COMMUNITY EVENTS, EM EVENTS, ROYAL GUARD EVENTS
AUGUST SCHEDULE
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• 03 August – Informal guard meeting at the new guard house for guard decoration @7:30pm CST
• 10 August – Guard Meeting for all crafters who want to join the royal guard. New guardhouse 7:30pm CST
• 14 August – Kings Meeting. Governors meeting with King Blackthorn to discuss issues plaguing the realm. 8:00pm CST council chambers in Castle Blackthorn.
• 19 August – guard promotions/inspections followed by training at the void pool. @8:00pm CST Castle Blackthorn courtyard
• 22 August – Vaeg Attacks – more to follow
• 24 August – Darts at the reward hall darts/archery arena. 7:30pm CST
• 29 August – Chicken Fight Night. Battle chicken lizard fighting at the new arena. This is a felecca event. 7:30pm CST
• 31 August – Meet @ Greet @7:30pm CST Em Hall Brit

*This schedule may change slightly with the Vaeg event and one more may or may not be added*

For the month of August we will hold a fishing contest for the Black Marlin. Fish MUST BE caught in August, display the owners name and weight, caught on Lake Superior, and be able to be mounted. The winners fish will grace the reward hall. The goal is to display one of each of the shards top catches. Please submit entries at the mailbox just to the west of the EM Hall in Britian

**Added note by your friendly LS Reporter and Corporal. Guards are asked to wear their dress armor for King’s Meeting and Guard Meetings.
I suggest setting a bag aside just for dress armor. Have your fighting armor bagged or set in your bag to auto undress and dress. 

The Moonglow Marine.

Original post by Nicnivin

In the past Moonglow ignored the fact that, as an island, we also have to ensure the safety of the surrounding sea. Since the building of the lighthouse we expect to draw attention not only from regular shipping traffic, but also from pirates.

Therefore we will gather next Friday, August the 8th at 8:00 pm CEST in the beer garden of Moonglow to explore the surrounding sea. We expect to have enemy contact. Our captain, who kindly agreed to provide his services on this trip, actually asked us to visit the Sea Market first, so we can collect the bounty for pirates we encounter.

All residents of Sosaria are welcome to join our pirate hunt. Looted treasure will be shared after the event.

Lady Nicnivin, Queen of the Unseelie Court, Governor of Moonglow

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Please go here to bid on these auctions and good luck!!

This is a standard forum auction for lot numbers 101-227 of the GSF Summer ’14 auction, which is aiming to raise money for our town treasuries.

Standard auction protocol applies and I reserve the right to disregard bids if they don’t appear to be made in good faith, etc, etc.

Some lots carry a (unspecified) reserve price and will not be sold if that is not met. Just make reasonable offers!

To make a bid, simply post the item number and the amount in this thread. Bid raises must be a reasonable increase over the previous high bid in order to be valid. In general, use the following guideline:

up to 200k: increments of 10k
200k – 500k: increments of 25k
500k – 1 million: increments of 50k
1 – 2 million: increments of 100k
2 – 5 million: increments of 250k
5 – 10 million: increments of 500k
over 10 million: increments of 1 million

The auction will run until the end of Saturday 9th August. For a bid to be valid, it must be timestamped no later than 23:59 Eastern Daylight Time [03:59 GMT] AND in the final two hours must meet at least the minimum bid increments listed above.

Wining lots may be collected at the live auction on Sunday, or by other arrangement.

Good luck!!

Lot listings

Unless otherwise stated, lots give 5% of sale price to Town Fund, 95% to seller.
Lots marked [Town Fund] indicates that 100% of sale price goes to the Town Fund.
Lots marked [individual town] give 5% of sale price to Town Fund, 95% to specified town.
Names shown are the person that donated the item.

Current high bids shown in red, up to post #2.

