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Drinking it up in the City of Heroes
With New Year's Eve only three weeks away you better start thinking about how you intend to ring in 2008 because it'll be here before you can take down an Arch Villain. If you're like me - a City of Heroes altaholic and semi-alcoholic - you may think about staying within the comfy confines of your humble abode. Far, far away from the temptation to operate anything more complicated than your keyboard. Sound dull and boring? Think again!Ghost Legion, one of Liberty servers oldest Supergroups, is holding their Third Annual New Year's Eve Bash... and they plan on ushering in '08 with a lot more flair and pizazz than Dick Clark or Ryan Seacrest! How? With a drinking game of course! The rules are simple. During the course of the evening's Skull bashing and Hamidon raiding should your virtual hero die you in reality must take two big swigs of your favorite adult beverage. If someone on your team gets defeated - everyone drinks! Long time CoX players have experienced the dreadful "team wipeout." Should the dulcet sounds of the Beach Boy's song Wipeout jingle your ears, and this fate befalls you during the festivities... everyone drinks double! BAM!This event is open to all players, including minors. The law however dictates that minors can not drink alcoholic beverages, so Ghost Legion strongly suggests those under the legal drinking age suck down some soda or milk.The event takes place on Monday, December 31, and starts at 9:00 PM EDT. Hop on the Liberty Server and head over to Warburg for all the rockin' and rollin' you can handle, and be sure to check Ghost Legion's website for all the details.
Saturday is unofficial meet your LotRO neighbor day
Player housing is a little different in Lord of the Rings Online, than in other MMOs. Instead of instancing housing, Turbine instanced entire neighborhoods. A single neighborhood instance holds about 12-15 houses. A mix of standard, deluxe and guild housing is spread across the area along with a few vendors and a community meeting center.To foster community in these housing clusters, one player has called for an unofficial Meet Your Neighbor day this Saturday, November 3rd at 8:00pm EST. On this day and time, he wants you to visit your neighborhood and chat with your fellow instance cohabitators.You can ask, as one forum writer suggests, why your Hobbit neighbor has so much fondness for shapeless lawn statues. Or, perhaps how do they keep all that shrubbery alive in the underground Dwarven housing? Or even form an impromptu raiding party to kill spiders. You can never kill enough spiders.So if you own a house in LotRO, head out Saturday night with some pie or some friendly advice and see who else is sharing your little corner of virtual home ownership.
