Magic Fair - event announcment

[Mordaan]

Overview:

When: [Sunday, July 10, 2011 - 1PM ET or 17:00 GMT (events will be ongoing for a few hours probably so join any time).]

Where: Lake of Tears Outpost - Bronze Door Road2

Details:
Advanced mages, wizards in training, novices, or those just curious about magic: All are invited to gather at the Magic Fair to discuss all things magic.  From rare glyphs to interesting spells discovered, from advice on how best to practice your craft to where to get training, whatever questions you have about magic, this will be the place to be.  An educational gathering to share our collected knowledge!

We are inviting at least one master of each way to make a short presentation about that way, discussing its benefits and importance.

OOC:
Inevitably discussion of this type of topic eventually becomes highly OOC.  There are a lot of questions that involve game mechanics, what is implemented, what is not, and plans for what is yet to be implemented.  So we are going to dedicate a segment of the event to all things OOC.  Therefore we can enjoy the event ICly and have a time allotted to discuss all those OOC questions without the need to [] everything.  We also hope to have dev representation to answer some questions (where permitted of course) and listen to feedback.  That is pending approval.

One other OOC note, the outpost is quite the lagfest for many so I hope to be meeting soon to see if we can remove some unnecessary items to improve things a bit.

A discussion thread has been set up for ideas on additional activities.  Comments and suggestions are welcome.

An itinerary of the day's events will be made available here as further details are worked out.

[Sen]

Im looking forward to it - and to learn new things there 

[provisionist1]

Sounds excellent! 

Thanks Mordaan!

[Mordaan]

Here is an itinerary of events for the fair.  I thought about putting times, but these things rarely stay on schedule for one reason or another.  But things will start around 1700GMT.

- Opening Remarks
- Introduction of the Masters of the Ways
-- Some words from the masters
-- Q & A for the masters
- Discussion about trainers, glyphs, and spells
- General Q & A
- [OOC Discussion & feedback about the state of magic in game (what you like, what you don't like, what needs attention...)]
- Glyph and magic item auction (market area)
- Fireworks at the lake [aka, how many people can we lag into oblivion?    ]

Also, if you haven't seen yet, click here to see what Tuux is working on.   

Hope to see you there!

[Suno_Regin]

I work that morning, so I may be an hour or two late. But your Red Way Master will be there indefinitely!

[Mordaan]

Hrm, maybe we should get the OOC discussion out of the way first.  That will give time for all our masters to arrive.  I'll think on it.   

[MishkaL1138]

If Suno agrees, we could work out a kind of replacement until he arrives, with Mishka and maybe Mariana too answering whatever they could, and leaving the most difficult answers for his char. If he wants.

[Gilrond]

I hope to be present too, and I can help with Q&A in case any other RW master representative will be missing.

[Suno_Regin]

If Suno agrees, we could work out a kind of replacement until he arrives, with Mishka and maybe Mariana too answering whatever they could, and leaving the most difficult answers for his char. If he wants.

Sure, that'd be cool. If we get a chance to discuss it ICly, Orvine would surely agree, and fill in the blanks where needed.

[Mordaan]

Thanks for a great event!  We had a great turnout.

Here are some pictures.
The last 4 are from the fireworks show after.

[LigH]

Erelenga Karal took some notes

[Gilrond]

Thanks LigH! This is very helpful.

[Imshi]

Thanks for the wonderful event, Diggah enjoyed himself immensely. Much informative discussion, both IC and later OOC. A great variety of spell effects were demonstrated, they are very good quality now. The auction held a few surprises, fireworks display was awesome....... and nobody died.     

[LigH]

Uh, wrong ... someone suicided. Completely unnecessarily.

(21:16:03) >Lazuly Fal has died!

A pity we had no Crystal Way master. But even he would not have been able to resurrect him instantly, I fear.

[provisionist1]

I was a great event, thanks for organising Mordaan, and thanks to everyone for their participation, it was a great turnout! 

I was sorry to have to leave before the OOC discussion as I would really have liked to know what was planned next, and before the auction. Alas, I had a pub quiz to give. Looks like I missed out on some great items...

Thanks!

Xirius