#101 Priority seating at the live auction on Saturday [500k Frost, 500k Frost]

The two highest bidders for this will be entitled to sit at the thrones in Gilfane Arena during the live auction, or nominate someone in their place. [Town Fund]

Armour/Jewels/Weapons/etc
#102 Armour of Fortune (cursed) [Town Fund – Morgan Ironfist]
#103 Corgul’s Handbook of the Undead
#104 Elder detective of the Royal Guard [replica] Int +3
#105 Embroidered oak leaf cloak [replica]
#106 Gauntlets of Virtue Bane
#107 Gypsy headdress (Vesper Museum replica)
#108 Jade Armband (Abyssal Infernal special)
#109 Mark of Travesty (ninja/stealth)
#110 Ornament of the Magician (cursed)
#111 3 x Pendant of the Magi
#112 2 x Protector of the Battle Mage [Town Fund – Marie Cailin]
#113 5 x Robe of the Equinox (all wearable by humans)
#114 Royal Guard survival knife [replica] [Town Fund – Morgan Ironfist]
#115 Scrapper’s Compendium (Eval +11)
#116 Scrapper’s Compendium (MR +1)
#117 Shadow Dancer leggins (cursed) [Town Fund – Shakespeare]
#118 Soul Seeker [Town Fund – Victim]
#119 Swords of Prosperity [Town Fund – Becca]
#120 Talisman of the Fey (cu sidhe form)

Assorted Deco
#121 2 x Blessed Statue [Town Fund – Kelmo]
#122 2 x Candelabra of Souls
#123 Carvable pumpkin & jack o’lantern carving kit [Town Fund – Fogsbane]
#124 Cupid statue
#125 Dragon head deed
#126 Dread Horn tainted mushroom (far right one in link image)
#127 2 x Fountain of Life
#128 Four assorted large pieces of blackrock

#129 Four creeping vines (one of each type in both facings) [Town Fund – Victim]
#130 Horse barding deed [Town Fund – York]
#131 Large aquarium (East)
#132 Raised Garden Bed
#133 Ringmail armour tunic (Experimental Room reward)
#134 Rubble easel

#135 Rubble pier

#136 2 x Ruined banner (Experimental Room reward) [blockable object, two stories tall]
#137 Sherry the Mouse statue
#138 6 x Ship’s strongbox [Town Fund – Sam]
#139 Set of four Dread Horn tainted mushrooms (one of each type)
#140 Silver Sapling deed
#141 Soulforge deed
#142 Spider Web deed
#143 Stygian Dragon head [Town Fund – Shakespeare]
#144 5 x Tragic remains of Travesty
#145 12 x Twilight Lanterns (six orange, six black)
#146 Two flowstones (Experimental Room rewards)

#147 Two rubble spiked wooden wall pieces

Holiday gifts
#148 6th anniversary bag plus cake, fireworks wand with 499 charges, Evocare bell

#149 A pile of snow [Town Fund – York]
#150 Flowerpot [December ’99]

#151 Four holiday statues (Dupre [purple], Jaana [red], Joye [green], Minax [yellow])

#152 Holiday gift ticket 2010 [Town Fund – Victim]
#153 Mailbox [Town Fund – Becca]
#154 Mannequin deed [Town Fund – Becca]
#155 Six holiday snow globes (Heartwood, Hythloth, Shrines of Chaos, Honesty, Humility, Valor)
#156 Six mini house deeds (Brick, Large house w/patio, Small brick, Small stone workshop, Two-story stone & plaster, Wooden)
#157 Two Christmas dragons

Primeval Lich Deco
#158 A mummified corpse [Town Fund – Becca]

#159 Demon skull [Town Fund – Morgan Ironfist]

#160 Eight-piece rack set

#161 Iron Maiden

#162 Primeval Lich executioner’s axe deed
#163 Totem (Lever Puzzle/Puzzle Board reward)
#164 Two fallen branches and two brambles

