Community Events

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All players are welcome to design and produce in-game events. To request administrative support or to be put on the login calendar, email [email protected].

— A Volunteer Guide

Since Project Gorgon first became available to players, individuals and groups in the community have worked to create special events for others to enjoy. This page is not a comprehensive list.

Repeating events

Poetry Jam

Soon after the Poetry Podium for Poetry Appreciation and Oratory was introduced to the game, players began to figure out the best options for taking advantage of the review system poetry offered. A weekly, weekend event was created, spearheaded by the user Matzur and several others. Eventually, Teloch and the Guild:Priests of Arisetsu took over the responsibility of running the events. Organization of the event was passed to Guild:Rowen Trading in August 2019.

Flipside Poetry Jam

Sometimes, players organize a Flipside Poetry Jam for players in the eastern hemisphere. When held, this event takes place about 10 hours before the regularly scheduled Poetry Jam.

Povus-palooza

Organized by player ChompyNibblers, Povus-palooza is an event themed around clearing a Povus nightly invasion by throwing as many players at the problem as possible, while providing all participating players with as many buffs as possible. This event successfully resulted in the first successful full-clear of a Povus event.

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What: Povus-palooza is the premier Povus-defending party squad. (With free alcohol, food, buffs, drugs, etc.). This event is open to players of all levels and involves players overwhelming one of the highest-difficulty areas in the game. I expect the event to last 1-2 hours. (Varies depending on difficulty and average duration of quests) + See here for a short video from the first event! + If you're interested in helping host or willing to provide anything, please post here or reach out to me on Discord!

When: [Sunday 7/31] at 1:15PM ET (~23 [24-1] Hours After Poetry Jam) - Officially, dance brews will be dropped when the in-game clock strikes 3PM - I highly advise you log in early as the first ~25 minutes of the event (party + free stuff) is synchronized to finish as the Povus night defense event starts.

Where: The event starts at Serbule Inn with a dance party, everyone is welcome to attend regardless of if you want to join for the Povus defense! After the party we will grab some buffs in Serbule and then portal to Povus for handing out the remainder of the free stuff/buffs.

Why? The goal is to fully clear a Povus night event mission and have fun going overboard with buffs. What better way to convince people to risk their lives fighting horrors in a disease infested swamp than with a party that has free booze, charcuterie, tonics, and drugs!

Anything else? - Yes I'm glad you asked! I would love to hear your ideas for how we can improve the event. We have the opportunity to strategize and organize ahead of time, feel free to post and discuss additional ideas here. I have some ideas already below.

Strategies:

• There's a small window of time where we can light lamps before monsters spawn at 8PM in-game time. * With enough players, in theory we could complete the lamp-lighting quest instantly.
• If we find ourselves in a ghost-heavy set of events, we may need extra stuns. Paralyzing traps (from Rahu Sewers) and the ability "stake to the heart" are good options for players who don't have skills with stuns.
• Be prepared to need to fix broken bones and/or to help fix the broken bones of our tanks
• If you're able to heal and/or tank I expect those roles will be in higher-demand but it would be helpful to have other sets of gear ready.
• Set party loot rules to allow anyone to loot corpses (this will give the lower-level players more to do as well!)
• Do bury things
• See here for a map of the zones of the town along with lantern locations for the first quest.
• Note that the southern and eastern edges/outskirts of the town have a more dangerous respawn location than the rest of the town.

Event Dates

• October 24, 2021
• February 13, 2022
• July 31, 2022

Season's End

Seasons' End is a community event hosted by the guild Akhisa's Web. The event is usually held around an equinox or solstice. During the event, members of the guild plus a few volunteers set up "death stations" around the Fel-Dasculan Ruins in the Fae Realm. At each station, visitors drink a potion which puts them in PvP mode, then they are killed by the volunteer running that station. The volunteers use attacks on the visitors which grant specific types of death only obtainable through PVP combat.

Event Dates

• March 21, 2021.
• June 20, 2021.
• September 25, 2022.
• January 15, 2023.

Mushroom Teleportation Unlock Event

The Mushroom Teleportation Unlock Event is a community event hosted by the guild Akhisa's Web. Members of the guild help interested players to unlock a unique form of Teleportation.

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We're back at it again! The love-able bunch of spiders and patient adherents of Akhisa are hosting another round of Musroom Teleportation unlock. This event involves rushing players through the unlock of mushroom teleportation.

Mushroom teleportation is an alternate form of teleportation that lets you bind to and teleport from mushroom circles throughout the game. There is a mushroom circle in all but ilmari, kur and casino so this can open up new fast travel capabilities and you get teleportation experience for using new mushroom circles/mushroom teleportation spells.

When: Sunday July 17th 2pm server time (event runs about 1 hour, but make sure you're there early so you don't miss a portal)

What you need: 3 parasol mushrooms and Level 15 Myconian language skill (different from mycology) - you get this sometimes from picking up mushrooms in elt/serb/serb hills.

