Mesanna showed up, talked to us a bit with Pallando, ideas were exchanged, Mesanna said she would be trying to drop the DSFASFA houses manually as she got to them over the next few weeks, then we had the event of the digging into the vault to recover the crystal. They then set a prism-style crystal in the corner of the throne room that one could click over the weekend, to get a special "Sparkling staff" which fires off multiple charges at once of the types used a couple months ago for the house winners (funky red gnarled staff - most shards got them, but each shard had a different name, and most a different way of getting them). And, yes, they are imbuable.
It wrapped up with a trip to the Hall of Champions at the Fairgrounds, to the trophy room where representative versions of all the Dexter/Pallando drops were located, and Pallando provided commonality info on the ones he was involved with.
Note: about 30 people attended the meet & greet, who then moved from the consellor hall to throne room (where another 20 or so showed up - half were probably cross-sharders), then people shuffled in and out on alts to the crystal, and about a dozen people made the trip to the HoC to find out the rarity info on the items.
