During maintenance tomorrow morning October 17, 2013 Origin will get Publish 84, tomorrow afternoon during Izumo’s normal maintenance cycle they will also get Publish 84. 

A Risky Proposition

Author: UO Team

It took him a minute to spot her in the crowded tavern, but as soon as he did it brought a smile to his face, and he joined her at the table. “Hey…looks like you got here a bit faster. I could only get anything useful out of a few…and even that wasn’t too much since most weren’t interested in talking at all. It seems that no boats departed from Papua at all, and nobody should’ve been able to utilize the Serpent’s Pillar at the time we came across the wreck. I’ve also heard word that it’s not the first unexplained wreck…there’s apparently droves of them in places where a ship was never even sighted. Unfortunately, we can’t find any information on the inhabitants…and the one I saved still isn’t awake.” Running his fingers through his hair, Isaiah exhaled exasperatedly. “How did your search turn out?”

Isabelle smiled over to her fiancee, and took a drink from her mug of ale. “Well, apparently a pretty face can win out over a rugged sailor’s brusque manner!” She gave him a wink, her tone teasing and playful. “Some of the crews who pulled in salvage ships are talking all about it, and it looks like a lot of them are loaded with goods…clearly stolen items, and they suspect they are pirate vessels. But the more important thing…nobody can find where the items were stolen from. None of our ships that went missing have those items listed on their manifests.” Isabelle frowned as she noticed the look of intense concentration on Isaiah’s face. “Hey, are you listening? I thought it was important…”
Isaiah had been enthralled by Isabelle’s story at first, but something else caught his attention…he gave her a meaningful look, and said softly, “Keep talking…about anything.”
Isabelle gave him a curious look, but continued, as Isaiah did his best to listen in on a conversation he heard from the next table over…
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“Well, it’s no’ that yer weren’t the first we thought o’…but maybe we assumed yer jes’ lost yer nerve after that ‘ole mess with the scion, y’know?” The man grinned through a set of rotting teeth, looking at the smartly dressed fellow across from him.
“Lost my nerve? Who do you even take me for? And did you really think this kind of word wouldn’t get back to me? You nearly sent lambs to the slaughter is what you did, you twit. Nobody else can possibly handle this job.”
“Oh, so yer saying yer can? Can yer back that up, boyo?”
With a bit of an irritated hmph the man straightened his doublet slightly, pursing his lips as he pondered. “I can do it…whether it’s worth my while is another matter. What exactly are you offering?”
The rotten-toothed man grinned once more, and slid a small bag across the table, which the other opened and suppressed a whistle. Inside were several of the largest gemstones he’d ever seen, along with a note listing what the remainder of the payment was…as well as more details on the item to be stolen. With a few laughs under his breath, he looked across the table. “A bit presumptuous to hand someone like me this much, and even the instructions before I even accepted, isn’t it?”
“Oh…well, she knew that yer’d take the job. And she right, ain’t she boyo? Yer up fer it, ain’t yer?”
Rubbing his chin for a moment, the man only replied after a long moment of contemplation. “Tell whoever she is that it’ll be done. And I expect to get everything entitled here…and we’ll see if more is needed based on how much trouble I run into.”
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Isaiah made sure that when the smartly dressed man stood from his table he had his attention on Isabelle, to look like he hadn’t been listening. Truth be told, he’d lost interest about halfway through…irritated that it turned out to have little to do with the matter at hand. Giving his fiancée his undivided attention, he smiled to her. “Well, it doesn’t look like we’re going to find much more out here…maybe we can find something out at Skara Brae or perhaps Trinsic.” Taking a final drink of the ale, he stood. “Vesper was always a bit too breezy for my tastes…”
 

Revenge of the Enchantress

The next phase of the current content arc finds Britannia’s Loyalty cities under attack!

