The Cursed Event will come to a close around Howling tomorrow. That is to say, roughly 00:00 GMT the 26th. 23ish hours from this post.

Unfortunately, due to a large volume of complaints sent in to both myself, and corporate IRE, we have been told we need to wrap up the event ASAP. During tomorrow's events (sometime in 12 hours or so, to start), all Cursed will find they now have access to a CURSE DELIVER command which will transfer your accumulated curse power to the boss, and decide how powerful he will be upon being raised. This will be a one time fight, so I apologize to those that cannot make it. Themed rewards will be given to everyone who has logged in during the event, based upon whether cursed, avoided, delivered, or cured.

Our original intent was to give a nuanced, battle of Cursed v Non-Cursed on the raising of the villain, with an instance and prizes via a currency generated by trying/failing/succeeding. The damage done with each person working on this boss would be tallied and decide the outcome of the event, like a Raid boss, so that the villain's death would not be pre-scripted. It involved a few new mechanics, some rewriting of the old Thrim AI system, etc. This has all been scrapped. If you were waiting on the excavation of the tomb, this too is scrapped.

To those who were enjoying the buildup, I apologize especially. Building this event was wonderful fun for everyone involved, and it was personally a delight to change my plans based on what was most fun. Your decisions made the Tomb a curse hotspot, the Midnight curse was based on player interactions, etc.

We will have a thread on the forum afterwards to discuss our favorite parts of the events. Every emote has been logged, and we'd really like to share with you how clever and awesome this has been to watch. If you would prefer we not share your emotes, please message me and I'll take you off the Greatest Hits list. I may, if time allows, provide a timeline with how the Curse jumped, and who was tricksy as all get-out.

-T

PS We do intend to recycle the work done on this for some future content instead. 1300 lines + 600 for the boss makes this event bigger than some old school classes!

Penned by my hand on Gosday, the 14th of Slyphian, in the year 491 MA.
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