From the Quill of EM Dudley:

Every Sunday @ 9pm ET – Hall of Commons Meeting at the Hall of Commons

Tuesday, August 7th @ 8:30pm ET – Foxx Chase – Gate from Luna

With the identity of the Assassin finally revealed Lord Commander Drake Foxx of the Royal Guard finally has his suspect, but can he catch her in time? Expect a combat intensive hunt for this elusive murderer!

Thursday, August 9th @ 8:30pm ET – And the Pot Thickens – Gate from Luna

Why is Kendrick Morrow, the disgraced and formerly bankrupt Magician/Mogul so close with the Sultan of Jhelom? Is he making a play for the Sultan’s fortune? An Island nation will no doubt involve the need for ships….Arm yourselves with cannon and blackpowder alike and join us as combat is taken to the land and sea!

Monday, August 20th @ 8:30pm ET – The Erlenmeyer Flask – Gate from Luna

Princess Rhista and the rest of the Gargish have been given the cure so many have been diligently working on, but will it be too little too late? A night of Roleplaying fun is surely to have a few suprises…this is one you WON’T want to miss.

Tuesday, August 21st @ 8:30pm ET – Blood Boils – Gate from Luna

The strife between Britannia’s fractured Cities has been brewing for quite some time. Britain and Trinsic stood at the brink of war and the situation seems to be getting worse. Nobles still squabble over Britannia’s limited resources and tensions are stretched to their maximum. Enjoy a night of roleplaying and combat!

Friday, August 31st – Scene of the Crime – Use the Bright Purple Recall Rune at Luna Bank

Murder has been done! This marks the begining of a static quest that can be done anytime and will run for approximately two weeks. Use the the bright purple recall rune at Luna Bank to start the quest!

All times ET – Schedule subject to change. Check the in-game town criers for the latest details!

   Players gathered at the Hall of Commons this eve as announcements and questions were taken by EM’s Dudley and Drosselmeyer. As always announcements began the evening with the following upcoming June events offered by EM Dudley:

6/14/12 – 8:30pm: “Paladins Plunder” a “Combat and Puzzle oriented” event

6/19/12 – 8:30pm: “Sun and Sandstone”  a “Hack and Slash” event

6/21/12 – 8:30pm: “Sip from the Cup of Honor” loyalty testing event involving

                                         the juka and meer

6/23/12 – SHARD WIDE CALL TO ARMS!  Don’t Miss This Event!

6/26/12 – Sosarian Solstice Fair Opens it’s doors at 8:30pm

6/30/12 – 9pm: “Madness of the Eternal Fire” event

    The events moderators went on to announce that the player cities of Merxmere, Templar Stronghold, and Aryslan have had thier city status revoked, banners , and teleporters in the Luna Fairground area removed due to inactivity. May the gods bless those citizens in thier endevours.

    In more pleasant city news, the city of Kijustsu Anei has recevied thier healers hut! Constructed after a long leave of absence from the healers guild quests at the beginning of the year. Also announced was Nidaros was next in line on the construction itinerary. The order of further construction or for that matter the qualifications of other cities in the realm was not known at press time. An updated list was promised for “this week.”

    The nights hosts went on to explain that time is going to be set aside for township events in the month of July and that all cities need to send word via email to Dudley or Dross to elaborate on current play times and activity within all cities of the realm. They intent is to attempt to provide a little something for all cities with the realm in July. One can even contact Drosselmeyer to have Elise visit your towns tavern as Nidaros did in recent days for a night of fine brew and tall tales.You may reach them at either [email protected] or [email protected].

     Q and A followed with a touch of pie tasting afterwards before the nights end. A gracious pair of hosts thanked all in attendance as the night came to a close with the all too familiar phrase we all know “Stay Toon’d!” Join the EM’s at thier weekly meeting every Sunday night 9pm est with gates provided from Luna.

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 This months lineup from the EM tandem of Dudley and Drosselmeyer:

Most have heard the town criers harping on how the Royal Treasury is empty.  Citizens have been inquiring as to just what this means and just how empty is empty.  Recent events have made this abundantly clear to all.  After leading an expedition into Exodus Dungeon Royal Mage Balandar First Order of Enchanters had to stoop to animal bartering to get important tinkering work completed.  The agreed upon price being six chickens, four pigs, two goats, four female sheep and one cow.  As degrading as this must have been to the Royal Mage now a warrant has been issued for his arrest for nonpayment!  It is truly a sad day when Royal Officials are unable to pay such paltry debts.   Rumors are currently flying that Grumpy the Tinker, to who the debt is owed, is furious.  Some even fear for the life of the Royal Mage as shadowy figures have been spotted at Balandar’s home in Moonglow late at night.  As new information becomes available more shall be posted for all.

