This is just out from :http://fanfaire08.feldoncentral.com/

Also Den mom has just put up her write up

A listing of what the new guild halls will bring. This is what I can read from the posting..and my take on each subject.

First off the prices:

Tiet 3
1000 plat
Lvl 70
Upkeep 200,000 10pp per Week

Tier 2
500 plat
Lvl 50
Upkeep 3pp and 100k status per week
Escrow system to buy the guild hall
Not lost if guild ownership changes
Amenities are refunded
Escrow carries over
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If you are like me, stuck at home while many others are heading to Vegas and to the wonderful happening which we call Fan Faire, any news or info about it attracts your attention.

There are many ways that you can experience a part of fan faire from the comfort of your computer chair. We can live the adventure and action of fan faire through others, and here is how.

First up is Grimwell with his Twitter account and his Mojobaby account.
by hooking up with twitter you can then follow SOE fan faire and others like Brenlo and Amiee

speaking of Brenlo, he also has his flickr account and his own twitpic going
There is even a group flickr going for SOE Fan Faire 2008 where anyone can join the group and upload their fan faire pictures.

from these you can view pictures as they are taken and uploaded to the net.

Friday night, Aug 15th at 6pm PST, is going to be a big night where you can either view or listen in to the opening remarks during the second annual Community Address from our favorite SOE President John Smedley . You can either listen in while your in game, or hop over to the web site to view streaming video of this event!

Let us not forget the coverage that onlinegamingradio.com is going to be providing Saturday! They won’t be manning a booth this year but they will be a roving band of geeks with laptops and camcorders in tow. Bring us all the live coverage of the different sessions.

Now if you want to get the full pseudo experience, do not sit down when viewing any of these things. Load up a backpack with about 20 lbs of stuff and start jogging in place till your feet ache and your ankles swell. Invite some friends over and stand close together while doing this. Yell out “Povar Rules” or “Povar Sucks”, to make your friends think your a old time Fan Faire goer. And finally, make plans to go to fan faire next year!

I just had to blog about this photo.

(click on photo for a larger view, go on I know you want to)

I won’t say what I first thought those things looked like sticking out of the wondrous goodie bags awaiting those who attend Fan Faire this year.  But I will say it made me giggle and laugh my head off.
“OH MY GOD!! *LAUGHS* Those things look like…..

Bixie parts ya…yellow and black…sure..that’s it.

Yet when my 16 yr old son came over to see what had me rolling on the floor …he simply looked at my  screen and said, ” mom what’s so funny about sword hilts?”
I asked Jethal, same thing and got; ”hon those are sword hilts from foam swords”

So this got me thinking just how males and females view things.
I am sure there is some scientific study out there proving this point, but I am just to lazy to dig for it.
So I set out on my own, showing that picture to people I know to see just what they saw.
Showed it to Zanadi and Skyheart who both giggled madly…and thought the same thing I did, while Phylok saw only sword hilts. Mmm interesting.
Monte the geek from OGR pondered for a moment and then said: ” swirly ice cream with breast”. I chauk up his responce to being from England.
When I showed it to our guild’s Conjuror, Miragian,  he saw…well…mmm he laughed a great deal.

SO I showed it to others and I got the same responses:

Female: Oh my GOD…those look just like…

Me: yes I know Bixie parts…

Female: what is a Bixie?

Me: never mind you don’t play Everquest do you? They are foam sword hilts.

Female: *Laughs like a mad women” I would never had guess that!!

Next test subject:

Male: *looks at photo for a moment, smiles then says* sword hilts, what did you think they were?

Me: Bixie parts of course…

Male: what is a Bixie?

Me: never mind you don’t play Everquest do you?

So it seems that us females will look at this and see…mmm something else…while males will see it as what it is, foam sword hilts.  I just wonder how many people who will be standing in the LONG registration lines will look back beyond the tables to the sea of good bags and giggle, then be a bit disappointed that they got a sword and not a Bixie in their bags.

Zaladin from the AB server sent in the winning entry and will be receiving a copy of RoK to call his own.

Here is his entry!

This has actually made me consider why I actually DO continue to play this game.
I’m not really over-entertained by the majority of the game-play, and there are alot of improvements
that could be made to the game; to improve the roleplayability.

Then I look at things like the Festival of Unity and The Spider, and remember why.

The community. The people who populate the Antonia Bayle server have to be the most awesome people I have met in or outside of the Internet.

I mean, the radio show you do, which had me in stitches, especially the “500 clusters’ song,
is great example in itself! That is why I play Everquest2. For the most mind-bogglingly awesome
community and role-playing.

but that’s just my opinion
Zaladin

I was excited as my game began to load up, I was not fully in the game yet but I could hear my guild mates chatting away.

Oh how cool!

It was a thrill to enter into game and hear people you spend time with each day of the week, not just type out a greeting of “hello” but to actually hear them. It does have a few draw backs, that being hearing the voice of that lovely little fae girl in a baritone, ever though everyone knows its a guy playing her. That part is just takes a bit of getting used to.

As the evening wore on, the chatter died down. It became more of the tool that it should be rather than a novelty. People drifted off to other channels and groups, as they went off adventuring. Which is something I also did.

It was while I was out adventuring that I got another big shock, it seemed that the players were not the only ones using the wondrous new voice chat

"Heads up we got one in the zone, yups looked like a named player, call the boys!"

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We are the Living Legacy, each and every one of us that has played Everquest and or Everquest 2.
Those of us who have stayed and played, and played some more.

Many of us started back in Everquest 1 and went on to Everquest 2. Others have stayed in Everquest while others came into the world of Norrath in Everquest 2. There is one thing we all have in common and it is our love for the world of Norrath.

Even those who may have tried Everquest and or Everquest 2 and have moved on to other games, carry a part of Norrath with them and during the launch of Living Legacy, those people have a wonderful opportunity to come back and experience Norrath again. It means having more people to play with in the lands that we love and it is up to each of us, the Living Legacy to welcome them back.
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The Festival of Unity on the Antonica Bayle server has been in full swing this week.

It has been listed on EQ2 Players site, the new Living Legacy Summer Event listings, and on many blogs. If you have not had a chance to be a part of this week long event you need to make a alt on AB and join in the fun!
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Fan Faire is coming! If you have not already registered to attend you can click on the Fan Faire Link here and go to it!

Though I wish Jethal and I could go this year, we just can’t. I know he has said that if it was on the east coast we would have, but the truth of it is, I doubt we could have done that either.
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Books!
I do so love my in game books!
True they are a pain to move, and some people just hate them but for me they represent more than just a house item. They contain lore and stories that add color and depth to the game of Everquest 2 and the world of Norrath.
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