Etched in our monastery walls,
Are the names of fifty illustrious and ancient monks,
Their fame, renown and power through sects and speech is such that
They are deservedly praised more oft than the sum total of lesser monks.

Who will become our new fiftieth monk? Will it be:

• jdporter from the bold new world of the Americas?
• afoken from an ancient and revered line of Germanic monks?
• talexb singing under the Northern Lights in the frozen Canadian wilderness?

Many moons ago, Gavin and LanX made a bold Nostradamus-like prediction:

Scribing more than the others
afoken is
Ergo, wager is safe
By furlongs afoken will conquer!

With planetscape still stuck on 31378, their prescient prediction can be admired in the table below:

Date	Monk	XP	Monk	XP	Monk	XP
Mar 24 2023	jdporter	30760	afoken	30573	talexb	30559
May 20 2023	afoken	30838	jdporter	30804	talexb	30593
Jun 20 2023	afoken	30990	jdporter	30830	talexb	30610
Jul 20 2023	afoken	31090	jdporter	30910	talexb	30612
Aug 28 2023	afoken	31262	jdporter	31000	talexb	30806

Is anyone willing to predict when the 31378 XP target will be reached?