[News] All Shards to be Published

[Guest]

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Unless Pac triggered something that we didn't?

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It might behoove us to look more into what's not happening that what is. I say this because there are numerous shards with no berserkers. Is this is a HUGE bug that is just plain borked or there a particular reason why Pacific has had them all along and shards like Baja have yet to see a single one? Something is amiss.

 

[Otis Firefly]

was reading more about sutek...and found this...its from a uo game, but think about some of the things inu has been saying...

Avatar saw the results of Sutek's experiments: killerbunnies, animals with two front sides, monsters. But Sutek wasn't hostile to the Avatar, and still could tell him/her, that the balloonist had travelled into the dungeon under the castle. The Avatar left him to his madness.

Shortly later, self-righteous warriors stormed the castle to kill the "mad mage". Sutek's spell against them misfired, turning him to stone. His statue was dumped into the sea, and the castle torched. His further fate is unknown.

 

[Chainseeker]

It is possible that each shard is now on it's own path based upon 'decisions' we made last weekend. Currently on Napa:
We do have Beserkers.
We have not had shadowlords for 2 days.
We do have new NPCs in Moonglow.
I have not seen them talk yet.

 

[imported_JoJo_LA]

nothing new on LA either :\ I'm sick of green blobs, dark wisps and flying monkeys!!

 

[imported_Yalp]

Baja is so sad. we have Numan and Avery but they are mute.. it's now 10pm shard time and no change.. still out little wisps, fetids and flying monkeys

LORD Yalp of Zento, CTDM

 

[Guest]

This is interesting

 

[Guest]

I have also foubnd that in the city of Nujen there is a npc named Odda if you speak Inu to her she says "She Knows!"

If you say glow she says *exudes*

says wisps she says
"whvt?"

 

[Smakkatron Jones]

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Sutek built a house on an unnamed island somewhere north of that area and south of where Occlo is in UO. The pirates buried their treasure on a different island. Spektran was the name one island got in U7.

After 5, Sutek went insane and moved into Blackthorn's Castle on an island in the area on that map, and the island was repopulated by Gargoyles in U7, with Sutek either dead or gone, and renamed Terfin.

I doubt any of this, aside from him having built a house on a random island somewhere around there, has anything to do with whats going on in UO.

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I am certain Terfin has something to do with UO. My notes suggest that Terfin is the place to find Sutec. Wherever that is.

 

[imported_GalenKnighthawke]

Hopefully they'll address this somehow sometime tomorrow.....Something clearly seems to be wrong, and if something's NOT wrong, then that means there's clearly some detail about how to progress that we are not grasping. Either way, I have the strong impression that for the event to progress we will need more information, at the very least.

-Galen's player

 

[Bordoms]

---Terfin is a volcanic island in southern Britannia, east of the Isle of Deeds and west of the Isle of the Avatar. Once holding the Castle of Lord Blackthorn, it now is the home to the <font color="red"> Gargoyles </font> with their caital, Gargoyle City.
The Gargoyles may look a little fear-inspiring, but they are more than happy to have visitors on their island, which is a very peaceful place. Up until several years ago, the ruins of Castle Blackthorn could be visited, but now, they were all gone, used as building materials. However, the visitor has enough other things to see. The biggest sight are the there Shrines of the Principles, which symbolize the three Principles of the Gargoyles.

Economically spoken, a combined tavern/inn, a trainer for magic and fighting, a provisioner, a healer and several other, smaller shops are found in the town itself, the mine long empty.


---Ultima Online: Stygian Abyss is the eighth expansion pack for the 1997 MMORPG Ultima Online. The expansion was announced accidentally on the Japanese Ultima Online website.[citation needed] It was planned for release in the summer of 2007, but was delayed due to development of the now-defunct Ultima X.

Stygian Abyss will feature a new playable race, <font color="red"> gargoyles </font> , as well as the largest dungeon in game to date. There will also be new skills, items, pets and a home for the Gargoyles. Kingdom Reborn will be required to run this expansion.

