Welp, fixed now it seems. I guess SOE just wanted to provide all players with the "Briggs server experience".
As I posted earlier, whatever happened seemed intentional, it just was rather sudden, and the warning message appeared to be cut off, as "in 10s" isn't exactly what I'd call a full sentence, let alone a suitable warning to players Haha, I saw the message and was hoping it would be a disco dance off at the crown or something in 10 seconds... There wasn't any disco......