Quest Going On Now!

[Cordir]

I've posted a note regarding the quest I am currently running. It ends at 6pm system time today. Log in to learn more.

[Cordir]

...and the winner was Gwyrdain!


A new quest was posted last night, focusing on Thieves. It lasts 1 week. Log in to learn more.

[Cordir]

.. No entries received thus far....

[Cordir]

And no entries were received on that one.

Ran another quest : A storytelling competition. Had two bards competing.

Tikruul won the overall competition
Cresom won the 'highest number of items turned in' competition.

Both bards passed their Bardic Council with their performances and won some fun prizes.

[Cordir]

Ran a quest yesterday. It was based on one that Madman ran, over a decade ago. The *point* of the quest was to drop a given task into the laps of those present, with little/no warning, and see how fast they can adapt. To think it through, ask questions up front, and then leap into action. It didn't work so well. Neither of the two teams was able to complete the tasks, so no prizes were given (it was all or nothing, full completion required: no one won when Madman ran it, either, though Kaern's team came closest). We did have someone disqualified from completion based on behavior, which affected the second team. That player did subsequently apologize, which I appreciated.

While I won't be running that same version of the quest again, with the same mobs, I will likely do something similar in the future. Hopefully everyone took some good learning points from the quest - I know I did.

Another challenge that I will be doing in the future is to set a group - I haven't decided the size limit - to the challenge of slaying Lanae, my Avatar from the Avatar Wars. There would be a time limit in place: I.e. a group of up to but no more than X number of people must defeat her in x amount of time. The time would be short, to increase the challenge. (During the avatar wars, one of the combats took well over 30 minutes of straight combat. Ink and Teva worked on her last night for over 30 minutes, and got her to about half HP.) I also had folks express interest in taking on other (historical) god+ 'pets,' which I'll discuss with Upper Level Management

I may also be looking into the possibility of some sort of mixed avatar combat + pVp combat (Ie, do whatever it takes to keep your team's avatar alive, while helping it kill the other team's, up to and including attacking members of the other team to prevent them from helping their avatar / attacking yours) -- but I'd be curious as to whether or not folks would find that fun.

[Eathor]

Absolutely that would be fun! Love the last idea.

[ink]

yep

[Cordir]

What about this: Cat & Mouse

[Pein]

I like it!

[Gwyrdain]

Fun, but I think turning on special conditions (corpse in inventory) would increase participation.

[Cordir]

Oh, agreed: I wouldn't run Cat & Mouse without it.

[Kylor]

I like the cat&mouse idea just not sure if OMs should be able to obscure since they could whozone and obscure anyone that finds them.

[Cordir]

I agree: Obscure would be against the spirit of the Cat & Mouse game, and would be disallowed.

[Cordir]

This does not consist of a promise or pledge, I'm just asking the question and looking for feedback.

What do you guys think of "regularly scheduled events" - such as:

Mondays: Mega Mobs - group or solo battles against special mobs in the Arena, or maybe a swarm of MG or other area.
Tuesdays: Trivia
Wednesdays: (Sorry, you're outta luck, that's the night Criminal Minds is on! :P)
Thursday: Cat & Mouse
Saturday: AMMQ & Scavenger Hunts
Sundays: Coded quests of a currently undetermined nature

Unfortunately, my playing hours are limited to around 7PM CST - 11PM CST weekdays, and I'm available *most* weekends, for .. er... very long stretches.

[boromir]

Hi Cordir,

Go for it!!

[Eathor]

Sounds great!

[ink]

Yep again, but what do you have against Friday?

[Cordir]

Some of us go on dates on Friday..... :P

[ink]

Ewwww. Why?

[Cordir]

Erm. Sorry. Some things I'm not willing to explain. :P

(And I am *SO* pointing this thread out to your poor wife!! Get a baby sitter and take that girl on a date!! Shame on you! :P)