Mr. P Attends a Wedding!

Saya al-Ahanra of SC sends this tale of her wedding to Tempus Thauleez!

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Our real-life wedding was a true fairy-tale. From a most uniquely personal wedding blessing, to a most magical reception complete with a 16-piece orchestra playing big-band and swing music all night. If anyone wants to be bored with the details of what that day encompassed 10 years ago, I'd be thrilled to share.

Not every girl gets her fairy-tale wedding. This one was blessed with two.

Last night my husband and I celebrated our 10th anniversary by doing the wedding quest and our day was shared with many of our friends we have met over the past 3 years in Dereth. That alone would have been more than we could've asked for, but this one, too, was blessed with a fairy-tale quality.

Though my character outwardly showed no sign of panic, on this side of the keyboard I was frantically answering tells and trying to get everything ready. I had just arrived back at my house, still typing madly. It is important here for all of you to know I still look at the keys when I type.... Anyway, I was still outside of my villa when my eyes returned to the screen. On the grass was a wedding cake. How in the world I had dropped that I couldn't figure, but panic ensued and I scooped it up. It said I had 3 cakes in my inventory. I thought I had only 2, but I must've overlooked something. Anyway, as I'm trying to figure out this new math, a little further ahead of me there is a wedding raiment on the lawn. I picked it up...a little more confused...I never HAD a wedding raiment! OK... now I'm looking around for a friend who snuck it there - nothing on the radar. I turned around and bumped into 100 bottles of champagne... magically appearing of course. By now I have my suspicions, but come on... this just doesn't happen!!!!! This was followed by a cake knife, flowers, flowers, flowers, MORE flowers...it was sooo cool! So, as I'm gathering all of this, I'm talking to... well... no one visible... saying TY! omg!! OMG!!! Rambling like a psycho in-game to what appears to be thin air. Talk about your once in a toon-time experience.

Apparently, that was not all that The-Powers-That-Be had in store for us that night. As wedding time drew near and we were all gathered in the hall, we were greeted by a ring-bearer. Literally. An orange dot appeared in the wedding hall. As we looked up the stairs and ID'd it, it was none other than Mr. P! He was sporting the title "Ring Bearer". He came forward to us and presented us both with a wedding ring. They were not inscribed, but under the description it read, "To Commemorate the 10th Wedding Anniversary of Tempus Thauleez and Saya al-Ahnara." I literally had tears in my eyes. Remember folks -- although in-game this was a wedding, in real life we were celebrating a wonderful, wonderful day! And although this is not a real-life tangible gift, it is a part of this anniversary we will be adding to our cherished memories in this lifetime.

Mr. P stayed for the wedding... shed a lil penguin tear. (Though I am told Ashla had to hush Zao's sobs so she could hear everything... /e hands Zao a clean dry towel!) So many wonderful friends there to share our day! Thank you all!!!

We then cast a portal to the reception at the Blue Grotto Pub. (Mr. P came with... gotta say... pretty cool watching an orange dot on the radar take a portal!!) I lost the groom on the way to the pub, but was able to cross the room to his computer and get him there! (tee hee) There was cake, cake, more cake, champagne, ale, mead, meat pies, and... Mr. P brought cookies!!! (My only regret is I didn't grab a cookie in all of the excitement -- not a bad regret for the evening, eh?) Big Bug entertained us with... well... sort of hard to explain. We all had our takes on his actions, from pinata, to underwear model, to Man-who-kept-us-from-getting-our-deposit-back. We'll let him explain....

+Turbine Sappho joined us later on as well. (I mentioned strange occurrences at my villa earlier. She said she'd look into it....) It was pretty cool!

I want so much to thank all who came! The only thing preventing me from doing this is fear of leaving anyone out... sigh... in all of the excitement I didn't take pictures! :/ Thank you Kalista, Ofn, Lashea, Ashla, Derrick, Zao, Zarah, Big Bug, Heavenlei, Giftoluv, Sllayer, Flipo (our out-of-town guest), Neue, Chaos Master, Bright Red, Ci'Ahra Rae, Lil Foot, Big Mac Attack, Realm of Darkness, Jax, Rare Mage, Dragoon Shadow, If I missed you, please do NOT be offended, but add your name to the list! It was grand, wonderful, touching and unforgettable. We are very blessed indeed to have been able to share our day with all of you.