• Loyalty Cities (Britain, Trinsic, Minoc, Yew, Jhelom, Moonglow, New Magincia, Vesper, and Skara Brae) in Trammel and Felucca are under attack!
• A random loyalty city in Trammel and Felucca will be under attack at any given time.
• Invasion forces consist of a Captain and a group of minions.
• Minions must be killed off before the Captain becomes vulnerable to attack.
• Minion groups are chosen randomly at the beginning of a city invasion and remain persistent for the duration of that City’s invasion.
• At the beginning of each city’s invasion a beacon will be built within the city limits.
• The objective is to destroy the beacon to end the invasion.
• The beacon will only become vulnerable to attack after a requisite number of Captains have been killed.
• Killing captains, minions, and the beacon can reward the attacker with minor artifacts.
• Artifact reward is influenced by luck.
• Minor artifacts can be turned in to Agents of the Crown, NPCs located in each loyalty city, in exchange for Artifacts Bearing the Crest of Blackthorn.
• Blackthorn Artifacts are identical (in nearly all cases) to other artifacts currently available, however are a different art type.
• Blackthorn Artifacts include new versions of: Lt of the RBG Sash, Quiver of Infinity, Rune Beetle Carapace, Cloak of Death, Cloak of Power, Cloak of Silence, Cloak of Life, Conjurer’s Garb, Mystic’s Garb, Shroud of the Condemned, Folded Steel Glasses, Mace & Shield Glasses, Night Eyes, Crimson Cincture, & Tangle.
• A new wearable, the Epaulette, is available and can be worn in the robe slot. These are meant to replace the robe so the rest of the armor remains visible. They can only be seen in the paper doll.

Cornucopia – Thanksgiving Treats

• A chance to acquire a rotating pig on a spit BBQ has been added to the Cornucopia.
• The BBQ pit can be used as a fire source for cooking.
• Once per day you can double click the pig to receive, at random, a platter of pulled pork, or a pulled pork sandwich.

World building

• A stable has been added to the City of Vesper near the Vesper Bank

• The ‘Fault’ and ‘Ready” tooltip for the Ararat’s Winch Assembly is now hued in the EC.
• Players may now toggle off the PVP warning gump provided when travelling by house teleporters to Felucca. You may re-enable the gump by the avatar’s context menu.
• The EC now provides an item description for Bane property.

• Cliloc Changes
• New Art Additions

• Cliloc Changes
• New Art Additions

In the spirit of Halloween the UO Team has donned Halloween costumes, Enjoy!!

Tomorrow morning October 8th Great Lakes will be down for an extended maintenance period of 3 hours between 6 am est and 9 am est for scheduled network maintenance. 

We are bringing down Lake Superior at 10:30 am EDT this morning for a force maintanence.  This should fix the issue of the shard not preforming its daily scheduled maintenance.  It should be down no longer than 30 minutes.

UO Team

Tomorrow morning during maintenance (September 25th,2013) we will be extending the down time for a few hours to update some outdated hardware on Lake Superior.  We do not expect the shard to be down more then 3 hours maximum and expect to have it up and running no later than 9 am. 

Thanks in advance for your patience!

UO Team

Good Morning 

    Houses that have been placed in the new Deep Sea Quest area are being deleted.  The ability to place houses there will be corrected today.  Game Masters are in the process of going to each shard and deleting all houses they find in this area.  Thank you for bringing this to our attention.

UO Team

Good afternoon Everyone,

  We discovered an issue with the Account Management Center this morning that has been fixed.  If you were having difficulties renewing your accounts please try again.  If you are still unable to complete your transaction please contact us so we can take another look at the problem.

  Thanks everyone for giving us a heads up on this problem.  We look forward to seeing you this Saturday and helping us celebrate our BIRTHDAY!!!

UO TEAM!!!

The Character Transfer Issue has been resolved and the warehouse as been turned back on.  You should have any issues with a character transfer unless you began it in Publish 82.  If you log in squelched, frozen and unable to interact with the world please page a GM to fix your character.

Thanks!

Hello everyone,

    As some of you have discovered we are having some issues with Character Transers.  For the time being we have disabled the Character Transfer Warehouse.  We are working on fixing this issue and as soon as its resolved it will be turned back on.  We should have it back up by tomorrow. 

UO Team

Publish 83 will be released to all shards during your next maintenance cycle.  On the 15th of September you will receive your Anniversary gifts in your back packs when you log into the game,.  We  hope you enjoy the first part of the Global Arc and look forward to your feedback.

UO Team!