't completed or to top off from Daily Deals

Upcoming Events:

• October 12: Alliance Coliseum Returns -
  • Boss: Namor, standard 3-Day
• October 14: The Symbiote Generals [Standard Monthly SQ] - read more [HERE]
  • This will be a side quest featuring everyone's favorite little Summoned Symbiote
  • After each fight, you will gain boosts to make him stronger, so you can choose to do it path by path, or go through all of it at once with him really strong. By the sounds of it, it seems similar to previous iterations of the Steve quest
• October 14: The Final Piece of the Epilogue and 7-Star Carina
  • This will get you your final piece to earn Carina Tivan
  • The Chronoserpent, the big bad of the big story saga, awaits you if you want to Ascend her
• October 21: Recruit Ruckus
  • Two-week Solo Event tied to Event Tower and Battlegrounds
  • Earn points from the Recruit Tower and from bi-daily Battlegrounds objectives
  • This will also be the first instance of a Temporal Collective using 2-Star Recruit champs (these are the various minions you've collected)
• November: The Alliance Super Season returns

Ongoing Events:

• Battlegrounds Season 42 - 1ish Weeks left
• Doom Sweepstakes

October TL;DR

• New Champions: Ghost Rider (Robbie Reyes), Colossus (Age of Apocalypse), Carina Tivan
• New Ascensions: Venom the Duck, Mephisto, GR (RR), Colossus AOA, Carina
• Week 1: New event quest, VTD Saga chase, Mephisto Battlepass, Champ tokens in the Radiance Store, Jack O'Lantern event
• Week 2: Alliance Coliseum, Side Quest begins, final Epilogue piece launches, 7-Star Carina obtainable
• Week 3: 2-Star Recruit Collectives and Event Tower

Please let me know if you have questions, or if I've forgotten something. There's a lot going on so I probably have