Oh noes!!!

[Draconi]

...as Draconi casts Armageddon using the power of "Blackrock Cookies" courtesy Queen Mum.

Yes, that's right. Now we have the power to do as we please... Mwaha. MWAHAHAHA. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Mwahaahahaha. Just kidding, enjoy your Treasures of Tokuno

VAS KAL AN MANI IN CORP HUR TYM
(Hint: You'll need the above spellwords in upcoming events)

Thanks to Queen Mum for the reagents, and Mesanna for the robe

 

[Shelleybean]

Thanks for the Treasures of Tokuno! Can I have your robe????

 

[Stephen_Mythic]

These cookies are delicious

 

[Flutter]

That's pretty hardcore man...

 

[Chrissay_]

the cookies are awesome!! Thanks Queen Mum

 

[Prince Caspian]

 

[Ni-]

Is that robe one of those 'snuggie' keep warm things?

 

[Stupid Miner]

Annihilation has never tasted so good!

 

[Storm]

Watch out for the BR cookie monster

 

[Mesanna]

Thank you Queen, you are the Cookie Master. *hugs*

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

Oh dear.

*just shaking my head*

-Galen's player

 

[Cear Dallben Dragon]

MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!
CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COOOOOOOOOOOKIESSSSSSSSS!!!!
wait wtf...

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

VAS KAL AN MANI IN CORP HUR TYM
(Hint: You'll need the above spellwords in upcoming events)

If we'll need it to kill something let me take this opportunity to slip in a request that casting Armageddon not be required.

A good example would be the ethereal-form shadowlords we saw in time-altered, Ethereal Void Moonglow (Voidglow?). Casting that spell helped, but you could kill them without the spell. Without using that spell, Galen managed to get I think it was 4 Cloaks of Corruption. Of course I left them behind on LS and they can do me no good now but you see the point...It was possible to slay the critter without using the spell and taking that extreme risk, it was just harder.

-Galen's player

 

[Lord Drakelord]

...as Draconi casts Armageddon using the power of "Blackrock Cookies" courtesy Queen Mum.

Yes, that's right. Now we have the power to do as we please... Mwaha. MWAHAHAHA. MWAHAHAHAHAHAHA.

Mwahaahahaha. Just kidding, enjoy your Treasures of Tokuno

VAS KAL AN MANI IN CORP HUR TYM
(Hint: You'll need the above spellwords in upcoming events)

Thanks to Queen Mum for the reagents, and Mesanna for the robe

*Goes to look for for more Queen Mum's cookies!* Sounds as if we need more of Mum's cookies then blackrock Mum can I get a triple order please?!

 

[Draconi]

If we'll need it to kill something let me take this opportunity to slip in a request that casting Armageddon not be required.

A good example would be the ethereal-form shadowlords we saw in time-altered, Ethereal Void Moonglow (Voidglow?). Casting that spell helped, but you could kill them without the spell. Without using that spell, Galen managed to get I think it was 4 Cloaks of Corruption. Of course I left them behind on LS and they can do me no good now but you see the point...It was possible to slay the critter without using the spell and taking that extreme risk, it was just harder.

-Galen's player

Ah.

In fact, this system has been revisited for the upcoming events. Instead of them doing massive damage, it does a good, but not unbalanced amount of initial damage, and then it no longer works.

The benefit, though, is that it lowers the "shield" around them, making them easier to attack with conventional abilities. Unlike the first round of ethereal Shadowlords, the new ones will have extraordinary defenses unless pierced with blackrock.

Did I slip too much?

 

[DevilsOwn]

Ah.

Did I slip too much?

matter of fact it looks like there's a bit more downward there.... have another cookie

 

[Hildebrand]

*rubs hands eagerly in anticipation*

 

[Lady Michelle]

Thank you Draconi for the tot3 event. Nice robe your wearing, but I don't to see headlines or hear on the news someday.
Man wearing a blue robe trimmed in gold walking the streets with a flame thrower, and a bag of black rocks. Um nevermind then again that would be to funny.

 

[Otis Firefly]

Ah.

In fact, this system has been revisited for the upcoming events. Instead of them doing massive damage, it does a good, but not unbalanced amount of initial damage, and then it no longer works.

The benefit, though, is that it lowers the "shield" around them, making them easier to attack with conventional abilities. Unlike the first round of ethereal Shadowlords, the new ones will have extraordinary defenses unless pierced with blackrock.

Did I slip too much?

Woot!!, ive got my cookies, got the rock and the words and a sword......what am i missing?.....k, whiskey too!!

