Yes, you read that right, a 100,000,000 Prize Gold Event on Lake Superior. This is just a reminder that tomorrow will be a big day on LS. From DENNAR’s post on Stratics.com:

Saturday October 28, 2006 at 8pm EST the Conclave of Barons is proud to host the first ever Conclave event.

The hostess for this event will be Circe the Baroness of Umbra. She has planned an evening of Tricks and Treats for all who attend.

The Last Monster Standing contest. Entrants will go to a protected arena in Felucca where they must polymorph into a monster and participate in a Battle Royal. The last monster standing will win 6,000,000 gold. There will be a second and third prize of 3,000,000 and 1,000,000.

Also being held in the Felucca arena will be a poisoned pie eating contest. The prizes for this will be 6,000,000 for first and 3,000,000 and 1,000,000 for second and third. People wishing to enter this contest need to come hungry. Entrants will be snooped for potions, petals, and daids.

A scavenger hunt will lead people all around to gather the required items that Circe has decided she wants. She will reward people with gold. 6,000,000 for the fastest and 3,000,000 and 1,000,000 for the slightly slower second and third place finishers.

There will be a naked Chaos Run where contestants will search out 10 1,000,000 gold checks, among other items.

In the Felucca Arena there will also be the Frantic Frenzy. Participants will enter the arena, while naked and unarmed, where several frenzied ostards will have been released and dash for another 10 1,000,000 gold checks, among other items.

The main event will be the Costume Contest. The first prize of this event will be 25,000,000 gold. Second place will get 15,000,000 and third will receive 10,000,000 gold. Judges will not be from the Lake Superior Shard.

Trick or Treat bags will be given out all during the events. Some will be treats and some will be tricks. There will be a weapon engraver, available all night engraving for free. We will have a scribe making polymorph scrolls for free so people can see what life is like as a monster.

Get your costume ready, tell your friends, make a char on LS and come and join the fun. This is set to be a record breaking event. We wish everyone a grand time.

Respectfully,
The Conclave of Barons

FYI/UO.com has news of Origin receiving Publish 43 tonight:

On Wednesday, October 18, 2006 at approximately 6:30PM PDT (October 19 - 1:30AM GMT), we will be deploying Publish 43 to the Origin shard.

For the Publish 43 change list, please click here.

We expect the Origin shard to remain offline for approximately one hour.

According to Ando, over in a Stratics thread, the Test Center shard will be coming down, probably through the end of the week:

The Dev Team and QA need to use TC9 for doing some testing, so they will be taking the shard down for an undetermined period of time (sounds like it could be until the end of the week). Sorry for any inconvenience.

Could it be PunkBuster testing? Nah, probably not. Our guess is that it’s being prepped either for 9th Anniversary testing, or for something Halloween related (the devs hinted in the past few weeks that a Halloween shard would be under consideration). More than likely 9th Anniversary testing - the timing is right, based on past publishes. It could also be something related to the ongoing scenario.

According to the Shard Issues at UO.com, Character Transfer Service is now active:

The Character Transfer Service has been restored to service. We appreciate your continued patience, and apologize for the inconvenience this interruption may have caused.

According to the Calendar of Events, the Tokuno Summerfest will be held on Sonoma from 11am to 4pm PST (Pacific) in Trammel. Even if you don’t play Sonoma regularly, sounds like a heckuva an event to attend.

Details:

Sponsor: Sonoma Community Coalition
Location: Tokuno Islands
Start Date: Sep 17 2006 11:00am PST
End Date: Sep 17 2006 4:00pm PST
Recurrance: 1 Time Only

Say goodbye to summer in style during Sonoma’s Tokuno Summer Festival on Sunday, September 17th starting at 11:00AM Pacific Time.

The Tokuno Summerfest magic begins at the Bank stage area with an opening ceremony followed by an excursion to Santa’s Waterpark Resort with Mongbat darts and waterfall slide competitions. Santa and companions will be on hand with special gifts and surprises!

After visiting Santa’s Waterpark Resort, get ready to enjoy beach volleyball relays, land and sea net tosses, fishing contests, a drunk and naked Buddha maze race to save the Lost Survivor, and Santa’s favorite summer pastime … the Champ Spawn!

As the sun sets on Sonoma’s Tokuno Summer Festival the winners of the ‘My UO Tale’ essay contest will be announced before heading to Cove for more summertime fun with the Fab4 A-Team during their bi-weekly auction at the Auctions R Us house to help Kiss Summer goodbye …

Don’t forget, a unique player establishment is opening up tomorrow night on the Lake Austin shard. From UO.com/Calendar of Events:

Hear ye! Hear ye!

Announcing the official Grand Opening of the Tokuno Treasures Museum! Inside you will see all kinds of interesting Tokuno treasures from the stealables (from the Fan Dancer Dojo and Yomatsu Mines) to all of the recovered Artifacts. Also an authentic Tokuno dining set is on display.

Visit our Tea Garden (on the roof) for beverages music and all around fun!

Location: Homare-jima, Tokuno
(1st house next to the Moongate SE direction)

It’s happening 7PM-8PM CST. Contact Lady Keira (ultima@mac512.com) for details.

Normally we don’t post shard-related maintenance issues, as these are ongoing (and easily accessed at Support.UO.com), however this affects multiple shards and is unxpected.

Today at 12:30 PM (PST), September 1st, 2006, we will be performing maintenance on the following shards: Drachenfels, Legends, Siege Perilous, Baja, Lake Austin, Napa Valley and Sonoma. We expect this to take approximately one hour. Information on when this maintenance will occur will be updated to this post as soon as that information is avaliable.

For more details, please see the Shard Support/Issues Page at UO.com