how did you recharge when the timestamp was at 23?

Afraid Clucky is right, the recharge action is timestamped in the GNDT as 23:15 (UTC).

of course, this leaves a pretty big problem that I was already kinda aware of and unsure how to deal with: I think a lot of us probably could win after the next recharge, and it’ll just come down to whoever can be around when this DoV fails and the hiatus ends.

Yeah, pretty much a race. If another Apprentice was around at the time, he could intervene, but then the next week there would be another race…
for idea, though techically it was better to wait those 45 mins :)

I’d support a quick CfJ that repealed the existing mechanism and assigned the victory to a random player who could otherwise have won today. (Perhaps phrased as demonstrating to the Wizard’s satisfaction that they would be able to win.)

But quorum is low and we can’t change our votes to abstentions, so this may well fail before we could do that.

Abstaining for purposes of not instantly handing someone the win based on no magical merit. And to think I had almost gotten better at Nature then our Wizard…

Now that CfJ has passed..