<3, Saya and Tempus

Ghostbusters on MT!
Dread Lord Boba Fett of MT sends this report and pics:

"There was a global about ghosts being in Glenden Wood, so I buffed up and headed there.

After I arrived I noticed dozens of bodies and soon saw the reasons, lag and Monsters and lots of both of them. Once I turned my textures down to Very Low and turned off all detailed rendering, the lag was minimal.

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There was one Doomed Spirit that would not show up on the map; he one hit whoever he hit and was the apparent boss. After killing him multiple times the hordes of monsters that he spawned with him stopped.

After about 2 hours of fighting and countless deaths the battle ended and they gave out titles. There were a few titles that I do not have pictures of, Containment Unit and Slimer are ones that I remember.

The dev controlled Doomed Spirit reappeared for us to take a picture with him (Picture 21). The dev would remove all enchantments from you occasionally, this included vitae and spells from/on armor and jewelry. This really just allowed you to die over and over and not think about it though."

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More Mr. P!
Kelur of TD reports: "Yeah yeah yeah, I know it's already happened on the other servers, but you know :P. Well he came to visit us at about 8pm GMT. He ran around saying a lot through /e etc .etc. etc. He asked for cookies and people gave them to receive the title, "Friend of Mr. P." I have taken loads of pictures which you could use on your webby!"

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Thanks also to Chilly Pie of TD!

Confucius of FF reports: "Hi Maggie, A penguin named Mr. P showed up in the Frostfell marketplace today (Oct. 8, 2005). He was asking for cake and cookies, so I got my chef out there and dropped a piece of fruitcake at Mr. P's feet. He said "Mr. P thinks this is strange cake" but he gave me the title "Friend to Mr. P"! I gave my clansmate The Drifta some fruitcake too and he also got the title. Mr. P was only around for about 15 minutes, but he also wound up giving the title "Nice Guy" to Maxxximus and "Nice Blue Lady" to Eater Beater Bunny.
 

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Leon Foxhear heart sends some additional piccs!
"I got some more screens from the TD Mr. P visit. I got lucky and got a kewl title: The Half-Foxplus. I'm sending a pic of just me and P. I'm also in a couple of thoes other TD pics."
 

Ghostbusters on HG!
Darius of the Nexus from HG reports: "Hi Maggie. The quest was alot of fun!

Several spawns of Phantoms, Haunts, and Doomed Spirits were spawned for about an hour. There were numerous corpses lying around. It was difficult to play at times due to the lag but Eldin managed to bring down the "boss" (the last doomed spirit). It's corpse dropped him 4 BMK keys and a brown lump.

Another interesting thing was many reported "losing buffs and banes" during the fighting. While I can not confirm that as fact, I can tell you that I noticed after two times I was "one-shot" by a melee attack and noticed that it was unbaned (something I was fairly sure I had done)."

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A second report arrives courtesy of Atros of HG: "Hello Maggie, Tonight I attended one of the live events in Glenden Woods on Harvestgain. After a long battle with Doomed Spirits and after dieing multiple times, we managed to defend Glenden Woods from the Ghosts. In the process I was given the title of ”Ecto Cooler” (it fits the event and my outfit perfectly!). A big Thank You!! to +Turbine Sappho for an awesome night!

Anyhow, I thought that this was a thing worth reporting to you.  Greetings,
Atros of HG"
 

Mr. P's Revenge!
Vierna Millithor of LC reports: "O dear, at about 8 pacific (Oct. 11, 2005) Mr. P says he was upset in Holt. So lots of ppl hit up Holtburg to see what's up. When a decent amount of ppl get here, Mr. P starts calling in Uber penguins. Then they totally kill off all that are not in a building and the lag in the entire area is beyond belief. Then I got this msg: Tired of seeing people mistreated his friend: Uber P. Has sworn vengeance on the people of Dereth. Was FUN FUN, minus the lag."

