The PaxLair Times
Anniversary Edition
13 January 2006
Volume 2 Issue 3

-*-Current News Stands-*-
PaxOku Silent Rose Library - Tokuno, Homare-Jima - 96 4 N 62 0 W
PaxRatOku Auction Vendor & Craftsmen Hall - 90 43N 67 30W
Chesapeake Stratics Center - Tokuno, Makoto-Jima - 95 43N 61 56W
Casandreal Library - Trammel - 71 23N 36 37W
PaxLair Saloon - Felucca - 79 12N 25 6E - Free Issues in PaxLair Times Box

-*-Words from our Mayor-*-
 
Hail my friends,

The time of our PaxLair 8th Anniversary is upon us!  PaxLair started as a small few-building village and grew over time to a community of several cities.  Our goal has always been to use our abilities in the Realm and go one or two steps further.

Our working government continues as a stable way to work with many people. During the 8th Anniversary, many citizens, friends, and visitors will be able to experience the breadth of PaxLair; from Events to Quests; from combat to plays.

As we move into our next year, I firmly believe our community will continue to take shape and gain momentum and focus.  I look forward to this next year with passion and commitment.

Dragonspeed!
Winfield, Mayor of PaxLair

-*- 8th Anniversary Schedule -*-

Everyone is invited!

Fri, 13 Jan 06:
- Quest Starts
- 9 PM ET - Grand Fight Tournament, PaxLair North Arena, Felucca - 8th

Anniversary Champion Crowned
-Quest of Knowledge begins

Sat, 14 Jan 06:
- PaxLair Tours
- 9 PM ET - Port Baldmor Event (Kerrs Holley) - referees needed (4 more)
- Adventures and Events

Sun, 15 Jan 06:
- PaxLair Tours
- 5:30 PM ET - PaxLane Adventure
- 8-10 PM ET - Capture the PaxLair, Felucca PvP Event - anything goes

Mon, 16 Jan 06:
- Adventures and Events
- 9 PM ET - PaxLair Meeting, PaxLair Auditorium, Malas Orc Fort or PaxOku City

Hall, Tokuno
- Quest Event

Tues, 17 Jan 06:
- Adventures and Events
- PaxLair Play in Silvervale (Lenora and Connor MacLeod)
- Red Wolf Cafe Event (tentative)

Weds, 18 Jan 06:

- 8-9 PM ET - Adventure
Title: The Great Hunt
The subject of the hunt will be the greatest foe in the lands, a paragon ancient wyrm next by the Ilshenar gate of compassion. Upon completing the hunt, each particpent will receive a commeration box of heartwood with the engraving "In celebration of the 8th anniversary of PaxLair, the slaying of a paragon ancient wyrm, and to many years to come" or some such. Each one will have the crafters mark and date on them so that they are unique.

- 9 PM ET - Community Night in Skara Brae Community Center
- 10 PM ET - PaxOku Fireworks (BLT and PaxkRatOku Auction House)

Thurs, 19 Jan 06:
- 8 PM ET - Parade through PaxLair areas and other towns
- 9 PM ET - PaxLair 8th Anniversary Ceremony and Speeches
- Quest of Knowledge Ends

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Written by Winfield, Mayor of PaxLair_Pax    
Sunday, 08 January 2006 
PAXOKU, Tokuno - January 8, 2006

PaxLair Cartographers recently completed a detailed map of PaxOku at Viceroy Gareth's request.  The map covers a very broad area so PaxOku city planners may visualize the growth and continued construction in the area.

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"Channeling Light Powers gone wrong? or right?"
Gareth of PaxOku recently had an experiment gone wrong or perhaps right. Following are Viceroy Gareth's own words of this experience.

"While in the PaxOku city I was tinkering with some of the Light I was sworn to protect. I was trying to channel it into the city again to bring more beauty into the city after the rebel attacks. While doing this a shock hit me! I was brought thirty or forty feet into the air swirling in circles. I thought maybe I spawned something horrible! Once I came down falling on my butt I felt my face feeling a weird tingling. I quickly found a mirror and saw my face and body looked twenty to thirty years younger! My face was one of a twenty-five year old! I am unsure of how this happened but I'm very glade it did!!! I feel younger and stronger...and look it! I am re-attempting sometime this week to re-channel the power and try it on someone of old age. I would do it on Winfield but if something were to go wrong I don't want to be the one to blame for a missing mayor. Anyone wishing to look and feel younger can volunteer. I am not sure what powers I have stumbled upon what seems to be the Fountain of Youth!!! Again I am unsure how to do it again but I believe the risk to be well worth it."

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Port Baldmor and Paxlair Regatta race around the world, all rules and course map can be found on Stratics, Chesapeake section. Race begins Saturday 9pm EST, for free entry talk to Kerrs Holley.

