Some more screenshots; I arrived late but fortunately the EMs kindly tried to guide people towards what was happening in Event Chat... they also moved around and kept an eye on people's struggles, putting a gate up to the roof of the graveyard when it became obvious you whipper-snappers have forgotten how to get onto them (Stand in the door and use Teleport spell to get up), adding healers to areas of mass slaughter, naming where each of the library gates went to, and most mysterious of all, when I was unable to get up the ladder into the Ancient Wyrm cave and teleported across the rocks in the volcano and then fell down to the entrance from above, Lord Blackthorn turned up to congratulate me...
and he'd finally left the un-lore worthy E behind somewhere!
The paragon Ancient Wyrm proceeded to terrorize us for some time, running all over the map and killing people individually, until some (I think it was Hex) lured it off into a corner. As time was running out though, I decided it was time to show it who was boss; and with the help of a few others, we did just that! (And thanks also to Hex for sharing his blood with me, as I didn't get any of that here)
The human ears were a mystery; I went to the Britain - Yew road Brigand camp, and found Raiders there who I think were EM spawn, but I didn't get any ears from them in time. Someone else reported that killing Healer NPCs dropped ears that could be traded for the target item... however it really didn't make much difference to the event itself, which in a way was a good thing, because so many people were worried they'd not taken part enough, not having a full set. This way at least people weren't overwhelmed and then disappointed.
We returned to Honor gate; dropping items onto the correct pile made them disappear. And then, twinkly spell time!