Scary Uber Pumpkin!
Hey Maggie,
Never thought I would see the day where I would get one shotted while I was fully buffed and baned, but it happened in Holtburg. It started when a clan mate of mine, Ivyforce, said in the allegiance channel, "That pumpkin in Holtburg just killed me." I know Ivy is a pretty high level, so I went to check it out. I landed in Holtburg and fired an arc right at it. The pumpkin resisted and then charged forward and hopped right up and the air landed on me and killed me in one clean shot. I then came back to Holtburg and saw it kill Kartia, a level 200 mage. This Pumpkin rocked as hard a bricks.

Toys Mage of Frostfell

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Manda Molak from FF reports: "Funnest live event on FF yet!

There was a Scary Pumpkin chasing people around Ayan and one hitting them. After dying once, it starts chasing me again -- through the Baishi portal, around Baishi, in and back out of the meeting hall, until finally North of Baishi where it got me again.

By that time I'm laughing so hard I'm crying. I run back, as soon as I speak, it kills me again, then once more.

Finally Evil-Lady killed it, after I secretly came back and started healing it. Ended up with a 'Pretty Pumpkin' and a hug from Sappho. Keep up the awesome work!"

Glenden Wood Ghost Invasion on MT

So I’m off hunting and I see the message in green that the spirits are restless in Glendon Wood. Naturally, I head off to investigate.

On arriving there were some nightmare wisps and some mid level ghosts running around and getting killed by the players with little trouble. Naturally, I waded into the thick of them, attracting the attention of a good number of them. Since these were not high level ghosts I could pretty much ignore their attacks, being pretty high level myself. So my health hadn’t even budged when all of a sudden I get “Doomed Spirit slays you so viciously even the lifestone flinches!”

I scrolled up and looked, and nothing had hit me before the kill message. OK, must be some fluke, right? I recall back and start fighting, higher level ghosts now, I had to be more careful, and I thought I was, but then WHAM! The doomed spirit again. OK, 10%, I can still deal with this, right? No, I get cornered by some restless spirits and taken down again. I recall back and start looking for my corpses to get my healing VII shoes that dropped back, and there’s ghosts everywhere and people getting killed left and right. Next thing you know I’m at 30% vitae, no healing buff because I can’t activate my shoes, and debuffed by the ghosts, and I can’t even hit them to try to lose the vitae. To make matters worse, ghosts don’t leave corpses, so all the items from the kills were lying around and causing a huge amount of lag.

Needless to say, 40% followed shortly. Now I was getting a bit frustrated, and it seemed like the ghosts were killing me with absurd ease, given that even with 40% my equipment should be providing all the buffs I need to at least take a war bolt without falling over. But no! At some point, the Doomed Spirit had dispelled me… completely, including the buffs on my sword, the buffs from my jewelry and clothing, the banes on my armor, everything! Including my vitae, which I’d gotten back up to 10% before I figured out what was going on. Now this was interesting!

I reactivated as much of my equipment as I could (some things I can’t activate with 10% vitae, this is usually not a problem as I don’t need to reactivate them after I die, usually) and got back into the fray. I could hit them! Unfortunately, the ghosts had the upper hand at this point, driving the scattered defenders to the outskirts of the town. To make matters worse, my healing VII shoes were among the items I couldn’t activate, along with my shirt that casts blade protection. Next thing you know I was at 40% for the second time.

But this time, when I got dispelled, I was ready for it! I re-equipped everything, buffed up my sword, and started taking out the ghosts like I meant it. Even better, someone suggested turning down the graphics to reduce lag. The defenders were driving back the ghosts, except for one Doomed Spirit that ran around killing people in one or two shots. Naturally, we all ganged up on it! Of course, it dispelled me and killed me again. But the spirit could not stand against so many defenders, and by the time I was back and looting my corpse, someone had killed it! There were much congratulations and rejoicing!

But the spirit was not done with us. It came back again and again, punching out the determined defenders each time before falling under a hail of war spells, arrows, and sword thrusts. Attempts to appease the spirit with food and drinks were met with assured death, and the spirit seemed to take especial glee from hunting down and slaying any who taunted it.

