Ever feel like you’ve been stuck in a rut as far as your “play profile” goes?

Maybe I’m alone in this, but after getting launched and comfortable in UO for a year or two I, personally, found myself totally engulfed in running a newbie player center with its events and working with the group that gathered around that – then reporting came along and BANG… no more time to experiment! I had some never-maxed-out characters that were functional but no time to find perfection and some fun activities that kept me so busy that taking the time to even do daily logins for the characters was just too much. This time back I have promised myself not to get stuck in a rut again and to give some serious attention to trying everything at least once! I hope you all realize that given the depth and breadth of this game this can take a while!

In that vein, I am, for lack of anything more creative to report at the moment, going to give you tales of my bumbling adventures quietly being taken around the world of Sosaria in the dead of night when the people online with me tend not to speak English and sadly I don’t speak their language either! My Tillerman, whom I have named Robert, is the man in charge on a large dragon ship named “The Waverunner,” which is nicely sized so as not to get scuttled by every passing sea serpent, but small enough to not be too very dramatic or pompous as it sails into ports. Robert has been hinting to me of some very tall tales of places and venues around the world that I have yet to see and emphasizes how very much I seem to have missed over the years by not following the lines of his stories before! So here I go, off to show my ignorance of UO and maybe share some very tall tales that my tillerman tantalizes me with.

While I start my storyline, I would love it if all of you would share with me your own adventures and “Tillerman Tales” that we can all follow up on and explore as well. Feel free to write up your adventures and submit/post them, or simply give me hints as to places and adventures I need to take for my own enlightenment! Thanks for your participation in advance!

— El of LA

One of the most enjoyable visits over the last week in my return to LA social life as the ‘new’ shard reporter has been my attendance yesterday evening (February 29th) at the LOST Auction.  LA has always had a very active auction ‘presence’ and I believe it is one of the fun parts of life on LA and something that sets LA apart a bit from other shards where auctions exist but aren’t quite the social meetup that they are here on LA.  I got to sit in a great location, a different location from when I was last active on LA, and I was impressed with the ease of access and the lovely decor.  It is very easy on the eyes and colorful to behold!

Outside of pretty pixels though, I enjoyed the LOST auction because it is so very well run and because the LA players in attendance are really great to be around.  The items are quickly and very professionally handled, the rules are well-established and well-followed by the staff, and cooperated with by the players in attendance.  The fun of the banter during the sales and the good-natured exchanges are always fun to be around.

LA's LOST Auction 2-29-12

As always at these events I couldn’t resist bidding on some of the cool items offered for sale, and even managed to win a bid as I went, although I’m going to have to do some hunting before I can hope to win another of those mining cart deeds coveted by so many players last night!  Now I guess I’ll get to experience these revamped dungeons!

Thanks to LOST Auction for a great evening of bids and wins!  I’ll be back for more with my newly gotten gold!

LOST Auction events are normally scheduled every two weeks on Wednesday evenings in the 2nd and 4th (or sometimes 5th) weeks of each months’ calendar at 8:00 pm, US Central time (GMT -6).  If you haven’t been there before, check it out!  You can find the auction site inside the walls of Luna on the top floor of the first house East of the Moongate, on the North side of the road.

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Kindly Contributed by Guest Writer – TheVampster

I thought I was late to the event, but Queen Zhah was running around and had a gate open to where others were fighting Scelestus the Defiler on an isle. I mainly healed others, but got a few hits in…

So after the event, our reward from the Queen was his hand. It makes sparklies. It was fun.