Resources
#165 10 Corruption [Town Fund – Victim]
#166 100 Crystals of Shame [Town Fund – Mish O Sha]
#167 5000 Empty bottles
#168 12000 Enhanced bandages [Town Fund – Beli Mawr]
#169 30000 Logs
#170 10 Putrefaction [Town Fund – Victim]
#171 10 Scourge [Town Fund – Victim]

Scrolls
#172 115 Mysticism scroll [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#173 120 Evaluate Intelligence scroll [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#174 120 Resisting Spells scroll [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#175 +25 Stat scroll [New Magincia – Morgan Ironfist]
#176 +25 Stat scroll
#177 Forensics SoA [Town Fund – York]
#178 Peacemaking SoA [Town Fund – York]
#179 1.5 (total) Anatomy SoTs [Town Fund – York]

Stealables [artifact rarity]
#180 4 x Bamboo stool [6]
#181 Blade of the Righteous [10]
#182 Blanket of Darkness [8] [Town Fund – York]
#183 Figurehead, ship’s bell & stern anchor of BMV Ararat

#184 Pushme pullyu [8]
#185 Saddle [9]
#186 Three Dojo stealables (Flowers[7]/fish sculpture[8]/monk sculpture[9])

Talismans [normal bonus/exceptional bonus]
#187 Blacksmithing 25/25
#188 Carpentry 28/20
#189 Cooking 26/26
#190 Fletching 28/21
#191 Inscription 29/12
#192 Masonry 25/15
#193 Tailoring 26/25
#194 Tinkering 27/22
#195 Vermin slayer
#196 Hygieia’s Amulet (+10% alchemy bonus)

Tokens
#197 Ancestral Gravestone token
#198 Character Transfer token (unusuable on Siege; can be exchanged for Seventh Age token) [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#199 Crystal token [Town Fund – Aislin]
#200 Earring of Protection token
#201 2 x Eighth Anniversary token [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#202 Evil Furniture token [Town Fund – Becca]
#203 Heritage token [New Magincia – Morgan Ironfist]
#204 Heritage token
#205 Legacy token [New Magincia – Frost]
#206 Race Change token [Town Fund – Becca]
#207 2 x Seventh Anniversary token [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#208 Shadow token [Town Fund – Aislin]
#209 Stygian Abyss Statuette token [Town Fund – Becca]
#210 2 x Twelfth Anniversary gift ticket [Town Fund – Becca]

Veteran rewards [year] (can be used by anyone)
#211 Black dye tub [1st]
#212 Leather dye tub [2nd]
#213 Ethereal Ridgeback [4th]
#214 Dead for a Stone Ankh [5th] [Town Fund – Becca]
#215 Ethereal Swamp Dragon [5th]

Miscellaneous
#216 A Vollem held in a crystal
#217 An imprisoned dog (Travesty drop)
#218 Bag or runic hammers (6 copper, 1 bronze, 3 golden) [Town Fund – Kelmo]
#219 Collection of ten different “newbie” clothes (blessed, dyeable, rapid decay if dropped)

#220 Endless decanter of water
#221 Five artifacts bearing the crest of Minax (turn-in quality)
#222 5 x Forged pardon
#223 Four old slayer bows (Dragon slaying, Earth shatter, Spider’s death, Vacuum)

#224 Hitching post [replica] (15 uses remaining, rechargeable number-2) + two hitching ropes [New Magincia – Sir AJ]
#225 Hunter Green pigment (1 use)
#226 Pet Bonding Potion
#227 Three-tiered cake recipe scroll [Town Fund – Fogsbane]

On Sunday, 10th August at 3pm Eastern, the shard will be holding another auction to help raise money for our town treasuries (aka the Governor Slush Fund [GSF]). Sixty lots will be sold at the live event, which should take two hours, with the remaining items being sold in a separate forum auction.