But even spirits must eventually rest, and this one eventually came no more to deal out vitae. Instead, an unseen force started dealing out titles! Some became “Ghostbusters” other titles included “Containment Unit”, “Slimer”, “Staypuffed”, “Proton Pack”, and the coveted “Who you gonna call?” and “Ain’t afraid of no ghosts!”. I was a bit relieved that I was allowed to keep my title of “Friend of Mr. P”, but it was great fun to see what the others were getting.

I wish I had taken screenshots, though they would have been low quality due to turning down the settings, it was really an event to remember! I am sure I raised my already prodigious death count by over 20, and I was still able to take my revenge on that Doomed Spirit

The Title to Own All Other Titles

Lol HEY MAGGIE, Long time fine. I'm an old dinosaur -- been around forever and your site rocks.... Anyways, we got invaded by a Scary Pumpkin. If you took its "baby" pumpkin, it would RUN YOU DOWN and PWN you. Well a few peeps did it... I watched, it would kill em and go back.... Well I took the pumpkin and lit a fire under my bum... I never died... The pumpkin would FOLLOW me whenever I ported. I went to sanc; it was there waitin. I went in a portal, BOOM, right there behind me... It was scary. I even portal logged and got on my mule.... It KILLED my mule in my villa (I have a pic). Anyways it was a Scarecrow event. After the event, since I was the only one who didn't hit LS, she gave me a special title... It owns all other titles....

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Also when she was helping me, she took away my ability to use one of my items lore 388 my lore is 342 =\ pic 5 is her and I in her "love nest" as she breaks the news she can't help me. Anyways I have a few more pics if you want me to send em in... Great site Maggie.

Druss the Destroyer
~Lvl 171 and riseing Grief Mage of VT
Druss The Silver Slayer
~lvl 150+ (Retired *for now) Uber Melee of LC

Mr. P Makes More Friends
Brunswick of SC reports: "At about 4:30 PM, on Oct. 15, during the uninscription event, Mr. P appeared along with the usual +Turbine. Mr. P is a level 5 penguin with a sweet tooth. If you feed him a cookie or a piece of cake you got the Friend to Mr. P title."

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Shayk the Drudge God sends this hello: "Hail Maggie, I've been using your site for many years now and I'm so glad ya made it. The site has been a help in so many things. I've recommended it to all my friends too. Maybe I should to my new friend, Mr. P?"

J-A-K-E of HG reports: "Hello Maggie. Saw two penguins in MP today (Oct. 18). Once lvl 30 called Mr.P and another lvl 235 called Uber P. Rumors are that if you give them cookies, you get the title of Friend of Mr.P. I do not know if this is true. Here are some pics of them in MP. =]"
 

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Stuff You Just Can't Make Up
Darius of the Nexus from HG sends in this very strange report: "I was at my mansion muling to my second account when I encountered a "creature".

I have no idea how long this dev controlled toon was there, and if it even said anything.

When I did look up at it and said something, it spit out some lumps of ground beef and then when invis!

Folks, this is stuff you just CANT make up..."

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The Galvanic Knight Comes to TD
The Galvanic Knight, first seen last month, has come to TD! Orian the Magical from TD reports: "Howdy =) My name is Orian the Magical from Thistledown. I noticed there was a live event near the Land Bridge settlement, so I checked it out and turns out I got the kill on a Galvanic Knight. This punk hits hard! Did 50-150 damage on tinked, baned armor! Anyway, there was only armor on his loot... but it seems to be well worth the battle! =) Also, if you or anyone else knows, could you let me know if this is the only armor set like this in the server? Thanks! And awesome site!"

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Protecting Mr. P
Deven-Kenyon / Seakon Fate of SC reports: "Hi there Maggie!

Earlier this evening we had a little visitor that seemed to have lost his way. There were many deaths, much vp, leveling and I even ended up with a new title :o) pics attached.

It started with Uber P "going ahead to check if it was safe" and all of a sudden Uber Penguins spawned in large numbers. When we killed those off, Uber P again went ahead to check if it was safe and insatiable (I think it was) penguins spawned, then even more ubers (there's one pic with them in a line on radar. I didn't want to get too close yet [understandably]).

