It's a little known fact that a certain Immortal has a secret fetish
for the cute little gourds. It's true. What unlikely Immortal could this
be?

Tune in this evening for the fun and mayhem as mortal adventurers are
given a chance to either save the day or ruin someone's Halloween
pumpkin feast! Approximate kick off time: 9pm central/10pm eastern.
(That's 9pm game time)

This will be an epic world wide scavenger hunt open to all ages. Your
level 1 ranger will have just as much chance as your 51st level lich to
find the pumpkins.

Top winners will be rewarded accordingly.

Good luck and see you tonight!

G.

Results:

Tinsalaop : 8
Ilvo : 3
Lirad : 6
Carnivius : 6
Tinalill : 4
Dupmasione: 5
Ilsamael : 3
Derogker : 1


Everyone got 1000 imm exp for every pumpkin turned in!

Thanks to Z and B and Y for helping me out with various parts of
the quest and rewards!

Hope you all enjoyed and had a great Halloween.

G.

That's more than most people get in their lifetime of the character.

There are 143 entries in the PK stats on Dios with 8000 XP or greater, and most of them are recent; within the last 5 years.

Considering the regulation on role experience, etc....not to mention you're talking about 143 characters in five years. How many total characters were there in five years?

And this is still from a single event, that's a huge amount.

Just proves statistics mean ####.

Statistics only mean #### when you completely ignore them.

Seriously, 8k over a lifetime is NOT that hard. Sure, it might seem like a lot all in one go, but any well-played long-lived character will beat that easily.

I've had two Heralds within the last year, one played to 53 hours with 4600xp and another to 130 with 6400xp, and I'm by no means an exceptional player. I don't feel like the Imms been skimpy with the Imm XP lately at all, nor should they be.

Don't piss on a good thing.

...I was just surprised at the amount. I could see giving away an edge or two, maybe the top winner gets something nifty like an item/tattoo/walking description/etc. I'm all for the uniqueness of rewards..

8000 immortal experience just seems like a guy going up to the guildmaster like a shopkeeper. "Ok, I'd like that, that....that. Oh yeah, might as well have that". It'd be like winning 100,000 gold.

Just so we're clear, I'm not bashing the reward or the contest or anything done - I love them when I can be there (sadly I wasn't) and thank the Immortals for the effort. Just seems like a big reward for pumpkins - that's a huge amount (in context compared to most people).

>...I was just surprised at the amount. I could see giving
>away an edge or two, maybe the top winner gets something nifty
>like an item/tattoo/walking description/etc. I'm all for the
>uniqueness of rewards..

FWIW, I doubt you could buy two edges based on that reward alone, unless one of them was something like strong back and the other was also something cheapish.

I always thought immexp was worth more than exp/obs experience in relation to edges....maybe it's a perception thing but I thought you could get way more with 8k.

The full and detailed answer is complicated, but, yeah. Tossing out 8k immXP, edge-wise, is not as big of a deal as you'd guess.

You mean projections mean ####, stats explain data that has already occured. projections predict future occurences.

~

Tinsalaop is a conjurer, so he just casts locate pumpkin, then tesserects to the location. Easy way to gain lots of them. Looking at the list, only Ilvo, a ranger, got any as a character without some form of locate. Unless blessed divination did not work, then Dupmasione did not have it either. But you have a conjurer, shifter, a transmuter, two shamans, and I think Ilsamael is a mage of some sort as well.

Don't really mind that some people tore this event up and got lots of IMM xp. I am happy to see Imms taking some time to run these fun things but I would think for future ones make them non-detectable/locateable. Some warrior had little to no chance of getting any, since he has to know where they are based on the clue, and then also get the thing, and be able to kill the mob if it was held. Meanwhile A 51 conjurer can go all over thera with ease, and kill most anything that might stand in his way. Not much different for a duo'd transmuter except they have to run to them. Then they get them and duo, so nobody can pk them for the pumpkins, which at least the others guys were in danger of to a degree.

I knew where a bunch of them were (or thought I did) but just got there too late.

This is totally not a complaint, but...

I like the ones where it's not a "mad dash". Like, they're hard enough to figure out from the description (and non-locatable) that the person who gets a given one isn't always just the guy who can run there the fastest.

But hey...anything is good. So, thanks Grobbak.

< 28> Sat Oct 31 19:59:17 2009
From : Grobbak
To : all
Subject: The Great Pumpkin Hunt

Scattered throughout the lands are the most rare of Zulghinlour's prize
crop of gourds but where could they be? Busy fending off the kobold
onslaught, he needs YOU to find them! Prizes are to be had for finding
even just one pumpkin, so search high and low. The more you find, the
the more you win. Find them on your own or kill your neighbor for his,
anything goes- but hurry, because the pumpkins need to be recovered by
11pm Asgaardian time!

a bright yellow, sun-kissed pumpkin
a pale yellow beer-soaked pumpkin
a purple disfigured pumpkin
an ornate pumpkin with delicate elven art work
an iron pumpkin
a drab green pumpkin
a bluish pumpkin with water stains
a hardened granite pumpkin
a forest green pumpkin
an pumpkin made from pure moonstone
a recently unearthed pumpkin of the undead
a violet pumpkin, that sits in silence
an pumpkin of many elements
an eight-sided pumpkin
an ice-cold pumpkin
a rancid smelling pumpkin
an ebon black pumpkin made of adamantite
a shiny mithril pumpkin
a green pumpkin, covered in seaweed
a dusty brown pumpkin
a bright blue taglo pumpkin
a blue pumpkin of humming crystal
a black and white pumpkin with pirate markings
a speckled quail pumpkin
an olive green pumpkin
a deep red, meditative hen pumpkin
a blue pumpkin with a painted golden lion
an pumpkin wrapped in living vine
a tiny grey pumpkin
a yellow and green squawking pumpkin
a brown, fur covered pumpkin
a light green pumpkin made of jade
a glittering jeweled pumpkin
a bright red pumpkin with a painted horn
a white, one-horned pumpkin
a red, algae covered pumpkin
a turquoise singing pumpkin
a black, possessed pumpkin
an pumpkin painted with scarlet sea flowers
an pumpkin made of camels cheese

nt