This was post on the Chesapeake Shard Forum over at Stratics by Xotche of Meade:



As promised, it's time to begin the first stages of a shard wide event that has proven over the last 2 years to be isanely funny, FREE and loads of quality comic relief in our UO worlds.

I wanted to wait a bit until the UOML dust settled down before we began to ask for staff/volunteers/event-host. It is a large undertaking to develope, organize and host a festival, everytime I personally say that's my last one and yet.... the pm's come, new people volunteer, old host come back and another one is planned! WOOOT!

Give me a PM or post here if interested!

Historically: All events are FREE and open to the Public. We do depend on donations of prizes and gold from our generous public and private benifactors. Festivals do best when held on Sunday late afternoon into the evenings. We hold them in a town vs. private homes/ rp towns (though some events need to be staged from a home that we gate to). Any event should never depend on just one person to run it, since we average 45-200+ participants per festival.

Tried and true events: Here are just a few favorites that perhaps we can find a guild or group of players to host...the all time favorite being some staged 'mock' guilde-war. {Last festival our beloved Mayors of Paxlair and Gyldenfeld were taken hostage by the fiercest Orcs on the shard, it was over an hour of ongoing warfare, bloodshedd and shouts to the wargodz.}

1. House & Garden Contest
2. Dungeon Crawls
3. Looting Races
4. Archery Events
5. Crafters Bazzare
6. Cow Tipping
7. Drunken Barrel Races
8. Gambling
9. Island Madness ( T-hunting to the max!)
10. House mazes

Finally my suggestion for this year's theme for war.....ELVES vs. HUMANS!

There is plenty of room for suggestions, positive input and experienced advice. Again this is just a feeler thread for volunteers, benifactors and event host. Another thread will be posted as more information, date, time and planning is put into place.

Thanks in advance for supporting your community!

Xo


(Added by SoccerMom)-I think there are some really great people that play Chesapeake and post on these forums. It would be nice if some of us could either help or donate something for this or do both!

*runs off to look in her bank box.*

Well if i don't sell the castle I will be willing to have this event there....

Im responding to soccermom's comment. I would love to help out however we have suffered a major loss in our family on tuesday. So i wont be doin much with the game 'cept being on sparringly. Jolador, if ya read this, you'll know what i'm talken about since we had a little talk about certain people in certain places.................

I'm so sorry to hear that! Take all of the time you need to sort things out because RL is always more important.

Rl always comes over uo in my book. Sorry to hear you had a loss..i been lucky lately..my prayers are with you and your family.