- Source: Wiki

Prelude to an expansion perhaps?

 

[Guest]

No idea if it's relevant or not, but I got more threads from dark wisps in half an hour last night than I had in total from the start of the event. They appeared to be dropping far more frequently.

 

[Connor_Graham]

I did notice before I logged for the night that the wisps seemed to be spawning a LOT more than they had been over the past couple of days.

 

[KingSidhe]

Tonight, more wisps, but there was even a healer in the rift on atlantic. Of course, not many people there at such a late hour, but there was finally a wandering healer inside the rift.

 

[Connor_Graham]

Aside from having more Wisps, did anything else new happen?

 

[angelus aconitum]

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Aside from having more Wisps, did anything else new happen?

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Death Robes now spawn more frequently making them pretty worthless

I have at least 10 new ones since last night.

 

[angelus aconitum]

I don't know if that is new, but when these flying named thingies die they fart some sort of dark smoke out into the air. Maybe they mark their killers with that smoke ?

 

[Connor_Graham]

That's been happening since the beginning. It's not always their killer either. I got hit with one yesterday that I never attacked.

 

[imported_ParadoxUO]

FYI: Robes of Corruption changed after the patch.

 

[Connor_Graham]

What change?

 

[imported_ParadoxUO]

Before pub. I was able to wear it and not die... and have infinite mana.
(HP regen countered the hp loss)
Now I cant.

Ah a fun picture... day two, GRI guild, Catskills...

 

[imported_ParadoxUO]

Something is bugging me...

Shouldnt we be after Kronos notes?
Wasnt that what his apprentice said right after Kronos got killed?

 

[Redxpanda]

Yeah lots of wisps. Could just be the fact that i am hunting them or maybe just by chance but wisps are outnumbering the other monsters by alot and i am not complaining. The big fairies were getting to be a bit much.

 

[Shelleybean]

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Something is bugging me...

Shouldnt we be after Kronos notes?
Wasnt that what his apprentice said right after Kronos got killed?

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I remember that too. I actually searched for the notes that night but didn't find anything.

 

[imported_Yalp]

Any other shards have blank maps on a bench inside the healers tent? I have a gm cart and could not make heads or tails of them.. "map appears blank" is the repeated msg.

LORD Yalp of Zento, CTDM

 

[Kayne]

yeah europa has those maps.

No guards or anything outside though

 

[Guest]

We have the NPC's etc on Napa, but not responding to any words.
I know that the dev team do log in on the weekends so hopefully
someone seen this yesterday and we will be able to continue.
Not really sure what to do next. No SL 's either. An odd berserker here
and there, wisps and fetids.

 

[Emil Ispep]

*wakes up on friends couch*

Did sailing a long while last night, and found... exploding mushrooms on some of the Jhelom islands. Nothing named/looking like Sutek. Didn't notice anything odd either...

As far as Pacific versus other servers in the plotline. we might be 1 day ahead on events. My research has found that Pacific gets all its additions around 10-11amCST. (the tent and cannons just *appeared* around this time, same with the NPCs a day later)

Shadowlords and wisps, hmm... We havent had any shadowlords in almost a week now on Pacific... they were usually the first target when they spawned... My robe came from one at full health, walked right over him while he was fighting someone, and cast Armageddon. Took him to about 1/2 life. Someone else casted too, red-lined him, and had to kill him the old fasioned way after that. Then the robe appeared in my bag.

 

[Guest]

I am just plain bored, Something new has to happen. I can't do this anymore.

 

[Emil Ispep]

Yeap... im stuck too. Things ive found from talking to the NPCs thus far:

the defence counsel responds to some keywords, including: Sutek, Kronos, Melissa, Dexter, rift, southern isles, wildlife, turtle, purple, Blackrock.

Captain Avery responds to some keywords as: crater, Tactical, operations, Kronos, gate, rift.

Wexton (in the Lyceum) responds to Sutek, Kronos, apprentice, and a few more.

Been trying to get more info outta Inu about the 'southern isles' but nothing yet...

