Post-Event Update!!

It's with great pleasure that I announce an exclusive partnership with the Stonewall Times, to bring you some exciting, post-Halloween event media!!

The next issue of the Stonewall Times (due to be released in December), will feature remastered, high-definition screenshots, taken from the runs of eight randomly selected teams, who participated in the event! We'll also be sharing two screenshots from the runs of your event hosts, and one screenshot of Fleet Admiral Nick's run through the event, for a total of eleven amazing screens!

The quality of these shots is amazing, as they capture the thrill and excitement of the event! The size of the screenshots is suitable for any single monitor desktop size, and would make a terrific desktop wallpaper!

Be sure to read the next issue of the Stonewall Times to see if your team is featured! A reminder message will be sent to the in-game mailboxes of all event participants when the next edition is released, and this thread will be updated accordingly!

I wish we could have captured the heroics of every team, unfortunately, we only had the capacity to do this for a third of the participants! We hope you enjoy them, nonetheless!

More to come!

Had fun this weekend in CoF & HotW story modes, thanks! Some interesting (read: crazy) characters and challenging mechanics. I'm going to write a strongly-worded letter to that first boss in CoF about his ridiculous bladestorm fetish...

So us player folks have received an email:
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Invite a Friend to Play for Free
Your guest will receive an email invitation with a unique serial code that will allow them to play Guild Wars 2® for free between November 15 and 18, 2012. Our supply of free trial codes is limited, so log into your Guild Wars 2 Account to send your invitation today!
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So anybody want one? guess an email will be needed to send one out to you.

Oh wow! I didn't realise this series had got off the drawing board. Looks very good. Looking forward to this being released in the UK. B)

I'm glad you like them, Dave!

We do need ideas for new ones though... so if anybody has any suggestions, please let me know :)

Ali :)

I volunteer our in game guild leader extraordinaire for the write up. :)

The Young Admiral is HOT, plus watching this exposed me to the Halo4 vids...I love me some cute ginger

I'd love to have an article in the next issue of the Stonewall Times about SW:TOR going free-to-play.

Does anybody feel like they could write a useful summary of what will be happening? If so, please do let me know :)

Ideally, we'll need the article by 25 November for the next issue of the Times.

Thanks,
Ali

Thank you! I *really* appreciate you helping to spread the word about this :)

We'll need submissions by 25 November for the next issue of the Times.

One thing I'd like is an article on SW:TOR going free-to-play. Anybody feel like they could write a useful summary of what will be happening? If so, just let me know.

Huge thanks again!
Ali

Reviews:
- SBUGC List of Great Missions (Thread)
- Evil70th's In-depht Mission Review (Thread)
- BroadcastUGC Episode 40 (StarbaseUGC.com | Thread)

[INDENT]"I would highly recommend this mission to anyone who loves a great story combined with good maps and tough but fun battles." - Evil70th[/INDENT]

[INDENT]
"The maps look cool. The story was well based in what was established on Deep Space Nine." - BroadcastUGC

"It is a really great story that is told well [...] and a character-driven mission as well. I was impressed by last week's maps and I was impressed by this week's maps as well [...] The station was great!" - BroadcastUGC

"Nice time-traveling, [...] taking everything back to the point where all those complicated decisions had to be made. You got to know the characters."
- BroadcastUGC

"That was one of the things that stood out about this mission, that almost every kind of dialog had those two-way choices at the end." - BroadcastUGC [/INDENT]


PATCH NOTES:

Current version: 1.03.009

General:
- streamlined dialogs
- fixed some spelling mistakes
- fixed some errors encountered during above-mentioned reviews

Gameplay:
- added some more optional dialogs/interacts to explore

Webisdoes just aren't long enough for me to get into. I may hold of watching the rest until they have finished releasing them and then watch them marathon style.

That being said I kind of liked the first two but I can't say I loved them.

I would also like to add that IGN have a GW2 app with maps, news and other useful stuff.

Awesome Event! Looking forward to the next one!

Freshly refitted and under new command, the USS Sally Ride left spacedock to patrol the border it had so recently crossed. Noting a strange energy field emanating from an unsettled M-class world, the ship investigated, discovering a crashed KDF vessel. Reluctantly, Captain Orenn contacted the stranded survivors and offered assistance.