Venue & auctioneer 

The auction will take place at Gilfane Arena and I will be acting as auctioneer again. The arena is located a little east of the Skara ferry in the central Gilfane area (see map). You can also get there via teleporters: the “Gilfane” teleporter in the Hub Pub east of Umbra will bring you to the Citadel next door, and one directly to the Arena will be available from New Magincia Town Hall (the building closest to the bank). And, barring unforeseen circumstances, EM Troubadour should have gates to the event from key locations.

The auction will be held on the top floor: follow the stairs up to the second floor then use one of the teleporters south of the fountain. Auction staff will be wearing the Gilfane black and/or blood-red colours.

Commission & donations

The auctioneer will levy a charge of 5% on all lots sold and the money so raised (the “Town Fund”) will be split equally between the nine towns that make up the King’s Council. In addition, many lots have been donated entirely for the benefit of the Town Fund (100% of sale price to fund) or to an individual town (5% to Town Fund, 95% to nominated town).

The public is also welcome to make a cash donation directly to the auctioneer, in favour of either the Town Fund or a specific town. This is no different than giving cash directly to the town heralds except that your donation will appear in the official accounts and will therefore be recorded for posterity.

Supporting activities

The following promotions will be in place at the event, with all monies raised going to the Town Fund:

a) Priority seating: With lot #101 in the forum auction, there is the opportunity to bid for the best seats in the house at Gilfane Arena.

b) Raffle draw: Raffle tickets will be on sale again for 100k each, and the prize this time is a pillory deed. This is an extremely rare drop from the Primeval Lich and only around a half dozen are known to exist here.

d) Food concessions: Commemorative cakes will be on sale again and we are delighted to announce that this batch will be baked by none other than Sosaria’s most famous cook, Queen Mum!

Auction house rules

All those attending the sale are asked to be considerate to other participants and not do anything to disrupt or unnecessarily delay proceedings, especially pointless spamming of text and/or spells. Those engaging in aggressive, disorderly or suspicious behaviour are liable to be removed from the building by officials. In addition, the following prohibitions are in effect:

a) No hiding or stealthing within the arena building, unless authorized to do so or in self-defence.

b) No casting of spells in the arena building unless authorized to do so or in self-defence. Exceptions are minor beneficial spells such as night sight, provided these are not spammed. The opening of gates is specifically banned; please go outside to do this.

c) No sitting in the priority seating (the thrones) without authorization.

d) No entering the secure area (grassy part of the arena) without authorization (such as when purchasing winning bids).

Bidding

Bids can be made at the live event by calling out the amount that you wish to bid. In the case of two identical bids, the one accepted will be the first that appears in the auctioneer’s journal.

The auctioneer will try and keep bidding at set levels in relation to the current bid price, but this is not set in stone. However, bids of odd amounts or only marginally above the current high bid may either be rejected or rounded down. The general bid levels are as follows:

up to 200k: increments of 10k
200k – 500k: increments of 25k
500k – 1 million: increments of 50k
1 – 2 million: increments of 100k
2 – 5 million: increments of 250k
5 – 10 million: increments of 500k
over 10 million: increments of 1 million

Winning bidders

Although encouraged to stay until the end of the auction, winning bidders may claim their items at any time by approaching an assistant cashier (not the auctioneer, please). You should then follow their instructions to get to the secure checkout area. Sales will be made via a vendor.

If you have to leave the auction unexpectedly and do not have time to claim your items, please at least inform an official. Failure to claim items or give notice may lead to them being offered to the underbidder instead.

Reserve Price

Many items in the sale will carry a reserve price. If bids do not meet or exceed this reserve price, the lot will go unsold. Even if no reserve has been specified, the auctioneer may, at his discretion, decline to sell a lot if he does not believe that a reasonable bid has been offered.

Commission bids

We encourage as many people as possible to try and attend the auction, but if you are unable to do so, and do not have anyone who can act on your behalf, then it is possible to send in a bid in advance of the sale, known as a commission bid. A commission bid represents the maximum amount your are prepared to pay for the item, and the auctioneer will bid on your behalf up to this amount.

