Kalazar of SC, along with Kat Jekura of SC reporting on the live event and the Bur quests.

It started with the Prince spawning some critters, then summoning all 3 pedestals. Once we defended him while he arranged everything, he opened up Bur. There were 4 chests spawned with the xp item/hookable item in it. We then went through found lots of mushrooms, Buruk, and some Burun NPCs. There are several slayer quests to kill buruk, 4-5 of them or so. Also 4 new Decorative statues of the buruk weapons.

After talking to all the burun NPCs, I went into the Southern Catacombs, then ran around for a little bit and finally found the Deep Caverns portal. There is where I found the Matriarch undead/falatacot at the bottom. She had 9000 hp, and had lots of friends. After killing her then taking the two items back up to the main burun, he gave me a title for one, then sent me to the Hebian-To translator for the other. After translating it, I went back to him again for a second title, Seeker of Torgluuk.
 

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Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "I am going to proceed to the first pedestal."
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "Prepare yourselves..."
Prince Borelean Strathelar stands before the pedestal, radiating intensity and impetuousness.
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "Quavosh Thipaj!"

Prince Borelean Strathelar relaxes from his spellcasting. He looks worn as he moves away from the pedestal.
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "This one is finished. But there are two more I must attune to before we are finished."

Prince Borelean Strathelar lowers his steady gaze toward the second pedestal, percing eyes visible even through his steely black helm.
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "Quavosh Thipaj!"
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "The ritual shall begin again at this pedestal. Once again, protect me - there will be more Falatacot assaulting us, attempting to kill me for creating this portal."

Prince Borelean Strathelar stops his ritual meditation and steps away, fatigue dragging at his legs.
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "There is only one more to be completed. We've done well, comrades - let us see this through to its end!"

Prince Borelean Strathelar raises his hands as he approaches the third pedestal.
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "Quavosh Thipaj!"
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "Be on your guard, brave people, for the assault shall renew itself once more."

Prince Borelean Strathelar stumbles tiredly away from the last pillar. With an effort of will, he pulls himself erect and addresses the crowd.

Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "We've made much progress...but there is one last step, if you will help me once more. Attend me on the platform."

Prince Borelean Strathelar appears, looking significantly more beaten and tired than before. His armor is covered by the muticolored blood and ichor of enemies that he must have fought within portal space.
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "Roiga Thisith!"
Prince Borelean Strathelar says, "I shall remain here for a time, although I must leave soon to rest."

A portal to Bur has been opened at the portal site that Asheron used. If you have undergone a process to enter the portal, you may now visit the world of Bur.

Prince Borlean Strathelar says, "It is time for me to depart. I think I need to rest for a few days, not strain myself too much. Good fortune to you all in Bur, though. If you find anything of import, please let us know."

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You give Fanzen San the Translator Illuminated Scroll.
Fanzen San the Translator tells you, "Oh my! Where did you get this?"
You explain to Fanzen San about your travels to Bur, and about the Ruuk Village."
Fanzen San the Translator tells you, "This note is very disturbing. If you took it from one to whom it was addressed, then you have repaid one small revenge for Asheron."
Fanzen San the Translator tells you, "I will not tell you what to do with this translation, but I'd like to suggest that Hasin Lin, in Sawato, may be able to make use of this information to find Asheron."
Fanzen San the Translator tells you, "Take it to Hasin Lin, or that Ruuk Village Guardian, Gruuk'lar. The choice is up to you."
Fanzen San the Translator give you Traslated Falatacot Scroll.

You allow Gruuk'lar to examine your Illuminated Falatcot Scroll.
Gruuk'lar tells you, "I cannot read these strange Fiazhat symbols, and looking at it brings pain to my eyes. Do you know any of your people that can translate such old and forbidden runes? I believe your people refer to the Fiazhat 'Gods' as Falatacot."
Gruuk'lar tells you, "If this scroll you have found can aid us in finding Torgluuk and his companion, Asheron, My people will honor and reward you for a translation of it."
You give Gruuk'lar Ornate Falatacot Medallion.
Gruuk'lar looks the medallion over, sniffing at it.
Gruuk'lar tells you, "There is strange magic on this. I will send it to our Shaman, and see what they can learn from it. Thank you. It is a clue, and with it, we may be able to track down more information."
Gruuk'lar tells you, "Take this."
You've earned 60,000,000 experience.
Gruuk'lar declares you an ally of the Ruuk.

