I'm not sure to post it here or in the story arc section, but the runes on UO.com have changed to "Inu Has Seen It".

Where we left off last week, we were at a door that required a legendary lockpick/er. Whatever is behind the door is probably the big surprise, and I expect we'll be running all over Sosaria figuring out the clues to open the door.

Stratics is down, and normally there is a good thread there about the ongoing scenario that I read (I don't participate in it because I'm usually three steps behind ).

I'm posting it here, because whatever is revealed in the next seven days will affect every UO player - it has been described as bigger than a pre-UO:AOS Shard, and it has nothing to do with PunkBuster or the 9th Annivesary pack.

Speculation includes:
A new 3D client or a major facelift to UO in general.
Some kind of inter-shard moongate.
A new facet or lands.

It's hard not to get excited when you hear it's bigger than a pre-AOS shard.

I think the suprise is we are all getting purple soulstones. They work just like the "limited time only" green soulstones...but they are totaly different (much like the blue soulstones:grin: )

I'm of the mind it has to be something that involves a new land or graphics as Inu preaches something about waking up in an unfamiliar place at the beginning of Chapter 1 in the official fiction (hopefully not DAOC... which I seriously doubt).

Either way, a lot of discussion seems to occur on the UHall Forum which seems to have an intermittent connection these last few days.

Here is the Wiki, for all those that would like to potentially follow along this weekend:

http://www.britanniacartel.com/wiki


“The day comes! It comes I say, when none shall pass! Or all shall pass away!”
“And strange and unfamiliar things shall fill the skies,”
“You will wake, and know not where you are…”

WOW Hazard thanks for the wiki link! I've been lost with this new story

Definitely a huge focus on moongates and something new coming that looks different - graphics, moongates, maybe even a client.

The 9th anniversary has two housing tile sets that are nowhere in the game currently, those sets could tie into whatever is coming as well.

"I think the suprise is we are all getting purple soulstones"

Oh! I have been promoting a purple moongate concept for a long time ...

when a player steps through the purple moongate .. they become neither red nor blue ...
they are neutral and able to travel to any location throughout Sosaria and see all the
wonderous sites without any fear of man, beast ...

*dream on Mum :grin:

My bets on the return of the Seer and Volenteer Program.

No problem. Theres a few things missing (a map of the new hidden room w/ locked door found in the Ethereal Warrior Fortress), but I'm pretty sure all the NPC dialogue is up to date. The main person who tends the site is on vacation I think, but some of us have been updating dialogue as the events are occuring.

Not in the US. Lawyers wouldn't allow it, and another lawsuit could erase the profits from UO and lead to an eventual terminatin of UO.

They could pull off the Seer program if they were formal employees, but that wouldn't be bigger than a Pre-AOS shard, and I doubt EA wants to put that much money into UO.

Volunteers - After the AOL and EA lawsuits, no go in the US.

YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS

They're finally changing all trammel rule based facets to felucca based ones yay! *wakes up* oops..

Ok ok, runic saws, kits, hammers, tools will all have 100 charges each!

*wakes up*

So really.. what do you think it is? I doubt it'll be some sort of inter shard moongate, they make too much money on character transfers..

Laws change man, thats the whole point of them.
If there is a will there is a way.

I think we are all going to be forced to leave our usual haunts,re some original dialogue with the Wisps.

Talk was of,a town being covered by a dark cloud,ie Britt,rivers turned to blood and anothers walls crumbling,possibly Nu'jelm

I think we are going to 'wake up' one day and our characters find their 'worlds' totally destroyed,causing them to find a new moongate leading to a new 'land'