Memorial Day Weekend Event Announcement

[Cordir]

[ 33] Cordir: Memorial Day Weekend Events
Sun May 22 13:56:36 2011
To: All

I will be hosting/sponsoring a pair of events over Memorial Day weekend.

The first will be a pair of scavenger hunts: One, mud generated. The 2nd,
manually generated. The mud generated quest will run Saturday & Sunday.
The manually generated quest will be run on Monday, and will have a theme
to the items. Both quests will have prizes for the top scorers.

The second event will be a special auction to be held at noon, system
time, on Monday. This auction will be for items that are based upon ones
from 'memorial' zones: ie, areas that no longer exist on TFC, from 1x &
2x. (For clarity: the item description will replicate an old item. The
effects will be appropriate to todays economy, but *based* on the effect
of the original item.) Item effects will NOT be revealed during the sale.
This is to give players who were around in 1x/2x days - and remember the
eq of yore - a touch of an advantage, as a thank you for their longevity.

-Cordir

For Clarity for our non-USA players: Memorial Day Weekend = May 28, 29, 30th.

[Cordir]

More Info!

The prizes for the big scavenger hunt will be items along the same theme as the auction: Old timey names, current value effects.

For the auction:
* You are bidding BLIND. ONLY the NAME of the item, not its effects, will be announced for the auction. Please take only the bidding risks you are comfortable with.
* There will be minimum bids set.
* IF you do not like the item you wind up with, please do not complain about it on a channel that will info. This will only discourage the auctioneer (Me!) from doing such things in the future, and is a big huge bummer.

[Cordir]

[ 34] Cordir: Big Scavenger Hunt Results
Mon May 30 06:31:41 2011
To: all
The Big Hunt is over! Here are the results:
RANK NAME SCORE
1. Hedschott : 2224.
2. Corri : 1919.
3. Darius : 1801.
4. Sagan : 1456.
5. Vale : 1274.
6. Ink : 892.
7. Aoide : 806.
8. Krouk : 645.
9. Borgh : 323.
10. Bolaon : 305.
11. Chalen : 244.
12. Raage : 228.
13. Jubei : 124.
14. Miressa : 123.
15. Sabis : 109.
16. Tenko : 20.
17. Mugen : 18.
18. Slusk : 17.
19. Costanza : 16.
20. Exodus : 8.
21. Crash : 8.
22. Mikgub : 4.

The MAJOR Prizes will be awarded as soon as I can get the top 3 finishers
in a room together: I need this to happen prior to NOON *system time*
today!! So if you know how to reach Hedschott, Corri, or Darius, please
pass word along to them.

I will award the minor prizes as I see folks.

Thank you to those who participated!

Cordir

[Cordir]

As well, if you're on line at current, you're getting hints as to the areas that inspired the items for auction!

[Cordir]

[ 36] Cordir: The Seconary Scavenger Hunt
Mon May 30 11:55:35 2011
To: All Who Enjoy a Hunt

This hunt is much smaller, with a much shorter duration. It's theme, is my life.
There are thirty items to collect, one for each level of mage craft I learned as
a mortal. Each has specific meaning to me: an event, a place, a life.
ONE item must be turned in, in person, to me at the Room of Records: the corpse,
steak, or bag of Vil. The remainder can be turned in, per normal, via the submit
command. The corpse/steak/bag of Vil is worth an additional TEN points.

Also, to give value to some ... unusual items I have sold in grab bags this year,
the following items also may be turned prior to quest end in for extra points:

The heart of Fennoch
The heart of Merrick
Nati's lost brain
A golden ticket

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And our winners were: Ink, Sagan, Corri! Two brains were turned in, as well as
three corpses of Vil. Thank you to all who participated!

Cordir

[Cordir]

[ 37] Cordir: Auction Final Results
Mon May 30 13:09:01 2011
To: All Who Love to Shop
ITEM NAME: FINAL PRICE
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a spider shaped sacrificial dagger: 1.6 million
red dragonscale leggings: 450k
a jar of moonshine: 130k.
an Asp necklace: 600k
the Amulet of Droi: 205k
the Titanic Arm Plates of Hercules: 600k
a waterfall cloak: 360k
a pair of winged boots: 385,916
burial wrappings: 600k
a suit of black minotaur hide: 2 Million

Thanks to all who shopped! And to Corri, who wound up
rather unexpectedly with a LARGE amount of gold - for
a little while, anyway, thanks to typos...

Cordir

[ink]

Thanks so much for running these. It was a ton of fun!

[Cordir]

:) I am glad folks enjoyed. That makes my day. HUGE thanks are due to Natilena who made the auction items, and to Tynian and Tokugawa and Nati who helped me learn the scavenger quest code better, brought up the test port, and provided other support and advice.

[Aoide]

We very much enjoyed it! Thank you again. :)

[Tenko]

I enjoyed it too! This was my very first scavenger hunt and it was hard! LOL Thanks, Cordir!

[Bolaon]

Thank you Cordir it was alot of fun. The auction let me know that ned more gold to lol.

[Cordir]

I am still looking for a couple of the participants to give them their prizes... If you participated (and haven't gotten your prize yet), please see me!

[zonaso]

Thanks again Cordir! Was great fun and looking forward to the next one! Hopefully sooon!! I'm already getting that itch!

[Eathor]

Wish I could have been there!