We recommend doing some runs through Serbule sewers and picking all of the mushrooms there if you need some quick xp. Akhisa's Web will be providing some favor items to hand out and we'll do Sem's quests so everyone will walk away with basic mushroom teleportation, but if you want more recipes from Sem it might be worth bringing extra favor items: Sem - if you can get 10 black foot morels and 10 grommax mushrooms and haven't talked to Hemmit Magmagrip in New Prestonbule before its recommended you would bring those, but AW will also provide some.

What you'll walk away with: A new teleportation skill that lets you teleport to mushroom circles by using mushrooms, 5000-15000 councils, and a new alchemy recipe.

Full details:

We'll meet at Serbule well on Sunday July 17th starting around 1:00 and head out at 2pm server time. Be sure to be at the well 5 minutes early so you don't miss the portal. From there we'll open a portal to near New Prestonbule Caves in Gaz. Portal will be opened by Mushroom Jack's house - please arrive somewhat early so you don't miss it.

In New Prestonbule we'll pick up a quest from one of the npcs that involves finding a certain mushroom man. Hemmit also gives two quests for 10 of two different types of mushroom which we'll have dispensers for - he takes them as gifts but they're better served for quest items. Then another portal will be opened to somewhere else in Gaz will be opened and we'll walk to Sem's cave. We'll dole out some favor items to help you unlock the base skill when we get to Sem so if that's it for you, you can head from there, but if you stick around we'll do Sem's three quests and then return to New Prestonbule to turn in his quest for an additional 5000c. With 3 parasol mushrooms you can bind to Sem and come back at your convenience.

One thing that worked well last time was to move out as a group, once we pick up the quests from Sem we're going to move out as a group only making right turns. One of the pain points of early iterations was that groups all split up and some people would struggle to get kill credits - so this time we're going to try only making right turns and moving as a blob. For reference here's the cave map.

We'll be starting at Sem and hugging the right wall as a group - even if we see a mob far away we'll get to it on the way round instead of breaking our path to get snag it. The hope is this will help people complete the quests all within a reasonable range of each other.

As we are an Akhisa themed guild (goddess of spiders and patience) there will be dispensers provided for free Spider and Un-Spider juice as well as a raffle for some spider themed items running from 1pm - 2pm server time. Hope to see you all there and as always praise Akhisa!

Event Dates

•  ??? ??, 2020.
• November 8, 2020.
• February 21, 2021.
• May 23, 2021.
• August 22, 2021.
• February 27, 2022.
• July 17, 2022.

The Fancy Feast

The Fancy Feast is a community event organized by the |Merchant Princes guild in Serbule Keep. During this event, participants consume meals to raise their Gourmand levels. During their first event, members of the organizing guild crafted 300 stacks of food representing 50 meals. Raffles were also held. Their second run of the event, titled "Hail Hydra(tion), focused on soups, stews, and drinks. The influence of an Admin caused the end of the second event to be attacked by Hippo.

Event Dates

• August 15, 2021.
• January 16, 2022.

Guild Garden Party

A weekly Sunday event organized by Guild:Rowen Trading

Unique events

Dance Around Alharth

Organized by the guild Illegitimus, Dance Around Alharth was a community event where guild members helped participating players unlock twelve Interpretive Dance abilities. This event took place on April 30, 2022.

Akhisa's Web Anniversary

To celebrate their second anniversary, the guild Akhisa's Web hosted a celebration in Serbule on March 28, 2021. Members of the guild distributed food, drinks, and organized raffles. An Admin stepped in and triggered a well-timed spider invasion towards the end of the event.

The Day of (Forever) Rest

Organized by Guild:Rowen Trading. During this event on June 21, 2020, players were invited to go to the PVP Arena to get a selection of unique PVP deaths.

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When: June 21st, 2-4 pm server (Eastern) time.

Where: PvP Dungeon in Serbule.

On June 21st, we will be holding a Dying XP event!

We plan to provide everyone with some unique PvP death and thus free dying experience! The goal is simply to come hungry for death (literally, to help us kill you and laugh about it).

— Forum announcement by Banos

The Gluttonous Gourmand Gala

Organized by Guild:Rowen Trading. During this event on May 16, 2020, players were invited to taste food made from hard-to-find recipes. Players who answered an RSVP were allowed into the Party room of the Red Wing Casino. After the event, the room was temporarily opened up to all players to take the leftovers.

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When: May 16th, 4pm server (Eastern) time.

Where: Casino Party Room

On May 16th, we will be holding a Gourmand XP event!

We’re trying to get a list of interested people so we make about the right number of each dish. Those who RSVP will get an item to access the party room immediately at the start of the event. 3 hours later, the restriction will be lifted and the remaining food will be available to anyone who wants it.

