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
The newly raised zombie will equip all the items left on your corpse and your corpse will disappear. You must kill the zombie to reclaim your items.
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. To set the dye tub you need to know the number code of the color you want, this can be found using InsideUO.
JIB's Mazes
Easy 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 every 20 minutes, providing a new challenge each time. There is no reward other then being able to exit the maze. However, you can use other means such as Recall and Sacred Journey to leave.
Ultimate Maze of DOOM
This maze is a lot larger then the first. It is about the size of the entire Covetous Dungeon. It keeps going on and on and on. Sometimes you think you are on the right track but then reach several dead ends. At the end there is only a teaser telling you that the reward is at the end of the Really Hard Maze.
Really Hard Maze
About 3 times the size of the Ultimae Maze of DOOM, this maze is the most challenging. Once completed you get a real prize: an empty box of Tokuno Minor Artifacts. Actually they were probably all taken already. In addition, you can double-click a gravestone to see a huge explosion go off around you. Your name becomes subfixed with the "A-MAZE-ING MAZER" title and your body hue changes randomly, similar to Coelacanth's ugly armor. You also have a light source which follows you around like a snake.
Coelacanth's Maze
Named and created by UO Developer Coelacanth, this lava pit maze could be found on the southwest 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. This armor changes its hue every few seconds and is turely an eyesore. Any player who finishes the maze can pick it up off the ground. They will then be sent back to the start and a new piece of armor 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
- Non-participants do 50% damage to slayers and vampires
Purple Turtle Medusa Strange creatures named Purple Turtle Medusa are spawning outside the Trammel Hedge Maze. A gate to the location can be found on the second floor of Lord's British's Castle. The medusas can turn you into a frozen statue for several seconds. They also change your color to a bright neon green. Other abilities and rewards are unknown, but sometimes a Medusa's Mirror can be found on their corpse. |
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 Zombies have invaded a shop in Zento. |
