diff --git a/pom.xml b/pom.xml
index 020e6d2..6c8c579 100644
--- a/pom.xml
+++ b/pom.xml
@@ -18,6 +18,12 @@
 			<type>jar</type>
 			<scope>compile</scope>
 		</dependency>
+        <dependency>
+            <groupId>org.json</groupId>
+            <artifactId>json</artifactId>
+            <scope>compile</scope>
+            <version>20090211</version>
+        </dependency>
 		<dependency>
 			<groupId>junit</groupId>
 			<artifactId>junit</artifactId>
diff --git a/src/main/java/us/camin/JoinListener.java b/src/main/java/us/camin/JoinListener.java
index 85d3622..4431c83 100644
--- a/src/main/java/us/camin/JoinListener.java
+++ b/src/main/java/us/camin/JoinListener.java
@@ -17,18 +17,25 @@ package us.camin;
     along with Caminus.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
  */
 
+
 import java.io.BufferedReader;
+import java.io.BufferedInputStream;
 import java.io.InputStreamReader;
 import java.io.IOException;
 import java.net.MalformedURLException;
 import java.net.URL;
 import java.net.HttpURLConnection;
 import java.util.logging.Logger;
+import java.util.Scanner;
 
 import org.bukkit.entity.Player;
 import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerListener;
 import org.bukkit.event.player.PlayerLoginEvent;
 
+import org.json.JSONArray;
+import org.json.JSONObject;
+import org.json.JSONException;
+
 public class JoinListener extends PlayerListener {
 	Logger log = Logger.getLogger("Caminus.Join");
     private String m_url;
@@ -51,17 +58,57 @@ public class JoinListener extends PlayerListener {
     public void onPlayerLogin(PlayerLoginEvent event) {
         Player p = event.getPlayer();
         try {
-            if (!isUserAuthed(p.getName()))
+            if (!isUserAuthed(p.getName())) {
                 event.disallow(PlayerLoginEvent.Result.KICK_WHITELIST, "An active camin.us account is required.");
+                return;
+            }
         } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
             event.disallow(PlayerLoginEvent.Result.KICK_WHITELIST, "Auth URL is invalid!");
+            return;
         } catch (IOException e) {
             event.disallow(PlayerLoginEvent.Result.KICK_WHITELIST, "Camin.us auth server seems down.");
+            return;
+        }
+        String[] motd = null;
+        try {
+            motd = fetchMOTD(p.getName());
+        } catch (MalformedURLException e) {
+            p.chat("Could not fetch MOTD: Bad URL");
+        } catch (IOException e) {
+            p.chat("Could not fetch MOTD: Communication error");
+        } catch (JSONException e) {
+            p.chat("Could not fetch MOTD: Bad JSON");
+        }
+        if (motd != null) {
+            for(String msg : motd) {
+                p.chat(msg);
+            }
         }
     }
 
+    public String[] fetchMOTD(String user) throws IOException, MalformedURLException, JSONException {
+        URL motdService = new URL(m_url+"motd/"+user);
+        HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)motdService.openConnection();
+        BufferedInputStream in = new BufferedInputStream(conn.getInputStream());
+        String jsonStr;
+        // Stupid scanner trick. \A means "beginning of input boundary".
+        try {
+            jsonStr = new java.util.Scanner(in).useDelimiter("\\A").next();
+        } catch (java.util.NoSuchElementException e) {
+            jsonStr = "";
+        }
+        in.close();
+        JSONObject jsonObj = new JSONObject(jsonStr);
+        JSONArray motd = jsonObj.getJSONArray("motd");
+        String[] ret = new String[motd.length()];
+        for (int i = 0;i<motd.length();i++) {
+            ret[i] = motd.optString(i);
+        }
+        return ret;
+    }
+
     public boolean isUserAuthed(String user) throws IOException, MalformedURLException {
-        URL authServer = new URL(m_url+user);
+        URL authServer = new URL(m_url+"validate/"+user);
         log.info("Authing "+user+" against "+authServer);
         HttpURLConnection conn = (HttpURLConnection)authServer.openConnection();
         int code = conn.getResponseCode();
diff --git a/src/main/java/us/camin/Plugin.java b/src/main/java/us/camin/Plugin.java
index f6e03b0..37fcd42 100644
--- a/src/main/java/us/camin/Plugin.java
+++ b/src/main/java/us/camin/Plugin.java
@@ -40,7 +40,7 @@ public class Plugin extends JavaPlugin {
         PluginManager pm = this.getServer().getPluginManager();
         m_listener = new JoinListener();
         Configuration conf = getConfig();
-        conf.addDefault("url", "http://camin.us/api/validate/");
+        conf.addDefault("url", "http://camin.us/api/");
         String url = conf.getString("url");
         m_listener.setURL(url);
         pm.registerEvent(Event.Type.PLAYER_LOGIN, m_listener, Event.Priority.Normal, this);