Valentine SPOILER

[Spellbound]

A throbbing heart!!!! found in a pink basket on TC1.

 

[Lady Aalia]

 

[christy1221]

Did you double click on it? If not do it.

 

[^Wolfie^]

Info I have so far:

I haven't the time to post a pic of new menu, but after clicking manage your cupid...It's going to let us write a poem of some sort.

After messing around with this some more, These are simply adorable!

 

[canary]

OK, that's just awesome... thanks Devs!

 

[Oriana]

It's just darling!!! It says...

Then a cute cupid come out when you double click it.

 

[Black Sun]

That is the coolest V-Day gift ever!
I hope some pretty armor wearing cutie gives me one.

 

[laurlo]

oh thats cute!

 

[Aboo]

I love the pink basket! And the cupid!

 

[Oriana]

Ok I found something I don't like...you can't get the cupid to appear when it's locked down

 

[christy1221]

Ok I found something I don't like...you can't get the cupid to appear when it's locked down

That sucks.

 

[Spree]

Can you resend them to different people?

 

[GAMBIT35]

wow...online make believe love. How very sad. What's even sadder is the girlifying of this once great game.

 

[canary]

wow...online make believe love. How very sad. What's even sadder is the girlifying of this once great game.

I'm sorry the Cupid doesn't chop your head off and then rez kill you, maybe Draconi and co. will implement that next year.

 

[Uriah Heep]

LOL

I can see it now, Cupid says "My heart bleeds for you, so your's should bleed too"
Giant Halberd appears in the air *KERWHOMP* insta death!

rofl

 

[Moonstar]

LOL!

i liek having soemthing i can make record messages but I dont have a love interest ingame so I'll just use it to let ppl know what i'm buying in town.

I want something cool like cupids to kill for special loot or the purple bunnies again.

 

[Lord Kynd]

LOL!

I dont have a love interest ingame .

don't feel bad, me either . i perfer a person more 'real' and touchable

 

[Lord Kynd]

I love the pink basket! And the cupid!

with that said....
is there a way to dye the baskets ?

 

[Black Sun]

wow...online make believe love. How very sad. What's even sadder is the girlifying of this once great game.

You know what's even sadder? Someone who trolls message boards for online games.

 

[Lia]

Very cute! Just be sure you don't get too graphic and give it to a minor.........

 

[rwek]

yeah, im just cringing my eyes, and people are like, wow so cool etc.



Sure do miss 98/99

 

[Crysta]

Would have been cuter to have the Cupid be a Mongbat.

 

[Lord Drakelord]

LOL!

I dont have a love interest ingame .

don't feel bad, me either . i perfer a person more 'real' and touchable

Having the wife sitting next to you playing the game is a lot of fun! If you could hear us talk while we play LOL.

me: "get that dam thing off my $$$ will you love" [I know all about the filter here]
her: "one sec sweetheart, I'm looting this gold here first"

 

[Oriana]

Having the wife sitting next to you playing the game is a lot of fun! If you could hear us talk while we play LOL.

me: "get that dam thing off my $$$ will you love" [I know all about the filter here]
her: "one sec sweetheart, I'm looting this gold here first"

Classic,I play with my hubby too, and sometimes ours isn't so cleaned up as yours lol.

My second issue is I wanted to give these to friends and they only say one thing and it looks kinda well.....strange for me to be giving my friend thats a girl IRL something that says "To my one true love" or "Ori's heart throbbing for Laura" I love my friend dearly but yea not like that.

 

[^Wolfie^]

Having the wife sitting next to you playing the game is a lot of fun! If you could hear us talk while we play LOL.

me: "get that dam thing off my $$$ will you love" [I know all about the filter here]
her: "one sec sweetheart, I'm looting this gold here first"

LOL Drakelord, that sounds just like Lestat and I except we play in 2 different rooms so we yell room to room @ each other. Gets real funny when we are pvp'n! Our kids are constantly giving us funny looks.

 

[TheScoundrelRico]

LOL, I hope this provides all of the pixel addicts their fix...sheesh what a waste of space...la

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

What's up with the bacon?

 

[DevilsOwn]

you can type any message you like in the cupid's speech, Oriana... or were you talking about the cards?

and Spree, once the heart is targeted for someone that name remains on the heart, but it appears that you can call up the cupid at any time by selecting the 'preview' option... so I guess what we have is a cupid that can pop up at any time and say anything you edit into it

 

[DevilsOwn]

What's up with the bacon?

yah, really, they forgot to bless it

 

[Larisa]

LOL

I can see it now, Cupid says "My heart bleeds for you, so your's should bleed too"
Giant Halberd appears in the air *KERWHOMP* insta death!

rofl

I SO wanna see this happen!!!!

that is the coolest idea EVER!!!!!!

 

[Lord Drakelord]

What's up with the bacon?

goes back to the coding of the first V gifts we got. It had bacon in it as well so has become a UO item to pass the pork, besides its blessed, think of this, tamer or crafters can carry a few pieces of it with them, when they die they can still feed pets.

but this bacon I understand is not blessed, dang!

 

[Morgana LeFay (PoV)]

I remember thinking how random it was that I got bacon for V'Day the first time as well.

 

[Black Sun]

I remember thinking how random it was that I got bacon for V'Day the first time as well.

I think it started out as a coding mistake, but everyone found it so funny it stuck around and became tradition.

 

[Nh'bdy]

This is a pretty impressive feat on the Dev's part, like it or not. And come on, it's a pagan necro reg rehued.

