Evening

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Happy New Year from Pinhead (obviously not painted by me!)

Master of Ceremony

Stanlee's events are always fun, full of colours, sounds and craziness (in a good way). I's give him a MC title, yunno, MC Stanlee! He deserves a recognition, then we can force him into hosting ballet evenings (no puns, please! or else!), mimes in the woods and other special things! +1 for Platyna's suggestion! And if not a title, at least a MC wand, similar to Emoo's drinking shoe

Merry what you celebrate and whatever you are wishing for!

What about Christmas tree gets a revamp, because is small, ugly, old and petty, and there's no difference if you have it in a house, in the middle of the deed, in the open or in a starting town? The Christmas tree should be a joy not only to have, but to look at it, not only a mean to get your Christmas present and spare a trip to a starting town for it, but a nice, sparkling, colourful and magnificent symbol of - perhaps - the most loved celebration in the world! And while we're at it, could we please please PLEASE have the gift wrappings back? Years ago they were removed because people were "abusing" them, and wrapped a pelt or a rare log (game breaking, I know!!); nowadays, people give away free 100 ql, enchanted pelts, and we still didn't get them back? Why? Why this stuborness? Every single year since they were removed they were asked back, and every single year (or almost) we have been told (IF we got an answer) No! and that was it, no context, no explanation, just "no". Suggestion: redesign the Christmas tree and make it nice; more than that, make it sizeable with the tree age - use a mature pine for a smaller one, am older, very old or overaged for bigger and bigger versions, so it can fit and match any place, from a humble hut to a castle, or a deed center. Bring the gift wrappings back. Prevent abuse by making them disappear the day Winter Holidays symbols (Santa, starting town Christmas trees, julbords, light beams) are removed. Both are easy and simple solution, not making anyone happier than other, not turning Christmas into a business; Christmas shouldn't be a show off of skills and wealth, but a warm, friendly celebration, when we remember we're all humans, we're all the same, we came from the same place and will go to the same place after some time spent here. Happy Winter Holidays!

@Platyna Thank you for your offer, but I'm afraid I have to decline it, as fun and nice as it sounds; I play mostly on the new cluster since the opening, and will keep doing so for some more time, because I was allynapped and I'm held hostage, they locked me in a mine, provided me with stale bread, water and stuff to do; on top of that, I have other things going on, both irl and in Wurm, where I have to hide from the said ally trying to drag me out of the mine now, on to the farms there and put a rake in each of my hands. At least if they were scissors ..

Ideea is great, and people were doing it for years, here and there; in some cases, it was a local alliance event, in some other cases it tried to be an event on a larger scale: people from one server were announced with at least one month in advance someone will host a Secret (random) Santa, everyone sent or brought a gift of their choice; gifts were numbered and on a designated day everyone who was in joined on host's deed, draw a number and received the corresponding gift. Of course, other activities could/were also organised. This year seems a bit late to plan and start a Secret Santa on a larger scale, but perhaps someone has the will and energy to organise it somewhere, and a few fellow players will get to enjoy a more festive Winter Holidays time

Wtb / adopt / "borrow" / steal / lure / teach them to complain to PETA and demand to be rescued and returned to me, if you have any. All yer red hat grumpies are belong to me! You just don't know it yet!

I have well over 100 red hat gnomes, and guess what.

If only they could sing and steal things again; unique features that were removed and left us with nostalgia ..

Once a deed falls, the brand disappears; the brand is the connection between a deed and some animals. While ownership is given by brand, caring for is nothing but a way to extend an animal's life indefinitely, and cannot be used to dispute an animal with the person who has it now. These being said, I hope you will get your horses back; for quite some time, Pristine had the best community everywhere, so most likely if one of the "natives" has your horses and reads your post s/he will return them.

@Oakmaiden Sad to hear your mares changed owner without consent, and the new and proud of himself owner didn't return them. If you could sail to Pristine, I have 2 pure 5sp silver black girls I could part with, since I'm not playing there a lot nowadays. All you need are 2 animal cages, a ship able to contain them and a forum pm sent to me, to agree over an hour and day you could come and pick them up. For your own safety, never, and I mean NEVER keep animals and things you care about in your perimeter, unless in a house with high ql, finished walls. And never have any important horse taken offdeed without being branded. Ever.

I'm sorry, what? Where do you see any insult and injury? I described what I found on Harmony, I can prove it with logs, then I advised a player to search more for animals. I made a short, civilized post, so I'm not sure what your problem is?