Shard of the Dead II
For the second year in the row, the developers have created a Test Center style shard with a Halloween theme. Many different events and activites can be found for a spooky good time. On login, a player recieves either a light black or dark orange death robe. Developers can be found sometimes causing their own chaos, such as large scale explosions at the bank or unleashing monsters on unsuspecting players.
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Costume Gates
Special orange moongates can be found throughout the land, including a few hidden in East Britain, that will change your shape when you enter. You can become a Daemon, Dragon, Gazer, or many other creatures. This lasts until you entered a different costume gate or the costume removal gate.
Zombie Plague
A zombie virus is infecting NPCs and players alike. If a zombie deals damage, the victum will forever be under the spell of death. Once they die, their corpse will ressurect as a zombie which will go on to infect others.
Technicolored Tower
The Technicolored Tower of Awesome is a spiraling structure that towers over West Britain Bank. At the top is several Paint Station dye tubs which can be used to dye any item, player, or pet. Many players enjoy the more flashy and neon hues that are not normally available on production shards.
JIB's Random Maze
Obviously created by UO developer JIB, the entrance gate to this maze could be found in Lord British's Castle. The maze itself is about 4x4 screens large and not very difficult. It changes its shape once and a while, providing a new challenge each time. Zombies can usually be found feasting on participants.
Coelacanth's Maze
This lava pit maze could be found on the west side of Luna. Players must traverse a hidden path through the lava while it reveals itself to you. One wrong mistep and you get sent back to the beginning while taking a little damage. If you get caught at a dead end, the ground will disappear from your feet. At the end of the maze is special colored platemail armor bearing Coelacanth's name. Any player who finishes the maze can pick it up. They will then be sent back to the start and a new piece will appear.
Vampire Wars
It is a vampire verse slayer all out bash. Players can pick their team and fight the opposite in a Factions style battle taking place in Felucca Trinsic. Each team has a couple of bases located in and around Trinsic that players can signup at by double clicking the signup stone. Each base stone also acts as a ressurection Ankh. Each side has a scoreboard gravestone which tracks each side's kill count.
Rewards
- Killing a vampire NPC gives you a chance to get a cursed artifact
- Turning an NPC into a vampire gives you a chance to get a minor artifact
- Bringing 10 unique vampire heads or 10 unique vampire slayer souls to a faction stone gives you one of the following rewards randomly:
- Major Artifact (not cursed)
- Glass Weapon - Weapon that can be used once but does insane damage.
- Bombs - Each faction has a bomb that when used causes an area effect explosion similar to the ones at the faction stones. The explosion only affects members of the opposite faction.
Vampire
Vampires can not heal and take damage slowly. Luckily they can heal themselves by attacking other NPCs and players. They recieve full health upon turning another mobile into a vampire. Vampires can turn vampire slayers into vampires by doing a certain amount of damage to them (the amount of damage is tweakable by me, right now its at 50%) Vampires can not attack other vampires. Turning a player vampire slayer into a vampire awards you with his soul which can be used for special rewards. The only way to rejoin the living is to die and ressurect. -- Supreem, UO Programmer
Slayer
Slayers get a bonus to damage against vampires. This makes up for the fact that vampires only need to get you to half health to turn you. (Currently Slayers do 175% damage to vampires) Killing a player vampire awards you with his bloody head which can be used for special rewards. The only way to leave the slayers is to die and ressurect. -- Supreem, UO Programmer
