Re: Skeleton hunting

and the point of that story was...


"Erinn" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> The holiday season is upon us.  With all the new players in the game,
> I figured a lot of them hadn't seen the old style decorations... the
> ones we used to use before we got things like christmas tree deeds.
> So I built a Santa Claus and an Elf on my shop steps and put kits with
> all the parts & instructions on how to assemble them.  I didn't expect
> to sell many.  I pretty much got the reaction I expected... players
> laughed at them.  *But*... they also bought all the kits.  And bought
> them again when I restocked each time.
>
> I found myself with an empty vendor and no Santa faces:(  The Santa's
> faces are made from wrong facing bone helms which can be gotten as
> loot from skeletons.  I thought I'd gathered more than enough of them
> on my last weekday morning off (Atlantic is pretty deserted on an
> early Monday morning).  I had to go hunting skeletons in prime time
> Sunday evening.
>
> I felt like a hog:(  I clearly had no place hunting such lowly
> creatures.  I explained why I was there and was laughed at once again
> <G>.  So I tried Cove cemetery.  I sometimes hunt liches there and
> rarely see anyone else.  It was deserted, as expected, but there were
> hardly any skeletons.  Lots of wraiths, spectres, ghosts, boggles,
> zombies and a lich or 2 though.
>
> I tried Haven.  That cemetery spawns nothing but zombies & skeletons.
> It too was deserted when I got there and I managed to get a couple
> bone helms.  I left when a new player showed up because I have even
> less business hunting there than the other cemeteries.
>
> Then I remembered a spot on the island next to haven.  *Tons* of
> skeletons spawn there and it's rarely hunted.  Success!  I hunted it
> till I was full and came home with 7 bone helms:)
>
> Now to make those kits ups and get them on the vendor.  I think I'll
> make an old style christmas tree too and see how those do.
>
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