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Soggy Barnicles open every Tuesday at 7 pm est, come drink and share your stories!

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Death Lady Daine Awakened as Tomes are Attempted to be Destroyed
by:Terence Duff 
UO Chesapeake News
Manager & Moderator

Last night the ritual to burn the books of the Death Knights, including the Diary of Daine, went horribly wrong.  Carien Pale, the captured spirit who had kidnapped Lenora of Yew last week led the party to the ritual site under the direction of the Wizard of Id.  But in the end Carien Pale tricked all in the company and vanished!

The night began at 8 in the Ladies of the Lair.  Lenora, rescued from her kidnapping ordeal last week still appeared ill but managed to serve a few drinks and engage in a small bit of chat with the warriors who were ready to take the tomes to their final resting place.  At 8:30 the Wizard of Id arrived and we took a gate to Shadowspire, a fortress that grows from the living rock on the Bloody Plains in Felucca.  Carien Pale was locked in the dungeon of Shadowspire.  The Wizard of Id unlocked the cell door, and the adventure began.

Carien Pale led us to the Spirituality Shrine in Ilshenar where we made our way through the pixie forest, the spider dungeon and over to the tombs under the island fortress of Reg Volom.  And then the ritual began.

Carien placed candels on the edges of the altar, and etched her fingers into the hard stone, chanting phrases and cackling maniacally all the while.  Squiggoth, an Orc who was present, was ever-so on guard and was ready to spring and attack Carien if anything suspicious happened.  In time Lord Jasper appeared from the end of the great hall and presented Carien with the tomes so that they may be burned.  But then something awful happened!

Carien began chanting strange phrases from another language.  No one thought anything of it however, and presumed that it was only part of the ritual, until the Death Lady Daine herself appeared in the seat behind Carien!!

We had been tricked!  Carien Pale had pulled one over us, and now the Death Lady Daine was freed to persue her own agenda in the realm!

Within no time Carien had vanished and Daine simply laughed loudly and vanished too.

What does this mean?  And will we see chaos and destruction from the Death Lady Daine in the future?

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A New novel by Tatania Karthina is now on sale at the PaxOku Silent Rose Library!  The novel is the first in a series of a little boy named Kelin.  In the Series,  we see how he grows up through his many adventures!

-*-The Virtues-*-
The following is the part 3 on a series on the virtues.  Information  was obtained from the Stratics Sky Pages.

The Virtue of Honor
[Information obtained from official UO.com Website]
Honor is the courage to defend and uphold the truth, and derives from Truth and

Courage. The mantra associated with Honor is Summ.

Virtuous Ability: Embrace Honor

The reward for following the path of Honor is the ability to move peacefully among aggressive monsters, as well as a damage bonus to melee combat.

You can activate Embrace Honor by double-clicking the Honor icon on the Virtue gump, and then targeting yourself. Activating this ability will cause all monsters to ignore you for a limited amount of time. The duration you embrace your Honor increases as you achieve higher levels on the path of Honor.

If you are in combat when you embrace your Honor, any opponents already aggressive towards you will not be affected.

Gaining Honor:
You can gain Honor by engaging in honorable combat with monsters or NPCs. You can do this by double-clicking the Honor icon on the Virtue gump and targeting an appropriate opponent. You will face your opponent, bow to them, and speak the words, “I honor you.”

You then must defeat your opponent in an honorable fashion.

Honorable combat is defined as:
Allowing your opponent to damage you first.
Engaging in one-on-one combat.
Not using ranged weapons, unless you stay in the same spot where you honored your

opponent, or you only damage your opponent while adjacent to them.
Not allowing your pets or summoned creatures to help you during the battle.
Avoiding the use of poison.

To engage an opponent in honorable combat, your opponent:
Must be one that you can perform negative actions upon.
Must be at full health.
Must not already be honored by a nearby player.
Must be close to you, in your line-of-sight, and have a clear path to you.

The amount of Honor you gain from defeating your opponent is determined by how closely you followed the above guidelines for honorable combat, as well as your opponent’s level of fame.

Virtuous Titles: Each virtue has three steps on the path to enlightenment, each more difficult to attain than the last. Upon reaching each step, you will be given a new Virtue title, which is displayed when you mouse over the Virtue’s associated symbol (in this case, the Chalice of Honor) in the Virtue Gump.

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Auction Sunday Jan 22nd @ 9pm EST
Auction Wednesday Jan 18th @ 9pm EST
Paxkraoku Auction House
Owned by:
Lord Gareth and Miss Kayi

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Until next week,
Peace and Knowledge be with you
Tatania Karthina
PaxOku Historian
Editor PaxLair Times