 

[Llwyd]

Woot!!, ive got my cookies, got the rock and the words and a sword......what am i missing?.....k, whiskey too!!

I'm missing a computer... *stares at low-end Macbook and frowns*

 

[zared of napa]

I love her cookies !!!! I need more for sunday
The problem is i have the market cornered on cookies lol
I give her lots of blackrock and she feeds the addiction

 

[Petrify]

Seriously, this is why the event team is bad. They leave almost nothing for the UO public to figure out - basically we have to go to X and kill Y who we found by reading article Z on UO.com/Stratics.

 

[zared of napa]

Woot!!, ive got my cookies, got the rock and the words and a sword......what am i missing?.....k, whiskey too!!

Did somebody say whisky?????I need some good canadian blend

P.s I want your robe draconi!!!!!!!for my ingame toon lol

 

[Jhym]

Ahem, I will now be expecting delicious black rock cookies and pies to be available in game from blue-robed cooks.

 

[christy1221]

Hey I want a cookie

Glad I kept some of my blackrock it looks like I'm going to need it.

 

[Katlene]

so.. blackrock falling with the tot's isnt accidental then!
a distraction with benifits for what we're being distracted from

 

[Sakkarah_]

Thanks Queen Mum!

Those cookies are sinfully good!!

 

[MalagAste]

Mmm .... cookies...

*wanders off to count blackrock stores*

 

[Dol'Gorath]

In B4 the "BRING BACK COUNSELORS!"

 

[GarthGrey]

If we'll need it to kill something let me take this opportunity to slip in a request that casting Armageddon not be required.

A good example would be the ethereal-form shadowlords we saw in time-altered, Ethereal Void Moonglow (Voidglow?). Casting that spell helped, but you could kill them without the spell. Without using that spell, Galen managed to get I think it was 4 Cloaks of Corruption. Of course I left them behind on LS and they can do me no good now but you see the point...It was possible to slay the critter without using the spell and taking that extreme risk, it was just harder.

-Galen's player

Way to not break character there Galen...wouldn't want any levity in your life would we?

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

Ah.

In fact, this system has been revisited for the upcoming events. Instead of them doing massive damage, it does a good, but not unbalanced amount of initial damage, and then it no longer works.

The benefit, though, is that it lowers the "shield" around them, making them easier to attack with conventional abilities. Unlike the first round of ethereal Shadowlords, the new ones will have extraordinary defenses unless pierced with blackrock.

Did I slip too much?

Nope.

Thank you for replying!

Damn, you all DID replay U5, didn't you.

Before I forget, what kind of cookies were they, really?

-Galen's player

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

Way to not break character there Galen...wouldn't want any levity in your life would we?

Umm....I got an answer, and it was a good question.

On a more personal note, my "all business," grim personality is my coping mechanism. Otherwise the site of some dude in a blue robe with gold trim brandishing a cookie would make me laugh, and look like a fool.

Nobody knows what it's like to be the bad man, to be the sad man, behind blue eyes.

I still want to know what kind of cookie it was.

-Galen's player

 

[GarthGrey]

I respect the response. Thanks for not being offended by my reply...

 

[Oriana]

MADNESS!!!!!!!!!!
CHAOS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
COOOOOOOOOOOKIESSSSSSSSS!!!!
wait wtf...

My favorite post of the day!!

 

[Bomb Bloke]

If we'll need it to kill something let me take this opportunity to slip in a request that casting Armageddon not be required.

...

It was possible to slay the critter without using the spell and taking that extreme risk, it was just harder.

Huh? There was no risk to casting Armageddon against the old Shadowlords. What are you talking about?

Seriously, this is why the event team is bad. They leave almost nothing for the UO public to figure out - basically we have to go to X and kill Y who we found by reading article Z on UO.com/Stratics.

Yes, I'm sure it'd've taken a good week for someone to figure out that Armageddon might be required against the new Shadowlords - same as the old ones.

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

Huh? There was no risk to casting Armageddon against the old Shadowlords. What are you talking about?

*chuckles*

Game mechanics: Some things may have game mechanics that aren't obvious. Andrew's card game, for example, and the choice you make during it, may yet have consequences we haven't seen yet. As might casting the most evil spell we know, using the world's most dangerous substance, in order to get a cloak. (Though of course technically it fills the robe equipment slot.)

RP: My character was simply not willing to use the most dangerous substance and the most evil spell he knows of in order to kill a monster and get a Cloak. (Though of course technically it fills the robe equipment slot.)

Under the circumstances Draconi described, to permanently kill the Shadowlords, he might do it.

