Week of Jan. 17 2005 [Vol. 2, Issue 9]

Published Tuesday January 18th 2005

Welcome to the ninth issue of the PaxLair Tuesday Weekly News. This newsletter will attempt to inform you, the reader, of the currents in PaxLair, Dragons Watch, Pax Malas Outpost and Pax-Tokuno. Through Top Stories and Other News, including weekly recaps of the Monday meetings, the PaxLair Tuesday Weekly News will bring you all the news you need to stay up to date in the PaxLair Community!

Top PaxLair News Stories:

PaxLair Citizens Prepare for 7th City Anniversary
Reported by Neo Of Lothlore

PAXLAIR — the entire city of PaxLair is bustling with citizens scrambling to prepare for the 7th Anniversary Celebration!  The event, poised to be one of the biggest in PaxLair history is expected to include VIP guest speakers, a tour of all PaxLair's outposts and cities, official speeches and even a small tournament.  Setup of the event is designed to make room for more than fifty visitors.

Winfield has been working hard with the other event planners, Mayor Minsk, John Duke and Winmere to get all the events coordinated and timing worked out so that everything goes like clockwork!

The official events begin at 8:00 PM (EST) on Wednesday the 19th of January, at the PaxLair Malas Orc Fort Outpost.  (See this article for directions if needed.) 

Here is a complete list of events and times, we hope you'll attend!:

8:00 PM EST - Malas Outpost Auditorium - plenty of toasting and revelry as things warm up. There is a wonderful pub on the first floor of the Auditorium and a dreadfully furnished orc cemetary and orc fort nearby. All are welcome to mingle, catch up with old friends, meet new people, and enjoy the fine wines and ales from around the Realm!

8:30 PM EST - Malas Outpost Auditorium - Opening Ceremony and Speeches - hosted by Mayor Minsk, the auditorium should be packed with seating to accomodate more than 50 people.

9:00 PM EST - Dragons Watch Town and Tokuno Outpost - Events, Tours, and Adventures - Gates will be provided to Dragons Watch on Felucca and the PaxLair Outpost on Tokuno. These two choices are given for those who want to see either or both places and participate in slightly different events. Dragons Watch will host a net tossing on the nearby high seas. The Outpost in Homare-jima, Tokuno will offer a tour of the outpost buildings and attempted discussions with the nearby Ronins.

10:00 PM EST - PaxLair City (Felucca) - Final Speeches, Massive Gathering, and Tournament - In the full spirit of historical PaxLair, now 7 years old, all are invited to assemble at the PaxLair Twin Towers for as large a gathering as possible. The Mage/Paladins Tower was the first tower placed in PaxLair on January 19, 1998. A final celebratory speech from the Mayor will christen the celebration. After the speech, PaxLair will likely host tours of the City and a small tournament in one or more of the PaxLair arenas.

As a reminder to all of our guests when venturing to the Feluccan parts of this celebration, bring only what you'd be willing to lose just in case you are accidently attacked by some of Felucca's nasties.
 

Virtue Garden Created on Paladin Tower Roof
Reported by Neo Of Lothlore

PAXLAIR — Cross MacLeod, Lord of the Paladins has completed the setup of the Virtue Garden on the roof of the PaxLair Order Tower (Paladin Tower).

The garden features a shrine for each of the eight Virtues: Valor, Honesty, Honor, Compassion, Spirituality, Humility, Justice and Sacrifice; complete with items representing the symbol and color of each, as well as a book with runes to the relative shrines throughout Britannia.

The Virtue Garden is a great place to learn about Sosaria's Virtues, and if you're called to the darker side, head on over to the neighboring Necromancer Tower and learn about the ways of Chaos.

Gov't News:

Minutes of the Jan. 17th Weekly Meeting

This week's meeting was held once again at the Malas Orc Fort Outpost's Auditorium, and planning continued for the 7th Anniversary Celebration.  In attendance this week were Cross MacLeod, Neo Of Lothlore, Lord Monk, Winmere, Mayor Minsk, Scott Peterson, ty the big sexy, SNOOPY, King Id, Winfield, Silas Duvry, Xi of Carafax, Kael, Taivena, John Duke, Lord Gwydion, and Demoth Sarrkhan.

7th Anniversary Times Announced
Mayor Minsk announced the times for all of the events at the 7th Anniversary.  Events and their times can be found in this week's Weekly News Top Story.

Xi of Carafax Announces Defense Ideas
Lady Xi of Carafax spoke on behalf of Lord Scotia about defense ideas for PaxLair.  The ideas stem from plans to rid Felucca of so-called 'outlanders', those in guilds like !C! and BiC.  Scotia would like to extend this into PaxLair, however such defense ideas have the potential to violate PaxLair's neutrality laws and principles of diplomacy.  PaxLair citizens discussed this with Xi during the meeting, and a private meeting was setup with the Chancellor's Office to take place afterwards.  More information on the defense ideas provided by Carafax should appear in the coming weeks.

Chancellor Report for the Week
Winfield Gave the Chancellor report for this week:

• Olag Hai Orc Fort seeing lots of activity, orcs breeding perhaps
• Gatekeeper hasn't been seen in a while
• TownHall Redesigned for entry to Stratics Contest
• John Duke created PaxLair Anniversary Runebooks, placed throughout realm
• Carpenter Eli looking for wood for Anniversary setup

Hunts This Week
ATD will not host a weekly Oden's Day Hunt because of the PaxLair Anniversary, however they have scheduled a Doom Hunt for this coming Sunday at 9PM EST.  The Thor's Day Hunt is also on for this week, meet outside Doom at 9PM EST this Thursday.

Special Features:

UO Site of the Week: B0N3D00D & pLaTeDeWd

Each week from now on the PaxLair Weekly News will include a UO Site of the Week with links to hidden treasures, comic sites and more.  This week's site is an old favourite from way back in the day:

The Adventures of B0N3D00D and pLaTeDeWd!

The adventures of the two DeWdZ highlight an era of UO where l33t sp33k, dexxing, PKing and finding good armor/weapons were "teh c00lest" thing to do and how it bugged Roleplayers and grammarians alike!  Take a look at the link below.

The Adventures of Bonedood and Platedewd

Thanks for reading this ninth issue of the PaxLair Tuesday Weekly News. If you ever have a newsworthy story for the PaxLair Weekly news, please email to lothlore AT paxlair DOT com.