2005 Live Events

01/19/05 - Curmudgeon the Drudge

• Curmudgeon the Drudge first appeared during a live event on the Verdantine server.
• He also appeared again later on the Leafcull server.
• When he appeared, he wanted help gathering a number of quest items so he could give them to friends and his wife. The quests varied depending on the server he was on. On Verdantine, he requested Elysa's Favor and the Baron's Amulet of Life Giving. On Leafcull, he asked for the Doll Leader's Charm.
• If you successfully helped him you received the title Curmudgeon's Friend and a Drudge Board with Nail inscribed by him.
• Players that protected him from harm and buffed him were awarded with the title "Special Friend" and received a Huggy Drudge Doll.

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Drudge Board with Nail Huggy Drudge Doll

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Banderling Assault

Jan. 15, 2005 - HG

A Banderling war party has been discovered in the ruins of Edelbar!

"We are being invaded at 43.4N, 26.7E. Tons of bandies, small to big. They seem to be protecting the LS near those coords. I got a few SSs for you of the LS before I died. I'll send those in ASAP. A boss mob is in the Bandy attack. His name is Kur'graal. Finally after 2 hours 40 mins, hundreds of deaths, maybe killing blows and a very sore foot on my part (Banderling Hierophant crushes your foot for 208 points of Bludgeoning damage!) we managed to kill everything in the raid...even those poor mites what were just watching....Grats again Taleron Og on the boss kill!"

January 16, 2005 - Leafcull

A Banderling War party has been discovered occupying a tower to the south east of Rithwic!

Paieon of LC sends this report from the Banderling Tower at 9.3N, 63.9E: " I killed the boss (Gherr Garwar) and he dropped the following Mace:"

Ursuin Spike An oak mace with an Ursuin fang driven through the head. This item cannot be furher imbued. Value 3000 Burden 494 Workmanship Flawless (7) Damage 21 - 35, Piercing Bonuses Attack: +10% Melee: +13% Speed (28) Restrictions Base Mace 350+ to wield Special Props Armor Rending, Dropped on Death

January 17, 2005 - Frostfell

A banderling war party has been discovered guarding the road between Glenden Wood and Zaikhal!

The banderlings were amassed at the old Glenden Wood banderling tower at 31.6N, 16.7E. The tower�s entrance had been fortified by a large chained door; after breaking through we were attacked by another group of banderlings that came from the south, lead by a banderling called Barask.

Barask cheers loudly, �Wanga!�

Barask was defeated at 1:40am; it took another eight minutes or so to round up the remaining banderlings."

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January 17, 2005 - Morningthaw

Machine of MT sends a few pics of the Banderling Raid in Yanshi! He reports: "By my best guess I'd say there were at least 100 people there and the battle lasted about 30 minutes. There were many different types of banderlings all the way up to VOD-style Paragons and Champions...lots and lots of them. The boss monster had the appearance of a Champion and my guess was he came out of the building with the door we destroyed. There were 10 or so Champions in there so I figure he was probably just hidden in there among the rest."

Bob adds that the fight took place at the Yanshi festival grounds and Uster got the kill.

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If you have pics of the raids or the boss creatures, send me an email!

January 17, 2005 - Thistledown

• Occurred at 54.3N, 17.4W - Empyrean Stone Tower.
• Multiple corpses of Peddler found at the tower lifestone. The peddler was found nearby with the title "traumatized merchant".
• Mobs of Paragons, Manglers, Hierophants, Champions, and more.
• The boss, Hurg'rhal, was located behind a destroyable door.
• Boss dropped a tinkerable Ursuin Spike.

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The Peddler's tower east of the Regina Cottages settlement is under siege by a banderling war party!

Barask cheers loudly, "Wanga!"

Hurg'rhal says, "Rawr!"

Hurg'rhal says, "Darka Makata!"

Hurg'rhal says, "Kurata!"

Scavenger Hunts

On the evening of January 20, 2005 an emissary appeared seeking help with items to protect Dereth! The Magical Man of FF reports:

Broadcast from +Leo Netherlands> An emissary of the royal guard has appeared outside Shoushi and is looking for master tradesmen to assist him in crafting items needed for the protection of Dereth.

Heya Maggie, Love the site. I logged on to see a message that said a master craftsman was in Holtburg and needed some supplies to help protect Dereth. He said Fellow up and you're going on a scavenger hunt. He wanted a Dinner plate imbued with crippling blow and a perfect diamond ingot (apparently this is exactly what the council needed). Naturally, it was spammed over the allegiance channel. A fellow quickly formed and Brotherhood of the Blade got the requested items in 7 minutes flat. Also there was a reward attached to this quest.

The group I was with was Baruvin, Vanora, and Azland. Bauv, lucky for us, had the ingot, and even more lucky was the imbue done by Vanora.

Broadcast from +Leo Netherlands> Congratulations to the group of The MAgical Man who succeeded in providing me with the items I sought.

Apparently he can't type.

The reward ended up being not so great. A Pot of Thanalim dye, a Writ, and an Arwic Mines Sending gem, but it was great to see Turbine putting in more live events.

~The Magical Man and Crew (FF)

Abandoned Mines Portal Sending Gem A glowing red gem. Double Click on this portal gem to transport yourself to the Abandoned Mines.

Value 0 Burden 5 Spells Free Ride to the Abandoned Mine. Spellcraft 210 Mana 70/70 Activation Lore: 40

+Leo Netherlands bows deeply. The Magical Man says, "Pass a word on to the council" The Magical Man says, "More live events" +Leo Netherlands says, "I shall, The Magical Man"

Zerono of HG reports he appeared on HG as well, again seeking various items.

Broadcast from +Leo Netherlands> Congratulations to the group of Grown to Tinker who succeeded in providing me with the items I sought.

January 21, 2005

Hey Maggie it's Julian's Touch from TD. We got a broadcast on TD saying :

Citizens, an urgent appeal, a secret collector is need of some items to add to his collection, please go to the Castle gates at Lytelthorpe for more information."

+LeO Lecce says, "Between new species arriving and attempting to take over the land and old species growing stronger and attempting to take over the land, we have a lot we need to protect ourselves and our land from. I have been summoned this evening to test your skills as scavengers and tradesmen. In a few moments I will give you a list of two items which I will ask you to craft for me. The items are required for a secret mission some members of the royal guard are about to embark upon. The first group of up to four people in a fellowship to craft the item and give it to me in a trade window will receive a prize. +LeO Lecce says, "Any questions?" +LeO Lecce says, "The items I require you to craft for me are 2 Great Superior JackO'Lantern and a Yifan dress that is dyed Purple. Remember you can be in groups of 4."

Congratulations to Quynton who has supplied the required items. +LeO Lecce says, "I would like to thank everyone who tried this evening; you are helping keep Dereth safe for everyone."

Quynton reports that his fellowship members were Telin, Tormentya, and Wendie the Witch. They received 4 Singularity keys, and 4 pack dolls as a reward, an Asheron doll, a Virindi, Burun and a Cow.

January 23, 2005 - TD

Po-dunk of TD reports: "Today on Thistledown there was a live event held in Soushi by +LeO Ireland. He asked for an acid imbued drinking vessel, a greater gem of rejuvenation and some hearty green tea ice cream. A fellowship consisting of my trade mule Tadpole Pie, Wakiri, Gwydiana and Ima Packrat. As a reward for being the first to complete the quest we all got a thanking stone inscribed by +LeO Ireland, a writ, a portal gem to the abandoned mines and our choice of pack doll. Enclosed are pics of the title we received and also of the inscribed thanking stone.

Mosswart Thanking Stone A small stone carved with the stylized face of a smiling Mosswart. These are given by Mosswarts as a gesture of thanks. Inscription: Tadpole Pie thank you for your assistance in supplying the forces of Dereth 18 Wintersebb 70 PY --+LeO Ireland

Value 5 Burden 75

January 24, 2005 - WE

Alderonny of WE reports: "My mule Tinkertoon (with Katlaya and Tinka belle) handed in a diamond infused pyreal ingot and hearty healing carrot soup to +LeO Milan. The rewards were: 4 sings, 4 writs, 4 snowmen with fezes, 4k py, 4 Abandoned mines portal gems, 4 assorted dolls (scarecrow, Asheron, Gearlan, and a plush tusker). The fellow got a "Queens Crafter" title!

January 24, 2005 - HG

Broadcast from +LeO Lithuania> Congratulations to the Group of Darius of the Nexus. His brave fellowship has succeeded providing the items needed to protect Dereth!

February 3, 2005 - TD

Broadcast from +Leo Netherlands> An emissary of the royal guard has appeared in the Shoushi meeting hall looking for master tradesmen to assist him in crafting items.

February 7, 2005 - MT

This is Krunk of Morningthaw, on feb 7, 2005 an event triggered in Shoushi meeting hall. One of Queen's people were dispatched +LeO Nicosia wanted all to come and help with stuff for the queen. When I showed up there were a few there and +LeO Nicosia announced she needed the following items: Imbued goblet with crippling blow, dyed green dapper suit, and wedding cake the items were for the queen friends who were getting married. I imbued the goblet with cb, there were 3 others in fellowship with me also who helped: Jademoon, De-Chef-Madam and Don Que. Thank you guys. When we handed the items over we got this global:

Broadcast +Leo Nicosia> Congratulations to the group of Krunk, Jademoon, De-Chef-Madam and Don Que who succeeded in providing me with the items I sought.

We were rewarded a pack doll each and a sing key and a marble key, I had asked if I might get a special title and +Leo Nicosia said she would ask queen elyssa and superiors at next council meeting. Then 2 days later Nicosia keeping her word along with queen came to me and granted me the title Queen's Crafter, a unique title and only Isparian to be granted such a great honor. It was the best day in AC for me. I am proud to be of service. Thank you very much to you + Leo Nicosia for your selfless act and voice and the queen to grant such an honor I will cherish always.

Escaped Convict

Morningthaw

• Escaped convict named Ellis the Grey was found in Glenden Wood. He wanted players to stop him by opening a Trade window and putting magic items in it.
• Players finally caught him just outside of Eastham where he killed himself (he didn't want to go back to prison).
• +Leo apprehended him at the Lifestone and gave 5 unique Mosswart Thanking Stones to the player that stopped him.

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Broadcast from +Leo Netherlands> Though he loves magic, Ellis is scared of portal space and is avoiding traveling through any portal. He can't be too far from Cragstone at this rate.

Braxtynn bint Baux says, "Cripes.........why did he kill himself"

Braxtynn bint Baux says, "So sad.........does anyone know if he had a Lifestone?"

Braxtynn bint Baux giggles

Ellis the Grey says, "I curse you Case III"

+Leo Netherlands says, "Okay, I will be right back, I must take care of him first, then I will reward you, Case III."

Ellis the Grey says, "You and your family will be cursed for returning me to Glenden Wood, By my blood"

You bow deeply.

You say, "Glad I could help"

+Leo Netherlands says, "No, please, Thank you. All of you."

Broadcast from +Leo Netherlands> Case III has found and distracted Ellis long enough that I could apprehend him. Thank you to everyone who has helped this evening.

January 21, 2005 - HG

Zerono of HG reports: The Royal Guards are warning travelers near Glendenwood, a crazed member of the Order of the Raven Hand is on the loose. Come to the Pub in Glendenwood to find out how to help. He escaped from the prison. We do not know where he is ultimately headed but was seen leaving town heading West. Guthima the Wise of Arwic has been visited by Ellis. He was last seen leaving Arwic and heading West. Though he loves magic, Ellis is scared of portal space and is avoiding traveling through any portal. He can't be moving very fast, then. Ellis the Grey has just been spotted near Cragstone. We have learned that Ellis had family near Eastham. Perhaps he is heading there. Ellis the Grey has been spotted near Rithwic. Ellis the Greu has been apprehended with the assistance of Kisskeen, unfortunately he decided death was better than a return to jail.

Tehanu of HG reports on his conversation with Ellis the Grey!

"While the event was going on, I had a little conversation with Ellis the Grey. I don't think it revealed much, but maybe someone can put pieces together. I started by sending Ellis the Grey a tell that said something like "Magic is a dangerous thing, but it can do good too." Ellis the Grey responded with something about how he wants to turn his slaves into shadows and unleash them to destroy Auberean. I then told him that Shadows cannot be slaves.

Then we got a message that he might be heading for Eastham since he is rumored to have had family there. So, I tried another tactic...the "get the mad man distracted off of destruction and focused on something else" tactic.

You tell Ellis the Grey, "tell me of your family" You tell Ellis the Grey, "what wrongs have been done?" Ellis the Grey tells you, "auberean is corrupt" Lithea Sarmad tells you, "Ellis the Grey tells you, "Isee [sic] powerful mages, many have pledged their servitude to me"" You tell Ellis the Grey, "auberean is not corrupt, but the minds of many are" Ellis the Grey tells you, "I have heard that people no longer seek the [sic] allow the shadows to be our servants, that can not be allowed" You tell Ellis the Grey, "the Hieromancers still tap the mana streams of Dereth. Beware their awakening!" Ellis the Grey tells you, "I seek the destruction of the Hieromancers" You tell Ellis the Grey, "you may succeed but it will destroy you" Ellis the Grey tells you "I will resurect as a higher being, even stronger than the lap dog Asheron" You tell Ellis the Grey, "aye, lap dog though he is...do not trust in teachings that few fully understand"

After that, I told him to seek out Nuhmudira (my queen), and that she could better counsel him before he destroys himself. He did not respond. I then asked him if he walked the same path as the great shadow, Palacost. Again he did not respond. Soon after, he was spotted in Rithwic, caught and committed suicide. I guess we'll have to wait and see if he truly resurrects into something more powerful than Asheron as he believed...."

January 22, 2005 - FF

+LeO Milan says, "She may be going to see the obsidian span, though, as she is drawn to anything magical." Fflewddur Fflam of FF reports: "There was a broadcast that +LeO Milan needed our aid. I recalled to my LS in Glendon Wood, and found out, with the help of my clanmates Cheese Slayer, Ciara ni Fyst, Sven Beornson, Absolution, and Damien Sarin, that he was looking for an escaped prisoner named Nuancil. Milan suggested she would head to the Obsidian Span, and head east. I ran there and did not find her. I decided to head east to Arwic. When I came to the orchard near what we call the A-Hole lifestone (where many thieves and PK's once lifestoned ;-)), I came upon her. She muttered that she needed components. I tried to open a trade window with her, but she would cancel the trades. We ran from Arwic, then to Cragstone, then towards Eastham. Finally, I managed to hand her 4 prismatic scarabs.

She stopped and said that she could probably use those. Then, +LeO Milan showed up. He said she would have to return, as her cell mates missed her. Rather than return, she committed suicide. Milan was not concerned, though, as he knew where she was lifestoned.

+LeO Milan says, "Pitty. But I already know where her lifestone was. She isn't escapting this time." +LeO Milan says, "Thank you all for your assistance. Fflewddur Fflam your assistance was greatly appreciated. Please accept these tokens for your efforts today." +LeO Milan says, "You may disperse those to your fellows who assisted her capture." You say, "Will do Milan" +Leo Milan says, "Would you like a title reflecting your efforts?" Thank you citizens and especiall Fflew ddur Fflam for your assistance in re-capturing Nuancil

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Milan awarded me a pack ursuin, a pack lugian, a pack idol, and inscribed thanking stone, 7 other thanking stones for my fellows/clanmates, and the title of Wardens Assistant!

January 23, 2005 - MT

+LeO Vienna> We prefer to have Karthis returned alive, but he must be stopped!

The deadly force of Dan the Impaler's attack is so strong that Karthis's ancestors feel it.

You tell Fizzle Joynt, "that was pkl" +LeO Vienna says, "To show our appreciation, we have a reward. Do you wish to have the title of Wardens Assistant?" Hairy Boots says, "i say we tourture him for information, then kill him" +LeO Vienna says, Dan the Impaler, please come forward Killer Templar slaps Dan on the back nice work soldier +LeO Vienna says, "Would you like to be titled as: Wardens Thug?" Toidy says, "lol" You say, "wow" Killer Templar says, "AMG I wanna be a Thug" You say, "yes i would" Scorpionxp II says, "good title"

January 28, 2005 - DT

Maladroit of DT reports: "Fuzzy's Revenge killed the escaped prisoner on Darktide. In return for him killing the prisoner, he had his name broadcast over the server. Also received the following items...."

You tell Fuzzy's Revenge, "did you get anything cool of that prisoner?" Fuzzy's Revenge tells you, "nopes just a mmd note 4 abandon mines gems and 2 writs and a thanking stone thats all"

February 5, 2005 - TD

Broadcast from +LeO Exeter> Citzens of Dereth! The Royal Guards are warning travelers near Cragstone that a crazed murderer has escaped!

Broadcast from +LeO Exeter> Come to the Meeting Hall in Cragstone to find out how you can help.

Broadcast from +LeO Exeter> Grazfen has escaped from the Glendon Wood prison and was last seen heading west from Cragstone. He is wanted dead or alive!

Broadcast from +LeO Exeter> Grazfen has been sighted heading North towards Holtburg!

Broadcast from +LeO Exeter> he may be traveling near water

Broadcast from +LeO Exeter> Grazfen has been killed while attempting to escape, Congratulations to Dark Demon for bringing this murderer to justice

Phyntos Wasp Assaults

January 27, 2005 - TD

• Giant Wasp Hive appeared at 21.0S, 2.2W near Yaraq.

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January 27, 2005 - MT

• Yaraq orchard attacked by Phyntos Wasps.

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Citizens, the fruit is in danger of rotting in the orchard, the citizens of Yaraq ask for your help to clear the wasp infestation

Citizens, Yaraq appreciates you help, the apple harvest has been saved!

Shadow Assault

January 28, 2005 - TD

• Shadows attack in Yanshi near the Emissary of Asheron.
• New type of shadow appeared that drops a Shadow Stone Necklace on a 7 day timer.
• After the attack, a shadow leader spawned and opened a portal on death that led to Dark Towers in the Direlands.

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Bandit Attack

January 29, 2005 - MT

• Global message appeared that someone in Glenden Wood needed assistance.
• Tormacke's master was kidnapped and he needed help.
• Large groups of Bandits spawned in GW.
• Tormacke and his companion then needed to be escorted to Tufa where the companion was then killed by bandits. Tormacke left after the final attack.

Holtburg Survivor Champion!

Come to Holtburg for a unique opportunity limited to the first twenty-five level 70 to 80 characters to arrive. +LeM Chimaera says, "If you are level 70-80 and wish to help on this mission send LEO Milan a tell with your name" +LeM Chimaera says, "If you are accpeted you will be ported to a starting location" +LeM Chimaera says, "if you are still here in a few minutes, resend your tell" +LeM Chimaera says, "be warned this is a dangerous mission and you should be suitably prepared" +LeM Chimaera says, "Buffing before you go may be advisable" +LeM Chimaera says, "I will have lots of missions for everyone" +LeM Chimaera says, "anyone else with to join us on this mission? lvl 70-80" +LeO Como tells you, "stand by for portal" Garthon Ty-Cloud says, "+LeM there gonna be any more events tonite" +LeM Chimaera says, "who can tell, the way of the world is a mystery to me" +LeM Chimaera says, "I have chosen those who are able to take advantage of my opportunity." +LeM Chimaera says, "To those who were not of the right level or didn t arrive in time, I apologise." +LeM Chimaera says, "I would like to let you know that I may come across similar opportunities in the future and wish you good luck in being able to attend those." +LeM Chimaera waves. +LeM Chimaera says, "Farewell"

Mal the mad of TD reports: "Maggie, I have screenies to send you still of the scavenger hunt this evening, but shortly after we broke from that, new event started.

HOLTBURG SURVIVOR.

All contestants were portaled to an Island east of ulgrim's island. Small landmass, not on the map. After most finished buffing, the +leo announced it was a false pretense and we had to fight off monsters to survive, last one standing wins.

Started with littles, bunnys and skulkers and ramped up it was a blur but had hoarys and ebons, then devastators, and a nifffus but I forget which, swarm muts and a pookie. Or at least a pookie clone hehe. The winner is enclosed in the screenie, Jinto Junior. He recieved the title Holtburg survivor champion."

