Thursday, September 25, 2008

Guild Participation in Stealing the Ruined Painting



Well, this was a great memory for myself and a few of my guildmates. As we are an active guild on Catskills, we constantly have people running peerless, spawns, Doom, crafting, just about anything at anytime.

There are a select group of us that are, in fact, almost exclusively "night-owls", and we've gotten to know each other quite well from the late night excursions in our home shard.

One fateful night/morning, about thirty minutes til server down, I was busy stashing my loot from multiple peerless runs, and I hear the call from my cohorts in Doom that the fabled Ruin Painting had spawned! I could hardly control my anxiousness as five or more people yelled their excitement thru Vent.

"Is anyone on a thief?", "Is anybody on that is a 120 Thief!?!?!" they called out...

I was up to the challenge! Oh no! My skill is stoned and have NO points to spare on any character! By the time I log onto the right character, transfer skills off of him, and get the stealing skill back on, the Artifact 12 PAINTING WILL BE LONG GONE!!! Let's not forget that server down is fast approaching as well, and not ONE of us knows if it will be there when the servers go live again.

I do my best to get everything together, but can't find a gold skull to save my life, nothing on searchuo.com, nothing in my house!

Server goes down.

We are excited but nervous that the painting is gone.

A guildmate comes to my rescue and comes and gets me with a golden skull at server up, and when I arrive at the most expensive vendor shop in all of Sosaria, the wonderfully ripped up artwork is STILL THERE!

120 Stealing does it's job and the painting is OURS!!!

We had so much fun that night and will forever hold those memories dear......

Blogging on Ultima and Goings on....

Thanks for visiting my site. This is my first attempt at blogging, so thanks for any patience you show with my newness! I've been an Ultima player, off and on, since 1999. After my longest break from the game, I came back in October of 2007 and have really enjoyed returning and creating new accounts and players. Lots of things have changed but the game still captures my imagination and I find myself thinking of strategies and templates and collecting through out my day! This, in my humble opinion, is a great hobby to have these days, as it takes you past regular video games and teaches patience, thru the training processes, cooperation, thru participating in guilds or other groups, and also stimulates your mind thru many complex problems that you encounter in-game.

I've also been a collector of rare items since I joined this community. While I've never been a "major player" in this realm of UO, I've enjoyed it and constantly am reading the Rares forum on Stratics and buying and selling on my home shard of Catskills and run vendors there and on a few other shards including Atlantic and Napa Valley.

I've been to the Asian shards recently and will be posting on those field trips in the coming days.

Thanks for reading and I hope to post some good articles and pictures on this blog for you to enjoy!