YEW PATIO FOR SALE !!! (jk) - Brit Loggy TOOOOOO

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  Yep This one...

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  ALL it will cost you is one SOB story, New Player Story, or just a bulleted list of why you want the house.

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  What I want

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  - to give it to a new or freshly returning player who has not the funds

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  BONUS if you give up your Young status to get this house

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  YOU tell me why I should give it to ya... Best story... as judged by me, gets the house by Friday 5pm EST 24hrs from last good story

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  If you LIE, Karma will come git you sucka !

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Hahahaha, nice one dude.

Great house (my favourite in the game) great spot, good luck to all involved!

WINNER GETS CHOICE

2nd Place gets whats left..

Here is house #2

I'm jelly to the max of the new player that scores either. Should have held off coming back for another month. Good guy Landarr

I R NEW GLD PLS

I'm jelly some new player will get to live behind me!

I owned a nice tower north of brit graveyard. It was sold to me by @Treasureman_Retired before he joined the staff. I took a break and missed my refresh. @Hoominaga snagged it and i bought it back from him. All was well for a couple weeks until i missed the refresh again by a couple hours. This time @Hoominaga didn't grab it. So I'm pretty much starting from scratch with very limited funds and no house. I blame my kids.

But in all honesty, real life takes over a lot. Especially with young ones. Good luck to whoever gets the house. That log cabin is sweet.

Edit* I withdraw. Others need it more than I. Good luck dewds.

Before I start the tears...

... do I qualify?

I've been here for a monthish, immediately abandoned young status, play naturalist, and I have 2 houses (smalls), 2 small boats and 60k to my name... as well as a ton of NPC cloth and crappy magic items that I've picked up at banks and held onto for CuB. I have one adventurer at the skillcap (2x GM), and I recently started a tailor.

As of yet, I have accepted no handouts (if I remember right).

Well, besides one from Jimmy the Hand... 430 pieces of leather...

(but, y'know, I came away from that feeling like the guy wasn't being nice so much as he had dumped a bunch of evidence in my hands...)

If I do not qualify, that's fine: kudos to the two lucky folks (and the OP)!

OK LanDarr. You want a sob story - your Mama!

Wait, wait wait. This isn't @Evil Dead 's "Yo Mama Jokes" thread.

Edit: following your preceding advice. Good advice to follow.

If I'm not DQ'ed yet, here is my real UO:R sob story...

DrFunke has choosen a tough life. A life as a pure warrior. Seems like everytime he saves enough for the latest slayer, bills are due. Armor is always in need of repair and potion kegs refilled. While free to roam the world with thick armor protecting him from monsters he is always at risk for ambush from nefarious highwaymen who turn him to ash within seconds.

Down on his luck, he often visits casinos for the one chance at a greater life. Perhaps someday he can have a home, but not for a long time at the rate he is going. Not the life his mother would have chosen, but a life where he can explore on his own.

A home like this would mean a life of security where he could stash his hard earned rewards. A home to rebuild a life when when the world crushes his mortal husk. A home to finally rest.

Ok, I should be a bit more clear...

Didn't want to get into personal lives, more lighthearted UOR Sob Stories... But Good story and thank you for sharing. I hope UOR brings you the escape you so richly deserve

Here goes my story!

I originally played on Pacific back in the glory days before AOS. I don’t remember a waking moment then, when I didn’t completely obesse over Ultima Online. My fondest memories were hanging out with all my high school buddies coming up with pvp strategies, money skemes and usually getting ourselves in trouble by getting PKd at the bone knight wall. We at one point setup the UO client in the high school computer lab, so we could continue to boat macro Margery. This was back when GM Margery meant something and you went through hell to get it. I actually ended up GMing Margery in that computer lab before the year was out! I’ll never forget that. We all eventually moved on once Trammel and Care Bears became common UO terminology. Once I graduated I dabbled with some free shards but that didn’t end up lasting to long

I’ll forever compare all games to Ultima Online. This comparison slowly started to eat at me over the last year and the itch to play was back in full force. I just recently started playing here on Renaissance after roughly a 7 year hiatus. It’s been amazing to see the amount of detail that has gone in to this shard and how much it feels like I’m back in 2001 playing, minus the “Free PC Net” experience. Unfortunately... Ha.... it is in some ways just as tough to start out. I’ve been in Ocllo for some time farming cotton and running through the various newb dungeons, slowly advancing. However, I remember that having a place you can call your own is an imperative to getting the full Ultima Online experience.This is something that I dearly miss and I hope you see fit to give me a chance with your generosity.

Sure, I'll bite.

Like many folks here, I played on the original OSI servers. Specifically, I started my UO journey with a group of people who just finished the UO Alpha and were waiting for the beta to come out. We played on Atlantic from Beta to about 2002-2003. If you played on Atlantic, The Mercs (TM) were the main PK guild of that server. Our guild (and a coalition others) were PK hunters. Many great battles, house campings, etc over the years. My house became our guild house, a grandfathered large house with patio -- it was placed in a spot before an early patch made it so you couldn't place directly next to the shore -- north of Trinsic that had a small house behind it not accessible via boat and no one had a rune (except a few of us).