--thanks to Kinyo of TD

Kinyo of TD reports: "Well that was fun, took some screens for you as you asked me...That was a mob spawning ground starting with lower lvl mobs and increasing when we kill them :) here comes a full list of critters we had to fight:

Rabbits / Low lvl olthoi (didnt check the name) / drudge powler / mad cows / olthoi nymphs / zirconium golems+ some diamond golems / Hoary + Ebon mattekars / Mite warrior queen / shadow child + lieutenant + umbris / emerald gromnies / cultist priests / unstable magma golems / dread idol / giant phyntos wasps / an annihilator / some malvolent zephir (caul zephir) / an obliterator / The white rabbit / parfal nefane / entrhalled zealot / olthoi mutilators / 2 other annihilators spawned and 2 more little later ( so 4 ;o ) /some demilich and that's all and enough lol :p

The winner (last man standing) was Jinto Junior lvl 72 mage and he won a great title! Holtburg Survirvor Champion !

Cya soon , Kinyo of TD (helped by Mh'organah for the list of enemis)

Trog dor of VT reports: "Hey Maggie, There was a live event today (2/10/05) on VT. A global went out asking for 25 players from 70-80 to come to holt. I got there and was immediately swept to some very desolate island way off the south coast. We were given time to buff and were basically told that we would all be meeting the lifestone again shortly. The admins left and various creatures started spawning everything, from brown rabbits, to mad cows, to white rabbits and eventually high level virindi, among others. I was one of the last couple alive and eventually got killed by a Contagion Rat. The last survivor of the event was Reign Of Darkness and her prize was the title "Holtburg's survivor champion." Thanks for the great site maggie!"

--thanks to Trog dor of VT

Celestin of WE again, I notice you got a fair amount of details, but I wanted to fill in a bit more. One of my mages, Megumi Mithralmage, was the winner of the Holtburg Survivor contest on WE, and so I wanted to fill in on the rewards. In addition to the title change, I received:

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4 writs of refuge +LeO-inscribed Mosswart Thanking Stone (pic included) 370-wield loot-gen sword (Which promptly blew up)

Di of HG reports: "On March 5th there was a live event for characters level 80 - 99 in Holtburg. I decided to send my char that was in that level range (Dianas level 80). The +Lem sent 25 of us to the top of a mountain near the Plateau and told us that we were going to be punished for all the creatures we have killed just for loot. Saying things like ever think that the observer was just out observing the world or that the drudge was out getting food for his family etc... so he started out small bunnies and worked his way up the line sending various creatures on that mountain to kill us. The last person to live was given a reward. NEEDLESS to say I never thought that I would be that person... so I am sending you pictures of the thanking stone inscribed with Dianas standing underneath with her new title of Holtburg Survival Champion. (also got 4 writs)"

--pics by Maggie

Scavenger Hunt

Report from Maggie: I was lucky enough to be online when the announcement of another scavenger hunt went out! We met in the Holtburg Meeting Hall and teamed up into fellowships. Then once the word was given, we were off to ransack our mules to provide the items listed! I was rifling through the backpack of a mule when I heard that we had 1 minute left to return! On no! Although I had 5 of the items on the list to contribute to my team, my connection was soooo slow, that I couldn't log Maggie back in and get to my team to add them to the pot before the tally time was up. Luckily, I was fellowed with the packenest-packrats in the game! My team had duplicates of most of my items, plus Gwydiana was cooking up a storm, so we managed to squeak out the win with 14 points! Yay! We were rewarded with a Marble Key!

Broadcast from +LeO Como Two off-duty members of the royal guard have appeared in the Holtburg meeting hall looking for people to have scavenger hunt with. LeO Como waves high in the air. +LeO Como says, "We will wait a few moments before we start, portal space can be very fickle :-)" +LeO Como waves. +LeO Como says, "We will now begin." +Leo Brussels says, "Hi Maggie, many a time I have heard people speak very highly of you. It is a pleasure to meet you." +LeO Como says, "My friend and I were feeling bored in the officer's barracks so decided to use our free time to organize a scavenger hunt." You say, "the pleasure is mine" +LeO Como says, "While we can't offer you fame and fortune, we will reward the winning team as best we can." +LeO Como says, "You are welcome to create a fellowship with up to 9 people to find these items." +LeO Como says, "I aplogize, up to 6 people :-)." +LeO Como says, "Once you are done creating fellowships we will give each fellowship leader the list of items to be sought." +LeO Como says, "Please start creating your fellowships now." +LeO Como says, "Remember, you may not log out or portal out until we say Go." +LeO Como says, "From the time I say the word 'Go!' you have exactly 20 minutes to return with as many of the items as you can." +LeO Como says, "If you return after the 20 minutes are up or leave the hall before I say go, you and your team will be disqualified." +LeO Como says, "Are there any questions up to this point?" +LeO Como says, "Upon your return, you will need to hand one of us a pack with your team name and team leader's name inscribed upon it." +LeO Como says, "We will calculate how many points your collection of items is worth - the value of each item, in points, is listed on the item list." +LeO Como says, "Please note that you only can collect one of each item on the list." +LeO Como says, "Once we have calculated the number of points you have we will return the pack to the leader of your group." +LeO Como says, "Once we have calculated the number of points you have we will return the pack to the leader of your group." +LeO Como says, "Once everyone's points are calculated we will announce the winner, if there is one." +LeO Como says, "If two or more teams are tied with the most points we will announce that and name a bonus item." +LeO Como says, "The first teams to produce the bonus item and hand it to me will be the winning team." +LeO Como says, "Will the fellowship leaders please step forward so that they may receive their item lists?" +LeO Como says, "Please remember not to log out or leave the meeting hall until I give the word. I will wait a minute or so to let you share the list with your fellowship and ask any questions." +LeO Como gives you Parchment. +LeO Como says, "Are there any fellowship leaders I have missed?" +LeO Como says, "Any last minute questions?" +LeO Como says, "Excellent, when I say go you may start. You may also then be able to log out and portal." +Leo Brussels says, "Go!" +LeO Como says, "Go!" +Leo Brussels says, "Good luck!"

+LeO Como says, "Dark Caster's fellowship came in with 5" +LeO Como says, "Mog Bermley's fellowship came in with 11!" Gwydiana slides a pile of MMD's covertly to +LeO Como +LeO Como says, "Maggie the Jackcat's fellowship came in with an amazing 14!" +Leo Brussels says, "Congratulations to everyone in Maggie's team!" Toe Jam Too says, "Packrats!"

+LeO Como says, "Will Maggie's team please line up along the wall over here? Please note that you must keep your fellowships so that we know who to reward." +LeO Como says, "Is that everyone?" +LeO Como gives you Marble Key. +LeO Como bows deeply. +Leo Brussels bows deeply. +Leo Brussels says, "Take care everyone!" +LeO Como says, "Thank you all to everyone. Even if you did not win today, we appericate your participation!" +LeO Como says, "Please see your fellowship leaders to retrive your items." +LeO Como says, "Thank you all!" +LeO Como waves.

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--pics by Maggie

Bh Gambit Elyssa Brythxan Maggie the Jackcat Vlaid' Talon Sia Gwydiana

Run for your Life - 11th Feb - From the Turbine AC Site

We will be holding an event on each world at the times shown below (subject to change if we overun). If we receive a lot on entrants, the later runs may be moved to another day - an update will be posted here in that situation.

If you wish to take part you will need to create a new born character and meet at Holtburg Social Centre at the time shown. Your character must be level 1, unbuffed and wearing starter clothes when participating in this event.

Your challenge will be to survive for as long as you can!!

You will be required to use the lifestone at Holtburg, then a portal will be created for your new char to run through, the person who runs the furthest before dieing (and you will) will be the winner. Further instructions will be given at the event. The judges decision is final.

Anyone using a portal (except the official one), another lifestone, recalls or uses buffs - will be disqualified.

The winner will get a suitable prize and title - this can be awarded to your main char on any world (it does not need to be the same world the event was run on).

The Schedule: 11th Feb Times shown are EST(PST)

Darktide - 19:00 (16:00) Run for your Life Wintersebb - 20:00 (17:00) Run for your Life Verdantine - 21:00 (18:00) Run for your Life Thistledown - 22:00 (19:00) Run for your Life Morningthaw - 23:00 (20:00) Run for your Life Frostfell - 00:00 (21:00) Run for your Life Leafcull - 01:00 (22:00) Run for your Life Harvestgain - 02:00 (23:00) Run for your Life Solclaim - 03:00 (00:00) Run for your Life

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Thank you all for the fantastic turn out tonight !!

I have had 9 hours of great mayhem, I havent laughed so much for ages.

Due to the exceedingly high turn out and the number of messages I had flying past my screen, I will be checking my logs for the night before confirming the final results.

The results will be updated here later today/tomorrow, depending on your time zone.

Congratulations to all those who took part, even those who died as soon as they stepped through the portal.

Thank you for your patience in waiting for these results, there was a LOT of text to check and verify!

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Remember, I am here to bring you fun and death!! __________________ Chimaera Jolt Live Ops Manager - USA

************** FINAL RESULTS POSTED ************

WINNERS - How to claim your prize! When you next see either myself (+LEM Chimaera) or any +Leo ingame, contact them with your winning character. We will then confirm with you which world and which char that you wish the prize to be given to.

The Prize 1. Title of "Dereth's Master Dodger" 2. 2x Sing keys 3. 2 Pulls from a Sing trove for your main char.

Server Winner Runner DT Belzon Runner D'Ni of Solclaim WE Runner WE Diaz the Runner VT Little Spaniard Can Fly Invader from Darktide TD Deadly Sin-Hg Rediculous Speed MT Oreo Hg Rediculous Speed FF Rouge Pulp Prismatic Shimmer LC Leader-Mulei Slowest Poke Diamond Serpent (3rd) HG Melegor Hope I win, Please don't attack me, Unnamed runner SC Mike Rog Runner Nikolas

Camii & Luthien Bedwyr of WE report: "Maggie, I participated in a few of the live events tonight and thought I'd send you screenies of the run (mainly the white dots, hehe) and end of the event on Solclaim. +LeM Chimaera spawned a few VoD critters for us :) Was great fun!"

Confucius of FF reports: "Hi Maggie, Here's a couple of SS's from today's "run for your life" on Verdantine. We had the entire LS encircled with dancers at one point ;)"

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--thanks to Confucius of FF & Camii & Luthien Bedwyr of WE

Zerono of HG sends this brief summary of the event: "The LeM would open a portal to the dires (VoD LS). When stepping into the portal that the LeM cast there was more lag then I had seen in ages. The whole LS was littered with corpses and pink/white lvl 1 noobs. Death message upon death message came in. Portal storms actually happened again! When the event took place on HG. A few of us had grabbed our high level chars and started running monsters into the noobs. The LeO and LeM had a good laugh about that.

The idea was to just go anyway you wanted from the drop and get as far as you could without getting killed. Pretty much anything out there would 1 shot you. You ran as far as you could for about 30 mins. If you died then you send in your coords to either the LeM or the LeO. Then most people would go pink and do some noobie pklite fights. The LeM even summoned some VoD monsters in Holt and when they used rings OMG it was so funny. The event was like no other. I hope they run another event like this."

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--pics by Maggie

Royal Cook Title

Hi Maggie =), There was a global for a cooking competition on Solclaim. We had a group of 5 and we needed to make first to win: Carrot Cake, Meat Pie, Chocolate covered nanners, Hearty Healing Green Tea Icecream :).

We got it done and received this global: Broadcast from +LeO Ireland> Congratulations to Vcini, Danny Diaz, The Knightredemption, Stumbelina and Vixen Spirit for winning the Royal Cook Off

We also received a special title (to be bestowed at a later date). I love your site! Just came back to game and it was great to have a competition for my cook! Vixey."

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+LeO Ireland says, "Now my friends, whilst I can not bestow the title now" +LeO Ireland says, "I can ask my sargent to give you the title of Royal Cook at a later date"

Escaped Convict February 11, 2005 - TD

Blizzard' of TD reports: "Sup maggie, guess what! Grazfen escaped again, and with the help of Elistan, Auma, Me, and Donald Trump, we ran 100 clicks to elistan's cottage. We were getting messages that we were heading there, and had to run through 200 pkls and 2 envoys, but we took shelter in the cottage until they gave up. We were teleported to an unreachable landscape, and were awarded. I got an inscribed pack idol."

--thanks to Blizzard' of TD

Dear Maggie, First off, I would like to say that you have the best website in the world ;) Anyway, to the event. It all began a week ago... (enter flashback here)

Last Friday Auma (me), and my patron Syning were hanging around in Marketplace, when a live event goes out! Being level 5 I listened to my patron's chattering of the event as she hunted Grazfen. Booooring. So I went and @told Grazfen, and wow, what a great guy. Charming, Handsome, everything! Anyway, we had proven to me that he was totally innocent. I got Sying and Caiden from our monarch and went to Hebian-To to try and protect him! But, alas, we couldn't arrive in time and Blizzard' with the assistance of Elistan received his spear. But! There was something different about the spear, carrying an inscription saying "To Auma...." It's crazy how many tells I got, (I know now what it feels like to be a big celebrity like Maggie the Jackcat) and finally we persuaded Blizzard' and Elistan to aid us in Grazfen's Defense! He even gave me that spear! We barraged poor +Leo Netherlands with angry tells, and not affected, he responded with a simple "I'll we what we can do." We planned to meet again a Friday a week from then.

Monday But Grazfen wasn't patient! He escaped from the Glenden Wood Dungeon cells and ran. Luckily, Syning was online to aid him and had a powerful group to defend! But, one member was treacherous! Grazfen was felled with a single arrow in the back! We decided that on Friday, only the original fellowship shall get together!

Today (Friday the uhh, 11th?) We were prepped and ready! Me, Blizzard' and Syning head over to the Glenden Wood Dungeon! We raided the place and waited for other fellowship members to arrive. Elistan and a friend brought by Blizzard, Donald Trump, arrived on the scene! It appeared, however, that we were too late!! Grazfen had already escaped! And was hiding around the outskirts of Cragstone! We met up with him, and our fellowship was graced with Grazfen himself! We began a horrible, horrible run to Blizzard's Cottage, evading many chances at death! My newbie self died a few times, but I was only 18th!! We arrived with a change of plans, and a new fellow member. Dark (something or nother) had fellowed, and we were getting new coords! Blizzard's house was locked and we ran to Elistans. All on the fellowship channel... Which was bad. Soon, +Leo Netherlands got the coordinates to Elistans cottage! We were waiting with bated breath as we entered the settlement. Only a few l33t pkz were there waiting and we got inside safely.

Ah, the sweet taste of victory.

The crowd dissipated until only 5 remained, and we were portaled out of the cottage onto some high, faraway mountain where Grazfen could live! In favor, I received a pack Ursuin, and his 2nd Spear! Inscribed of course ;) BLizzard' will probably send you pics soon! Love your site!

Auma of TD Oh, and not to mention, I got a farewell kiss off of him!

Asaki Wei, Cursed Adventurer

Easton Trueshot of VT sends these screens of the event on VT in Lin, Feb. 12, 2005!

A dark shadow looms over the town of Lin.

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--thanks to Easton Trueshot of VT

Asaki Wei says, "I am cursed! This sword! It is darkness!" Asaki Wei says, "May my Gleaming armor protect me from the night!"

Asaki Wei's armor was an additional prize! Shayla O'Rourke poses below (left) in Asaki Wei's Gleaming Armor while holding Aujanel's Spur!

Asaki Wei's Gleaming Armor

Type Gauntlets Boots Sleeves Leggings Helm Breastplate Part of a suit of armor worn by the cursed adventurer, Asaki Wei

Value 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000

Burden 919 540 1375 2247 533 1415

Stats Workmanship: Nearly flawless (6) Special Properties: +1 Magic Defense, Dropped on Death, Dyeable This item cannot be further imbued Slashing: Average (230) Piercing: Average (230) Bludgeoning: Average (230) Fire: Average (230) Cold: Average (230) Acid: Average (230) Electric: Average (230)

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Rhesus reports from FF (above right): "Hey Maggie, Asaki Wei came calling to Sawato on Frostfell tonight (Feb. 13, 2005), my clan's home town actually.

And so, plain and simple, we fought the shadows back and murdered the man for bringing it to our town. Thanks and love your site!!"

Rhesus sends this update: "Hey Maggie! It looks like there's more to the eye on this Gleaming Armor than is first apparent. It will tinker. In fact, I tinkered my entire suit tonight, six times on each piece. The whole suit is now AL 350. It will also Retain. I put a bag of leather on each piece also. I'd go for tinker 7, but even with ws 10 steel and a capped tinker, it's really hard to get 100% and I refused to tinker this stuff with anything less than 100% chance. Thanks so much for the site!!!"

Glenden Wood Survivor - February 12, 3005 - FF

Houndam the Great of FF reports: "All level 100+ were invited to attempt.... First the +LeO's gave us some cannon fodder.... but before we knew what came next, there were Obliterators, VoD Type Virindi, Diamond Golem Suzerains, White Bunnies +Much Much more.... El Un Dios won in the end, not sure what he won.... but he did get a custom title. Mustve had a good run skill, died about 6th last myself.... There was no hiding. The Obliterators and Rabbits made sure."

Congratulation to El Un Dios who survived the Glenden Wood survival test

Escaped Murderer Karthis

A Report from Steve Jobs of DT - February 14, 2005

Broadcast from +LeO Como> Citizens, Karthis the crazed murderer has escaped from the Eastham jail this morning! He was last seen heading South West from Eastham! [Allegiance] Irresistible Force says, "LETS DO IT" Player:Karthis Monarch:1343720279 at:0.4n 0.3w You say, "Cruath Quaguz" You cast Swordsman's Gift on Karthis You say, "Jevak Quati" You say, "that' him" You say, "you a melee? lol" You say, "else he won't die" Irresistible Force says, "OMG" You say, "HALT YOU ARE UNDER CITIZEN'S ARREST" Irresistible Force says, "HE RUNS JUST LIKE EVERYONE ELSE" Irresistible Force says, "ON DT" You say, "Jevak Quati" Your movement disrupted spell casting! You say, "Jevak Quati" You say, "laggy" Irresistible Force says, "gear" Irresistible Force says, "gear" Irresistible Force says, "gear" You say, "seriously" You say, "it's crazy" Irresistible Force says, "omg" Karthis says, "Fools you'll not stop me!" Irresistible Force says, "I KNOW" Irresistible Force says, "YOUR LIKE KHAO" You say, "ALL YOU DO IS RUN" You say, "GB2FF" Irresistible Force says, "YOU JUST URN" You say, "100 plats right now, 1v1" You say, "i'll give you 2 to 1 odds" You say, "Equin Guati" You cast Gears Unwound on Karthis You say, "you better catch him lol" Irresistible Force says, "I CAN'T ATTACK" You say, "he has gear then" You say, "can you slow down for a sec karthis" You say, "i'm getting tired" You say, "dude you are slow because i am catching up to him" You say, "GOD GIVE ME YOUR KATAR" You say, "lol i'd be on him by now" You say, "get right next to him" You say, "before trying to swing" You say, "Equin Caja" You cast Belly of Lead on Karthis You say, "did he spin jump or something lol" Irresistible Force says, "yah" You say, "because i got sent the other way, hehe" Irresistible Force says, "wtf" You say, "what" Irresistible Force says, "i hit him" Irresistible Force says, "then he broke" You say, "he is winning because of lag amg" You say, "FIGHT" You say, "FIGHT" You say, "wow" You say, "we ran to another town" Irresistible Force says, "lyth" You say, "aye lol" Irresistible Force says, "is where we are" You say, "that's a hella run" You say, "Jevak Quati" You slash Karthis for 112 points with Rending Wind. You say, "oh heck yes" Irresistible Force says, "not buffed" You say, "no prots lol" You say, "go" You say, "oh i got this punk" You say, "Jevak Quati" You say, "Jevak Quati" You say, "Jevak Quati" You slash Karthis for 100 points with Rending Wind. You say, "die" Irresistible Force says, "YEA" You say, "one more hehe" You say, "just have to line him up" You say, "Jevak Quati" You say, "Jevak Quati" Your killing blow nearly turns Karthis inside-out! You say, "lol." +LeO Como laughs. You say, "heya como" You say, "he would not stop" +LeO Como says, "Nice kill :-)" You say, "i had to kill him, I'm sorry" +LeO Como says, "No problem at all." You say, "ya he's just convict trash, let's put him to death." You say, "this must be texas lol" +LeO Como says, "You have done the Queen a great service, now there will only be normal murders on the loose once again, not crazed ones :-)" Broadcast from +LeO Como> Brave Steve Jobs has killed Karthis the crazed murderer! Thanks to his contribution, there will be only normal murders loose and not the crazed type. Thanks Steve!

