March 2005

Hail fellow travelers! Jolly Goodfellow here, with the latest news from around our world.

Easter Sunday proved to be a day of merriment for Angel Island residents. The Gods above treated us mortals to games and killer bunnies, and more pixel crack than you could shake a stick at! W00t! Being the faithful servant that I am, I chose to rebuke sleep and join in the festivities.

Lady Jade, in all of her Easter pastel glory, spawned killer fluffy bunnies in the Jhelom farms, the likes of which we had never seen! Many people were quick to respond to the vermon ravaging the poor farmers' crops. The fluffy bunnies were quite the adversaries requiring our most skilled mages and tamers to control the threat to the crops. PAG made sure that all who first came to the Jhelom farmers' call, recieved precious furs cut from the backs of these hellish hares. As word spread through the lands, concerned citizens of every ilk came to lend sword and spell. Only, the not so cute bunnies weren't the only prey on the menu. The bloodthirst grew quickly and within moments the scene turned quite grim. Needless to say, a good time was had by all!

Meanwhile, in Oc'Nivelle, great races of skill and speed were being held by Lord Adam and Lady Jade. The first race seemed to be the most dangerous, hosting a myriad of notorious criminals and common folk alike. Lady Jade anounced that within 100 pace radius of the city, carrots would be spawning, 150 at first and then more as each was picked up. Our goal was to gather as many carrots as we could in twenty minutes. Prizes were offered to all who turned in a carrot with better rewards going to the three contestants who collected (and turned in) the most. Murder and thieving ran rampant, as everyone scrambled to find these elusive carrots. In the end, the strong succeeded and the weak learned a lesson. The event seemed to go more smoothly each consecutive run thereafter, with more contestants and more fun. Here are the results:

First Carrot Hunt:

1st (74 carrots): lily
2nd (73 carrots): Mystral
3rd (53 carrots): Reno
Very close!

Second Carrot Hunt:

1st (57 carrots): Dianna
2nd (19 carrots): Jolly Goodfellow
3rd (13 carrots): Beaux
3rd (13 carrots): Byron
3rd (13 carrots): Stevo
OMG what a tie!

Third Carrot Hunt:

1st (61 carrots): Beaux
2nd (30 carrots): Angus
3rd (28 carrots): Byron
Beaux 4TW!

Fourth Carrot Hunt:

1st (34 carrots): Aum
1st (34 carrots): Folly
2nd (33 carrots): Jolly Goodfellow
3rd (32 carrots): Comatose Bob
WOW closest race of the night!

First place prize: a white basket, a bouquet of flowers, a juniper bush, and a scarecrow.
Second place prize: a white basket, a bouquet of flowers and a juniper bush.
Third place prize: a white basket and a bouquet of flowers.

And everyone who turned in a carrot recieved a pastel colored basket, a special seed, and brightly colored eggs.

Many thanks to the AI staff for such a wonderful day! And special thanks to Jade for a very long day of work!! This is Jolly Goodfellow saying, farewell and fair fight!

7x tournament at UND Tower
Posted March 19, 2005 - 8:13 AM PST by Vanka

This tournament is another classical 7x tournament which shall be held at the UND tower near the skara cross roads. At the following corridantes 26o,6S by 27o,8W.

The prize for this tournament will be a min of 50k

Rules are as follows.

0. No potions shall be allowed.
1. Magic weapons, armor, and items are disallowed
2. No summoning or pets
3. No field spells
4. Stealing is disallowed
5. No poisoned weapons
6. No precasting of any spells before a fight shall be allowed.
7. orange petals are not allowed
8. Pets shall not be allowed into the tower please do not bring them.
9. Hideing is disallowed while fighting.

Anyone found to be in violation of these rules will be disqualifed and removed from the tower and future tournaments.

Again this is a no potion, or magical item/weapon/armor tournament please do not bring them at all.

Registration will begin at 4:30 pm EST and run until 5:00 EST.

NgP Tournament Friday March 18th
Posted March 14, 2005 - 7:07 AM PST by Vanka

This weeks tournament will be a 2v2 single elimination tournament. It will be held Saturday March 19th.
First prize will be 100k and 2 power weapons.
Rules are as follows.
1. No magic items, weapons etc. (Do not bring them at all, you won't be allowed into the ring with anything magic in your pack)
2. No summoning or pets
3. No field spells
4. No stealing
5. No prepoisoned weapons (weapons must be poisoned after the fight starts)
6. 15 potion limit, this includes poison potions (all potions must be in one bag so all we have to do is check the item count for your potion bag)
7. You can precast: reflect, reactive armor, protection only. (buff spells and potions can not be cast or drank before the fight starts)
8. orange petals are not allowed
9. No late entries
10. You may rez your partner in the middle of the fight

Gates will be provided to the arena from the West Brit Bank and Oc'Nivelle starting at 8:30pm EST.

We are doing registration a bit different this week. We are capping the event at 16 teams. I will be taking registrations via pm during the week. If we don't get 16 teams before friday we will take sign ups on a first come first sign up basis starting at 8:30 at the arena.

Entrants will be posted in a separate thread to enable betting. More to come on this soon.

Read More Here!

Posted March 12, 2005 - 12:56 PM PST by Vanka

And now for something a little bit different...

This weeks tournament will be held on Saturday March 12th 8 pm EST at the Marble Island Arena. As always gates will be provided from WBB and Oc'Neville starting at 7:30 pm EST.

This will be a last man standing winner take all event with the following rules.

1. All fighters will enter the ring at the same time.
2. All fighters will flag for combat on the flag stone.
3. When I say go the fighting will start and will not stop until there is only one person left alive.
4. Healing and curing other fighters is allowed but rezing is not.
5. No prepoisoned weapons.
6. No summoning.
7. No pets.
8. 15 potion limit, this includes poison potions.
9. No magic items, weapons or armor.
10. You may precast reactive armor protection and reflect only.
11. Looting is allowed.
12. Yes I said looting is allowed
13. Stealing is also allowed but only in the fight. People stealing from spectators will be removed from the arena.

There is no registration fee and the prize will be at least 50K and a vanquishing weapon.