Best House Design(s) In-Game, All Shards

This is actually five houses that have been made into a fortress. Absolutely incredible!

D|R Completes Bedlum Spawn

I wasn't around for the entire spawn but helped finished the Bedlum Champ Spawn. This is one of the hardest in-game things to accomplish and I'm very proud to post this screenshot!

My Friend Phan's B-Day

I just wanted to share this screenshot of my friend Phan's birthday party.

A good time was had by all and Phan received many gifts....

Van's Fishing Expo, Through The Docks!

My buddy Van's latest obsession is collecting the Obsidian Statues. One day while completing the quests, he was fishing on Haven docks and and starting casting on the dock and it WORKED!

Here's a screenshot of him actually fishing below a Fisherman's feet.....

Christmas Bazaar in Hokuto

Looking For These Music Box Gears

I've been working on two Dawn's Music Boxes for a while now and realized I'd messed up by not being able to move them around. Thanks to my guildmates and many hours killing golems, I've finished the common gears in one box and lack only TWO to finish the other box. And just a few uncommons and rares!

Common Gears
There are currently 40 Common Music Box Gears

Music Box Description

Ambrosia # @
Boat Travel # @
Britain # @
Britain (Positive) # @
Buc's Den # @
City Night # @
Cove # @
Death Tune # @
Dragons (High) # @
Dragons (Low) # @
Dungeon # @
Gargoyles # @
Good vs. Evil # @
Humanoids # @
Jhelom # @
Linelle # @
Lord British's Castle # @
Minoc (Positive) # @
Moonglow (Positive) # @
New Magincia # @
Nujel'm # @
Overlord # @
Pub Tune # @
Skara Brae (Positive) # @
Stones @
Stones (Alternative) # @
Taiko # @
Tavern 1 # @
Tavern 2 # @
Tavern 3 # @
Tokuno Dungeon # @
Trinsic (Positive) # @
Turfin # @
Valoria (Positive) # @
Vesper # @
Victory # @
Walking # @
Yew # @
Yew (Positive) # @
Zento @

Uncommon Gears
There are currently 12 Uncommon Music Box Gears
Music Box Description

Conversation With Gwenno #
Dread Horn Area # @
Elf City #
Good End Game (U9)
Good Vs. Evil (U9) @
Great Earth Serpent's Theme
Grizzle Dungeon
Humanoids (U9) @
Melisandes' Lair@
Minoc (Negative) (U9)
Paroxysmus' Lair @
Paws (U9) @

Rare Gears
There are currently 4 Rare Music Box Gears."The Wanderer" was only available during the "Book of Truth" quest in early spring 2007.
Music Box Description

Selim's Bar (Strike Command)
Ultima VII / Serpent Isle Combat
Valoria Ships (U9) #
The Wanderer @

Another Great Thing About UO

HOUSING.

I was at work this evening, and I happen to be the only Ultima player around. Surprise, surprise.

But, there are SEVERAL gamers that work for me, some play Warcraft, some in other games.

After years in Large Towers, I was excitedly telling them about my great experience building my own house. I really was taken by how difficult, but rewarding the process was. I became obsessed with getting every corner right, and I'm still off a little here and there! But I'm very proud of the work that I did. I showed the guys the house and they all were very jealous that they didn't have the opportunity to do this in THEIR game. We have taken this for granted I think, along with so many other things that either originated in Ultima or things that OUR game inspired. I live in a community called Bearpoint in a Fel 18x18 surrounded by no less than a dozen of my guildmates! I think that once again if we look at the big picture, we still have alot going for us compared to the other MMOs.

My favorite parts of the house are the vaulted ceiling on the eastern half and the second floor trophy room, but I fear that the most time will be spent in my basement crafting area!

Anyways, just wanted to share the pics!

Guild Participation in Stealing the Ruined Painting

Well, this was a great memory for myself and a few of my guildmates. As we are an active guild on Catskills, we constantly have people running peerless, spawns, Doom, crafting, just about anything at anytime.

There are a select group of us that are, in fact, almost exclusively "night-owls", and we've gotten to know each other quite well from the late night excursions in our home shard.

One fateful night/morning, about thirty minutes til server down, I was busy stashing my loot from multiple peerless runs, and I hear the call from my cohorts in Doom that the fabled Ruin Painting had spawned! I could hardly control my anxiousness as five or more people yelled their excitement thru Vent.

"Is anyone on a thief?", "Is anybody on that is a 120 Thief!?!?!" they called out...

I was up to the challenge! Oh no! My skill is stoned and have NO points to spare on any character! By the time I log onto the right character, transfer skills off of him, and get the stealing skill back on, the Artifact 12 PAINTING WILL BE LONG GONE!!! Let's not forget that server down is fast approaching as well, and not ONE of us knows if it will be there when the servers go live again.

I do my best to get everything together, but can't find a gold skull to save my life, nothing on searchuo.com, nothing in my house!

Server goes down.

We are excited but nervous that the painting is gone.

A guildmate comes to my rescue and comes and gets me with a golden skull at server up, and when I arrive at the most expensive vendor shop in all of Sosaria, the wonderfully ripped up artwork is STILL THERE!

120 Stealing does it's job and the painting is OURS!!!

We had so much fun that night and will forever hold those memories dear......

Blogging on Ultima and Goings on....

Thanks for visiting my site. This is my first attempt at blogging, so thanks for any patience you show with my newness! I've been an Ultima player, off and on, since 1999. After my longest break from the game, I came back in October of 2007 and have really enjoyed returning and creating new accounts and players. Lots of things have changed but the game still captures my imagination and I find myself thinking of strategies and templates and collecting through out my day! This, in my humble opinion, is a great hobby to have these days, as it takes you past regular video games and teaches patience, thru the training processes, cooperation, thru participating in guilds or other groups, and also stimulates your mind thru many complex problems that you encounter in-game.

I've also been a collector of rare items since I joined this community. While I've never been a "major player" in this realm of UO, I've enjoyed it and constantly am reading the Rares forum on Stratics and buying and selling on my home shard of Catskills and run vendors there and on a few other shards including Atlantic and Napa Valley.

I've been to the Asian shards recently and will be posting on those field trips in the coming days.

Thanks for reading and I hope to post some good articles and pictures on this blog for you to enjoy!