+LeO Como gives you Writ of Refuge. +LeO Como gives you Virindi Mask. +LeO Como gives you Plush Tusker. You say, "A VIRINDI MASK?" +LeO Como gives you Doll Mask.

Karthis dropped a carved marble key, a sturdy stel key, a niffis pit gem, a blue kit, a black luster pearl, and his armor (some dyed chiran, bad stats).

+LeO Como grazes your foot for 4 points of Bludgeoning damage! You say, "sir" You say, "i wouldn't mess w/ i" You say, "see karthis" You say, "I'd hate for you to end up like that" You say, "but should this aggression continue...." You say, "I will have no choice but to ensure you meet the same fate" +LeO Como singes your lower leg for 8 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your chest for 16 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your chest for 16 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your head for 15 points of Fire damage! You say, "Zojak Quati" +LeO Como singes your chest for 14 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your head for 8 points of Fire damage! You say, "Zojak Quati" +LeO Como singes your chest for 9 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como resists your spell +LeO Como singes your head for 5 points of Fire damage! [Allegiance] No-Skillz says, "tight" +LeO Como singes your upper arm for 5 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your chest for 5 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your head for 5 points of Fire damage! You say, "Zojak Quati" +LeO Como singes your upper arm for 5 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your upper arm for 3 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your chest for 6 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como resists your spell +LeO Como singes your chest for 4 points of Fire damage! You say, "Equin Opaj" +LeO Como singes your upper arm for 5 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como singes your upper arm for 3 points of Fire damage! +LeO Como resists your spell You say, "Equin Opaj" +LeO Como yawns. +LeO Como resists your spell +LeO Como says, "Can't hit a 500 magic defense? :-(" You say, "Lies, I have 462 war, should land at least 1/4" +LeO Como dances, "Look at me! I'm dancin crazy!" You say, "ok Como, I like you, but" You say, "ok you're on dt" You say, "we don't emote here, especially not that one" (40x resists) +LeO Como says, "Well, I must be going. Thank you all, and enjoy the rest of your evening"

Good times. Como also randomly gave me a carved black marrow key 15 minutes later while I was pk'ing. hehe, sorry the log was a bit long =P

Interview with +LeO Milan

Hey Maggie it's Julian's Touch from TD. We got a broadcast on TD (Feb. 12, 2005) saying :

Broadcast from +LeO Milan> An emissary of the royal guard has appeared in the Holtburg Meeting Hall seeking master tradesmen to assist him.

+LeO Milan says, "Greetings! Lets give everyone a chance to arrive and for me to collect my notes on the items needed." +LeO Milan says, "You have been summoned this evening to test your skills as scavengers and tradesmen." +LeO Milan says, "In a few moments I will give you a list of items which I will ask you to craft for me..." +LeO Milan says, "As many of you know Dereth is usually facing great amounts of peril." +LeO Milan says, "Between new species arriving and attempting to take over the land and old species growing stronger, we have a lot we need to protect ourselves and our land from." +LeO Milan says, "The first group of up to four to return to me with the items will help save Dereth and will receive a prize." +LeO Milan says, "Does anyone have any questions before I reveal the items that we seek?"

someone : "will i need to craft ?" +LeO Milan says, "Possibly... this could be a good chance to show tinkerers and other trades how well you do." +LeO Milan says, "The last time I asked this land to provide Red Colored Gauntlets that were Tinkered, Some Green Tea Ice Cream and a Dyed Black Sukian Robe." +LeO Milan says, "This time, we're asking you to provide the following..." +LeO Milan says, "A shield with Melee Defense and it's value increased by 5 tinks, a Rabbit Pie, and some Solrets died Red." +LeO Milan says, "er dyed... preferably not coated in blood." +LeO Milan says, "One person will be the responsible party who turns in the items. The items will not be returned." +LeO Milan says, "Again that's a shield with Melee Defense and it's value increased by 5 tinks, a Rabbit Pie, and some Solrets dyed Red."

Al Capon says, "is that a helm of crag" +LeO Milan says, "Yes it is."

While people were gathering the items, i chatted with Milan :

Me : Is it fun to run live event ? +LeO Milan says, "Sometimes, it depends largely on the players around, how they react and how they bring enjoyment to the event" +LeO Milan says, "Each world has different attitudes towards the events." +LeO Milan says, "This event is a crafting event, combat isn't required so it tends to invoke a lot of distaste in many." .+LeO Milan says, "There will be plenty of those in the weeks ahead." .+LeO Milan says, "We've got 9 worlds each needing events for the next few months to fill in the gap without a patch."

Kalico Kat says, "lol I enjoyed the race even if I died within a few mins of reaching the dires :D" +LeO Milan says, "Thanks, part of that was something I helped design."

Me : Are you an AC player, AC fan, or you are not playing ? +LeO Milan says, "I'm an AC player and have been since retail."

Me : So i have no doubt you have tons of ideas for event! +LeO Milan says, "Some of the events are involved and more complex, so we're waiting on Turbine's appoval." +LeO Milan says, "We have ideas for story arc type events. At the moment believe it or not we have very few event "types" to follow." +LeO Milan says, "Fox & hound events seem to be fun with people running after a person."

Broadcast from +LeO Milan> Akkadian Sin has successfully provided me the required items. +LeO Milan says, "Congratulations!"

Me : what did you won? Akkadian Sin tells you, "heal kits, marble keys and 4 mmd's"

Me : You say, "Milan, if you want succes on TD, make the drudges attack a town :) or mites <3" +LeO Milan says, "You never know... an invasion could be coming to a town nearest you!"

Thanks Milan for this chat , and the event!

JT of TD

Team Gladiator - Rescheduled!

Announcement on the Turbine Site

TEAM GLADIATOR - your day of glory

Its back, bigger and better than ever!

So you think you are tough? That your fellowship can stand up to anyone on your world?

Well now is your chance to prove that, its time to put your best armour on and sharpen your blades.

This weekend we will be inviting you to form a fellowship with eight of your closest friends to face the best the world has to offer.

Each contest will consist of up to four teams competing against each other in mortal combat, in a fight to the death. The winning team will be the one that has at least one team member alive when all their opponents have died.

If sufficient teams from each world wish to take part, there will be rounds of up to four teams competing in each bout. The winners of the bouts will go forward to the next round or the final.

So what are you waiting for? Gather your team in preparation.

The Rules: Teams can be Player Killer Lites or Player Killers, Red teams on "white" worlds will be able to compete if sufficient teams apply.

Any clothing/armour/weapons/magic may be used. Any buffs may be used. Any player porting or logging from the contest area will be disqualified. Any player not abiding by the LEM/LEO requests will be ported from the contest area.

Fellowships wishing to take part must submit their Fellowship name, Leader and World and if PINK or RED team, to me via PM on this forum, BEFORE the event is due to start. Darktide players must also specify which time slot

We will conduct as may Gladiator fights as time permits on each world.

The Mechanics: A LEO will contact and visit your team in-game. Start buffing immediately !! A Book listing your Fellowship name and members must be handed to the LEO. Shortly thereafter you will be transported to the arena. Combat starts as soon as you arrive !!

Those requiring to recover their bodies will be ported back when the bout has finished.

Times are in EST (PST)

Darktide Saturday 12th, 21:00 (18:00) Sunday 13th, 18:00 (15:00) Sunday 13th, 22:00 (19:00)

Wintersebb Sunday 13th, 19:00 (16:00)

Verdantine Sunday 13th, 20:00 (17:00)

Thistledown Sunday 13th, 23:00 (20:00)

Leafcull Saturday 12th, 18:00 (15:00)

Harvestgain Saturday 12th, 19:00 (16:00)

Solclaim Saturday 12th, 20:00 (17:00)

Frostfell Saturday 12th, 22:00 (19:00)

Morningthaw Saturday 12th, 23:00 (20:00) __________________ Chimaera Jolt Live Ops Manager - USA

Eaters Arrive!

Hey Maggie, I logged in as Sideburns this afternoon to take him for some Chozorite mining when I noticed a critter in the heart of Cragstone. I saw it run by, and it was nothing I'd EVER seen before. After Id'ing it, I knew what it was. It was a valmontian pet, an Eater!

Sideburns ran up to it (right next to Lt. Kenneth in Cragstone) and we had a stand off. It attacked me first, so I grabbed my xbow and tried to slay it, but to no avail. It killed me!

So, with my hometown under attack by this creature, I logged on my highest level character, Brayden Von Grohl and went looking for the Eater. I found him quickly and chased him almost to the town crier (where the portal to Cragstone drops you) and the Eater growled at me! I brandished my slash rend sword and killed it quickly.

I looted the corpse and it had only a few items, a fish, a viamont toast, a pair of boots, leather tassets, an apple and a linen cowl. The stats on the viamont toast are: Viamont Toast, value 22p, 75 burden, restores 9 stamina when consumed.

I also read where there were Eater sightings on Soclaim as well. Thanks Maggie... I would be lost without your site.

Brayden Von Grohl of HG

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The Viamontians Attack! Celdiseth steps outside to enjoy the night air...glancing around he sees something never seen before on his shore...

On Morningthaw, a group of Viamontian Knights lead by a Lieutenant and his Eater portaled into Dereth just outside of Celdiseth's Archmage shop. These Viamontians were level 85, and adorned the new Viamontian armor.

The creatures fell quickly to Pierce attacks, and the assault was stopped, almost as quickly as it started.

With the drop of the finishing blow, the marching orders from General Corcima fell to the ground, indicating their plot to spy on us. Unfortunately, Antius would not hear our plea to take the letter, so we tried carlo, who was also uninterested.

We are being raided, and nobody seems to care. I fear the worst.

Thanks, VanDyne - Morningthaw

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Shadow Tempest reports from TD:

Hey Maggie,

Viamontians attacked thistledown today outside of celdiseth's cottage. Viamontian knights and mercenaries and an ugly beast that looked like it was all teeth called and eater. They all went down fairly easy and a global went out when the first knight fell. Only the one that killed the knight could open the corpse. He found a set of orders on it that neither Antius nor Carlo would take....

Varicci's Orders

You are tasked with a mission of which General Corcima himself is unaware. You are to find this Queen of theirs - this Aluvian wench. Find her, and bring me her head. I care not how you accomplish this feat. Kill whomever gets in your way, be they Bloodless or not. But do not return to my land without that woman's head!"

March 13, 2005

Mykell of FF reports: "Hi Maggie, Another Viamontian raid today on FF outside phyntos menance. They went down quick....."

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Hoggy of FF sends these pics of the Viamontians and Eaters inside the Phyntos Menace!

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Find the +LeO! (March 17, 2005)

Love your site Maggie, tis the best! A broadcast went out by +LeO Puma, asking us to find him. He gave three hints: 1)He was by a festival stone 2) Near a starter town 3) He could see the water from the stone.

He was located outside of Holt.

+LeO Puma says, "Greetings, You have found me, now I need this questions answered and you will be rewarded." +LeO Puma says, "Who was Lady Tallial's lover?" +LeO Puma says, "I will reward the first person here and the first to answer my quesiton" Eowyen of the Stars says, "OOhhh thats an old one.." You say, "wow hard" You say, "think I know" You say, "something to do with Frore, Sir Joffre" +LeO Puma says, "yes" Eowyen of the Stars says, "grats" Niesha sighs, I have been playing for 5 years and done the frore quest and didn't know that Eowyen of the Stars says, "thank you" You bow deeply. Eowyen of the Stars says, "grats Zake" Niesha smiles, congratulations

Broadcast from +LeO Puma> Congratulations to Eowyen of the Stars for finding me near Holtburg and Zake for answering my question.

+LeO Puma bows deeply. +LeO Puma says, "A golden Gromie for the finder and a writ for the answerer" +LeO Puma bows deeply.

Escaped Convict Harmlet the Green! Renswic of HG reports:

Hiyas Maggie, we had a life event on HG last night (March 19, 2005). I wasn't really paying attention untill my vassal said we should hide the escaped con in my villa. Well the asshat in me knew that would piss off a good number of people, so it began. I told Harmlet the Green (the con) where my villa was and offered him sanctuary, and added him to my guest list then closed my villa. Not long after we saw this broadcast:

Broadcast from +LeO Badger> It's been overheard that Harmelt is being helped by Renswic. He is running to his villa at 17.9n 36.3e. Get there before he does and kill him when he arrives.

Well the few people that knew where my villa was started showing up, then came the LeO:

+LeO Badger says, "Renswic!" +LeO Badger says, "How dare you."

As more and more PKLs showed up, I was in tells with Harmlet, then all the sudden he's in my villa and has about half the server running after him. My vassal (studdly mcstudderson) invited him in and even gave him a cookie. After giving him a tour of my villa (he even named my guard tusker statue :) ) we hid out in my villas basement. Not long after we saw this broadcast:

Broadcast from +LeO Badger> In the confusion at Renswic's Villa Harmelt the Green managed to escape. We will capture him next time!

Harmlet thanked us, posed for a SS and gave us a couple keys and left. Sadly, I was too busy playing host to think of taking SSs of the lynch mob outside my villa! In the end it was a hell of a good time. :)

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Harmelt the Green tells you, "which side of the river are you on?" You tell Harmelt the Green, "westside" You tell Harmelt the Green, "SW of crag" Harmelt the Green tells you, "so I don't need to cross?" You tell Harmelt the Green, "no" Harmelt the Green tells you, "Perfect" Studdly McStudderson says, "we doing it rens! LETS SAVE HIM!" [Allegiance] Commander says, "hahahahahahahahahahahahaha" Harmelt the Green tells you, "I have been betrayed!" Harmelt the Green tells you, "is your house still safe?" You tell Harmelt the Green, "not by me man, yes its closed to all," Harmelt the Green tells you, "I am running as fast as I can!" +LeO Badger says, "Renswic!" +LeO Badger says, "How dare you." You say, "i dare happy " You tell Harmelt the Green, "the leo popped up" +LeO Badger says, "Kill him when he arrives. This is a perfect trap." Harmelt the Green tells you, "Kill him!" Harmelt the Green tells you, "Tell him what you did with his mom!" +LeO Badger says, "I will reward you both." You tell Harmelt the Green, "the leo is kill able?" Harmelt the Green tells you, "If you have a big enough Bow you can kill anything." [Allegiance] Renswic says, "comm i think that leo is killable" +LeO Badger says, "He who kills him will of course be rewarded." +LeO Badger says, "Don't be a fool and protect him. He will probably kill you." You tell Harmelt the Green, "i cant," Harmelt the Green tells you, "Why not?" +LeO Badger says, "Kill him as he arrives." You tell Harmelt the Green, "im a throwen weapons toon, im not good PKLK" Harmelt the Green tells you, "are you not the powerful Renswic I have heard spoken of before?" You tell Harmelt the Green, "no im not great at anything but helping people in need out" Harmelt the Green tells you, "Thank you!" You say, "did you jsut go into attack mode leo?" +LeO Badger says, "Yes, why?" You say, "jsut wondering" You say, "Welcome" Harmelt the Green says, "What is on your head, Mr. Renswic?" +LeO Badger says, "You will have to trick him into coming out..." You say, "its my rathat" You say, "you will be safe here" [Allegiance] Renswic says, "omg this is soo cool" [Allegiance] Commander says, "werd" Harmelt the Green says, "You have a nice house." You say, "ty happy " Harmelt the Green says, "But what is on your head?" +LeO Badger says, "The traitor, Harmelt the Green, has taken refuge in Renswic's Villa located at 17.8n 36.3e. He must be tricked in to leaving or otherwise caught in the next ten minutes." Studdly McStudderson says, "cookie for you" Harmelt the Green says, "Thank you." Your vassal Studdly McStudderson says to you, "lets get him into basement" Harmelt the Green says, "Can we go upstairs?" You say, "sure" Harmelt the Green says, "What is that?" You say, "this is my Hall of Quest Items" Harmelt the Green says, "Studdly, May I ask why you are so... ... Umm... Armorless?" You say, "he likesto streak" Studdly McStudderson says, "=) I believe that we are all born to be naked." Harmelt the Green says, "Wait, before the basement, do you have a backyard?" You say, "yes i do" Harmelt the Green says, "May I see you back yard?" Harmelt the Green says, "He's cute." Harmelt the Green says, "What is his name?" You say, "harm, would you like him as a pet?" Studdly McStudderson says, "why dont you name him?" Harmelt the Green says, "Can we name him Harmlet, after me?" You say, "hes always kept my villa safe, maybe he will work for you" You say, "yes er can" You say, "we*" Harmelt the Green says, "I am counting a lot of level 126 people out there." Harmelt the Green says, "I am not level 126. I wouldn't last a second out there." You say, "harm, will you do the honors of inscrabing him with his new name?" Harmelt the Green says, "I have no house, Renswic" Harmelt the Green gives you Carved Tusker Statue. Harmelt the Green says, "But would be honoured if you displayed him with my name in yours." You say, "you always have a place at my house" +LeO Badger says, "We're here to fight Harmelt, Halas. Know your side." Harmelt the Green says, "You'll never get me Mr. Badger!" +LeO Badger shakes his fist. Harmelt the Green says, "What is that thing on your head?" You say, "it is my rat hat" Harmelt the Green says, "It looks odd." Broadcast from +LeO Badger> In the confusion at Renswic's Villa Harmelt the Green managed to escape. We will capture him next time! You say, "Trapper's Hat" [Allegiance] Renswic says, "woooo" Harmelt the Green says, "May I ask if there are any items you are seeking?" You say, "none really, anything you can offer ill be happy with, im just glad i could help" Harmelt the Green says, "I have black Luster Pearls, some keys, some soul chalices. Is there anything in particular you like?" You say, "keys are always nice" Harmelt the Green gives you Singularity Key. Harmelt the Green gives you Granite Key. Studdly McStudderson says, "thank you harmelt!" Harmelt the Green gives you Marble Key. Harmelt the Green gives you Black Marrow Key. Harmelt the Green says, "Thanks again!" Studdly McStudderson says, "It is an honor to have you here" Studdly McStudderson says, "by the way.." Studdly McStudderson says, "would you like some styling clothes" You say, "np, and ty for naming my tusker for me happy " Studdly McStudderson says, "before you go on your way" You say, "you will always have a safe house here" Harmelt the Green says, "No thank you, I am think I am very stylish at this time." Studdly McStudderson says, "Indeed you are =)" Harmelt the Green says, "Thank you." You say, "np, be safe" Harmelt the Green says, "Thank you for harboring me. Though please, leave my wife alone, please." Studdly McStudderson says, "Yes sir." Harmelt the Green says, "Take care of Harmelt for me, please." Harmelt the Green is recalling to the lifestone. Harmelt the Green says, "Don't tell anyone where I'm going." You say, "that was wild"

Yaraq Apple Orchards Attacked! Angeline Rayne of HG reports (March 25, 2005)

Hello Maggie! Well to begin with I was on my way to Olthoi Brood Hive (80+) when a message appeared on my screen saying that the apple fields were being attacked and they needed help. So I went running there to see what was happening. When I first got there there were only sewer rats, but as we kept killing bigger and bigger monsters appeared like Burun, Mite Queens, Margrul's, and so forth. Then when I thought everything was over, a Tremendous Monouga spawned in! I just had to laugh! But anywho, we killed it and they ended with VoD type liches. I just wanted to send u some pics that I took for you to look at.

Angelina Rayne HG level 107 sword

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Monkey Fist of HG reports (March 27, 2005):

Hi Maggie! Guess the monsters love those yaraq cove apples because they came back! It started with lower level monsters as before, and began getting harder then went to the TM and ended with pookie paying a visit to us. Was loads of fun and thanks the the warriors of HG, our apples are safe again! -Monkey Fist of Harvestgain

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Easter Bunny Attack!

Legacy of Order on MT sends this report: About 6 pookies and 30 white bunnies (baby pookie) and like 300 other bunnies just raided Al-jalima on MT. Here's Screen shots. Enjoy :)

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Yanshi Shadow Attack! Or as I like to call it: The Many Deaths of Maggie. So we just got finished with the Harbinger quest and were hanging with Vicandi chatting before heading to sleep when... I suddenly died! Shadows, with their uncanny magical abilities, sensed that my buffs had *just* expired and grabbed their chance to take me down!! Carnage ensued! I experienced another live event in what has become my usual fashion: pantsless and with a vitae total to die for.