With the recent troubles that have been plaguing many of the Cities of Britania it was only a matter of time before the guards lost control and whole areas being lost and looted.  This happened recently in the Capital of Britain when rioters took over looted, heavily damaged and blocked off the castle in the North of Britain that used to belong to Lord Blackthorn.  The Castle being closed off is probably for the best right now as its going to take some time before the guards get control of the cities once again.  The looting on the other hand is quiet a different matter.  All the objects that Lord Blackthron had collection were scattered to the wind possibly lost forever due to the lack of action by the guards.

In an effort to try and find where these items may have gotten too I sent out feelers’ throughout the streets ofBritain.  I got my first lead from a former thief that I knew inEast Britainwho told me to see what was going on in the Salty Dog that might help me get to the bottom of it.  After a fine meal and a nice bit of drinking I still could not figure out what was going on in the clean and well run tavern.  So as I had another ale I started thinking what could my friend have meant by the “get to the bottom of it”.  As I sat and pondered I realized that one of the few unique features of the Salty Dog was that unlike most of the buildings inBritainit had a basement.  I snuck down into the basement storeroom and behind a door I found a fence that offered me a map to the location where things from the castle had been taken.

I quickly studied the map as it looked like it would fall apart at any minute and noticed that it looked like theNorth Westarea of the Gargoyle City of Ver Lor Reg.  I quickly found a crystal portal to rapidly get to the city and found in the second floor of a weapon smiths shop a rope that descended down into Exodus.

Down there was some damage and a mostly rotted journal amid a pile of bones.  It spoke of punch cards and being able to repair something called nexus’s using tool fashioned from the gears of the horrific machine minions that inhabit that dark and evil place.  There were many adventures running around to the tripod mechanical nexus’s repairing them and then depositing punch cards in the system.  I took a look at trying to repair the circuit and after a series of nasty shocks I must have repaired it as it came whirring to life and with a “bee bop beep” spit a punch card out at me.  While I admit to the fun of solving any puzzle there are many dark and disturbing trends to fixing the vile machinery that exists in Exodus.  Who knows what we are unleashing on ourselves by repairing it.  As for now fair readers it seems we have yet another question to the one about finding out where the castles treasures went and that is what is going on in Exodus.

 An image of an broken Nexus

Repairing the circuits of a Nexus

Watching the Nexus spring back into repair

 A fully repaired Nexus

Photos courtesy of Emma Silvermane

On Saturday at 10pm word quickly came out that something was happening at the Luna Bank.  Quickly the crowds began to descend on Luna to find out what was going on.  It was the mythical Eater Unicorn dragging with it a mutated, and quite horrifically mutated, squirrel statue.  Folks ran to pet the statue and soon the word went out that petting the statue caused it to give you a gift.  Inside a brightly colored basket were two bunnies like stuffed toys in a pastel color.  The unicorn dragged that statue around Luna for around 15 to 20 minutes and then headed for the Moongate.  Word quickly went around that the unicorn and that statue were in felucia at the Yew Moongate.  Folks rushed to the moongate and headed to Yew and kept petting the statue before heading off.

Photos Courtesy of Lady Emma Silvermane and Tertius Wands

A Wiggly Caravan

February 29,2012

At 8pm on a Wednesday night folks gathered to help Sons of the Sea Guild Master Santigo move canned Golden Tuna Paste from the Sons of the Sea by the Trinsic Docks to Britain. Santigo was worried that with all the recent unrest there would be threats to the caravan. Almost as soon as the caravan left the gates of Trinsic raiders beset the caravan and were soundly repulsed. Sadly this was the first of many waves of raiders. As the caravan finally reached the outskirts of Britain Santigo took a wrong turn and headed towards the coast instead of heading towards Britain. At the beach Santigo noticed a foul smell. Whether or not the smell was the fish paste we were transporting or the strange green waste staining the beach and languishing along the water only the trained nose of Santigo could detect. Santigo found worms in the Golden Tuna paste. After complaining about using cheap canning services he declared the whole batch a waste and in a fit of anger threw the worm into some of the greenish goo on the beach. This proved to be a disastrous decision as what was once a small worm formed into a huge mutated worm beast and proceed to attack the caravan guards. It oozed acid and its terrible screams slowed and distracted all those attempting to slay it. After a long and hard fight the worm was killed and its body acid eventually soaked into the sand allowing the victors to get close to it. The Tuna being worthless it was decided to return to Trinsic, but unbeknownst to all those assembled a large force of raiders was just behind them. After dispatching them and returning to the Sons of the Sea Guild Hall the caravan dispersed. There was no answer to the question if this tied in to the feud between the nobles of Baron Caleb of Trinsic and Lord Cauthon of Britain. Of course Santigo did mention how it was clear to him that the waste must have come from the Britain sewers being unmanned in the current troubles. It remains to be seen what effect if any this issue will have between Britain and Trinsic and what effect the strange goo will have.

Photos Courtesy of Emma Silvermane of RBG