If you’re interested, RSVP by filling out this form with the in-game name of the character you want to participate this week. Responses will close at midnight server time the night of the 9th. If you have already responded, you do not need to do so again.

Note that this is very experimental, and we may encounter problems!

This will include 39 low level uncommon foods:

Erachia, Festival of Elshana

Organized by Guild:Rowen Trading, Guild:Circle of Mystics, and members from other guilds. This event took place between February 14 and 16, 2020. Over three days, a series of raffles, games, and parties were thrown for public participation.

The Moovement

Organized by Guild:Rowen Trading, The Moovement was a player event on October 11, 2020. Participants partied (mostly in Cow form) on Brianna Willer's farm in Serbule Hills.

Towers' Treasure Trove

Organized by player Towers and Guild:Rowen Trading, this was one of the games held during Erachia, Festival of Elshana. During this event, Project:Gorgon Admins spawned NPC versions of Rowen Trading members around the Serbule region. Interacting with these player models after picking up a book progressed the quest.

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Greetings! I need help finding my fellow Traders. They left me some hints of where they might be hiding. These all sound like they would be around Serbule.

I’m not patient! The first five players to find them all will get a bonus prize.

- Spiders and dinos and slimes, OH MY!

- An art gallery with a jumping puzzle.

- On top of the world!

- Where the Work Order deliveries arrive.

- Near an often overlooked scroll seller.

- Novice lamplighters tend to miss this spot.

- Kraken can often be seen spawning near here, this is a good place to be out of sight.

- Remember when the Geomancy Awl used to be useful? This is near an above-ground spot it came in handy.

- Near an exit-only door. You could say that those on the other side are fun guys. Kind of dark and damp here.

- South of the Keep, where it looks like someone wanted to add a canal.

- Outside Khyrulek's Lair.

- Trying a skill for the first time? This is where you might test your abilities.

Something also got lost in one of the caves - find that for a small prize.

Good luck!

— Written Event Book

Teleportation Chain

Organized by Guild:Priests of Arisetsu and Guild:Asheron's Legacy. During this weekend event, members of both guilds linked Teleportation portals across Alharth, allowing a large group of players access to almost every teleport pad in the game, to gain binding experience.

Teleportation Chain v2

Organized by Guild:Rowen Trading. During this event on March 22 2020, members of Rowen Trading linked Teleportation portals across Alharth, allowing a large group of players access to almost every teleport pad in the game, to gain binding experience.

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Rowen Trading is hosting a teleportation event in a week and wanted to give players time to accumulate amethysts and favor items before the event starts. Please bring 16 Amethysts, 48 salt, 3 parasol mushrooms. We will also be speaking to Ratuk the Thinker so bring in piles of lemons (i'm sorry Sims), Oranges, Tsavorites, Aquamarines, or Magic rings. If you have not already done his favor quests, please bring these items to complete them: Orcish Spell Pouches x5, Tundra Lichen x5.

We will also be visiting Sem so if you have Myconic level 15 then please bring any of these items for favor: Heartshroom, Blue Gems, and Cranium Powder.

— Forum Announcement by Space

Teleportation Chain 3

Organized by Guild:Rowen Trading. During this event on July 26, 2020, members of Rowen Trading again linked Teleportation portals across Alharth.

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Rowen Trading will be hosting a teleportation event on July 26th and we want to give players time to accumulate amethysts and favor items. For binding to teleport pads, please bring 22 Amethysts and 66 salt. We will also be speaking to Ratuk the Thinker so bring piles of Lemons, Oranges, Tsavorite, Aquamarines, or magic rings. If you have not already done his favor quests, please bring 5 Orcish Spell Pouch and 5 Tundra Lichen.

We will be starting at the altar east of Serbule Keep at 2PM Server Time (EDT). Come a few minutes before to group up so it’s easier to keep track of each other!

We’ll portal to the Casino, bind there, then head out into Rahu. We’ll run to the three teleportation pads there and portal to each location after that. At each teleport pad, use the ‘Bind Circle’ recipe for the XP and head to the next location.

Notes: We will be fighting in the south part of Rahu city instead of buying passes Check where portals go before jumping in

— Forum Announcement

Sunday Funday

Organized by Guild:Priests of Arisetsu and Guild:Asheron's Legacy.

Priests' Anniversary

Organized by Guild:Priests of Arisetsu, this two-day event was filled with giveaways of rare items, raffles, and scavenger hunts.

Encyclopedic Records Recovery

On April 1st, 2017, members of Guild:Chosen of Norala organized a scavenger hunt to recover the The Grand Encyclopedic Records of Alharth and Surrounding Regions, a player-created book hidden somewhere in the game (stolen by Goblins). Other players spent five hours searching for guild members with clues scattered across the land, ultimately discovering the missing book inside one of the towers of Eltibule Keep. To encourage participation, this wiki was partially unavailable until the book was recovered.