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Capt Justice says, "was that you, who got Maggie her updated armor ?" Magicpipe II says, "i had help" Capt Justice says, "Magicpipe" Capt Justice says, "cool" You say, "Yep, Magic gave me my cheese grater helm!" Capt Justice says, "LOL" Magicpipe II says, "i love cheese grater helms!" Maggie the Jackcat strikes a pose Killz al-Evil says, "mmmm cheese" Magicpipe II says, "i have one on my high al suit" You say, "I still have my original purple olthoi helm too" Magicpipe II says, "i use my major suit for pkl tho and thats all i do now for th emost part" Capt Justice says, "ahh" Magicpipe II says, "majors wouldn't be that much use to maggie till shes up in the 100s" Capt Justice is now a member of your Fellowship. Capt Justice has given you permission to loot his or her kills. Capt Justice may now loot your kills. You say to your Fellowship, "you must know the seekrit handshake to enter this fellowhsip!" Capt Justice says, "lol what is the handshake ?" You say to your Fellowship, "ha. Everyone loves secret clubs!" You say, "like this" You point. Capt Justice says, "lol I missed first part =P" You say, "didja catch that? Because I won't (can't) repeat ti!" Capt Justice says, "oh darn" Capt Justice says, "lol" You say, "Ihave no idea what I just did. Some random key strokes by accident!" You say, "Ending in a point" You say, "!" Capt Justice says, "lol" Web of Deflection has expired. Web of Defense has expired. Maelstrom Shadow casts Harm Other V and drains 27 points of your health. Capt Justice says, "ummm hello" Web of Resistance has expired. Maelstrom Shadow chills you for 25 points with Frost Bolt V. Oswald's Boon has expired. Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you You say, "eeek!!!" Executor's Boon has expired. Maelstrom Shadow chills you for 25 points with Frost Bolt V. Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Boon of the Arrow Turner has expired. Boon of the Blade Turner has expired. Boon of the Mace Turner has expired. Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, but it is surpassed by Imperil Other V You heal yourself for 68 health points. Your Renegade Herbal Kit has 29 uses left. Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Magical energies fail to affect your health due to Maelstrom Shadow casting Drain Health Other V on you Caustic Boon has expired. Fiery Boon has expired. Maelstrom Shadow slashes you for 55 points with Whirling Blade V. Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Icy Boon has expired. Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Storm's Boon has expired. You expertly heal yourself for 52 health points. Your Renegade Herbal Kit has 28 uses left. Maelstrom Shadow grazes your head for 8 points of Bludgeoning damage! Swordsman's Gauntlets cast Coordination Other VI on you Swordsman's Gauntlets cast Moderate Sword Aptitude on you Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Maelstrom Shadow bashes your head for 22 points of Bludgeoning damage! Maelstrom Shadow cast Imperil Other V on you, surpassing Imperil Other V Maelstrom Shadow grazes your lower arm for 16 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Nightmare cast Magic Yield Other VI on you Shadow Nightmare grazes your lower leg for 18 points of Bludgeoning damage! Maelstrom Shadow bashes your chest for 39 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Nightmare cast Vulnerability Other VI on you Maelstrom Shadow casts Harm Other V and drains 24 points of your health. The spell Infected Caress on Yellow Topaz Tachi has expired. Shadow Nightmare bashes your lower arm for 46 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Nightmare bashes your hand for 41 points of Bludgeoning damage! The spell Atlan's Alacrity on Yellow Topaz Tachi has expired. Shadow Nightmare cast Piercing Vulnerability Other VI on you Magical energies fail to affect your stamina due to Shadow Nightmare casting Drain Stamina Other VI on you The spell Elysa's Sight on Yellow Topaz Tachi has expired. You were killed by Maelstrom Shadow! Maelstrom Shadow casts Harm Other V and drains 8 points of your health. You've lost 24,858 Pyreals, your Suikan Life Master Robe, your Suikan Item Master Robe, your Suikan War Master Robe, your Faran Item Master Robe, your Suikan Life Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Suikan Item Master Robe, and your Faran Item Master Robe! Your corpse is located at (12.8S, 46.6E).

The spell Brogard's Defiance on Gold Large Kite Shield has expired. The spell Cragstone's Will on Yellow Topaz Tachi has expired. Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "EEP" The spell Archer's Bane on Gold Large Kite Shield has expired. Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "howd that happen" The spell Swordsman's Bane on Gold Large Kite Shield has expired. Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "Shadow invasion in Yanshi" The spells Tusker's Bane and Inferno's Bane on Gold Large Kite Shield have expired. The spell Gelidite's Bane on Gold Large Kite Shield has expired. You say to your Fellowship, "hee hee. The Jolt people are trying to KILL ME!!!!" You heal yourself for 39 health points. Your Renegade Herbal Kit has 27 uses left. The spell Olthoi's Bane on Gold Large Kite Shield has expired. The spell Astyrrian's Bane on Gold Large Kite Shield has expired. Refulgent Bracelet cast Volition on you Refulgent Bracelet cast Vim on you Refulgent Bracelet cast Ardence on you Jaleh's Necklace cast Mother's Blessing on you, surpassing Ardence Asheron's Supreme Raiment cast Armor Other VI on you Asheron's Supreme Raiment cast Moderate Coordination on you Asheron's Supreme Raiment cast Minor Armor on you Ivory Ring cast Monster Attunement Self V on you

Citizens, rumours are arriving of strange shadowy sightings in Yanshi, perhaps the Emissary is their goal!! Your actions have dispelled the Lifestone's magic! Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "omw" Your fellow Capt Justice has died! Killz al-Evil says, "other way" Yellow Topaz Tachi cast Strength Self VI on you You say, "I've been killed already!"

Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "EVERYONE SAVE YOURSELF" Doomherald says, "invasion oh no" Doomherald says, "AYYYYYYYYYYEEEE" You squelch Doomherald.

Fyrendeverian says, "Hi Maggie" You say, "Hey! I was the FIRST to die!!" Your fellow Magicpipe II has died! Your fellow Capt Justice has died! Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "i just got ownd lol" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "man" You say to your Fellowship, "join the cluv!"

Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "lets do walls capt" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "ok" Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "rebuffing" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "me too"

Shadow Spectre cast Slowness Other VI on you Fyrendeverian is utterly destroyed by Shadow Nightmare! Shadow Spectre burns you for 97 points with Flame Bolt VI. Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 7 points of Bludgeoning damage! Qwirq tried and failed to assess you! You lose 26 points of health due to Shadow Nightmare casting Drain Health Other VI on you Shadow Spectre tried to cast a spell on you, but was too far away! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 6 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 4 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 8 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Nightmare grazes your lower arm for 8 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your foot for 3 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre's assault sends you to an icy death! You've lost 12,799 Pyreals, your Shoyanen's Portal Gem, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Faran Item Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Faran Item Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Suikan Item Master Robe, and your Suikan Life Master Robe! You say to your Fellowship, "hee hee" Your corpse is located at (12.0S, 46.6E).

Your fellow Magicpipe II has died! Consumed Wraith tried to cast a spell on you, but was too far away! Blistered by Consumed Wraith's lightning, Killz al-Evil dies! Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "were all tied at 2 a piece now" Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "i can't cast in this lag" You say to your Fellowship, "oh nooo!" Consumed Wraith scorches you for 44 points with Infernae. Consumed Wraith chills you for 44 points with Blizzard. Consumed Wraith cast Vulnerability Other VI on you You lose 47 points of health due to Consumed Wraith casting Vitality Siphon on you Shadow Nightmare grazes your lower arm for 16 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre's assault sends Mxllxm to an icy death! You lose 21 points of health due to Shadow Spectre casting Drain Health Other VI on you Shadow Spectre grazes your lower arm for 3 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your hand for 8 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your upper leg for 5 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your upper arm for 15 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your lower arm for 8 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 11 points of Bludgeoning damage! Consumed Wraith's assault sends you to an icy death! Your corpse is located at (11.9S, 46.6E). You've lost 16,093 Pyreals, your Copper Celdon Sleeves, your Silver Lightning Kaskara, your Leather Amuli Leggings, your Banished Crossbow, your Tusker Island Shirt, your Gold Fire Sceptre, your Emerald Flaming Scimitar, and your Brass Chainmail Shirt! Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "Maggie now has taken the lead at 3 =P" You say to your Fellowship, "I died AGAIN!! And didn't even feel anything!!!" You say to your Fellowship, "I lost my pants!" Your actions have dispelled the Lifestone's magic! Can no-one save the emissary at Yanshi? Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "i lost my majors!" Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "lol" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "you are always losing your pants" Your experience has reduced your Vitae penalty! Killz al-Evil says, "SOUTH" You say to your Fellowship, "it's these Shadows. THey have a thing for me" Killz al-Evil says, "WEEEEEEEEE" You say, "I have no pants!!!" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "I guess so" Shippou says, "maggie! the celeb!" Shippou says, "ur laggin mrs jackcat :)" Cerveza says, "hehe"

Shadow Spectre grazes your upper arm for 18 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 5 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your lower leg for 6 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your foot for 3 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 7 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your head for 3 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre chills you for 54 points with Frost Bolt VI. Shadow Spectre grazes your lower leg for 16 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 3 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your foot for 17 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre grazes your chest for 17 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre cast Defenselessness Other VI on you Qwirq tried and failed to assess you! Shadow Spectre grazes your upper leg for 7 points of Bludgeoning damage! Shadow Spectre's assault sends you to an icy death! Your corpse is located at (11.9S, 46.6E). You've lost 8,046 Pyreals, your Bronze Celdon Leggings, your Yellow Topaz Frost Broad Sword, your Copper Sollerets, your Fire Opal Flaming Broad Sword, your Gold Celdon Breastplate, your Ancient Armored Helm, your Silver Ring, your Copper Celdon Sleeves, your Yellow Topaz Tachi, and your Leather Amuli Leggings!

Void Knight cleaves Mervie in twain! Ulu Sclavus Lord cast Exhaustion Other V on you You resist the spell cast by Ulu Sclavus Lord You tell Magicpipe II, "I'm in the Harbinger Tunnels! Stupid lag!" Ulu Sclavus Lord cast Vulnerability Other V on you Magicpipe II tells you, "EEP!" You say, "Shurov Thipaj" The spell consumed the following components: Prismatic Taper Magicpipe II tells you, "portal recall" Ulu Sclavus Lord tried to cast a spell on you, but was too far away! You tell Magicpipe II, "yeah, I'm out. Haha"

Trena says, "doh again?" You say, "I'm practically nekkid!" Trena says, "ya lol" Trena says, "must be nasty" You say, "Go clear it out so I can get dressed!"

Wretched cast Ataxia on you Wretched grazes your upper leg for 17 points of Bludgeoning damage! Qwirq tried and failed to assess you! Wretched cast Ataxia on you, surpassing Ataxia Wretched grazes your abdomen for 21 points of Bludgeoning damage! Wretched jolts you for 80 points with Alset's Coil. Wretched cast Ataxia on you, surpassing Ataxia Wretched cast Gossamer Flesh on you Wretched cast Self Loathing on you Wretched burns you for 80 points with Ilservian's Flame. Wretched bashes your abdomen for 37 points of Bludgeoning damage! Wretched beats you to a lifeless pulp! Your corpse is located at (12.0S, 46.5E). Wretched tried to cast a spell on you, but was too far away! You've lost 24,446 Pyreals, your Shoyanen's Portal Gem, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Faran Item Master Robe, your Suikan Item Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Faran Item Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, your Suikan Creature Master Robe, and your Suikan Life Master Robe!

You say to your Fellowship, "ok, really, I'm getting a little sick of this. I need to go to bed!!! ha" You say to your Fellowship, "I'm out of Yanshi gems!" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "you get all your bodies" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "rofl" You say to your Fellowship, "no, I have 2 out there still" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "I see one, permit me" You have given permission to Capt Justice to loot one of your corpses. This permission will last one hour. Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "ALL VOD SHADOWS NOW!!!"

Citizens, the emissary at Yanshi is surrounded, he needs your help You say to your Fellowship, "we'd love to help... but we're DEAD! (Har)" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, ": )" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "wow we are still outnumbered" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "idiot is oppening portals agian" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "come up on the rock"

Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "ok got the one with all robes on it" Thanks to the brave heroics of our citizens the shadows have been driven back from whence they came, peace and tranquillity is restored once more. Magicpipe II says to your fellowship, "rofl it was doom that did the portals" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "what an idiot" Trena tells you, "hurry its almost clear" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "The Portal Storm has teleported you away from the crowded area!" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "you look furry" You say, "Just something I threw on!!" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "lol" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "i cant even get near town because of doom"

You say, "Thanks Capt. Was that the one near the black wall?" Capt Justice says to your fellowship, "yeah" You say to your Fellowship, "ok, I think I got the others already" Killz al-Evil says to your fellowship, "ok lets get bods" You say, "I think I did get everything back. Ha. What an adventure!"

Willy the Wizard says, "was kinda a lame attempt at an invasion LOL" Maggie the Jackcat gueses Willy didn't die 27 times Willy the Wizard blushes and tinks maybe he was late =)

April Fools Event - Sammy the Drudge

Dean Jr. Reports: "Today a global went out about a drudge at the Beach Fort wanting a few items to make an "ultimate sword of doom". I figured something was wrong, being April 1st and all that, plus I didn't have the items, but I was feeling a little reckless. I headed up to the Northern Beach Fort and made a deal with that drudge.

I was the only one there for a little while, and the drudge told me to fight some coral golems, which I did. Another person, Anatase, soon arrived, and we began bargaining with Sammy the Drudge. After giving it a few items, it handed me a golden gromnie and a parchment saying "Foool on yuuu!!!!!" The drudge then proceeded to summon a mob of Biakas, which quickly wrecked my unbuffed self."

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Sammy the Drudge says, "fite fite!!!" Sammy the Drudge says, "go hyoomin!!" Sammy the Drudge says, "hyoomin fite!" The thunder of crushing Coral Golem is followed by the deafening silence of death for 18,224 Xp. You flatten Acidic Coral Golem's body with the force of your assault for 24,795 Xp. Sammy the Drudge says, "yu is grayt fiter!" You say, "thank you" The thunder of crushing Coral Golem is followed by the deafening silence of death for 18,065 Xp. You beat Coral Golem to a lifeless pulp for 18,224 Xp. Coral Golem corrodes you for 75 points with Acid Stream V. Sammy the Drudge says, "yay hyoomin!" The thunder of crushing Coral Golem is followed by the deafening silence of death for 18,065 Xp. You say, "trying to make a sword?" Sammy the Drudge says, "yah!" Sammy the Drudge says, "Swoard uv Ooltimut Dooom" Sammy the Drudge says, "yu want swoard?" You say, "hmm, I wish I could help more but I dont have the right stuff" Sammy the Drudge says, "maybees wee kin mayk deels" You say, "ok" Sammy the Drudge says, "du yu haf bawdy partz?" Sammy the Drudge says, "and umm..." Sammy the Drudge says, "stick?" You say, "nope, I could probably see what I could get though" Sammy the Drudge says, "Swoard uv Ooltimut Dooom" Sammy the Drudge says, "is yu gud fiter too?" [Anayase has arrived] You say, "I have some Tasty Pudding, shiny ore, and refreshing water, hehe" Sammy the Drudge says, "pudding is gud" Sammy the Drudge says, "wun at tiym" [We try and give some items] Sammy the Drudge says, "not enuff!" Sammy the Drudge says, "need stik!" Sammy the Drudge says, "po pepupm,in" Sammy the Drudge says, "no bawdy partz?" Anatase says, "lol I only had the banderling scalp" You say, "let me ask a friend" Sammy the Drudge says, "rawr!" You say, "I have diamond golem powder, hehe" Sammy the Drudge says, "yah!" You say, "want pudding too?" Sammy the Drudge says, "yah!" Sammy the Drudge says, "scallop and puddin!" Sammy the Drudge says, "yah!" [Anatase gives a bandy scalp and I give a tasty pudding] Sammy the Drudge says, "howld on" Sammy the Drudge says, "i has to mayk two now" You say, "ok" Sammy the Drudge gives you Golden Gromnie. Sammy the Drudge gives you Parchment. Anatase says, "awesome thank you" [Biakas appear] Biaka corrodes you for 99 points with Acid Arc VII. Biaka cast Gossamer Flesh on you Biaka cast Olthoi's Gift on you Daktari's last strength dissolves before Biaka

April Fools Event - +LeO Prank The following prank occurred on WE and TD, April 1st, 2005!

Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> An Roy ale Gored is in the Holtburger meeting hall locoing for oltholio kneelers four imports mansion. Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> Please copy and paste the following event information in to the chat window to start the event. Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> Sorry, peace ignores teh vast massage, it was an err ore. Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> Some geysers in beau ribs our een Helpborg mating hull needling geld. Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> ?t LeO Range, Do you have the über items we will use as rewards? Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> Holtburg meeting hall - now. Broadcast from +LeO Carebear> Please.

After arriving at the Meeting Hall, Morgra of MT recovered the following book from a pile of fish:

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Broadcast from +Lem Ming> The new +Leos have been fired. The event they were to run will be run on the 34th of April. Thank you for your time.

April Fools Event - Pookie vs Obliterator

Triple of HG reports: "Heres the story.... Was standing in Marketplace on the 1st and noticed a White Rabbit hopping around. Wasn't long before there was a group of us following it around. I yelled "Kill the Wabbit" a couple times but if we tried to attack it, it just said that we couldn't affect it 'cause we were non player killer.

It hopped around to each room complaining the grass wasn't very good. So I opened up a mastermage portal and told it there was good grass there. It went through! About 7-8 of us followed it and it ran around saying it liked the fresh grass, but wanted a carrot.

Then a matty attacked the group and the rabbit seemed to think it was a big bunny, though it ended up killing it. Then the rabbit started getting bored of this grass and someone opened another portal. We all went through and guess what? It was deep VoD! lol

The bunny killed a few lugies, calling them ugly humans. Killed a virindi, then ran to a top of one of the mountains, said he was scared to jump and we should go first. I jumped as did most of us. and the bunny laughed at us! And didn't jump!

We all ran back up and he ran to other side and jumped off. We all followed. I believe it was "Kid" that kept talking to the bunny telling him about rabbit stew that set the bunny off! He started biting everyone!

So we attacked! And now we could land on it! I got the kill and of course died for it. Portaled back and ran to where body was and White Rabbit was back! And had spawned about 20-30 little bunnies to help him kill the rest of the people. I think everyone died. I ran away from him begging his forgiveness as he taunted me with "run wabbit run" or something like that. lol

He then forgave us and went friendly again. I dropped my wand in front of him and asked him to chew his name into it. lol And he inscribed my wand! It reads "Wabbit Weapon" - White Rabbit

He then fought an Oblit calling it a hairy man. lol Shortly after that he said he wanted to go home and soon out ran us all.... Was a blast!

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Thanks also to Kid of HG!

April Fools Event - Little White Mouse

Teli sends this account of an April Fools event on VT:

"Maya ported into Candeth & there was a lil mousy running around asking for a cookie acting really cute. So a guy named Darkpriest killed him.

After he killed him at least 50 Caul rats spawned & killed him & anyone inside the walls of Candeth. Someone went out & posted on VN that there was an attack so all kinds (maybe 15) of people showed up to fight. This went on for at least 15 minutes.

The whole time the lil white mousy kept saying things like "I only wanted a cookie" & "why won't anyone give me a cookie."

So Maya sent the mousy a tell & told him "I will get you a cookie." So while she kept him busy, I took our cook & went out & made some cookies. After around 30 minutes of fighting. I finally got the cookie there & handed it to him. For a reward he gave Maya 6 golden gromnies & 6 black luster pearls."

Event - Quiz Night Announcement! (from the Turbine Site) So you think you know it all? History and the Lore? Crafting and Fashion? Cooking and Alchemy? The Weapons and Armour of choice?

Well now is the chance to prove it!

In the first of a serious of quiz nights we are giving you the opportunity to team with 3 of your friends and prove that you are the best.

Will your team be the "Lore Masters" ?

Rules:

• Teams of 4
• Answers to be written in a book and handed to the judges. (bring your own books!)
• The front page of the book should have the team name, and the four team members names. Do not put answers on this page.
• Judges decision is final.
• Anyone associated with researching this event may not compete.
• No Fighting or Duelling within the meeting hall.
• Anyone disrupting and not following the LEM or LEO requests during the Quiz Night will be barred from future events and may suffer a painful and horrifying death.

