Renaissance Halloween Night of Horrors Event 10/24 to 11/7

Starting on October 23rd Renaissance will open the first of many automated events for our players.

Rather than single day holiday events, Renaissance will have multiple events that will span the Holiday.

Our first event will be the Halloween Night of Horrors Challenge Event.

This event will be a PvM event designed to test players ability to work with limited resources to survive against the undead hoards that have taken over moonglow.

Details:

• Players will only be allowed to take a spellbook and any blessed/newbie items with them into the event. Any items not matching these items will be neatly placed into your bank when you sign up for the event.
• Players will be able to keep any items that they scavenger or loot during the event.
• This event will take place under a restricted ruleset where aggression between players is disabled.
• Players will earn points by killing monsters and surviving during the event. Points can be scored by Bard Controlled, Summoned, and Magically Controlled creatures.
• The harder the undead monster, the more points you can score. You can review your score by double clicking on the scoreboard in the safe zone.
• The Undead hoards, being formerly living beings will be carrying essential supplies needed to survive the event.
• Previous survivors have stashed other essential items in the safe zone and throughout the town for players brave enough to look for them.

During the Event

• Should you succumb to the undead hoards, fear not, you will be able to respawn in the safe zone after a short delay.
• Players who complete the event will receive a Halloween Gift bag, however you must actively participate in the event to review a reward.
• This event has been designed for new to experienced players, and is geared towards PvM Characters, Bards and Mages.
• You will be able to keep any items you find during the event, however should you die items will have to be recovered from your corpse.
• This event will run for 1 hour, to see the times that the event will run, check the town crier section of the Renassance website.

Event Rewards

• Below are some,but not all, of the items that can be found during this event.

The winner of the event will receive a trophy to commemorate their accomplishment.


Players who actively participate in the event will receive a Happy Halloween Bag containing 4 of the following items.


Players that are brave enough to fight back the undead hoard can find one of the following items on the undead commanders.

Re: Renaissance Halloween Festivities 10-23 to 11-7

Pictures from the first night of the event. Thanks to everyone who participated!

The lobby before the event.


The mad rush out of the safe zone.


The A^T guild using teamwork to beat back the zombie hoard.



Several players are slain by the Necromancer Xsi and return as mindless zombies.


The Event scoreboard was not designed to support this many players.


The players valiantly battling the Necromancers minions.


Combat takes to the streets




The players team up to take down the Necromancer.




He won't go down without a fight, and commands his zombie minions.


And he's down.

Re: Renaissance Halloween Festivities 10-23 to 11-7

The Night of Horrors Event does not allow pets, The Haunted House does allow pets.

The Night of Horrors event will being at 8pm central time on Wednesday, and last for 1 hour. For the next 14 days this event will run once a day.

The haunted house event will open at 9:30 pm cst on Wednesday and will stay open for 10-14 days.

Re: Renaissance Halloween Festivities 10-23 to 11-7

Yea we plan to schedule a few of the Night of Horror Events for our Euro/Africa/Asian Players. I'm open to suggestions on times.

Nope, zombies ate em all.

Re: Renaissance Halloween Festivities 10-24 to 11-7

Day 2 Event Pictures

Another packed house.


The mad rush for supplies



Teamwork and Daemons taking down the Necromancers minions.



The final battle


I've got to get a bigger scoreboard


The post event mad dash to the banker to stash the loot.