Pics (and a Vid) from the 2010 Fairfax Town Hall

[G.v.P]

Queen Mum's delicious Chocolate Chip and Sugar cookies

Carbon dating ;P

Raffle choices included picking up an old Juggernaught...

...A mystery bag (far right)...

...Or a yellow bag with a T-Shirt and some other stuff

Whispering Rose crew

Chris Weakley (Facilities Manager, Bioware Mythic)

Eugene Evans w/ son (General Manager, Bioware Mythic)

Mr. Cal Crowner (Producer, UO)

Dev Row ;P (the non-presenters)

High Seas!

Booster Experience

Booster Feature List

Derek Brinkmann (Lead Engineer, sporting '08 UO shirt)

Booster Overview

Mike "Phoenix" Moore (Systems Designer) -- (thanks Obsidian)

Booster Overview

Shade (thanks Yalp and Obsidian)

Booster Overview

Booster Overview

Booster Overview

Orcish (right) and Tokuno (left)

New Dock area

New Dock area

Pirate board

New Dock area

The matrix (just a screwed up pic, haha)

Placing a new boat

New quest

Gargish boat (right) and new small rowboat (left)

Back to the Orcish, setting up cannons

Repairing boat (after the battle; didn't take snaps of that, waiting on Mesanna to see if I can post the video I took)

Raffle time! Everyone won though

Cal and Mesanna (right)

EMs Faine Morgan (oops, thanks Yen Sid for correction on order, haha), Dudley, and Pallindo (thanks Yalp) -- PS, was nice to meet you Mrs Faine Morgan

All the EMs in attendance

Bag design

The good-humored Cal making fun of the Old Spice guy (Ultima is now diamonds!)

Devs answer Qs

Devs answer Qs

Cal and group egg on Mesanna to try on robe

Mesanna in what looks like an old Counsler Seer robe hehe

Mesanna

Mesanna

 

[Restroom Cowboy]

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Thanks for the pics...

 

[BeefSupreme]

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Great pics! Thanks for posting!

 

[Picus at the office]

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Thanks for posting. Wish I could have been there.

 

[Yalp]

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1) that's EM Pallindo on the far right in your EM's shot. (tshirt/goatee)
2) the developer you have listed as Michael Moore is "Shade"

 

[Hildebrand]

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Thanks for the pics.

 

[Taylor]

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Sweet! Thanks very much.

 

[G.v.P]

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1) that's EM Pallindo on the far right in your EM's shot. (tshirt/goatee)
2) the developer you have listed as Michael Moore is "Shade"

Thx -- Moore = Shade or diff guy? they didn't have nicknames up on slides just real names

 

[Arcus]

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Boats look sweet!

 

[Mapper]

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Thanks for those! Nice to see the boats in better quality.

 

[Yalp]

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Thx -- Moore = Shade or diff guy? they didn't have nicknames up on slides just real names

He was the one who talked of finding a pumpkin with his name on it locked down... I think.. but memory could be leaving me!

 

[BeefSupreme]

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Is that blackthorn guarding the cookies?

 

[G.v.P]

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He was the one who talked of finding a pumpkin with his name on it locked down... I think.. but memory could be leaving me!

Ahh ok

Is that blackthorn guarding the cookies?

Yes haha they had another one guarding the soft drinks and water to the left of that photo he was standing precariously on the edge of a big tub of drinks in ice

 

[BlissMarie]

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Nice! =) I enjoyed seeing those pictures. Thanks for sharing with us.


BlissMarie

 

[MalagAste]

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Sweet Pics.... thanks for posting that!

 

[Crysta]

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Yes haha they had another one guarding the soft drinks and water to the left of that photo he was standing precariously on the edge of a big tub of drinks in ice

By the end of the event I saw at least a dozen of them standing around in various places.. I swear those things were multiplying as time passed.

 

[Magdalene]

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Cal's hawt.
Just sayin'...

 

[Storm]

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Cal's hawt.
Just sayin'...

Down Mags ... lol he does remind me of someone on TV I think Michael dorn

 

[retrorider]

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Someone fill this in for me, haha -- Billy Teng? Client Engineer?

I don't think this is Billy Teng. I remember this guy being introduced but forgot his name. The drinking at the bar after the event didn't help.

I have his introduction on vid, I will have to dig through and find it.

This is a picture of Grimm Omen in the pirate do-rag. Right next to Grimm is Billy Teng. We can only see the back of his head.

I think I have a pic of Billy or maybe a Vid that I can capture a still from. I will check and post it up if I do.

 

[G.v.P]

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This is a picture of Grimm Omen in the pirate do-rag. Right next to Grimm is Billy Teng. We can only see the back of his head.

Thanks retrorider yeah I had to get a snap of Grimm !

I'll post my video of demo after USA / Brazil game

 

[retrorider]

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Thanks retrorider yeah I had to get a snap of Grimm !

Hey man! Glad you made it home ok.