The Schedule: Sunday 3rd April Location: Shoushi Meeting Hall

Times are EST (PST, GMT)

Wintersebb - 13:00 (10:00, 18:00) Verdantine - 13:00 (10:00, 18:00) Thistledown - 14:30 (11:30, 19:30) Morningthaw - 14:30 (11:30, 19:30) Frostfell - 16:00 (13:00, 21:00) Leafcull - 16:00 (13:00, 21:00) Harvestgain - 17:30 (14:30, 22:30) Solclaim - 17:30 (14:30, 22:30)

Darktide - Gladiator Event - 19:00 (16:00, 00:00) Team event (any number of players within one fellowship) If we get enough teams registering it will be a Knockout competition, the winners go through to the next round, until we are left with ONE winning team. The TRUE Champions of Darktide! __________________ Chimaera Jolt Live Ops Manager - USA

Quiz Night Results

Following is the description of the event on MT where team 4 teh win!1 -- me, Koujia Leggings, Verai, and VanDyne was the winner! We won a platinum scarab for each correct answer (48 out of 50), a chalice inscribed with our success and the title of Lore Master! Thanks to +LeM Kyoshi for allowing me to receive my reward on my home server TD!!

GETTING STARTED Mike Hext says, "What's Gaerlan's Brother's wife's mother's name?" Fade-To-Black says, "The answer is: 42." You say, "What's Martine's second cousin's sister's dog named?" Fade-To-Black says, "Rover." Tornath The Second says, "Fluffy, destroyer of worlds." Fade-To-Black :( Fade-To-Black says, "Crap, Tornath wins this one." Tornath The Second says, "Woo!"

+LeM Kyoshi says, "I apologize for the delay, however the Leo tthat was running this event has a connection problem" Maggie the Jackcat goes to password protect her site +LeM Kyoshi says, "so we will start in a moment" +LeM Kyoshi says, "if you could all take a seat :)" +LeM Kyoshi says, "Leo Turtel will go over the rules with you"

+LeO Turtle says, "Ok quiet down please and we'll get started." VanDyne says to your fellowship, "4 teh win!" You say to your Fellowship, "4 teh win!!" Verai says to your fellowship, "4 teh win! :p" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "2 !!s are better than one :)" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "needs a 1 at the end too" +LeO Turtle says, "First off, we're going to suggest that fellow leaders use the /log command and log the questions as we state them. Each team will have time at the end to go over each question." You say to your Fellowship, "for teh win!1" You say to your Fellowship, "er, 4 teh win!1" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, ":)" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "paraduck's fellow is gonna be a pain."

+LeO Turtle says, "This will create a text file in your client.exe directory with the name you specify, you can later go thru this log and see the questions and answer them at your lesiure." +LeO Turtle says, "And it will make the event move a bit more swiftly for us." Mike Hext says, "So we don't need the books?" +LeO Turtle says, "Yes you will need books. Those will contain the answers you give." +LeO Turtle says, "each team will need 1" +LeO Turtle says, "Team Leaders are responsible for their teams behavior." +LeO Turtle says, "Welcome to the Dereth Quiz Night !" +LeO Turtle says, "Please take a seat while we wait for everyone to arrive." +LeO Turtle says, "No dueling or fighting during the contest." +LeO Turtle says, "Players not responding to LEM or LEO requests will be barred from further events." +LeO Turtle says, "We've asked Krunk to help judge the event as he's shown time and time again he's a good follower of the Lore of dereth... and it would be unfair to the rest of you to have him ;)"

THE RULES +LeO Turtle says, "Ok... For the official rules as they were posted...." +LeO Turtle says, "Teams can consist of 1-4 players." +LeO Turtle says, "Each team should have brought a book to write the answers in." +LeO Turtle says, "Teams should write their “Team Name” and “Team members names” on the first page of the book." +LeO Turtle says, "Answers should be written on page 2 onwards." +LeO Turtle says, "Each answer should have the relevant question number at the beginning." +LeO Turtle says, "At the end the end of the Quiz, please hand your books to a LEO or LEM for marking." +LeO Turtle says, "Once the books have all been marked we will announce the winners and award the prizes." +LeO Turtle says, "Please remain seated during the Quiz." +LeO Turtle says, "There will be prizes for the Winning team and the Runners-up." +LeO Turtle says, "The Winners will receive 1 Plat per correct answer, per person, an inscribed chalice announcing their feat and the title “Lore Master”" +LeO Turtle says, "The Runners-up will receive 1 Plat for every TWO correct questions and an inscribed chalice." +LeO Turtle says, "If anyone has any questions please ask them now... otherwise we'll get started." Mike Hext says, "Do all teammembers have to inscribe the answer?" +LeO Turtle says, "No... 1 person, the team leader, will inscribe all the fellow names and the fellowship name on page 1" +LeO Turtle says, "Answers will be put on all following pages in as complete of an answer as you can give." +LeO Turtle says, "Please put the number of the question along with the answer and put as many answers as you can on a page" +LeO Turtle says, "Answers should be like: 55. +LeO Turtle" +LeO Turtle says, "1 challace will be awareded per team to the fellowship leader." +LeO Turtle says, "The rest of you will have a chance at up to 50 plats each ;)" +LeO Turtle says, "Teams will not be answering aloud." +LeO Turtle says, "use /f and work as a team ;)" +LeO Turtle says, "Try to answer as complete of an answer as you can... it will make a difference if it comes to sudden death" +LeO Turtle says, "If we get 2 teams that have the same number of correct answers, we'll ask a sudden death question... first team who correctly answers will win." +LeO Turtle says, "Any other questions?" +LeO Turtle says, "Ok... lets begin. Please keep comments to /f where possible." +LeO Turtle says, "And remmember, I'm cutting/pasting..."

THE QUESTIONS Highlight the area after each question to reveal the answer. Remember, we only got 48 our of 50 right, so if you see any mistakes, send me an email! ;-)

1.Question: To craft a virindi scalpel one must have these items? (flimsy hilt, glittering blade) 2.Question: What items are needed to make an alloy machine? (Get 20 Alloy pieces from Dungeons: Device, Apparatus, Instrument, Tool, Contraption, Implement, Utensil, Mechanism, Cogwheel, Contrivance, Sprocket, Cylinder, Dynamo, Piston, Fan, Pinion, Engine, Motor, Generator, and Turbine and give to the Undead Mechanic and receive 19 pages of text and a book in return. Combine the pages with the book in order and give back to the Mechanic for the Alloy Machine.) 3.Question: What 2 items use ruined amulets to complete? (Sunstone Guantlets, Elixirs to imbue the gorgets from Nuhmudira's Boon) 4.Question: What oil do i need to craft a phantom weapon" (Bloodhunter Oil) 5.Question: To craft a palenqual living weapon one must add what to get the spells added? (Totem) 6.Question: To complete an ash gromnie toothpick requires what skill? (Fletching) 7.Question: A whittled dark revenant thighbone makes a? (Intricately carved bone handle) 8.Question: A whittled ash gromnie tooth makes a? (ash gromnie tooth pick) 9.Question: Pile of short sticks makes what when fletche? (Quarrelshafts) 10.Question: An excellent oiled string requires what to make? (3 drudge ravener guts, bloodhunter oil, and alchemy) 11.Question: To make slag one must do what? (use smelting pot on Iron Ore) 12.Question: Decanter of essence + Ground chorozite makes what? (Oil of Nullification) 13.Question: Decanter of essence + diamond powder makes what? (Diamond Oil) 14.Question: Formula for candied apple? (Monougat + Apple) 15.Question: Rich lumpy flour + red wine makes what? (Fruitcake Batter) 16.Question: Formula for chocolate liqour? (Baking Pan + Brown Beans = Roasted Beans then Heavy Grinder + Roasted Beans = Chocolate Liquer) 17.Question: Formula for Cragstonanoff? (Flour + water, Dough + egg, Noodle Cutter + batter, Carving Knife + Side of Beef, Heavy Grinder + Steak, Raw Egg Noodles + Ground Meat = Cragstonanoff) 18.Question: Adding a bag of steel requires what skill? (Armor Tinkering) 19.Question: If i wanted to raise the attack % of my weapon i would need to use a bag of? (Velvet) 20.Question: If i wanted raise the mana on my magic item i would need to use a bag of? (Moonstone) 21.Question: What Tinkering skill is checked when applying a bag of Moonstone?" (Item Tinkering) 22.Question: Who is rumored to have tried to assassinate king varicci? (Oswald) 23.Question: Who was nigh unto a god in the eyes of the fiun? (Rehgus) 24.Question: Who was only viamont noble to not receive alduressa armor from king? (Ballenesse) 25.Question: Who is viamont's greatest armor smith? (Count Alduressa) 26.Question: What are the names of the viamont islands? (Halaetan Islands - Isle of Ruin, Vanguard Isle, Traitor's Ilsland, Lotila Island, Corcosi Island) 27.Question: What is name of bar in kryst? (The Wildsong Inn) 28.Question: What is name of bar in Baishi? (Flaming Phoenix) 29.Question: What is name of bar in eastham? (The Leaping Stallion) 30.Question: When you use a black luster pearl it will cast what spell on you? (Burning Spirit) 31.Question: Burning coal casts what spell on you when used? (Blazing Heart) 32.Question: Void's call is a spell of what school? (Life Magic) 33.Question: Superior soothing wind is a spell of what school? (Life Magic) 34.Question: What ancient weapon was said be originally owned by Malika Ladriya bint Daum? (silifi of the Crimson Stars) 35.Question: A legendary sword crafted by the silveran people is comprised of these materials? (silveran oak, magics of the north, and strands of diamond lace) 36.Question: This item can be forged with help from the vortex? (Focusing Stone) 37.Question: In aerfalle's keep you may stumble across this weapon if look hard enough near an altar? (Sacrificial dagger) 38.Question: What armor does General Amanua own? (Ornate Tumerok Breastplate) 39.Question: Halls of the lost light will also yield this armor item? (Superior Shield) 40.Question: Guardian of the helm might drop this armor item? (Fiery Shield or Superior Helmet) 41.Question: Crystal and shadow fragments will make this form of armor? (Shadowhunter Armor) 42.Question: On aerlinthe recall quest you hand the gate bar to what NPC? (Repair Golem) 43.Question: What NPC sells glyphs for atlan/isparian weapons? (Silencia) 44.Question: Who conducts weddings at the wedding hall? (Grand Sentinel Muroba) 45.Question: Who conducts weddings at the Sanctuary? (Grand Sentinel Ehcac) 46.Question: Who conducts weddings at the plateau village? (Grand Sentinel Tretia) 47.Question: Monster is said to be made of pure elemental mana? (Harbinger) 48.Question: What type of monster is Sezzherei? (Margul) 49.Question: Magical friendly creatures found on Viamontian north islands are known as? (Fiun) 50.Question: Loka Jii first kill like most new comers to dereth was what? (Black Rabbit)

+LeO Turtle says, "That's it... you have 15 minutes starting NOW to open a trade window with us and place your teams book." +LeO Turtle says, "Good luck! :)" +LeM Kyoshi says, "You may give a book to Krunk as well as he will be also judging these answers" +LeO Turtle says, "Sorry Maggie, your site is getting hammered. :)" Haisley says, "lol" Haisley says, "yeah it is" Ima Mastermind says, "lol" Fade-To-Black says, "Lies!" +LeO Turtle says, "See this is where she can cheat and disable the site ;)" You say, "Doh! Forgot to password protect!!!" +LeO Turtle says, "I'll try... we're at 10 mins remaining now." You say, "50 = black rabbit" You say, "oops!" Fade-To-Black says, "Owned." You say, "hee hee"

Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "we didn't get 50" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "we didnt?" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "no, no one said it & ran out of time to guess" Verai :D You say to your Fellowship, "50 was black rabbit. I said it out to the entire room!" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "oops" You say to your Fellowship, "by accident :)" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "I thought that was a joke :)" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "ah well" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "sorry. got all of the other 49 in the book though :)" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "dratz.. not having 50 might hurt us =/" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "lore master title is nice" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "I'd want that :)"

+LeM Kyoshi says, "Ok if I may have your attention !" +LeM Kyoshi says, "Will the team of 4 teh Win ! Please line up on the eastern wall" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "runners up" Paraduck says, "Grats." You say to your Fellowship, "drat"

+LeM Kyoshi says, "Will the team of Should the Stars Fall and Sun go out , line up on the west wall" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "or maybe not" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "i hope we got it."

+LeM Kyoshi says, "One is a winner the other a runner up !" +LeM Kyoshi says, "hmmmm" Fade-To-Black prays. Verai shivers. Koujia Leggings says, "don't be mean, tell us who it is already :)" Hydrargyrus says, "Showdown imo!" +LeO Turtle says, "And in no particular order." +LeM Kyoshi says, "hmmmmmm" Maggie the Jackcat think, "the suspense is killing me" Fade-To-Black kills Maggie Hydrargyrus says, "!" Fade-To-Black says, "<3" Paraduck says, "Hehe" +LeM Kyoshi says, "Congratulations to Should the Stars Fall and the Sun Go Out for being the Runner up, and the Winner is team 4 teh Win ! please stay where you are for awards !" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "oooooo" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "AMG yay" You say, "Wheeeee!!!" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "unexpected" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "AMG yay" Verai says, "amg :o" Koujia Leggings yays! Maggie the Jackcat flushes with pride!!!! Koujia Leggings says, "Paraduck 4 the lose!!1" Koujia Leggings says, "er teh" Paraduck says, "Grats :P" Paraduck says, "lol" VanDyne says, "leet." You say, "thank you" VanDyne says, "grats other group." You say to your Fellowship, "great job, everyone!!!!"

Paraduck says, "This must have been a close event :) Was fun" VanDyne says, "yeah, i'd like to see the scores =)" You say, "It was fun" Paraduck says, "What did you get, maggie?" Paraduck says, "we got 47" VanDyne says, "amg" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "ooo we did good!" VanDyne says to your fellowship, "holy cow... we rocked" Mike Hext says, "I got a headache. :/" You say, "I thought we might have lost with missing #50" You say, "becasue we wer rockin!!" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "so that means only one or two wrong :)" Koujia Leggings says to your fellowship, "looks like we had 48" You say to your Fellowship, "nice job everyone" VanDyne says, "ty"

WINNERS

HG - Winners: Team Elm (46/50) --Chip Ali, Jon Krieger's Bow, Nauri, Yula the Mighty HG - Runners Up: Team Boneheads --Angelina Rayne, Swordsman the Player, Armor's Mule and Blood Rayne

MT - Winners: Team 4 teh win !1 (48/50) --Maggie the Jackcat, VanDyne, Koujia Leggings, Verai MT - Runners Up: Team Should the Stars Fall and the Sun Go Out (47/50) --Paraduck,

SC - Winners --Valry, Warpantz, Toxic Radiation, Saya al-Ahnara

TD - Winners: ?? TD - Runners Up: Team Opto (26/50) --shadow Tempest, benji koto and dag's sage

VT - Winners: Team Ken Jennings (46/50) --Teli, Maya, Lucifer the Killer, Blanca

WE - Winners: Team Flag Boy and Penguin Sidekick --Flenop, Ncf-Poozer, Calita, Porkfriedrice WE - Runners Up: Team Smokers --Strik nine, thedukens, skaz, and koujia sleeves

Angelina Rayne of HG also sends her account of Dereth Quiz Night:

"Hello again maggie!

Oh man did I feel like I was in School again taking this quiz! When the +Leo made the announcement I went there in a hurry to the Shoushi meeting hall to meet my team....... the one and only BONE HEADS lol. When I got there there wasn't too many people there but there was enough to make you feel like you had a challenge lol. But anywho :) There were 50 questions that they had asked and they ranged from the easy "What skill do you use to apply salvaged steel?" to questions about the new Viamonts! Some were pretty long too and hard to remember like "What parts do you need to make an alloy machine?" lol We all had fun trying to remember that one, but thanks to numerous times looking at your site, my team remembered them all!!!

When we were all done with the questions, they asked every team leader to turn in the books and they took like 20 mins to look through them all and check the answers. By the time they were done I was anxious! And low and behold, my team was runner up!!! We all received an inscribed chalice (pic enclosed) and 1 plat for every 2 correct answers. And boy did I need them too lol! The winners received the title Lore Master and also received an inscribed chalice and 1 plat for every correct answer. So all in all, I really like this Live Event! It made us all think and use lore that we never knew we needed to know lol. Hope there will be more to come! And Maggie thank you! if it wasn't for your site, we wouldn't have been able to do this Live Event!!!"

Golem Attacks! (April 7, 2005)

Hello Maggie!

Well there have been many things going on in Dereth this month!. And I am absolutely loving it!!! :D Well to begin with, me (I was playing my level 70 mage Blood Rayne) and my RL Boyfriend who plays Neo Mega ( and Knuckles <3) were out at VoD just messin around when I saw a message appear on my screen saying that there was trouble by the lake edge in Rithwic. So immediately we went there to see what was going on. When we first got there we didn't see a thing, but as we went to the other side of the lake we saw them! Tons of Golems everywhere! It was just like the shadow attacks but this time it was time to play with the Golems hehehe. I had a blast trying to hit the Crystal Golem Imperators and the Sovereigns. There were also my favorite golems there! The Small Golems from Ulgrim's Island hehehe. Oh and btw....... the lag was really really bad there too lol. I almost got portaled out a couple of times hehehe. But anywho, the person who killed the last Imperator got the title of Golem Killer, I believe. I had a blast at this one! Hope there are more to come!

Blood Rayne HG ( Angelina Rayne)

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Note from Maggie: We had the same event on TD last night! I wasn't much help with my dial-up lag and my three portal storm relocations! :)

A report from Triple of HG (April 15, 2005)

Triple now has the Title "Golem Killer" Got one of the three major golem kills in the live event outside Rithwic!

DeMon of Battle and Karesta also got Golem killer titles too, I believe.

And my Wife... Demonwoman got the title "Husbands Healer" for healing me as I life bolted the golem to death... lol. She thought she should get something for that and I guess the +LeM agreed! lol

+LeM Chimaera was awesome! It was laggy as all get out, but was fun! I personally love the live events!

Another Viamontian Attack! (April 7, 2005)

Artic of TD reports: "Hello Maggie. I was at Ayan lifestone when Sir Jasuinn di Irvina appeared with a number of his soldiers. After killing him I looted 3 parchments. Afterwards the envoy told me that I should keep them to be used for something."

1) Journal Entry

This hunt weighs on the soul. I have embarked on many campaigns for my King. I have slain many foes. And I am happy to do so. I owe my allegiance to the Bull of Viamont and am honorbound to do as my King commands.

But this... The magics of Milantos have attained horrible new power in these new lands. The blood rites that Milantean woman taught our mages are more dreadful, more terrible, than any of which I have heard tale. And coming from a soldier who has interrogated dozens of Milantean mercenaries, that speaks tomes.

I fear what may happen when we find the artifact Varicci has sent us after. When we find this thing, we will have uncovered a powerful new weapon - a weapon which will give us no small edge in the coming war. But at what price? Shall we succumb to the base depths of those dark demons which we have long reviled? Is no price too high for our King? - Sir Jasuinn di Irvina

2) Varicci's Orders

You are tasked with a mission of which General Corcima himself is unaware. You are to find this Queen of theirs - this Aluvian wench. Find her, and bring me her head. I care not how you accomplish this feat. Kill whomever gets in your way, be they Bloodless or not. But do not return to my land without that woman's head! - King Varicci of Sanamar

3) Corcima's Orders

The King has requested detailed intelligence on the lands of the Bloodless. You are to scout their cities and outposts. Test their defenses. Discover their weaknesses. And kill whom you may.

But be warned - if you are captured, you will not be retrieved.

Viamontians in Yaraq (April 7, 2005)

A report from Jackcat Ranger, Killz al-Evil of TD: Hey Maggie, this is my first batch of screenshots I'm submitting to you as a Ranger documenting the raid on the north west apple orchard in Yaraq that started at 11:30pm on April 7th. The list of monsters came in waves and included Sewer Rats, Wasteland Rats, Emerald Gromnies, Copper Gromnies, Adolescent Azure Gromnies, Mite Queens, Tormenters, Armored Skeleton Lords, Biakas and lower level Marguls, Guruk Hulks, Guruk Behemoths, A Tremendous Monouga, and I believe 3 White Rabbits. Some of the newer enemies also made an appearance at the raid: Viamontian Tribunes, and Repugnant Eaters! The Pics aren't all that great, because they are incredibly fast runners, and even faster at dying. I did get their stats however. Enjoy :)"

Thanks also to Mother Nature' of VT for the 2 pics on the right!

