Along with tonight’s Client 5.0.4d patch and the shard publish, these two lines jumped out at us:

* Added live event content (Shard)
* Updated text strings and localization for Live Event (Client)

I went poking around the the new cliloc.enu (client version 5.0.4d) (located in the root directory of your UO installation) and rand a diff against a slightly older cliloc.enu - I’ll run a check against newer text/localization strings when I get a chance, but it matches up with what others are saying on other sites - that we have some very interesting things coming about.

These are very interesting - once again the Devs are “putting more “Ultima” back in “Ultima Online”" as some of the words mentioned/added relate to Ultima (non-UO) history.

Keep in mind this could be a spoiler, so you’ll have to click on the “Read the rest of this entry »” link below to read.

Here are the added strings:

- You feel uneasy… but nothing happens
- You feel a strange rush of energy… but nothing happens
- You lose control of the wild energies!
- For a moment strange words fill your mind, but they’re gone before you can fully grasp them
- Again, ‘you’ of this plane attempt to make use of a simple invocation of magical energy
- By what name do ‘you’ wish to be addressed at this time?
- Very well, (player name) Do ‘you’ have memory of previous discussions with ‘myself?
- Good. Tedious repetition should then be unnecessary on this occasion
- So be it. ‘I’ must often repeat information when conversing with the life of Britannia, it seems
- Those which ‘you’ know of as ‘wisp’ in Britannia are projections of life in Xorinia
- However, these ‘wisp’ are weaker projections, as ‘your’ plane is a variant of the prime
- Xorinia serves as a conduit for information between different planes
- Do ‘you’ wish to exchange information?
- ‘I’ will wait while ‘you’ supply a reasonably dense source of information
- Then ‘I’ will initiate cessation of proximity between ‘us.’
- When ‘you’ have prepared information of interest contact ‘me’ again
- In accordance with ‘your’ custom: Goodbye

Smith - updated - To discuss this, including just who/what Xorinia is, please see this forum topic - we don’t want to give too much away where somebody could easily see it.