Oh....Because I know you're a stickler for detail, to call them "old" and "new" Shadowlords is misleading. The ones we saw in the Ethereal Void were their ethereal forms, "echoes" of their true forms, left behind in the Void. The "real" ones are loose in Britannia proper as we speak. We can safely presume that it's those we'll be fighting. Not old and new per se, but different creatures that are related to one another.

-Galen's player

 

[GalenKnighthawke]

Seriously, this is why the event team is bad. They leave almost nothing for the UO public to figure out - basically we have to go to X and kill Y who we found by reading article Z on UO.com/Stratics.

You're.....serious, aren't you.

Your characters lack the ability to read, to go over dusty tomes Buffy the Vampire-style and discover the weaknesses of creatures that others have written about?

You as a player, and your characters, lack the ability to think "hey, we have to get through this shielding.....What do I know that can cast a really big explosion, that might help."

The "secret" he's revealed would have taken all of 2 minutes for someone to try. And in an in-character sense, I'm willing to bet the Lycaeum has some book that would've hinted strongly at this.

I, for one, appreciate knowing this....It adds my ability to RP the event cycle. Sometimes when the characters have no information and have to experiment their way through everything they can look stupid, like they are trying things without much expectation that they can work. Like in a bad horror movie. "Maybe we can kill the monster with a mirror! What do you know, it worked!!"

-Galen's player

 

[Crysta]

I like the GM robe.

 

[Bomb Bloke]

Andrew's card game, for example, and the choice you make during it, may yet have consequences we haven't seen yet.

I hope so, personally I told him to go shove it - been wondering what the penalty on that one'll be.

As might casting the most evil spell we know, using the world's most dangerous substance, in order to get a cloak. (Though of course technically it fills the robe equipment slot.)

Assuming the fight against the Shadowlords is performed outside the void, this actually brings to mind a valid point - the spell was neutered somewhat inside.

(The fact that the rift version of Moonglow wasn't Britannia kinda mitigates the "evilness" of casting it there - all the natives were themselves quite evil, after all).

I hope the side effects in the "real world" aren't removed as well, because you're quite right - Armageddon is, at it's core, a genocidal spell. Not a single-target spell. To be honest I'd be more amused to see someone cast it correctly.

 

[Queen Mum]

...

Before I forget, what kind of cookies were they, really?

-Galen's player

Double chocolate fudge brownie cookies ... a couple dozen had special added ingredients; pop rocks, (hot) cinnamon bits, and a bursting liquid filled candy rock on top ... all batches had extra chunks of dark chocolate added in

*cookie hugs*

 

[Connor_Graham]

Double chocolate fudge brownie cookies ... a couple dozen had special added ingredients; pop rocks, (hot) cinnamon bits, and a bursting liquid filled candy rock on top ... all batches had extra chunks of dark chocolate added in

*cookie hugs*

*goes into catatonic state from chocolate allergy just from reading this*

 

[Gwendar-SP]

Which one of our few remaining towns are you going to destroy this time?

 

[Bazer]

Destroy Jhelm or even Occlo@@

 

[Lord Drakelord]

Which one of our few remaining towns are you going to destroy this time?

Luna banking must go!!! Drive those bank sitter back to Brit!!

 

[Connor_Graham]

Luna banking must go!!! Drive those bank sitter back to Brit!!

Just remember when Luna is filled with evil monsters, making shopping there impossible, Zento is the place to go!

 

[Kariny]

...

Before I forget, what kind of cookies were they, really?

-Galen's player

Double chocolate fudge brownie cookies ... a couple dozen had special added ingredients; pop rocks, (hot) cinnamon bits, and a bursting liquid filled candy rock on top ... all batches had extra chunks of dark chocolate added in

*cookie hugs*

OMG Only Mum could actually figure out a way to bake exploding cookies!
I can see where the cooks in game are going to be begging for exploding cookies now. I was begging for exploding cakes but that's definately original!
There's only one Queen Mum that's for sure!
*huggles Mum*

 

[northwoodschopper]

Draconi: "Mhhmm, yes! These cookies are VAS KAL AN MANI IN CORP HUR TYM-Delicio..uh oh" KABOOM

 

[Chad Sexington]

Can I have your robe?

 

[Bman]

Guess I am missing something here... so what use is blackrock now? and can itbe used the same as the blackrock from mining? I have tried casting armegeddon with it but nothing happens?

 

[Dragonchilde]

I like the GM robe.

If you want to get technical, it's a counselor robe.

GM robes are red.