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Scavenger Hunt (April 8, 2005)

Thanks to Jackcat Ranger Magicpipe II for reporting on the latest TD Scavenger Hunt! You can see a pic of the +Leo showing off his l33t jumping skillz below!

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Broadcast of +Leo Barracuda> Two off-duty members of the royal guard have appeared in the Holtburg meeting hall looking for people to have a scavenger hunt with. +Leo Barracuda says, "Uh oh, only one person here and they are dead." Bian's Mage says, "pick me" +LeO Badger says, "Now there's 2!" Bian's Mage says, "=D" +LeO Badger says, "And a third!" +Leo Barracuda says, "And they are all alive!" +LeO Badger says, "Woohoo!" Bian's Mage says, "us 3 vs u 2" Code says, "of course i am alive" You say, "hail turbine employees" Bian's Mage says, "magic u suck up" +Leo Barracuda says, "Where are the Employees of Turbine? I hear they are all very powerful." Code says, "haha" Bian's Mage says, "heeh" You say, "RI usa" Bian's Mage says, "tis uber mofos'" Code says, "Massachusetts?" Bian's Mage says, "thgouth they lived in maine" Code says, "California?" You say, "all the same to me" Barak waves +Leo Barracuda says, "Badger, do you find that these people are talking of strange things that you never heard of before?" +Leo Barracuda says, "Hi" Barak says, "Hello" +LeO Badger says, "Yes, yes I do." +LeO Badger says, "Hello." +Leo Barracuda says, "Okay." +Leo Barracuda says, "You probably will not need to be buffed for this event." +Leo Barracuda says, "If a level 1 can do it, anyone can." Barak says, "I'm a melee...you can't be any more gimped than I am" Bian's Mage says, "lolol" Barak grins +Leo Barracuda says, "My friend and I were feeling bored in the officer's barracks so decided to use our free time to organize a scavenger hunt." +Leo Barracuda says, "While we can't offer you fame and fortune, we will reward the winning team as best we can." +LeO Badger says, "Ever so bored." +Leo Barracuda says, "Please divide yourselves in to two groups of roughly the same size." +Leo Barracuda says, "Once you are done creating fellowships we will give each fellowship leader the list of items to be sought." +Leo Barracuda says, "From the time I say the word 'Go!' you have exactly 20 minutes to return with as many of the items as you can." +Leo Barracuda says, "If you return after the 20 minutes are up or leave the hall before I say go, you and your team will be disqualified." +Leo Barracuda says, "Upon your return, you will need to hand one of us a pack with your team name and team leader's name inscribed upon it." +Leo Barracuda says, "We will calculate how many points your collection of items is worth - the value of each item, in points, is listed on the item list." +Leo Barracuda says, "Please note that you only can collect one of each item on the list." +Leo Barracuda says, "Once we have calculated the number of points you have we will return the pack to the leader of your group." +Leo Barracuda says, "Once everyone's points are calculated we will announce the winner, if there is one." +Leo Barracuda says, "If two or more teams are tied with the most points we will announce that and name a bonus item." +Leo Barracuda says, "The first teams to produce the bonus item and hand it to me will be the winning team." +Leo Barracuda says, "Please start creating your fellowships now." You say, "seems to be 4 fellows here." +Leo Barracuda says, "Well, four fellowships means that the winning team will get a greater prize... well... assuming all four fellowships are about the same size." +Leo Barracuda says, "Are you ready?" +Leo Barracuda says, "Will the fellowship leaders please step forward so that they may receive their item lists?" +Leo Barracuda says, "Please remember not to log out or leave the meeting hall until I give the word. I will wait a minute or so to let you share the list with your fellowship and ask any questions." +Leo Barracuda says, "Will the fellowship leaders please step forward so that they may receive their item lists?" +Leo Barracuda says, "Any questions?" +Leo Barracuda says, "Does any team lack a parchment?" Wyntress I says, "do we need the number of each next to the item?" +Leo Barracuda says, "No, that is the number of points your receive for that item." +Leo Barracuda says, "Good luck!" +Leo Barracuda says, "Go!" +Leo Barracuda says, "Go!" +Leo Barracuda says, "Go!" +LeO Badger waves dismissively.

+Leo Barracuda says, "All at once, please." +Leo Barracuda says, "In a pack." +Leo Barracuda says, "Inscribed with your name on it, please" +Leo Barracuda says, "5 Minutes"

Broadcast from +Leo Barracuda> To all those in the scavenger hunt: You have less than four minutes to return to the meeting hall in Holtburg with your items!

+Leo Barracuda says, "I don't accept bribes/" +Leo Barracuda says, "Two minutes left." +Leo Barracuda says, "Give your pack to Badger or myself." +Leo Barracuda says, "The pack, yes, the items, no." +Leo Barracuda says, "1 minute left" +Leo Barracuda says, "You need to hand in your pack before time is up." +Leo Barracuda says, "30 Seconds remaining. You must hand in your team's pack before the time is up." +Leo Barracuda says, "15 Seconds remaining. You must hand in your team's pack before the time is up." +Leo Barracuda says, "There are two teams." +LeO Badger says, "I have Code's pack." +Leo Barracuda says, "10 Seconds remaining. You must hand in your team's pack before the time is up." +Leo Barracuda says, "9" +Leo Barracuda says, "8" +Leo Barracuda says, "7" +Leo Barracuda says, "6" +Leo Barracuda says, "5" +Leo Barracuda says, "4" +Leo Barracuda says, "3" +Leo Barracuda says, "2" +Leo Barracuda says, "1" +Leo Barracuda says, "Time is up!"

+Leo Barracuda says, "Could the two team leaders please list all members of their team?" +LeO Badger says, "Thank you :)\" +Leo Barracuda says, "Okay, the standings are as follows:" +Leo Barracuda says, "Code's team obtained 22 points but were bested by Wyntress I's team who gathered 25 points worth of items!" +Leo Barracuda says, "Congratulations Wyntress and company!" +Leo Barracuda says, "Could Wyntress I's team please line up along this wall?"

+Leo Barracuda says, "Keep in mind the Black Luster Pearl is NOT an orb. Using it will cast a 10-minute spell on you." +Leo Barracuda says, "Congratulations again!" Alari Azure says, "yea...i found that out the hard way" +LeO Badger says, "As did many others." +Leo Barracuda says, "Take care everyone!" +LeO Badger waves high in the air. +Leo Barracuda waves.

Mad Cow in the Marketplace (April 9, 2005)

Kaos Dark Rose of TD reports: "There was a mad cow in marketplace tonight lol! A Mad Cow Foaming at the mouth with red eyes (obviously envoy ran). It was hanging around in MP making everyone go nuts. I tried to give him random items and start a trade with him to see if he had any secrets, while everyone else wanted to see him dead. He had gifts turned off so I couldn't feed him ;( But he was extremely funny lol! Mad Cows get Mad air!"

Viamontian Raid on MT (April 10, 2005)

Dew's Pistol of MT reports:

"Hi Maggie, LOVE THE SITE BTW.... While chatting in Tou Tou on this cool April evening around 11:00pm EST on Morningthaw... Duri Galliant called across the allegiance chat for assistance on a raid in AB. When I arrived at my beloved lifestone to help, this is what I saw [pics 1 & 2 below]. I immediately grabbed my camera. I protected my camera in my one hand while I tried to kill them with Slash and Peirce spells using a rendering wand. My war is at 418 with renderings I could not hit them. Last time I try this with one hand ;). As the spawn of evilness diminished, the main leader appeared. Sir Giancarlo di Lotila! Oh my! He was hard to take down but we finally got him.

Duri Gallant brings Sir Giancarlo di Lotila to a fiery end!

(Apparently I should have tried FIRE, lol.) A global came across the screen in chat after the death.

Krunk...I will be back for you soon I have not finished with you yet.....Sir Giancarlo di Lotila leader of the Viamontian Knights.....

Our Monarch William the Bat got the kill on corpse and the loot. [Allegiance] William the Bat says, "Duri got the final blow, I got the name on the corpse and the loot... he dropped his orders" [Allegiance] William the Bat says, "says he is to scout their cities and outposts, test defenses, discover weakensses, and kill whom he may, but don't get captured"

Our speculation is Krunk wither got most of the kills on the invading ban of Viamonte or he was the first to attack the knights and mutated puppies. Enjoy :)"

A second report comes in from Krunk of MT:

"Howdy maggie, Krunk of Morningthaw here. Viamontians attacked tonight led by Sir Giancarlo in Ayan Baqur. He was met by me and William the Bat and a few other Isparians. I was one of the first on scene and to start the battle with Sir Giancarlo. He was taking no damage at first. I had to take a slew of attackers while fighting him, but I managed to tank him and rest quite well. In the end he tried to refer to us as weak when he was the one dying. There was a global message and William the Bat got the kill, so he got the lore part, while I got the following global: Krunk...I will be back for you soon I have not finished with you yet.....Sir Giancarlo di Lotila leader of the Viamontian Knights..... So I guess he plans to come back for another butt whoopin MT style! I have enclosed a screenshot of the global.

Be cool, Krunk"

Rat Attack! (April 14, 2005)

Hello Maggie!

Angelina Rayne here from HG. Just wanted to report in on the latest live event! Today there was a Rat Attack in Yaraq! Lots of people showed up only to die at the hands of Contagion Rats! It was lots of fun. I believe I died once and my fellow partner Forplay died like 3 times........ but hey u know mages hehehe! Enclosed are some pics that I took of this event. Hope you enjoy!!!

Angelina Rayne HG

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Pookie Loses His Way! (April 17, 2005)

Aniar of SC reports: "On Solclaim Pookie made a trip to marketplace... it was really weird. The rabbit didn't attack, but he moved around in search of its home. I summoned the 80+ matron hive and it went in. It got mad that there was no grass in the hive, so I summoned subway and let pookie have its fun. It was pretty cool to have everybody chase around pookie, although a massacre would have been more fun.

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Last Man Stading - DT (April 24, 2005)

+Chimaera, the Jolt Live Ops Manager posted the following results of the competition on the Turbine boards:

With over 100 players participating, and 5 hours of combat, you killed your way down to the last 4 who took part in the semi-finals and final.

Result: Winner: Hell - DT Champion Runner-up: Rayne of the Roofle Semi-Finalists: Manny Calavera, Thorii

Congratulations to everyone

Ayan Baqur Under Seige (April 24, 2005)

Good Mornin Maggie!

Well this was one fun party that I went to in Ayan by the Lifestone! I was runnin around Cragstone when someone said that there was a party going on at Ayan, so naturally, I had to go!!! hehehe When I got there, I was greeted by some Obliterators!!! Oh man was that a fun party! I mean the Xp alone was awesome for the fellows! I remember one person telling me that after everything was all done he made about 26 mill killing all the Oblits! After killing some oblits for a while I soon saw what most people hate the most at VoD: Olthoi! But with all of the people there, they were easily taken care of hehehe. Pookie also made an appearance, killing some people on his way hoppin' around, but just like the olthoi, Pookie was taken care of as well lol. Then what I have been waiting for weeks to show up finally did! Viamonts and Eaters!!! I was in heaven when that happened. But with all the people there and trying to kill them all, I couldn't get a good SS. lol Also, there was a +LeM there who at the end was talking to everyone and left us with a little parting gift before he left. He left us with some more Oblits to play with us. :D So all in all I would definitely go to this party again!!!

Angelina Rayne of HG

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TD Attacks (April 30, 2005)

I was lucky enough to be around for the undead attack on the Abandoned Mines this weekend! Magicpipe II kept sending me tells to switch to a fire weapon. As I only have dial-up available from my home computer, I explained that I would be unable to fight or unable to un-equip and re-equip a weapon. That I would eventually end up at the lifestone, and 10 minutes later I would find out how I died! I am psychic, because that's exactly what happened! I did have time to snap some pics of the Skeletal Mates, Archfiends and Armored Skeletons before my certain demise!

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Unable to return to the area, I logged off until the coast was clear, leaving my poor dead body lying cold on the ground. Craigii sent this pic of my corpse: "Some of us paying homage to you and showing our respects. Thought you'd get a laugh from it :D"

How embarrassing! ;-)

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When I logged back on later to retrieve my body, there was another attack taking place, this time by Virindi! I decided to sit that one out. Magicpipe II sent these pics of the event!

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Holtburg Attacked!

Hello again Maggie!

When I logged in this evening I got a big surprise! There was an attack on Holtburg! When I got there, there were a lot of people dying and having a blast trying to kill the 2 TM's, the Olthoi Primordials, Setinels, Archfiends, Anihilators, and Oblits! After I got done buffin, I bravely ran up there but to my amazement, I got 1 hitted by an Olthoi!!! LOL But the best part of the whole night was when Pookie and his friends made an appearance! Pookie had a blast trying to kill everyone and he almost succeeded until someone ran a blade through him! LOL It was fun trying to kill everything! I do enjoy these Live Events that turbine gives us :D Hope they keep coming when TOD gets here!! (crosses fingers). Oh yea btw....... Maggie LOVE the Boards!!! Go there everyday!

Angelina Rayne of HG

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+Leo Shooting Star's Trivia Nova Knight of MT reports: "I had just got on after finally getting my account back up after years of absence, and already stuff was happening. +Leo Shooting Star sent a broadcast to find him hiding in an obscure dungeon near Khayyaban and answer a question. I ran over and found him. I was the first one there and he asked, "Who is Queen Elysa's son?" Unable to even recall how to take a screenshot, I called out the last name I could recall from the old lore: "Thorsen." That was quite incorrect. I told him I'd just woken up from a couple years sleep and my memory was a bit fuzzy. =P. Then, No Leaf Clover walked up and promptly answered the question. +Leo congratulated him, made a global message about the festivities, and handed him a writ. Then Yoshi's Bubbles came in shortly before +Leo bid us better luck next time (!!) and left. I asked No Leaf what he got and when he told me I said, "cool, I need to get one of those." Then No Leaf gave it to me! I'll be able to get a cottage now no problem. It's as if I've never left. Best welcome back ever. A bit later, +Leo messaged me welcoming me back to Dereth. I had just taken an SAT before this whole thing, so you can imagine the joy."

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Arwic Under Attack! (May 8, 2005)

Hey sup Maggie. Excellent site :). I come back online after not being able to have a sub for awhile and log into my friend telling me of an event in Arwic. It was outside Arwic to be exact. :) Tons of monster spawns and at the end we all got cows and black pearls that boosted our attributes by 2 for 10 minutes. The LeM said he was the designer of the items and armor in the game and wanted to view the coding to my BP and Bracers. Here is a pic of that....hope you use it in the few you will pick out. It has a variety of people in it and you can read the chat log about him wanting to see my armor. thx Maggie and keep up the good work :)

Amethyst Shrike of TD

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Angelina Rayne reports from HG (May 8, 2005):

Hello again Maggie!

Today I was just playing around on my trade bot when I noticed a message appear on my screen saying that there was an attack in Arwic, kinda by subway. When I got there, I noticed all the Oblits everywhere! I immediately got into a fellow and started the fun! I had a blast killin the Oblits! Then when they died, the +LeM brought in some TM's for us to play with! When the TM's died we asked for more and you know how the +LeM's like to play! So of course Pookie had to make an appearance. Pookie probably killed about 4 people before some one killed him. lol Gotta love the Bunny Smite!!! lol Then when we thought it was all over, the +LeM gave us a "parting gift" so to speak.... He brought in a WHOLE group of Viamontians and Eaters! And this time I got to take some SS of the whole thing! w00t!!! So all in all I had a blast just like I do with every single one of these great live events!!! Turbine keep them commin!!!

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Rithwic Attacked! (May 15, 2005)

A report from Mxlplkt mxl on TD, proud member of Nanny I's clan!!!

Last night I logged into TD. I was in the withered dungeon and some guy was going "lol lol" all alone in the top room. I said what's um...what's so funny? He said, look at my corpse, they are attacking Rithwic. I ID'd his corpse and it said, "blah blah blah, killed by banderling heirophant".... That was weird cuz I was in the Lugian dungeon.... Off 2 rith I go.... Along the river I found a small group of players and an LEO...and they were all saying, "Spawn a TM! Spawn BZ!!" and "Nah, he can only spawn non quest monsters." "Well spawn some eaters....or black breaths!!!!" So this LEO proceeds to bring a group of oblits. They die. Then a group of paradoxes. They die. Then a group of Viamonts and eaters, then a TM!!! In Rithwic!! This LEO was taking orders like a McDonalds employee, saying, "Well isn't it my job to make the game more fun?!" I was in awe as I WAS having the time of my life 4 sure.... Here I was in a starter town...killing all these bosses with a small group of players on a Sunday night late.... It was great, and the xp was fun too. Got like 12 mil in the fellow I was in. Got some keys. Then all of a sudden the LEO says, "well that's it. I need to go do this on another world now," and he spawns a huge group of oblits, some white rabbits and a few biakas. Then it was all over...and I never died once, thank goodness.... btw, the funny thing was the name of our fellowship was "CONTENT PLEASE."

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Jothony of Eastham - SC reports:

Hi Maggie, Love your site. Grats on the new Jackcat Forums too. Sunday Night ( 5/15) on Solclaim we had a fantastic game event, orchestrated by +LeM Kyoshi. Rithwic was invaded. I missed the start, I believe it was Virindi in the first wave. When I arrived, wave after wave of Obliterators were swarming the brave defenders. We'd just barely finish off one wave and the next would spawn, 6 at a time. Woohooo. Death and mayhem ensued. After many heroic deaths and recoveries, we finally vanquished the invaders. Then we got the reward, and boy did we all Have a Cow!! +LeM Kyoshi sprinkled pack cows among the defenders. A Devilmouse cow, to be specific. (Kyoshi told us that Devilmouse was the original team lead artist when AC started.) An exact model of the cow in Eastham (and I suppose in all towns), right down to the map of Dereth on one side and of Marae Lassel on the other. I don't know if all pack cows have this, but each one is inscribed with a number by Devilmouse. Mine says "Cow, No. 31337" The best game event I've been to so far. Thanks to Turbine and to Kyoshi.

Azrael Soultaker sends this pic of the Ritwic Attack on Harverstgain!

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The Margul Al'Cani! (May 23, 2005)

Dear Maggie,

A Dark Force gathered east of Sweet Maple Cottages on Morningthaw today. I got there and joined a group fighting grievvers and shadows. I spent the entire fight as a devoted healer to the rest of my fellowship, and it was very much needed later on. A few of the Black Breath popped by to say hello and take a bit out of Quirky Urchin, then a few marguls, and then the mother of all demon/dragon Marguls jumped up, one Al'Cani.

He moved so quickly, that it took some effort getting a screen shot of him, but I got one with his stats for you. Hope you can use it.

As always, love your site!

Quirky-Urchin of Morningthaw

Attack on Eastham! (June 3, 2005)

There was an attack on Eastham tonight. These are some screen shots. At one point there were 3 Tremendous Monougas! The attack started out with some low level Lugies then a boat load of VOD lugies with a sprinkle of Tremendous Manougas.

Red Teflon 210 Grief Mage of Solclaim

Cragstone Attacked (June 5, 2005)

Sweet Little Sister of HG sends these pics of the Cragstone attack on HG!

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Heys Maggie, mxlplkt mxl of Thistledown here, proud follower of Nanny I. Well, once again I was out killing Lugies, with my lightning atlatl buffed and lots of lightning arrows in tow, when I saw the global that Cragstone was being attacked!!! Banderlings are climbing the cliffs of Cragstone!!!!.... That was all I needed to know. So I went and created a fellowship named, "it's death," and wow... this was one tough bunch of Banderlings!! Savages, Heirophants, Champions, Aggressors,... lots I mean... like someone jabbed a stick in an anthill!!! I didn't get to stay until all died, but I did see the victory global as I was logging. Here's my screenshot.... I died.

Rithwic Assault (June 17, 2005)

Dark ascendance of SC sends this report of an attack on Rithwic: Saw "Citizens, strange stompings can be heard from the waters edge at Rithwic" as a global and went to Rithwic to check it out. First, only Platinum golems... then... everything was dropped on us. Suzerains(sp), Tremendous Monugas(sp), Oblits, Elementals. Was great fun but, as always, the heroes of Dereth were victorious! Thanks for a great site!

Eater Attacks HG! (June 19, 2005)

A report from Bluebird's Foundling of HG: "Just thought I would show you what happened when a dev took over a monster. The thing healed itself from near death and JUMPED out of a group of about 100-150 people. It was fun!"