I also was a Counselor on Atlantic. We were given a basic command set and really not much else -- no real training or guidelines. Remember, at this point, it was a new program meant to address the large queue that GM's couldn't handle. I remember that help queue was pretty deep when the program officially launched. I'd hop to person to person, answering questions, moving stuck people, passing stuff I couldn't fix to the GM queue, going to the next person. I went through so many people they eventually gave me a goatee, one of the few Counselors that had one. It made me a bit more "unique" compared to the other Counselors.

Years later I received some mail -- some Counselors were filing a class-action lawsuit against EA/Origin claiming we should have been paid for our time. I laughed as I tossed it in the garbage, it was a volunteer program for the beginning, no one ever promised any money. I had so much fun doing it anyway all those years, I couldn't imagine being part of a lawsuit. I heard those who signed on eventually got a decent payout some time later.

Back to OSI years, eventually they launched the Seer program (folks in the green robe) and as a Counselor I could apply to be a Seer. The application process consisted of creating a RP character with a backstory and submitting it. Honestly, I don't remember what my story was but I was Seer on Sonoma with the RP persona of Mandor (http://uo.stratics.com/secrets/tc/tc_013.shtml and http://www.uoguide.com/Seer). I was a wizard with a yellow hat and yellow staff, who had a house in east Brit.

I was one of the first Seers they created. I met with a GM one day and after he turned my first character into a Seer in a green robe, I created another character to RP with and he gave me a colored staff and other unique clothes, let me pick a random NPC house in east Brit and added decor, blessed those clothes and sent me an updated command list via IRC. Among some new things, I could actually spawn mobs. I couldn't believe it, I'd only done this on UOX servers now here I was with full spawning ability on OSI's server.

As a Seer, I'd walk around either in my green robe and help people or I'd switch to my RP character and roleplay with people who came by house, go walk around the bank in character. Some nights I'd get bored, stay hidden, and go spawning stuff in the graveyard for all the people standing around trying to raise up their skills. Other nights, we'd run events with other Seers.

One thing lead to another and my time on OSI came to an end. A few years later, I started playing on IPY. It was a popular player ran shard based on UOR-ish era. After spending months and months becoming established on that server, I applied for and was accepted to be a Counselor on that server. Being unoriginal, I picked my Counselor name to be Mandor. After IPY came to an abrupt end and I lost my tower and house (https://i.imgur.com/pdDAmaM.png & https://i.imgur.com/HbnhJWz.png), my characters after all that time invested, I hung up my UO towel.

So, why am I playing again? Long story short, a few weeks ago, I went back to my parent's house to find some of my old toys for my son (Ghostbuster's House and Micro Machines!) and I came across my UO Charter Edition with everything, even the original receipt and UO Beta CD. It got me a bit nostalgic, got me looking into UO again. I spun up personal RunUO server to play around, wanted more, started watching Twitch streams and eventually came across Puck's UOR stream and found this server.

With some help from some great folks in this community, I've been macroing in Ocllo for 1-2 weeks and I'm close to hitting my first 7x Provo Mage, to drop Young and venture out.

So, that's my story. It was much longer than I expected for as much detail I cut out. Sorry about that. Regardless of the outcome, thanks for giving me the opportunity to share my story and go down memory lane. I'm excited to be back playing UO on a shard with a great community and staff.

http://uorforum.com/threads/small-knife-galleries-and-everyrhings-all-gone.30414/

My bad, saw this after I posted.

No worries, it was a good read. Love the history of folks & UO

@Ruck
@Imbol
@DrFunke
@Josh
@Quick


Good Stories so far !!

24hr timer started now for the give-away

It would mean a lot to be awarded such a great cabin and I appriciate the oppurtunity but I am officially withdrawing from the compitition. There are a lot of great stories here and I know any one of them will appriciate the cabin as much as or more than I.

Besides, having a home does not fit DrFunke's lonely warrior back story. He chose a hard life for a reason.

Cheers and good luck.

Here goes:

I played OSI from about 1998 - 2003 with my brother and a good friend, and essentially lived in UO through those teenage years in Baja. We built quite an empire with multiple guilds on the go, a villa where your Brit tower currently sits, and a few other nice gate houses. Eventually we bought an expensive tower, and filled it with all of our cool stuff from over the years. As we slipped into adulthood, UO changed, and so did our level of responsibilities. We would log in from time to time in order to refresh things, but eventually life took over and we let it all decay. Since those days I have never know a game as good as UO, and I hold so many fond memories of it. I have always thought about those golden years, and never thought I would get to experience them again until recently when I stumbled on UOR. I spoke with my brother and friend, and we have all started playing UOR again as much as our adult lives allow for.

I've been here for a couple of months now, and I'm pretty much living in UO again, loving it so much. I have a huge wants list, but I also believe that anticipation is half of the fun. Thanks for your consideration, and cheers to enjoying the ride!

1. @Josh
2. @Quick
3. @Ruck
4. @Disco
5. @Imbol
6. @DrFunke

Prizes

• Yew Patio - @Josh - Delivered
• Brit Loggy - @Quick - Delivered
• 100k check - @Disco - Delivered
• 100k check - @Imbol
• 100k check - @Ruck - Delivered
• 100k check - @DrFunke

EVERYONE who entered WINS

Post here your choice - 1st place gets first choice... 2nd place 2nd choice... etc....

@LanDarr , I graciously choose the Yew Patio!

I cannot begin to thank you for your generosity. I look forward to moving in and cannot wait to start filling it up with furniture and one day placing a guild stone within it!

Thanks again!