{
  "title": "Avatar Palace: selected dated moments",
  "reviewed": "2026-09-11",
  "scope": "Avatar Palace community history; broader Palace client history is separately catalogued in software-history.json.",
  "sourceAccess": "Original private correspondence remains in the Avatar Palace collection; public sources are linked in the records. Private messages and account details are not reproduced.",
  "limits": [
    "Avatar Palace founding date remains unconfirmed.",
    "Selected records do not establish uninterrupted activity or universal client adoption dates.",
    "The short mood and continuity passages are curatorial interpretation.",
    "Early proposals are not evidence of implemented features."
  ],
  "moments": [
    {
      "id": "avp-2013",
      "dates": [
        "2013-02-02",
        "2013-02-17"
      ],
      "title": "A bundle to bring along.",
      "evidence": [
        "A service notice names www.avatarpalace.net.",
        "A sent Shunis message includes 26-shunis.favs and File → Import Props → Bundle instructions."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "Prop bundle import is documented; the exact client version is unnamed.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2013"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2016",
      "dates": [
        "2016-09-16",
        "2016-10-03"
      ],
      "title": "New looks. Familiar faces.",
      "evidence": [
        "A support request to Avatar Palace describes animated avatar conversion from Palace32 to PalaceChat.",
        "An outgoing New Avatars! message announces shunis and Halloween avatars."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "A visitor describes export, import, animation settings, and frame order; this is not a universal transition date.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2016"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2017",
      "dates": [
        "2017-11-20"
      ],
      "title": "An address to find us.",
      "evidence": [
        "A PalaceWorld approval notice records ElitePalaces verification of the owner of avatarpalace.net:9998 and invites bot or prop-room setup."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "A server address is identified; the notice does not identify visitors’ clients or establish configured features.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2017"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2018",
      "dates": [
        "2018-08-07"
      ],
      "title": "Bring the quests back.",
      "evidence": [
        "Josef's petition includes a dated announcement that quests would return."
      ],
      "source": "https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lets-bring-the-bot-quests-back",
      "access": "Indexed page text rechecked 2026-09-12; direct retrieval unavailable.",
      "softwareConnection": "Bot games provided shared activities across Palace communities, illustrated by supplied screenshots and Josef's recollections.",
      "limits": "Announcement date, not a verified game-resumption or screenshot-capture date.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2018"
    },
    {
      "id": "avp-2026",
      "dates": [
        "2026-09-11"
      ],
      "title": "Keeping the story in reach.",
      "evidence": [
        "Avatar Palace has a public museum.",
        "Published project pages distinguish current community access from private restoration and early client development."
      ],
      "softwareConnection": "The current community server is provided by thepalace.app while Avatar Palace develops its own foundation.",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-avp-2026"
    }
  ],
  "undatedStories": [
    {
      "id": "the-gate",
      "status": "Recovered Avatar Palace background; original date and artist unconfirmed."
    }
  ],
  "gamesReviewed": "2026-09-12",
  "gameStories": [
    {
      "id": "game-cheese-title",
      "title": "Wheel of Cheese",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-game-cheese",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "kind": "Preserved room configuration",
          "file": "pserver.pat",
          "sha256": "75c140b8f88a92c94321c669dcf3afb314f3b8ac8bd026a59205a045043d5f28",
          "roomId": 546,
          "roomName": "Wheel of Cheese",
          "background": "woc3.gif",
          "artistField": "",
          "findings": [
            "Ratbot-specific room script",
            "pat4 prop assignment"
          ],
          "date": null
        },
        {
          "kind": "Owner-supplied screenshot of a recent private restoration post",
          "sha256": "ea9a409d50044a8e31e67d322ef47b1d6165425ab064add560086cba818254a3",
          "findings": [
            "Ratbot",
            "Letter choices",
            "Solved phrase"
          ],
          "historicalCapture": false,
          "publicDisplay": false
        }
      ],
      "limits": "Original room date, individual artwork credit, and full historical rules are unconfirmed. Configuration and restoration evidence do not prove operation on a particular historical date."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-words-title",
      "title": "The word-grid game",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-game-words",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "kind": "Owner-supplied screenshot",
          "sha256": "b1738315113a6bf5385e3ccb1e6677ca5c612fd0456cb5cbc82b4611145f0013",
          "findings": [
            "Letter grid",
            "AVATARPALACE.NET awards word points",
            "Rejected guesses and a countdown"
          ],
          "captureDate": null,
          "publicDisplay": false
        }
      ],
      "limits": "Official game title, complete rules, exact client version, and capture date are unconfirmed. Identification of the bot as StormBot comes from Josef."
    },
    {
      "id": "game-saymoji-title",
      "title": "SayMoji",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-game-saymoji",
      "evidence": [
        {
          "kind": "Owner-supplied screenshot",
          "sha256": "8a71ed7cabc7f7561573f508cdfb79c732866baeb492945eaa0e780a60592f65",
          "findings": [
            "StormBot announces SayMoji",
            "Fifteen-second countdown and invitation to guess",
            "SpH room branding"
          ],
          "captureDate": null,
          "publicDisplay": false
        },
        {
          "kind": "Owner-supplied screenshot",
          "sha256": "664de6d9bac3f6fba1e7ad0769a4c3a0554a21e3648a765e34387c9e6231ec43",
          "findings": [
            "AVATARPALACE.NET starts SayMoji",
            "Food-and-drinks category and emoji clue"
          ],
          "captureDate": null,
          "publicDisplay": false
        }
      ],
      "limits": "These show bot-game activity, not a verified quest-event restart date or software authorship."
    },
    {
      "id": "games-credits-title",
      "title": "People and the petition",
      "sourceNote": "museum.html#source-game-people",
      "oralHistory": {
        "recorded": "2026-09-11",
        "suppliedBy": "Josef",
        "attributions": [
          {
            "palaceUsername": "Daniel",
            "account": "Programmer and bot creator who enabled the Avatar Palace instance; exact development role uncorroborated."
          },
          {
            "palaceUsername": "Syn",
            "account": "Owner of Storm Palace; ownership dates uncorroborated."
          }
        ],
        "quote": "they were the best bots ever. so fun.",
        "quoteContext": "Remembering the StormBot games"
      },
      "datedRecord": {
        "source": "https://www.ipetitions.com/petition/lets-bring-the-bot-quests-back",
        "updateDate": "2018-08-07",
        "organiser": "Josef Andreacchi",
        "access": "Indexed text reviewed 2026-09-12; direct retrieval failed",
        "findings": [
          "Announced a planned quest return",
          "Named Syn and Daniel"
        ]
      },
      "limits": "The account does not independently establish an actual restart, sole authorship, PalaceWorld authorship, or ownership of the SpH hosting service."
    }
  ]
}