A second report comes from Fatal Flaw of HG:

Hello Maggie, long time 4 year reader. :) This event happened Sunday June 19th, when a Repugnant Eater *dev controlled we think* started attacking Eastham. Quickly the allegiance of Softness and many other allegiances mounted an offensive within literally seconds, and after just a couple of minutes, 50+ people were surrounding him. Was very tough to kill as when we tried to pin him he would ?jump? over our heads lol. Had an insane run skill that not even max level people could keep up with and when he was at 50% health he bolted toward Arwic. I opened a portal to the subway and alot of people quickly piled in to hit the Arwic portal and intercept him, and sure enough he comes barreling past us like I can only describe as a blur. With the Eater jumping over the Arwic walls and such and giving us a real hard time to pursue, we finally surrounded him once and for all and after several minutes of fighting finally slayed the beast. I cannot remember who got the kill, but it was well deserved as this one was not easy to bring down. I would like to point out that it was an archer *cough* we rule *cough* lol.

From a loyal reader and a very big fan of the site, Fatal Flaw of Harvestgain

Long Life the Softness Allegiance

Very Mad Cow Attack!

Warriors of Dereth, long have you had your way with the defenseless cows of this world - slaughtering, mocking, tipping. You wound these noble beasts for your demented amusement, and still they maintain peace. But the cows have suffered long enough. There is one who has risen, one who would scour the world of your two-legged kind. She is mad, oh so very mad. And she stalks the hills east of Ayan Baqur.

Marki Bardo of MT reports: "On Morningthaw today at about 7:30pm EST we were attacked by a Very Mad Cow and his evil minions. It resembled normal cows in that it carried parts of Dereth on it's sides but sported a very nasty blood dripping mouth, red color (Probably the red bull of Viamont), and a level of 1034. It was almost always a 1 hit kill for anybody without a shield and had it's magic defense was almost impossible to get past. Few spells were landed on the cow and that only because of the sheer volume of spells cast. Eventually the cow was brought down with the kill going to Darwich. It seems that this was only the beginning, we are only safe 'For now.'"

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A low moo echoes amongst the forests north of Ayan Baqur. Your world is once again safe. For now.

Darius of the Nexus on HG sends this live report: "At the moment, there are only a few cows at Wei Jhou, but the guild of the person that killed the "Very Mad Cow" is starting to trickle into town. Angeni (the killer of the cow) got stormed before she could loot, so it has been said the devs are going to help by spawning another cow or having another event. No word yet from that person or that person's guild."

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Sizzlorr of DT also sends a report: "So at about 10 after 7 mtn time, a global went out over DT saying that there was a crazed cow running around out on AL. So I went with the rest of the server (yes we got along...for a while) to try and kill the cow. Eventually a huge fight broke out, but what do you expect? Attached are a few pics of the fight/raid."

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Chiun Too of Leafcull reports: "On Leafcull, there was a global of nearly the same message as MT at about 6:12 PM Central. The very mad cow was located south of Candeth Keep. Luckily, my lvl 141 UA (Chiun Too) has his lifestone tie set at the nearby lifestone (the one by the D-note portal to Aerlinthe). I zipped out and engaged the very mad cow at about 6:22 PM. The cow was at about 80% health.

Within 1 minute of engaging, Chiun Too was killed by 2 fast hits from the cow. The first was for 214 pts of damage (a crit, got hit through the doppleganger shield for huge amounts), and the second hit put Chiun Too at the LS. There were two seconds between hits that put Too at the LS.

If the cow had her head towards me, I pretty much never connected. From the side/rear, hit reliably for 2 pts at max speed...this with a 30 - 50 buffed slash neckode at 490+ buffed UA and +30% attack mods. Got back out to the cow and it was still at 22% health. Chrystania got the kill on the cow.

After the very mad cow, level 7 mad cows spawned in all towns I personally checked. I didn't check every single town, but AB, Hebian-To, Cragstone, Zaikhal, and Mayoi all had numerous level 7 mad cows. They have 120 health. They also end up in weird places. One was in a tree in GW (had to use harm to kill it), and one was on top of a vendor house in Mayoi. There was no reported loot/quest item from killing the cow. Love the website!"

Thanks also to Darwich of MT, Zerono and Archer of Radiance of HG

Viamontian Attack!

Zerono of HG reports (Sept. 8, 2005):

Attention Citizens of Dereth! A band of Viamontians have been spotted in the area of 70.0N, 51.6W. The local Sentries need your help to investigate this further. Who will heed the call?

I was first there and have afew SS of me running from the pack of them =D I'll send you those in an E-mail. There really aren't that good since I was A) Far away and B) Running :D Hope they help though. :)

After a brutal fight, the Viamontian's have been pushed back thanks to the aid of the great people of Dereth!

Attack on Ayan!

The Forgotten Man of SC reports:

Yesterday (Sept. 8th, 2005) at around 6 PM (maybe) I recalled to my lifestone in Ayan and found it being attacked by Withered Drudges. So I joined in. After the Drudges were killed, a few groups of small and normal sized golems spawned. After THOSE were dead, some Uber Penguins spawned and started attacking! After a little fighting those were dead too, and a few more small golems appeared, followed by a Coral Golem Viceroy immediately afterwards. It cooled down for a little and people thought it was done, until what seemed like HUNDREDS of sapphire golems appeared and started attacking anything and everything that moved! There were people dying left and right, and maybe even forwards, behind me, and possibly above and below. EVENTUALLY, the sapphire golems were beaten, and peace was restored to Ayan. (Then we got a party and went to go burn huge amounts of vitae.) =)

More Sapphire Golems! Below are some of my own pics from the attack on Eastham in TD from Sept. 8th:

Sanitation Engineers!

Hey Maggie, great site, I use it all the time. Anyway, there was a live event on FF today (the 9th). Thought I'd tell you what iIknow. Well first of all my name is "The Returning Soul". So my patron Reilyn was hanging in our hometown of FF and according to him he saw a dev run into the meeting hall so he followed. Unfortunately for him, the devs spawned a live event on him of about 50 level 135 rats with 6000 health. Naturally he died, but shortly after there was a world wide message like there are rats in the sewers under the Rithwic meeting hall who will save us.

So the whole server rushed over. By the time I buffed up all but three rats were dead inside. So I was talking to a lower level clan mate on the outside of the hall and he got killed by the rats. SO I alerted everyone and we all ran outside.

There was a level 4 Viamontian in a guards robe with a crossbow. He was a dev named like turbine Sypho or something like that. He kept spawning these level 135 rats and then a few 115 rats, and finally about 15 Moarsmen. So there were alot of spawns I didn't count.

Most of critters dropped pretty fast so it wasn't that tough of a battle. My personal contribution was I killed the brown cow in Dereth which made the dev a little mad.

Anyway after it was all over a few black marrow keys spawned and people looted. The level 135 rats dropped 6 tier loot. Lots of high work stuff. Then he chose three people from the crowd and offered them the title of Sanitation engineer.

Then a few other devs showed up and we chatted for a bit, and it was all over. I have a few pics:

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Elemental Surge & Galvanic Armor!

Mustafah Ibn-Jubair of FF reports: "There was a Live Event on Frostfell that started near the Essence of Artifice. A global message came up talking about an "Elemental surge near the Essence of Artifice." When I got out there, I found a monster called Crystallized Galvanic Mana which was surrounded by lightning/frost elementals and golems ranging from Diamond Golems to Diamond Golem Suzerains. There was also what seemed to be an Envoy controlled Galvanic Knight trying to fend off us Isparians. Upon battling these foes for some time we took the Crystallized Galvanic Mana down to 0 HP where it then restored to full HP. We then turned on the Galvanic Knight and by the time we took him to 0 HP twice he finally died for good. I managed to receive looting rights and found a suit of armor to my surprise.

The death of the Crystallized Galvanic Mana quickly followed."

Galvanic Armor Type Grips Kickers Arms Leggings Wreath Vest Belt A piece of a suit of armor discovered in an elemental surge near the Essence of Artifice.

Value 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000 5000

Burden 919 540 1400 2400 600 2400 1248

Stats Workmanship: Nearly flawless (6) Special Properties: +1 Magic Defense, Dropped on Death, Dyeable This item cannot be further imbued Armor Level: 260 Slashing: Average (260) Piercing: Average (260) Bludgeoning: Average (260) Fire: Average (260) Cold: Average (260) Acid: None (0) Electric: Unparalleled (520)

Darius of the Nexus sent the report from HG: "Hi Maggie. We got the following green global message on HG...

A surge of elemental energy has erupted from within the hills near the Amperehelion Vault.

On a hill nearby we had numerous lightning elementals, a Galvanic Knight and a Crystalized Galvanic Mana. We ganked the Knight, then focused on Crystal. After they all died we got another global...

The surge of voltaic energies within the Obsidian Rim has been sealed. What passes for calm has returned to the direlands."

Ayan Attack - By Request!

Je and Halfast of MT report: "Last night (Sept. 16th, 2005), about 8:30 or 9 central, we got a message saying there would be a live event at AB in 10 minutes. They let us pick the monsters we wanted and spawned them for us. There were quite a few TMs, crystal golem imperators, tukora sentinals and commanders, wicked and nasty skeletons, mad cows, cows, scarecrows, black breath, dark vapors, obliterators, and lots of other stuff. We had a giant wall of cows standing on top of each other, and the hillside was covered with pumpkins from the scarecrows. I collected 228 (15960 BU) pumpkins cleaning up the hillside. Replex was given a custom title for killing a herd of mad cows: Mad Cow Slayer. Andante was given the title of Snazzy Dresser. It lasted well over an hour, and was definitely worth missing a few extra xp to go to."

Zerono sends the report from HG (4:05PM CST, Sept. 17th, 2005)"

+Turbine Sappho will be taking creature spawn requests @58.1s 88.3w, just north of the Ayan Baqur lifestone, starting in 10 minutes.

(5 mins later)

+Turbine Sappho will be taking creature spawn requests @58.1s 88.3w, just north of the Ayan Baqur lifestone, starting in 5 minutes.

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Magicspycko of HG sends these additional pics and the 3rd is from T Mac of WE!

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Ayan Attack - By Request!

Dalevin Earnharvick reports: "Good morning Maggie, I logged on last night (Sept. 21, 2005) around 5pm EST and this message came across the screen:

+Turbine Sappho will be taking creature spawn requests @58.1s 88.3w, just north of the Ayan Baqur lifestone, starting in 5 minutes.

I made my way out there, and there was a small crowd gathered. We made a fellow and soon the spawns began. We started off with a wall of diamond golems and an army of mite scions.... Then came the Oblitorators, Hollow Minions, Nasty Skeletons, Hoary and Swarthy Mattekars, and TM's.

Then we got a message telling us if we felt bold to go to the west of the swamp. There we found a wall of Tentacles, Abhorent Eaters stacked 4 high and Plat Golems and Crystal Lords by the ton.

I think everyone had a good time even with the numerous deaths. When I logged back on at 11pm to collect my corpse, there were still a few bodies left in the swamp. :) Here are a few screens I managed to get during all the excitement," (click to enlage)

Male Aluvian Rawr!

I attended the live event on Wintersebb on Sept. 22nd. It was an invasion of Ayan. They started off with low level penguins and scarecrows. Then some high level scarecrows and snowmen. Then as we worked our way down the hill to the north east. The lake was covered with crystal lords, obliterators, tremendous monougas, and much more. I was only level 20. I could only defeat the low level penguins and scare crows, but I tried to kill everything. I would run into battle from the lifestone screaming my favorite battlecry Rawr!. The server thought it was funny that a level 20 was trying to kill crystal lords and obliterators. We had a real fun time. I logged out happy that I had gotten to participate in the event. Then this evening when I logged on I noticed my character's title had changed. I am now a Male Aluvian Rawr!.

One of your fans, Mr. Danby of WE (click to enlage)

Ayan Spawns on DT!

Hey, just thought I'd let you know about our Darktide live event (Sept. 27th).

+Turbine Sappho showed up in Ayan, and quite a few of us showed up to fight her. She started as a level 10 I think, and got as high as 13. Pretty much anyone she wanted to kill, she 1 hit.

Mages had next to no effect except I think they managed to vuln/imp her. And then two archers took her down. Eraser getting the kill. Which I don't think she was expecting.

Then she stood around spawning stuff and giving people titles... She messed up with mine coz I recalled away. Now I've got a blank line :P

Needless to say it just turned out to be mass pking in Ayan, with some people trying to talk to Sappho and the rest ringing and attacking them.

From Highflyer (click to enlage)

Meeting Mr P!

Toys Mage of FF sends this pic of Mr P: "There's two penguins in MP =D and they're so cute! Here's a pic." (click to enlage)

Micheal Knight reports: "Hey Maggie, I got a good title to being Micheal Knight. They gave me the title Knight Rider. It pays being nice to Mr. P :) --Thanks, Micheal"

Taren iu Mau of FF reports: "During a UI event +Turbine Sappho held, my vassal I Cloud I and myself, Taren iu Mau, decided to hang out at Holtburg. There we met Sappho and her penguin friend, Mr. P. While hanging around, I decided to ask for a Fancy Title. After a staring contest that I won, I was awarded with the title of "Fancy Title" and my vassal got the title of "Wandering Fool." Needless to say, Sappho has being doing a wonderful job. Thanks Sappho! -- Taren iu Mau of Frostfell"

For more about Mr P, visit the Turbine Event write-ups!

Mr. P Attends a Wedding!

Saya al-Ahanra of SC sends this tale of her wedding to Tempus Thauleez! (click to enlage)

Our real-life wedding was a true fairy-tale. From a most uniquely personal wedding blessing, to a most magical reception complete with a 16-piece orchestra playing big-band and swing music all night. If anyone wants to be bored with the details of what that day encompassed 10 years ago, I'd be thrilled to share.

Not every girl gets her fairy-tale wedding. This one was blessed with two.

Last night my husband and I celebrated our 10th anniversary by doing the wedding quest and our day was shared with many of our friends we have met over the past 3 years in Dereth. That alone would have been more than we could've asked for, but this one, too, was blessed with a fairy-tale quality.

Though my character outwardly showed no sign of panic, on this side of the keyboard I was frantically answering tells and trying to get everything ready. I had just arrived back at my house, still typing madly. It is important here for all of you to know I still look at the keys when I type.... Anyway, I was still outside of my villa when my eyes returned to the screen. On the grass was a wedding cake. How in the world I had dropped that I couldn't figure, but panic ensued and I scooped it up. It said I had 3 cakes in my inventory. I thought I had only 2, but I must've overlooked something. Anyway, as I'm trying to figure out this new math, a little further ahead of me there is a wedding raiment on the lawn. I picked it up...a little more confused...I never HAD a wedding raiment! OK... now I'm looking around for a friend who snuck it there - nothing on the radar. I turned around and bumped into 100 bottles of champagne... magically appearing of course. By now I have my suspicions, but come on... this just doesn't happen!!!!! This was followed by a cake knife, flowers, flowers, flowers, MORE flowers...it was sooo cool! So, as I'm gathering all of this, I'm talking to... well... no one visible... saying TY! omg!! OMG!!! Rambling like a psycho in-game to what appears to be thin air. Talk about your once in a toon-time experience.

Apparently, that was not all that The-Powers-That-Be had in store for us that night. As wedding time drew near and we were all gathered in the hall, we were greeted by a ring-bearer. Literally. An orange dot appeared in the wedding hall. As we looked up the stairs and ID'd it, it was none other than Mr. P! He was sporting the title "Ring Bearer". He came forward to us and presented us both with a wedding ring. They were not inscribed, but under the description it read, "To Commemorate the 10th Wedding Anniversary of Tempus Thauleez and Saya al-Ahnara." I literally had tears in my eyes. Remember folks -- although in-game this was a wedding, in real life we were celebrating a wonderful, wonderful day! And although this is not a real-life tangible gift, it is a part of this anniversary we will be adding to our cherished memories in this lifetime.

Mr. P stayed for the wedding... shed a lil penguin tear. (Though I am told Ashla had to hush Zao's sobs so she could hear everything... /e hands Zao a clean dry towel!) So many wonderful friends there to share our day! Thank you all!!!

We then cast a portal to the reception at the Blue Grotto Pub. (Mr. P came with... gotta say... pretty cool watching an orange dot on the radar take a portal!!) I lost the groom on the way to the pub, but was able to cross the room to his computer and get him there! (tee hee) There was cake, cake, more cake, champagne, ale, mead, meat pies, and... Mr. P brought cookies!!! (My only regret is I didn't grab a cookie in all of the excitement -- not a bad regret for the evening, eh?) Big Bug entertained us with... well... sort of hard to explain. We all had our takes on his actions, from pinata, to underwear model, to Man-who-kept-us-from-getting-our-deposit-back. We'll let him explain....

+Turbine Sappho joined us later on as well. (I mentioned strange occurrences at my villa earlier. She said she'd look into it....) It was pretty cool!

I want so much to thank all who came! The only thing preventing me from doing this is fear of leaving anyone out... sigh... in all of the excitement I didn't take pictures! :/ Thank you Kalista, Ofn, Lashea, Ashla, Derrick, Zao, Zarah, Big Bug, Heavenlei, Giftoluv, Sllayer, Flipo (our out-of-town guest), Neue, Chaos Master, Bright Red, Ci'Ahra Rae, Lil Foot, Big Mac Attack, Realm of Darkness, Jax, Rare Mage, Dragoon Shadow, If I missed you, please do NOT be offended, but add your name to the list! It was grand, wonderful, touching and unforgettable. We are very blessed indeed to have been able to share our day with all of you.

<3, Saya and Tempus

Ghostbusters on MT! Dread Lord Boba Fett of MT sends this report and pics:

"There was a global about ghosts being in Glenden Wood, so I buffed up and headed there.

After I arrived I noticed dozens of bodies and soon saw the reasons, lag and Monsters and lots of both of them. Once I turned my textures down to Very Low and turned off all detailed rendering, the lag was minimal. (click to enlage)

There was one Doomed Spirit that would not show up on the map; he one hit whoever he hit and was the apparent boss. After killing him multiple times the hordes of monsters that he spawned with him stopped.

After about 2 hours of fighting and countless deaths the battle ended and they gave out titles. There were a few titles that I do not have pictures of, Containment Unit and Slimer are ones that I remember.

The dev controlled Doomed Spirit reappeared for us to take a picture with him (Picture 21). The dev would remove all enchantments from you occasionally, this included vitae and spells from/on armor and jewelry. This really just allowed you to die over and over and not think about it though." (click to enlage)

More Mr. P! Kelur of TD reports: "Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's already happened on the other servers, but you know :P. Well he came to visit us at about 8pm GMT. He ran around saying a lot through /e etc .etc. etc. He asked for cookies and people gave them to receive the title, "Friend of Mr. P." I have taken loads of pictures which you could use on your webby!" (click to enlage)

Thanks also to Chilly Pie of TD!

Confucius of FF reports: "Hi Maggie, A penguin named Mr. P showed up in the Frostfell marketplace today (Oct. 8, 2005). He was asking for cake and cookies, so I got my chef out there and dropped a piece of fruitcake at Mr. P's feet. He said "Mr. P thinks this is strange cake" but he gave me the title "Friend to Mr. P"! I gave my clansmate The Drifta some fruitcake too and he also got the title. Mr. P was only around for about 15 minutes, but he also wound up giving the title "Nice Guy" to Maxxximus and "Nice Blue Lady" to Eater Beater Bunny.

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Leon Foxhear heart sends some additional piccs! "I got some more screens from the TD Mr. P visit. I got lucky and got a kewl title: The Half-Foxplus. I'm sending a pic of just me and P. I'm also in a couple of thoes other TD pics."

Ghostbusters on HG! Darius of the Nexus from HG reports: "Hi Maggie. The quest was alot of fun!

Several spawns of Phantoms, Haunts, and Doomed Spirits were spawned for about an hour. There were numerous corpses lying around. It was difficult to play at times due to the lag but Eldin managed to bring down the "boss" (the last doomed spirit). It's corpse dropped him 4 BMK keys and a brown lump.

Another interesting thing was many reported "losing buffs and banes" during the fighting. While I can not confirm that as fact, I can tell you that I noticed after two times I was "one-shot" by a melee attack and noticed that it was unbaned (something I was fairly sure I had done)." (click to enlage)

A second report arrives courtesy of Atros of HG: "Hello Maggie, Tonight I attended one of the live events in Glenden Woods on Harvestgain. After a long battle with Doomed Spirits and after dieing multiple times, we managed to defend Glenden Woods from the Ghosts. In the process I was given the title of ”Ecto Cooler” (it fits the event and my outfit perfectly!). A big Thank You!! to +Turbine Sappho for an awesome night!