You give Bromord Morresten Prince's Medal of Bravery.
Bromord Morresten tells you, "A hero from the opening of the portal to Bur, hm? Let me teach you a few combat techniques, so you can help the realm again in the future."
You've earned 92,931,206 experience.

Thistledown Reports In!

Adam Swish of TD sends this report: "I played 4 years ago, if you remember, but I got some pictures of really early cottage settlements for you before anyone could buy them. I'm level 40 right now, and reading a little about last night's live event, I knew I had to be careful. I met at my monarch's mansion, Wandering Stranger, and we cast a portal (New Colier Holtburg Settlement Portal), ran about 8 clicks, and were there right when it started, if a little bit late... we got lost =).

The lag was the worst I've ever had in AC. I think it was because when baddies summoned, they came about 2 dozen at a time. I perched up on one of the four towers, and enjoyed the show, trying not to get killed. I clicked the prince to watch what he did. He went to each pedestal and prayed. Every time he did this, the 2 dozen creatures spawned, the lag got worse, and people cleared the way for him. He basically said he was gonna keep praying no matter what. When he got done with all three, he went onto the platform and left. Great.

When he left, he said stay here, and I'll be back soon, basically. When he left, more creatures spawned including a boss that killed probably a dozen people before a group of players took it down. With this, the portal to bur appeared as well as 4 chests with Prince's Badges of Honor for helping with the live event. You can take them to this guy in Yanshi for Xp based on level or hang it on a hook. I made the mistake of turning it in =/. I couldn't go to bur... didn't do the quest, but people already cleared dungeons and beat bosses to get scrolls. These scrolls have to be translated and then I guess they are turned in for XP? Not 100% sure. The 1 of the 2 NPCs at the bur site speaks positively of the prince, which I thought was cool.

The prince talked to people after the portal spawned. He bowed to me and told me that the portal was gonna stay there for a while, which I thought was cool. (people thought it would disappear) I visited the portal again a few hours after and a few people were planning to clear out a bunch of dungeons. As for anything else on Asheron... I don't know, I think we need to give people more time to check out Bur. Hope this helps Maggie!"

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The Report from WE!

Eyas Maggie,

I was early in Cragstone, and was setting my graphics to minimum (sorry for quality screenies), when I actually saw the prince come running into Crag from beyond the meeting hall. The global hadn't been broadcast yet, guess he wanted to be right on time too ;). He prolly ID-ed me and saw my portal ritualist title, since he thanked me for that, but since I was still busy with my pc, I had no proper answer ;).

After the broadcast, more people gathered in Crag, most people on WE were already at the portal site. The prince cast a portal and asked us to clean the way to the site. Few waves of critters, first towards the drop from the portal, later towards the pedestals. Snakes, spirits and falatacot, just like in the dungeons for the flagging and the preparing of the site.

Lag was incredible. I could not switch weapons and hardly managed to heal. After the praying at each pedestal, he asked us to gather on the platform, and a massive wave, including a baddy which was planning to come for our blood (also a dev I guess, since he responded to some stuff people said too). The prince kept role-playing and responding to people the whole time during the event, except when he said something like "save3" and told us to ignore that ;).

After the portal was summoned, the chests spawned, and the prince stuck around a bit chatting with a lot of people, but staying completely in his role. Unfortunately, I don't have a log, since his early appearance kinda surprised me.

The event itself did not take long, I guess 40 minutes all, but after that we started exploring the world of Bur. It might be a dungeon, but it's huge, with a lot of sub-dungeons. Small non-aggro shrooms run around in there, I guess they are the rabbits of Bur. There is a portal that doesn't look like a portal (something like Kor-Ghura or so), which leads to where the kill-task NPCs are, and the vendors which also sell the decoration weapons.

Several other portals, I ran into Southern, but gave up after having the feeling of running in circles, it's another huge dungeon. Lots of new shroom-type-critters and the Guruk. We gathered with a huge group led by Paloma II, and managed to find the portal to get to Bosh Bosh, which was eventually killed. Got loads of screenies from running around there and the new critters, including the image from the splash-screen in the dungeon, but wont fill up the mailbox ;).

Greetz and keep up the good work,
Sanddh of WE

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