 

[Oriana]

you can type any message you like in the cupid's speech, Oriana... or were you talking about the cards?

and Spree, once the heart is targeted for someone that name remains on the heart, but it appears that you can call up the cupid at any time by selecting the 'preview' option... so I guess what we have is a cupid that can pop up at any time and say anything you edit into it

I was talking about both really. idk Wish the cards were more friendship I guess.

 

[deadite]

I want to say that it was Wilki that accidentally coded the bacon into the V-day gifts a few years ago. Everyone thought it was a hoot so they've been doing bacon ever since.

Too bad it's not blessed. I lost all my blessed bacon...

 

[Oriana]

I want to say that it was Wilki that accidentally coded the bacon into the V-day gifts a few years ago. Everyone thought it was a hoot so they've been doing bacon ever since.

Too bad it's not blessed. I lost all my blessed bacon...

Yup it was Wilki. LOL Anybody heard of making bacon? I'm just saying....

 

[Millie]

Having the wife sitting next to you playing the game is a lot of fun! If you could hear us talk while we play LOL.

me: "get that dam thing off my $$$ will you love" [I know all about the filter here]
her: "one sec sweetheart, I'm looting this gold here first"

lol I though conversations like this were only going in my house. lol


A saying coined by a Dev member has stuck in my head for years and I can't for the life of me remember who it was..
" Nothing says love like a slice of bacon!"
Needless to say that on Valentines day in this house we have bacon

 

[Basara]

From the February 16, 2007 Five on Friday....

"Ok, I give up... what's with the Bacon? "
Wilki, Master of Meat Products, fielded this one:

"Ok, the truth about Valentine's Day Bacon! You've probably heard all kinds of rumors about why bacon was included in the Valentine's Day gift basket. Was it because the ancient Romans used to whack each other with strips of meat to show their "love" for each other? Or perhaps a developer is a big fan of the actor Kevin Bacon? Or, could it be based on some obscure cartoon series? Were the devs just being naughty?

Not quite...

What actually happened is a lot less meaningful than any of the rumors. Inside UO, we use two separate number systems for creating items, depending on the type of item we want to make. When I was busy writing the script for Valentine's Day, I forgot to change which number system I was using, and guess what? The number for a "slice of bacon" in one system just happens to be the same as the number for "a rose in a vase" in the other system.

So, when I loaded up my script on a test center, instead of finding a rose in a vase, I ended up with a slice of bacon in my basket. Mmmm, bacon! I laughed out loud because it was just so... random! Bacon on Valentine's Day?!!

When I told some of the other devs what I had done, the jokes started flying around. We decided we just had to leave it in, and thus a Britannian tradition was born!"

 

[Oriana]

Thanks Basra!!

 

[Basara]

Is it just one line of text, or several, you can put into the cupid?

If multiple lines, I want to do one that sings (at least a verse of) Tom Lehrer's "Masochism Tango".....

I ache for the touch of your lips, dear,
But much more for the touch of your whips, dear.
You can raise welts
Like nobody else,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

Let our love be a flame, not an ember,
Say it's me that you want to dismember.
Blacken my eye,
Set fire to my tie,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

At your command
Before you here I stand,
My heart is in my hand. ecch!
It's here that I must be.
My heart entreats,
Just hear those savage beats,
And go put on your cleats
And come and trample me.

Your heart is hard as stone or mahogany,
Thats why I'm in such exquisite agony.
My soul is on fire,
Its aflame with desire,
Which is why I perspire
When we tango.

You caught my nose
In your left castanet, love,
I can feel the pain yet, love,
Ev'ry time I hear drums.
And I envy the rose
That you held in your teeth, love,
With the thorns underneath, love,
Sticking into your gums.

Your eyes cast a spell that bewitches.
The last time I needed twenty stitches
To sew up the gash
That you made with your lash,
As we danced to the masochism tango.

Bash in my brain,
And make me scream with pain,
Then kick me once again,
And say well never part.
I know too well
I'm underneath your spell,
So, darling, if you smell
Something burning, its my heart - Excuse me!

Take your cigarette from its holder,
And burn your initials in my shoulder.
Fracture my spine,
And swear that you're mine,
As we dance to the masochism tango.

 

[Spree]

But the bacon isnt blessed this year now i have to worry about Rico stealing it

 

[Oriana]

But the bacon isnt blessed this year now i have to worry about Rico stealing it

Spree!!! You owe me a drink!!! *wipes off monitor*

 

[canary]

But the bacon isnt blessed this year now i have to worry about Rico stealing it

See, and some thieves claim they don't get anything special...

 

[PASmountaindew]

What's up with the bacon?

Valentines is always about getting someone in the sack and "makin' bacon" lol

 

[uoBuoY]

Would have been cuter to have the Cupid be a Mongbat.

In a diaper with legendary Archery

 

[Harlequin]

Having the wife sitting next to you playing the game is a lot of fun! If you could hear us talk while we play LOL.

me: "get that dam thing off my $$$ will you love" [I know all about the filter here]
her: "one sec sweetheart, I'm looting this gold here first"

LOL I agree wholeheartedly!

 

[Borric]

Oh man, I got to dig out The Hitchikers Guide To The Galaxy and put some Vogan Poetry on my Cupid. Players in hearing distance should drop to the ground and writhe in pain.

Borric

 

[Basara]

BTW, I actually did it - fit 2/3 the song (about the first 1/3 & last 1/3) into the 12 lines, then went to the Ilshenar Oaks spawn, and played it as a Valentine for Oaks and Silvani - during the champ fight...

 

[Spree]

I did a little testing. A thief can use the cupid to their advantage. You can use cupid to block movement walking though it takes stamina, it cant be killed, it can be opened while hidden and be used as a calling card "ha ha ha I just stole your stuff" or " If you are seeing this you are dead don't bother to come back because I looted your stuff, Love Rico La"