Anyhow, I thought that this was a thing worth reporting to you. Greetings, Atros of HG"

Mr. P's Revenge! Vierna Millithor of LC reports: "O dear, at about 8 pacific (Oct. 11, 2005) Mr. P says he was upset in Holt. So lots of ppl hit up Holtburg to see what's up. When a decent amount of ppl get here, Mr. P starts calling in Uber penguins. Then they totally kill off all that are not in a building and the lag in the entire area is beyond belief. Then I got this msg: Tired of seeing people mistreated his friend: Uber P. Has sworn vengeance on the people of Dereth. Was FUN FUN, minus the lag."

Scary Uber Pumpkin! Hey Maggie, Never thought I would see the day where I would get one shotted while I was fully buffed and baned, but it happened in Holtburg. It started when a clan mate of mine, Ivyforce, said in the allegiance channel, "That pumpkin in Holtburg just killed me." I know Ivy is a pretty high level, so I went to check it out. I landed in Holtburg and fired an arc right at it. The pumpkin resisted and then charged forward and hopped right up and the air landed on me and killed me in one clean shot. I then came back to Holtburg and saw it kill Kartia, a level 200 mage. This Pumpkin rocked as hard a bricks.

Toys Mage of Frostfell (click to enlage)

Manda Molak from FF reports: "Funnest live event on FF yet!

There was a Scary Pumpkin chasing people around Ayan and one hitting them. After dying once, it starts chasing me again -- through the Baishi portal, around Baishi, in and back out of the meeting hall, until finally North of Baishi where it got me again.

By that time I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. I run back, as soon as I speak, it kills me again, then once more.

Finally Evil-Lady killed it, after I secretly came back and started healing it. Ended up with a 'Pretty Pumpkin' and a hug from Sappho. Keep up the awesome work!"

Glenden Wood Ghost Invasion on MT

So I’m off hunting and I see the message in green that the spirits are restless in Glendon Wood. Naturally, I head off to investigate.

On arriving there were some nightmare wisps and some mid level ghosts running around and getting killed by the players with little trouble. Naturally, I waded into the thick of them, attracting the attention of a good number of them. Since these were not high level ghosts I could pretty much ignore their attacks, being pretty high level myself. So my health hadn’t even budged when all of a sudden I get “Doomed Spirit slays you so viciously even the lifestone flinches!”

I scrolled up and looked, and nothing had hit me before the kill message. OK, must be some fluke, right? I recall back and start fighting, higher level ghosts now, I had to be more careful, and I thought I was, but then WHAM! The doomed spirit again. OK, 10%, I can still deal with this, right? No, I get cornered by some restless spirits and taken down again. I recall back and start looking for my corpses to get my healing VII shoes that dropped back, and there’s ghosts everywhere and people getting killed left and right. Next thing you know I’m at 30% vitae, no healing buff because I can’t activate my shoes, and debuffed by the ghosts, and I can’t even hit them to try to lose the vitae. To make matters worse, ghosts don’t leave corpses, so all the items from the kills were lying around and causing a huge amount of lag.

Needless to say, 40% followed shortly. Now I was getting a bit frustrated, and it seemed like the ghosts were killing me with absurd ease, given that even with 40% my equipment should be providing all the buffs I need to at least take a war bolt without falling over. But no! At some point, the Doomed Spirit had dispelled me… completely, including the buffs on my sword, the buffs from my jewelry and clothing, the banes on my armor, everything! Including my vitae, which I’d gotten back up to 10% before I figured out what was going on. Now this was interesting!

I reactivated as much of my equipment as I could (some things I can’t activate with 10% vitae, this is usually not a problem as I don’t need to reactivate them after I die, usually) and got back into the fray. I could hit them! Unfortunately, the ghosts had the upper hand at this point, driving the scattered defenders to the outskirts of the town. To make matters worse, my healing VII shoes were among the items I couldn’t activate, along with my shirt that casts blade protection. Next thing you know I was at 40% for the second time.

But this time, when I got dispelled, I was ready for it! I re-equipped everything, buffed up my sword, and started taking out the ghosts like I meant it. Even better, someone suggested turning down the graphics to reduce lag. The defenders were driving back the ghosts, except for one Doomed Spirit that ran around killing people in one or two shots. Naturally, we all ganged up on it! Of course, it dispelled me and killed me again. But the spirit could not stand against so many defenders, and by the time I was back and looting my corpse, someone had killed it! There were much congratulations and rejoicing!

But the spirit was not done with us. It came back again and again, punching out the determined defenders each time before falling under a hail of war spells, arrows, and sword thrusts. Attempts to appease the spirit with food and drinks were met with assured death, and the spirit seemed to take especial glee from hunting down and slaying any who taunted it.

But even spirits must eventually rest, and this one eventually came no more to deal out vitae. Instead, an unseen force started dealing out titles! Some became “Ghostbusters” other titles included “Containment Unit”, “Slimer”, “Staypuffed”, “Proton Pack”, and the coveted “Who you gonna call?” and “Ain’t afraid of no ghosts!”. I was a bit relieved that I was allowed to keep my title of “Friend of Mr. P”, but it was great fun to see what the others were getting.

I wish I had taken screenshots, though they would have been low quality due to turning down the settings, it was really an event to remember! I am sure I raised my already prodigious death count by over 20, and I was still able to take my revenge on that Doomed Spirit

The Title to Own All Other Titles

Lol HEY MAGGIE, Long time fine. I'm an old dinosaur -- been around forever and your site rocks.... Anyways, we got invaded by a Scary Pumpkin. If you took its "baby" pumpkin, it would RUN YOU DOWN and PWN you. Well a few peeps did it... I watched, it would kill em and go back.... Well I took the pumpkin and lit a fire under my bum... I never died... The pumpkin would FOLLOW me whenever I ported. I went to sanc; it was there waitin. I went in a portal, BOOM, right there behind me... It was scary. I even portal logged and got on my mule.... It KILLED my mule in my villa (I have a pic). Anyways it was a Scarecrow event. After the event, since I was the only one who didn't hit LS, she gave me a special title... It owns all other titles.... (click to enlage)

Also when she was helping me, she took away my ability to use one of my items lore 388 my lore is 342 =\ pic 5 is her and I in her "love nest" as she breaks the news she can't help me. Anyways I have a few more pics if you want me to send em in... Great site Maggie.

Druss the Destroyer ~Lvl 171 and riseing Grief Mage of VT Druss The Silver Slayer ~lvl 150+ (Retired *for now) Uber Melee of LC

Mr. P Makes More Friends Brunswick of SC reports: "At about 4:30 PM, on Oct. 15, during the uninscription event, Mr. P appeared along with the usual +Turbine. Mr. P is a level 5 penguin with a sweet tooth. If you feed him a cookie or a piece of cake you got the Friend to Mr. P title." (click to enlage)

Shayk the Drudge God sends this hello: "Hail Maggie, I've been using your site for many years now and I'm so glad ya made it. The site has been a help in so many things. I've recommended it to all my friends too. Maybe I should to my new friend, Mr. P?"

J-A-K-E of HG reports: "Hello Maggie. Saw two penguins in MP today (Oct. 18). Once lvl 30 called Mr.P and another lvl 235 called Uber P. Rumors are that if you give them cookies, you get the title of Friend of Mr.P. I do not know if this is true. Here are some pics of them in MP. =]"

Stuff You Just Can't Make Up Darius of the Nexus from HG sends in this very strange report: "I was at my mansion muling to my second account when I encountered a "creature".

I have no idea how long this dev controlled toon was there, and if it even said anything.

When I did look up at it and said something, it spit out some lumps of ground beef and then when invis!

Folks, this is stuff you just CANT make up..." (click to enlage)

The Galvanic Knight Comes to TD The Galvanic Knight, first seen last month, has come to TD! Orian the Magical from TD reports: "Howdy =) My name is Orian the Magical from Thistledown. I noticed there was a live event near the Land Bridge settlement, so I checked it out and turns out I got the kill on a Galvanic Knight. This punk hits hard! Did 50-150 damage on tinked, baned armor! Anyway, there was only armor on his loot... but it seems to be well worth the battle! =) Also, if you or anyone else knows, could you let me know if this is the only armor set like this in the server? Thanks! And awesome site!" (click to enlage)

Protecting Mr. P Deven-Kenyon / Seakon Fate of SC reports: "Hi there Maggie!

Earlier this evening we had a little visitor that seemed to have lost his way. There were many deaths, much vp, leveling and I even ended up with a new title :o) pics attached.

It started with Uber P "going ahead to check if it was safe" and all of a sudden Uber Penguins spawned in large numbers. When we killed those off, Uber P again went ahead to check if it was safe and insatiable (I think it was) penguins spawned, then even more ubers (there's one pic with them in a line on radar. I didn't want to get too close yet [understandably]).

I had so much vp and no more DI's; my armor was starting to drop on the corpses and I couldn't even buff myself anymore, but it was a blast. I spent much time behind trees making sure Mr P was safe (pic attached), but he was so scared anyway.

Uber P finally escorted Mr. P to a safe place after we all received new titles. I must say, that lil sucker was FAST! It'd be cool if we had a glide emote like Mr. P lol. (click to enlage)

Thunder Chicken Darkavenger of TD reports: "Taking a short cut through Shoushi on Thistledown, me (darkavenger) and Cari' dropped in on Thunder Chicken. Sadly, he didn't want to try out our new chicken dip sauce and flew the coop :)." (click to enlage)

Frozen in Mid-Air Deven-Kenyon of SC reports: "oh btw, Solclaim was also visited by the knight and that crystal a few days ago. I thought someone would have sent in the info, and maybe they did and you haven't posted yet. Anyway, we finally killed the knight and the crystal.

Tonight I missed the event. Logged in just as it was over, but there was extra events afterwards lol. Gimps use Archers kept taunting +Sappho to a PK duel, but she wouldn't bite. Instead, while we encouraged her to dump him bludge vulned, naked and 300 bu over Mt. Lethe, she didn't but she did freeze him high above us lol after she left. While we were jumping around making fun of him, a few of us found ourselves frozen too! It was a blast!" (click to enlage)

Rolling Balls of Death Wind Wisper of WE reports: "Hi Maggie, I love your web site. I am sending you some screenshots of the attack today in Eastham on WE. There were several balls rolling all over town. They all could kill you. Most of them you couldn't target, except one. It was alive. I killed the live ball, and received the title of "Rolling Death Destroyer" :). Thank you for you site :). It has helped me a lot. TC, Wind Wisper" (click to enlage)

Thunder Chicken Crashed My Quest! William the Bat of MT reports:

"Today (Oct. 21, 2005)I was taking a group through the tusks, when in the assailer dungeon, in the tusk room, a very large chicken (taller than an Isparian) appeared and promptly disappeared. We were all standing around going "what the heck was that?" when a normal chicken appeared. I yelled out "don't hurt the chicken!" but it was too late. The Looker (Illumini's axer) took it out. We all sorta looked around, expecting all heck to break loose. Nothing happened. We fought off the respawn and were going to the portal and suddenly Thunder Rooster took out The Looker in one shot. It was promptly invisible again, if it even had appeared in the first place.

We were laughing, but wondering how on earth he was going to get back there to rejoin the quest. Fortunately pity was taken upon him, and he was teleported back so he could get his stuff. So after a bit of rebuffing and fighting off some tuskers, we hit the exit portal... only to be followed by the rooster! The darned thing started chasing us towards the rampager dungeon which was our next destination. The guys were so distracted by this they missed the dungeon entirely and ended up in Tusker Assault.

So now we got some people in the Holding, some people in Tusker Assault, I got no idea where an exit portal is in Tusker Assault, We recalled to Oolutanga's Refuge and went back to the Holding, but the guys in the Holding went to Tusker Assault, they gave up, someone else fell in the pit and gave up. By this time I had a multiple corpse emergencies going on elsewhere, and apparently by this time the Thunder Rooster had decided to pick on someone who wasn't trying to do a quest.

Oh. My. Lord.

Now, I have to admit, while honored that the Thunder Rooster would seek out our quest and come play with us, I was a little annoyed by this time.

But really, how many times does the Thunder Rooster come crash your quest? I don't think I've had so much fun with a quest gone wrong since Stay Puffed killed me in Lady Aerfalle's chamber when I tried to get the ashen key back from him.

We never did get to the Lacuna, but I have to admit, a giant chicken is more interesting than a bunch of big monkeys any day.

Fear the Chicken Slayers Xerox of HG reports: "Hi Maggie,

We had a little Dev event on Harvestgain. Holtburg was attacked by a giant level 4 Thunder Chicken. The Chicken ran all over the place really fast, causing the melees to get dragged around with the sticky melee. Mages were useless against it. Even with totally maxed magic skills, I couldn't touch it. The Chicken was using little slashing attacks that did almost no damage and had some sort of lightning attack that seemed to bypass all Life protects. It was the lightning that caused all the deaths.

I got some screenshots of the Chicken and the three people that got the kills, plus the +Envoy who was controlling it. After the Chicken was killed for the third time, the +Envoy showed up to give the Slayers their reward. The +Envoy was even nice enough to remove the vitae from everyone who got killed by he Chicken.

The people that got the kills received the title of Thunder Chicken Slayer and each received a chicken hat. The original hat was white, but Chi-Min-Shu asked for a dye job and the +Envoy did it. So the others got theirs dyed too.

The Slayers in the picture are from left to right: Blond Bimbo, +Envoy Sappho, Chi-Min-Shu, and Vana de Lochness (click to enlage)

More Thunder Chicken Sightings LamFox of WE reports: "Was just killing eaters and all of a sudden a Thunder Chicken appeared. Was fresh out of guinness so I knew it was true despite the pleas from ppl that I come back to the light.

It disappeared after about 3-5 seconds and I reported it. Envoy Cody shot me a response to say "Thanks for your report, the creatures of Dereth have a mind of their own, have a nice night."

Figured it wasn't an error after that response so I hung around another while. Thunder Chicken reappeared after another while and I tried to hit it with Eviscerations only to get message telling me I failed to effect Thunder Chicken as I am not a Player Killer. Thunder Chicken disappeared all of a sudden and didn't reappear :(

Not sure if anyone else has seen or killed one yet, but they are feckin huge! (click to enlage)

Deven-Kenyon of SC reports: "I advertised for noble weapon quest on /lfg earlier. I was out there alone buffing some weapons and out of the corner of my eye, I see this gigantic chicken spawn. I had the camera turned away and was watching a close spawn of monsters, and by the time I selected the chicken, I was just barely able to ID it and catch its name, which was Thunder Chicken and he ran off! So I sent out a call over general chat, and of course no one would believe a Thunder Chicken had spawned out there in the desert. A few stragglers came to check it out, and while we're standing around a normal chicken spawned. Well this guy/gal zeta killed it and guess what? Thunder spawned again! And killed zeta lol. We ran after it for a bit, then it went invisible on us, but I had him selected and followed him. Then he reappeared and hopped up to the Izji Qo temple and sat there. Qora then killed him, and another spawned and killed her! After that, the chicken started laying eggs. I made the mistake of picking one up and it started attacking me, so I set it back down quickly. Then I made a joke about KFC and he killed me lol.

It was great fun. :D We ended up with chicken hats and gimps use archers got himself a brand new title! (Cause he likes to taunt +Sappho, lol silly man.) (click to enlage)

Machine of MT reports: "Maggie, I thought I'd send in our little adventure with the infamous Thunder Rooster. One of my followers, Billy, spotted the Thunder Rooster briefly at our mansion before it tore off like a thunder bolt. Unfortunately for Billy, he was the only one that saw it. We were about to put him in the padded cell in the mansion basement when suddenly chickens started appearing all over the front lawn. After wiping out a good handful of them, the Thunder Rooster appeared and a great battle ensued. Many times we got the Thunder Rooster down to about 10% health but then he would speed off like we were standing still and be back at full health in seconds. We chased him inside, outside, on the roof. He even sent me to the lifestone on Vissidal and then followed me there seconds later. Needless to say, we ganged up on him pretty good and finally managed to kill him. +Turbine Sappho eventually appeared and gave 3 of us Thunder Rooster hats." (click to enlage)

Doomed Spirit Attack on HG!

Cody reports: "Hey Maggie, I'm a long time user of your site, but I've never sent anything in. Tonight (Oct. 24, 2005) there was a live event in GW. It was attacked by Doomed Spirits. Here are a couple of pictures of afterwards -- we were given pumpkin pie! Happy Halloween!"

Jassa of HG reports: "We were all at the Live Event this evening, Spirits and corpses laying everywhere....hehe. One of my honorable followers Xaosheng Kwon killed the Dev!

+Turbine Sappho says, "22:09:11 Your seared corpse smolders before Xaosheng Kwon!"

Pack Gold Remoran

Baron Fayt reports: "I was pwning some noobs in market (Oct 28, 2005) for like a real long time. Was doin pretty good, won some 4 on 3 and 3 on 2's. Then Frelorn showed up. He set up a PK Lite battle for us in the new dungeon, 4 on 4. My team quickly pwned the other guys, so now I'm officially 'The Pwnerer'!

Frelorn also said it was the first time any server has been to the new event dungeons. There's more then 1 though. We were at 2 different ones. Were semi-big.

Everyone there got a reward - a never before seen item, all the same one as me, I believe. Though most other people got titles like 'The noob' and 'Fayt's Bait', cuz I pwned em." (click to enlage)

Lord Anton sends these pics of the new event dugeon! (click to enlage)

Pumpkin Lord Invasion!

Ruhelos Seele reports: "Hello Maggie! We just had a pretty good event on Thistledown at Neydisa Castle. A whole slew of pumpkin lords! It was a lot of fun, and there was some pretty good participation, and a nice amount of deaths. It lasted about 30 minutes, I would say. Those pumpkins looked like they were ready for an all out siege. But in the end, we defeated them, of course!" (November 8, 2005) (click to enlage)

Wedding of Pallida de Naja & Lynnie

--Wedding Nov. 14, 2005 (reported March 10, 2006)

Hi Maggie, First off, grats on your latest development ;) Kids are such a joy. Anyway, I'm Lycaon II on Frostfell. We were having a wedding -- Pallida de Naja had asked for Lynnie's hand in marriage, and she had accepted. They set a date, booked bandit castle for the ceremony, and invited all the Mark Wheen crew to the wedding. Lovely occasion. The bride's dress was particularly resplendent. The groom looked nervous (after all, he was invited to a pk party immediately after ;)). The ceremony went off without a hitch and champagne was passed around to all and sundry. And then it happened. Someone invited a pumpkin! Well long story short, also invited to the wedding was Frelorn, of Dev fame. After sharing congrats, whacking a pumpkin and various festivities, he offered to give each of us a title of our choice. As anyone who knows me in game is aware, my choice was almost predestined, and now I bear the proud title of Baron Oddity! I'll have to see if anyone else who was there has screenies. There were quite a few titles on your list that day given out to us, and I'll see if I can get them to tell their stories as well :). Again, congratulations on your new son. Peace and joy to you. :)

--Lycaon of FF (click to enlage)

Hi -- Lyacoon II got in contact with me saying you would like to know about some custom titles. Well, we had a wedding in the Chosen allegiance and I had arranged for Turbine to attend the wedding.

It might be nice to also mention the fact that Frelorn actually logged in from home in his own time which was good of him.

We started the night with the wedding ceremony. Only myself and one other knew of Frelorn's forthcoming appearance. Pallida who was getting married to Lynnie was also going to have his first in game death with a pkl fight after the ceremony. We had a raffle before hand for who would get the honor of killing him.

Right after the ceremony, the scary pumpkin appeared and was bouncing away in the background. It only took a few secs before we all saw him. After the pkl battle and some pumpkin fighting, Frelorn logged in as a +Turbine dev and chatted with us all. He then gave out a custom title for myself for being thoughtful, then the groom/bride and then all the guests too.

That's a bit of history of the event. Lynnie and Pallida are good friends of mine and that is why I had got something special for them. May I ask that when you do the story on this, that you state my thanks to Frelorn and Sappho for the arrangements.

My custom titles is paradox slayer.

Other titles given out that night were:

patron saint of the lifestone co-monach of the chosen husband of lynnie the chosen king have bunnies will travel (I think on this one)

Regards, Greg