Sailed around too last night, didnt find anything. Checked the islands around Jhelom, the one below the Skara Swamps, Hythloth Island (inside and out) and the dungeon Shame. Havent found Sutek, or where hes gone to hiding..?? Havent been able to locate or get responses to/for Kronos' research/notes.

Anyone else having better luck?

 

[Guest]

Seems to be a lot of folks finding NPCs from previous story arcs and thinking they are new characters.

Has any shard besides Pacific been updated and/or dev commented that I've missed?

 

[Guest]

I think I found some leftovers...but I'm not sure.
In British's castle courtyard near the archery things, there is a table with alchemy items and books scattered about with some fires started, as if the area was ransacked and set aflame.
I can no longer approach the throne either, but since I just recently returned, I am not sure if this has been around for awhile or not.

EDIT: Still no NPC's or Berserkers on Chesapeake as of this morning. I really wish we would get the NPC's....we are feeling left out.

 

[Lady_Rachel]

I checked an hour ago. Atlantic still doesn't have the NPC's to this story arc.
BUT the miners are busy fortifying the area with granite!
We will have walls to hide behind soon!

 

[imported_GalenKnighthawke]

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I checked an hour ago. Atlantic still doesn't have the NPC's to this story arc.
BUT the miners are busy fortifying the area with granite!
We will have walls to hide behind soon!

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Nothing on LS either....As of an hour ago we didn't even have those walls of granite.

If there's some problem publishing the interactive NPCs, I would like to recommend that they have static NPCs just standing there for atmosphere, and have them give us clues via UO.com, or here....You know, just a bulleted list of clues. "Captain Avery says this is what we know...."

This is a lot of fun and I see these NPC issues eroding some of the good will that this storyline and this event have created. I know it's eroding some of mine.

"Show up at this time and this place" events may cause lag......but on balance I feel better for having had the chance to participate, even if the lag makes it rough. I may curse the lag, but I am glad I'm there.

Right now, with some shards having the next phase and some not? Makes it really confusing and really frustrating. To my thinking anyway this seems worse than the lag that would be cause by having a Stratics post from Avery that tells us all what to do!

And, team, please address these issues.....

-Galen's player

 

[Guest]

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I have the strong impression that for the event to progress we will need more information, at the very least.

Good luck with that.

One of my pet peeves on how the events are run is that we never get the information on what we SHOULD be doing until days if not a week or more later, and there is generally little to NO information that could/should be gained from the NPCs (remember when the clues on what to do in a game came from the NPCs?).

 

[Guest]

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I have the strong impression that for the event to progress we will need more information, at the very least.

Good luck with that.

One of my pet peeves on how the events are run is that we never get the information on what we SHOULD be doing until days if not a week or more later, and there is generally little to NO information that could/should be gained from the NPCs (remember when the clues on what to do in a game came from the NPCs?).

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[Otis Firefly]

ya..from the start of the inu story we have been running around trying to figure out the hints tossed to us from certain npc's ...in the past they placed a beeswax at the points where you know you cant go any further this week..that beeswax is still sitting in blood dungeon from when haven was blown up...what sucks right now, is not all shards have the npc's talking..so with that! who knows if they have a sutek out there yet..you could have been to the island already and found where he is sposed to be!! and wouldnt know it!

 

[Guest]

Okay, so in Ultima 4, one could sail to a point east of Serpent's Hold and find three fiery volcanoes. In the middle of this point, one could find Mondain's skull. This then was the location where the dark jewel was shattered and Mondain was slain, sinking into the ocean thus creating the volcanoes. I had found these volcanoes once in UO while sailing around. Sadly, I did not get the coordinates and now I do not know their exact location. I have been sailing around trying to find them today, but no luck as of yet. In Ultima 5, an island appeared, still with the three volcanoes and Blackthorne built his castle upon them. On a swampy isle north of this location, one could find Sutek in a small hut. Here is the Ultima 5 map.