I had so much vp and no more DI's; my armor was starting to drop on the corpses and I couldn't even buff myself anymore, but it was a blast. I spent much time behind trees making sure Mr P was safe (pic attached), but he was so scared anyway.

Uber P finally escorted Mr. P to a safe place after we all received new titles. I must say, that lil sucker was FAST! It'd be cool if we had a glide emote like Mr. P lol.

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Thunder Chicken
Darkavenger of TD reports: "Taking a short cut through Shoushi on Thistledown, me (darkavenger) and Cari' dropped in on Thunder Chicken. Sadly, he didn't want to try out our new chicken dip sauce and flew the coop :)."

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Frozen in Mid-Air
Deven-Kenyon of SC reports: "oh btw, Solclaim was also visited by the knight and that crystal a few days ago. I thought someone would have sent in the info, and maybe they did and you haven't posted yet. Anyway, we finally killed the knight and the crystal.

Tonight I missed the event. Logged in just as it was over, but there was extra events afterwards lol. Gimps use Archers kept taunting +Sappho to a PK duel, but she wouldn't bite. Instead, while we encouraged her to dump him bludge vulned, naked and 300 bu over Mt. Lethe, she didn't but she did freeze him high above us lol after she left. While we were jumping around making fun of him, a few of us found ourselves frozen too! It was a blast!"

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Rolling Balls of Death
Wind Wisper of WE reports: "Hi Maggie, I love your web site. I am sending you some screenshots of the attack today in Eastham on WE. There were several balls rolling all over town. They all could kill you. Most of them you couldn't target, except one. It was alive. I killed the live ball, and received the title of "Rolling Death Destroyer" :). Thank you for you site :). It has helped me a lot. TC, Wind Wisper"

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Thunder Chicken Crashed My Quest!
William the Bat of MT reports:

"Today (Oct. 21, 2005)I was taking a group through the tusks, when in the assailer dungeon, in the tusk room, a very large chicken (taller than an Isparian) appeared and promptly disappeared. We were all standing around going "what the heck was that?" when a normal chicken appeared. I yelled out "don't hurt the chicken!" but it was too late. The Looker (Illumini's axer) took it out. We all sorta looked around, expecting all heck to break loose. Nothing happened. We fought off the respawn and were going to the portal and suddenly Thunder Rooster took out The Looker in one shot. It was promptly invisible again, if it even had appeared in the first place.

We were laughing, but wondering how on earth he was going to get back there to rejoin the quest. Fortunately pity was taken upon him, and he was teleported back so he could get his stuff. So after a bit of rebuffing and fighting off some tuskers, we hit the exit portal... only to be followed by the rooster! The darned thing started chasing us towards the rampager dungeon which was our next destination. The guys were so distracted by this they missed the dungeon entirely and ended up in Tusker Assault.

So now we got some people in the Holding, some people in Tusker Assault, I got no idea where an exit portal is in Tusker Assault, We recalled to Oolutanga's Refuge and went back to the Holding, but the guys in the Holding went to Tusker Assault, they gave up, someone else fell in the pit and gave up. By this time I had a multiple corpse emergencies going on elsewhere, and apparently by this time the Thunder Rooster had decided to pick on someone who wasn't trying to do a quest.

Oh. My. Lord.

Now, I have to admit, while honored that the Thunder Rooster would seek out our quest and come play with us, I was a little annoyed by this time.

But really, how many times does the Thunder Rooster come crash your quest? I don't think I've had so much fun with a quest gone wrong since Stay Puffed killed me in Lady Aerfalle's chamber when I tried to get the ashen key back from him.

We never did get to the Lacuna, but I have to admit, a giant chicken is more interesting than a bunch of big monkeys any day.

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Fear the Chicken Slayers
Xerox of HG reports: "Hi Maggie,

We had a little Dev event on Harvestgain. Holtburg was attacked by a giant level 4 Thunder Chicken. The Chicken ran all over the place really fast, causing the melees to get dragged around with the sticky melee. Mages were useless against it. Even with totally maxed magic skills, I couldn't touch it. The Chicken was using little slashing attacks that did almost no damage and had some sort of lightning attack that seemed to bypass all Life protects. It was the lightning that caused all the deaths.