The following rules apply to commission bids:

a) To make a commission bid, PM me with “Commission bid” as the title. Include the lot number and description of the item(s) you wish to bid on, together with the maximum amount you are prepared to pay. Bids should be in line with the amounts shown in the “Bidding” section above. Do not post your commission bids in this thread!

b) If I do not know you, and it is not obvious from your Stratics name, then please tell me who you are in-game. Commission bids may be limited or even rejected from complete strangers without some sort of security.

c) In the event of identical commission bids, the one received first will take priority.

d) Commission bids must reach me by the end of Saturday (9th August) to be guaranteed for inclusion.

e) Commission bids are held in strict confidence and will not be revealed to anyone other than the auctioneer. However, the identity of any winning bidders will be entered into the public record.

f) Successful bidders will be notified of any items that they win. Please try and make arrangements to collect the items within forty-eight hours of the end of the sale. Failure to make adequate communications with the auctioneer may result in the items being withdrawn and offered instead to the underbidder.

Official accounts & settlement

A record of sale prices and all monies raised will be published after the auction. The auctioneer will deposit the money raised for each town directly.

Settlement with those who have submitted items for sale will be made as soon as practicable.

Confidentiality & liability

All reserve prices, commission bids and other privileged information from buyers & sellers will be kept in confidence by the auctioneer except in the event of a new auctioneer having to be appointed due to illness or force majeure.

Final responsibility for items being sold, monies raised thereon, and the conduct of the auction, lies with the auctioneer and not the members of the King’s Council.

Live sale listing

Unless otherwise stated, lots give 5% of sale price to Town Fund, 95% to seller.
Lots marked [Town Fund] indicate that 100% of sale price goes to the Town Fund.
Lots marked [individual town] give 5% of sale price to Town Fund, 95% to specified town.
Names shown are the person that donated the item.

#1 Tome of Lost Knowledge (blessed) [Town Fund – Becca]
#2 Yellow polkadot bikini top (rare MiB loot) [Town Fund – Sam]
#3 A blessed lucky necklace (200 luck) [Town Fund – Kelmo]
#4 A gilded statue from the personal collection of the king [Yew – York]

#5 Trammel Moonstone (light brown) [Town Fund – Fogsbane]
#6 Bloody sash (transforms wearer into werewolf at night)
#7 Five Halloween costumes (bloodworm/gazer/giant toad/skeleton/terathan warrior)
#8 Legacy token [New Magincia – Morgan Ironfist]
#9 Staff of Pyros [Town Fund – Shakespeare]
#10 Demon Bridle ring [Town Fund – Victim]
#11 Haochi’s Pigments token (good for one bottle) [Town Fund – Victim]
#12 120 Focus scroll [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#13 Blessed event spellbook (DCI-2, SDI-21, FCR-2, LMC-3) [Yew – Gilfane Treasury]
#14 A kitten raised by Mesanna (blue/grey) [Town Fund – Fogsbane]
#15 2 x Race Change token [Town Fund – Becca]
#16 Five Primeval Lich gravestone sets (five stones, ten grave dirt)

#17 A Primeval Lich small banana tree

#18 Eight Primeval Lich stone spikes (Four small, four large)

#19 Primeval Lich six-piece vat set

#20 Three Primeval Lich Lava tiles (image shows CC on left, EC on right)

#21 Slither
#22 Ethereal Beetle [5th year veteran reward]
#23 Two complete sets of ten grapevines (20 items) [Town Fund – Sam]

#24 2 x Academic bookcase
#25 2 x +25 Stat scroll [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#26 10000 Barbed leather
#27 A Deed for a cannon [7th year veteran reward]
#28 200 Seeds of renewal [Town Fund – Kelmo]
#29 A bucket (semi-rare; no longer spawns; no water version) [Town Fund – Kelmo]
#30 Blessed Captain Crunch AoS thigh boots

