RunUO Halloween Event
In October of 2000, OSI pleasantly surprised many players (including myself) by launching a unique shard, dubbed "Shard O' Screams." This was one of a few special shards that they put up, including Santa's Sleigh, Farmageddon, and of course, Abyss.
That was 5 years ago, and it's hard to imagine anything like that happening again. Well, on OSI anyway.
Over the last few weeks, some friends and I have been working diligently to recreate that experience; to design and decorate our own halloween shard with the same spirit that OSI once had.
It's called "Devils' Hallow" (hey, you try naming a halloween shard
), and it lies somewhere between Shard O' Screams and Abyss. We're very excited to see your reactions to it, and hope to leave the same mark that OSI once left on us.
The shard will open its doors at midnight, UTC, on the 30th--exactly one day before halloween--and stay up for 5 days. I've been intentionally vague on the details: we'd like much of it to be a surprise. But, if you are interested in the shard, there are two ways to participate:
First, if you run your own shard, you can use this script to have Devils' Hallow show up on your server list automatically when the shard opens. The script will also deactivate itself after 5 days.
Secondly, you can log in traditionally:
-like-
Remember, however, that in either case, the server will not be accessible until it opens.
Hope to see you there.
In October of 2000, OSI pleasantly surprised many players (including myself) by launching a unique shard, dubbed "Shard O' Screams." This was one of a few special shards that they put up, including Santa's Sleigh, Farmageddon, and of course, Abyss.
That was 5 years ago, and it's hard to imagine anything like that happening again. Well, on OSI anyway.
Over the last few weeks, some friends and I have been working diligently to recreate that experience; to design and decorate our own halloween shard with the same spirit that OSI once had.
It's called "Devils' Hallow" (hey, you try naming a halloween shard
), and it lies somewhere between Shard O' Screams and Abyss. We're very excited to see your reactions to it, and hope to leave the same mark that OSI once left on us.The shard will open its doors at midnight, UTC, on the 30th--exactly one day before halloween--and stay up for 5 days. I've been intentionally vague on the details: we'd like much of it to be a surprise. But, if you are interested in the shard, there are two ways to participate:
First, if you run your own shard, you can use this script to have Devils' Hallow show up on your server list automatically when the shard opens. The script will also deactivate itself after 5 days.
Secondly, you can log in traditionally:
Code:
Address: halloween.runuo.com
Port: 5226-like-
Code:
LoginServer=halloween.runuo.com,5226Remember, however, that in either case, the server will not be accessible until it opens.
Hope to see you there.
