Afterthoughts of Scenario #1 and Beyond

First off, I would like to thank the players for coming out and moving around the map to find each other or my character. In this event, I was able to meet all new people out in the world and have stories to tell with them. I would also like to thank some of the Gamemasters that assisted me for this event, and how they will help in the future. I wanted to give a mini transcript of what occurred today;

Robmo found himself looking up at the Mage Tower with his white bear Virginia before being discovered by lone traveler Kebek. Kebek was kind enough to lead him to the way to Tindrem. Being cautious, he took a longer way around towards the Cave Camp. Looking for horse, they had finally found some when something unexpected happen. Upon taming a horse, Virginia the bear got agitated and killed her master Robmo. Kebek in shock, let the bear leave. A white bear named Virginia now wonders the land with a taste for Tindremic flesh…
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In the Jungle, Robmo was attacked by Sators and managed to get away after his armor was destroyed. Deep in the jungle Robmo stayed the day licking his wounds before he decided to move east. He should have gone north however he was still disoriented from the attack. After some time, he finally found an escort, LadyJ. A naked wanderer with her horse. She agreed to take Robmo to Jungle camp to find someone more suited to escort the man to Tindrem. On the way, they were stopped by three brigands. LadyJ distracting these villains, let Robmo escape where he came across Undertow. The torch was passed and Undertow of FingerBang, he happened to stroll by. He led Robmo to horses so he could tame one and travel to Tindrem faster. On the way out we ran into more guild members of FingerBang and two other travellers, Kelden and Kebek once more. The rest of the trip was quite calm, and Robmo made it to Tindrem. Robmo’s goal was complete.

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Robmo was in the northern part of Myrland behind a bandit camp when he woke up to Kirban of the guild Nightmare. Kirban geared Robmo up and with a friend and started to take Robmo back to Tindrem through the northern path. However, the journey did not last long. A group of Cubs attacked and murdered poor Robmo. PleasingJesus, Dustey and Note took credit for the kill.

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Results

Kebek received a finders fee of 250g and was able to loot 100g from Robmo’s body when he died from Virginia the Bear.

LadyJ received a finder fee of 250g. Undertow and his guild FingerBang received 250g for a successful escort. Kelden and Kebek were rewarded the rest of the gold on Robmo’s person. 50g each.

Kirban received a finder’s fee of 250g. The guild of Cubs was able to loot 100g off the body of Robmo for the murder.

Reception and Success

Overall, this event did what we thought it would. It made players to move around the map, create some engagement and act as a soft stress test for the server nodes. We wanted to keep the first Scenario as simple as possible and grow from there. Most future events are likely to involve mobs, Player to player interaction versus actor-based requirements such as “Where’s Robmo”. What was surprising was that the event was not dominated by larger guilds which is exciting to promote other group or solo dynamics. This Scenario favored stealth and secret paths and the players involved showed their knowledge and skills for this event. It was great to see.

In-Game Messaging

Our intention in the future is to incorporate the messaging or hints for the Scenario within the game itself. Currently, the tools are not ready for this. For now, we will continue to use Discord, Steam Forums, Reddit and the MO2 Forums for updates or promotion. Most of our early Scenarios are designed to now have the need for Server wide updates or even constant Discord updates to work. Since we wanted to run it multiple times, informing the player of location changes we felt it was required to add proper movement around the map. In the future, we would like to do something more natural and immersive. Most events will come with an out of game supplement or image and that’s it, it will be up to the players to figure out.

Future

We would like to do our next Scenario between April 26th – May 2nd. We have not locked down a date. I had mentioned that we will be rotating times for each event so it is likely we will be starting the event at a NA prime time start next. We understand if a certain Scenario does not appeal to you, your friends or your guild but we promise to try different things each time to help give all players a chance to be interested. Can’t wait to show you what is next.

I would also like to make a special thanks to the mo2map.com cartographers. Their map was used to give hints for first Scenario and I doubt I could have made it work without them.