Top Shots !! November 2013

I guess this Escort is playing hard-to-get.

You are welcome for the caption

(1) That's not exactly what you said
(2) I had already thought of using "hard to get" in the caption. All you did was confirm to me that it would be humorous.

So, I thank you for the confirmation, Mr Wise.

Here's my friend Blaise, all dressed up for Halloween.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=luobOzreRq4

"Words are weapons, sharper than knives, makes you wonder how the other half dies......"

Looks like a real red has shown up at Bucs Den.

Lol Blaise (summoned). Yes I hear if you say Blaise's name 3x, you can summon Blaise.

Wait...*counts*...uh oh...

Here's ORDER, the shard's first 7xGM Dragon:



Say hello to my little friend! He's bonded, but has never died - thank goodness! The 2.5% skill loss would be brutal to recover in Magery and Resist.

ORDER followed the typical first 5 skills to GM in this, er, order:

Meditation
Wrestling
Eval Int
Tactics
Anatomy

Magery was trained "naturally" to about 98.5, and Resist was trained "naturally" to 96.9.

At that point, ORDER needed the skilled guided training of his master to finish. Magery in particular was most difficult, since its skillgain follows the same rules as players. Thus from about 90.1 and upwards, he could only gain skill from level 7 spells (Flamestrike), which he used sparingly - and not at all when below 40 mana, of course.

This was a particularly nasty Level 6 chest:



From 100% to 47% to 0%, essentially instantly.

Fight Night (11/8/13)

*Avery wonders why she does t-maps with these noobs*

Need a res? Sorry about your luck.

Here is our first contribution to the November Top Shots:



Thanks to the many valiant cA members who so bravely sacrificed their time and effort to make this image.

This is not a random pic, this was on purpose, I saw that someone did this to atraxi's vendor house and could not resist!
notice that its 69 gold? hehe...

The Slaying of the Ancient Evil by the Warriors of Requirement. A huge thanks to Wise for providing a clear picture of just how horrendous the scene was after the battle. Trees were decimated, comrades had fallen, but we WON THE DAY!



provided by WISE

I feel deceived.

This isn't anything fancy and was done up on a working-man's budget, but I finished the deco on my first home on the shard. The back story being that I used to live in the area north of Compassion Desert on Sonoma (both facets) and always loved that place. In my first few days travel since coming to the shard I was happy to see the spot my old place sat still open, and several adjacent properties as well. It became my mission to get a large brick up there as quickly as I could.

I hit the wilds of Britainia with my newbie provo tamer. With his mid-60's skills forcing scorpion and elemental to fight to the death Ian began to grind. Hoping not to get poisoned due to his inability to cure or heal himself. Magery was an expensive luxury, it could wait another week. There were a few mishaps, but Ian deftly avoided contact well enough to watch his bank account grow. Then tragedy, Ian, his pack heavy with desert loot and exhausted from dodging scorpions all day, decided to abandon caution and run the long road back to Minoc on beaten paths. He saw the red name and felt the first explosion and Ian ran for his life as quickly as Zippy the Ostard's two legs could carry them. Another explosion, but the guard zone was just ahead. The gypsy camp, RIGHT there! BOOM!! OooOOoO. Now I was 6,000 gold farther behind.

With his pack of grizzly bears - Wayne, Garth, Bill, and Ted, Ian "The AllKill" as he was referring to himself these days, was making those rat-bastards (no pun intended) pay. Rat Valley was the place to be and darn if those bears weren't fun and got the job done. Still tens of thousands behind, that new expensive magery stuff finally started...but healing myself and fireballs are cool. Finally, Ian just couldn't wait and he sold the six platinum coins he had harvested in his travels so far to a gentleman at the Yew bank to put him over the top of that 144k deed price.

This place has been pretty much our home base for myself and my wife and a couple new-to-UO friends that I've gotten to come. Trained a lot of characters here so far. Ian's dexer-bard brothers, his cousin just grandmastered tailoring there yesterday. It's our main building. I intend to place most of my homes around here and make my own little village of sorts. It took me a while to really decide how I was going to theme it. I finished it today and I hope it conveys it's history and purpose. This is Ian's home, dubbed the North Compassion Adventurers Society.

Amazing stuff.

lol