#31 Nexus deed
#32 Orc Ship
#33 Forged Metal of Artifacts (5 uses) [Town Fund – Victim]
#34 Swordsmanship 5.0 SoT [Town Fund – Gilfane Treasury]
#35 2 x Soulstone fragment token [Britain – Gilfane Treasury]
#36 Advanced Character token [Town Fund – Becca]
#37 Charger of the Fallen statuette [Trinsic – Kelmo]
#38 Lava tile (Semidar special drop) [This version does not display properly in the EC] [Town Fund – Morgan Ironfist]

#39 +5 Exodus scroll [New Magincia – Morgan Ironfist]
#40 Undertaker’s Staff (not blessed on Siege)
#41 Smuggler’s Edge (not blessed on Siege) [Britain – Holden Caulfield]
#42 3 x Heritage token [Town Fund – Becca]
#43 Rechargeable House Teleporter set (fully charged) [Town Fund – Fogsbane]
#44 Lighthouse [5th year veteran reward] [Town Fund – Holden Caulfield]
#45 Raised Garden Bed
#46 115 fishing scroll
#47 Commodity Deed box [1st year veteran reward]
#48 Ankh of Sacrifice [10th year veteran reward] [Trinsic – Kelmo]
#49 Superior Mage suit [New Magincia – Morgan Ironfist]

#50 Richard Garriott’s bones

#51 Your choice of up to 13th Year Veteran reward [Town Fund – Baby Doll]
#52 120 magery scroll [Town Fund – Shakespeare]
#53 Etheral Tiger statuette [15th year veteran reward] [Skara Brae – Becca]
#54 Secluded keep SW of Trinsic (1688, 3143)
#55 Conjurer’s Garb (140 Luck version)
#56 Conjurer’s Grimoire
#57 2 x Legacy token
#58 Archdemon statue (Abyssal Infernal special)

#59 Britannian ship deed [Skara Brae – Frost]
#60 The Moonglow Mystery Box! (11 items collected by the Governor of Moonglow. Includes at least one 120 scroll)

and

Drachenfels

Presents

The Week-end Madness

Edition Number: LXXVI

Lots of good sales on Friday at the Knuckleheads auction.

We went fast trough a lot of rooms at the gauntlet on Saturday.

We had a amazing amount of keys for Sundays Exodus event.

Thanks to the hard work of the Drachenfels community we were able to do six rounds!

All the thanks go to the people who helped us gather these keys!

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Everyone please give a great big Lake Superior welcome to one of our own who has joined the Stratics family as the newest Lake Superior reporter!  Please welcome Kariny Stormsong!    😉

If you would like to submit an event, just email the information to [email protected]. Thank you and welcome to the Stratics family Katrina!

Lady Tia, UO Community Coordinator

The Gauntlet Returns!

We would like to invite all adventurers for a trip to Dungeon Doom to fight in the Gauntlet!

On Saturday the 2nd of August.

Leaving around 20:30 CEST from West Britain Bank!

Be there!

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In the first of our pages pertaining to Publish 86 we cordially present:

The Trader’s Quest 

Written by our Ace Reporter from Drachenfels, Frarc. Our thanks for his sterling effort.

Also updated for your convenience our Clean Up Britannia listing

and Clean Up Pigments page

More pages to follow after publish day.

The Exodus Encounter

3 August 2014

The Forty-six Exodus Encounter will be next Sunday.

We gathering at West Britain Bank and Leaving at 20:30 CEST.

Be sure to read all about the Summoning of Exodus : Here

If you can, try to make sure you have at least 3 of the 4 Keys. (Robe,Dagger, Rite).

Each group only needs 1 altar but need the other 3 keys for everyone else.

We will gather as many extra keys we can before Sunday to pass around if needed.

Everyone is welcome to join!

Hope to see you all on Sunday.

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