I got some screenshots of the Chicken and the three people that got the kills, plus the +Envoy who was controlling it. After the Chicken was killed for the third time, the +Envoy showed up to give the Slayers their reward. The +Envoy was even nice enough to remove the vitae from everyone who got killed by he Chicken.

The people that got the kills received the title of Thunder Chicken Slayer and each received a chicken hat. The original hat was white, but Chi-Min-Shu asked for a dye job and the +Envoy did it. So the others got theirs dyed too.

The Slayers in the picture are from left to right:
Blond Bimbo, +Envoy Sappho, Chi-Min-Shu, and Vana de Lochness

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More Thunder Chicken Sightings
LamFox of WE reports: "Was just killing eaters and all of a sudden a Thunder Chicken appeared. Was fresh out of guinness so I knew it was true despite the pleas from ppl that I come back to the light.

It disappeared after about 3-5 seconds and I reported it. Envoy Cody shot me a response to say "Thanks for your report, the creatures of Dereth have a mind of their own, have a nice night."

Figured it wasn't an error after that response so I hung around another while. Thunder Chicken reappeared after another while and I tried to hit it with Eviscerations only to get message telling me I failed to effect Thunder Chicken as I am not a Player Killer. Thunder Chicken disappeared all of a sudden and didn't reappear :(

Not sure if anyone else has seen or killed one yet, but they are feckin huge!

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Deven-Kenyon of SC reports: "I advertised for noble weapon quest on /lfg earlier. I was out there alone buffing some weapons and out of the corner of my eye, I see this gigantic chicken spawn. I had the camera turned away and was watching a close spawn of monsters, and by the time I selected the chicken, I was just barely able to ID it and catch its name, which was Thunder Chicken and he ran off! So I sent out a call over general chat, and of course no one would believe a Thunder Chicken had spawned out there in the desert. A few stragglers came to check it out, and while we're standing around a normal chicken spawned. Well this guy/gal zeta killed it and guess what? Thunder spawned again! And killed zeta lol. We ran after it for a bit, then it went invisible on us, but I had him selected and followed him. Then he reappeared and hopped up to the Izji Qo temple and sat there. Qora then killed him, and another spawned and killed her! After that, the chicken started laying eggs. I made the mistake of picking one up and it started attacking me, so I set it back down quickly. Then I made a joke about KFC and he killed me lol.

It was great fun. :D We ended up with chicken hats and gimps use archers got himself a brand new title! (Cause he likes to taunt +Sappho, lol silly man.)

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Machine of MT reports: "Maggie, I thought I'd send in our little adventure with the infamous Thunder Rooster. One of my followers, Billy, spotted the Thunder Rooster briefly at our mansion before it tore off like a thunder bolt. Unfortunately for Billy, he was the only one that saw it. We were about to put him in the padded cell in the mansion basement when suddenly chickens started appearing all over the front lawn. After wiping out a good handful of them, the Thunder Rooster appeared and a great battle ensued. Many times we got the Thunder Rooster down to about 10% health but then he would speed off like we were standing still and be back at full health in seconds. We chased him inside, outside, on the roof. He even sent me to the lifestone on Vissidal and then followed me there seconds later. Needless to say, we ganged up on him pretty good and finally managed to kill him. +Turbine Sappho eventually appeared and gave 3 of us Thunder Rooster hats."

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Doomed Spirit Attack on HG!

Cody reports: "Hey Maggie, I'm a long time user of your site, but I've never sent anything in. Tonight (Oct. 24, 2005) there was a live event in GW. It was attacked by Doomed Spirits. Here are a couple of pictures of afterwards -- we were given pumpkin pie! Happy Halloween!"

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Jassa of HG reports: "We were all at the Live Event this evening, Spirits and corpses laying everywhere....hehe. One of my honorable followers Xaosheng Kwon killed the Dev!

+Turbine Sappho says, "22:09:11 Your seared corpse smolders before Xaosheng Kwon!"

Grats to Kwon!! "