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The Sally Ride away team beamed down to the surface of the unsettled planet, where they met with two survivors of the KDF ship crash: Iall Yuvun, an Orion; and K'oleron, a half-Klingon, half-Trill. Or, at least, the Starfleet officers assumed they were survivors of the crash.

In fact, almost as soon as the transporter sheen dissipated, the KDF officers admitted that they hadn't been on the ship when it crashed: they had been on the surface as part of an away team. The mysterious energy field, which had drawn them to the planet just like the Sally Ride, had allowed them to transport down, but blocked their attempts to leave. The captain of the KDF ship fired on an ancient technological monolith that seemed to be the source of the interference. The monolith retaliated, destroying the vessel immediately with a devastating attack. No one aboard survived the crash.

In effect, this meant that the Sally Ride's away team was trapped on the surface. Instead of the KDF taking them hostage as they had worried, it appeared that the planet itself posed the real threat. The KDF had brought them to the surface to coerce their cooperation in finding a way off the planet.

Since the energy field was actively blocking transporter signals and had destroyed ships before, Captain Orenn and First Officer Seven decided that calling a shuttle was too risky until they had investigated its source. The KDF officers led them where they wanted to go: to a monolithic tower, surrounded by shining energy nodes. Scans indicated that the structures continued deep below ground, entwining and merging into a larger device, perhaps powered by geothermal energy.

Here, Seven noticed something odd: though he could detect the downed KDF ship nearby, he couldn't pick up any of the radioactivity or pollutants that would indicate a proximate crash. Investigation of the crash site itself revealed that radiation was somehow being absorbed, and spilled chemicals were spontaneously breaking down into non-toxic compounds. The Starfleet engineers also noted that the energy field was particularly active in the area.

Back at the monolith, a bit of bickering between the mutually suspicious KDF and Federation officers made Orenn think of something. He realized that there were elements of ancient Romulan, Vulcan, or even pre-schism design apparent in the monolith's architecture. When he touched the device and attempted to communicate with it, the local energy field became a datastream, reporting an unfathomable amount of data: detailed bioscans and ecological data for millenia of the planet's history.

Eventually, the crew managed to activate an interface. The monolith explained in curt terms that it was an evolutionary monitoring device, that it sought to defend its accrued knowledge... and that it had no intention whatsoever of allowing any of its visitors to leave when it could instead add them and generations of their descendants to its planetful of observable specimens.

How will the crew overcome this seemingly omnipotent machine? Tune in next week!

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OOC notes:
What a fantastic turnout! It was great to see so many new faces joining the crew, and I hope you'll join us again at the same time next week. We will again be meeting on the surface of Defera, west of the city in the area pictured above. Be thinking of ideas how to overcome the ancient device. You can even discuss them amongst yourselves by doing your own scenes in small groups, or making in-character posts here.

We're still a bit short of KDF characters, so please join in! You might think it would get old, taunting Starfleet dweebs as they try to reason with inanimate objects. It doesn't.

lol, it was a lucky win :D

Thanks very much for hosting the event, Shay! I think it was enjoyed by all who attended, and I'm sure we'll see even more attend the next one. It was fun!

Cheers!

Edit: Oooo, badge!! Fancy :D

Just found this today, and have pledged. Very much look forward to it, but will need to get a new computer before I can even hope to install it. My old AMD dual core / nvidia gtx260 would choke before it finished loading.

They have drawings (get stuff!) for recruiting too! After you have pledged you get a link for your recruits to use and they track new pledges by that. Get your friends to click your link!

Would be nice if I could win the main prize by getting the most recruits... that would be the computer I could play it on.

Loved these! They're a really fun addition to the publication :D

I cheated, so I could be Porthos!

I won't be around that early on Sunday most likely, but I would love to start running more dungeons.

Hey, no problem pnuttbuttah! I had a great time also. The path we chose seemed epicly hard, but I think we did amazingly well considering how new we were to the dungeon. Awesome group of guild members.

My friend Ragnarez and I are planning to go on another run this coming Sunday, November 11 at 2pm Pacific. Would love to have you guys join again if you're free. Any other guild members are welcome also.

This is an awesome breakdown, thanks very much Sinner! :)