UOAlive Day 184: Holiday Questing

 

Today I attempted to do a few of the custom holiday events on UOAlive. One of the quests has players escort reindeer to Santa on Ice Island.

Unfortunately, a bunch of powerful mobs spawn in the same area the reindeer spawn in. I originally attempted to escort a few reindeer on my bard, but the gingermen and corrupted Christmas trees kept one-shotting all the deer.

I brought my tamer and her cu to see if I could make any headway on the mobs, but that turned into a long battle of attrition. I ended up aborting my mission with the intention of letting the reindeer spawn in a safer location for my bard to handle.

Unfortunately, I forgot that the Witch/Witch Hunter event was still going on while traveling through Skara Brae to find a few NPCs, and I inadvertently started a witch spawn in Skara Brae.

The story of this event is long and convoluted, but in short I don't see it lasting long on this server. Some of the players I have mentioned previously had some choice complaints that drove the admins to cancel the event originally, and after heads had cooled down they made the decision to revisit the event. Unfortunately, I'm seeing a lot of the same attitudes that got the event cancelled in the first place.

Here's hoping I'm wrong, and the players get to enjoy the fruits of the admins' labour and efforts to bring us interesting content.

I went back to Ice Island later to try and locate some of the reindeer, but unfortunately they had all spawned inside a private castle that nobody could access. This has been a consistent issue on the server, but the admins have told players who report the issue to just wait until the game moves the reindeer or they respawn elsewhere. I can't say I disagree, as it's a hard to account for issue, but this has put me off attempting this quest again any time soon.

The Moonglow tree was about to expire this afternoon, so I took some time to gate over all of my characters to claim their gifts.

The next tree was Magincia, so as soon as four o'clock rolled around I scurried over to the new location and started throwing my large BODs at the elf.

I ended up taking the tree completely to max level with about 12 large BODs. That might be a bit much, but I'm not complaining. I've noticed that outside of the first tree, nobody has been contributing large BODs to the tree. A single person to carrying the rest of the server is going to get expensive, resource-wise.

I restocked the free pre-filled bods at the Three Stone Tavern before logging off for the night.