So initially, I thought Occlo/Haven replaced that isle so I went searching Haven isle. I was unable to find the southern portion, however. Was this finally removed? I recall it was wiped clean of detail after New Haven appeared but I had not revisited it since then. Is there perhaps a new isle they added where Sutek could be found?

 

[Guest]

This is what I am thinking. Since a publish would be something like a map change.
They wouldn't have had to publish if it was just adding some NPCs.
UNFORTUNATELY.... it seems the only shard to be updated at this time is Pacific. For reasons we are not privy to.

 

[Otis Firefly]

there is an island a little south of the trinsic area, with a sandy beach and what looks like the left overs of a shipwrecked crew.
there are 2 huts on the island....but nothing is there yet...Also
we cant rule out fellucia...the volcano islands you found, were they fel or tram?

 

[Guest]

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there is an island a little south of the trinsic area, with a sandy beach and what looks like the left overs of a shipwrecked crew.
there are 2 huts on the island....but nothing is there yet...Also
we cant rule out fellucia...the volcano islands you found, were they fel or tram?

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Yeah, I'm sailing to all the islands. The volcanoes I found were on Tram, but again this was ages ago. They could have removed them with one of their world building publishes, but I thought it was rather neat having them in there as a nod to Ultima Prime lore.

 

[Guest]

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Since a publish would be something like a map change.

[/ QUOTE ]But to change the map, would they not also have to patch the client map files? I do not expect to find any changes to static objects without a patch. Then again, this island may be dynamic; streamed in to us each time we are near it like a custom house, or like Magincia was/is. That would not require a patch.

 

[Guest]

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Since a publish would be something like a map change.

[/ QUOTE ]But to change the map, would they not also have to patch the client map files? I do not expect to find any changes to static objects without a patch. Then again, this island may be dynamic; streamed in to us each time we are near it like a custom house, or like Magincia was/is. That would not require a patch.

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That's just it though. There have been subtle changes to the map which I hadn't noticed along the way. For instance, there used to be the southern isle of Old Haven, that had the pill boxes and a few other details, such as a meteorite crater, roses, a lighthouse and a burning ship. When New Haven was released, this isle still existed, but I believe it was wiped clean of any detail. Now, it seems to have been removed entirely and I have no idea when this happened. Was it during the latest client patch? That's wasn't too far back and could've contained alterations for this content.

 

[Guest]

this Sutek(sp) islands theory seems like it would somehow lead to the final Abyss...but then, I'm not sure how big that hole will be, hahaa. Inu will have to start talkin

I wish there was an event where we could beat on Inu. She could be given Vorpal speed or something and we'd have to try and catch her to get info.

 

[Xeria]

hi, I found a yellow citizen named Dave on Dot Island on Pacific. Dave so far does not respond to any key words Ive come up with...mainly Sutek,Kronos,and blackrock. He is the only inhabitant on this island...so I found it strange. Is he possibly a leftover from another event?

 

[Guest]

found this, hrm. not sure how much they built since february lol

(s/s from Feb 08). doesnt help the map question, yet, but the blank maps should be a clue...

 

[Guest]

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hi, I found a yellow citizen named Dave on Dot Island on Pacific. Dave so far does not respond to any key words Ive come up with...mainly Sutek,Kronos,and blackrock. He is the only inhabitant on this island...so I found it strange. Is he possibly a leftover from another event?

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no dave on my shard :/

 

[Guest]

Yes, Dave is a leftover from a past event.

 

[Connor_Graham]

Dave?


There's no Dave here man.

 

[Guest]

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I think I found some leftovers...but I'm not sure.
In British's castle courtyard near the archery things, there is a table with alchemy items and books scattered about with some fires started, as if the area was ransacked and set aflame.
I can no longer approach the throne either, but since I just recently returned, I am not sure if this has been around for awhile or not.

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Those are leftovers from an old EM event. The EM was also responsible for blocking off access to LB's throne. The EM would stand in that area to give a speech about what needed to be done, etc. for the current EM event.

 

[Guest]

Ah, thank you, Hiho! I've been wondering about those things ever since I came across them the other day.