About Grimm, this guy is something else. He is the only pre Samurai Empire Dev that I know of. He is a bit of UO history walking on two legs.

My wife and I shared a breakfast with him not knowing his connection with Ultima Online other than he was an attendee. He was personable, funny with a razor sharp wit, passionate about UO, and knowledgeable as hell.

He REEKED of mainstream normal, even tempered, well balenced, socialized, working guy. In fact all the dev's that I met were way more mainstream than I expected.

The attendees were the ones that you had to watch for (some more than others) but the dev's, especially Grimm, were cool as hell.

 

[G.v.P]

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I asked Mesanna about a video I took and she said it would be cool if I posted it. Thanks for the quick answer, Mesanna! But first, please check out JC's thread and his full video of the demo telecast. Then enjoy my very shaky video of the demo, and if you have a decent conn dbl click on the video to open up its YouTube page and change the 360p to 720p (I like to press pause and let it load up, hehe), then, if your video card likes you, watch it full screen.

[YOUTUBE]OQx0vCaz7Pc[/YOUTUBE]

 

[Mapper]

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Great video! Thanks.

 

[Nok]

Thanks G.v.P for the great photos, video and info! Great stuff.

 

[Obsidian]

This is Mike "Phoenix" Moore.

This is "Shade".

I'm blanking on his real name right now. I enjoyed talking with him at the after-hall get-together. He took Sarakah's (sp?) old job. He develops the live events.

Thanks for posting the pix, GvP. It was a pleasure meeting you at the Town Hall!

-OBSIDIAN-

 

[AesSedai]

Someone fill this in for me, haha -- Billy Teng? Client Engineer?

- This is Michael "Vex" Moore, err aka Phoenix.
We both had much longer hair when we first met in Houston at a UO Meet. I met Binky back then too, among many other notable UO legends.
Thx alot for the photos and info.!

Umm, where's Wilki?

 

[Storm]

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Great video! Thanks.

great vid love the part where the orcs wax him

 

[PASmountaindew]

So for those that went... Any pics of the goodies and swag that was given out?

 

[G.v.P]

So for those that went... Any pics of the goodies and swag that was given out?

Standard bags came with a black shirt w/ classic UO logo in white, Ultima Online spelled on back collar, UO ankh keychain and UO Faire 2000 button. We were all given the opportunity to pick up two posters, the huge ML poster (I framed the first one I got from the first DC meet, hehe) and a Stygian Abyss Gargoyle-based poster, as well as a McFarlane Blackthorn action figure.

Mystery bags (there were maybe 9 of them? not sure) had cloth maps ... and not sure what else. You could also have taken a Juggernaught action figure mint in box, but there were only a few of those.

A VERY generous effort by EA Bioware-Mythic.

 

[canary]

Thank you for the pics. Much better than from a tiny video window.

 

[Kojak]

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Down Mags ... lol he does remind me of someone on TV I think Michael dorn

... Anderson Silva ...

 

[Basara]

I know one of the Special bags had a McFarlane autographed shirt.

 

[TheGrimmOmen]

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Hey man! Glad you made it home ok.

About Grimm, this guy is something else. He is the only pre Samurai Empire Dev that I know of. He is a bit of UO history walking on two legs.

My wife and I shared a breakfast with him not knowing his connection with Ultima Online other than he was an attendee. He was personable, funny with a razor sharp wit, passionate about UO, and knowledgeable as hell.

He REEKED of mainstream normal, even tempered, well balenced, socialized, working guy. In fact all the dev's that I met were way more mainstream than I expected.

The attendees were the ones that you had to watch for (some more than others) but the dev's, especially Grimm, were cool as hell.

Thanks Retro! I really enjoyed having breakfast and talking with you and your wife that morning as well. Glad you brought up the Pre-UOSE staff - There are actually 4 of us that have been around that long. Vex (Phoenix), Messana and MrsTroubleMaker are original OSI folks, and as you said, I got here pre- UOSE.

I hope I get the opportunity to meet up with you and your family again, and I'm glad you guys made it home Ok.

Cheers,
GRIMM

 

[Crysta]

Most of the mystery bags had an ML t-shirt, an ankh keychain, and one of the Britannia/Lost Lands cloth maps they sold for a dollar around the launch of LBR from the UO store. Some people got rarer stuff from them though.. for example, guy sitting next to me got a UO:R promotional shirt instead of an ML one and a UO World Fair 2000 badge as an extra. Someone sitting off to my left got a cloth Ascension map instead of the UO one. And someone sitting in front of me got what appeared to be a numbered crystal paperweight with a message from the Avatar (that I have heard of before and know is exceedingly rare, but hell if I remember what it's from). And yes, one of them had a signed McFarlane shirt in it.

And I wish I could have gotten the cloth SI map that was framed on the wall. :[

 

[blueturtle]

Is it just me, or does Cal look like Curtis Manning from 24.